₦airaland Forum

blues20:
You are not from Ikwerre neither any of the Igboid group in Port Harcourt, if at all you are from there. Stick your claim to your Okrika, and leave the Igbos group to sort themselves out.

Ekinematics:
I don't know any LGA in Rivers State as Port Harcourt City LGA.
What we have is Port Harcourt LGA.
Port Harcourt as a City is more than 1 LGA.
So I don't know what you are talking about.
Showing more proof that you are a land grabber from the east claiming Rivers by all means.

You better go learn about Rivers before you start your land grabbing.

kingzizzy:
Oh I see, you take people based on what they identify with. So what you are saying is that if the Okrika man tomorow decides to identify as Igbo, you will also take him as Igbo too?

Then in that case, I suggest you go to Elele in Ikwerre local govt because last time I was there, they all identified to me as being Igbos.

Or maybe you havent visited Egbema community who hate the fact that half of their community is in Imo and the other half in Rivers.

Or maybe you can talk about the Asa people who used to be in old Aba division long before there was anything called Rivers state but today find themselves trapped in Rivers.

kingzizzy:
Oh I see, you take people based on what they identify with. So what you are saying is that if the Okrika man tomorow decides to identify as Igbo, you will also take him as Igbo too?

Then in that case, I suggest you go to Elele in Ikwerre local govt because last time I was there, they all identified to me as being Igbos.

Or maybe you havent visited Egbema community who hate the fact that half of their community is in Imo and the other half in Rivers.

Or maybe you can talk about the Asa people who used to be in old Aba division long before there was anything called Rivers state but today find themselves trapped in Rivers.

kingzizzy:
And what is this independent identity? Lets use Etche as an example. What is the difference between an Etche man and an Nsukka man besides residing in different states?

caleboxylic:
You are a kid. Rivers state created yesterday now defines Igbo land. So their land are now rivers land and not Igbo land again. Hmmm.

Dedetwo:
The alleged suspect could be Ijo after all as any dumbass in Nigeria can lodge into a hotel with any given name. This is a kneejerk reaction that reeks of ethnic bias. Nigeria will not know unity.

Another stage for armageddon has been set
make i see who go mention yoruba here

Ekinematics:
What do you want to know about the Orashi people?

kingzizzy:
You have been to all the local govts, all the communities and all the hundreds of villages in Rivers state to confirm this?

ariesbull:
No part of Lagos and Ilorin is Yoruba land

ODVanguard:
And all the roads in Rivers state are in pristine condition?

kingzizzy:
A few days ago, I commented in the crime section on a thread about a man that was assasinated in Etche, Rivers state.

I just said that violence was becoming too much in Igbo land and some ignorant people, most of which I can bet have never been to Rivers state, started asking me if 'Rivers state is Igbo land?'

Most of these people dont even know who the Etches are but are asking if Igbos are Rivers state.

Rivers state is just the creation of past military leaders, what matters are those that are indigenous to the area.

There is no difference between me from Anambra and an Etche man. We both speak Igbo as our ancestral language and have Igbo surnames. The only difference is that Gowon created Rivers state and put the Etche man in there.

Etches are 100% Igbos and Rivers state is partly Igbo land!

uglyafonja:
Those SEeasterners are better than you.....At least we have the same culture, religion ,marry together and share the same boundary...

Unlike you that left your Oshogbo city of 1000 miles to come and interrupt and pour envy on two brothers who are just 1m apart

Ekinematics:
Sorry I blame our school curriculum.
I know they don't teach this in school.
Here it is, learn.

List of Nigerian states based on the area they cover in km²

Rank State km²
1 Niger State 95,363
2 Borno State 92,898
3 Taraba State 54,473
4 Kaduna State 46,053
5 Bauchi State 45,837
6 Yobe State 45,502
7 Zamfara State 39,762
8 Adamawa State 36,917
9 Kwara State 36,825
10 Kebbi State 36,800
11 Benue State 34,059
12 Plateau State 30,913
13 Kogi State 29,833
14 Oyo State 28,454
15 Nasarawa State 27,117
16 Sokoto State 25,973
17 Katsina State 24,192
18 Jigawa State 23,154
19 Cross River State 20,156
20 Kano State 20,131
21 Gombe State 18,768
22 Edo State 17,802
23 Delta State 17,698
24 Ogun State 16,762
25 Ondo State 15,500
26 Rivers State 11,077
27 Bayelsa State 10,773
28 Osun State 9,251
- Federal Capital Territory 7,315
29 Enugu State 7,161
30 Akwa Ibom State 7,081
31 Ekiti State 6,353
32 Abia State 6,320
33 Ebonyi State 5,670
34 Imo State 5,100
35 Anambra State 4,844
36 Lagos State 3,345.

