₦airaland Forum

Newton85:
Whatever! But I still don't have any regard for your ridiculously pointless existence though. You don't matter, bloody loony!

Why should I matter to you? I'm I related to you?
I won't even wish to be related to a Nature's reject like you.. tofiakwa

Ournolly:
No they weren't forced, just play stupidity from anyone saying such.

They are even exploiting Igbo language popularity. There most popular musicians sing in Igbo. Their biggest actress all speak Igbo widely. Their popular journalist says she is Igbo.

I do ask those people, what exactly is wrong with being Igbo and why can't you be proud of one of the most popular groups in Africa?

Same here. I'm surprised.
it is definitely inferiority complex that is doing them. nothing else ..
How will you stand watch your villages or communities names being renamed by another ethnic group . that's cowardice

Ournolly:
No they weren't forced, just play stupidity from anyone saying such.

They are even exploiting Igbo language popularity. There most popular musicians sing in Igbo. Their biggest actress all speak Igbo widely. Their popular journalist says she is Igbo.

I do ask those people, what exactly is wrong with being Igbo and why can't you be proud of one of the most popular groups in Africa?

Same here. I'm surprised.
it is definitely inferiority complex that is doing them. nothing else

BigBashiru:
So we have 36 stare governors and no one has received a rating more than 5.....so you can see mr president is not entirely to blame for inefficiencies in the 36 states.... why is there no real working world class hospital in the 36 states?? this is a state government responsibility and not a presidential responsibility....

How is it a state Government responsibility?. doesn't the Fg earn more money than the state?.
wasn't it Mr President that promised us standard hospitals and that he will patronize it and all his appointees will too?
Abeg stop finding a stupid way to defend your President

Akwa Ibom state
Udom Emmanuel
7/10.
He has done well with is job creation by building numerous factories and industries but he needs to do better because there are still more unemployed people.. the amount of industries he has built is to small to absolve 70% of them even.
Road construction I will score in 5/10. His roads is largely not that standard unlike akpabios..maybe cause he is using local Companies..
Security 4/10...he has not done anything to protect Akwa Ibomites from Fulani herdsmen and the constant arm robbery that takes place.
Infrastructure.. 8/10. ...

Ournolly:
Peter Odili is not Ikwerre.

Lingua franca is a general language of the country. The lingua franca of Nigeria is English.

Those people from the North that speak Hausa also have their language which is not related to Hausa and certainly not the dialect.

Ikwerre people that I know speak a dialect of Igbo language and certain do not have any other language that is not related to Igbo.

Ok.. I 'm not sure of Peter Odili.. but I'm sure of Ameachi.
In the north the general language is hausa not English..I'm using the north as a case study.
Yes, that's what I'm saying, they have their own language apart from hausa but the Ikwerres don't.
but those northerners still speak hausa widely.. does it mean they were force.. like he is trying to say the igbo force Igbo language on the Ikwerres due to their numerical strength

Tranquill:
Do you know that at some point they changed the name of Calabar to 'New Onitsha"?
Have you wondered why most of the older people from all the tribes not only Ikwerre under the old Eastern Region spoke and understood Igbo language? Some of our parents worked with the railway coporation and the government in Enugu before the war but were not seen as Igbos.

If you say that some igbos migrated to Ikwerre land as much as the people that migrated from Benin, then what sense does it make for Igbos to claim that Ikwerre is Igbo? Yes for various reasons you could find some Igbo names in Ikwerreland but over 95% of Igbo names you can not find. There are also some names in Ikwerre that Igbos do not know their meanings. Not sure you'll find a name like 'Odili' anywhere in Ikwerre.

The best is for the Ikwerres to decide who they are. Ikwerre like many tribes have evolved into independent ethnic group recognized by the Nigerian constitution and it should be respected instead of one group to think that their mere numerical strength gives them the right to force themselves on others which they do by fabricating stories and giving different false narratives.

ok

Hunchogee:
Nik is an Akwa Ibom dude

No mind them. since I no hate Igbos na.. I no be Akwa ibomite.. I laugh at them.

Graysons:
You Akwa ibom monkey you invite me into your foolishness when you drag ijaws into your stupidity, whatever business you are having with the Ikwerres vs the igbos make sure you leave ijaws out of it. Nonsense and Buhari.

Lol..who are Ijaws? those ones that have not been able to stamp their food in the sand of times.. see Bayelsa their state looking more than a shithole.
I'm Pretty sure even Borno is better than that place.. get out

Newton85:
I still don't care about your utterly miserable existence. Your attention seeking has been noted, mad dog. Go take your meds, utter swine!

