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powerhouse3:
obong,nso mpko ke nnam,...me agreeing on fact don't mean we'll follow Biafra,...infact the way we lost Arochukwu and Abre iba was through greed, betrayal and backstabbing,.so it's still fresh in the memory of those that follow history,... I'd admit the fact ,but akwa ibom is not going with Biafra

How did you lose "Abre iba"?

RedboneSmith:
How did you lose "Abre iba"?

..... Research man,.... history is there for you

powerhouse3:
..... Research man,.... history is there for you

In other words, you don't know what you're talking about?

RedboneSmith:
In other words, you don't know what you're talking about?

.....on a contrary,...I'm not your lesson teacher

powerhouse3:
.....on a contrary,...I'm not your lesson teacher

Classic tactics of people who don't know what the frack they're talking about. They begin to dart around when asked for a simple clarification.

Atouke:
I dare anyone to challenge this truth and I will refer you to the history of the ihibio people and their wars prior to the arrival of the white men in the territory now known as Nigeria.

No wahala,everybody in nigeria wants to have some part of igbo man given to them. The other day,it was the igalas claiming that nsukka in Enugu state is occupied by igalas. The Edo man on the other hand thinks that the people of onitcha are their people. Everybody just dey eye us somehow,because our population they hungry them. Lass lass,igbo amaka.

Atouke:
Nobody is chasing anyone out, we just want to set the record straight for there are some who may not know this historical fact.
Majority of those called igbos in the present day igboland especially in the city and towns I have mentioned have ibibio ancestry.

That makes us one then. Case closed.

Atouke:
Nobody is chasing anyone out, we just want to set the record straight for there are some who may not know this historical fact.
Majority of those called igbos in the present day igboland especially in the city and towns I have mentioned have ibibio ancestry.

That makes us one then. Case closed.

Atouke:
You must be an igbo who hate our ibibio kin from Ngwa. See that proves my point.
We know you hate them, the reason is because they are different, they have ibibio ancestry.

Oga ,if you fit,come and take them to your ibibio . All of us na brothers. Shikina.

Mrcandlewood:
So what do you suggest?

Na so the thing weak me here.

Atouke:
I dare anyone to challenge this truth and I will refer you to the history of the ihibio people and their wars prior to the arrival of the white men in the territory now known as Nigeria.

This is a lie

Atouke:
I have seen a lot impostors and ethnic warriors who want to promote their crude ethnic tendencies spew a lot of vitriol on this forum about Igbos and Ibibios, of late lots of threads have been created to foster the hate and bigotry.

To set the record straight, No right thinking Igbo born will there claim any territory in Akwa ibom they know it does not exist. There is no Local government area in akwa ibom that is igbo speaking or has igbo speakers. What we have in akwa ibom are border villages that may harbor speakers of both languages as is common in border villages all over the world. But in those villages , being small towns everyone knows who is who, and where each family comes from, where they are land disputes they await border delineation by the Federal government to clear it up. But everyone knows their tribe and where their families belong.

On the contrary, precolonialism the igbo wars of aggression claimed ancient ibibio land.
During the tribal wars, igbos occupied towns like Aba, Ngwa land , Aro and others which are Ancestral ibibio land and some ibibios left their occupied inland ancestral homes and migrated downward towards the Atlantic to the present day Akwa ibom state.

Aba = hole or space in ibibio language. ( in ancient ibibio belief,that's the hole the ibibios believed the spirit of their ancestors would come out from, the original name was Aba Ekpo meaning spirits hole in ibibio).
Abiriba = It takes two to play. Original name Ebere iba referring to the traditional ibibio sword fight called Ukwa, usually displayed by Ekpo masquerades.
Ngwa= feather in ibibio language.
Aro= thing in ibibio. the igbos after their wars of aggression added chukwu to aro making Arochuwkwu. The original name of Arochuwkwu was AroAbasi meaning Gods thing in ibibio.a sacred land of the ibibios set aside for their God.

If you go to those cities you will find indigenous ibibio people in those lands even though some of the have acclimated to igbo language but almost 70% of the igbos in those areas speak ibibio and are ibibios.
Even those who speak igbo know their history, that their ancestors are ibibios.

These tribes are hated by igbos in igboland because they always accuse them of being ibibios or not being igbo enough. That's a fact.

The ibibios historical have no quarrel with igbos because deep down we know a lot of them especially the ones I have mentioned In This writeup are our kin who choose to stay in their ancestral homes instead of migrating with their ancestors after the igbo war of aggression.

If you go to Arochuwkwu today you will see ibom hall that houses otherwise called the long juju house. They long juju are ibibio gods which are still worshiped in Arochuwkwu today. People there bear ibibio names like Uko, udo, etc.
They play Ekpe, Ekpo masquerades and can read chant and write Nsibidi. And share cultural ties and similarities with their ibibio ancestors. These culture is a remnant of their ibibio ancestry and heritage.

The igbos are occupying ancestral ibibio land and majority in those ancestral ibibio land are our own kith and kin.

will dare claim.

