₦airaland Forum

phineas:
It looks like a good house, it's interesting to note and good to note that he did not die in poverty

The exiled king,I'm sure his people would have wondered what became of him

Any info on his family in the exiled country?

he was later released,but also at point of death...I guess he died here in Nigeria....

Papparassi:
King Jugbo Jugbo (Jaja) of Ibani kingdom of Opobo lived while in exile in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines between 1888 and 1891. The plaque by the side of the gate of the house confirms it.

Muguh, what is Ibani kindgom? Ewu, stop boring us with your nigeria twisted history, we know much far better today. Maybe you should have added "R" in front of it to make it Rubani like you fools accepted in some Ikwerre villages when the actual name is Ubani.

christistruth01:
Both belonged to the Ijaw till today

Jaja was a former Igbo Slave of the Anna Pepple Ijaw house who rose to become the King of Opobo

Jaja founded Opobo when he moved from Ubani, Igboland to another Igboland called Opobo. He wasn't brought up in Opobo, but he later founded it. Stop trying further to twist history. We are everywhere to keep correcting all you nigeria terrorists and land grabbers.

mrksquare:
When a slave is bought those days, everything about his identity changes. Slave could be akin to chattel. Quite well Jaja is of Igbo origin, but was a chattel to the king of Bonny.

Even to be war canoe chief in Okrika, you have have a storey building and must be a man of means. The ijaws do not make paupers kings and chief.

So that in it self, remove every tinge of his igboness. Beside, he wasn't the only founder of present day Opobo. They went as a horde to locate the land Opobo. But he was fortunate enough to be made a king. Probably because he was the most wealthiest amongst the hordes.

Those days and even at present amongst the ijaws, kingship is reserved for people who have the financial war chest.

There were actually nothing about Ijaw in Ubani or Opu-Obu (Opobo).

[quote author=Plut01 post=105127420][/quote]WELL DONE FOR TAKING THE TIME TO EDUCATE THIS CROP OF IGBOS

AVECDEO:
I don't know why history is not thought in Nigerian school.

How do we discover ourself when we don't know where we are coming from...

Stop sounding ignorant. The fulanis stopped history in your schools in other to enslave you more and you all are falling for it by supporting "one nigeria"

AVECDEO:
He tried to resist the imperial/colonial high handedness and the pilfering natives resources to enrich and develop European industries at the start of the industrial age.

He had nonopoly/controlled of the Palm Oil market which the colonialist detested particularly the Royal Nigerian Company a British chartered company.

He was said to be one of the richest African of that Era and an astute businessman which the imperialist found baffling.

He was also one of the earliest African who saw through the heart of the wicked white man...so he resisted them and they didn't like "him".

He was indeed a great man.

I don't know why history is not thought in Nigerian school.

How do we discover ourself when we don't know where we are coming from...

and who tell you history is not thought in Nigerians schools?
Pls make verification before saying what you know nothing about.

Ychick:
Please if you don’t understand the culture of the Ijaw city states of the eastern delta. It is important you ask.
Under the acculturation system of the ijaw city states of the eastern delta. There are 2 ways to become a citizen.
1. By birth
2. By adoption where a head money is paid. (siwi igbi). The literal meaning of Jaja’s full name Jugbo Jugbo fem is somebody bought somebody else. So of course he is of Igbo descent and he was bought by Anna people and became his child by adoption. In ijaw society nobody is a slave, he was raised as a child with full rights of the Anna people house that allows him to even replace his father as chief.