I'm pretty sure your parents are disapointed in your existence.

MykOnyxo:
it is true that having sexual intercourse with some men or ladies brings bad luck. note that it is not only affecting men. it affects females too.
It is a two way thing.
1. Some men's glory and destiny opposes premarital sex so once they engage in it, they start experiencing backwardness. same for females.
2. Some females/males have that dark spot in their life that no matter who they sleep with, the fellow will experience backwardness. They have this in their body either through a curse on them or through covenant they have made with their ex partners either knowingly or most times unknowingly.

Someone made mention of serial fornicators in power and wealth. I must say this, majority of them are retaining their wealth and power with the sexual intercourse they are having with those ladies and young men.

So Ronaldo and all these footballers are renewing it through sex? guy think na

Newton85:
Cool! So, go to hell then and take care of your obvious mental illness, mofo!

Abasi aya Mia afo nfen.. gettout of my sight you nonentity
You're obviously the mad one.
Afo de ata uduk ikot.

Tranquill:
Do you know that at some point they changed the name of Calabar to 'New Onitsha"?
Have you wondered why most of the older people from all the tribes not only Ikwerre under the old Eastern Region spoke and understood Igbo language? Some of our parents worked with the railway coporation and the government in Enugu before the war but were not seen as Igbos.

If you say that some igbos migrated to Ikwerre land as much as the people that migrated from Benin, then what sense does it make for Igbos to claim that Ikwerre is Igbo? Yes for various reasons you could find some Igbo names in Ikwerreland but over 95% of Igbo names you can not find. There are also some names in Ikwerre that Igbos do not know their meanings. Not sure you'll find a name like 'Odili' anywhere in Ikwerre.

The best is for the Ikwerres to decide who they are. Ikwerre like many tribes have evolved into independent ethnic group recognized by the Nigerian constitution and it should be respected instead of one group to think that their mere numerical strength gives them the right to force themselves on others which they do by fabricating stories and giving different false narratives.

People can speak languages of different reasons. for eg, alot of Nigerians speaks hausa and they're not indigenous to the North or hausa...
Have never ever in my life, heard, read that Igbos change Calabar to new onitsha.
that never happened. never heard of it
Maybe they spoke and understood Igbo cause it was the lingua F... just like people in the north that aren't hausa, know and understand it. it doesn't mean they were force.

Remember the analogy I used..
for eg, I said that if a Land X...which is unoccupied by anyone group.
Then Man A from benin settle in land X
and then Man B from the East (igbo) comes to and settle in land X
Man A and Man B family inter married and give birth to people who formed Present day Ikwerres.

Then you both are right to claim Benin and the Igbos are also right to say Ikwerres is Igbo too
So then the Igbos are right to say Ikwerres are Igbos...same with the benins. then it becomes an individual thing on who is who.. individual choice.

By the way isn't Rivers former Governor Peter Odili Ikwerre and yet he said he is Igbo too

See have met alot of supposed Ikwerres and they bear Igbo names, communicate in Igbo..

My question remains How did Ikwerre lose their Benin identity...Their language, custom, names and then took up that of the Igbos if by a stroke if chance they're aren't Igbos.
Because you can't say the Igbos colonize them cause then I will ask how come the Ijaw, the isekiri, ibibios, Calabar retained their language, customs etc even though they were as much closer to the Igbos..?
Ikwerres wasn't even in existence pre independence.. cause when the British first appeared in the East and south, they wasn't any talk of Ikwerres..

chrisxxx:
There is no need arguing with an Akwa Ibom wanabe

Lol. I'm laughing at you now
Ask Huncho Gee who I'm i.
In your mind anybody that don't hate the Igbos isn't from Akwa ibom?
See you Ikwerreman telling me about my own state.. do you know Akwa ibom, have you been there before? have you gone through all it local govts? who do you know in Akwa ibom?
You're just hating yourselves fa.
First of all go and learn how to speak Benin and drop the igbo language for them and also start naming your kids Benin names and drop the igbo ones then we can talk.
You're Ikwerres stole the Igbo language, names, culture etc ....
cause I keep wondering how can people that came from Benin all of a sudden lose their Benin language, names, cultures etc.
lol

chrisxxx:
There is no need arguing with an Akwa Ibom wanabe

Lol. I'm laughing at you now
Ask Huncho Gee who I'm i.
In your mind anybody that don't hate the Igbos isn't from Akwa ibom?
See you Ikwerreman telling me about my own state.. do you know Akwa ibom, have you been there before? have you gone through all it local govts? who do you know in Akwa ibom?
You're just hating yourselves fa.
First of all go and learn how to speak Benin and drop the igbo language for them and also start naming your kids Benin names and drop the igbo ones then we can talk.

