₦airaland Forum

OneNaira6:
Cross River consist of Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Igbo, etc with Efik being the majority.  Traditional attires tend to be interchangeable among SE and SS region.  I saw hats I assumed was just an Igbo man dress style because its the type of hat worn exclusively among my community but I just learned otherwise.

Beads on the other hand is very common among Nigerian southern groups but the heavy neck beads is exclusive to River groups.  I'm not sure if the heavy bead is just an Ijaw dress style or an all rivers group dress style due to the fact I know a Rivers Igbo woman married to an Edo man and she was dressed in similar attire during her traditional wedding and another river igbo woman dressed the same way during her traditional wedding which Ijaw girl posted here.

Get your facts right, Cross Rivers has no Igbo as part of what it constitute.

Fifthcolumnist:
At this rate Nigerian soldiers are dying We'd soon be left to defend ourselves with sticks and stones. The army has always been a joke. I doubt if this army can defend us against external aggression from even a small African state.

hehehe, stones and sticks, are you Captain Caveman

Fifthcolumnist:
At this rate Nigerian soldiers are dying We'd soon be left to defend ourselves with sticks and stones. The army has always been a joke. I doubt if this army can defend us against external aggression from even a small African state.

hehehe, stones and sticks, are you Captain Caveman

kropotkin11:
Yes you ought to run and hide boy and pass on the message to your friends in the creeks . The Nigerian state will deal ruthlessly with any challenge to its authority

deal with ke, if they are truely serious let the millitants get some few tanks also then we will know which side is pro in tactical manuovre, overt and covert bullet dodging,#odinary breeze de pushmake them drown for river not to talk of when exchange of fire start#

deekseen:
I hope your ignorance and lack of comprehension doesn't kill you soon.

Igwe Ocha being a former nickname for Port Harcourt doesn't imply that it's an Igbo settlement. Same way Lagos (a Portuguese name) and Eko (an Edo nickname for Lagos) do not give the identity of Lagos to Portugal or Edo state.

By the way, I'm from Okrika. So, I guess it was your ancestors that rode on snail's back.

How does, according to your initial statement ' had an igbo name at the first place ' now translates to a nickname, maybe in your village you people give nickname before original name. Please Okrikans are not known to be dumb as you are, so
refrain from claiming to be an indigene of Okrika. You certainly lack the intellectual ability to sustain an intelligent conversation, go get an appropriate education, then we can proceed from there.

deekseen:
Was Borokiri not also known as 'Igwe Ocha', an Igboid name? Or do you decide to think and comprehend with the tiny hole in your bu.tt sometimes?

So Borikiri was known as igwe ocha maybe ur ancestors left your erosion plaqued villages on tortoise back to coduct d naming ceremony. it is your type that will say Lagos is no mans land.

epatant:
Yes August

And today is September hehehe. Change!!!

acidtalk:
* Employers Want A Job To Grow Them But Don't Want To Grow The Job : majority of employers are solely concerned with how much they will earn on a job at the end of the month and often time play deaf and blind on job description given on their exact portfolio on the job. So many people have lost out on great opportunities on taking up a job which would have built them over the years because in their own opinion "the pay wasn't encouraging"

* Lack Of Skillful Knowledge : it is only in Nigeria as a nation you will still find out that graduates feel they are too big of sophisticated to learn to skill or take up a skill oriented kind of job.
There's no nation that can ever grow without the skill and semi skilled professional in the economy. In most school across the world, it is compulsory for every undergraduate to take up a skill or a trade way before graduation so that they can also fall back on something when they job aren't forthcoming or they eventually lose out on a job.

If am an employer i won't employ you, the reason is simple you can't differentiate between an employer and employee. Nigerians and 'holier than thou' attitude, remove the log in your eyes first so you can see clearly those that are employable.

