₦airaland Forum

theInterpreter:
all governors of Kwara have been Yoruba
The emir speaks Yoruba
He bears Yoruba name

So what were you saying?
Yoruba culture bis very dominant
Eboe culture is very weak
Even your own neighbours deny you

Such a shame

The sultan of Sokoto also speaks Hausa, but the point is that when a new sultan is to be turbaned, they go looking for a proper FULANI prince.

The same goes on in Ilorin, they speak Yoruba, possibly even adopt Yoruba tribal marks, but when it comes to crowning a new Oba of Ilorin, they reject it, and only go for crowning a FULANI as the EMIR of Ilorin.

Your blindness is not allowing you to see that Yorubas are Fulani slaves in Ilorin.

WesternOligarch:
The last time the ijaws tried something similar in ikorodu they were bombed out and their bodies disposed at the nearby majidun river to sleep with the fishes.... leave Yoruba's out of your talk.

Fulanis are still holding on to Ilorin though. Don't start your own chest-beating or you will be knocked down to size.

Today is for all-comers. Ighotago

theInterpreter:
Hmm

These eboe landgrabbers again?
Opobo isn't Igbo
Neither is it Ijaw
They are simply opobo

Opobo is Igbo, and that is that.

Of course, Opobo is definitely not Ijaw.

Any territory that speaks Igbo as their first local language is Igbo, and we will not be sharing ownership of those territories with any land-grabbing ethnic group. Know this and know peace.

Omoluabi1stborn:
Itshekiri throne and dressing are from Benin.

Yet Benins don't understand a single word of itshekiris.

So because itshekiri ancestral kings are from Benin.
Would we say they are Benin people? No.

They ancestral king met people.in the town

Same goes.for Opobo and Jaja

Your logic is highly flawed.

First of all the ruling families of both Ubani and Opobo are Igbos
Secondly, the indigenes of those areas speak Igbo as their first language, and most of them speak Igbo as their only Nigerian language.

Itsekiris and Benin people don't speak the same language. Igbo bible was written in Ubani Igbo. But i can assure you that Edo bible will never be written in Itsekiri

RobbStark:
Truth of the matter is that, their noise end here. No where e reach.
I am currently in Opobo and nothing of cultures shows I am in Ibo land.
They said they were the original inhabitants of bonny yet the same ibos were sold as slaves thro bonny. How come their own kin allow them to be sold whereas the bonny people weren't sold.

They shud come up with another lie.
They have tried Wikipedia and Google to back up their claim but fail to show where Jaja was alculturated into being an Ijaw man before he was even made to lead a house in Bonny.
No matter how they twist the truth to suite their narrative, it won't change anything on ground.
Na normal cruise noise online

Aro people were dealing in slaves in huge chunks of Igboland. That does not mean Arochukwu people are not Igbos.
Neutral writers have already confirmed which ethnic group owns Ubani, and we already know which family owns Opobo.

RobbStark:
Another day another thread about the Ijaws of rivers state

The obsession, the hunger to have sea route.
Shame!.
I dey Opobo like this come and claim it to be Ibo na.

Yesterday, I sent you a video of an Opobo woman talking. I still want you to interpret what she is saying. I also want you to interpret what the Opobo man of God was saying in that video.

You need to attend to that, before any other thing else, otherwise you will be considered a land grabber.

Mock all you want. ALL THE Neutral European observers have already made it clear, the ethnic group that first settled in UBANI, which has been corrupted to BONNY.

So Igboland completely includes UBANI and OPOBO, the estate of the Jajas. You can eat your heart out now

htdot:
No wonder when you bark, the fg never take you guys serious... if you guys have oil or gas by now, i believe the ipob would have gone on rampage... Audio oil and guys that we only hear on nairaland.

You can only do your gragra for Fulani people.

When an Igboman was the commander in chief, your rebellion only lasted for a few days.

Today, the Nigerian government is more scared of inconsequential IPOB than Boko Haram, which is why they use up more of Nigeria's military might in going after ESN, and yet, ESN is still waxing strong.

Nwokem leave Yorubas out of this.

It is the handiwork of Ijaw landgrabbers.

I believe they are even angling to grab Yoruba territories in the Lagos area also.

