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LILTJAY1:
if my comment pain you, I WILL go and die

Fixed.

And while you're dying, please make sure Ademola your neighbour, gets your head for his normal headhunting business

LILTJAY1:
yorubas did it..
and not other nigerian tribes

Before psquare broke up, were they Yoruba.

Osuofias, Ini Edos, Mercy Johnsons, Yul Edochies, Monalisa Chindas, Frankie Leonards, e.t.c of Nollywood, are they Yorubas

Mercy Chinwos, Sammy Okposos, Sinach, Frank Edwards, Tim Godfreys of the Nigerian gospel scene, are they Yoruba.

Chimamanda Adichie, a celebrity author and a world renowned speaker and activist, is she Yoruba?

Emoneys, Cubanas, Hushpuppis who are well known in the Nigerian lifestyle sphere, are they Yorubas?

Sorry I have just been informed Hushpuppi is Yoruba, serving his time in a US jail

Igboid:
IBO: Southern Nigeria - some considerations of its Structure, People and Natural History

A. E. Kitson c.1913

The Geographical Journal - v.41

The Ibo tribe is potentially a very powerful one, from which much can be expected with consolidation, the spread of modern ideas and careful, strictly just direction.

The people are observant, reflective thinkers, and rapid actors, with a remarkably keen and true sense of justice and determination to get it. They possess strong individuality.

Like the Yorubas, they are, as a people, honest, intelligent, industrious, cleanly, hospitable, and humorous, though more emotional, artistic, and musical. They are distinctly warlike, especially the branches east of the Niger.

In some districts every town is surrounded by a trench, wall, and belt of thick bush; in some cases with also an outer line of gun pits. In others each wall-girt house has its own fighting tower — storeyed and loopholed — commanding the entrance.

This condition of the country reflects strongly the character of the people.

As agriculturists after intelligent native methods, they are of a high order. It is a perfect picture and a revelation to see their farms when in their full wealth of verdure. There is no doubt that when settled conditions arrive the people will raise much produce for other than local markets.
...
Most tribes have a love of music and a crude knowledge of art, but the Ibo stands pre-eminent, his innate musical ability manifesting itself in various ways.

I have often enjoyed listening to the sweet melody, heartily sung by a group of young girls and children; to the soft chant of my garrulous carriers; to the simple but sweetly perfect dance-song of a swaying circle of women of Ebo, celebrating the killing of a crocodile; to the rhythmic, sonorous, and harmonious war-song of naked Ezzi [savages].

There are various kinds of musical instruments; among them some of the dulcimer type, but with wooden, cane, or palm plates; some like harps and rude violins; others like pipes and flutes.

The Ibos and the Binis have distinct artistic ability.

Many of the Ibo branches adorn their mud-walled houses, wooden doors, shrines, and playgrounds with neat modellings, paintings, and carvings of natural objects and geometrical designs. The people of the Ugep district, east of the Cross river, have fine examples of carved tree-trunks and blocks of stone.
...
Though most natives trade, the principal travelling traders are Hausas and Aros by land-transport; and Lagosians, Jekris, Brass men,Opobo and Bonny Ibos, and Efiks by canoes.

Iron smelting was largely done before bar-iron was imported. Yorubas still do so at Bode, Ijegun, Iporin, Odo Ogun, etc. The ore is magnetite, occurring in schists and in dykes of granite and pegmatite.

A. E. Kitson

The Geographical Journal - v.41

1913

It's a good thing he wrote this stuff in 1913, before Nigeria came into existence.
If he wrote this a year later, it would have been inadmissible in our current argument.

Please Ijaw landgrabbers should pay attention to this. Only provide eviidence written by neutral observers and before Nigeria came into existence

JANK23H:
I gave you three different meanings.

But Basden also provided us with a map to clearly show what he meant by neighborhood of Bonny.

In that map, Bonny was solidly within Igboland. This means he was referring people to certain territories, not in Bonny, but near Bonny

Biodun556:
Obasanjo is a dishonest fellow, he could not account for $16 billion power project, the money he shared among his ex military general friends yet saying most aspirants should be in jail.

When he was in power, he chose Goodluck Jonathan an Ijaw man as VP to his successor ignoring the Igbos he now preferred.

Nwokem, when OBJ was in power, no SS man had ever been the president of Nigeria, so OBJ was justified to want a SS man up around the corridors of power.

Presently, a SS man has done 5 years as the commander in chief, so OBJ is now justified to want an Igbo man at the helm

Entprys:
Obasanjo back to sender.

Igbo man won't be president.
You forget NAIRA ?

