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What matters most is the development of the region. To Ndigbo here, would you choose meaningless political offices to the development of your region?.

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=665247.msg8301704#msg8301704 date=1305147132] what an analysis sad really sad

a majority group now a minority[/quote]What do you not mean?.

hasonjack:
What has the spelling of your name in your certificate got to do with igbo or ibo misspelling. My point you guyz dont have to waste time complaining. Problem is from pronounciation, like me I pronounce Ibo right or wrong I dont know. is it IG'BOW?

Stop displaying further stupidity here. You have jumped from demanding for issues relating to job creations, education etc to now how you pronounce it. What a shame. May be the next jump for you is to land inside a gutter.

hasonjack:
SEE HOW YOU ARE ALL WASTING TIME TALKING ABOUT USELESS ISSUES THAT DOESNT ADD ANYTHING TO THE SOCEITY. SO WHAT IF IT IS SPELT IGBO OR IBO? IS IT YOUR FATHERS LANGUAGE THIS ENGLISH? PLEASE DISCUSS ISSUES SUCH AS JOB CREATION, MANUFACTURING, TEACHING AND OTHER DISCOURSE THAT WILL IMPROVE OUR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE AS A NATION. ALL THIS IS NOISE. IT HAS NO PLACE IN THE SOCEITY.

The above post is an irrelevant crap. Nairaland forum has so many sections that deals with job, manufacturing, teaching etc. Why not go there and post than coming here to chat something not related to the topic.
The same way you will feel when your education institution awards you a certificate with a wrong spelling of your name is the same way Ndigbo feels about the topic.
Just deal with the topic or jump.

[quote author=d-uno link=topic=662866.msg8295684#msg8295684 date=1305069129]A Delta Ibo would curse you if u called him/her Igbo? So why is OP Ranting? Go sleep for river niger jor[/quote]What an idiotic post, am Delta Igbo and I have not seen any of my kins call it Ibo. Some Igbos who have lived with the Yorubas have learnt this imbecilic idea from there.

mbatuku2:
Before calling me names, why not try to answer the question I raised?

Can anyone tell me one thing the SW achieved with Bankole's 4-year speakership position?

Let's hold Jonathan responsible for the pressing needs why we actually voted for him, things that will benefit the ordinary southeasterner on the street.

Wisdom.

dayokanu:
Good one ROchas, That policy sounds like what the ACN and SW stands for

Did Rochas learn the free education from his Awoists friends in Ogboni Fraternity?

He said he is not a member of ogboni

[quote author=EzeUche_ link=topic=663658.msg8295451#msg8295451 date=1305065524]^^^

You be efulefu. If Jonathan could not give us this small token of appreciation for our support of PDP. Then why should we expect PDP to give us anything else?

Sometimes I despise the way some of my people think.[/quote]My guy, do not act like that man of little or no faith. Wait till 29th May 2011.
Nothing spoil.

bgees:
Awon omo Igbo!!

Another secondary school drop-out joins the fray.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm link=topic=663658.msg8295156#msg8295156 date=1305062302]Truth be told the SE did not put anything on ground that will make them relevant.

They wen't for the money and quickly declear their support for GEJ without making ANY concrete demand in return.

When you stand for northing then you fall for nothing.[/quote]Poor boy, stop chatting bollocks, what about the demands they made from Obasanjo. Which one of them did Obasanjo honour?.
I advice all of you to padlock your mouths until GEJ is sworn in.

tubolancer:
my tongue is gum with ibo,what can i do?

What can you do?, good question.
Kiss a transformer with that tongue of yours.

From my observation, educated and intelligent Yorubas here do not spell Ibo, for example Katsumoto, Tpia, Sagamite, Seun and Debosky. Only the Yoruba drop-outs do that.

percipi1:
Thank you Ngodigha, I hope I spelt your name correctly, If not forgive me.

I am not Igbo by origin but definitely have families who are married to Igbos, lived in Enugu for almost two years and have lots of igbo friends. Therefore, I can proudly say that I am Igbo by association

Sincerely speaking, we were taught in School that "Ibo" is a variation of Igbo but while living in Enugu, i came to realise the exact pronunciation of the word among the locals. However, I notice that the well read among the Igbo do not contend with the use of "Ibo"

Now such general acceptance among educated and cosmopolitan Igbos is likely to confused less resourceful people. Therefore, It behoves on whosoever saddles himself with the responsibility of addressing this misnomer to do it with tact and documentary references not by indignation.

I believe the majority will reason along a logical perspective.

