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Igboid:
It's IPOB and it's horde of brainwashed Igbo youths incapable of critical thinking that are causing all this insult to Ndiigbo.

What exactly is Ikwerre? Which kind of nonsense is this?
Imagine brainless IPOB announcing PH as its headquarter when it can not go to Ogbakor Ikwerre meeting and say such nonsense or even go to any Rumu village town hall and utter such.

IPOB is such a senseless group The more the days go by, the more their folly becomes profound.

Just take a look at average Ikwerre man behavior and live outlook. You can clearly see that these people are not Igbos.

IPOB's agitation is not an Igbo agitation. It is about holding a referendum in the SE/SS area to determine who wants to exit Nigeria and who wants to stay in Nigeria

MelesZenawi:
El-rufai son, Bashir condemns the decay of infrastructure at Ariara Market, Aba, Abia state.



https://mobile.twitter.com/BashirElRufai/status/1288772385714442240

Look at this one whose father is sitting in Kaduna while hundreds of people are being slaughtered weekly in the state. This is the one that is coming to give advice?

SonOfEl:
We forced them to
- speak igbo?
- bear Igbo names?
- Engage in Igbo cultures in dance, market days, attire, marriage, food, tradition, etc?
- Be part of Ohaneze ndigbo?

Egungun be careful

What he is trying to say is that Igbos took an Ikwerre man called Uche Okwukwu from Bini, forced him to change his name to Igbo, made him to forget his bini language, forced him to speak Igbo then made him Ohanaeze Secretary General.

There are too many foolish people on earth

I wonder if those who say that Nnamdi Kanu jumped bail have any brains in their head?

The Nigerian Government sent Soldiers to go and kill an unarmed man in his house. Rather than condemn this act of lawlessness and human rights abuse by the Nigerian government, some people are questioning why Nnamdi Kanu did not stay to be killed? A man leaves the country because the federal government wants to kill him and you are talking about jumping bail? Do dead people go to court?

How people can be so stupid?

The entire Nigeria is not as big as the state of Texas in America

Japan is a small country but the second richest country in the world.

Switzerland is the size of Abia and Enugu states combined but has a bigger GDP than Nigeria

It is never about the size of your land, its all about what you can do with what you have

AmericanQuarter:
Beautiful serene organized neighbourhoods is the hallmark Awka. Credit

Awka has come a long way

hammer8:
GBAM!


ASARI CALLS IKWERE IGBO TILL TOMORROW.

Asari Dokubo actually said that there are only three ethnic groups in Rivers state, Ijaws, Ogoni's and Igbo lol

Even the Ogonis and Ijaws who are with Ikwerre in Rivers state consider the Ikwerre to be Igbos for the simple reason that there is no difference between Ikwerre and Igbo.

Before you can become a "distinct ethnic group" there must be something that differentiates you from other ethnic groups and it is usually your ancestral language and ancestral name.

Those who say that Ikwerres are not Igbos dont seem to realise that there is no difference between the Ikwerres of Rivers state and Nsukka people of Enugu State and the Ngwa people of Abia and the Oru people of Imo state.

We all speak Igbo as our ancestral language and we all have Igbo surnames. We may all have small differences in our dialects but we all understand each other.

Some Ikwerres like late novelist, Elechi Amadi, says the Ikwerres are not Igbo, while other Ikwerres like former Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, says Ikwerres are Igbo. Who do we believe? Some people say that Ikwerres should be allowed to claim any identity they want. The problem with that is that the facts on the ground will always outweigh whatever you claim to be.

What surprises me in this argument about Ikwerres being Igbo or not is that those who shout "Ikwerres are not Igbos" the most are neither Ikwerres nor Igbos. They wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between the Ikwerre dialect and the Abakiliki dialect

I believe Ikwerres are Igbos because there is no difference between them and Igbo, except denial in some quarters

naijaway:
15yrs from now, Nigeria will really be on the verge of becoming a state than a country cuz we would be succuming to our other brothers pressure. It will be bettter and also getting better cuz alot of our citzens will be having legit businesses all over Africa than the statistics now. In my view there's hope excerpt we have a military dictactor and our leaders keeps listening to traditional rulers.