Now on the issue of Amachree, I am a direct descendant of Amachree (8th great great grand father), and King Abbi (5th great grand father) any of my brothers can become Amayanabo of Kalabari (New Calabar) if they contest and win. Amachree’s mother was a Kalabari woman from the original Kalagbea ward. But his father was a freshwater Ijaw man from the central delta. He is not of Igbo origin, although he bought a lot of ibo people from the interior to expand the Kalabari population, and reinforced the idea that all Kalabari people are his people. There is a saying that King Amachree o e da fe a or inyingi fem- meaning if he did not buy your father, he bought your mother. Now on Bonny, they migrated from the central delta- fresh water ijaw land, and stayed for a while in ndokki, where the group split into 2, and some went to Bonny which the new indigenes called Okoloba. In Bonny, with the rise of the palm oil trade and the large number of slaves from the ibo interior. Bonny made a different decision than the kalabari’s by making ibani ijaw a secret language for the elites, so that their numerous slaves will not overthrow them. So ibo became the trade language. This decision means that someone like Jaja who was the foster child of a big chief spoke fluent ibani because he was an elite, and I have read diaries of the British consul trying to settle the fight between opobo and bonny chiefs, with Kalabari and Okrika chiefs as mediators for both groups. All the chiefs from the 4 kingdoms were speaking ijaw because the eastern jaw dialect of kalabari, Okrika, bonny and opobo are mutually intelligible. Now, in new calabar all new adoptees, we don't call them slaves, had to learn the kalabari language, and in fact your ability to speak kalabari determined how fast you could integrate into your new society, that is why in kalabari land. Ibo never gained a foothold like in bonny and the subsequent state of opobo did. So of course we too had lots of people from the ibo interior acculturated into our societies. But, you are an ijaw person, not a slave and you are accorded full rights of a full citizen. So the whole calling Jaja a slave is a joke gone too far. He was the pampered and privileged child of a wealthy chief.

The so-called Anna Pepple was not Ijaw. What does Opu Obu mean in Ijaw. The silly Anna Pepple was a nickname.

FakeUnity:
The british are a very sleazy bunch.

The USA should have allowed Hitler and Axis forces to invade them and give them a taste of their own bitter medicine.

Their karma is not late. Russia and China will soon give them a bloody nose

BiafraInc:
Jaja founded Opobo when he moved from Ubani, Igboland to another Igboland called Opobo. He wasn't brought up in Opobo, but he later founded it. Stop trying further to twist history. We are everywhere to keep correcting all you nigeria terrorists and land grabbers.

ABSOLUTE IS WHEN YOU'RE IGNORANTLY IGNORANT

bizzibodi:
Your own story make more meaning..I have wondered how a slave can become a king in an African society unless they are adopted as a family member.

HIS OWN STORY MAKE SENSE ABOUT THE KALABARI PEOPLE, BUT HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE OPOBO-IBANI PEOPLE

Adrian98:
Most Nigerian students do not know about people like this but they know the date of birth and death of Abraham Lincoln.
History is not taught in Nigeria. Even when it is the right knowledge is not passed

the history that is taught in schools today are taught in a way that the students will see only the good side of the whites...they still want to create the impression that the white did us a favour

SportsHD:
Wow. Why was he exiled in the first place?

Modified- screw the white power.
Just like how america and Britain abandoned Afghanistan after they've justified spending "war budget" and obviously, made x10 profits from their initial "investment" in afghan.

Just like how the Royal niger company destabilized the giant of Africa after sucking it dry and,and still sucking it. They also brought two politicians who hate eachother (lord lugard and lord I've forgotten his name) to rule over the south and northern protectorate of Nigeria. It was all about politics and what they stand to gain in the name of the queen. This also goes to our kinsmen that we're backstabbers, sellouts, ffuck them in their graves.
Everyone just keeps taking and taking from Africa. Down to all our military rulers, yakubu Gowon and the cement armada, 47$million dollars in gains, that's in the 70's. That's one of the numerous white whale projects. Down to the civilian rule. The shit hole keeps getting shiitier. I've successfully derailed the thread so, welcome to Alcatraz!

The reason why History should be taught in schools

Teerach:
Igbo people always claiming everybody while everyone else denies them. If you ask the Bonny and Opobo people, they'll tell you another thing.
Y'all should be contented with your 5 states in peace without having to cause a scene online na.
Always famzing with people that careless about your assumed history.

Yes those Bonny and Opobo people will tell u another thing because they don't even know their ancestry

ruggedtimi:
Fun fact : King jaja was the first to use the pidgin English slang " Dash me" ( Give something).

