₦airaland Forum

Paraman:
There's no Ijaw land in Lagos, aworis and ilajes are Yorubas. Be guided okoro

Ijaw people are indigenous to Lagos in Ajegunle area of Lagos, they first Yoruba people reach the waters of Lagos. Check your history.

kasim155:
This is how some of u write false history about other people and their region. The Egun and the Aworis are sub groups of the Yoruba tribe, we also have the Ijebu as indigene of Lagos. So because Igbo are not indigenous to Lagos doesn't mean that Yoruba are not.

A Yoruba person can’t hear Egun , Awori or Ilaje language, these are distinct languages but Yorubas politically classified them as Yoruba sub group unlike Anioma-Ika-Ikwerre-Igbanke which every Igbo hear and understand their dialect of Igbo.

Jesuschristonw:
he made a mistake not odukpani local government...but Abi local government..they have indigenous igbo there,

Yes it was a mistake, corrected now, it is actually Isobo in Obubra LGA. I will check Abi LGA to know if there indigenous Igbos there, thanks for the remark.

adegunahmed:
I don't think you have been to Odukpani, you probably use Google for all this.
For you to say Igbos are indigenous to Odukpani simply means you didn't do your research well or probably sentimental in your opinion

I have modify the mistake, it is actually Isobo in Obubra LGA, thanks for the remark.

exposition:
Please educate me
Which part of odukpani has indigenous Igbo's?

I have modify the mistake, it is actually Isobo in Obubra LGA, thanks for the remark.

illicit:
Oh okay

But I don't see why you left out southwest Cameroon

We are talking about states in Nigeria that have indigenous Igbos

Yorubas are jittery about Tinubu failure and fear of Peter Obi winning in 2027 they are running to Jonathan

adeniyiemmanuel:
...this list is incompleted why LAGOS ,ABUJA & KANO didn't make the list ?most expectially Lagos that is no man's land.

Awon WEREY olee land grabbers.

There is no indigenous Igbos in Lagos, Igbos don’t claim other peoples land. The indigenous tribes in Lagos include;
1. Egun
2. Awori
3. Yoruba
4. Ijaw
5. Ilaje

illicit:
U didn't add Lagos

🤭

There is no indigenous Igbos in Lagos, Igbos don’t claim other peoples land. The indigenous tribes in Lagos include;
1. Egun
2. Awori
3. Yoruba
4. Ijaw
5. Ilaje

BigDick70inch:
Clown...
Can u say dat to ebonyi man.....y'all all have been treated poor all dis while......

Check indigenous Igbos in Nigeria and get acquainted

South East and State creation is political and military creation to divide Igbos and doesn’t represent tribes, Igbos in Nigeria spread across 13 states;
1. Anambra
2. Abia
3. Enugu
4. Ebonyi
5. Imo
6. Edo (Igbanke Igbos)
7. Delta (Anioma)
8. Rivers Igbos (Ikwerre, Ogba, Asa, Ekpeye, Ndoni-Egbema, Ndoki, Obigbo, Etches, Opobo, Ubani and Bonny)
9. Benue (Ado, Oju, Okpoku And Obi)
10. Cross River (Isobo in Obubra Lga).
11. Bayelsa (Sagbama-Ogbia)
12. Kogi ( Onicha Igo, Eke, Akpanya, Odolu, Ugwuebonyi, Nwajala, Amaeke, Ozara, etc mostly found in 3 local government of Ibaji, Odolu and Ofu local government areas in Kogi state)
13. Akwa Ibom ( Ohaobu Ndoki in Ukanafun Local government, Obuagu and Itumbauzo in Ini LGA and Umubueze in Ika LGA).

You have Peter Obi, support him, stop the Igbophobia.

Jonathan have done his part and retired.

saddler:
Igodomigodo was a smaller kingdom and was only in present day Benin city. Igodomigodo didn't even cover the whole of Edo state today so, igbos were never part of it.

It was the Benin Empire that stretched to Onitsha and this is evident in the Royal symbol(Ada and Eben) of Obi of Onitsha.

Quit lying . The evidence is just too glaring.

Igbos always grappling at straws when it comes to history .

Today you are from Isreal, tomorrow you are from Eri , next tomorrow you are now Idu .


Ajayi Crowther brought strangers ( slaves) together and taught them ibo language.

Argue with the proof below:

You are mistaken IDU kingdom that stretches to Onitsha with Benin kingdom that came much later after the collapse of Ogiso Igodomigodo to Oba. All the Benin artefacts, Royal symbols of Eben or Ada belong to IDU kingdom of which some Igbo communities of Igbanke-Ika-Anioma down to Agbor-Umunede to Onitsha was part of it. Benin took the glory of IDU because they are last of the collapse kingdom of IDU that the Yorubas Aromiya conquered smaller fragmented Igodomigodo.

