₦airaland Forum

Benmob:
so u want killer fulani herdsman to start killing them abi, change that ur name to malu zero...

DuwaRepublic:
Dr Bala Usman is not even Yoruba. Omg are you people always this retarded. Every time I come here and read comments from an igbo person, the comment always sounds stupid and lacks any intelligent thought put into it. Your obsession with Yorubas will always be your downfall.

...many of the prominent advocates of a confederation, or, the dismemberment of Nigeria, so that the Yoruba, for example, can control their own resources, like Bolaji Akinyemi, will find that their Yorubaness will be challenged. When the ancestry of the Leader of the Yoruba, before Adesanya, the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin, was challenged by Chief Ojomo in Owo, there was, in response to that challenge, a resounding silence!

Bkayyy:
I can see through this post. It's filled with hate and wickedness, it's a simple pager to discredit the unity of Ndigbo and bring discord among us. I wonder why yorubas think they can tell Igbos history

MelesZenawi:
The PhD holder did lazy work typical of his name Bala

Igbo more like ndigboo remains an ancient name which not only answered by names but have towns names after it showing it is not something new but as old as man..

You have towns with Igbo suffix or prefix like

Igbo-Eze

Igbo-Etiti

Igbo-ukwu

Akwukwu-Igbo

Igbodo

Igbo-Uzo

Etc

Even has it attached to names either prefix or suffix across board like


Igboanugo

Igbokwe

OnwuzuluIgbo

Igbokwute

OnuIgbo

Can such be said of other ethnicities, Dr Bala or Mr bala did a very poor work typical of his name.

"Even though the Aro are now considered Igbo ethnically and administratively they have not always been so regarded" (p.2)

Since Igbo was used at this time pejoratively to refer to the densely populated uplands, the major sources of slaves, and by extension to slaves, it is not surprisingly that many of these groups have been reluctant to accept the 'Igbo' identity ". (p.6)

The Definition of Yoruba

What, for example, is a Yoruba in Nigeria in this first year of the 21st century? Is it someone who can prove his descent, genetically, from Oduduwa, with a genealogical tree and, or, the results of a DNA test? Or, is a Yoruba somebody who can prove his belonging, by birth to a lineage, or, a clan, which belongs to one of the polities, which have come to be called Yoruba? What does this "belonging” here mean? Or, is a Yoruba someone who is recognized by one of the Obas wearing a beaded crown as a Yoruba? Or, is a Yoruba someone who speaks the Yoruba language as his first language and takes part in cultural and social practices, which are now called Yoruba? Or is a Yoruba someone who others who claim to be Yoruba accept that he is Yoruba? Or, is a Yoruba someone who, Senator Abraham Adesanya, the Leader of the Yoruba, recognize as Yoruba?

In the context of the racist politics which Afenifere is practicing and advocating for the rest of Nigeria, when it comes to a Sovereign National Conference, based on representation from ethnic groups, many of the prominent advocates of a confederation, or, the dismemberment of Nigeria, so that the Yoruba, for example, can control their own resources, like Bolaji Akinyemi, will find that their Yorubaness will be challenged. When the ancestry of the Leader of the Yoruba, before Adesanya, the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin, was challenged by Chief Ojomo in Owo, there was, in response to that challenge, a resounding silence!

The fact is that, the earliest record we have of the use of the very name “Yoruba” was in the Hausa language and it seems to have applied to the people of the Alfinate of Oyo. This came from the writings of the seventeenth century Katsina scholar, Dan Masani (1595-1667), who wrote a book on Muslim scholars of the “Yarriba”. But it was from a book of the Sarkin Musulmi Bello, written in the early nineteenth century, that the name became more widely used.

The Bishop Ajayi Crowther, the Reverend Samuel Johnson, and his brother Obadiah Johnson, among others, came, in the nineteenth century, to widely spread this Hausa name to the people who now bear it, in their writings. Other names, like “Lukunmi” “Aku”, “Nago” and “Anago” are applied to the same people, but the name “Yoruba” has come to prevail, ...

These people, who the dissemination of the written form of Standard of Yoruba, derived from the Oyo dialect, has given a level of common identity, actually speak about twenty dialects. Some of these dialects were barely mutually intelligible. The twenty dialects are, according to some linguists: Bunu, Ife, Ijesha, Ondo, Owo, Igbena, Gbedde, Akono, Ilaje, Awori, Ila, Ijebu, Oyo, Yagba, Egba, Ekiti, Aworo, Ijumu, Kalae, and Owe.

