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SLIGHT:
now thats what i call a classic.He meant every word. Are u sure this guy is one of u or or he came to derail thread?

SLIGHT:
this guy came here to insult  igbos, chei c rejection!

Once again, i apologise for my earlier outburst. I was irked and annoyed by the way eastern igbos point finger at western igbos and make them a subject of ridicule. I was pointing out the reasons why some people deny that they are igbo eg in delta state when applying for jobs, if u write igbo as your tribe, u won't get the job coz they'll say you're not a deltan. I am a proud igbo- being an igbo makes one unique. Our duty here is not to blame this man or praise that man, but to settle the differences. We have to know the reasons why we have a problem before we can solve it. So we ought to ask: why do some western igbos deny that they are igbo? I have stated some reasons above and in my earlier posts, ie the civil war, geographical difference, betrayal of western igbos, etc. Now lets share views on why some igbos deny igbo so we can understand why they do so and reconcile the differences. Can someone come forward and give some other meaningful reasons pls?

ChinenyeN:
Well, I still don't know what you're referring to, but ok. But wait, can't I also participate in this healthy debate?

of course you can. Everyone with meaningful contributions are welcome.

Only in lagos will passengers know that a commercial vehicle is a crawling coffin and still board it.- during the new year restoration noise at caananland, my grandpa would wake the whole house, and drag us all kids and grandkids about 12 of us (we were staying 4 the new year) to the ojo expressway to 'enter' bus going to caananland coz his car couldn't carry us all. We entered one of the old fed mass transit buses that use to queue on the road. As the bus started moving, i swear some women could reach orgams from the buses's vibration alone. I complained to my grandpa, e said i should shut up that god will protect us. As we were moving slowly on the long bridges with canals under, i heard gboosh! What happened? Front tire had burst. We all disembarked. To make things worse, half of the metal on the spare tyre had been eaten by rust. This time, it took a postrate from my grandpa before i agree to enter the bus. But a few seconds after we started moving again, right on the bridge, i heard loud gbrrakk! Guess what happened? Rusty bus tyre now looked like a badly mangled bicycle tyre.

O.k, my teacher. One reason why i signed up with nairaland is coz some topics like this are lot more educative than some lecturer's crap. But why u de go na? I need people like you to know some things i don't know. Back to the topic, agreed that anioma has been in existence before the civil war. I had to google some things out. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anioma_people?. On babangida, i don't know much about the said meeting with anioma leaders so lets drop that part. If you want 2 go back to it, o.k. I'll listen as your pupil. But that one on how anioma got its name- i don't get it at all. If anioma had been on since the pre-colonial times according to wikipedia, how come it just got its name in the late fifties according to you? Your experience is needed here to add salt to the topic so pls don't bye o. Abeg

Whaz happening? I made 3 replies and didn't see em. Anyway in ma missing replies, i said i'm in school- NOVENA univ hostel. No light. Laptop battery ran down and had to switch to opera. @ andre uweh, i'm a very fast reader and as a result i flew past the oshimili side. And i forget that aniocha/oshimili are both on asaba side. I'm sorry 4 the mix up. On road infrastructure having nothing to do with the topic, its just like u're asking oil spill got to do with militancy? i used it as an example to show the reason why some so called delta igbo's have nothing to gain from answering igbo. Just a side talk. I didn't say that it was the anioma that first started denying igbo- without reason. There are loads of ndokwa vanguard newspapers, ika news, anioma newspapers in the school library. I made my first and second replies based on what i read- interviews of some anioma elders, special features, etc. In those features, they elders said there was nothing like anioma before the civil war, that after the civil war, they decided to a new identity called anioma to speed up the development of their area. So the anioma were the first to drop their igbo identity- just after the civil war. On babangida not seeing maryam as igbo or however u put it- i can't go back on opera to check, u contradicted yourself. U said anioma are proud of their igbo I.D and then said babangida did not see maryam as igbo- meaning maryam may have told babangida she is anioma, therefore she denied igbo. Its philosophy fallacy- babangida didn't see maryam as igbo means she is not igbo so anioma is not igbo. If i am wrong with those statements, tell me the reasons why and i will call you my teacher. On my part i never mentioned maryam in any of my earlier posts. What i said was that babangida might not have named asaba as delta state capital if anioma were still answering igbo (which also relates with babangida not seeing maryam as igbo)

Opera's 4.2's so funny. I get pissed when i see two replies instead of one. Anyway, i'll stick to it coz 5.0 beta doesn't use t9/multi tap. My original post's below. Sorry 4 the inconvinience

@ andre uweh. I'm so sorry dear. I didn't see your post. I clicked back and started typing again into the page i used to make the first reply so i didn't see your reply. I don't intend to insult anyone with the second reply. Its just that the way the eastern igbos bring up the issue and start ridiculing us- is just irritating and annoying. I don't sit down and fold my hands when my people are being abused. Once again, i'm sorry if i offended anyone and open to correction. Thanks

@ andre uweh. Thanks bro. On those from ndokwa/oshimili axis being the greater 2 deny igbo, they simply don't have anything to gain from answering igbo. Ukwuani/ndokwa/oshimili today don't have a single dualized expressway, no industry, population is too low- only about 30% are in the villages, the remaining 70% have moved on to other cities to look for jobs, school and earn a living. The state govt choosed to dualize longer warri- ughelli-kwale road at the expense of warri- abraka-agbor road which is shorter in distance to asaba, bad, very narrow, and rough. Why, coz it covers much of ukwuani and ika. In asaba, there's good roads, steady supply of power, and nearness to onitsha so the anioma don't have much to lose if they answer igbo.