I don't understand why strangers tend to gainsay when it comes to PH history, see from former Obi wali civic centre(now silverbird) to slaugter to the west, and NPA to the east move down to Borikiri and the small islands adjoining belongs to the Okrika people, and that is what constitute the Okrika section of Port-Harcourt. This is based on the 1913 agreement signed by the Okrika chiefs, Diobu chiefs(from Ikwerre) and the white fellow called Harcourt. All this Rumu this or Rumu that are not really in Port-harcourt,

HopeAtHand:
so Old GRA, Secretariat, belongs to Okrika or Ikwerre....and yes parts of Odili Road, Azuabie, Okuru, Abuloma and Borikiri were massively reclaimed swamps.

I don't understand why strangers tend to gainsay when it comes to PH history, see from former Obi wali civic centre(now silverbird) to slaugter to the west, and NPA to the east move down to Borikiri and the small islands adjoining belongs to the Okrika people, and that is what constitute the Okrika section of Port-Harcourt.

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HopeAtHand:
I dont know why i just love this thread. Not that it offers much but maybe for the comical value.

Okrika cannot host any major facility or institution because Okrika has no land. So when they say they gave land to british for PH, we ask them very a simple question "do you have land".

Look Abuloma, Amadi Ama, Borikiri. all these areas were mostly reclaimed swamps. Every in Okrika itself alot of reclamation has taken place. The british cannot have asked Okrika to give them lamd because Okrika cannot give what it does not have. Well, When Ikwerre and Okrika people are ready to finally settle the PH ownership, we shall dissect the issue very critically.

joeprince23, take my advise, rest this moniker else even your most honest of comments wouldn't be taken seriously.

So in your mind Abuloma, Odili road borikiri, old GRA, secretarait, up till slaughter is a reclaimed land? hnmn

deekseen:
Read how i interpreted Borokiri in Okrika, then read what you wrote and try to figure out if you really have any comprehension skill.

I have read it once more and i have figured out that i only wasted my mb on a post from a simpleton, check your statement 'Thanks, to mention a few. This is the same reason Borokiri (Fishing Port in Okirika) had an Igbo name in the first place' and advise your ignorance.

hharsnan:
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aribisala0:
in yorubaland today there are many places called oke-oyinbo. oke is up or high and oyinbo is white man but oke-oyinbo would mean white mans hill or something like that. this would usually be an area where the native court and other administrative buildings would be located. i know of at least 5 in different states.
they are small districts not towns and have no real identity.
i struggle to see, though how the word oyinbo or ocha in igbo could have been part of the name of any town or district before the white man's arrival which suggests to me that that part of diobu that became known as igu ocha was either uninhabited or had another name that did not include the word ocha. i make no comment here about whether any previous name if any was in igbo or not but clearly iguocha is a name quite new i.e .not centuries old. compare this with many clearly old villages in port harcourt almost all have their names beginning with the prefix rumu-(there are a few that don't)e.g.eligbam,woji elikahia,ogbunabali which really are add-ons to port harcourt  much later but have occupied their locations long before port harcourt was named.it is note worthy that it was the terminal for a rail line for coal and the outlet into the atlantic through which this coal .was exported. diobu about a  mile away rapidly developed into a major trading hub which was dominated by igbo traders not of ikwerre origin. the ikwerres were not and are not noted for their entrepreneurial acumen. they are noted for other things. the other thing worth mentioning is there were several riverine ethnic groups occupying many of the waterfronts of what is now port harcourt e.g. okrikas,kalabaris.

whether or not the ikwerres are igbo i don't know but it is clear that by the time of the civil war diobu and that part of port harcout was dominated by igbos who were not ikwerre who were forced to flee because of the war and consequently lost a lot of property. this confirms one thing whether or not the ikwerres are igbo they did not have any qualms about taking over their property and this was justified by rhetoric that revealed deep animosity.in fact another prominent ikwerre son fought on the side of nigeria. i do not believe all of this can be brushed aside by polemics. clearly the matter remains a very raw one for many igbos and this makes if difficult to accept alternative perspectives. i think it is important when presenting ideas that might be hurtful to do this in a way that is sensitive and respectful. above everything we must always respect the igbos no matter what and i hereby express my utmost regard.i do not suggest anyone change their minds but i think all of us need to learn how to listen with tolerance to ideas with which we have a visceral disagreement. that is the only way to live in peace