Boss, can I know your source please? Thanks.

AVECDEO:
He tried to resist the imperial/colonial high handedness and the pilfering natives resources to enrich and develop European industries at the start of the industrial age.

He had nonopoly/controlled of the Palm Oil market which the colonialist detested particularly the Royal Nigerian Company a British chartered company.

He was said to be one of the richest African of that Era and an astute businessman which the imperialist found baffling.

He was also one of the earliest African who saw through the heart of the wicked white man...so he resisted them and they didn't like "him".

He was indeed a great man.

I don't know why history is not thought in Nigerian school.

How do we discover ourself when we don't know where we are coming from...

U wey know ur history, how e take help u? U don blow?

techwaya:
Jaja ,The Igbo man who owns opobo and bonny..

Who says Igboland is landlocked? we have direct access to sea,offshore oil drilling,world class navy feels so good..

MUMU

christistruth01:
He refused to Cede his Opobo Kingdom to the British

JUST LIKE NUPES DID IN THE NORTH CENTRAL I GUESS

owagbeba:
Our problem now is not the British colonialist; it’s these blood-sucking politicians who are so adamant in making us all suffer for their gluttony.

Look at Abia state. The present ruler is inept. The two previous ones were so competent in looting all meant for the poor citizens. You see them at every high-profile birthday/wedding bash, grinning in comfort.

The British colonialists have been replaced with native colonialists. Our leaders are the new colonial masters.

Most people think that colonialism has ended and that Britain no longer control their former colonies. But Britain is still a major part of our problem via the elites who they've created as conduits to keep enslaving us. These conduits are mostly those born around the 1940's, meaning that they were in their 20's when colonialism officially ended. But problem is that they grew up with that colonial mentality, which is why if you go to Obasanjo's house, the only pictures he deems fit to hang on his wall are those he took with white people.

Once these old generation Africans pass away, we may be able to enter into a new age in African political structure. However, Britain is already countering that in advance by making sure they train the next generation Africans. This is the real reason for all the so called partnership in education and scholarship schemes you hear about. They recently held a conference on education in London and it's all about creating future leaders in their former colonies who won't be an obstacle like Jaja of Opobo. So Britain is still covertly in charge.

He was exiled for opposing the British imperialists and refusing to sign an agreement which attempts to cede the Eastern province to the British colonial masters

SportsHD:
Wow. Why was he exiled in the first place?

Modified- screw the white power.
Just like how america and Britain abandoned Afghanistan after they've justified spending "war budget" and obviously, made x10 profits from their initial "investment" in afghan.

Just like how the Royal niger company destabilized the giant of Africa after sucking it dry and,and still sucking it. They also brought two politicians who hate eachother (lord lugard and lord I've forgotten his name) to rule over the south and northern protectorate of Nigeria. It was all about politics and what they stand to gain in the name of the queen. This also goes to our kinsmen that we're backstabbers, sellouts, ffuck them in their graves.
Everyone just keeps taking and taking from Africa. Down to all our military rulers, yakubu Gowon and the cement armada, 47$million dollars in gains, that's in the 70's. That's one of the numerous white whale projects. Down to the civilian rule. The shit hole keeps getting shiitier. I've successfully derailed the thread so, welcome to Alcatraz!

Teerach:
Igbo people always claiming everybody while everyone else denies them. If you ask the Bonny and Opobo people, they'll tell you another thing.
Y'all should be contented with your 5 states in peace without having to cause a scene online na.
Always famzing with people that careless about your assumed history.

That is a very stupid statement from you. 5states that was politically created to whittle down the influence of Ibos politically is what you are saying ibos are claiming everybody. A british historian studied the igbo tribe and designated them as the largest tribe in the oil rivers protectorate which starts from Agbor and Ends in Akassa and Brass in Bayelsa state. The subdivisions are the Western Igbo(Agbor, Ogwashi Ukwu, Ibusa or Ibuzor and Asaba) Central or Onitsha division(Onitsha down to Arochukwu encompassing Abakaliki, Ebonyi) and the Coastal ibos( Ndoki, Ikwerre, Asa, Opobo and the Diobu)

Good one

Do you know that Opobo city state stretches to Ikot Abasi and Kampa of present day Akwa Ibom State?

mrksquare:
When a slave is bought those days, everything about his identity changes. Slave could be akin to chattel. Quite well Jaja is of Igbo origin, but was a chattel to the king of Bonny.