13 years later, how market?

Deadlytruth:
It will please you to note that in addition to the fact that Igbos featured prominently in government within the past 50 years in question as exemplified and evidenced by the vice presidency of Alex Ekweme to Shagari, the retrogressive civilian governments that came after the Biafra war were all actively voted into power by Igbos. Take for example the candidacies of Obasanjo, Yaradua and Jonathan were endorsed and voted massively for by Igbos despite these candidates and their party never pretended to be negatively disposed to the idea of reversing, through restructuring, the blunders of Zik, Ojukwu and Ironsi.
In 1999 we all honesty knew that the party and candidate which had restructuring as manifestos was the AG but Igbos preferred to vote for the one-Nigerianist thus unitary system advocating PDP under the cover of being the only national party.
Even in the ill-fated Third Republic, the NRC which was mainly rooted in the section of the country which would rather die than see a return to the pre-Ironsi status quo was the party of choice of Igbos as it swept the Igbo states in both the guber elections that period and the June 12 election.
So anyhow you look at it, Igbos are still at the root of the difficulty in getting the Ironsi blunder corrected in the past 50 years.

This is all nonsense. If you are going to talk about Alex Ekwueme, why dont you people ever talk about Brigadier Ogundipe who was Ironsi Deputy? When it comes to Zik and Ironsi, you people will forget that other Nigerias were part of their administration. But when it comes to the 50 years no Igbo man has led Nigeria, you people will say that Igbos were part government. The President of Nigeria is the final decision maker in Nigeria and it is him who takes the blame for whatever wrong decisions are made. Nobody from the South East has been president of Nigeria since July 1966 when Ironsi was killed, it is all other zones that have been president.

What have you people been doing with Nigeria for 54 years? For over 50 years, you people have messed Nigeria up and brought us to where we are today. Now you people are going back to the 50's and 60's to blame Zik, Ironsi and Ojukwu who have all been out of power for 50 years? You people make me laugh

Gowon came to power in 1966 with the promise to hand over to civilians at the "earliest possible date". Nine years later in 1975, Gowon was still trying trying to hand over at the earliest possible date.

The idiot known as Murtala Mohammed overthrew Gowon as soon as Gowons plane left for Kampala

Deadlytruth:
What happened in the last fifty years when Igbos were partially out of power can't be treated in isolation of the pre-independence events as the former are actually the fallouts of the latter. Had Azikiwe, Ojukwu and Ironsi harkened to the voices of reason like Enahoro, Awolowo, Ahmadu Bello and Balewa; the Nigerian tragedy which still defines our present lives as a people would have been avoided.

But the rest of you Nigerians have had 50 years to correct whatever it is that Ironsi, Ojukwu and Azikiwe did. All you Nigerians ended up doing in 50 years is making Nigeria 100 times worse than than Ironsi, Zik or Ojukwu ever did. All the geopolitical zones in Nigeria, except for the South east, have had the opportunity to lead Nigeria in the last 50 years. Where is Nigeria today? If you all came in and did far worse than Igbos did then there is point coming up with ancient history of what Igbos did.

Atigba:
The Origin of Arochukwu, Ohofia, Abam, Ututu etc. - by Prof. J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku.

Around 16 century, the southern part of Igboland was originately inhabited by Oru people before some Igbos in the Northern part migrated to join Oru due to population pressure and depletion of quality of farmland.
*Note the Oru people who were the aborigines of The land stem from Igodomigodo.*

In addition to southward migration, another group of migrants, the Mben - Owan group, migrated from Igodomigodo/Edo State eastward across the Niger River and passed through Oru moving further eastward until they came to a place they called Be Ndi (Bende) Igbo, meaning Igbo territory. Some of the names of these immigrants who migrated from Igodomigodo and populated Bende were; Alayi, Igbere, Nkalu Itu, Abam, Ohofia, Ututu and Arochukwu.

