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Now lets put this record straight. Bonny historically has been and remain an IJAW town with Ibani as her "native language. it is common to see Bonny indeginous people speaking other languages like igbo, annang, hausa yoruba due to its cosmopolitant nature. however it is common to find most people speaking igbo. "HOW COME PEOPLE SPEAK IGBO OFTEN MORE" during the era of slave trading, like every other Ijaw clan, the Bonny Ijaw perfected on the act. Bonny poeple are predominantly fishermen and normally take their fishes up north where they meet with mainly the igbos to either sell their fish, buy farm produce or do trade by barter with. but during this period of slavery, the Bonny people began to lay ambush in wait for the ignorant igbo traders, whom were caught, brought to Bonny then later sold as slaves to the whites. but like the hurdles in every business, these slaves are kept in Bonny for some period of time due to NO AVAILABILITY OF SLAVE SHIPS which they will have wait for weeks to months

bigfrancis21:
The English language is a different case entirely. English is not native to any of its former colonies. It is only native to where you have its native speakers such as in Britain or the US. In the Igbo-speaking case of Bonny and Opobo, they speak Igbo as a mother tongue. The Igbos were not colonialists neither did they force their language on anyone. Thus, any person who speaks Igbo as first language today is a descendant of an Igbo-speaking ancestor who spoke the language out of his own volition.

in as much as your argument are matured, i must give it to you unlike other sorry to say igbo guys here. I want to reiterate here that we the Bonny indeginous people are Ijaw and never igbo. I speak ibani wit every bonny friend i hav and my family. And the same for everyone here. people here also speak igbo but IT WAS NEVER DUE TO ANY IGBO SETTLERS LIES YOU GUYS FABRICATED because NO IGBO SETTLED HERE, THIS IS NOT AN IGBO TOWN.

bigfrancis21:
Bonny is said to be derived from 'Ubani', corrupted to Bonny by the English speakers when they arrived. Coincidentally, 'ubani' is a common Igbo name and word which means 'wealth of the land' or 'wealth of the earth goddess' whichever way you want to see it.

Whatever you make of my post is at your discretion.

Bonny is coined from ubani an igbo phrase according to you. but in your usual igbo greedy way, you refused to tell the public that UBANI is coined from IBANI. and it is even in the evidence you presented. again you igbos should stop deceiving the public that igbos who came from the hinterland cock n bull story because no igbo came to bonny rather they were ALL CAPTURE AS SLAVES to Bonny.

bigfrancis21:


Exclude the Bonnys and Opobos from your Ibani list please. In as much as you love to claim them as Ijaws when they speak not a single word of Ijaw, at least be objective enough to admit the truth. Bonny, Opobo and parts of Okirika all speak Igbo as native language, practise Igbo customs and traditions just like others in the SE, Anioma etc. The first Igbo bible was written in Bonny Igbos. When the Christian missionaries first landed at Eastern Nigeria at Bonny, they used Bonny Igbo speakers as translators as they journeyed into the Igbo hinterland. Do not misrepresent facts.

chei i pity those tha wil hope on you in life. THAT YOU SPEAK ENGLISH ALL OVER NIGERIA, DOES THAT MAKES IT NIGERIA'S NATIVE LANGUAGE. (you were taught to read and write this shiits you wrote here, does that make english your damn language) ibani is wildly spoken here. Pls educate us on those igbo culture n tradition that we practice. I DARE YOU TO INFORM US. Some people ar just...

When we the ibanis (Bonny and Opobo) speak, the kalabaris and okrikas understands very well. though we have little variations,.. ibanis- imiegbam means thank you, kalabaris- imiete. ibanis- igboma means welcome. kalabaris- igbote. Proudly IJAW, Ibani Clan (Proudly Bonny) God Bless Bonny Kingdom, Niger Delta, Nigeria.

I think the fed govt. Should be careful and trend cautiously. Violence will not solve this.

NOBLEDANDY:
We refer to our traditional rulers also as amayanabo. #fact. #igbo

suddenly amayanabo is now an igbo dialect?

Gej is perceived to be "corrupt" and had a very corrupt adm, while buhari is seen to be noncorrupt and running an anti corrupt regime yet gej rescented those known corrupt politician though "unholy" while buhari see them as not corrupt. Chai who is deceiving who.

I heard this on friday edition of ait's focus Nigeria. according to gbenga, it is tagged "Operation Tufiakwa" but seriously this joke called apc should know by now that almost all ss and se belongs to pdp. and edo will DEFINITELY come back to pdp comd next guber election.

Haha that fulani man called buhari is like a disneyland, filled with the wrong wonders. But na fulani mix with apc, such a bad combination nothing good can ever come from.

if na you nko, wetin you go use that shaolin president speech do?

