Thormentor:

Lol you're not Bright at all and it shows you haven't even read to understand the war

According to Gowon and federal forces Biafra including Anambra and others are Nigeria territory thus why they were called "Rebels"

It completely have nothing to do with going to Midwest

in any war if your opponent get to your capital then they've won


While Enugu was the initial Biafra capital it was heavily targeted

Nigeria capital was in western region and ofcourse you'll pass midwest before you get there


Illiterate bigot

That's the problem! How on earth would such a ragtag army ever penetrate through the MidWest, West, then take over the seat of power of a sovereign nation? Wasn't that just unintelligent?

Same emotion-filled mumuness!

DMerciful:
Supporting Obi is for your own good, you're not doing Obi nor Igbos a favor.

I'm Igbo but I'm not from SE so when you say 5 states, na you sabi.

Biafra left btw 1967-1970 but you guys forced us back into Nigeria with celebrations.

You have to now deal with us

You keep typing: ' Biafra left between 1967 - 1970 but you guys forced us back into Nigeria with celebrations'

Biafra left to where? And who forced you back?

Ojukwu was in Enugu, and declared Biafra in July 1967.

What was he and his ragtag army doing in the MidWest and Ore by August, just a few weeks later?

Did that look like the road to Biafra or part of Biafra?

What did he expect when he breached the territorial integrity of Nigeria by attacking the MidWest and Ore?

aswani:


How di see finish no go happen, you no see as Ovb'Edo carry Obidiency for head ni?

That will be the last time such rubbish will happen.

Chinkoalhaji34:
Congratulations to Justice Wike on his new appointment, a welldeserved recognition of his dedication and expertise in the legal field.

It's his wife who was appointed Justice, court of appeal.

freshkpomo:

I have spoken about the hate on Benin people multiple time, but instead of the moderator to find a solution, they go on to delete my post. I never really knew why a certain tribe sleep and wake up with hate. Firstly, if your hatred towards Benin is because of ikwerre then you should face those who said they are not your people and leave Benin out of it. Who knows if this hate is what they are trying to avoid? Benin is a minority tribe, why will anyone choose a minority over a majority? Don't this sound strange? Abeg my Igbo men and women, leave Benin alone as we have no interest in land grabbing or dragging other people's land. As a matter of fact, even Esan that speak similar language as us,we nor dey forcefully call them Benin and we live them to do their thing, not to talk of far away ikwerre.

Stop twisting history, stop attacking Benin people online because we don't care about your Biafra either, we are just minding our peace and we nor come una door come beg for food to chop. Everything must not be tribal conflict, some even had time to still rope Yoruba and Fulani in the topic, why so much hate?

You don't even sound like a Bini man. Cos I wonder why you'll be perturbed by nonsense from ipo.bs who don't know their own history.

Endeavour to be well knowledgeable in your own history too.

It's Reno who's causing ethnic divide in Nigeria?

BigkokoRep:
UN Definition of genocide
Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as:

... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[8]
Article 3 defines the crimes that can be punished under the convention:

(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
— Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 3[8]
The convention was passed to outlaw actions similar to the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.[9]


Article 3, sub (b) holds Reno Omkri accountable..... And it beholds of member states to try him for incitement. With the evidence , especially his of Social Media to incite riots against the Igbo, we will find out what the Law says!

For now...someone should help a friend with his country of residence. tankio!

This fairly describes the activities of ipo.bs in the SouthEast.

The public witnessed what transpired during the failed kidnap attempt.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjDTOoU4m7I?si=L9_Sug6TQWLntFtm

Caleb15:

David Ejoor

David Ejoor ( an Urhobo) was the Military Administrator of the Midwest and was never part of the Biafran army.

After the incursion by Biafran troops which occurred without a shot fired, unknown to Victor Banjo who led the Biafran troops into the MidWest, Ojukwu secretly ordered a certain Lt col Ochei to lead troops to open fire on the State House in Benin and capture David Ejoor dead or alive.

David Ejoor escaped.