These Igodomigodo immigrants aggressively displaced the original Anang and ibibio inhabitants of the area and claimed their forest and lands. The case of of Abam, Ohofia and Ututu was particularly poignant because of the brutal way they went about forest and land acquisitions. They faughtand virtually wiped out or displaced the aborigines. Thus, whereas the Igbo to Oru migration and settlement pattern were marked by pacts of mutual coexistence with the aborigines of Oru, the Mben - Owan trail to Bende was marked with incidences of displacement and subjugation.

J. Akuma-Kalu is an Associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore Studies and Anthopology at Western Kentucky University.

Source: Establishing Igbo Community Tradition in the United States: Lessons from Folkloristic.

*Nnadi Kanu is from Afara Ohofia and his ancestors are from Igodomigodo, present day Edo State. He should stop deceiving uneducated Igbos about Jewish ancestry.

There is just one question that renders everything you wrote to be nonsense.

Why would Edo people migrate to present day Igbo land and give the area Igbo names?

Edo people migrated to present day Bende and gave the place an Igbo name "be ndi Igbo"? Do Edo people speak Igbo? I know that Igbanke people of Edo state speak Igbo but they are Ika-Igbo people who were carved into Edo state rather than with their Ika kith and kin in Delta state.

This is the same nonsense people say about the Ikwerre people of Rivers State, that they are Bini migrants who came to present day Rivers state, gave their villages Igbo names(a language they could not have known), dropped their Bini surnames and language and adopted Igbo ones. How can anyone be stupid enough to believe such a story?

Which migrant will move somewhere and the first thing he does is to call the place a name in a language he does not speak?

There is way too much stupidity on earth

gawu1:
We will keep on reminding those ipobian pigs indomie generation this history until sense enter their heads.

All of this was before the war ended in 1970, years ago. 100 times worse has happend in Nigeria in the last 50 years that Igbos have been out of the corridors of power. That one is what IPOB will not forget

candidtalk:
But what stops you guys showing you really want your own Country than moving all Igbos to the SE and staying there? Does charity not begin at home?

How will moving back home give Igbos Biafra? Assuming all Igbos moved back to Igbo land, how will this in anyway give them Biafra? Have you ever heard that the mere movement of people back to their ancestral land gave them an independent country? If all Igbos moved back home, they will still be in Nigeria and nothing will change.

Why are you shouting Biafra from UK, USA, Canada, Isreal, Germany, Russia, South Africa, Namibia, Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon and the hundreds of nations worldwide Igbos are voluntarily dispersed in with no interest in returning to the Biafran heartland of SE Nigeria?

They are shouting Biafra from UK and USA because they are countries where things work and the rule of law prevails, not Nigeria where shouting Biafra gets you killed, arrested, detained abd dehumanised even though freedom of expression is in the Nigerian constitution. Who would return from USA to a Nigeria where nothing works? They will return to an independent Biafra where things will work

Igbos excuse is always "they don't want to let us go". What efforts are you making to go? Living in the land of others and raising your kids with their tongue and ways is captivity and "not letting you go" ba?

Self-delusion is a serious condition nothing can cure. It is what most Igbos suffer from and the reason Biafra will never come to be even as some of us wish it were here so some people can understand the saying " be careful what you wish for".

We fought a war to go, you Nigerians said no. We agitated and protested to go, you Nigerians sent python dance. We asked for referendum to let us go, you Nigerians have refused. Who is fooling who here?

IamWonderful:
I think their bitterness and hatred is congenital and inherited, it is passed from one generation to another.

But if the same Igbos ask for a separate a country so they can go their way, people like you will be amongst the people to fight war so they wont go

donbachi:
Make una dey dia dey soak akpu....while fulani herdsmen dey kill ur people anyhow..SOKAPU my nyansh.

Where do expect them to get AK47 that the herdsmen are carrying?

