₦airaland Forum

CeoMYN:
These guys are not Igbo, abeg. The Igbos were majority in the Eastern region and they influenced the culture and language of other ethnic groups. It doesn't make the other ethnic groups Igbo.

My language has lots of similarity with the Igbo language, but thanks to our history, we know we are not Igbos.

Ndibunna:
Since you want me to burst you let me help you

Nextdoor84=Igboid=Allcomage.

No be everyone be novocey

Ndibunna:
Truth is you are not from rivers state. Your identity is visible here

Allen102:
You are nothing but a Igbo clown, the next governor of Rivers State is going to be an ijaw man, this you can bet with your life.

garfield1:
Riverine/ogoni or nothing

garfield1:
Bonny and opobo are ijaws not igboid

Gozac:
Who are these Igboid Rivers

Igboid:
You this Igbophobic impostor.
You are only angry because the Ekpeye man you quoted is not filled with Igbo hate like you.

Igboid:
Where is the Felix Obuah guy from? I hope it's not another Ikwerre man.

I think one of Hon Isaac Kamalu and Senator Olaka Nwogu both from Eleme axis should be chosen, to give the Ogonis a sense of belonging in the state.
Ijaws have ruled old Rivers State. Ogonis are about the only Bloc not to have tasted power in the state.

Tranquill:
Oga you are not from Rivers State so take your bigotry and troublesomeness to wherever you come from. Every tribe in Rivers State can be governor and not for you to come here and declare that some people "will never" rule Rivers State. Do not bring your hateful ideology and your 'superior vs inferior' mentality to Rivers people because they are not shallow minded like you lots.

NEXTDOOR
You must be a very newbie on Nairaland. I do not need to proof to you that I am from Rivers state. But if you can post your local government certificate of origin here, I will post mine as well!! You are very ignorant !!!

Tranquill:
Oga you are not from Rivers State so take your bigotry and troublesomeness to wherever you come from. Every tribe in Rivers State can be governor and not for you to come here and declare that some people "will never" rule Rivers State. Do not bring your hateful ideology and your 'superior vs inferior' mentality to Rivers people because they are not shallow minded like you lots.]
You must be a very newbie on Nairaland. I do not need to proof to you that I am from Rivers state. But if you can post your local government certificate of origin here, I will post mine as well!! You are very ignorant !!!

Iyadesa:
Hnnmm
Rivers election would be very interesting come 2023 with the Riverine nationalities agitating for their long awaited slot

chrisxxx:
Gents and Ladies! Listen well and get this settled.
Ikwerre is not Igbo just as Igbos are not Ikwerres. Just as Yorubas and Bini share some similarities that is same with Ikwerres and Igbos. I am Ikwerre and have done extensive research on this.
The same way igbos ha e different dialects is the same Ikwerres have. We dont speak the same dialect. We have over 10 dialects just as igbos.
Why do some Ikwerres claim to be Igbos?
Good question. The Arochukwu Confederacy had Ikwerre land under its influence. They are generally called Arnu people in Ikwerre land. They were mainly the Igbo people who maltreated the Ikwerres and made an average Ikwerre man to despise igbos. But liberation from the neocolonialism came during the civil war. At the fall of Biafra the Arnu people were targeted by some Ikwerre Communities that had hosted for years. This made them to abandon this area and headed towards Igbo mainland. Others were not attacked but out of fear of their past to their neighborhood absconded as well. However when some got to boundary communities like Isiokkpo and Elele some lenient Ikwerre men gave them refuge. This was so particularly as many of them didn't even know their home of origin in Igbo land. Among these communities that gave them land to stay they still see them as non indigenes. The Arnu descendants of these towns are the Ikwerres who make case that Ikwerre is Igbo. I have just revealed the findings of my investigation.
Amaechi might be a descendant of the Arnus. In that case he is an Ikwerre person as a result of his grandparents settlement and an Igbo man by ancestry..
Thanks.

Parachoko:
Taiwan is a Chinese territory, it has always been part of China.

China will always see Taiwan as part of her territory which is rightly so.

Taiwan belongs to China.

Taiwanese are Chinese.

Macau, Taiwan and Hong Kong will eventually be absorbed into China by force or through a peaceful way.

Goddyj:
There's no point for this argument. I lived in Rivers State from 2006 to 2019. Don't let the online debate about who's Igbo and who's not in Rivers State deceive you. Go and tell Opobo, Obigbo, Etche, Omuma, Egbema, Bonny, Andoni, Ahoada East and West, Onne and any other Igbo speaking parts of Rivers State that they're not Igbos, and see whether they'll take it lightly with you.

Patrioticbreed9:
Egbema, majority of ahaoda west,andoni are not igbo speaking to start with.

Then for the ahaoda east ekpe-ye can you tell me what chigushime means in igbo? Yes they answer igbo name and speak igboid and it end there.

Kollyman:
What is Anambra budget compared to Akwa ibom, Kaduna, Oyo, Ogun and some other states.