BKayy:
No matter our disagreements with MNK, his methods or the range of his own map, we can't ignore the FACT that without him and his followers there won't be this Igbo revival we are witnessing.
Him and Achebe are the reason for what we are witnessing today.
We must give honor to whom honor is due

Of course he is playing a key role especially when it comes to firing up the Igbo base, as it were.

But he lacks c drain leadership qualities that disqualifies him from being the overall leader of the struggle. The council of elders would have been the ideal leaders of the struggle while Kanu man's the radio station and evangelism arm.
Th council of elders would have had more success in coming up or endorsing a proper roadmap to achieving Biafra, and ensuring the right people are in charge of the appropriate duties.
The council of elders would have covered IPOB with their personal honour which would have made it more difficult for IPOB members to be killed like rats with no consequences to the perpetrators of such crimes.

The council of elders would have attracted more international listening ears in the corridors of world power e.t.c

RobbStark:
Pls for learning sake, can you name the names of the war canoe houses to see which one has Ibo names attached to it

Peterside is also not an Igbo name, yet his Igboness is not in doubt and he personally proclaimed.

Ijaws in Ubani were mere migrant porters and menial labourers. Nothing more nothing less

onumadu:
On points.
We all witnessed Kanu's knowledge about Igbo territory evolve gradually over the years. I don't blame him though because the lies about Igbo territory have (since the end of the civil war) been herculean.
Nevertheless, I don't think that Kanu was ever going for an Igbo only Biafra anyway, and that is why he never bothered to properly identify ALL Igbo lands.

You made a very salient point, unlike some of his airhead blind followers with probable Fulani paternity.

slim75d:
you're getting something wrong, bonny existed before the trans atlantic slave trade just as it in kalabari they hard their chiefs and kings the ibos got to the island when bonny was made a slave port. At what time did the ibos starting rulling bonny

I will encourage you to access my profile and read the attachment in my picture section.
It isade it to Ubani centuries before slave trade started. They first started producing and trading in salt, way before slave trade.

Bonny is a corruption of the Igbo town name UBANI

slim75d:
bro you can not be fubara and be ibo. What does fubara mean in ibo in ijo fubara means luck the full word is ibifubara meaning goodluck all this names ive written u can search them on facebook
pepple is a distortion of perekule just as opobo is a distortion of opubo, and jaja is to jubo jubogha the whitemen couldn't pronounce those names so they change it to what they can pronounce

I have already told you that Fubara Pepple was recorded by a neutral European writer as having Igbo ancestry, the same as all the rulers that have ever ruled Ubani.

An Igboman was ruling an Igbo town. Is that unheard of?

CXLVII:
smh..

One Ijaw is equal to like 200 Igbo`s. Are you aware of this facts. This lots are born warriors. Their population is minimal, but their influence is greater than that of Igbos. They have produced a president before, and that should tell you alot. They are the defence mechanism of the South South.

They are more deadly than Fulani and not loud! If your lots pitch your tents against this tribe, I can assure you that it will end in tears.

Ijaws and itsekiris don't chest-beat, they are doers. #TalkandDo

Don't you know Ijaws can never threaten Igbos, b cause what Ijaws have, Igbos have.
Igbos have more oil than Ijaws
Igbos also have more gas than Ijaw
So Ijaws cannot expect to turn off their oil pipelines and expect Igbos to suffer

And Adaka Boro's rebellion only lasted for a few days, so I don't see what problem Ijaws can pose to Igbos.

slim75d:
yes dakuku is a politician if claiming hausa will make him get votes from the northerners in rivers state he will

He has never claimed Ijaw to get Ijaw votes though. I wonder why

slim75d:
hahahaha so what are the ibo names?
Is diri, tolofari, dappa, owujie, fubara, pepple, ogolo, peterside, etc ibo names ? The only ibo name we have is ubani

You obviously have not been reading what people.are posting. Didn't you read a white man recording that Fubara People was of Igbo ancestry.

Already a Peterside has publicly claimed the Igboness of Opobo. I also have an English name and it doesn't make me English. One of Ziks sons has a Yoruba name but he remains Igbo.

