₦airaland Forum

peleson:
King jaja was adopted into an. Ijaw war canoe house as an ijaw after passing through the normal rites and ritual though he knew his root. He came into Opobo with other Ibani ijaw chiefs. King jaja was the beneficiary and not the originator

This is just like in 50years time, some Pakistani people insisting that London is part of Pakistani land simply because a Pakistani immigrant, Sodiq Khan became a British Citizen and eventually became the Mayor of London.

Abagworo:
Don't join Barcanista in misrepresentation of facts. Opobo and Bonny are mix of many ethnic groups including Igbo, Ibibio and Ijaw. However after long years of political intrigues, they seem to have leaned more on Ijaw. In essense they are Ijaw but the root of Opobo is undisputably Amaigbo in Imo State.

Thank you sir.
Many people still don't understand that

1) ethnic identities are SELF IDENTITIES

2) Ethnic Identities can change with time.

Blackfire:
Mumu ipob ... Including oduduwa touts...




We will teach you all in the language you will understand...

And you lack the power to teach the Bandits who shot down a Nigerian Military Plane and attacked NDA anything?

There is no particular partner for a person but there are SEVERAL possible partners that can help you to fulfill destiny.


The idea that there's one particular person for an individual is NOT rooted in the scriptures but popularized by Nigerian Pentecostal Churches, whose founders grew-up in typical African societies and as such, their teaching are actually influenced by Traditional Religious myths/beliefs.

The first things you should have done:

* Define/Describe Epididymitis

* paste at least two pictures of the disease condition.

Yobabad:
you can only build on something that has foundation, this good for nothing coun.try can never be built, Nigeria must disintegrate

Although I support any part that wants to leave Nigeria, however you need to understand that many of the problems Nigeria is currently experiencing will happen in the new countries, only that ethno-religious induced crisis will reduce in certain areas.

SirBunky85:
will my people (Igbos) learn? No.any idiot who wants to seek attention will just be using us(Igbos)to catch cruise

Hmnnn. . . You are right!

abouzaid:
He said the truth. For how long shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land, It's Biafra to us or death to our oppressors. Umu Chineke kwenu.

Chukwu Okike Abiama will accelerate the creation of Biafra.

Businessman1986:
If I had my way, and this sort of matter crept close to me, and the woman even nearer, I would easily end you and the dog woman you're sleeping with. With zero remorse. Just like ending a dog.

You have no right to kill other people just because the ways they decide to enjoyed THEIR sexual lives... It's THEIR God given rights and if you are not happy about it, just walk away.

Of course, weed smoking can cause madness.
The levels at which it causes it however varies from individuals to individuals and the species of weed.

wirinet:
It is beyond your IQ level, hire an interpreter who can translate it in igbo.

Omo, see finishing!

OfoIgbo:
Enoa, an acronym derived from the first letters of Etche; Ndoki; Omuma/Obigbo and Asa, the clans that make up the proposed state.

Etche, Ndoki, Obigbo, Omuma and Asa clans are the same people with same culture, but balkanized into different states of Rivers, Akwa-Ibom and Abia.
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According to him, “Enoa is an Igbo-speaking area. So, the decision to put us in South-South or South-East is entirely the decision of the National Assembly, but we on our own, will prefer South-East. We have signatories from leaders of all the five clans coming together to form Enoa State.”

https://orientdailynews.com/news/group-demands-creation-of-enoa-state/

So it is clear Ndoki-Igbo people are hanging with their Igbo brothers, rather than with Alagoa concocted tissue of fallacious tales. Enoa state is far more appealing to Ndoki people than remaining in Rivers state or being added to Bayelsa. That should tell you something.

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oyatz, captain8

I don't know anything about this matter sir.

horsepower102:
The northerners and their myopic southern collaborators are the classic example of

“Cutting your nose to spite your face”

They thought voting Buhari to deal with the Igbos will work not knowing that the things they wished on Igbos was coming for them.

How exactly does Igbo (out of the over 300 tribes in this country) comes into this discussion sir?


Did Buhari contest against an Igbo presidential candidate?

So they didn't even vote for Buhari because of their tribes but they did just to punish igbos?

IDENNAA:
What the ffuck is your business here , then ? And what's your ethnic group ?

And how exactly is what I write on this PUBLIC forum your problem sir?

It is NOT compulsory for you to respond to my posts. You can just read and keep quiet, instead of getting work-up emotionally.

IDENNAA:
No, tell me since you are claiming they are Ijaw....

