₦airaland Forum

dearpreye:
A great and courageous man in his own right. Had to taste the evil and mischievous Northern conspiracy late Ojukwu had warned him against decades earlier.

May his soul continue to rest as others continue to champion the cause.

pazienza:
To start with, Ibibioland has no single drop of crude oil.
Akwa-ibom crude oil wealth belongs to Eastern Obolo,Ibeno and Oron people.


Akwa Ibom crude oil wealth is mainly offshore, and a single look at Akwa-ibom map will show that Eastern Obolo, Ibeno and Mbo( Oron) LGAs of Akwa-ibom occupy 99% of Akwa-ibom coastal lands.

Ibibio is in no position to mock Ndiigbo or Annangs about crude oil, as their claim to crude oil wealth is because of that fact that they currently co exist in the same state with the Ibenos Obolos and Oron people, who are by the way itching for separate existence, and will soon or later get it.

So I don't know what is highing the Sonofmark of a guy.

fratermathy:
The question is simple aunty.


What SHOULD WE STRANGERS AND LOVERS CALL YOU? No one has said anything on this and yet you are quick to attack other names. You'd prefer we call you all CALABAR PEOPLE?

fratermathy:
Yes that's true sire. However, in this case you know that these people are not only lingustically similar . However my argument stands still upon linguistics which is my Forte. These tribes are of the same linguistic cluster. Do you disagree?

PROPHETmichael:
As a former employee of Mobil though not from Akwa Ibom, I can categorically tell you that Eket is not an oil producing Area but Ibeno. The reason Eket holds that tag is because Ibeno was formerly under them and as a result, Eket was well develop during those periods. Ibeno LGA is the reason Akwa Ibom is having No1 spot in Federal allocation but unfortunately, the people are being marginalized in terms of development.

vladimiros:
Man calm down, oil rivers state won't happen, just let baby for a ur senators and reps to fight for more awareness to ur region

Secondly most Akwa Ibom Il is coastal, and obols is not all coastal

Coach8:
Oron is not as rich as Sowell28 would like to believe, the richest towns in AKS in terms of oil would be Ibeno and then maybe Eket. Until now, I never realised the Oron people wanted to not be classified as AKS.

naijaguy77:
Are you sick? Since when did Oron people become Ibibio? And since when did Oro language or even Efik language become an Ibibio dialect?

Just consider the following facts:

1) Oro people speak oro language, they also generally understand Efik language but only because the bible was first translated into Efik, so the missionaries used Efik to spread the gospel. Even in the most rural parts of Oro, people can understand efik, but ibibio is some irritating sound that no one relates to.

2) Ibibio is a dialect of Efik, not the other way around. Efik is the main language, it is understood by everyone, Efiks, Oros, Ibibios, Anangs, etc. The Efik bible is what is used from Ikot Ekpene to Ikot Ansa, so I wonder which alternate universe you live in where Ibibio is a language and Efik is a dialect?

3) What are the characteristics of a language, as opposed to a dialect? Efik is studied in university, Efik has poetry and artistic music from Inyang Nta Henshaw to Peter Effiom, plays and playwrights, literary luminaries, Professors of Efik language such as E.N. Amaku, Efik alphabets and etymology. Jesus, what is ibibio? Ibibio is a barbaric dialect of the efik language.

Comparing Efik and Ibibio is like comparing Queens Engligh to Pidgin English, just because more idiots speak pidgin English doesn't make it the language, it is still the sub-language/dialect of proper English.

Maybe becuase you have started getting some oil money (which you don't even produce a drop of oil, oil is produced by Oros, Ibenos, and Obolos) and you are no longer houseboy and housegirl, you think you can come on nairaland and denigrate other people's culture and language? You better think again.

The Ibibios, up until recently, have been something of 2nd class citizens in that region. Because they live in the hinterland (despite being in a predominantly Riverine/coastal region) , they had the following misfortunes:

1) The Efiks and Oros are coastal people and their main commodity during the slave trade era were ibibios. They sold ibibios to Europe slave traders and this led to the generally perception of the ibibios as inferior. Since they had no access to the coast and were mere commodity.

2) During the colonial and missionary era, the Europeans first settled in the coast - Lagos, Calabar, Oron etc. Because of this, Education and Administrative generally went to people from the coastal regions, hence the reason why you find the oldest schools in these areas - Hope Waddell Training Institute Calabar, Methodist Boys High School Oron, St. Patrick's College Calabar, Kings College Lagos, etc. Because of this, the ibibios had no access to Education until the late 20th century. This naturally placed them at a disadvantage to the Efiks and Oros, who are coastal people and had earlier interaction with Europeans, embraced western education early, etc.

Today, you see jokers come on the internet to proclaim a barbaric dialect as a language. Can you tell us even one seminal work done in the ibibio dialect? None. You think a sound is considered a language because it is chanted by numerous monkeys?

What a joke.

The main language of the Lower Cross River Basin is EFIK. The dialects of Efik include Ibibio and Anang. Some related languages to Efik are Oro and Ibeno
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babylove2015:
Immediately I saw borno on my call up letter yesterday, I just stopped worrying my sef to death! But hw do I find my way frm lagos? And am nt too sure there is a straight flight from lagos to katsina

Analystshariff:
It's true my oga! Automatic redeployment na 4 sure...

nasark1:
i was posted to katsina stream 2.how do one get der from ph..

mcanthony20:
we don't need to fear the unknown. Lets just be strong. There is a purpose for this borno posting. Just arm urself with ur medical report for auto redeployment. God is our strength. If u will leave 4rm the east lets share our whatsapp numbr here. Nnamdi 07038014837. Katsina here we come nov 25th

slyd91:
1k ke

skill01:
Amen...but mind u katsina no dey get stream 2 oooojey. Cos dem camp is very big 2 contain all of una @once.

Samjayy:
am Oladapo Gbenga i was posted to bornu bt camping at kastina taking off frm Ibadan to kastina call & whatsapp 08033114016 posted to Bornu but camping a Kastina

slyd91:
Borno still beta cus its automatic redeployment to any state of your choice

bstrong005:
Hmmmmm.... God knows

torpedo92:
Heard its better to leave on the 24th and its going to be Night journey............

goodyboo:
I chose Enugu,Abuja and Ogun states...