₦airaland Forum

ekesol:
Bros u don't know okrika. What about okujagwu who speak igbo.what about Trans amadi and amadiama, what about oga. U re not from okrika go and sleep

He is from Okrika, you should go and sleep! Coming to talk about what you know nothing about.

24SEVEN:
When Amaechi was Governor, he had a better security architecture. Isrealis were the consultants who ran the security operations. The difference is clearly visible.

It is Buhari's responsibility

24SEVEN:
terrible. Wike should up security in Port Harcourt. This kind of crimes aren't good for our collective image.

It is Buhari's responsibility!

freeze001:
What brand of mind-altering mediation are you on? What is the basis of this tribal crap you just spewed? Besides is Empress Njamah Igbo?

Na kwestion I dey ask!

Just curious.

EastisBae:
Lol, and he continues to spew more trash. Ask yourself, how could the Ijaws make inroads into Igboland when they were actually leaving at the mercy of Igbos during the precolonial times?

It was Igbos that made very significant inroads all over the Niger Delta. There were Igbos rulers all over the Niger Delta. Igbo language is still spoken as indigenous language in places as far away as Bonny, same as it is prevalent in Opobo, Okrika and the rest. Can you point to one instance where Ijaw had any influence over any Igbo territory in history?

Thank your stars that Igbos are not mien and aggressive like the Fulani otherwise you won't even be here arguing.

If you couldn't stand the Igbos during precolonial times when you had advantage of trading directly with the White man is it now?

There is a reason why you all are lumped together and called minorities, so stop challenging those that are way above your league.

The worst thing that would happen to you guys will be to provoke Igbos into a fight because you all will end up in the Atlantic ocean. If we could fight the rest of Nigeria with massive British, Russian, Egypt, Chad and Nigerien support to a standstill, then who are the Ijaws to stand in our way?

Blowing up pipelines in the night or ambushing weak Nigerian soldiers doesn't mean you can now challenge the Igbos.

To start with, we did not have Igbo rulers. It is misunderstanding our culture that makes you Igbo spew trash!
That Ijaw people were split between the defunct east and western regions don't make us minorities. Even if that was the case there is nothing wrong with being a minority.

After all the Fulani minorities use your political elite as they wish.

Much of the Igbo language being spoken in some parts of the Niger Delta as a 2nd, 3rd or 4th language has a lot to do with colonial administration.

There are Ijaw people in Ondo who also speak Yoruba, there are Ijaw people in parts of Delta who also speak Urhobo. There are Itsekiri people who speak Urhobo, most Fulani in Nigeria also speak Hausa, some as a first language.

It is only Igbos, due to their inferiority complex that go around claiming people who don't identify with them. We bare Ijaw names, our monarchs go by Ijaw titles yet you try to claim us. Leave Opobo, Okrika and Bonny alone! We have nothing to do with you guys.

You are not in any way different from the Fulani, the difference is that you are a bunch of cowardly weaklings, weaklings hoping Chief Asari-Dokubo would fight their fight for them.

There is nothing you Igbo can do! It is not in our nature to fight but if you don't respect your boundaries you will learn the hard way.

Ijaw traders deliberately learnt the Igbo language so they could have advantage over you. They could have imposed their language on you but that didn't serve their interests.

We won't be "blowing pipelines" today if not for the greed of Azikiwe, Ironsi, Ojukwu, Okpara and the rest of your Igbo elite.

Chief Harold Dappa Biriye, an Ijaw chief from the grand Bonny kingdom spearheaded the quest for an Ijaw region that aimed to unify the eastern Ijaw with their western Kith and kin.

Until we joined the fray, Nigeria was not winning. The way we won you then, we will always win you if the need arises.

Instead of respecting boundaries your greed and quest to fill like people are making you claim other people's history and homeland.

sapphiere:
Men will be men no matter what you do to or for them.

This has nothing to do with being a man! People who take advantage of weak people are not men. They are weaklings. Men convince, they don't force themselves on women.