Smaller part of Igbo like Ika and Igbanke are part of Igodomigodo by that time larger part of Igbo have left with the collapse of IDU kingdom to smaller Igodomigodo after various fighting.

You keep on mentioning Ajayi Crowther that was born yesterday 1809, he is not even upto 220 years old. There is some Igbos that are 120 years still alive today.

saddler:
Igbos were never part of Igodomigodo. Go check the names of the kings that ruled Igodomigodo, none were igbos.

There was no record of igbos in Igodomigodo history.

Ajayi Crowther took part of Igala, Ika, and Ikwerre languages and taught the people (slaves) that were in Igbo land.

Check the igbo traditional dressing too...its even a more recent thing, from the red cap/winter cap to the Akpoche, there were all borrowed.

This is the reason the Onitsha Monarchy will always stand by its Benin Origin because they know the rest igbos are descendants of slaves.

Your write up is always laughable , read about Idu kingdom and the various fight that collapsed it to smaller Igodomigodo and later to smaller Edo/Ado before the fall last Ogiso to first Oba and renaming it to ile Bini (a name given to it by Yorubas Aromiya) before the Portuguese started calling it Benin.

IDU kingdom stretches upto Onitsha before it collapsed to smaller Igodomigodo.

Ajayi crowther is just of recent, born in 1809 to 1891,was a Yoruba linguist, clergyman, and the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa and didn’t have the capacity to do such, he is just a writer of books as he studied linguistics while in slavery.

Kreesxxx:
What about if I say igbo is a dialect of Ikwerre people?
If you understand me and I also understand you don't you think you might be me? Have a reason to reason in a bilateral dimension. USA migrated from Great Britain. Today USA is almost five times Great Britain in power and population.
If not for written history no one would believe USA left UK for north America.

It can be either way, Igbo can be a dialect of Ikwerre but the bottom like is that the two languages are similar that both to a large extent can hear each other.

USA is a migrant country, not only migrant from UK but the rest of Europe but Uk is the first to conquer the land, in term of Ikwerre and Igbo, there was no colonialism from either side of Ikwerre or Igbo meaning that their languages are their ancestral heritage which is intelligible with each other signifying the same origin.

Kreesxxx:
The day you people will understand that every community has an equal stake to the moon that is when you people will stop with trying to rub us with igbo. Rubbing us with Igbo pains us as when I rub you with OSU identity if at all you are not one.

If you are an Ikwerre man, you should understand that God of creation has made your Ikwerre language similar to Igbo language and it is forever difficult to dissociate yourselves from Igbos.

Just imagine a man named Chibuike Amaechi or Eberechukwu Nwike Nyosom telling a Yoruba or Hausa or people of other countries that he or she is not Igbo, don’t you think that your name gave you out as Igbo before even speaking the language.

Anywhere you see someone answering Ayodele, Shola, Adeyomi, you will not think twice to call the person a Yoruba. So it is quite a difficult task for you Ikwerres forever to separate yourself from Igbos.

Kreesxxx:
Do you understand ikwerre?
Let's put it into test.
Iyo vo vu ivuru. Iyo vu ivoma.
What did I say?

Dialects differs in Igbo language and this is a small enclave of Ikwerre probably mixed with Ekpeye, the lager Ikwerre dialect is the same with Igbo.

Kreesxxx:
Igbos staying in their conclave wouldn't understand me. The only igbo that will understand ikwerre are those who have spent some times in Port Harcourt.
Igbos have known ikwerre for over a hundred years and every effort to annex ikwerre has failed. We may be a related ethnic but not one the other. Our cultures, beliefs and values differ.
Igbo has advantage because of numbers. That is why ikwerre is being classified as Igbo. An average Igbo man knows that if not for territorial expansion he doesn't have any similarities with an Ikwerre man.

Not true, I don’t live in Portharcourt, I understand Elele, Igwuruta, Ubima, Obioakpo, Diobi etc nothing different in these area languages with Igbo language. Is simply the same language with dialects variations.

Kreesxxx:
What is Igbo word for 'Yes'?
Let's start here to know who stole the other person's language.

Languages can’t be stolen, Ikwerre word itself is Igbo word of saying Yes I agree. Every language that can understand across many people is the same language.

saddler:
Ode!

Ika, Ikwerre, Ogba and the rest do not speak igbo.

They speak their own distinct language. That there are similarities in language is normal everywhere in the world. Even within the igbo group, they dont understand themselves e.g there are groups in Enonyi state whose language is not understand by other igbos.