TonyeBarcanista:
Bros, even HopeAtHand a real Ikwerre man(though Amaechi's puppet) know the scheme of the fraudulent OP. The scheme is actually to create bad blood between the Ijaws and the Ikwerres in rivers state. But that is Dead on Arrival!


Wike is our Worthy Son!
Rivers is Not divided

senibo turu....

dearpreye:
It was a wicked attempt to paint us in a bad light but their devices shall fail. Like you rightly said, we're a fearless tribe......and we shall support Wike in this matter.

ah ah ote mor. Igboma bros. Thanks in WIKE WE STAND.

adeitoro:
What are you saying

what am saying is that (1) any news without "verifiable source" is a fake news. (2) IJAWS are not treacherous but fearless. (3) what is in it for abagworo the igbo guy for peddling fake news to paint the Ijaws bad.

Obiagu1:
You made no sense, mehn.
Reread the thread again.

how would i make sense when the only language you guys understand is deceit. (look at all the deceitful case study in Nigeria, which tribe is no.1. so nothing unexpected from the igbos. but dont commit suicide cos you aren't the first) operate at different norms my "lovely igbo brother

Obiagu1:
I said it, these Ijaws are worse than the Yoruba in treachery.
Tufiakwa!

From Timi Alaibe to Clark to all Ijaws.
Now they can even eat one their own alive!

Getting my scissors to cut off any link with those guys.
Traitors.

igbos confused set of self mastubater. Just 5 hours ago you guys almost brought down nairaland using all kinds of lies, propaganda, and fabricated documents to back your expantionist claim that dakuku is igbo. Now you uncomtempted igbos are the same people saying that the ijaws in rivers state have resolve to support the fellow ijaw brother(being dakuku) please people of Nigeria how can a single tribe(IGBO) bear the CONFUSION MEANT FOR 20 TRIBES. You guys twist fact to suit your expansionist intentions.

in life its wise to stand up for what you can fight and have. till this live end igbos can NEVER EVER have opobo. not in this lifetime. thats why they resort to crying fowl online seeking sympathy.
what you can eat, you dont brag you just go get it. but when you cannot, you cry for attension. what the igbos are doing

blg lies
op try harder with your lies very soon you go make am because hardwork pays ONLY SAY NO SOURCE and you know what that means LIES. It was you igbos that refused to accept that dakuku is an Ijaw man. you igbos fabricated documents and claim(hear say) he attended ohanesa(at the basement of your family house i guess) now you again (usual igbo deceitful manner) claiming the Ijaws are dumping wike to support their fellow Ijaw brother. changing stand when it suits you. again surprise how you igbos chose to "look the other way" and ignore the fact that their is "NO SOURCE TO THIS NEWS. Be straight forward for once and redeem your bruised, smelly useless image our dear, lovely igbo brothers.

benedictnsi:










NO NAME WEH UNA NO GO GIVE PMB for this quantri

that one na the guy identity, you no see em shaolin gown em dey wear.

[quote author=patrick89 post=39472576]Dakuku peterside is not an igbo man ooh! I just saw dis on their page! That guy is claiming ijaw.. but I hav noticed how d ijaw r trying to emasculated ndoki, d abuse them n threaten them to renounce their igbo they Ndoki wil b teling them dat they ar not igbo but Ndoki. I was readng an argument in one of their groups,
Wat I found is dat ijaw r very vocal, while d ndoki n nkoro r voiceless, they (ijaw) plunge everyone together n name themselves ijaw, if u identify yourself as ndoki, they wil attack u! Hmmmm
I'm more than convinced dat ijaw r truly arming themselves to achieve a sinister move I challenge barcanista to dispute dis fact!
1they wnt igbo language dropped
They mant to de igbonise opobo, especialy on ndoki people,
They want to start speaking Ibani language! Hence they ar doing all they can to achieve this..
Now it's left for ndoki in abia and Imo to come together n unite their brothers n sisters in riv chei, u r getin der, just try lit more harder....

Opobo is an igboland, and they do not(never for once) practice ohanesa stuff you guys do down east, rather they call their king AMAYANABO, what ONLY the IJAWS call their king. hahaha. me use to think the yorubas hated you guys just for nothing but now we begin to see why. the yorubas know you igbos very well.

willow0802:
What language do u speak?

highest level of show of shame that you ask such. If opobo is an igboland why is their king called "Amayanabo" and NOT igwe . if opobo is igboland why is their traditional attire d workur/otibo and not you attire. if opobo is igboland why is their marriage attire d "obvious" Ijaw attire and not your igbo dressing. if opobo is an igboland what is d meaning of (OPOBO) is it an Ijaw word or igbo. what is d name of jaja when he was caught/bought from aruchukwu as a slave by chief Banigo, why was he renamed "juwo juwo" who translated juwo juwo to d now jaja. why was he smuggled out at night from Bonny (which is due to the nature of greed). what d names of d 3 Bonny Chiefs that took him to the un-inhabited part of Bonny land(present opobo). ogobo is igboland why is their local dialect ibani(seem you believe opobo is igboland just because they speak igbo just like their brothers, we d Bonny. same reason some expansionist claim our land.