The Rumus are the add-ons in PH point of correction, 90% of all the rumus are not found in PH, they are in obio akpor lga strangers always think once they cross Imo river they are in Port harcourt, its so crazy having strangers making contribution to history concerning PH

if ijaws and igbos can unite and give themselves only one name eg Ijogbo or Igbojaw/Igbojo there wouldnt be a need for the everlasting question of who owns Port Harcourt.

cany say I'm too convinced Bonny is derived from Ibani though not to say it's not possible. However, Bonny is also a very common Scottish or English word. Quite a coincidence, imo.

Bonny is originaly called Igbani an Ijaw name , but the Igbos twisted it to Ubani

Ibime:
egheleghe, na native wrestling logic wey you dey use create argument for Nairaland?




It is a well known fact that Igwe Ocha or 'Borokiri' as the Okrikas call it was the first settlement in PH. Igwe Ocha or Borokiri was sold by the Amanyanabo of Okrika to the British and these transactions are recorded for anyone who wishes to check. PH started at the Wharf in Borokiri and only later spread out into Ikwerre lands. Borokiri was no swamp. Aggrey Road is part of Borokiri and was the administrative centre of old PH. Any claim to the northern part of PH is between the Ikwerres and Igbos to fight over, but history clearly shows that PH started in lands sold by the Okrika to the British. The fact that lands such as Lagos waterside, Bundu waterside and the land at the back of Comprehensive Secondary School were later reclaimed from swamp does not mean that the larger portion of Okrika-owned Borokiri did not exist. Infact, the original PH was built on Okrika-owned land in Borokiri.

Why are you wasting your data for Igbo land grabbers, anywhere they go they want to ride on the original owners, Igbos please learn to develop ur places

ow11:
The people are just homeless they go to the north ( they get killed), they go to Lagos and want be governor now they have come to portharcourt. Please what is wrong with Owerri, Aba, Afikpo,Enugu, NNewi,Orlu, Umuahia, Awka, Nsukka, Obolloafor _{the list goes on}? Just live in a place quietly and stop stirring controversies with ur hosts!

I don't get it, why do igbos keep strugling with others for ownership of a place they travelled several killometer away from their place of origin to settle

deekseen:
Ikwerre language is completely igbo( a variety of igbo, that is . . . just as there are other varieties across the east) but no Ikwerre man nor his land is Igbo. The Ikwerres have to communicate and distinguish themselves from the Igbos, hence the 'R' at the beginning of some names and other changes both in spelling and pronunciation. We have English as the most widely spoken language here in Nigeria, so we're now English abi? We even went further to develop our own brand of English (Nigerian English) to distinguish it from the Englishman's brand.

Anyone saying Ikwerre as a tribe is Igbo should very well go down to Opobo and divide the land in three - Efik, Ibani and Igbo. Or should say Kalabari belongs to Okirika or vice-versa.

Ibime and a few others have being right all along - Port Harcourt has grown beyond its original territory and now extends from the Okirika / Kalabari dominated areas to Ikwerre dominated areas (Obio / Akpor). As a matter of fact Port Harcourt (Town) is a central dwelling place for all Rivers people.

Now, i want someone to say that Okirika is also an Igboland since till this present day they still use Igbo dialect to describe things. Like: ngaji - spoon, aziza - broom, akpa - bag, Opara - First male child, Ada - First female child, Ngozi - to describe multiple births like Twins (as a form of blessing) and they still have names like Imama - Thanks, to mention a few. This is the same reason Borokiri (Fishing Port in Okirika) had an Igbo name in the first place.