It should be noted these events of incursion into the MidWest was during the beginning of the war when there was widespread empathy towards the Biafran side, hence the incursion into the MidWest was bloodless.
But the conduct of Ojukwu and his Biafran troops afterwards ultimately led to devastating outcome on the Biafran side.

The Midwest invasion lasted from 9th August to 20th September 1967 ( a month after the war started).

The Biafran war duration - 6th July 1967 to 15th January 1970.

confusedlady:



Coldie,
You have done nothing of the sort. All you have done on this thread is beat around the bush as usual.

Anybody with an iota of intelligence can see from paragraph vii of Ojukwu's letter that this was an attempt to subjugate and annex Lagos and Western region entirely which has always been the aim of the Ibo from time in memorial starting with Azikiwe trying to become the leader of Western Nigeria using the influence of Herbert Macaulay.
You have refused to look at the fact that if Banjo had successfully gotten to Lagos he would have been Ojukwu's puppet on a string,considering that all actions would require Ojukwu's approval. Secondly, Ojukwu was to appoint the administrator for Lagos of his own choice. Thirdly the Biafra occupational force was to remain in Lagos and the Western region until Ojukwu decided he was satisfied.
This was just the egotistical Ojukwu sending Banjo on a suicide mission of no return.
Had Banjo succeeded, it is obvious that Ojukwu would have ordered his assassination before he could assume office and turn the tables on him. Banjo being a cerebral man realised his error of leading a rag tag Ibo occupational force into his homeland and quickly turned back at Ore.

So Coldie, in the end you have not convinced anyone that the aim of this Biafran invasion was altruistic. The ultimate aim as usual was a subjugation and annexation of another region.

Banjo had already realised this during the short-lived invasion of the Midwest, when Ojukwu sought to place his kinsmen in virtually all positions of power (while assassinating and imprisoning the indigenes) - this led to a rift between Banjo and Ojukwu, even causing a 3-day delay affecting the scheduled advancement to Ore.

In addition to reinforcement by federal forces, resistance was already building up within the Midwest against the invaders.

He tiff or he no tiff?

Wike no get these ones time.

Normally, na to sue for libel, so this one will have the opportunity to explain when Wike confided in him about contesting in 2027.

Will all these threads force the Ikweres to become Igbos?

The Ikweres are a distinct ethnic group and their people are well-informed about this, as well as any educated person.

More time and energy should be focussed on productivity, instead of claiming territories online.

It's well known the Ikweres are a distinct ethnic group. No argument.

Lavisha:


Those guys never get behind any wheels obviously.

I know peeps that can outrun hilux with kia Picanto.


Me in my Honda Accord DC V6, dem no born Hilux well.


It's all about calculations, handling and knowing your onions well.- Its never about speed.

You say wetin?

Congrats to her.

Nigerians are doing exceptionally well globally.

Also, recently, one of our illustrious Edos was inaugurated Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University.

otipoju:



I think they lost their voice and are now suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

Also a whole lot of Nigerians are shady. There is so much religious activities but minimal uprightness. The permit the oppression with the faint hope they will rise to the top one day, while actively replicating similar corrupt actions in their current areas of influence.

Not only government officials are corrupt, every nook and cranny , it is the same. Churches and Mosques are incubators of corruption.

Brother, I have accepted the reality and moved on.

A pretty apt summary of the moral and psychosocial state of many so-called 'common man' in Nigeria.

Okay. A bill will be passed to change the name to South Central. That is after more important issues have been taken care of.

10thTenthMan:


I do understand where the poster is coming from. The praise singing of Asari Dokubo in this video sounds definitely Igbo Language. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT KALABARI LANGUAGE. ANY KALABARI SPEAKER WILL TELL YOU THAT IS NOT KALABARI AND UNLESS YOU ARE CONVERSANT WITH IGBO LANGUAGE, A KALABARI PERSON WILL NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING SAID IN THAT VIDEO.

Igbo Language and Kalabari are not the same.