Ekinematics:
This guy you no dey shame to continue disgracing yourself and your tribesmen?

Rivers is already developed(at least based on Nigerian standard). We don't need anymore developers from the east.
Be proud of what you are.

Thespacepilot:
You should say the ibibios living in arochukwu not the entire Igbo's in arochukwu...Again I beg you stop all this online lies we don't speak Ibibio but Igbo in arochukwu..arochukwu is a Igbo majority town..Arochukwu, sometimes referred to as Arochuku, or Aro-Okigbo, (pronounced Aruchukwu) is the third largest city in Abia State (after Aba and Umuahia) in southeastern Nigeria and homeland of the Igbo subgroup, Aro people. It is composed of 19 villages with an overall leader called Obong Aro. Arochukwu is a principal historic town in Ibibio land. It was also one of the cities in the Southern protectorate targeted by the British colonial government. Several historic tourist sites exist in the city. The mystic Ibini Ukpabi shrine, the slave routes and other relics of the slave trade era are frequently visited by tourists. It is also in the food belt of Abia state where most of the staple foods are produced.

History Edit

Main article: Aro History
Arochukwu is believed to have been the homeland of the Ibibio as they arrived in 300 AD from the Benue valley and founded early states like Obong Okon Ita and Ibom. Many years passed as Igbo immigrants came along and pressed into the Ibibio occupied territory and founded several states. The first Igbo group were the Ezeagwu group from Abiriba led by their leader Agwu Inobia. As Aro-Ibibio wars occurred, there was a stalemate. In reaction, the Eze Agwu clan invited a priest named Nnachi from the Edda clan of northeastern Igboland and another group from the east of the Cross River through Nnachi. These people were identified as the Akpa people. Akpa forces led by Osim and Akuma Nnubi, they helped the Igbo forces capture the rest of the area. This formed the alliance of 19 new and old states in the area known as the Arochukwu kingdom around 1650-1700. The first king (or Eze Aro) of a unified Arochukwu was Akuma but after his death, Nnachi son's Oke Nnachi took over and his descendants have the throne to this day.

By the mid-18th century, there were mass migrations of several Aro business families into the Igbo hinterland and adjacent areas. This migration, influence of their god [b]Ibini Ukpabi[/b]through priests, and their military power backed up by alliances with several related neighboring Igbo and eastern Cross River militarized states (particularly Ohafia, Abam, Abiriba, Afikpo, Ekoi, etc.) quickly established the Aro Confederacy as a regional economic power. However, Aro economic hegemony was threatened by the penetration of Europeans, mainly British colonists in the wake of the 20th century. Tensions finally led to bloodshed and the Anglo-Aro War took place from 1901-1902. The Aro Confederacy stoutly resisted but were eventually defeated. This helped the British to occupy the rest of what is now known as Eastern Nigeria.

People of Arochukwu founded many other communities both within and outside Igboland.[2][3]

Arochukwu played a significant role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 1600-1800 AD. The Aro confederacy (Aro slave traders) scattered throughout the hinterlands of the Igbo nation, orchestrated the sale of over 4 million Igbo sons and daughters during the transatlantic slave trade. Many Igbo slaves who were shipped from the slave outposts in Calabar and Bonny to Europe and the Americas, were first assembled in Arochukwu,and then transported to Calabar or Bonny via the Aro Blue River which pours into the Atlantic Ocean. Most Igbo slaves were shipped to North Carolina and Virginia, in the United States. Igbo slaves were also shipped to the Caribbean Islands of Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba...


Obong Aro Ogbonnaya Okoro[1]

Thespacepilot:
People in arochukwu don't speak Ibibio...Stop these lies...How king is obbunaya okoro....People from arochukwu answer three surnames mainly KANU,kalu or okoro...Stop lieing please I beg you stop this lies..