It's very funny for people to say someone from one tribe, because of his political influence, can change the spelling and pronunciation of names in another tribe. He cannot even effect a change, on his own, in his own tribe - Na him create the tribe? If it was possible, since Yorubas and Hausas have had more political influence than any other tribal sect, then we should be having names like Okeshuku instead of Okechukwu and so on.

As it stands today, Port Harcourt has more land in Ikwerre dominated areas but Port Harcourt is tribeless. It's for the Rivers people.

It beats me to see people come here to try to deceive others with pig-shit facts.

Oga how and when did Borikiri had an Igbo name, why do people come online to showcase their ignorance. Borikiri is an Ijoid dialect meaning fishing settlement. Ijoid dialect refers to Igbani, Okrika, Kalabari, Nembe etc.

Abagworo:
How are the Epie people Ijaw? Because they are in Bayelsa maybe but I don't understand Engenni and Andonni being Ijaw in any way. Nothing suggests such. Kalabari, Bonny, Opobo, Okrika are Riverine people but Ijaw I can't tell until they affirm.

Everything suggests they are of the Ijoid group, their culture, language, dressing etc. Note* we have different block eg Western Ijo( Ilajes of ondo states,Delta state up until lagos even to Adamawa state, a people from the Bille extraction of the Kalabaris although overtaken by the culture of the fulani/hausa, Eastern Ijo(Riverien e.g Okrikas, Kalabaris, Igbanis-Bonny and Opobo, Abua, Engenni etc. Southern Ijo(in Bayelsa) others include the Nembes' Andoni etc. Ijaw is a nation on its right.
Saying the aforementioned are not Ijaws is like saying the Ijebus' are not yorubas or even Epes of lagos are not yorubas

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Some persons wants to use daddy G.O sermon to get cheap popularity.

What surprises me often,is that most tailors waste your time taking measurement with their tapes but end up sewing with an entirely different dimensions. Most Nigerian skill workers are not diligent in work.

Chaii, me too just got mine, am moving on, but its quite unfortunate because if proper investigation is carried out, you will discover that the beneficiaries will be family members of nlng staffs and those that have long leg

johnbimbo12:
"love letter" here too.

illiad:
Is that all you can think of?

Because I was expecting you to list their most popular traits...

1. Ijaws are the most unreliable people in Nigeria.

2. Ijaw lands, that is if they have one, remains the poorest and less developed in the entire southern Nigeria.

3. That Jonathan became president has absolutely nothing to do with Ijaw or Ijaws, but sheer chance and goodwill of Nigerians.

4. That Opobo is not Ijaw land and neither are opobos Ijaw

5. That in Nigeria, bayelsa state of which Ijaw is majority is one of the least attractive places in Nigeria irrespective of the fact that bayelsa is an oil producing state.

6. That Ijaws till date have produced nobody of note besides, Jp Clark my man, and Jonathan who happens to be the actual child of circumstance.

7. That the niger delta amnesty program which was hijacked by Ijaws have done nothing but kept Ijaws more lazy and less creative than they were before the program.

8. That Ijaws are known to Nigerians as drunks.

9. That as we speak, Ijaws still drink from the same water they defecate.

10. That in not far future, Ijaws and whatever is left of their land, that is if they have any, would be useless to Nigeria and Ijaws themselves.

Are u high on mess?

joeprince23:
This thread was opened to remind all those fanning the embers of hate in SS and entire southern nigeria, who believe that “niger-delta” is the bight right of the ijo,to think twice cause ndoki/obigbo ethnic nationality(which is igbo) has come of age in rivers state and with the help of our ikwerre neigbhours will resist any attempt by the okrikans in controlling PH,they can go and control the marsh lands of yenegoa....

verry silly post

Nothing is wrong with she maintaining her fathers name, it will only become an issue if your children bear's her father name. Make your own name so that your daughter will want to keep ur name also.