Never
Allow
Igbo
Rule
Again

That's why naira keeps falling

Alabo7978:
ubini UKPABI is a foreign Deity which belongs to the ibibios!!!!

stop deviating!!

astrology, traveling the length and breath of IBO land.
someone that isn't familiar with the size of the dot land will hear you and think the traveling was large, not knowing is just a couple hundred kilometers and 9 hours drive on a vehicle.

why didn't you take your astrology and journey back to Israel make una loss for Sahara abi Sinai dessert.
ndi'ara ogbori nama.
even the four market days is AN AFRICAN THING, not in IBO alone... it's in all of Africa before the whites came. in my dialect we call it the kaka-days.
now back to the ISSUE OR BORNE OF CONTENTION.

YOU ALL STOLE THE LAND FROM IBIBIOS, WHO TOOK YOU IN AND LOVED YOU PEOPLE.
THAT IS WHY OUR EYES ARE OPEN ON OUR TERRITORIES THAT BORDER YOUR LANDS.
ITS BETTER TO SHARE BOUNDARIES WITH THE DEVIL THAN SHARE BOUNDARIES WITH SLIMY SNAKES WHO COULD CRAFTLY STEAL.

who no know una in the whole of Nigeria?
same reason no one is giving you an inch, because you all are criminal elements who can't be trusted one bit. you dey tell me astronomy and astrology under how many square kilometers of land abeg?
we coastal people that dominated the Atlantic ocean without compass but with the stars and sun, we no make noise, na 4 square kilometers people dey make mouth.

Ubini Ukpabi is Ibibio
Arochukwu is Igbo. Otherwise tell us what Arochukwu means in Ibibio

But in any case, we now know that a deity originally owned by the Ibibios, and eventually owned and controlled by the Igbos, was the major deity all Ijaws showed reverence to.
Your teeth-filing ancestors ran to Igbo priests of Ubini-Ukpabi in the Igbo town of Arochukwu and begged Igbos to intervene on their behalf.
This same Ubini-ukpabi, was and is not universal in all Igbo territories, which was why my people paid no reverence to it. All Ijaws must revere Ubini-ukpabi. It is greater than any deity your cannibal ancestors could ever come up with

By the way, I hope you have made a blown-up copy of Basden's map of Igboland, so that you can actually appreciate the hugeness of the Igbo territory. Stretching from the coasts of Ubani/Ibani/Okoloma to territories by the west of the Niger, and hundreds of kms to the east of the Niger.
Please read Basden's work. It will help you with knowing the actual dimensions of Igboland.

I am sure you know by now that any future gra-gra by your drunkard relatives in Bonny, will be met with adequate ferocity by our brother, the king of Bonny. No Amadabo will rear his ugly head in the Igbo territory of Bonny, without first paying proper respects and duly recognizing the king of Bonny, Nwanne anyi nwoke. Igbo Kwenu!!!

Comradewhy:
I need a different one if possible.

Reuters is probably the largest news agency in the world, along with bloomberg. That's why the big players in the financial market depend on news coming from Reuters.

A lot of other news outlets, including CNN, BBC and others, verify their news items from reuters.

Comradewhy:
Pls can I get a credible source?

Haven't you heard of REUTERS before?

It is even more credible than CNN

Alabo7978:
I'm driving at the point that y'all claim the ijaws worship the Aro deity in a sense that "YOUR DEITY" helped the ijaws when in fact it isn't your deity, nor your land because you peacefully and craftily entered there but rebelled and stole the land.
THAT'S WHAT I'M DRIVING AT.

The Eze Aro remains an Igboman so did the priests that attended to the long juju.
Bottomline is that your ancestors went to the Igbo town of Arochukwu, and sought the spiritual guidance of Igbo priests attending to the Ubini Ukpabi shrine.

Now just to add a little more detail. Nri people don't need to go to Arochukwu for anything. Nri people have it all, within the Nri sphere of influence. So an Nri man does not need to know what Ubini Ukpabi means or what people go there to do.

Nri-Igbo people brought civilization to clans you consider as superior to the Ijaws, and by this I mean Bini, Igala and Idoma, and all of them still use Nri-owned four market days.
Ancient Nri-Igbo priests had a deep knowledge of Astrology and Astronomy, as they were aware of heavenly bodies and their positions, which was what they made use of, while traversing the length and breadth of Igboland, Benin, Igalaland e.t.c.
That knowledge also allowed them to count the years and officially see in any new year, with the Eze Nri holding his usual yearly IGU ARO ceremonies. These are some deep aspects of civilization, Ijaw people probably still don't know, in spite of western civilization that has taken over Nigeria and advancements in astro-physics.

NimrodEndOfDays:
Lagos Ibadan express way don come with their useless propaganda.

Thank you for providing this damning evidence of widely practised cannibalism in Yorubaland.

Before they hunt for heads, they first eat the heart.