The Meaning of Igbo

The outlook on Nigerian politics which gives primacy of place to ethnic boxing matches, particularly between the big three tribes, simply refuses to face up to such realities of Nigerian politics. Even when a distinguished scholar, with a world stature, like the late Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike, points out that these ethnic groups of Nigeria, like the Igbo are recent formations, this is almost completely ignored, because it goes so much against the grain. But what Audrey Smock found out during his field work on the politics of ethnic unions in the Eastern Region, conforms with what Dike has brought out.

In a book written with Felicia Ekejiuba, titled, The Aro of South -Eastern Nigeria, 1650-1980: A Study of Socio-Economic Formation and Transformation in Nigeria, published in 1980, they brought out that: ... it is often forgotten, or merely mentioned in the footnote, that Igbo is a modern ethnic category which many of the constituent groups have only recently and often reluctantly accepted as their ethnic identity, often on political and administrative grounds. During the period covered by our study, the now twelve million or more ‘Igbo’ distributed over 30,000 square miles of territory east and west of the Niger were variously referred to either as cultural groups (e.g. the Nri, Isuama, Ezza, or Otanzu), or by the ecological zones in which they are found (e.g. Olu or Oru i.e. the riverain people or Adagbe, people of the flood plain); Enugu, people who live on the hills, Aniocha, people who live on heavily leached and eroded solids; Ohozara, peopleof the savannah; or as occupational groups such as Opi egbe (people who fashion guns), Ndiuzu or Umudioka (blacksmiths, artists and carvers).

And that:

Since Igbo waa used at this time pejoratively to refer to the densely populated uplands, the major sources of slaves, and by extension to slaves, it is mot surprisingly that many of these groups have been reluctant to accept the ‘Igbo’ identity.(p.6)

Igbo migration, settlement and intermarriage into, and, at, all nooks and corners of Nigeria and all parts of West, Central and Southern Africa, has even made this identity broader and more fluid. It is no longer a question of when, or, whether, the Ikwerre, the Onitsha, the Asaba and the Ika are Igbo, but where to draw the line between this Igbo and the other ethnic groups of the Rivers and Bayelsa States, for example where according to the 1952 census the Igbo constituted about 40% of the population, of Rivers Province, forming the largest single ethnic group.

The Notion of Hausa-Fulani

This name cannot meaningfully define an ethnic group, or, a nationality, because Hausa is a language with its associated cultures and identities, distinct from Fulbe, and its associated cultures and identities. Is this Hausa-Fulani a new group with a new language? Or does it mean that people of Fulbe, or, semi-Fulbe origin who now only speak Hausa and have taken on Hausa cultures and identities are the Hausa-Fulani? Or does it mean people of Hausa origin, who now only speak Fulfulde and have taken on Fulbe cultures and identities?

The Hausa and Fulfulde languages do not even have the same origin. Fulbe is closely related genetically to Ibo and Yoruba and to Ijaw and the Bantu languages. It belong to the West Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages; the family to which all these languages belong. But Hausa is a member of the completely different Chadic family of languages and is much closer to Sayawa, Angas, Margi, and Bachama for example, then it is to Fulfulde and its Niger-Congo relations.

A Pullo, that is a Fulani individual, is a Pullo, precisely because he is not a Kado, that is a non-Pullo; then how could someone be a Pullo and a Kado at the same time? This is a contradiction in terms. It is meaningless.

In any case, the migration of the Fulani during the second millennium A.D, from the River Senegal area, right across West and Central Africa to the Red Sea, led to a great deal of variation in the Fulbe population, not only on the basis of six main dialects namely: Futa Toro, Futu Jallon, Massina, Sokoto, Central Northern Nigerian and Adamawa; but, also on the basis of origin, occupation, religion and social status.

As for the Hausa-speaking people, not only do they have dialects, which were barely mutually intelligible, but they have no tradition of a common origin. Their substantial dialectical, cultural, territorial entities are, Katsinawa, Kanawa, Zagezagi, Gobirawa, Shirawa, Daurawa, Kebbawa, Auyokawa and Zamfarawa,[/b][/color] for example; and such groupings are made of people of diverse origin including Nupe, Jukun, Gbagyi, and Yoruba, even before the nineteenth century.

