₦airaland Forum

OdenigboAroli:
Idenmili use both,interchangeably.How,Ana seems to be the most ancient.

how do you know the one which is ancient and the recent one?

zendy:
An Enugu and Ebonyi man will say 'Ani' an Anambra man is most likely to say 'Ana' while the Imo and Abia man will say 'Ala'. Remarkably,a delta Igbo will say 'Ani' even though he is closer to Anambra than Enugu. I'm an Anambra man. I have been to Ikwere and I understood their dialect of Igbo. I have been to an Ika market. I did my shopping in Igbo and they all understood me although I had to strain my ear to understand them but Ika/Igbo is still a dialect of Igbo that has been influenced by Bini people and it is the borrowed Bini words that makes it harder to understand. Any Delta-Igbo or Anioma indigenes who says they are not Igbo,look well and you will see that he or she is probably a descendant of an Isoko,Urohbo,Itshekiri migrant. Any Rivers Igbo (Ahoada,Etche,Ikwere) who says they are not Igbo,look very well and you will see that it has something to do with oil.

in my side of anambra(idemili south),we say 'ani' and not ana,,we bear ezeani not ezeana and we have a town called ideani

Yoruba girls are clean

shortest joke ever,bwahahahaha

Ellashow:
Do your research and disprove this, no need of insult.
I'm actually a sister, bro!

no insults intended,but am igbo and live in Lagos and never have i have seen a full-blooded igbo parent give their child yoruba names,names don finish for igbo language or what? Plsssssssssssssssss

Ellashow:
Most of ibos in Lagos are now giving their children Yoruba names, so are they now Yoruba?
Some people just comments with tribal hatred just like the guy you quoted.

@bolded,bros u can lie ooo

give examples pls,no igboman gives his children yoruba names except the case the mother of the children is yoruba

lai mohammed

limamintruth:
Hello Nlanders!
Pls the yorubas in the house should kindly translate the following phrases to english and how i should respond to the statements below:

- koburu odabo

- mio pada ba e soro mo lano yen

- se ofimi la Ala?

- kosi iyonu rara

- ofe ba mi soro abi?

Thanks alot dearest nlanders as i await your replies to my post request.

let me try,i got a C5 in my waec in yoruba language,lol

1)Not bad,good bye


2)i didnt talk to you again yesterday


3)shey you see me for dream


4)me(o'boy3) no sabi the number two


5)you want to discuss with me,right?


I no be yoruba ooo,no vex some of them may not be correct

tonychristopher:
united ..i laugh

I have seen many egun in badagry saying they are not Yoruba ...i have seen many okun in kabba saying they shouldn't be addressed as Yoruba ..I have also seen how Yoruba hate ijebus


Yet they are united

They have the unity of Jonah and the whale

dont mind them,,i grew up in lagos the way they dislike ijebu but they come online pretending they are all one,,many a times have i seen other yorubas swear they or their kids will never marrry ijebu,,there is this song used in tauting ijebu peeps

ijebu kala,ijebu buru

pinkguy:
tribes around south east and south do not just hate igbo without reasons, after force some of this people to change their names and speak igbo, a good example is nsuka and ikwerre people. Why Do Igbos still try to force their identity on ikwerre people of river state but hate and reject nsuka people of enugu state maybe it because ikwerre are bless with oil and nsuka are not ,if ikwerre are igbo why do the take igbo property after the civil war ?

let me open a thread cos my mates are opening too,,,,,mtcheeew

ChinenyeN:
Oraukwu says 'avu'? Really?

yes,the do

Malawian:
maybe, but oraukwu is the sweetest

ora ukwu WEY dey call armpit ''avu'' instead of abu .lol

simba1:
DO THEY EVEN HAVE THE SLIGHTEST OF WHAT DOCTORS WENT AND ARE GOING THROUGH? DO THEY THINK IT'S ABOUT SITTING ON AIR-CONDITIONERS AND MAKING BILLIONS WITH JUST A PEN, AND LITTLE OR NO WORK DONE OR ENERGY SUSPENDED?

i am also vexed how can doctors,enginners and lawyers rub shoulders with agriculturist or farmers/?

charity begins at home,Agnes can begin elsewhere

wareva,sai ogbuagu okechukwu

Radoillo:
Thank you. Thank you. I've lived in Enugu. I've lived in Anambra. I visit Imo quite frequently (I have three brothers-in-law from there). And the claim that Northern Igbo folks are more clannish than everyone else didn't ring true with me at all.

welcum bro,it exists everywhere,i once have been taunted by two ebonyi brothers telling me how anambrarians kill their loved ones for money ritual and i replied them that ebonyi love hawking

Ihuomadinihu:
You might want to go back to op's initial post,where he stated that the discrimination against Ebonyi's is more intense in the Northern region. In Igbo land,name calling is part of the igbo lifestyle but this is totally different from how these people are treated.

thats his own experience,i have lived in onitsha and owerri,the same way it exists in anambra is the same in imo
no more no less

even ebonyians themselves are no saints

Ihuomadinihu:
The discrimination is even more visible on social media. Immediately you identify yourself as 'onye Ebonyi',other Igbos make shady remarks. I grew up in Southern Igboland in the company of a few Ebonyi natives and nobody actually made them feel less igbo. Probably,this discrimination exists amongst Northern Igbos as they are more clannish in Igboland.
There is no doubt that Igbos tend to cling to clans but the new age discrimination against Ebonyi natives is far too much. They are treated as backward and less developed, with no reference to their contributions to igboland or that they are last Igbo state to be created in Nigeria,hence the underdevelopment of their region.
We igbos have names for eachother,e.g, Nwa-Mbaise,Ohuhuu,Ijekebee,Mba Mmiri,Nwa Aba,Wawaa etc, but this has nothing to do with how Ebonyi natives are treated.

