₦airaland Forum

TundeBricklayer:
My visit to Abia

Checkout how Ikpeazu is reconstructing deplorable Osisioma road Aba, also installing Streetlights in Enyimba city

This road won't last a single rainfall

kendological:
Stop your stupidity, we have our native akwete, pure white hand woven materials, worn by adults.

That was not in existence prior to the colonials. Face facts. You were still largely naked even in the beginning of the 20th century

Low IQ information that'll impress dullards.

midnighter:
How were Igbos naked...there are clear photos online of what Igbos used to wear in days of old...please don't be an illiterate..

How can we have words for clothes, caps and attire if we didn't wear any smh

Those are new words created post contact with Europeans. Your men had a string around their penis and that was pretty much it for clothing. No real clothing

Success1020:
Afonjas and division. What is Ikwerre ethnic group? You see them wearing Igbo custome and Igbo unique staff inscribbed "Dike Oha."? Is "Dike Oha" a yoruba phrase to you? Anumanu

What's Igbo costume? You mean post colonial attire adopted by people in the SS and SE? Igbos were naked before the British and Portuguese came. Fact!

Ikwerres are not Igbos. Loud and clear

LifeQuest:
Being a decedent of Lamurudu confirms the authenticity of some findings in Ancient Near East Studies ( ANES). Lamurudu is the same as Nimrod he was a descendant of Noah ( Lua or Uwa in Yoruba the benchmark of character and modern Yoruba IWA. Yoruba will say of a person with good character, " omoluabi". That is omo ti Luabi). If check Yoruba creation story, it is akin to that of major Near East accounts including that of the Bible). Gogobiri people? They were pre Oduduwa era Ice bowl people trading as far as Soudan ( google the word Soudan before 1900).

Oduduwa was a man with flesh and blood. That he possessed metaphysical power? Oh yes. Just like Ogun who was adept in smelting iron to make various implements in exchange for palm wine. Ogun's real name is Lakaiye (Olakariaye). Probably because of his trade.

Stop this forced semitic origin BS. It's very annoying

tartar9:
Where are the chosen people
This is marginalization

Slok Kalu Family

Capital Oil Ubah Family

Lord only knows the tribal indoctrination fed to some igbo kids. It is super strong! From crazy and farfetched conspiracies like FBI being used by Nigerian tribes to go after Igbos to Kalu that stole Abia blind, robbing his commonwealth in the process being, equivocated to Dangote and Tinubu that have no cases in courts.

You all passed through education. Education didn't transform your medieval tribal inclinations. The clanishness is simply disgusting and no way in the world a group of people can progress with such regressive thoughts.

It's a pity and extremely sad state of affairs. Thank God not all Igbos fall under this category or else it would have been a wasted generation.

Land of the blind

Ikpeazu the one eyed man

superlightning:
Who are the "us"? Perhaps you mean you and yourself �......lol.....Pele o.... despite all the logical explanation for the spelling of the name at the time and the fact the oluu-uda himself referred Igbo as his ancestry, you keep asking childish and uninformed questions. Sorry.

Olaudah
Olaedo
Olou-udah
Oluu-uda

We can't even make up our minds what his name is and all the names listed above are allergic to modern day Igbos. They tend not to bear the names or the Olaudah is simply a figment of someone's imagination. I suspect the later. Olaudah hoax

superlightning:
His account is now "alleged"? Kayfra, please kill yourself with envy. Goodbye

It's an allegation or fairy tale. A made up story by an European benefactor

Newnas:
Corrected

The Islamic situation up north is even worse. You have kids condemned to begging and never making anything useful out of their lives

Osun over Kaduna?

That's a BS list

Smh

Religion has doomed us

superlightning:
As if your doubt would affect his igboness.....lol.... What scholars are worried about is his birthplace not his igboness

By his OWN account, he said he is of Igbo descent, yet it PAINS your soul that he is giving the account himself.

Whether Bronze or Voice, he igboness is out of the question. Centuries of misspelt names will definitely corrupt the actual pronunciation. But to you, it just can't be Igbo. Lol....go and quench abeg, you are inconsequential.

His alleged account even has it as Eboe and still no known Igbo bears any semblance of his first or last name. It's amazing and perplexing at the same time. You can't even give a consistent meaning or translation of his names and yet you want us to buy his progeny hook, line and sinker?

superlightning:
You keep wanting to believe your own childish bias....suit yourself

Can you just answer the question? Who do you know named Olaudah?

superlightning:
You will because he is Igbo. You never see anything good in Igbo despite the fact that he claimed he was Igbo by his very own account.