Christistruth00:
The Jan 15 1966 Coup was the bloodiest in Africa at that time.
That was why it lead to a Civil War.

How can it be the bloodiest when less than 20 people died? In other coups of the times, hundreds were killed.

Jonathan Asake is a one time Federal House Member representing Zango Kataf constituency. He is also a former Chairman of Zango Kataf Local Government in Southern Kaduna, and is the current President of South Kaduna Peoples Union(SOKAPU). In the interview below, Asake talked about the killings and massacres in Southern Kaduna. The interview is over an hour long but the main things he said are:

What is going in Southern Kaduna is genocide perpetrated by the Fulani Militia. They invade communities in the night or early in morning, armed with AK47 and machete and proceed to hack and shoot people down as they sleep. They kill children, rape women, murder the men and abduct people, forcing those who survive to flee for the lives. It is after the Fulani Militia have driven the indigenes out that the Herdsmen arrive with their cattle to take over the land

Right now, places like Kajuru, Zango Kataf, Kaura and Kafanchan are all under siege. Everyday, people are buried in mass graves as the government does nothing to save lives and property. The government of El Rufai has refused to set up official IDP camps to as to hide the fact from the world that genocide is going on in Southern Kaduna. People are living in make-shift accomodations with no assistance from government. Whenever there is an attack, El Rufai will declare 24 hour curfew. While people are observing the curfew in their homes, the Fulani Militia will arrive to attack them. People have run to nearby communities only to run again when that community is also attacked. When our men mobilise themselves with machetes, sticks and bows and arrows to defend themselves from the invaders, the security forces will arrive to arrest them instead.

The Fulani Militia attack us and run into the nearby bushes and when the security forces arrive and we point out where the killers are, they never go after them. instead, they arrest our men who have mobilised to go after the invaders. We are suffering, our children are out of school, our farms destroyed and our people are constantly chased out of their community. In the mist of all this, the Presidency along with Garba are trying to mislead the world with the false narrative that the killings are just farmers/herders clash, community clash and reprisal killings

Let the world know that what is going is genocide. At night, a long queue of armed Fulani Militia on motorcycles will invade a community and slaughter people, forcing the survivors to take flight. Then they move in and take over our land. It is Fulanization. Not one single armed Fulani Militia has ever been captured or brought to book, they act with impunity. We are appealing to the world to come to our aid because the Federal Government and the Kaduna State Government have both failed us


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPgARpuVWc

IamWonderful:
The same man that savaged Nigerian unity, he armed robbed and killed Northern leaders, the architect of Nigerians disunity and vector of bigotry virus.

He did not do anything that did not happen in most countries in Africa. There were coups all over Africa in the 1960's and 70's, hardly any country in Africa escaped it. But African countries like Egypt and Ghana, bounced back from coups and became successful economic and democratic stories.

Nigeria went on to conduct multiple coups went down the drain

Ebenezar2O2O:
Respected kings in Anioma land.
Anioma is an ethnic group on it's own.
Be guided

There is no ethnic group called Anioma, the word did not exist until the late 70's. An ethnic group cannot start in the 70's, it must be existing even before the white man created Nigeria

Buharifan:
I am a northerner and I support the south east to produce the next president of Nigeria.

It was alleged the military regime of Gowon named the Nigerian currency as Naira in 1973(meaning Never Allow Igbos Rule Again), this should not be allowed to continue.

Since Ironsi held sway as head of state for a period of 6 months no igbo has ruled the country again.

Let's support Igbo presidency come 2023.

Both PDP and APC need to adopt candidates from the east.

You Northerners are not deceiving anyone. We all know that come 2023, you all will unite behind another Northerner to continue the misrule of Nigeria you people have been perpetrating since July 1966 when you people murdered Ironsi

PrinceMajestic:
@96? His already in a vegetable state. As he is there at 96 he poos on his body so people clean him up and bath him yet you still want his life prolonged because you're not the one packing and cleaning his poo and piss or bathing him? Be wise

I dont know anyone in a vegetable state who is conscious and able enough to sit down and recieve birthday card.