uupgrade:
My bro. Abeg I throway my cap for u. U just spoke exactly whaat i have in mine, May God bless, That's one Mistake the biarans are making the Ijaws infacts all the states in south South will be under NDR only the name self make sens

GOD Bless you too. thats the koko

kaycid77:
[size=15pt]FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM[/size]

It has been stated all over again and again even by NNAMDI KANU...Biafra is going to be like UAE, you control what ever you have as resources and take care of you ppl. No empire, no one man ruler and thats is the natural life of Igbos,

"NATURAL LIFE OF IGBOS" Hahaha in yorubas' voice yee.bos oooh very funny set of people, when it comes to lies, the limbic region of their brain becomes fatigue that some of them lie without traffic

zuchyblink:
there will be 100 percent resource control in Biafra.the 5 SE states are rich in oil and gas and have so many untapped oil fields. Coal which supplies America 40 percent of their energy source and also have limestone and big markets for all goods. All i want is Biafra with or without SS

5 eastern states are rich in oil and gas" chei dis people cant just live without lies, abi no be this same Nigeria we all dey

pazienza:
Nothing else. Now the world know who the expansionists and greedy ones looking for groups to Lord it over in a phantom republic are.

Thanks for your time.

okay please go sleep, because the wet etche leave dey high you

pazienza:
Aha! I see, a land grabbing "our oyel" screeching Ijaw man.

You want to pack the rest of unsuspecting "our oyel" crew in your utopian Niger delta republic, where you can dominate them like you did with the FG amnesty program, where Ijaw militants hiding under Niger delta militant tag cornered the lion share of the FG amnesty windfall, leaving the rest of the " our oyel" screeching zombies scrambling for crumbs.aprokovilla.com/crack-in-niger-delta-over-alleged-favouritism-of-ijaws-by-jonathan/

I must confess, I like you craft. But we are not going to allow you play that game with any of our Igbo speaking brothers in SS to be ensnared by you slimy and greedy ones. The one they suffered in old Rivers state is enough.

CAPITAL YES. Any other thing? good to know the igbos never fail, always following our handle. Thanks

pazienza:
Another semi illiterate: the Ikwerre- Igbo situation, is none of your concerns, worry more about your Arewa-Oduanistan Sharia republic.
Choke on this: https://www.nairaland.com/2576371/eastern-neighbourhoods-streets-made

Feed your eyes.

https://www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics

https://www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment
Meanwhile

igbosi ikinaria. Sorry to burst your bubble i have always said in all my post and would say it again, am a full IJAW MAN and am very proud of my tribe. am a major kuru gbara, the Ijaws here will understand.

zeusdgrt:
If so then think of ur igbo poverty states on ur unrealistic biafra map

the average igboman cannot survive living in se, d land is so poor, hence they all flee their poverty stricking land to ph, lag, bonny to survive. So having biafra, they are so desperate to drag d rich, economically viable ss to their biafra so that they can relocate from nigeria and invade every corner of ss. They CAN NEVER get part of rivers state because, (a) ikwerres would never accept to be igbo so they have no claim and link. also ikwerres know that if they accept biafra, then that part of ph wil b d only rich place in biafra meaning d igbos wil invade, suck them dry and collapse their economy but if they remain wit NDR, every state and town is rich and wil grow rapidly and none pulling d other down. (b) opobo is an ijaw town

AkwaIbomrep1:
which niger delta ? Who authorized u to speak for us ? My friend,speak for ur self if u like join the hausas when the nation divide & continue ur slavery ,I'm an Akwa ibomite & Biafra is my country to hell with nigeria

no problem GMG (ghana must go) never finish. better you go soon so that you fit plot of land. but please dont forget to kiss ur kinsmen a long kiss gudbye because after then na phone and visa but you know our visa palava na.

Ciscogod:
This funny people don commot eye for Lagos. Now na PHC.

very funny set of people my brother chei my belle ooh laugh. Very confused set of people.

OfoIgbo:
No. What Niger deltans want is 100% resource control.

The real question is whether Nigeria will grant them that wish.

If the answer to the above question is NO, which I suspect it is, then Biafra becomes a lucrative prospect.

That is why more than half of those demonstrators arrested in PH, are clearly SSners. Ranging from Obigbo, Okrika, Kalabari to Ikwerre, Ndoni e.t.c

wow some people can fabricate story ehn, kalabari, okrika, story for the..... Op you are so correct.