Olaudah (he whose voice is loud) is one of the many Igbo names that are not popular in usage.

He mentioned major Igbo customs and wrote Igbo words in his autobiography.

Cut that "woe is me" igbo victimization mentality. That nonsense doesn't work with me. You doth cry too much about imagined Igbo persecution. It is irritating

Argue the points and stop throwing an emotional tantrum. You guys can't even agree about the interpretation of the name Olaudah. From Bronze to the voice is loud. WTH! Now you see why I doubt his progeny

superlightning:
What kind of question is that?

How many Igbo bears Nwakerendu? How may Igbo bears ukpai?

Mind you it's olou-uda (olaudah)

I have an old uncle who bears olunnaya (voice of his father). There are name derivatives for the word olu (voice), despite the fact that it's not popular.

In those days, names of slaves were sometimes incorrectly spelt or pronounced in English.

May envy not give you heart attack o

You still can't name a single person with that name is the point

CanadaOrBust:
In Nigeria? Yes. Mention one great fortune in Nigeria u don’t think some crime was committed in the process of attaining it.

In any case here is exactly what Balzac wrote, which is 100% true:

“The secret of a great fortune for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.”

In literal sense it's farfetched. As long as a probability that a few people didn't commit crimes to get rich then it's a figure of speech which I stated here.

Smh

CanadaOrBust:
If u must adlib let it make some sense.
Is there a crime behind every successful man??

Is there a crime behind every fortune? Use your head and learn about figures of speech.

CanadaOrBust:
See the correct quote below

Obviously, that is my own adlib

Anambralstson:
Same half baked are leading you guys in national exams for decades now also beat you guys silly in national debate competitions

Which national exams? I am referring to College level education and this one is talking about the fake waec list that has remained static since 2016. The fake list that has been denied severally by waec. Lolz.

Did you check the first class list from Nigerian law school? Is it not the same top universities, mostly from the west, dominating it?

When we are talking about education, stop posting the rubbish abamade universities that have worse infrastructure than GCI (an Ibadan based secondary school)

You simply can't fake it to make it

Lmaooooo

Anambralstson:
Dumbo the statistics is from National bureau of statistics and Joint admissions and matriculation board.

And the schools in the yeast are half baked with little or no entry criteria

UNN is the only decent school over there. All the mushroom schools should not count as universities

Anambralstson:
2017/2018, Imo, Anambra and Delta state leads in numbers of students studying Engineering, Medicine and Law in Nigeria , these three states has dominated for more a decade.

Is this the statistics for the half baked schools in the Yeast? Glorified secondary schools masking as Universities. Even at that, this so called statistics is bogus

Behind every successful man there is a crime.

Onyeama, though I like what he did recently with the SA airlifts. If he is proven to have done the crime, he has to serve the time.

Who cares

holums:
Exactly my thought, until emergency is declared in our ports, Lagos seaport will continue to be an eyesore everything seems to be concentrated in Lagos as if only Lagos is Nigeria, I don’t know why FG find it difficult to create seaports in other coastal states like Ondo, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Delta, Anambra to decongest Lagos and save the stress of people coming to Lagos from faraway to clear their goods, NPA needs to do something about this

There's no sea in Anambra

Pavarottii:
Not as good as GEJ.., I can say he cleared debt... But 3rd fastest growing economy in the world.. And world economic forum first ever held in Nigeria... Number of schools, no of roads, power was better, agriculture, entertainment... Everybody says it till today that Nigerians were even over enjoying too much under him
.. Obj guy we suffer sef... I just dey 76thremember... 3 weeks no light... And he did 8years... Just imagine GEJ did another tenure... Our electoral and Democratic standards were built under GEJ... Political killings under OBJ reach more than 40.

GEJ squandered OBJ's gains. The most reckless president ever elected

OBJ. Even as bad as he was. He grew the economy more than any president.

larryUG:
U dont need to accept my explanation. He wrote an autobiography and published it before he died. He detailed his tribe and village and how he was kidnapped witg his sister. But suit yourself. He isnt Igbo. Thats what u wanna hear

Did I deny anything you wrote? I have doubts about his background. That's all

larryUG:
His real name is Olaedo (means bronze artifact in igbo) ikwuano. The portuguese in pronouncing his name spelt as Olaudah Equiano. Same way they mispelt Benin and Gave Lagos the name.

Even if I accept your Portuguese explanation. Who is named Olaedo today?