The name “Hausa” itself seems to have come from the Songhai people of the area to the west of the Sokoto-Rima basin and it was applied to the people east of the Songhai speaking people of that area. Until recently in Sokoto Province, “Hausa” meant the Sokoto area, to the exclusion of Kano, Katsina and all other areas, usually called Hausaland, nowadays. It is argued, however, that the notion of Hausa-Fulani has a basis in a common Islamic identity. But as has been pointed out, again and again, Islam was not and is not a monolithic religion, without any division and conflict among its adherents, here and elsewhere. In any case there are people who are called Hausa-Fulani who are not Muslims.

GamalNasser:
Even you know you are not sincere in your response

Reno who is bankrolling you?

The key to political success:

Just look around, whoever Reno Omokri, FFK and Nnamdi Kanu are praising is who you'll run from. I don't want Reno to praise you cos it's a sign that you're failing. He has no record of success. Whatever he touches turn into a nightmare. He caused the failures of GEJ, Atiku and now he's got another ATM, who's sure to fail.

Reno (also known as Wendell Simlin) is a charlatan.

You are the king of charlatans when the likes of FFK calls you a liar, insincere, disrectful, insolent, dishonest, etc.

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Here's a chatter between Omokri and FFK. I consider FFK same as Omokri, but here he gave the lie to his being a 'bestselling' author or a man with profitable occupation abroad:

Omokri: Look, Femi, you lied. Deal with it. I will not follow you into the gutter. I don’t need to suck up to Atiku. I made a fortune in US dollars from just one bestseller. I suck up to the truth not to men! You told a lie. Fess up to your lie.

FFK: The issue is the fact that you are wrong and I am right. You are disrespectful, insolent and more dishonest and insincere than anyone else. Remember the fake Wendell Simlin handle you used to attack others on Twitter? What could be more dishonest and cowardly than that? You don’t have to get into the gutter because you were born in it and you never left. That is where you were born and that is where you will die. You say you made a fortune? Is the little change you have what you call a fortune? And how did you make that fortune? From working as a Pastor or working as an informant for the CIA?

https://opera.pulse.ng/news/politics/the-moment-fani-kayode-and-reno-insulted-themselves-on-twitter-id8138487.html

GamalNasser:
Please explain how it's generally better ?

You have better roads to drive on?

You have pipe borne water?

You feel more secure?

You have Access to better health care ?

How is it better please and don't tell me the typical self-centered Nigerian Nonsense that you bought car and house

GamalNasser:
Even Dangote is not better off please so stop deceiving yourself

freeborn02:
Don't mind them bro. Afterall, you can hide behind the internet to make any claim.

May your life and destiny reflect what Nigeria's economy reflects under Buhari. Amen.

GamalNasser:
Are you better off now ?

TheRareGem1:
This op can lie o.

You said whoever is being abused, disrespected, misquoted, being thrown dirt at, stoned, pelted, punched, ridiculed, misrepresented, hated, maligned, to the point of absurdity and for not doing any visible and illegal acts is likely to carry the day. And you claimed Tinubu and el rufai are the one. When we know the real person who fit into aforementioned. What Osinbajo takes per day In the media generally, these two are yet to take quarter of it.

Fokosobo:
The way you people are talking as if Tinubu has made his intentions known.

WATCHOVER:
Sentiments aside, Next President if the North decides to relinquish power, Power will go to the East.

Am not from the East

Fokosobo:
Osinbanjo.

frankyychiji:
You don't get it do you? Buhari is not in charge. It doesn't depend on him.

NGpatriot:
That clown has zero shame especially when he stole the name of his own brother's son, your own nephew to perpetrate fraud and deception on the internet, shows that fraud and criminality flows through his veins.

frankyychiji:
Hahaha Hahahahaa hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha

Bad market! Buhari will never hand over to him. He can go and be president in Iragbiji republic.

NGpatriot:
Atiku was never going to win anything because his base of supporters were ipobs, the perennial losers, but omokiri is a crook and a hustler, he joined the bandwagon to collect his share of brown envelope from atiku..

frankyychiji:
Malcolmx this guy aptly captured osunbande in this description

NGpatriot:
Faces of failure....

The crooks and the crooked.

frankyychiji:
Thiefnubuu has not even declared any intention to be president, dude doesn't even believe in Nigeria. Why his minions continue to run upandan beats my imagination.
This is zombiesm taken too far.

frankyychiji:
Yes the way we ran from Falae Atiku and Ribadu

frankyychiji:
You were in opposition for 16 Fvcking years, just because you supported a lifeless Sudanese for your own selfish gains, you are now regurgitating.

You supported Olu Falae, Atiku and Ribadu in the past, what happened?

Take the advice above and stay off drugs.

frankyychiji:
Lol.. Reno the world knows, who are you?