Please need a new map of cannibalism and headhunting in Nigeria

That was when Ngozi Okonjo Iweala ran the economy and people like Arunma Oteh held key positions in Jonathan's government.

By now, if that trajectory had been maintained, Nigeria would be way more ahead than it is at the moment that the pee-poo's leaders are now certificate-less

ChiefOtunist:
Power is taken, not given.
We no sabi play politics at all.
We are very very very very sentimental, and it won't take us beyond LG Chairmen.

Power was given to the Yorubas in 1999, they did not take it.

It was the reigning junta that brought Obasanjo were he was rotting in jail to dust him up and wangle him to the presidency.
The ANPP allowed the candidate of a smaller party to become the presidential candidate of the union between AD and ANPP, to ensure Yorubas were the candidates of the only two parties at that particular time.

Igbos that are interested in the presidency are also asking for that consideration. Ogbonnaya Onu, who is a bonafide Igboman sacrificed his own ambitions, and made way for a candidate from a smaller party.

Osagyefo98:
Look for something else to tell us. The Yorubas living in ekiti through ondo to Ogun to lagos- Ibadan are hundreds of Yorubas who the Fulanis didn't exile

Stop crying over APC ticket, let those who played their politics well without stupid rhetorics enjoy the fruit of their stupidity since ontop their stupidity Fulani has never taken over their lands and security situations in their states calm.

While in your wisdom the security situation in east is nothing to write home about.

If APC zones their presidential ticket to west let it be afterall Fulani will now give them presidential ticket to fully takeover their lands.


Listening to so much rubbish from the idiot Nnamdi kanu has rendered SE politically irrelevant.

Moreover how many votes will SE give in 2023 when the terrorists will intimidate people with no voting but referendum and at the end you can't even present upto 500k votes to millions that will be coming from other zones.

Just as Yorubas were rewarded with the ANPP presidential ticket in 1999, even without Yorubas being in the party, so also are Igbos who are interested in the presidency, asking for that favour to be returned in 2023 by Yorubas.

Every major party has to chose an Igbo presidential candidate, as was done by the Igbos, who stood down for Yorubas in 1999 in ANPP, after Obasanjo had already won the PDP presidential ticket.

ChiefOtunist:
Sentiments.
Why not hold PDP to that, we have been voting them at Presidential elections.
Why not APGA present a credible candidate, or sell themselves beyond Anambra.
Ndigbo have a long way to go politically, and we are sooo irresponsible.

I believe the Igbos interested in the presidency are asking for Igbos to be chosen as the presidential candidates of all the major parties, just the same way Yorubas were also given the ANPP presidential candidacy, even though it was won by Ogbonnaya Onu.

Their request is very fair.

Osagyefo98:
Politics is played not earned.

Last Anambra governorship election, the APC candidate was finished with all forms of rhetorics from Fulani party to he will sale us to Hausa Fulani, there will be insecurity ( I wonder if what is happening in anambra now is security wise).

If APC zoned presidency to west that is simple logic they have been voting for APC and Fulani had never taken over their lands likewise Insecurity hasn't overwhelmed them.

If you need Presidential ticket go to PDP or let APGA present a presidential candidate that won't sale you all to Hausa Fulani.

Nonsense and Ingredient.

The Fulani party that won't let Igboho return to Nigeria.
The same APC that exiled thousands of Yorubas to Benin republic.

You are obviously in dreamland

ChiefOtunist:
Let APGA present a candidate, we will vote for the person. SE rejected APC, Anambra rejected APC, yet, you want APC to zone Presidency to SE.
With the wonders APGA and Obiano has done in Anambra, let him contest.
Power is taken, not given.

But APC is governing two Igbo states namely Imo and Ebonyi. So SE deserves the presidency. No party controls more state in the SE than APC.

That definitely does make the SE deserve the APC presidential ticket.

christistruth01:
Both of them are the same type of Population from the same source

Look at the document again

How come Yoruba is not ranked, when it comes to indigenous languages in Equatorial Guinea. Igbos is officially the 3rd largest ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea.

Gireiboy:
You are absolutely right, judging from the development of SE region in Nigeria compared to other states that doesn't get a fraction of their allocation. SE is the most richest and developed region in Nigeria and is evident from the way, youths from all the country are trooping to the region every single day

Just to buttress your point, over the past few weeks, videos of mere Igbo villages are being posted on nairaland, and you can see how much better looking, they are when compared with Yoruba villages.

Golan007:
That's why it is a country full of poor people.

That's why it is a country with one of the best per capita GDP in Africa.
Better per capita GDP scores that any African country that Yorubas are indigenous to.

