₦airaland Forum

HopeAtHand:
Rivers state can easily topple Akwa Ibom as the no1 oil producing state if Buhari should reverse the decision that ceded our oil wells to Bayelsa and Abia..i do no know the output from those wells but Amaechi crying out means its substantial.

And if the state govt and oil companies can work out a formula to arrest youth restiveness and pipelines vandalism, we can improve on current output...River has most of its oils onshore while Akwa Ibom is offshore.

pls be sincere!

Why was Obigbo secceeded into Rivers state from Abia state, even though, River state is twice bigger than Abia?

An Africa-American wrote this on a foreign forum.

-Just Call Me Jari-
I've discovered that I
have ancestry Via DNA
from Nigeria according to my doctor, probably
the Igbo people because they seem to have been the main people to be enslaved from that area...

source:
http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=008692;p=1

Video documentary of
the inauguration of
Igbo Village, Virginia,
United States
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qmi_Uz7DMA028:26

The Indigeneous Igbo people in United states, Cuba, Jamaica, Barbadoes and Haiti.
The Igbo in the Atlantic slave trade became one of the main ethnic groups enslaved in the era lasting between the 16th and late 19th century.
Located near indigenous Igbo territory, the Bight of Biafra (also known as the Bight of Bonny ), became the principal area in obtaining Igbo slaves.
The Bights major slave trading ports were located in Bonny and Calabar; a large number of these slaves were Igbo. Slaves, kidnapped or bought from fellow Africans, were taken to Europe and the Americas by European slave traders.
An estimated 14.6% of slaves were taken from the Bight of Biafra between 1650 and 1900, the third greatest percentage in the era of the trans-atlantic slave trade. Ethnic groups were fairly saturated in certain parts of the Americas because of planters preferences in certain African peoples.
The Igbo where dispersed to colonies such as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbados, United States, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago among others. Elements of Igbo culture can still be found in these places. In the United States the Igbo were found common in the state of Maryland and Virginia.

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Effects It is estimated that a total of 1.4 million Igbo people were transported (via European ships) across the Atlantic in the era of Atlantic slave trade.
Most of these ships were British. Dispersal Some recorded populations of people of African descent on Caribbean islands recorded 2,863 Igbo on Trinidad and Tobago in an 1813 census; 894 in Saint Lucia in an 1815 census; 440 on Saint Kitts and Nevis in an 1817 census; and 111 in Guayana in an 1819 census.

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Barbados: Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped and first taken to Barbados The Igbo were dispersed to Barbados in large numbers. Olaudah Equiano, a famous Igbo author, abolitionist and ex-slave, was dropped off there after being kidnapped from his hometown near the Bight of Biafra. After arriving in Barbados he was promptly shipped to Virginia. At his time, 44 percent of the 90,000 Africans disembarking on the island (between 1751 and 1775) were from the bight. These Africans were therefore mainly of Igbo origin. The links between Barbados and the Bight of Biafra had begun in the mid-seventeenth century, with half of the African captives arriving on the island originating from there.

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Haiti: Some slaves arriving in Haiti included Igbo people who were considered suicidal and therefore unwanted by plantation owners. According to Adiele Afigbo there is still the Creole saying of Ibos pend'cor'a yo (the slaves hang themselves). Aspects of Haitian culture that exhibit this can be seen in the Ibo loa , a Haitian loa (or deity) created by the Igbo in the Vodun religion.

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Jamaica: Igbo people in Jamaica... Bonny and Calabar emerged as major embarkation points of enslaved West Africans destined for Jamaica's slave markets in the 18th century. Dominated by Bristol and Liverpool slave ships, these ports were used primarily for the supply of slaves to British colonies in the Americas. In Jamaica, the bulk of Igbo slaves arrived relatively later than the rest of other arrivals of Africans on the Island in the period after the 1750s. There was a general rise in the amount of enslaved people arriving to the Americas, particularly British Colonies, from the Bight of Biafra in the 18th century; the heaviest of these forced migrations occurred between 1790 and 1807. The result of such slaving patterns made Jamaica, after Virginia , the second most common destination for slaves arriving from the Bight of Biafra; as the Igbo formed the majority from the bight, they became largely represented in Jamaica in the 18th and 19th century.

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United States:
the Igbo slaves were known for being rebellious. In some states such as Georgia, the Igbo had a high suicide rate.
Igbo slaves were most numerous in the states of Maryland and Virginia, In the 19th century the state of Virginia received around 37,000 slaves from Calabar of which 30,000 were Igbo according to Douglas B. Chambers. The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia estimates around 38% of captives taken to Virginia were from the Bight of Biafra. Igbo peoples constituted the majority of enslaved Africans in Maryland. Chambers has been quoted saying that, "research suggests that perhaps 60 percent of black Americans have at least one Igbo ancestor and their Igboness element can still be traced till today. ...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_people_in_the_Atlantic_slave_trade

lalasticlala:
Ken Nnamani Turns 67 Today!
Happy birthday to the ex senate President..

is He still alive? Funny!
Happy birthday!

basilo101:
The reasons given above for disqualifying Catalonia means that Biafra has a great chance. and for those shouting "leave south south alone" u beta start compiling evidences to convnince UN on how Ikwerre is different from Ngwa man, or how Asaba man is different from Onitsha man

Hopeathand
your attention is needed...

fineguy11:
...i see no difference between an HAUSA/FULANI man and a IGBO man...they''re both "LEECHES " who are in constant ethnic battles in their quest to lord over the resources of southern miniorities...