Bkayyy:
You mean the Agbani Darego that us tagged the "UGLIEST" Miss world ever.
She took Nigeria to the international stage to disgrace her completely

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/nigerians-disappointed-as-google-search-shows-agbani-darego-as-ugliest-miss-world/

She was the "ugliest ", yet she was the first and only African of African descent till date.

If winning a global competition is a disgrace I can understand why Igbo ambassadors to the world are always the likes of Invictus, Anajemba, James Nwafor, Evans, chief Francis Duru and a host of others.

EastisBae:
Lol, this guy's argument is so weak and watery. Where in Imo State can one see or hear anything that resembles ijaw? Owerri, Mbaise, Orlu, Ohaji, Oguta or where exactly? However, on the contrary, we can see and hear of Igbo footnotes all over Rivers and indeed Niger Delta. Go to Opobo, Okrika, Bonny and even as far as Bayelsa, and you will see Igbo influence that lasts till date.

Just thank your God that Igbos mostly considered the riverine areas as disease infested and not hospitable for human habitation which made them not to abandon it for you guys, otherwise you all would have been landless today.

It is because you don't even know what is Igbo that you think Igbo footnote is in Ijawland.

To start with neither Imo or her state capital, Owerri are Igbo words.

Practically all the words you mentioned have zero connection to Igboland or Igbo language.

Around the world there are places founded by Spanish speaking people that for some reasons are being inhabited by non-Spanish speakers today.

Enjoy your loot while it lasts, the North has already extradited you from their land. Lagos deported some of you, Wike is smoking you out of Oyigbo. Wait for Ijaw to join the fray, you anything we do, we do it well. Wait till we send you out!

Coneheadyutes:
Oh shit. I even forgot self. But, can agabani compete with Oluchi Onweagba?
This miss world stuff is a scam, I barely see natural beauties on there.
Even zombies is winning miss world these days, that is why we don't care about that nonsense. I can pick 10 igbo women that I have met before, that can win miss world, but aren't recognized because they aren't celebs. Anyways, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Make una go win now! That you can't win on a global stage shows you manipulate the outcome in Nigeria.

Juliusmalema:
In one thread you dey fight igbo, in another you dey ask for igbo presidency.

Make your stand Clear

My stance is clear, that I disagree with Igbo people doesn't mean I don't believe they should be treated like humans. What I don't like is their attempts to annex my homeland into their areas. Other than that I am fine with them.

Bkayyy:
Arochukwu was established after a deadly war with reasonable people not domestic animals like you people.
Look below is the map of Igboland. We don't include stupid village names because to us our poultry (which is your various communities) is our exclusive property. If your village is there just know that you are living in one of our poultry

Your dirty map includes my community in Iboland! Crazy people.

Shiver99:
The beauty of the riverine women in the eyes of the average Nigerian is directly proportional to the amount of Igbo blood they possess. Not hate, just stating facts. I've noticed that where this Igbo blood reaches it's zenith is often where people often claim the most beautiful of them live.

So why would an Igbo person ever be jealous of that when the 'beauty' of the riverine is that of the average Igbo women?

This is why I've seen some riverines with Igbo blood abroad keep humble-bragging that "everyone keep's mistaking me for a Igbo woman oh my goodness! " Lol.

Other than those who are heavily admixed, real riverines and Igbos don't look similar at all. Take a trip to Imo state to see the average Igbo looks. After that, look at the comments of early European explorers and towards places like Yenagoa to see what pure riverines with limited Igbo blood look like.

If you know the history of Imo state you wouldn't even bring it into the picture! Many in Imo have Ijaw blood. That people speak Igbo in many parts of Imo today doesn't mean they are Igbo within the historical context.

Coneheadyutes:
Have you ever heard of the aro-ibibio war?
The ijaws and ibibios never sold slaves, the aro sold slaves. The aros conquered the aro territory, they managed to clear waves and waves of ibibios. After the war, they began selling ibibios as slaves, other minorities, then they started selling igbos.

