₦airaland Forum

Lateef73:
Nice one.

Asaba and Agbor people celebrate Benin festivals. They are all descendants of Benin Kingdom

Descendants of Bini that forgot their Bini language and be speaking Igbo, bearing Igbo names and practices Igbo culture and traditions. No single traces of Bini in them.

The indigenous language you speak without external colonialism defines who you are and the tribe you belong. Ikwerre culture and spoken words are of Igbo ancestral descent, no matter how Ikwerres try to deny being Igbo they will end up speaking Igbo dialect of Ikwerre in their homes. So is difficult for them. Had it been their language is not Igbo but a close language to Bini language, people will take them serious, the argument whether they are Igbo or not will not even exist.

Some people are clamouring for Goodluck Jonathan to come back in 2027, someone that many part of Nigeria see his administration as a failure and fought tooth and nail to remove him in power by replacing him with Buhari.

For Nigeria to move forward, recycling old leaders that once had the chance to make Nigeria great but failed will not take Nigeria anyway but more hardship and deeper mess. Why not support the likes of Peter Obi or the chairman of African development bank Adesina and see what they can do

Some people are clamouring for Goodluck Jonathan to come back in 2027, someone that many part of Nigeria see his administration as a failure and fought tooth and nail to remove him in power by replacing him with Buhari.

For Nigeria to move forward, recycling old leaders that once had the chance to make Nigeria great but failed will not take Nigeria anyway but more hardship and deeper mess. Why not support the likes of Peter Obi or the chairman of African development bank Adesina and see what they can do.

For Anambra state there nothing like Osu cast, it was olden days stories. Some families in Anambra answer Nwosu or even Osu without any stigma.

bobby007:
The guy fear, lagos don wake up

The way you Yorubas are targeting Igbo businesses in Lagos for destruction is something else, after you guys will be shouting one Nigeria

wellmax:
How many times do you hear about them in the news unlike the ibo vagabonds. They are quiet, seeing only to the cultural associations. But you see those iPods. Even in the SE, every 2km is a different monotonous community. Always looking for opportunity for chest beating

Focus should be on Fulanis that invade peoples land and grab it by force by killings rather than Igbos that only do business and are harmless but only chestbeat about their achievement.

TimeTraveller:
Because unlike Hausas, you guys are Nigeria's most disrespectful irritants. Everywhere you go, you irritate. Go and ask South Africans.

Is that the reason anything Igbo is always on news, Igbos are topics of discussion in all social media

Sarakin Hausawa-Fulani is ruling in Lagos without any problem.

Anything Igbo bring serious phobia on some people.

Yorubanization, is alright that is their turn. I know T-Pain will surpass Buhari nepotism.

In the whole world, what defines you as a person is the language you speak and when you are indigenous to that language without colonialism then you belong to that particular tribe. For example, someone from some part of Togo who they call their language ife or Ewe which is a Yoruba dialect can say they are not Yorubas but in reality the language they speak is the same with the Yorubas of Nigeria, so wether they are not Yorubas their language is the same with Yorubas. They hear each other without any difficulties.

So for Ikwerres, Igbankes in Edo and Aniomas, them and the Igbos speak the same language and hear each other. So whether they are Igbos or not, they are from the same language heritage and speak the same language with variations which they call dialects.

JohnnA1:
Another VICTIM MENTALITY thread!

You call it victim mentality because you know it is true nature of Nigeria, packing people like sardine in one state of Nigeria because of fear of SE region to develop.

yoruboid:
Seaport when there’s no SE state contiguous with the sea?

You have Onne and Calabar Ports which are functional

Enugu Airport is an international airport just like Lagos airport is

What exactly is your problem with comprehension?

Use what you have like the rest of the country has

Is a big lie, Onne and Calabar Ports is not working, there no commercial activities there, only oil companies use Onne ports. Enugu Airport doesn’t operate international flights without stopping in Lagos or Abuja.

If River Niger was to be in the north which is not too far from the sea, they would have dredge it to sea with oil money to be receiving big ships, you and I know that one, let’s stop lying to ourselves.