UGBE634:
will dare claim.

Nothing to dare.

Igbos reclaimed their lands lost to Ibibio warriors in time past.

Still ndigbo in her democratic nature accommodated Ibibios uptill today.

Juliusmalema:
Nothing to dare.

Igbos reclaimed their lands lost to Ibibio warriors in time past.

Still ndigbo in her democratic nature accommodated Ibibios uptill today.

Oh not really, my focus was not centred on the discussion proper, I corrected there he wrote instead of *dare*

Ngwa is not even Igbo but Igbo people is constantly impersonating us...
We are a mixture of Diobu descendants and Ibibio...
We are not Igbos but Ngwa ...
#proudlyngwa

Juliusmalema:
Present day ibibio land was formally an Igboland

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Anambra belongs to Benin and Igala

ImembaN:
Ngwa is not even Igbo but Igbo people is constantly impersonating us...
We are a mixture of Diobu descendants and Ibibio...
We are not Igbos but Ngwa ...
#proudlyngwa

What manner of fuckry is this.

nsiba:
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Anambra belongs to Benin and Igala

Are you serious

ImembaN:
Ngwa is not even Igbo but Igbo people is constantly impersonating us...
We are a mixture of Diobu descendants and Ibibio...
We are not Igbos but Ngwa ...
#proudlyngwa

Youdonminit!

Juliusmalema:
Are you serious

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Over Serious, listen to this....


Egungun (meaning "bone," a spirit masquerade representation in Yoruba), is called Egwugwu in Igala.



Ewa in Yoruba, is Egwa in Igala for instance.



Omi (water) and Ogede

(banana/plantain) mean the same thing in Yoruba and Igala languages.



Infact Igalas are the original settlers

of Onitsha in Anambra with their quarters being one of the 8 quarters, and Igala boat people ferried the newer Edo migrants to

Onitsha over 400 years ago according to the current Obi of Onitsha Ado n'Idu, who confirmed this fact in a 2018 Ofala Day documentary that I saw. The Obi clearly said that he has Igala, Edo,

and Ibo ancestral roots.



I remember the Ooni of Ife was a special guest at the Ofala festival

of that year.





The core Igala are a mix of migrants

from the Wukari axis, Yoruba, Edo and to a lesser extent, some Ibo, according to an interview that the late Attah of Igala, HRH Michael Oboni.



Ifa divination is also consulted to

determine who would be a new

Attah of Igala according to Attah

Michael Oboni.



Last but not least:

ERI an Igala hunter/prince was the father of NRI and other children. There are many Igala-associated communities (Igala bloodlines) in Delta, Anambra, and Enugu States, such as Onitsha, Asaba, Nri, Nteje, Aguleri, Umuleri, Illah in Delta State [where Desmond Olusola Elliot's mother, Stephen Keshi, and Frank Olize of NTA Newsline fame hail from].



Hope this helps. *credit* AlphaCEO

nsiba:
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Infact Igalas are the original settlers

of Onitsha in Anambra with their quarters being one of the 8 quarters, and Igala boat people ferried the newer Edo migrants to

Onitsha over 400 years ago

I don't know why people always look for the most non-Igbo angle possible while telling ths story of the Igbos, because that's the only explanation for anyone claiming Igalas were the original settlers of Onitsha. The original settlers of Onitsha (the main Onitsha which is the Inland Town) were the Igbo-speaking people called Oze. The Igala were a canoeing and fishing people who came to trade and settled at the Waterside. It was on the land taken from the Oze people (whom the Onitsha immigrants from west of the Niger massacred) that Onitsha Town was founded.

carzola:
During the civil war biafran soldiers and igbos where killing akwa ibomites to take over their teritory .. This stories were told to me by my grand parents...
My mum is from arochukwu but there had to leave nd run to other akwa ibom teritory during wars....

That's why as an akwa ibom I can't vote an igbo man or support biafra cause we know their tru intention...

Have you ever thought if your grandpa lied. Your grandpa was human and wasn't a god. There were Akwa Ibomites in the Birafran Army, do you think they'll settle so low to kill their people. There's something not right here.

MetaPhysical:
Maybe the OP doesnt know history. This is first time ive heard such nonsense about Ibibio owning Igboland.

But it shouldn't surprise annybody though. Is this not the same game you Ibos play when you lay claim to other peoples ancestral land and claim it to be yours?

I don't think they are Ibibios....

pazienza:
The Aba in Aba Ngwa does not have the same meaning as that in Ibibio. We have Aba all over Igboland.
Aba keleke
Aba Agana
Aba Omege
Aba Cha

Etc. Are they all Ibibio lands as well. What you did here is spread of falsehood. I can as well claim that Uyo is Igboland. We have streams all over Igboland called "Uyo". Does it make sense to you?

Abiriba means "Ebiri aba" which in Igbo means "If you live, you will become wealthy".
It was never Ibibio land. It was Igboland all from the very beginning as you can see from the name.