What you said was completely false. No ijaw woman ever won miss world. The highest a Nigerian got is miss Africa, Nyekachi Douglas won it. Give me the name of the ijaw woman that won miss world.

You ijaws are the same people that will be begging igbo women for dates.

Her name is Agbani Darego. This is prove you guys argue blindly.

Can the Niger Delta state governments also start buying crude oil from illegal bunkers?

There is no need for argument. The governors should just announce their plan.

Coneheadyutes:
See madness

Do igbos even know you exist? Out of all the 10 years I spent in igbo land, I never heard ijaw once. It is the other way around. Igbo women aren't even that willing to marry yoruba man, takless of ijaws. Igbos are not on your level. We can never be on your level. Nobody has ever declared ijaw beautiful for anything. Ijaw dressing inflenced by their aro slave masters. I would rather marry a boko haram suicide bombing woman, than marry an ijaw woman whose dna has probably been messed up by oil. Out of the 15 years I have spent in Naija, i have never met an ijaw in my life, not even in rivers state.

Well, the only African that has won miss World is an Ijaw woman so there is no way anyone can deny their beauty. I wouldn't marry an Igbo woman despite their numerous proposals.

I prefer Ijaw women, after Ijaw women my second preference in Nigeria are Yoruba women.

There was no way on earth the Aro could have influenced Ijaw. To start with, Aro became 'Igbo' not too long ago. It was a trade outpost used mostly by Ibibio and Ijaw traders. Initially it was prominent for slave trade and later oil palm trade.

The truth may be bitter but it is the truth, we are truly not on the same level. If comparison is being made you Igbo would be compared with your Hausa compatriots and not us. I wonder where you were when we had Nigeria's 1st SAN, 1st indigenous journalist etc. That you Igbo abused your position in the defunct eastern region shouldn't get into your head.

Why is it that there is hardly any female Igbo celebrity that is married?

Those that are married are mostly married to non-Igbo.

Has that got anything to do with Igbo culture?

Coneheadyutes:
How do you guys come up with these trash abeg...

The igbos fought with the brittish for 30 years. The yorubas had to accept colonialism immediately. The benin palace was burnt in less than 1 day. Ijaws and all Niger deltans where the first to be colonized.

The ijaws where aro slaves and ruled by the aro, that is why you guys have some of our culture.

The abam warriors sold all tribes in the east into the slave trade. You ijaws where very backward. The abam warriors captured whole ijaw communities in less than days and sold them all.

You are our children. Just respect us and we move on...

Reverse is the case! You fall under our sphere of influence. Today Igbo men and women want to dress like Ijaw people. Will do anything on earth to get married to an Ijaw man/woman

Shiver99:
Calm down, no one is forcing anyone to be Igbo.People here are just giving you a good dose of reality to cure your delusions.

Igbos naturally feel they're superior, so they wouldn't agree that just anyone to be Igbo.

This is why Igbo men prefer to marry only Igbo women; so they can preserve their genes.

Similarly, in order to maintain blood purity, the Igbo elite in riverian areas had to undergo many expenses to marry women from deep inside Igboland.
Which is why some riverines today (e.g asari dokubo), boast that their ancestors refused to marry their own women and exclusively married Igbo women. Lol.

It is people who don't understand our system that would tell you Ijaw people saw Igbo in high regard! That is not true, I don't believe anybody is superior or inferior.

In those days Ijaw people truly believed Igbo were inferior. That was why only Ijaw men married Igbo women. Ijaw women married only Ijaw men. It was abominable for Ijaw women to marry Igbo men.

In fact in many cases the Ijaw man's relationship with the Igbo woman can't be described as marriage. You could see her as a natural surrogate mother who bore seed for the man or for his close kinfolk.

There were also instances wives brought such women for their husbands when they were done with child bearing or unable to give birth.

In many Ijaw communities you must marry a woman from the community first before any other women. The constant wars we fought due to our trade activities required more manpower. That informed our decision to have children with Igbo, buy Igbo slaves and integrate them etc.