And btw Pepple is a corruption of the word PEPPER, so stop trying to act like it is an Ijaw word also

slim75d:
lets put it this way, ijaws re not claiming opobo we opobians re claiming ijaw. My name is tamunotonye does that mean anything in igbo?

Dakuku Peterside who happens to be a more popular Opobo person, is claiming Igbo

slim75d:
jaja threw every ibo heritage he had the day his greedy parents/ tribe sold him out for slavery, he never saw himself as an iboman, if he had he wouldn't have called himself amayanabo instead of igwe and named the new kingdom opubo which an ijaw word and other ijaw tradition

When Jaja was a slave, he was owned by Igbos in an Igbo town known as Ubani. You must have noticed that the canoe houses in Opobo have Igbo names. That was a fantastic twist

BiafraInc:
Shut up your dirty stinking mouth you buffoon. Can you list any single nairaland link that discussed Ubani and Opobi pre 2012? Show it here and let's see the discussions in such link. Ewu, before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu came on board with IPOB, where were the Igbos in nigeria spheres? You fools were almost gone and being swallowed by the fulanis with their yoruba lagos-Ibadan expressway gutter media propaganda which was heavily against Ndi-Igbo, before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu came up with his preachings and wake up call awareness to NdiIgbo. Mad fool, why can't you drop your jealousy and give credit to whom it's due.

Before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, did you have unity in Igboland, talk-less of the unity that IPOB is building today between Igbos, other Biafran ethnic groups, and even with Yorubas? Today, Igbos have the type of unity that they have never witnessed before and are building bridges even with yorubas which is historic and it is all thanks to Mazi Nnamdi Kanu alone. Before Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB, an overwhelming, over 95% of Igbos thought that Igboland stopped inside five South East states, today many have come to realize that there are Igbos in 13 states in SE, SS, and MB. You just come in here to open your garbage one nigeria mouth to tall rubbish. may thunder fire you and those fulani masters of yours that sent you for this job. Idiot.

Nwokem I know more about Igboland than Nnamdi Kanu will ever dream of knowing.

Kanu's knowledge of Igbos in Rivers state only extends to Obigbo, and perhaps Ikwerre territory.
Kanu has never in my hearing asserted the Igboness of Ubani.

Even his knowledge of Igodomigodo and NRI of all places is dangerously so limited, and thus gives him a very shallow analytical power on deep Igbo matters.

His greatest achievement is ESN and for that, Igbos are grateful, but he is not the genius you are making him out to be, otherwise he will not be in DSS dungeon right now

slim75d:
now i see how retarde+d you and ur generation have been. Stop making noise on nairaland come to opobo wit ur ipob morons, we are about to celebrate our fishing festival u guys'll be good for sacrifice as usual it been long the water bodies taste d an ibo blood

I hope you realise that the Supreme court has already made it clear that Opobo belongs to the Jajas, after Ijaws from Bayelsa tried to add Opobo to the Ijaw column

slim75d:
the native ibo which the writer made reference to were ex ibo slaves and some free borns that reside in the island. Mind you okoloama(bonny) was a major port for slave trade ibos were the essential commodity, slaves (ibos), rejected by the whitemen were held back by there ijaw masters to man their war canoe, some were used as sacrifice to adum (god of the sea) some very loyal ones were made chief

Another propagandist here.

Go to my profile and read the snippet attached to my picture section by a neutral observer in the first book ever written about Ubani. It's clear that the ruling family in Ubani was Igbo along with the huge mass of the natives.
The Igbo slaves were just an extra class of people there.
Ijaw element came from Brass and were mainly porters and menial labourers

slim75d:
i am a full fledged opobo son from Dappa's war canoe house. Yes we speak a mixture of ibani/ijaw wit igbo. That does not make us igbos our culture, traditions are all ijoid, so look for a brother that have access to the atlantic some where else

So nwaotam is now Ijaw

Dakuku Peterside clearly told the world that Opobo people are Igbos.

Th canoe houses bear Igbo names and the Jajas own Opobo

Pass11:
Listen from 2 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22f9HXmw7Y

Thank you very much for this video.

Robbstark,. Please come and explain what these Ijaws of Opobo are saying.