Even to be war canoe chief in Okrika, you have have a storey building and must be a man of means. The ijaws do not make paupers kings and chief.

So that in it self, remove every tinge of his igboness. Beside, he wasn't the only founder of present day Opobo. They went as a horde to locate the land Opobo. But he was fortunate enough to be made a king. Probably because he was the most wealthiest amongst the hordes.

Those days and even at present amongst the ijaws, kingship is reserved for people who have the financial war chest.

I fault this assertion of yours Jaja never forsook his iboness let us get that into perspective. Go to Opobo today and hear an Opobo man speak clearly as an Ogidi man i would understand what he is saying clearly. Opobo is igbo and Jaja's descendants are igbo. The real issue is the post civil war politics that was designed to limit the igbo politically and confine them to that central area of the old eastern region that stretches from Onitsha to Aba and Encompasses. Abakaliki, Ebonyi and Co

yahmohy27:
JUST LIKE NUPES DID IN THE NORTH CENTRAL I GUESS

And the Oba Ovonramwen of Benin.

DoggoneDogg:
Jaja was an Igbo man who ruled Opobo & Bonny (modern day PH & Bayelsa).

I believe this settles those foolish Afonjas saying Igbos want to steal ND. Niger Delta belongs to Igbos just like Lagos!

The way Fodio own North abi ���

Idiko1:
The so-called Anna Pepple was not Ijaw. What does Opu Obu mean in Ijaw. The silly Anna Pepple was a nickname.

My dear even from the Anna people he was bought too and the same culture of accultaration applies. The person bought from Ibo land is entitled to rise to become a chief and head his own house and buy slaves. In fact there is a kind of wrapper a chief wears on his shoulder, that signifies that his slave/ adoptee has become successful enough to buy another slave/adoptee who has also become a chief. So in the eastern ijaw society that Anna pepple a slave/adoptee could be so successful that his own slave, ended up a chief is a thing of pride.

nengibo:
No need to go into deep explanation like these, you owe no one any explanation for the Ibani identity, Igbo as a group is an acculturation of various smaller groups like Ibibio, Igala etc, the only uniting factor is the language, stop wearing pig gold, these ipob people don't relate with logic, the whole claim is just the hope of access to sea

Bro the Igbo are not Landlocked as you think. Azumini river is 8 nautical miles to the Ocean. Shorter than the Bonny river estuary mouth to PH

nsiba:
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A slave made mighty by his masters

You can't enslave a free spirit. You can't enrich a waste.

Please listen to the Amayanabo of Opobo talk about his kingdom and if they are Ijaws or not. So of course, nobody is denying the Ibo admixture, but in Ijaw society they are ijaws.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCPKHyhdYD8

christistruth01:
Both belonged to the Ijaw till today

Jaja was a former Igbo Slave of the Anna Pepple Ijaw house who rose to become the King of Opobo

Where did you people get this tales that Igbos were slaves in the Niger Delta? This is the same thing Reno Omokri was spewing the other day but without source.

Let me tell you, Igbos and indeed all African nations (now called tribes) have always been to all parts of Africa before white people arrived. Africans of all nations have always traded among ourselves, inter-married, went to school in other countries. People already went to Ethiopia and Timbuktu as far back as 1337 to study in university.

African cultures are too old. We have always been to all parts of Africa before white people arrived. Igbos predate Europe and we have always been travellers!! There are Igbo settlements in Ilesha, I believe in Osun state and it's not modern. We were already in the Niger Delta doing business before Lord Lugard was born and before Britain existed!!

Tundethegood:
The way Fodio own North abi ���

Na Afonja own North b4?