Tranquill:
Nobody changed anything rather it was the old Igbo controlled regional government that tried to change some names to sound more Igbo which led to the 'Rumuomasi declaration of 1965' (before the war) where the Ikwerres met to assert their independent identity. If you agree with me that the Ikwerre languange did not evolve after the war, then it confirms the fact that what you read about 'they changed their names after the war' is complete fabrication and it follows that every other thing said is not true.

But not only the Ikwerres were in the Eastern region that was control by the Igbo, there is Akwa ibom etc.. but yet, we still see that we retain everything from our languages etc.
But I want to ask a question..
Won't you really accept that the Igbos are part of Ikwerres?.. I agree that you guys might have origin from the benins but we can also see that not all Ikwerres originated from the benins. there were Igbos to who migrated from the East down to Ikwerreland ... if that is true then the Igbos aren't wrong in laying claims too.
it like this for eg..
There is a land x
Man A comes from Benin and Settle in the land
man B comes from the East and also settle in same land.
man A and Man B intermarried together and that's how Ikwerres came about..

So you're right to say you're from Benin and others are right to say you're igbo if we go by that theory.
but my Question remains, how did the Man A lose his language from Benin and adopted the Igbo language, names etc.. Ikwerres bear Chibuzor, Emeka, Odili, Chindindu etc and so does Igbos.
so how then can Man B have influence man A so much to that extend?

I hope you understand me?
Sorry about the English anyways

Newton85:
Just go to hell, slowpoke! I don't care or give a hoot about your worthless, useless existence. Your opinion or miserable existence doesn't matter to me. Again, swerve!

if it doesn't matter to you, you won't have quoted me.
you see you are the useless miserable one. a swine. Who even give a rat ass about you.

Graysons:
Oga stop involving ijaws in your bullshit habeg

I wasn't talking to you so just sifu

[quote author=chrisxxx post=100676595]When people talk they forget themselves. Do you know that Akwa IIbom population is more than the whole Fulanis population?
But they don't rule only Akwa ibom they also rule other Nigerians. Can I conclude that Akwa Ibom people are week and coward?[/quote...In Akwa ibom we rule Akwa ibom state and the Fulanis aren't ruling us cause they're better than us they doing it cause of they have found away to join their selves with the majority hausa region
thank God you said the Fulanis are only ruling Nigeria, not Cameroon that is close by to..

My Question remains how did the Igbos change your language, names, cultures and yet couldn't change those people that are even much closer to them than you.
look at Akwa ibom, Rivers, Ijaw etc. how come? even in Anambra where they re igala peeps ..those people still retain their language and identity.. but your weak Ikwerres was subdued by mere Around warriors...what an embarrassment

Op it in Nigeria education doesn't guaranteed success.. in advance countries.. When you're educated success is guaranteed or at least you will live a modest average life but here in Nigeria if you're educated self and you no get Grace.. you can't live that kind of average life.

Newton85:
Who be this moronic Osu impostor? Abeg swerve!

Shutup. I'm from Akwa ibom. Abak
So get the fuckoutta here.. if you no know me here as the known Akwa ibom people like Huncho Gee etc . Them go tell you.. if you hate Igbos then Na your palava.
We in Akwa ibon don't if their are any people in Akwa ibom that do. It is less than 10% so it insignificant

Tranquill:
It's pure lie and fabrication what you read. If you understand Ikwerre language, you'll see that it is reflected in the way their towns and villages are named. Claiming that 'Umu' was changed to 'Rumu' after the war, does it mean that their language did not exist until after the war? What Igbos call 'umu' some Ikwerre dialects call 'Rumu' and some call it 'Omu' So don't believe every bs people post based on the figment of their imagination and outright lies.

Ok, but it is said you guys changed it after the war to avoid associating with the Igbos and cause of oil. You didn't want the Igbos to share in your oil money ...
But it doesn't matter because apart from. Ikwerres they are still alot of Igbo subgroups In Rivers as it in delta

chrisxxx:
Tiny Ikwerre against giant Igbo you have said it all.
It's ok.
The man who envies the oneness of Ikwerre man.