South Eastern Nigeria is totally locked up by joint corroboration between Southwest and the North and then turn around and blame people for flocking to Lagos the former capital of Nigeria developed with oil money.

No functional international airport or Seaport in the east. No FG presence. Everything in concentrated in Lagos and the North.

I wonder why you will seize everything to yourself and turn around to say people are coming to Lagos where you keep everything.

In the whole world, what defines you as a person is the language you speak and when you are indigenous to that language without colonialism then you belong to that particular tribe. For example, someone from some part of Togo who they call their language ife or Ewe which is a Yoruba dialect can say they are not Yorubas but in reality the language they speak is the same with the Yorubas of Nigeria, so wether they are not Yorubas their language is the same with Yorubas. They hear each other without any difficulties.

So for Ikwerres, Igbankes in Edo and Aniomas, them and the Igbos speak the same language and hear each other. So whether they are Igbos or not, they are from the same language heritage and speak the same language with variations which they call dialects.

Schlumeinstein:
NIgER DELTA, ibibios,binis,ijawas,orons,kalabiris etc ARE SOLIDLY BEHIND PROTECTING OUR BROTHER IKWERRE or any part of us being threatened..................OUR SLOGAN..
......NIGER DELTANS.........." ONE TONGUE,,MANY LANGUAGES...".

Continue your stupidity, language defines who you are, Ikwerre is Igbo dialect forever unless if they will invite Bini people to teach them Bini language and then drop their Ikwerre Igbo dialect.

Schlumeinstein:
Ikwerres do not speak igbo ....we Niger deltans will defend EVERYPART of our land....Even OJUKWU cannot succeed it..

Who is interested in your land, let’s assume you have Niger Delta Republic, Ikwerre and Anioma will remain Igbos in your country as language they speak is Igbo dialect. There are indigenous Igbos in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, does been in those countries make them not to be Igbo or Yorubas indigenous to Cotonu or Togo are not Yorubas again.

chrisxxx:
This symbolizes how stupid you are.
You haven't given an answer to igbo word for YES.
America or Britain who earns English Language?
Which of them has a higher population?
Isoma ma ha.

You more stupid here, you can’t even differentiate between colonialism and indigenous languages. Is English indigenous to Americans.

Igbo word for yes is even your Ikwerre.

Eriokanmi:
You don't get my point at all. When rivers politicians tell you they're not ibo, that they're from rivers despite the obvious in their names, that's politics. They're ibos. Imagine wike saying he's not ibo that rivers aren't ibo or biafra, isn't that a joke? Deep down his throat, he knows he's ibo but for political relevance, he's denying his roots.

Same goes to amaechi when he was in politics. He had said it several times that he's not ibo meanwhile he's from the Igbo speaking tribe. But he's saying that for political relevance. The majority of rovers people speak Igbo. Hope you got my point clearly now.

Imagine itsekiri people saying they're not yoruba when they knew they migrated from our land. If an itsekiri person speaks,.I can clearly understand. That's what I'm saying.

The correct spelling of Igbo is Igbo not Ibo, stop typing British giving name of Ibo removing the g sound in Igbo.

chrisxxx:
That is perfect description of you people who came all the way from Israel. Amaechi is it an Israeli name?
You came stole and language and turn around that the original owner of the language copied your language.
We have been asking this question: what is Igbo word for YES? You couldn't copy this.

You are saying rubbish, there is no part of world where humans copy language. Your indigenous language defines who you are. Ikwerre speaks Igbo dialect and Igbo people didn’t copy any language from Ikwerre 2 local government of population that is not upto 2 million people and Igbo population of more than 50 million cannot copy language from minority.

nedekid:
It seems they have igbo roots. My aunty is ikwerre and speaks igbo fluently, also her native language that seems to have some igbo in it. My paddy maxi orlu okey is also ikwerre and speaks both igbo and the other native language discribed earlier.