@ andre uweh. Thanks bro. On those from ndokwa/oshimili axis being the greater 2 deny igbo, they simply don't have anything to gain from answering igbo. Ukwuani/ndokwa/oshimili today don't have a single dualized expressway, no industry, population is too low- only about 30% are in the villages, the remaining 70% have moved on to other cities to look for jobs, school and earn a living. The state govt choosed to dualize longer warri- ughelli-kwale road at the expense of warri- abraka-agbor road which is shorter in distance to asaba, bad, very narrow, and rough. Why, coz it covers much of ukwuani and ika. In asaba, there's good roads, steady supply of power, and nearness to onitsha so the anioma don't have much to lose if they answer igbo.

The igbo youths from delta who deny they are igbo are only rehearsing what their parents told them when they kids that they are not igbo. As a result, lot of them are confused about who they really are. They speak igbo (if my pop hear say i call ukwani igbo, e go tongue lash me o), bear igbo names, sing and dance igbo, but they will still say they are not igbo. That is confusion. For me, i wouldn't blame our parents and grandparents for choosing to drop their igbo identity. The eastern igbos did not consult with them before they decided to declear biafra. Most annoying is the military tatics the eastern igbo adopted for the war. Our parents on the west proposed that the war should be fought in the north instead of igboland. The eastern igbos turned deaf ear. While the western igbos were over running ore, benin, and securing the shoreline in rivers and calabar, ojukwu was busy monopolising and stockpiling arms to defend eastern igboland and locking up those he perceive to be disloyal to him while their western igbo brothers were fighting the aboki's with bare hands. When Bakassi in cross river was given to cameroun, and when issue came up again in around 2006, what did the eastern igbos do? They recoiled to umuahia, enugu and kept quiet. Now who is bearing the brunt? No be bakassi? Even during the war, all the propaganda, press focus, foreign aid, war relief materials etc were directed to the eastern igbo while western igbo were being pounded by bombs and artillary fire. The adekunle black scorpion saga, na eastern igbo e happen? No be the ikwerre for rivers de suffer? The eastern igbos used their western brothers as shield and cannon fodder in a was they started, but were ill prepared for and abandoned them high and dry. Na de same coward eastern igbos on this thread de point finger de call calabar, ikwerre, bakassi, kwale- igbo. Make una eastern ogbunike brother betrayers no vex western igbos o. We helped u when u needed us but left us empty. Now una de say make we de answer una yeye igbo. Na dat go give us light, infrastructure, or put food on our tables? Stupid people. Mmssppttsscheww! See them ewu heads. Them de talk de complain without sense like person wey trailer jam. Make una no vex us o. No be by force make we de answer igbo

I am not here to defend those who choose to call themselves delta igbos. I am igbo from ezionum, ukwuani LGA in delta state. I asked my pop why ukwuani/ndokwa/anioma are denying that they are igbo, he said in the seventeenth or early eighteenth century, benin wanted to raid the igbos in the east of the niger. So the igbos went to fight benin. E didn't say which side won but he said after the war, the igbo soldiers with their families settled in asaba, kwale and co coz of abundant virgin forests to farm. Some inter married with benin, urhobo, etc. That's why there are slight cultural variations. There was nothing like delta igbo or rivers igbo before independence. It was the civil war that caused all the problems. When the aboki soldiers came to kwale after biafran soldiers were repelled from the midwest, they would masacre all in sight coz they speak igbo language. Like someone said earlier, the western igbos suffered more than the ones in the east coz aboki troops came to the west delta first before advancing to the east with their prejudices against igbos sky high. To save themselves the sufferings, the igbo in the west and rivers began to deny that they are igbo. That was where the problem started. The creation of more states after the war made things worse. All the development projects after the war went to other tribes like urhobo, bini. Now, there is no federal or state govt presence in ndokwa/ukwani. The igbos on asaba side saw the handwritting on the wall earlier than their kwale counterparts and decide to drop their igbo identity in order to attract projects and call themselves anioma. Then asaba and agbor began to develop rapidly. I'm very sure babangida would not have choosen asaba as delta state capital if anioma had clung to their igbo identity. Even now, the ukwuani/ndokwa in delta state are still bearing the brunt of their resolve to stick 2 their igbo identity. Okpai power plant built by agip is stepped down in obosi, anambra, thousand kilometers away while ndokwa land is in darkness. Why? Coz we choose to remain igbo. Most of those who deny that they are igbo are from the asaba side. So its not that they just decided to drop their igbo identity. During the military era, if u answer igbo, u can't get job, contract or amenities coz u are not a part of delta. It's condition that made crayfish to bend. For me, i'm igbo any time any day.