Dhugal:
50 years ago… [s]Ogbemudia was Igbo and Igbanke, Igbo Akiri
— 10th May 2017
“From time immemorial, the people that are called Igbanke today were known and called Igbo-Akiri. It was in 1967 when Ogbemudia became the military governor of the Midwest State that he changed the name of the town from Igbo-Akiri to Igbanke…It would have been unthinkable at that time to reveal that an Ibo man or an Ibo town produced the military governor of the Midwest State…. Ogbemudia, including the prominent Evangelist Rev. Isaac Idahosa are all Ibo and they hail originally from Igbo Akiri.”
(See Blood On The Niger, Gomslam Books 2012 pages 33, 216)
Captain Fred Anuku, the Commander of the Biafran Navy was the first Nigerian naval graduate from Dartmouth. While his fellow Ika-Ibo Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia joined the Federal troops, Fred, who was married to a Caribbean, fled Lagos during the 1966 Igbo pogrom and was offered the command of the fledging young Navy by the Biafran high command.
At the same time, Major Nzeogwu’s involvement in the January 15, 1966 Revolution brought suspicion and calamity to his own people of Asaba, Okpanam and environs. As we prepare to organise a programme for the Anioma and Asaba 50th Year Genocide Anniversary, we shall today mention some of the top actors, commanders from the western Ibo nation of both forces whose roles led to the genocide in Asaba, Isheagu, Ogwashi, Igbodo, Ubulu Kingdom, Ibusa and Ndi Oshimili. These prominent Commanders include Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, Col. Conrad Nwawo, Col. Joe Achuzia, and Captain Fred Anuku on the Biafran side. On the Nigerian side, we shall record the memorable activities of Brigadier Samuel Ogbemudia, General Godwin Alabi Isama, General Cyril Iweze and Commander O.Z. Chiazor, the first black man to be commissioned by the Queen in the Royal Canadian Navy.
Significantly, at this time, charismatic Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu had been released from the Calabar prison. He had disagreed with Ojukwu’s war aims and military strategy, and obviously discountenanced the declaration of Biafra. He advised that the East should resist for, at least, four months, cultivate foreign and local support and then prepare and get into the position with more arms and training to resist a total war. He opposed any frontal engagements against the superior-armed federal troops at that initial stage of the war. At the 1967 Abakiliki military exercise, Nzeogwu demonstrated his extraordinary military acumen and proved beyond doubt that he was the Rommel of the Nigerian Army. A commander’s dream, endowed with a peculiar knowledge of the sub-savannah battlefield terrain, he exuded a rare combat capability and commanded the battle simulation with such confidence and precision that he drew tears of adulation from the awed subalterns. He inspired most of the officers with his unmitigated improvisations. To most of the top brass of the Biafran Army, who were seeing the dawn of real combat action for the first time, this fighting leatherneck was a military institution all by himself, a study in combat readiness and tactics.
After his release from Calabar, Nzeogwu managed to reach his boys still in the Nigerian Army in the Midwest and in the West. The plan to enter the Midwest was originally his and that was his own way of setting a stage for the cessation of hostilities, an end to the war, and the restoration of the ideals of the January 15 Revolution. To this end, he was disappointed by his friend, Major Olusegun Obasanjo whom he had not heard from and whom he learnt had gone back to Kaduna. On the other hand, he was confident in, and had some respect for Major Samuel Ogbemudia, his colleague at the Nigeria Military Training College (NMTC), Kaduna.
Furthermore, Wole Soyinka revealed that the Westerners had agreed on the opposition against the North but also disagreed with Ojukwu on the declaration of Biafra, and for that matter, the declaration of Benin Republic. Declaration of Biafra, the Revolutionaries reasoned would isolate the Easterners and put the West and the Midwest in a bad position whereby sympathies from the West and the Midwest would end up being restrained. They would do better fighting as Nigerians. Whatever was the final consensus, Ogbemudia turned tail. He was next heard of leading the triumphant entry of the Federal Forces into Benin.
Few days after the war, the Biafra Research and Production Bureau made two secret and instant contacts with the high command of the Nigerian Army. Willy Achukwu, the Onitsha-born multi-talented improvising scientist, led one team to the Commander of the 82 Division, Enugu. Before the meeting, a team of Biafran Scientists were directed to put down sketches of the scientific equipment, designs, take measurements of the weapons, guns. A special house with good illumination was erected to keep safely all the Biafran designs and prototypes. They also produced a new Ajuala flying Ogbunigwe to supplement the ones produced at Awo Idemili. Research at this time resumed on what I might term the first world “Smart Bomb” was redesigned as the much needed facilities and spare parts, lacking with the exigency of the war were becoming available after the war. (Pse., see Biafra, a Legacy Lost TELL Magazine Special Report No. 14 April 8, 2002. Page 37)
While Willy Achukwu led one group to the Commander 82 Division Enugu, Professor Ezekwe and Professor Nwosu went to Benin and handed over their Biafran scientific designs to Governor S.O. Ogbemudia. Ogbemudia raced to Lagos and desperately tried everything to convince General Gowon to seize the opportunity and convert that Biafran scientific ingenuity and like the Americans absorbed the German-Jewish war scientific breakthrough; and transform Nigeria to a modern powerful black nation. Gowon shillyshallied and meanwhile the Willy Achukwu group were lucky to escape the gallows.
General Bissala the Commander of the 82 Division before their tearful eyes, poured gasoline over the designs and materials, brought out a box of matches and set the huge collection of scientific fabric of Black civilisation on fire!
Ogbemudia’s shock and depression on learning of the outcome of the meeting with the GOC and the burning of the Biafran war prototypes and designs was enough to transform him from Saul to Paul. For the third time, the Brigadier deflected and returned to his original base and more than any other post war governor was very prominent in the rehabilitation projects to return the war-weary Igbo to Jerusalem. He offered grants to poor students, donated buses to the University of Nigeria and rehabilitated the former Biafran Army officers, returning home to Bendel.
All the same, he cannot run away from the serious war crime charges of changing the name of a whole community, the heritage of his people Igbo Akiri to Igbanke. To this day, the people of this community yearn to return to their kith and kin in the Ika province of Delta State.
On his triumphant entry into Benin, in company with the Butcher of Asaba, General Muritala Mohammed, can he absolve himself and other officers and men of the Federal Second Division, of complicity in the wanton killing of Igbo in Benin that started in September 21, 1967 to the end of that war?