English, Igbo and Kalabari for example:

God - Chukwu/Chineke - Tamuno

Come - Bia - bo

Go - Gawa - So

Cloth - Akwa - Kapa

Please - Biko - Pasisi

Bush - Ofia - Piri

Head - Ishi - Sibi

House - Ulo - Wari

Road - Uzor - Etela

Market - Ahia - Ogambiri

Dog - Nkita - Obiri

Gun - Egbe - Alagba

Woman/Female - Nwayin - Erebo/ Ereme

Small/Little - Ntakiri - Kala/ Iru


And I could go on and on ...

But there is hard fact that due to the Kalabaris being middlemen in the slave trade, general trade and intermarriages, there has been a lot of mixing. I doubt if there is a Kalabari family without an Igbo grand or great grand relatives. Many Kalabari Men marry Igbo Wives and have been known to be very compatible.

The individual who opened this thread knows this.
The aim of the thread is to attempt to misinform anyone who is unfamiliar with these places, cultures or ethnicities.
But to no avail as they will always be busted!

It is a known fact that the Kalabaris are part of the Ijoid ethnic group and have their language which is definitely not Igbo, but an Ijoid dialect - Ibani.

Igbo began to become a popular language during precolonial era when communication was a necessity between the locals of the coastal areas and Igbo slaves and their sellers as it was Igbos who mostly sold Igbos as slaves through middle-men.

With a system which encouraged integration of freed slaves into the communities (eg Jaja of Opobo, Goodhead, etc), the abolishment of slave trade, migration and intermarriages, it became an adopted language in these areas.
It's akin to Hausa beginning to claim Maiduguri or Jalingo or Kwai is Hausa land with Hausa people because they speak Hausa as a 2nd language (which the Hausas have never attempted and would Honourably never attempt such).


Below is an excerpt from just one of documented accounts of explorers and merchants in Bonny Island in the early to mid 1800s:

Paul Hair (1967) seems to have been the first bibliographer to cite the history and citations of
Ijo in early historical sources and the following is largely adapted from his essay.

The first actual words of Ibani were recorded by Captain Hugh Crow, an English slave-trader who
operated from Bonny around the end of the eighteenth century. From his account one would
think that there was only one language, namely Eboe [Igbo] spoken at Bonny, but in his wordlist
of Eboe’, a few Ibani words are found casually embedded in it.

The expedition of 1832 - 34 up the Niger collected vocabularies of a number of languages but not of Ijo.
Edwin Norris, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, used these when he
compiled a handbook for the use of the next Niger Expedition and added materials from other
sources, including numerals in ‘Bonny’, i.e. Ibani (Norris 1840).

In 1840 a German doctor spent some four months in Bonny as a ship’s doctor, and wrote a
detailed account of Bonny including a long vocabulary of Ibani. (Köler 1842-43), reprinted as
Köler 1848). He notes the use of two languages, Ibani and Igbo, at Bonny, and the attempts by
elders to prevent boys from teaching him Ibani. This confirms what is said today, that the major
reason for the decline of Ibani is the successful attempt to keep it from being learnt by outsiders,
which in the nineteenth century included a large slave population. The result of this policy is
that Igbo has become the common language of communication.

Two more dialects of Ijo were recorded for the first time by John Clarke (1848). These were
‘Numbe’ [Nembe] and ‘Akrika’ [Okrika], together with further lists of Kalabari and Ibani.
Clarke was a Baptist missionary who, with the help of an Afro- American colleague, Merrick,
collected his wordlists in an unsystematic way, some in Fernando Po and some in the West
Indies (Hair 1967).