Pay close attention to what the lady mentioned in exactly 2 mins into the video

RobbStark:
Just tell me the Ibo meaning of Dakuku, I will accept the he is Ibo.
I am waiting

Tell me the Ikwerre meaning of Rotimi and I will immediately tell you the Igbo meaning of Peterside and Dakuku

RobbStark:
I thank God you said you and some few Ibos here in Nland are seeing things that way.
Truth is how many of those Bonny n Opobo you have met and they said they are Ibos.
It's not about wat you think of a people. It shud be wat they think of themselves.


All this noise end here in Nland.
No Ijaw land wud be ceded to another tribe.
Continue giving yourselves hope.
It shall end in tears as always

But the most widely known Opobo politician that goes by the name Dakuku Peterside, already recognizes the Igbo roots of his Opobo people. He publicly stated this about 5 years ago and he has never recanted.

Ancient books have already established the ethnicity that first settled and owns Ubani (The richness of land). The name of the town has no meaning in Ijaw. That already should tell you those that named it. The Igbos.

It will seem the Igbo ownership of Ubani and Opobo doesn't really end in nairaland, neither does it start in nairaland. You are fighting a loosing battle.
Very shortly, the Kalabaris will completely extricate themselves from the fake Ijaw badge that has been imposed on them.

RobbStark:
There are no ibos in rivers state.
Nigeria will never break up on ethnic lines and even if it does, know this and know peace.
Kalabaris, okrikans, bonny, Opobo, and the other LGAs of Ijaw extraction are nothing but one entity. .

Like I always say, your noise ends here in Nland.
No inch of Ijaw territory will be ceded to you fu...kers

Hmmm, I don't think so oooh. Even Kalabaris on BBN are now rejecting the false Ijaw identity imposed on them by psychological intimidation.

Ubani and Opobo are as Igbo as Nnewi. Kalabaris and Okrikans will make their collective intentions known in the not too distant future.

A few months ago, it would have been just me, and about one or two other Igbos, ensuring that everyone realised that Bonny and Opobo are Igbo territories. Today, a good chunk of Igbos on nairaland are beginning to raise the Igbo banner over Ubani and Jaja's territory.

Our great nwadianas the Kalabaris are now beginning to stir the hornet's nest

cocolacec:
The East and the North contribute little to the Nigerian estate.The two parasites in Nigeria are Northerners and Easterners.

Ogun IGR Is More Than The Whole South East States Combined - Deji Adeyanju

While about 50% of Lagos IGR and 70% of Rivers state IGR are derived from businesses owned by SEners.

SE governors can start taking advantage of this new push. That is why I want Soludo to become the governor of Anambra state.

Seaports like Oseakwa in Anambra and Obuaku in Abia can be developed and the necessary facilities and amenities put the in place to handle the business influx.
Huge pressure can then be applied on Igbo businessmen across Nigeria to start thinking home. Igbo Nationalism could be used as a tool to achieve this. Even cultural persuasion could be applied, with traditional rulers and Igbo town unions being used to cajole their sons and daughters to set up their headquarters in Igboland.

Places like Cross River and Akwa Ibom state will even benefit, because, Igboland will need as many nearby seaports as possible.

Igboland already has the population to get this going

christistruth01:
But Asari Dokubo who is Kalabari said they are Ijaw

Asari also said that his own ancestor was an Igbo man.

And the first book every written about Ubani, also confirmed that the ruling lineage of Kalahari are of Igbo ancestry

Juliusmalema:
All these are caused by Tinubu and Hausa-Fulani who sent down rain to come and flood the streets of Owerri.

Tinubu and Hausa-Fulani has refused to build proper drainage system in Owerri Imo state.

Of course.

That is what you get with an APC government in charge of Imo. Tinubu and his Fulani allies are obviously at work

deji17:
With their 2 liters oyel..

In 16 years their darling party PDP could not grant them this status? Mtchew.

Anambra is APGA, not PDP.

Captain8:
Okonjo Iweala is not Ibo, stop typin nonsense online..... iweala is an anioma woman not ibo...

The royal lineages of Ogwashiuku are of Nri-Igbo ancestry.
Ngozi is from the royal family.

In fact her father, the late traditional ruler of Ogwashiuku kingdom, was a brigadier in the Biafra army. Nuff said