http://sunnewsonline.com/50-years-ago-ogbemudia-was-igbo-and-igbanke-igbo-akiri/[/s]

AbakalikiPress:
Igbos should by know that Rukwos /Ndi mba mmiri (aka Ijaw, aka Izon) are not part of the Biafran State.
We are Alone. And I say this without mincing words.

Any Igbo still "romancing" the idea of a country with Ijaws in it at this stage is just fooling his/herself

cc: Amarabee.

Ekinematics:
Very fake.
When I saw his spelling of Ikwerre I just knew that is 1 of those Ikwerre wannabe from the east.

RealLordZeus:
Thank God, my brothers from the West and East won't have the reason to fight for possession of the gem... Back to the topic, it calls for celebration but I doubt if she can make it here in the country, Lecturer self go turn hater for your case

thatchick:
Na wa oooo. Or is "see this Chinese man o" an insult in China. But everything that happens in their life, the story must be told on social media

blues20:
You are entitled to your opinion. Are you telling me that if an Omalelu man speaks, an Oguta man will not understand? You see your life. Madam Nengi, I feel like laughing at your naivety. . Check both dialect side by side, and you will see huge similarities....

Dedetwo:
Please pay a visit to some parts of Obirinze.

blues20:
Who is arguing that with you. An average Igbo from Imo or Abia will understand Ikwerre better than Ebonyi dialect. Ikwerre, culturally and linguistically is Igbo, but politically they are not.

blues20:
Va = Emolga. Bia = Ikwerre, Obio/Akpor and Rebisi......

its not pronounced 'va' but 'bva'. Bva henm, as in 'come here', same as 'bia apa' use by Rebisi people. In Igbo you say bia eba\ebe\nga\ah....' depending on the dialect you are coming from. Ikwerre do not speak one dialect, so you ain't get a case here Mrs. Nengi.

blues20:
You don't know what you are saying. Its like saying Izzi and Ngwa are not intelligible. How do you say come in Ikwerre? State it here so everybody will see....

blues20:
Isn't personification part of written English, Mrs. Nengi If I attribute sound to your style, would you consider that as a mistake