Funny! To hell with Oyel....

Lazy man's thought..

I pray Oil dries.. Including those oils in Igbo territory... AND LET SEE WHO SURVIVES...

simplycarro:
Shataaappp. You Igbos are land and resource thieves
SS are minorities in the British contraption formerly known as Eastern Nigeria the Igbos are clutching to.

Are u not tired of using 5 accounts?

mulattoclaro
simplycarro
sadraokosun1
thiagoneves
spanishkid

1 person= 5 accts

Regina3:
Hi everyone, I reside in PH city, and have been posted to Ekiti State.
Please, can anyone tell me the status of Law Chambers/Firms in the state?

Do lawyers get posted to private firms or by default to Ministry of Justice? And if so, what are the pro's and con's of either.

Thank you.

So, this is your only post since '09'?

hmm! hilarious...

trapQ:
Fvck off!!! You're the ones trying to drag us along. Go alone. Sadly, no one is interested.

Funny! Who are you?

trapQ:
Thank God... They should go quickly, but without my state .

Who needs you? Trash!

omenka:
Which one come be "dangotenews" again??
Smh.

Address the topic...
Change indeed!

Jesusloveyou:
so u want to claim river state to ur biafran, don't u guys know ur boundaries, anybody in river state can join biafran, can join Cameroon and Congo, but d land belong to river state and nigeria,

Simply English, you don't understand.. You speak like a JSS pupil...

I don't support Biafra...

The Government created Rivers state...

YES! The land belongs to River state. While, River state belongs to The Igbos, Ogonis, Ijaws, and other Igboid and Ijoid groups like Ikwerre, kalabari, Okrikans e.t.c....

dacovajnr:
#Epic

You might be wearing an Aba made jean or polo and you wouldn't know...

sanbells:
Aba shoes will always be aba shoes. They never last up to two months. Trust me

Funniest thing is that, you might be wearing it and you wouldn't know...

Nice one! Lalasticlala

princemillla:
Bro honestly , if I were you I will just ignore the mother fucker. Imagine someone create a thread just to spit thrash?

Joblessness at its peak

The OP might be an imposter, but that does not change the fact that Etche is 100% Igbo..

LordMecuzy:
Oct28th account and na to trash Barca bros a beg apply wisdom na abeg

Guy, Etche is 100% Igbo.. Just type Etche in google. Incase you are too busy to do so, just click here direct to google => http://www.google.com.ng/search?q=Etche

IlekeHD:
[size=14pt]"my names are..."


Local Ibotic accent


The guy also registered 2 days ago......desperate igbo touts trying to grab ijawlands[/size]

IlekeHD:
[size=14pt]"my names are..."


Local Ibotic accent


The guy also registered 2 days ago......desperate igbo touts trying to grab ijawlands[/size]

What's the problem with you yorubas?

I beg you in the name of God...

Just type "Etche" in google...

Imediately, Google will show u a map with the name "Igbo-Etche".

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etche
Again, kindly go through this link...

Note: I'm not a pro-biafra, but I won't allow Ijaws to lay claims to any Igbo territory...

There is nothing like SE, SS, SW. all these are political tools...

Oil has really divided us... I wish the OIL dries, so every ethnic group can go home and show his creativity... Lets see who will survive...

Rilwayne001:
haffaze777 where art thou

I'm fed up with chelseeee..

honeychild:
Sorry but I don't agree with this. I am not igbo so forgive me for butting in. But I was listening to Radio Biafra a few weeks ago. A caller called in and was talking about changing all the names in Port Harcourt back. He said there was nothing like RumuOkoro. That it was umuokoro. He actually advised listeners to insist on writing their various addresses as Umuokoro, Umuokuta, etc.

If it did not mean anything why was a Biafran trying to change it back?

If I were an Ikwerre person, at that point I would certainly have started to entertain fears about my future in Biafra!

Certainly, Umuokoro was renamed to Rumuokoro... There's nothing like (R)umuokoro... The R is a fraud..

ayusco85:
i love no 4. as a southern kaduna indigene, cant wait to see it happen. tired of the hausas joor

Funny!

Hmm

IlekeHD:
Oh shut up, Biafra will not separate until Yorubas want the separation of Nigeria.

You know that. I know that.

And worry about the land Ijaws took from you.

And Oduduwa will never seperate, if Igbos join forces with the North..

It's a game of majority... 2 against 1