Igbo kwenu! ( Tell me how many people read "Things Fall apart" by Chinua Achebe or even have a copy till date. I do)

Thanks for your post.
Even the Igbo apex body is known and called Ohanaeze ndi IGBO. Not Ohanaeze ndi ibo.
Igbo---People of South east Nigeria and also found in parts of Rivers and Delta states.
Igbo---language of a people.
Ndigbo--The Igbo people.

It is high time ACN collapses in entirety, it is just a tribal party and should not be encouraged.

percipi1:
I do not see any reason why the spelling or pronunciation of an ethnic group should be an issue. Most Probably, most of us had western education where a red skin is described as a white skin, yet we accepted that without questioning why a brown skin is classified as black.

My friends, its all in our head. However, for one to accept the contention that "Ibo" is not the correct spelling, the person making the correction must show us the basis. Is he/she an authority in Igbo studies or what is his/her status in relation to ethnic studies.

As far as I am concerned, "Ibo" is simply a variation of "Igbo" please see From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Igbo people, also referred to as the Ibo, Ebo, Eboans or Heebo (Igbo: Ndị Igbọ) are an ethnic group living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria. They speak Igbo, which includes various Igboid languages and dialects;[20] today, a majority of them speak English alongside Igbo as a result of British colonialism"

The same source quoted above defined the Yorubas as follows:"The Yoruba people (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa. The majority of the Yoruba speak the Yoruba language (Yoruba: èdèe Yorùbá; èdè). The Yoruba constitute between 30 and 50 million individuals throughout West Africa and are found predominantly in Nigeria with around 21 percent of its total population."

We can see from the above that Yoruba was written as "Yoruba" therefore , it can be concluded that spelling yoruba in another form is wrong and inapplicable as it fails to measure up to its internationally accepted spelling. However, spelling "Igbo" as "Ibo or Ebo" is acceptable .

Be that as it may, if a person of an Igbo ethnic origin feels that the globally accepted spelling of igbo as ibo or ebo is not correct, then I venture to say that this is not the correct channel to make such amendment. I will advise such person to write to Wikipedia which is considered a good authority on this matter.

By the way, friends, avoid using pedestrian words against each other, we should be people of dignity and good bred.

Let wikipedia not deceive you. The chap who wrote that Wikipedia page got it wrong and should not be relied upon. If at all you are Igbo, then tell me if when your eldeers gather, whether they say Igbo kwenu or Ibo kwenu?.

macjive01:
Or ruggedman and his cohort are now the true representation of Igbos abi? Amala brain like u.

Oyibo called it ibo becos that was wat they tot wud b the spelling. English alphabetic do not a GB, so the close they cud get was ibo.
By the way is Yoruban correct? I see that a lot in foreign books, describing the Yoruba speaking pple of Nigeria.

Well done.

What sort of senseless thread is this?. Any way, I hereby spit on this idiotic thread before the moderators deletes it.

dayokanu:
Someone on this Nairaland tols us

The People are Ibo

The Language is Igbo

The land is Alaigbo

And combined is Ndigbo

The only one you got wrong is ibo.
Please, for the sake of God, it is Igbo. It is only when you go outside the east and Anioma that you hear Ibo. No radio station in Rivers, Delta or south east Nigeria ever mentions Ibo. The TV stations as well has all the programmes in Igbo.
Have a look at some of the Igbo names and places e.g Onuigbo, Igbomalu, Igboanugo, Igbokwe. They do not say Ibokwe, Iboanugo, etc. If anyone whose name is Igbokwe and you call him Ibokwe will be offended.
Also, people from Igbo-Ukwu, Obigbo, Akwukwu Igbo will take it as offence if you put it as Ibo Ukwu etc.

oludashmi:
But the prob is with the ibos themselves and its only on NL that I see this disagreement. . . .Also, you should know that pple did not just wake up in the morning to call you whatever, but your pple called it for them the way they want to be called.

Up till now, 60% of SE pple that I know say ibo at every conversation and I remember asking someone if it is ibo or igbo but he said the lang is igbo while the pple are ibo while another lady said vice versa.

I have seen another who said both the lang and the pple are ibo/igbo, that the 'g' difference is only on the type of ibo dialect. Can anybody also remember a writer sometime on the dailies who claimed that they are ibos while their lang is igbo. So the education should be to the ibos then, correction and awareness to others.

What a brainless crap above. What is difficult in accepting that they are Igbo?. Yet it is easy for you lots to accept it is Yoruba and not Yooroba or Hausa and not awusa.
Any one not ready to accept that it is Igbo should go and sit in the gutter.

carlo must stay.

he deserves it.

32 years.