Just like we ask Agbor people who claim they aren't Igbo why do they speak Igbo then.....but their response is insults just because they couldn't find a logical answer. So , if you hate Igbo this much why do you keep giving your children Igbo names and continued to speak Igbo language ?

We adviced them to employ Bini language instructors and stop this nonsense of speaking Igbo that breeds confusions and always made Ndigbo see them as Igbo....but they never want to leave this inferior Igbo language everybody hates.

Where exactly did I make this claim sir? The people can speak for themselves.

IDENNAA:
What language does Opobo and Bonny speak since you know them more than SE Igbo whom they originated from ?

May be you will have to ask the Amanayabo of Opobo to tell you this.

ATTAHDYE:
A lot of you are not aware that your education was/is subsidized. What you pay as school fees in the University is just for maintenance and noting more.

Secondly, most of you are on the side of the doctors today because it suits your quest to criticise the Government. Are these not the same doctors that are not always on sit, that will misdiagnose a patient and prescribe a one-way ticket to the hereafter in the name of treatment without remorse.

These same doctors all have their private practice(against the rules) and are cashing out big time in the name of strike. It is true that thing are not the way they ought to be but that does not mean striking doctors are all saints suddenly. The Saudi Arabia they are running to has rule, I hope they are ready to play by the rules when they get there.

What exactly is your point sir?


* If the doctors are the problems ,then you should be happy that they are leaving.


* Are these doctors complaining that they can't obey the laws of S/Arabia?

Fineman87:
My friend, Federal and State universities are heavily subsidized. Even the Private universities are minimally subsidized because they train alongside Federal and State teaching hospitals. No individual can easily pay for medicine degree at Uni. They use real dead bodies there to learn. Can ypu pay for that? Bodies of Nigerians that were provided by the State and FG police, prisons, etc. Life is not all about money. These professionals after leaving, who would treat their own brothers and sisters, when the have complications. Guy, wake up. All that glitters isn't gold.

1) There's equality of citizens

2) Any citizen of Nigeria can go outside Nigeria to work and they have been doing that.

3) The Saudi Arabian recruitment in Lagos is to Cherry pick the workers they intend to hire rather than allowing multitudes to enter Saudi Arabia before selecting the ones they will hire.

4) Different categories of workers also get recruited to go and work in overseas.

JovialJune:
The Talibans shouldn't have allowed anyone especially females leave the country, they chose the Islamic religion, so they must stay and strictly adhere to the rules of Islam.

They didn't chose the Islamic religion but they were born into it.


Ironically, Afghanistan used to be a Buddist Kingdom.

joeyfire:
Once we have a rail line that circumnavigates Onitsha-Owerri-Aba-Abakaliki-Enugu it's game over

I thought it will be game over if we have a seaport in Port-Harcourt, Calabar and Warri?

Idiko1:
The above is a pure rubbish. If a war breaks out, captured areas can be annexed. There was nothing such as West Bank in 1947. The area was known as part of Judea and Samaria. Arab legionnaires led by British commanders captured the place in 1948 from young and new Israeli country. The west in the bank denotes west of River Jordan. Since the Arabs know the implication of returning the name to its original format continued with West bank, a thing usually not in line with Arabs. If the Israelis had the same mindset as the Arabs, the issue of Gaza and West Bank would have long be settled because these goofy Arabs would have been driven into Egypt and Jordan which were their original places of abode.

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This is true but not the whole truth.


1) Judea and Samaria are recent Israeli names (based on ancient Israelite names) for the area.

The whole area were parts of the Ottoman Pronvince of Syria-Palestine.

2) After the defeat of Ottoman Empire and the Axis Power in the WW-1, the League of Nations (Precursor of the United Nations) was given the mandate to administer the former Ottoman Territories and it divided it into British Mandate and French Mandate.

2) By 1948, the UN Mandate of Palestine was divided into Isreal and Arab areas. The Arabs rejected the partitions, instead insisting on being given the whole of Palestine.

The Jews accepted the portion and proclaimed the Jewish State of Israel on their portion.

3) The next day, the surrounding Arab countries invaded the newly created State of Israel. The Arab Kingdom of Transjordan crossed River Jordan and captured the west Bank of the River, annexing it into the Kingdom and granted citizenship to the Palestinians in the area.
Syria captured the Golan Heights and Egypt captured Gaza Strip.
4) In the 1967 Arab-Isreali 6-Day war, Isreal recaptured all these areas and went further to capture the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt.

In all of these, we should note that ;

* Israel has returned the captured territories.
* The annexation of the West Bank by Jordan was not from a sovereign country.
It had since been
reversed in 1969 and the Palestinians expelled from Jordan.