Bundaweber:
the only region yet to rule Nigeria is the north east. other tribes with significant population have yet to rule the country. the benins, the igalas, the tivs, the efiks, the ibibios, the jukuns. Unfortunately right now the only persons the igbos have are the establishment politicians. What we need in Nigeria right now are leaders that will build institution and not one of the persons showing interest is capable of doing it. Nigerians are no longer interested in which tribe is ruling

Kingsley Moghalu will do well if given the chance. He is an Igbo man.

Coldie:
Think about it, Nigeria is going down despite how much we love and support Nigeria and Buharis administration Nigeria is really going down.

Yesterday I read that the country is broke that out of 1.64trillion naira revenue like over 1trillion is used to settle debts and Nigeria is still borrowing.

Think just a few days ago electric Cars were launched in Nigeria, its going viral I'm foreign countries sooner or later the era of oil would be over and Nigeria didn't achieve anything tangible from all the decades of oil wealth.

Am not saying we Igbo's are the best but don't u think we should be allowed to try our hands to see if we can solve this problem.

Igbo's are looked with suspicion by almost every Nigerian tribe do u think after all the begging and agitation we finally get presidency we would go there and have a fun fair or party?

I am 100 percent in favour of an Igbo being president. Sadly, the dynamics of Nigerian politics is against it. Except PDP and APC both agree to field Igbo candidates the Igbo have no chance of winning the 2023 polls. All I am saying is that Igbo should be a lot more strategic in their approach to Nigerian politics.

Coldie:
Did they tell u all Igbo's want Biafra?

If u are using this as an excuse that some Igbo's want Biafra so for that we should not be allowed to rule, u are proving ipob right and shaming Igbo's like me who hv pledged our 100% allegiance to Nigeria.

Some yorubas said they want odua republic that didn't stop them from ruling Nigeria

Ss people say they want Niger Delta that didn't still stop them from ruling Nigeria.

Every region at one point wanted out but that didn't still stop them from ruling Nigeria.

But to you since the SE said they want out they must not rule Nigeria.

We didn't say we want Niger Delta! None of the major militant groups have called for separation. People place division as a condition if all other options fail. That's the difference.

Nonetheless I agree with you, the demands for Biafra shouldn't be used as a yardstick to determine if an Igbo should be or shouldn't be president. If Nigeria was fair those demands won't be made.

Can the Igbo vote themselves in? This is not the way to go about it. Even if they get the Niger Delta's votes, what about the South West and North Central?

You will need overwhelming turnout in the four zones except the North West and North East to get an Igbo elected president.

OfficialAwol:
Even as a PDP apologist, I support Umahi.

Now everyone is talking about Igbo presidency.

There is NO time people didn't talk about Igbo presidency. To tell you the truth, it is dead on arrival. APC may end up having a Yoruba flagbearer( don't rule out a Northerner). PDP would field a Northerner and if APC fields a Southerner the PDP will win.

The South lost her influence in 2015. Some Igbo failed to turn up at the polls. A significant chunk of the Yoruba vote went for Buhari. Those votes changed the whole dynamics.

Since 1999 till date, the North has never voted for a Southerner in an election you have a Northern candidate. I don't see that changing anytime soon. The best bet of the Igbo would have been to remain in the PDP and take the vice presidency slot.

In all, I think being president or vice is irrelevant. What we should be pushing for is the right legislative reforms that would empower our respective ethnic nations.

fubsy:
Where is Obigbo in Rivers State?

Help me ask these mad men!

It is Oyigbo and not Obigbo. At least it is good to know the Ohaneze ndi Igbo leadership are not land grabbers like Nnamdi Kanu. They respect peaceful coexistence to a large extent.

No wonder Nnamdi Kanu and his IPOB zombies hate them with passion!

Coneheadyutes:
Ijaws have no land. The land they occupy now was ruled by the aro confederacy. As far as I am concerned, the only igbos that have any link with other tribes is we onitshans, we trace our roots to Eze Chima, a bini prince from the arochukwu region. We are confirmed igbos. Ibibio, Igala, Urhobo , Ogoni and Benin have no share in igbo land. Any attempt to annex igbo land will be met with serious resistance. If we make our own historical claims, Ijaws will have nothing. Ogonis trace their roots to Ghana.