Sigismund Koelle was a German scholar who worked for the Church
Missionary Society (CMS) in Freetown. There he compiled his Polyglotta Africana in 1850
which was published in 1854. It was a collection of vocabularies of African languages,
compiled by interviewing the freed slaves who had been resettled in Freetown. Koelle used a
standard wordlist of about three hundred items and added notes on his informants and their
homelands, from which he was able to draw a map which is remarkably accurate for a period
when no European knew the interior of West Africa. His vocabularies are grouped according
to genetic relationship in so far as he could trace it from the wordlists. He has two wordlists of
Ijo, grouped together as V.C., the group which conjoins Igboid and Edoid.
The first list, ‘OkuIma’, is a wordlist of Ibani, named for the town Okólómá, although Koelle’s informant
was from Orupiri (órüpIrI). Koelle (1854: refers to Obäne as the name for these people given
by the Ibos and Kerekas [Okrika]. Williamson (1966) discusses Koelle’s Ijo lists in detail. In
the case of Ibani, she shows that some 73% of Koelle’s forms were accurate and also yield
interesting information about lexical and phonological change in the language since they were
recorded. In 1856, Baikie published his account of the 1854 voyage to explore the Niger. In his
appendix on the languages, he states:
From the Rio Formoso to the Nun, including all the western portion of the Delta, the natives
speak Orü or Ejó, and to the westward of Abó a distinct dialect is used, namely the Sóbo, Nimbe
or Brass is very nearly related to the Orú, and I believe that from the Brass River to the New
Kalabár, the natives dwelling on the banks of each of the intervening rivers all talk differently.

Development of coastal and estuarine settlements in the Niger delta
the case of the Bonny Local Government Area
by Winston I. Bell-Gam

helinues:
22 vehicles?

Hahaha , how?

If a deputy governor can be in possession of 22 government vehicles, abeg na how many vehicles the governor himself dey use?

Sleekfingers:



Even if there is no issues. What will a former deputy governor still doing with official cars ?

He is now a private citizen. And he should use his money to buy his own cars .

Interestingly, the Governor moves around with a very limited number of cars.
The former deputy governor was the one who moved around like the typical Naija governor.

You can imagine the manic behaviour and sense of entitlement, refusing to return 22 government-owned vehicles.
These are the calibre of strange bedfellows carrying out emergency pre-election defection to the APC. All for self-interests.

You can imagine such government in Edo with these characters and their various feelings of entitlement and conflicts of interest.
Governance would be chaotic and ineffective.

Offpointng:


Very true. I remember the havoc 12 SOF Panthers wrecked on Bandits along brinin gwari area of Kaduna sometimes in 2022 I was shocked

I said if 12 NAF SOF can wreck this typa havoc, how much Army with the whole ground assault artillery and man power

Namaster:
I keep saying it that it's absolute INSANITY that the Nigerian Military is having such a tough time NEUTRALISING these terrorists and bandits.

They are a bunch of ragtag, illiterate and DUMB idiots with guns. A MINOR surveillance operation would reveal their location. And a coordinated attack on that location will PARALYZE them.

But the Nigerian Military would rather intimidate civilians and attack NEPA office for free light.

Very USELESS!

It's obvious the military has been greatly compromised.

One of the best COAS Nigeria had was Iherijeka.


Today, certain Nigerians have turned banditry and insurgency to business.

The punishment for these sort of crimes should be severe, with no option of fine.

No level of greed should make anyone produce fake products for his fellow human to consume.

If such crimes are treated with kid gloves, in no time, we may even have people wage a biochemical war in the name of producing fake products from within Nigeria.

pinkguy:
LoL northern hate him because we southern now control Abuja,take heart northerner

On the contrary, my Northern brothers actually love him, and always sing his praises at every given opportunity.

Wike active! The results are clear in the F.C.T. Forget cho cho cho!

yarimo:
Bitter Obidients will soon invade this thread with hateful comment against comrade WIKE

Dem don full thread sharperly.


The working F.C.T Minister, abeg dance relieve stress jare!

These items are even cheaper in some supermarkets compared to some shed sellers.

May depend on the location though.

He did not spend up to 3 hours with the police; he has since be released.

Criminals cannot use our police as a tool for intimidation.

There are a plethora of cases of advance fee fraud with intimidation of the victims (locally and internationally), and it appears the rate of these crimes is on a steady increase.

This is of serious concern regarding societal and moral values of a lot of Nigerians.