Another fact is that, ika, Ikwerre and other south south nationalities are older than igbo.
These groups have a well defined history and how their progenitor migrated from Benin. Same cannot be said about igbos who till this day cannot tell the world where they came from.

Stop trying to be a land grabber and focus on your five plots of land. It was Ajayi that caused this nonsense when he brought strange people together and started teaching them a language called "ibo".

You just drive joy in deceiving yourself, nobody is grabbing your land, migration from Benin doesn’t mean that the progenitors that migrated from Benin are not Igbos, before the establishment of Benin kingdom from Yorubas Aromiya with the help of Portuguese, there is IDU kingdom before Igodomigodo, Igbos are part of IDU before Akalaka and Eze-Chime migrated out of IDU not even Benin because Benin kingdom came yesterday.

The said Ajayi Crowther is a returned refugee from America that just wrote a book about languages in Nigeria and didn’t form any language, stop showing your ignorance on public.

Tranquill:
Ikwerre language is not Igbo dialect.

Ikwerre language is Ikwerre language and Igbo language is Igbo language.

Ikwerre language IS NOT the same with Igbo language.

Ikwerre language is spoken by Ikwerre people and Igbo language is spoken by Igbo people.

A language that can be understood and heard by the same group of people can’t be a different language to each other.

Tranquill:
Dreamer dream on.

Fantasy is free.

Until you clowns realize that you are just wasting your time and begin to plan your biafala or whatever you like, without Ikwerre in mind, you will continue deluding yourselves.

Never seen a people without self respect.

Who is talking about Biafra here, the context is that Ikwerre language is an Igbo dialect because all them can hear each other and bear the same names and that doesn’t make Ikwerre people Biafrans.

Ikwerre can deny not been Igbo for political reasons but in reality their Ikwerre language is the same with Igbo language.

sageb:
You have countered his lies with facts.
Meka ooo

All those things you call facts doesn’t matter because the reality on ground is that your language you call Ikwerre is Igbo dialect. If Igbo man is standing near you and you are with another Ikwerre person discussing , can you sell the Igbo man standing near you with your Ikwerre without the Igbo person hearing what you are saying in your language you call Ikwerre.

Darren95:
Oga respect yourself, we speak Ikwerre Language which has over 20 dialects.

That Ikwerre and Igbo happen to share some similar words in both languages due to close boundary does not give you the audacity to group our language as Igbo!

For your information: Igbo means “Forest” in Ikwerre Language and our Ikwerre Language or identity is not “Forest”! Plss!!! Hahahah

They don’t share similar words, Ikwerre is Igbo language or whichever language you want to call it. The two languages are intelligible, Anioma, Ika, Ikwerre are on the same family language and can be grouped under Igbo because you all hear yourselves and bear the same names.

Any language that is heard by all that is speaking fall under the same language like Portuguese, Spanish and Italian are under Latin language and diverge into different dialects from Latin, the same with German languages of Germany, Austria etc.

In Yoruba, Awoori, Ilaje, Egun language can’t be understood by Yorubas and yet it was classified as Yoruba to talk of Ikwerre language that every Igbo person can hear und understand very well.

Darren95:
Oga shut up your mouth if you don’t know the origin of the word “Akalaka”

Akalaka is a combination of two words:

Akalaka = Aka N’ Ogbe alaka (Ogbelaka in Benin)
N’ = From
Ogbe = Quarters
Alaka = A founder of good things.

I.e = Aka warrior from Ogbelaka in Igodomigodo present day Benin Kingdom.

We Ikwerre, Ogba and Ekpeye are the Great Aka’s of Ancient Benin Kingdom.

Then the Benin’s where also known as; ‘Aka’ which the Urhobo people still call Benin till date.

Pa Idu the progenitor of Ancient Benin had three Children: Aka, Efa, and Emehi

Akalaka (Aka) an Ancient Benin name signifies: Strength, Greatness and mighty.

That is why you have names like:
Alakalaka in Benin = meaning Greatness and mighty too.

Benin is not yesterday, it is called Ancient Kingdom for a reason and Ikwerre people are ancient people!

Respect our history Mr. Igbo Biafra attach by force migrant parasites!

You can’t be speaking Igbo and be claiming Bini, saying you lost your Bini language to Igbo, that is laughable, just say that you people are denying been Igbo for political reasons.

Nawaoo,Niger of all places, Nigeria don cast

Akpero Union

EFCC is Crazy by arresting him over ordinary tape recordings that someone can deny at anytime as being doctored, they are just disturbing that guy, he have serve his jail term even if he was given special treatment, that is the fault of prison department although he is annoying in his utterances.