NERA o! (Runs to on gen)

-Hiss-. Why una people wan break una neck coz of TuBerculosis josh? What the bible got to do with predicting match results? In what ways will such predictions (even if they are accurate) add value to people's lives? Judging from his 'beware of seducers' video i watched last month, i don't think the guy will stoop so low makin useless predictions. Abeg leave T.B alone o jare. Match don end 1-1. Mmputsscheww

Iya mi o o! This misses are too much na

Bleep! Dem don equalize. Zain sucks. I have 2 go through hell 2 make a post

Bleep! Dem don equalize

Cheeii! See miss

Make dem break the legs of dat santos before he do damage

Goooaaaalll

Maybe it was the pole that blocked the lines man's view of the SA guy in the net.

They are giving the mexicans too much space

World cup in africa! I'm so happy today mehnn. The south africans try o.

Argenti's strange problems: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/403529-argentinas-strange-problems

Argenti's strange problems: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/403529-argentinas-strange-problems

Princek12 said it all. All we need 2 do is to have a champion's mentality and polish our style of play. meenn. Fireworks go spark.

I can't say how far nigeria will go in the tourment but i believe we'll reach q-final. Super eagles when playin qualifiers and friendlies against unpopular teams like in d friendlies we played don't usually give their best coz they are not motivated. But when it comes 2 playing in major tourments, or playing against highly rated teams, super eagles de play o. And wit a good coach in lagerback in charge, super eagles will be tough. All we have 2 do is to have champion's mentality and polish our style of play, meehhnn, Even angels go come from heaven watch us play.

How world cup go sweet when call no go enter net? Make all match end 0-0? If u wan joke say some footballers de chop ashawo juice like custard, mmhhnn :-(:-(, But if some football fanatics hear u joke say ball no go enter net 4 WC b.cos of women, dem go carry largerbeer drink with rage break the bottle 4 ur empty skull. :@:@ Dumbest joke i ever read. Mmsptuschew!

Some funny names- Awereswo, dat south africa president 2nd wife wey get belle: Ntuplualabla, My tongue wan commot. Foolgbasky, Omolasotimofimbora, Eboriaria, Atamejeyo, Alamieyeseigha, and some urhobo names like ogaga, okieke, Make i no get hypertension

i posted a reply earlieq and didnt find it. just want to thank u all 4 ur educative and point blank posts. i learnt a lot here and i must confess the posts here are far better than the cold garbages our lecturers fart out of their ugly mouths in lecture. that does not include d foul words used by pro01 to castigate ujujoan. posts like dat should not b allowed on the forum

For me, i see Ribadu as a knife dat can be used positively & negatively. If used positively, even d village headmaster will think twice b4 he steals money meant 4 school chalk. But if used negatively, he could be used to stab political foes in d back like OBJ did, Nigeria is a very dirty country o. Corruption is now a way of life. Getting govt officials from federal 2 local govt level, civil servants, business moguls from Dangote 2 CD pirate at Alaba, & bank thiefs, sorry o bank chiefs, 2 stop their way of life is very hard, takes years, & require tough people like Ribadu 2 do d dirty job of smashing d fat rats & cockroaches, I think d main reason why jonathan wants Ribadu back is b.cos he has experience in dealing with tough tasks that even his ogas at d force HQ can't do. Oshiomole spent 1 year stabilizing Edo. Jonathan can't use an ewu jambito who will spend time studying d system coz 2011 is near. When time is short, experience (Ribadu) is precious,

This is nigeria, yeah! Here, everything public or general is always over stretched, over populated & over utilised to the point that u wonder how those workin there cope with the situation. A public secondary school teacher teaches average 800 students every year (70 per class ¤ JSS 1 A-G) wit just black board, chalk, & rare cases textbook. Most teachers teach JSS 1-2 at same time. When a public school student finish sec sch, cannot spell 'portmanteau' & score 130 in jamb, who do u blame? The teachers? The hospitals don't fare better. Some ask why d docs hurriely discharged the woman, why she was sent back at massey hospital or why it took docs at lagos island hosp 3 good wks 2 know the baby's not developin well? The answers are simple. They have limited space wit hundreds of pregnant women in labor beggin 4 attention. 3 day after birth, go home 2 create room 4 others. The docs at massey reject d baby coz they don't capacity 2 treat d wound while d docs at lagos island hosp can't giv 1 to 1 attention coz they're over stretched. Add nigeria public perception of pub institutions as free make things worse. Some parents will say they don't hav N5000 4 drugs in gen hospitals only 2 spend N 70,000 in private hospitals over illness N5000 drug @ gen hospital could hav cured.