The ancient white settlers drew the map of igbo land, and the maps showed that igbos had large access to the sea. If we open the history books instead of taking the igbo territory the nigerian government left for us, you guys will complain.

Just as Igbo trace their root to Israel!

I can now understand why you are talking trash. If you happened to be Igbo from Abia or Imo you would know your place in history. People like you who claim to be from Onitsha should keep quiet. What nonsense Aro confedracy ? Led by who? When?

'Aro' had only one important task. Selling Igbo to Ijaw overlords.

You guys should thank God for colonialism that changed your fortunes for good. Prior to colonialism there was no tangible thing one could hold on in Igboland.

Coneheadyutes:
Why are ijaws trying to grab the entire south south?

No, it is Igbos doing that. We don't try to take what is not ours.

Coneheadyutes:
What is my business with you giving it up or not, Have you guys given up the whole Niger delta region yet?

Niger Delta region? Wetin this one dey talk self!

Coneheadyutes:
The truth hurts! You only have land on political maps. The aros conquered cross rivers, akwa ibom, parts of cameroun, and parts of bayelsa. Go check th old aro map, or map of ancient african kingdoms. The british saved you guys by destroying the aro kingdom and their influence, unless, you guys would have turned into igbos. You guys trace your roots to aro, and if you ask for your genetical make up, it will show you aro, just like it shows benin for yoruba.

Nnamdi kanu never mocked igbos. NK is very inconsequential. I don't know why you are bringing him into this conversation. He mocks the entire black race.

ijow land grabber, una plan will not work. If igbos ever get their country, your state will be swallowed by the igbo nation from our influence. We are more powerful than the ijow. That ijaw ownership of land is a mirage, you are swimmers! Once this country breaks, we will chase you fishes back to the water.

You are using this Niger delta republic is just a plan to conquer and neo colonize gullible Niger deltans. Land grabbers. Bonny is ndoki (igbo) land. Opobo is igbo land, period!

cc phijo

If you know what Ndoki stands for you won't make this ignorant statement!

Igbo conquered no where! You didn't have villages not to talk of towns. Igbos lived in hamlets until 100 years ago.

Our Ijaw city states dominated areas as far as large swaths of present day Imo and Abia state.

If Nigeria breaks you will be restricted to your landlocked Igbo territory.

If we make historical claims to our lands, the Ibibio, Igala, Urhobo , Ogoni and Benin does the same, there would be hardly anything left to be called Igboland. So don't provoke people!

Coneheadyutes:
Ijaws have no land. They live on water. You only have land on political maps. You are residing on other people's territory.

Leave the ibibios out of this; They are a greater race than the ijaws.

The bold part just shows how primitive you are! No wonder Nnamdi Kanu keeps telling the whole world how useless his Igbo kinfolk are.

Coneheadyutes:
Bonny is igbo, and we just managed to acommodate the ibani. Your ijaw land grabbing plans will not work.

It was founded by an igbo man, and it will forever be igbo. Die!

I now reason to believe the Northern claim to Enugu.
We know Ibibio, Ijaw and Ogoni lost land to Igbo through the interference of the defunct eastern region government.

pazienza:
Go and make enquiries about a popular Tuboniju family, the "Ogans" who were originally from Asa (Igbo) but ruled over you Ijaws .

Its a common knowledge that the Tuboniju were on the majority a people of Igbo origin.

They(Igbo) did not rule us! For over 100 years Okrika did not have a king. The Ogans are not Igbo as you claim. Neither are they only in Tuboniju. The defunct Eastern regional government tried to install an Igbo man as king and they failed. Due to that the throne remained vacant until recently. Immediately they announced who should be the king, your Igbo police personnel kidnapped him, took him to Enugu in a bid to prevent his coronation. God being faithful he survived the ordeal and was later crowned as king.