Their language Ikwerre language is a dialect of Igbo language, it is wrong to say their language have some Igbo in it. Everything that Ikwere is speaking is Igbo but for political reasons some are denying not being Igbo. Other Igbo language spoken in different dialects include Anioma in Delta ( Ika, Ibuzor,Enuani,Ukwuani, Asaba, Igbanke in Edo State). Every central Igbo person hear what they say and they also hear central Igbo without any difficulties.

Nigeria should be regionalised so that other states can also develop like Lagos. As it stands now in Nigeria, Lagos is taking other states resources, Lagos have oil headquarters that belong to other states, have seaports and international airports and block others from having through federal might. Bank headquarters in Lagos. All VAT paid to Lagos.

For some Yorubas this is right because it benefit them, that is why Nigeria is not working. Let’s every state and regions be given equal opportunity to thrive not only one state taken it all.

Gowon is the cause of the civil war, he signed Aburi peace agreement and refused to honour it.

How many entourage of European countries government come to Nigeria for jamboree and waste tax payers money

Casham:
All Abrahamic religions do/did that at one point. These religions are built on radicalism. This is why Marx said "Religion is the opiate of the masses." People will justify anything as long as you mention "God".


SLAVES!

Yes offcourse but the argument is why is Muslims only religion in this modern world that is still killing people for ordinary insult to their prophet Mohammed. Can’t they stop that barbarism, it shows they are fighting for their god.

MaxInDHouse:
Are you sure Catholics changed?

Please which of the churches occupy Russia and Ukraine claiming Christians?

What exactly are they killing their neighbors for?

Muslims are fighting as politicians among them are using them to gain power not religion just as Ukrainians and Russians are fighting for politicians among them.
The truth of the matter is that Muslims are easily brainwashed to start fighting once they are called to do it for religion but their folly becomes obvious when Muslim nations starts fighting each other like Russia and Ukraine.
Please to who will those fighting pray before going to kill their fellow worshipers?

Can we tell ourselves the truth, war in Russia is political war not about religion. Christians don’t kill for their religion again, you know that if you want to be sincere. The only religion in world that still kill people for blasphemy against their prophet Mohammad is Islam. No other religion kill anyone for insulting their prophet.

MaxInDHouse:
It's POLITICS!

The Catholic Church started it after the death of Christ's apostles and they were killing those who says anything against the church, Bible, Cross or Trinity.
That's what Muhammad thought is right since the Catholics the only religion professing faith in the Almighty God in his time were doing.

But Catholics have changed since time immemorial why can’t Muslims change in this modern time.

madridguy:
We won't allow any insult towards our beloved prophet.

Please can you explain the reason why you guys go to the extent of killing the person. Why not beating the person or any punishment that will not injure the person.

The problem of Islam is always killing for their Allah and prophet Mohammed, infact Mohammad is the god of Islam because if someone insult prophet Mohammad Moslems will kill that person.

By the lifestyle of Prophet Mohammed recorded in the Hadiths with all the atrocities he committed against humanity, if Mohammed make heaven then no human being deserves to go to hell.

Pls why is the religion like that, can someone defend the reason why these killings is justified.

The problem of Islam is always killing for their Allah and prophet Mohammed, infact Mohammad is the god of Islam because if someone insult Mohammad Moslems will kill that person.

By the lifestyle of Prophet Mohammed recorded in the Hadiths with all the atrocities he committed against humanity, if Mohammed make heaven then no human being deserves to go to hell.

Drama continues

peterincredible:
bros no need 4 that abeg my own be say the west to dey different but they have to come together we too have to come together whether na Igbo we go call am or any other name it doesn't matter we just have to unite for our survival in Nigeria or even if Nigeria divide because we have a lot in common and the west and north just luv to see us divided when we where all united we where doing really good we need to unite that is all no challenge hin ika tin u go dey make am feel as if hin no know wetin hin dey talk i hope u grab

Well said, I grab it, what we are saying is not that their language is Igbo but that Ika is the same language in Igbo unity term as various dialects is under Yoruba umbrella but Ika people is free to maintain that Ika is Ika but not saying that it is a different language or not related to Igbo.