Christistruth02:
There are more Yorubas in Equitorial Guinea than Igbos


There are 58,000 Igbos in Equitorial Guinea and 64,000 Yorubas

You only gave the population of the indigenous Igbos of Equatorial Guinea. If you add Igbo migrants, then the number will possibly quadruple.

Yorubas are not indigenous to Equatorial Guinea.

In fact, Igbo is officially the third largest ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea. How come Yoruba is not officially the second largest ethnic group, if they are more than Igbo? You guys keep creating fake projects and quack wikipedia entries. Equatorial Guinea already has Igbo listed as the third largest ethnic group. Go figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Equatorial_Guinea


Aboriginal languages are recognised as integral parts of the "national culture" (Constitutional Law No. 1/1998 21 January). Indigenous languages (some of them creoles) include Fang, Bube, Benga, Ndowe, Balengue, Bujeba, Bissio, Gumu, Igbo, Pichinglis, Fa d'Ambô and the nearly extinct Baseke. Most African ethnic groups speak Bantu languages.[121]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea

God1000:
You will never see Nigeria in anything like this.

Two of the nations have Igbo influence.

Equatorial Guinea with a sizeable indigenous Igbo population.

And Gabon that is ruled by an Igbo president.

Nigeria is not there because it is being ruled by subhumans since 1970, except in 2009 - 2015

babaolofin:
This is what the IBOs told Abiola in 1993. What is the problem?

And that's why Abiola never became the president

paymentvoucher:
Believe it or leave it. Nigeria’s next President is among the men below:

1. Bola Ahmed Tinubu
2. Prof. Yemi Osinbajo
3. Femi Gbajabiamila

Joke of the century.

Let them come and take it nah.

Peepoo is doing his usually gragra, to know how this will be received by the general public.

No Yoruba will rule a STABLE AND UNDIVIDED Nigeria before the Igboman. 2023 is just around the corner

Fashionista01:
Please Sir, allow the smart candidate with highest followers to rule us now after which he will hand over to you.

Very wise suggestion.

airmax16:
no need both anambra and IMO with abia andi guess maybe Enugu have gas not to sure for Enugu buh it is win win for south east and Igbo speaking people generally

Enugu also has huge gas reserves

ogwumgbe:
Anambra State has the largest gas reserve in Africa

Possibly Imo state now. I know that a few years ago it was Anambra.

But one thing is clear. Anambra and Imo have the largest gas reserves in Nigeria.

That was why APC tried their damn best to take over Anambra a few months ago, but the Anambra man's psyche is almost impossible to crack.
Ndi Anambra ensured that not even one LGA voted for APC. Soludo will mount the helm in a few days time

MANDIPUTIN:
Everyone knows where the 37 billion barrels of crude oil reserves is situated in Nigeria (Niger Delta).
Abeg, where is this 209.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves located in Nigeria. Is it South South states or South East states?
Everything about this gas reserves is always shrouded in secrecy. No mention of location

Imo state and Anambra have the largest gas reserves. Abia and Enugu are not pushovers also.

More than 90% of the gas reserves are in the SE

More than 95% of the gas reserves are in Igboland in both the SE and the SS.

Datikwerreboi:
Between otolo Nd umudim who's the first and second born and why is the igwe Nnewi always from Otolo? Just a little clarification

Otolo is the first born. That is why the Obis of Otolo are recognized as the igwes of Nnewi
Uruagu is the second born
Umudim is the third born
Nnewichi is the last born

Hisbah21:
definetly Tinubu will not like this..lol its yoruba crises

Tinubu will be soiling more of his pampers on reading this news.

Biko Pa Adebanjo take am easy for Tinubu before im jakpa

Enyimbafc:
Private part harvester,show us pictures of your towns and villages lets compare.

Not just pictures, but uncensored videos of the vicinity. Don't crop anything out, as we have been doing, showcasing some Igbo villages, where everything is shown, including the everything

Obamaofusa:
Early morning stupidity.
I thought it was something spectacular that I would see in the video.

Just a large expanse of land and bushes with scanty buildings.

Just one GRA in Ibadan that has more than 10,is enough to trample this idiocy that you are jumping like frogs for..

I bet there are a number of factory babies for rituals buildings among those scanty buildings.

Ibadan is a city, albeit a very ugly one. You are not even ashamed you mentioned GRA. What does G stand for? So you guys always rely on government for development. That summarises what we have been alluding.

Nnewichi is just the last born lineage quarter of Nnewi. Compare it with another small town or village in the Yoruba/Fulani axis, before you start foaming in the mouth

We haven't even talked about the fact that ladies from this little Nnewichi are far prettier than anything that Yorubaland can muster. Of course accompanied with smooth skins and various shades of milky chocolate, except scaly dark black, as you have in Ibadan.

God has really blessed Ndigbo

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