AlaafinOfOyo:


We are not landlocked if you know history. Look at this 1856 map of the Igbo country before the British and Nigeria politically shrinked the Igbo territory using state creation, as a result of the loss of the civil war. Even the 1911 map still showed that the Igbo country the British met extended to the Atlantic. Is Opobo and Bonny landlocked? Are they not Igbo territory from that map? Even with Azumini alone, Igbo have clear access to the sea. How were slaves shipped from the Igbo hiterland to the coast? Azumini river.

Even the support IPOB is getting from many Igbo is because they are tired of Nigeria. IPOB is too small for Ndigbo to deal with if the people decide they're a nuisance, but the fact is that their agitation resonates with many Igbo.

In all sincerity to yourself, you believe the British, on their arrival accurately drew the earlier maps labelling 'Ibo' on those areas, then subsequently decided to 'shrink' Ibos?

The fact remains that within a short time, they had better understanding the territories of other Ethnic groups and continuously redrew maps during their expedition. That's why you'd see multiple maps with latter ones being more detailed than the earlier.

Did the British come along with the Kalabaris, the Okirikas, the Ijaws, Itshekiris, Urhobos, Efiks, etc to take over 'Ibo' land?
Who transacted with the Portuguese and Jews centuries before the arrival of the British to the coastal areas?

Having a preference for an earlier British map to latter ones does not change facts, history nor the heritage of indigenous people in those areas.

chopnaira:



So that you won't say I am lying.

Ps: Ibos are also not indigenous to Bonny and other coastal towns.

They know that. A few are just playing ignorant. And think history can be changed online or by telling lies to one another.

Wahabfuture:








Your post make nonsense, anyway you can continue to live in denial and delusion non of my problem, don't make such statement when you get to Opobo or Bonny otherwise your body parts will be feed to vultures, my advice

As predictable, vituperations with no substance.

You go to Opobo and Bonny and announce to them they are Biafrans and find out!

At this point, the F.C.T commissioner of Police needs to be questioned.

What's this senselessness of using the police as a tool for intimidation?

Information reveals he was arrested by a certain fraudster he called out. That one proceeded to use the FCT police to intimidate him.

We're not in a banana republic.


Update:

He has been released.

JagabanB:

Nobody fought for 3 years to keep you, the fight happened to prevent u thièvès from steaIing other trîbès in the Niger Delta, as it is now, if u guys decide to Petition the govt tomorrow to let your 5 states go, we will support u tóxîc foIks to Ieave.

That is even impossible as many Igbos within the 5 States won't even support such. It is more of a socio-cultural problem which needs to be sorted out from within, definitely not by the activities of the likes of Kanu, Ekpa and ipo.bs who aim to feed off the ignorance of the uninformed few.

Voyagerr:


Igbo will rule Nigeria over and over again and again. Time is too long , the world won't end in a thousand years

This is actually a fact. It's only a matter of time.

The saying: a particular tribe will never lead the Country is rather disingenuous and unattainable.

Masterminds of the 1966 coup:

Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Timothy Onwuatuegwu, Chris Anuforo, Don Okafor, Humphrey Chukwuka, and Adewale Ademoyega

These guys were Majors (in rank) in the Nigerian Army at the time. They invariably had to involve senior officer(s) - Kaduna Nzeogwu, who was Lieutenant Colonel.

On realisation that the coup had failed, Ifeajuna escaped into Ghana dressed as a woman and only returned to fight with the Biafran army (before ultimately, his principal also followed suit), while Nzeogwu Kaduna was apprehended.

This is just to clear the erroneous assumption that Lt Colonel Kaduna Nzeogwu was the mastermind behind the coup.

Major Adewale Ademoyega who was one of the masterminds was not Igbo, so calling it an Igbo coup based on participants was very unlikely. Besides many lower-ranking personnel across the Country partook in the operations aspect of the coup.

It appears there was some level of sabotage of the coup itself by partakers as leaders in other regions were eliminated while those of Igbo stock seemed to have been led to escape or were coincidentally nowhere to be seen.
That is where the perception of an 'Igbo coup' began to grow. Also, with sequence of events after the coup - political and social, this perception grew stronger.

David always acknowledges his Mom.

One of his attires during his wedding was a Benin traditional attire.