The Asagba of Asaba, Professor Chike Edozien. One of the most enduring and respected kings in Igbo land

May your days be long sir

landforeast:
Ututu oma Umu Igbo

Anyi anugo

Kekereekun123:
For how long are the masses going to endure these looting and bad leadership Why are wr so scared and docile.

Nigerians are never going to revolt. No Notherner will ever revolt while a Northerner is in power. No South Easterner will revolt unless it is about Biafra. No SSner will revolt as long unless it is about Oil. No SW will revolt as long as the occupy one of the 3 top political positions in the country

Everybody has his own agitation, nobody is going to risk his life or freedom for a Nigeria nobody really believes in any more

I dont know what some people have against this? This obviously a symbolic burial of an African called George Floyd in the land of his ancestors. It is practiced in many African countries where an African, or someone of African descent, who died and was buried abroad, some people will organise a symbolic burial in Africa as a way of bringing tge persons soul back to the land of his ancestors

There is nothing wrong with this

Interesting. I can almost Imagine Oduduwa Republic and Biafra standing side by side as independent countries. It will be the start of a new dawn and a great future

IspitonCowards:
The old Eastern region was a contraption just like Nigeria, always keep that in mind, That being said, unless the south south voices a loud support for biafra and their desire to be part of it, Nobody has any right to subject them to a referendum OR a Biafra, when Britain came we were Igbos on our own and not the eastern Region, any honest person will understand this, IPob is not an organisation built on honesty, I believe they are lacking intellectuals in their fold everything is not about Emotions and sentiments, Bottom line is focus on Igbo Nationalism and right of self determination for now, leave other ss people to decide for themselves, Haba!

You have no point to make. No matter how you see the Biafran agitation, it is still better than Nigeria.

Nigeria was created by the guns of the British, the Biafran agitators want Biafra created by free will of referendum

The Biafran agitators are going all over the South South raising awareness and drumming up support for a referendum, nobody was even notified of the creation of Nigeria

There are indigenous people agitating for Biafra, not one single indigenous person ever agitated for the creation of Nigeria

No matter how you see it, the Biafra that is yet to come has more legitimacy than the Nigeria we have today.

UdechiHD:
Lol! You have time to explain to IPOB clowns. It's similar to pouring water on a basket expecting it to full.

IPOB demise will be celebrated by me. Them and MASSOB are the worst thing to happen to pan-Igbo nationalism and consciousness. Their arrival led to the political/cultural downfall of Ndigbo in Nigeria. They destroyed the little gains we had after the civil war. And I believe they were sponsored by outsiders to destroy the fabrics that held us as a people.

And what were people like you doing before the arrival of IPOB and MASSOB? Absolutely nothing. Armchair critics who sit somewhere criticising those agitating because they know they cant do anything themselves. Those who have held all the political power in Nigeria since the end of the war have nothing to show for it. They are the ones suffering the most poverty and insecurity. And people like you are talking about political gains in a country where nothing works.

IPOB and MASSOB are the best thing to happen to Igbos. If anything, they have let Nigerians know that not everyone wants to be part of the unmitigated failure called Nigeria

The break up of Nigeria will be peaceful as I do not see anyone fighting to be with another. When Nigeria breaks up, it is highly like that all the Igbo speaking people of Nigeria, the South East, the Igbos of the lower Benue, the Delta Igbos, Igbo speaking people in Rivers and possibly Igbanke in Edo will all opt to be one country. The reason is that a so called Niger Delta Republic is virtually impossible. To bring Edo, Ijaws, Ibibios, Efiks and so many others under one umbrella of one country will not be possible without Igbos. They simply cant do it because they have no affinity that goes beyond oil. What I see happening is that Ibibios/Efiks/ Ogoja will form a country while Ogonis and Ijaws will become a country. Uhrobos/Isoko/Edo will form theres

It will be interesting to see how things unfold and who chooses to be with who but thats what referendum is for