OfoIgbo:
Trying to discredit the most neutral observers. Of course they were slave traders. Was Adaka Boro not a genocidist? Was DIette Spiff not a criminal of the highest order that helped expropriate legally-acquired properties of the Igbos? But you want me to believe Alagoa's concocted tales that he keeps changing whenever he feels he is on shaky ground.

Ancient people have already established the ownership of Obane/Ubani/Bonny. Ijaws were just migrant porters in Ubani. Igbos are the real owners which is why the ruling class and the vast majority of its inhabitants are Igbo-speaking, and genetically Igbo.

One important thing you still don't understand is that ethnic identities are SELF IDENTITIES and even change with time.

People define who they are and who they want to be NOT who others wish or expect them to be.


If The people of Opobo and Ibani want to be seen as Igbos, they would have expressed this identity and no body can change it.
Ngwa and Ezza peoples today identify as Igbos Because they want to be identified as such. Nobody is now debating whether Aba is Igbo or not despite the fact that Aba, like other Ngwa towns have Ibibio heritage.

Today nobody is debating whether Kishi is a Yoruba town or not despite the fact that the Royal house in that town is of Bariba origin.


Let the people of Opobo and Ibani chose who they want to be. For now, they express an Ijaw identity than an igbo identity.

If colonialism didn't occur, by now the peoples of Rivers, Imo, Abia, parts of Akwa-Ibom and C/River would have fused into one super ethnic group.

OfoIgbo:
We also ran away from places like Nsukka and Enugu. That doesn't make them less Igbos though

No sir, there was never a time that there were no Igbos in Enugu and Nnsuka.
The Biafran soldiers may run away but there were igbo people living all over Enugu, Nsukka, Mbaise, Okigwe, Aba, Isiala-Ngwa etc.

OfoIgbo:
Those books were written before our grandads were born, and by neutral observers. It is more objective than books written by any Igbo or Ijaw man.

They books also bypassed the shenanigans of landgrabbers and expansionists

Territories of Countries aren't established just by a traveling narrative of a foreign slave merchant.

You need to know that nobody brought any land from heaven. The lands that a people presently inhabit is the land they are able to posses. This is what Israel and her Arab neighbours have come to understand that no side can push the other side out and both have rights to exist.

In modern international politics, it's no longer acceptable to try to possess a territory by conquering the present inhabitants of the Territories and annex their lands.

Islayer3:
What is your stake here? You are only here to foment trouble.


Yoruba people are a curse on Africa.

This is a PUBLIC FORUM and not a Biafra or Secret Society Forum, so anybody can comments on the topics being discussed.
Get used to it, this is how democracy works!

Captain8:
hahahaha....my land must be biafra by fire, by force..wow!
but let me asked, which tribe is even heading that biafra course sef?

The number-1 question which IPOB fail to answer is ' Which territories exactly consistute Biafra'?

Many young Igbo irredentists take Biafra to be the old Eastern Region which was made up of many different tribes.

Kinematics:
Ipig miscreants and attachee by force So everyone in Rivers is Ibo including Abua/Odual, Engenni, Kalabari, Okrika, Bonny, Andoni and Opobo are all Ibos besides Ogoni



Ndi potopoto abeg wetin dey inside una brain?

These IPOB guys like to display a dangerous blend of crude ignorance and arrogance.


One of them is busy posting a travel narrative of a 19th century European slave merchant as his evidence that all the coastal towns in the Niger-Delta are owned by igbos!

Captain8:
we are not in any biafra territory oo....

Your lands must be Biafra by force!

cheruv:
Onye mgbu...
Just carry your painment comot my side
We're marching... For all our territories

Why did you run away from all these 'your coastal territories' between 1967-1970 to Owerri, Abakaliki, Orji Rivers and other places where you considered truly your homes?

Liebermantic:
Many Ibibio-Annang groups supported BIAFRA because of Ethnic and Cultural similarities shared between Igbo and Ibibio.
I want you to know this now, Opobo and Bonny will be subject to international court for determination of the true owners of the place according to written History of both towns..We are waiting for the disintegration of Nigeria along Ethnic lines or restructuring along Ethnicity

When do you think that Nigeria will disintegrate and this will be along ethnic lines?

cheruv:
Are you minding them
All the so called Ijo groups in Rivers State are just Igbo tribes masquerading as Ijo due to the current igbophobia pervading the Nigerian state
Karabarị
Okirika
Ụbanị

These tribes would still return to their Igbo roots someday... The only non Igbo group in Rivers State are the Ogoni

Hmnnnnn. . .the gods must have revealed this to you!