you guys should quit this habit of blaming northern igbo/anambra for everythng bad in igboland,abeg
i stay in owerri,to the best of my knowledge owerri is part of your non-clannish southern igboland and from my many years of staying in owerri i come to realise that imo people are worse than anambra in discriminating their fellow igbos,there is this lecturer from mbaitolu who insults ndi anambra at any slight opportunity and calls us ''illiterates and ndi ego ogwu'' everyday in her lectures and calls ndi ebonyi igbo ''HAUSA IGBOS'' or ndi ime ezhi with her thick owerri tongue
imolites discriminate amongst their fellows imolites,,i was in douglas one day somebody said ihedioha cant be governor simply because he is an mbaise man,,how else can you define discrimination?

so abeg before you point fingers look at yourself thoroughly because the remaining three fingers are pointing back at you

40 days to presidential elections. If you're
voting
remember this factors;
1. The chibok Girls
2. NNPC Scam
3. Police pension fund
4. Missing 20Billion
5. $9million Arms deal
6. Bomb Blasts
7. Immigration job scam
8. Petroleum pump price
9. Devaluation of Naira
10. Oil theft
11. Power outage
12. Selling of Nepa
13. Selling of Refineries
14. Skyrocketed Nepa Bills
15. ASUU & poly Strike
16. Doctors Strike
17. National Assembly tragedy
19. Stella's oduah Aviation Scam
20. Kerosene subsidy
--------------
They Didn't Raise 21Billion for Ebola,
They Didn't Raise 21Billion for dilapidated
hospitals,
They Did't raise 21Billion for Military
Weapons against
Boko Haram,
They Didn't raise 21Billion for flood
Victims,
They Didn't raise 21Billion for children
dying of Vaccine
preventable disease,
They didn't raise 21Billion for the
homeless.
BUT they all gathered to raise 21Billion for
another 4
Years of INEPTITUDE AND BAD GOVERNANCE.
There is GOD ooooooooo

Amarom makana aburom onye onicha ado n'idu

A kid wrote to Santa Claus: Send me a
brother! Santa wrote back: Send me ur
mother

cheruv:
the spambot autocorrected the ofe'mmanu stuff I wrote to Yoruba. the names the Yorubas have isn't derogatory but due to how they behave eg
1]ofe'mmanu :this simply means ofe(soup) and mmanu(oil/oily) and this simply means oily soup.this is bkos Yorubas consume a lot of oil when preparing their soups
2]mgbati :this simply means mgba(wrestle) and ti(shout) and this is bkos yolobas shout a lot when talking which gives the impression that they're soon going to fight.. which doesn't happen afterwards
3]akawoo :this simply means to mark or marks and this is due to the tribal marks yolobas are known to carry

that's how those names came about

the bolded is wrong,mgbati is how the yorubas say ''when'',they say mgbati too much then igbos named them ''ndi mgbati mgbati'',its a yoruba word not igbo

you are on a sick bed dying of cancer,which would you prefer,,five trained doctors or one million prayers?

Your prayers works nothing,animals like wall gheckko e.t.c dont pray but their limbs grows back when chopped,try amputating your limbs and pray for a new one

MOBJECTIVE:
In Japan sleeping like this is considered a good thing - It shows you've been working hard. Some Japanese business men go as far a s feigning sleep to come off as hard working. You can thank me for this interesting fact

we are not in japan neither are we japanese now,or are we?

Fire15:
Looks more like someone in prayer mode.

or someone in zzzzzzzz mode

ok,we don hear


nextttttt

mrvitalis:
i wipe for my country ....a place were failure is celebrated .......abia ....i have never pitted u ...cos the way u make ur bed the way u ley on it
....nigerians is not ready for change ....we are all fools

what are you wiping mr man,your butt?

Btw,we are not fools maybe you are

Governor Obiano of Anambra State is sleeping
on DUTY!

this is from a movie,i have seen the advert a couple of time,,,GET RICH AND DIE YOUNG,,,twas a film about ritualists,,emeka ani was shown in the same film sucking b.reasts for wealth


who the Bleep pushed this shit to frontpage?

i wonder why some igbo people on nairaland think they speak for all the igbos,i am igbo too though i aint voting next year but saying buhari will get less 1% vote is silly and laughable
buhari has a lot of supporters over here especially in imo state but JeG will nevertheless will get the highest votes in the east

i can tell that there are millions of igbo who would rather cast their votes into river niger than vote the shoeless ijaw man......fact
they feel he has failed them and to add insult upon injury watching NTA you see JEG claiming the 2nd niger bridge is almost in completion what a big fat lie and a slap to the good people of igboland

if you are igbo i would suggest ukwa(breadfruit),very sweet thats if prepared well

OkijaAmaka:
Lol, educating a yo-robberman or yo-robber woman is like buying a Jacuzzi for a Pig.

I gave up on them when one made this comment below and got many likes from his ofe brothers and sisters.

lol the thing tire me o

jumu:
they dont apreciate there land all igbos are osu

imbe,did you read the article before you enter here to insult yourself,they are indigenes of benue state meaning they come from benue not migrants or whatever