If their budgets were to be meager like that of Anambra state, they would have financed it even twice with only their VATS and IGR.


Please be educated.

smokeindasky:
First class in north is like 3rd class in east

Ekealterego:
Well, I believe a lot of things happened though and the last event could have had a more lasting effect to what made okrika what it is.

I believe you can find the answer to the Okirika (Krike as wrirten in older documents) story by looking at New Calabar.
I believe it had a very multiethnic influence. I personally do not believe that Igbos or Ijaws alone or together influenced the place. Each village or quarter seem to have a different history If you look well, that place seem to be meeting point of Igboids, Ijoids and Ibiobiods (Cross River) people.

That's why the language itself, although somewhat Ijoid, is not mutually intelligible with Ijaw.

The "riverine" area is an interesting area. Elemee for instance, do not submit to the Ogoni tag because some of them are actually without doubt Igbo (Arochukwu to be specific) Before the civil war, they were called Mboli (Another city/second city) even by themselves and even on the records. Arochukwu people migrated and made that place a second home or even a mini colony. Till today, many of them bear Arochukwu names. The names and imprints are there... they altered the language to a bit but did not change the main language ultimately.

It was interesting to note that Ekpeye call God, "ubini ukpabi" (That 100% is the Aro god) Only Aros refer to any god/diety as "Ubini Ukpabi", although Aros also use Chiokike Abiama/Chukukwu Okike Abiama. Some portions of Ikwerre too were highly influenced by Aros and they still have their quarters.

However Aros did not completely change anyone's language, they rather adapt to the language of any place they settled.


I believe the Aros had a strong influence on all those areas.

I will mention Eastlink (Egbema) and Nextdoor84 (Ekpeye). They are the two Igbos in River state, they will know better and dispute or collaborate what I have written.

Ekealterego:
Genocide is not out of place. A guy from Bonny, I will try to invite him to this discussion, actually told me that Adaka Boro and the federal troupes invaded Bonny and Opobo and ransacked the palace where so much history was kept. They were too small to put up a defence. You know there is nothing more devastating them have fights from the inside during a war... They killed and the other ones left and the chiefs dare not talk about Igbos during the war and even after because of how the Ijaw led River state ruled with an iron hand.
I will probably not take that out of the equation. I think the Ekepeye boy here, Nextdoor84 bear similar sentiments.

Ikwerelastborn:
The rest LGA you mentioned aren't Nsukka ,they are Nsukka zone by senatorial District

Is just like saying ohaukwu,ishielu, izzi,ikwo,Ezza N/S,Ebonyi and Abakaliki LGAs are all Abakaliki whereas we know is not true,they're different

ThinkSmarter:
Some large Igbo clans that occupy atleast a local government.
Ngwa have 7 lga, Izzi have 3 lga (Izzi, Abakaliki and Ebonyi lg) Ezza have 2 Ezza N/S( Some large pop of Ezza are found in Ohaukwu, Onicha and in Ishielu LGs of Ebonyi and in Addo lg of Benue, Ikwo hv 1, Arochukwu have 1 +Aro Ndizuogu, Nsukka have 1, Mbaise have..., Nkanu hv 2 Nkanu E/W, Afikpo (Ehugbo) hv 2 Afikpo n/s. Nnewi hv 2 nnewi n/s Onicha ado have 2 Onitsha n/s, Awka hv 2 Awka n/s.
Owerri hv 4

Emilokoiyawon:
Fixed. Yorubas and Itsekiris are slaves to nobody.

nengibo:
Ugelemkpa not ugelemma, theres also Amatemeso(town deity) since you're one to read meanings to names, Uke is not Igbo culture and is not played anywhere in 'Igbo land' but was borrowed from Ndoki(Aminadokiari), our trade partner and brother, to Kweniama then Opuboama as a who before reaching Okoloama and is now uniquely Ibani with the omuaru displays.

Drone95:
can I send my what'sapp contact as well?

babaolofin:
What you have written here is senseless and irritating. I read how an IBO elite engaged an Ijaw elite bitterly on nairaland and I wept. I wept because the topic was the Celebration of Isaac Adako Boro an Ijaw Hero, His memorial park is at Education, in Port Harcourt. The IBOS out of bitterness turned the topic upside down. The Ijaw man defended Boro while the IBO rewrote the Civil war history with bitterness against Boro.

You wanted to do the same on this topic which is the Celebration and memorial of a very intelligent man, Kenule Saro Wiwa. You want to bring the issue of Civil war here. How old was Kenule during the Civil war despite being lucky to have been educated early in life and briefly known to government of the day ? The protection of Ogoni land against exploitation and oppression by FG and Oil Companies which he died with 8 other people can never be forgotten.

It is now I know why the Ikwerres can never accept Biafra. The Ogoni people that Ken Saro Wiwa sacrificed his life to defend can never accept Biafra with your type of person. It is better the Biafra is restricted to South East States while the South South design their own republic.

The South needs love and unity to move forward. When minorities are celebrating their heroes, you should support them. Bringing bitterness of Civil war cannot build friendship.