Envy which oneness ? For your info, I'm from Akwa ibom so I don't care about your shit or goose with Igbos. All I want to know is how a certain Igbo group change your names, culture etc but didn't change your neighbors own.. neighbors like the ijaw, Akwa ibom Cross River. Is it that the Ikwerres are weak people? Cowards? That's why a certain set of Igbos( ARO) will come and change everything names of places and names of people including your Benin language and culture but they couldn't change the ijaws, the ibibios etc

ahiboilandgas:
doest that bring more votes ibo ,igbo ipob and niyamiri all na same

You are just a useless entity. Really Useless

Newton85:
An average Eboe doesn't like other Nigerians so stop crying.

Just remove Akwa ibom from that averages Nigerians. We re not part of your Igbos hating crew

chrisxxx:
The forceful changing of our names was the genesis of Ikwerre people bitterness with the Igbos.
You call Ikwerre a subgroup of Igbos because of the size of igbo. Now reverse the order with Ikwerre having 5 States and Igbo having just LGA you would not say the say. If my language sounds like yours it doesn't make me you or you me. It has been scientifically proven that we are not Igbos and Igbos are not Ikwerre.
Let me further educate you. Your way of life may have similarities with your brother but that doesn't make you your brother or your brother you. You people are related no doubt.
On Umu to Rumu, Bros when this argument comes out you people are descaling an about to be healed wound. Your people cane to a place that is not theirs and started to change names of Ikwerre settlement. Those of us in Ph and Obio Akpor call children Rumu. Those in Ikwerre and Emuoha have different names for it. Some call Omu like in Aluu. You might have heard about Omuoko. Some call Oma. You might have heard of Omadema. Some call Emu. You might have heard of Emuoha. Some call Rnu. You might have heard of Rundele. That is how it is. But the Igbos came and forcefully started to change names. Bros until the Igbos apologize to us the Ikwerre people we will always nurse this bitterness and resentment. I have a lot of igbo friends but it is based on personal character.
If we change name did we also change language?
The Ikwerre people were in the national assembly before the war and even at the height of igbo domination of Nigeria to make a case that we are not Igbos.
Please check this out.
Remember we are brothers Ikwerre man won't contend this but we are not Igbos just as Igbos are not Ikwerre people.

You make me laugh. How can you say someone came to your land and forcefully change your names... Why didn't they do same to Akwa ibom state that they are very closer to or to Cross River or to Bayelsa but only to a tiny Ikwerres.. why didn't they do that to the ijaws?
your case is like a certain group in yoruba land that own Lagos saying it not Yoruba . How foolish

Tranquill:
Stop sounding like an idi. ot with the bolded if you want to pretend that you know what you are saying.

Abeg how is he lying cause I read something like that.

Rossikki:
I just don't know why Igbos are constituting a nuisance to the country.

See how they are chasing them around everywhere.

You have come here fa...to start fight. Just shutup and leave here please

TheSupleemLeada:
You have governors.....let them do the needful or vote them out....oh, I forgot, alot of your brothers are on tinubu's matter.

Just Shutup. I can see how your Governors in the SW and Tinubu has dealt with the bandits matter.. no wonder most of your villages is in the hands of those terrorists and your villagers are in Benin as IDPs

GeneralPula:
And what of the hatred the Igbos are having for Nigeria?

Or which citizen with a good mental health would refer to his country of birth as a Zoo?

Make Nigerians dey show you love when all you people do is spread out hate?

Una never see chumthing..

You check m out Na. Are they lying? Is this not a characteristic of a Zoo

tempusfugit:
As usual always enforcing your beliefs on others, ibos and thier way of thinking

His he not saying the truth? Say whatever you want but they are a high percentage of Ikwerres who agree they are Igbos. They might be in the minority but do not reject them their right

DemonInvoker:
Igbos account for 30% in Rivers State...You are mad..Ijaws make up how many percent then?!Igbos remain in that Dirty Oyigbo and small parts of Etche/Omuma.

Lol.. do you want me to count Igbos local govt in Rivers for you?
Check Google, it says the Igbo represent 25% of Rivers State.. abi is that one now a lie? And if they do, doesn't it mean they enclose you?
Even though You forget that they're even certain percentage of Ikwerres that agree they're Igbos...case in study is Rotimi ameachi and former governor of Rivers.. Peter Odili.

Bros ,the Igbos will rule you in the Niger delta you don't want them to rule and den come and rule their own land. Ask Delta state whose governor gave the Go-ahead for Igbo language to be taught in all schs