Ngwa means Ngwa Ngwa, which in English translates to Fast Fast! It's Igbo. The name came about when a group of Igbo people migrating from Imo to Abia suddenly became separated by a river. While one group was quick to cross the River before the River became impasseable, the other were busy roasting yam and by the time they were done roasting yam, they could no longer cross the River as the volume had grown.
Those who crossed the River (Imo) were called Ndi Ngwa Ngwa, meaning people who were fast, while those who were cut off by the river because they were roasting yam were called "Ndi Ohuhu ji".
In time, Ngwa Ngwa became Ngwa, while Ohuhu Ji became "Ohuhu".
This is the story of Ngwa. It has nothing to do with your Ibibio concocted stories.

Arochukwu has always been Igbo. They call themselves Okeigbo, meaning Great Igbo.
Yes, Arochukwu was established in a previously Ibibio land, but it was not straight forward. It was achieved by a Union between the Igbos, be Akpa (From Cross River) and some indigenous Ibibio people.
The Ibibio and Akpa elements were very minor and were quickly assimilated by the overwhelmingly Igbo population there.
Arochukwu means "God's spear". "Aro" means "spear" in Igbo. It has nothing to do with Ibibio.

No Igbo hate Ngwa or Arochukwu people, we are all Igbos, stop making things up.
Nsibidi belongs to Ejagham and not to Ibibios, you copied from Ejagham just like we did.

Ndiigbo who are neighbors to Ibibio borrowed some Ibibio culturally practices, such as Ekpo and Ekpe cults, it doesn't make them Ibibios, it's just what it is, they borrowed an aspect of your culture they feel is good.
Igbos close to Bini borrowed BIni cultural practices, Igbo close to Igala borrowed those of Igala.
But these were never one way traffic. Those Igbo neighbors including Ibibio also borrowed one or two things from Ndiigbo.

Other than Arochukwu, no Ibibio land is occupied by Igbos, but Efiks (Ibibio cousins) occupied and have now claimed parts of Igboland now in Odukpani LGA, and the Ibibios are still dragging parts of Ndoki land in Akirika.

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Stop decieving your self...
Most Ngwa people are Akwaibomite and IBIBIO-EFIKs...
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I'm NGWA..

cenaman:
Ngwa the most wicked tribe in ibo land.

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Ogah point of correction we are not Igbos to start with...we are simply Ngwa...
We are a mixture of Ikwerre and Ibibio-efik...
We have never identified as Igbo until recently...
I have never identity as Igbo and I will not...

Atouke:
I have seen a lot impostors and ethnic warriors who want to promote their crude ethnic tendencies spew a lot of vitriol on this forum about Igbos and Ibibios, of late lots of threads have been created to foster the hate and bigotry.

To set the record straight, No right thinking Igbo born will there claim any territory in Akwa ibom they know it does not exist. There is no Local government area in akwa ibom that is igbo speaking or has igbo speakers. What we have in akwa ibom are border villages that may harbor speakers of both languages as is common in border villages all over the world. But in those villages , being small towns everyone knows who is who, and where each family comes from, where they are land disputes they await border delineation by the Federal government to clear it up. But everyone knows their tribe and where their families belong.

On the contrary, precolonialism the igbo wars of aggression claimed ancient ibibio land.
During the tribal wars, igbos occupied towns like Aba, Ngwa land , Aro and others which are Ancestral ibibio land and some ibibios left their occupied inland ancestral homes and migrated downward towards the Atlantic to the present day Akwa ibom state.

Aba = hole or space in ibibio language. ( in ancient ibibio belief,that's the hole the ibibios believed the spirit of their ancestors would come out from, the original name was Aba Ekpo meaning spirits hole in ibibio).
Abiriba = It takes two to play. Original name Ebere iba referring to the traditional ibibio sword fight called Ukwa, usually displayed by Ekpo masquerades.
Ngwa= feather in ibibio language.
Aro= thing in ibibio. the igbos after their wars of aggression added chukwu to aro making Arochuwkwu. The original name of Arochuwkwu was AroAbasi meaning Gods thing in ibibio.a sacred land of the ibibios set aside for their God.

If you go to those cities you will find indigenous ibibio people in those lands even though some of the have acclimated to igbo language but almost 70% of the igbos in those areas speak ibibio and are ibibios.
Even those who speak igbo know their history, that their ancestors are ibibios.

These tribes are hated by igbos in igboland because they always accuse them of being ibibios or not being igbo enough. That's a fact.

The ibibios historical have no quarrel with igbos because deep down we know a lot of them especially the ones I have mentioned In This writeup are our kin who choose to stay in their ancestral homes instead of migrating with their ancestors after the igbo war of aggression.

If you go to Arochuwkwu today you will see ibom hall that houses otherwise called the long juju house. They long juju are ibibio gods which are still worshiped in Arochuwkwu today. People there bear ibibio names like Uko, udo, etc.
They play Ekpe, Ekpo masquerades and can read chant and write Nsibidi. And share cultural ties and similarities with their ibibio ancestors. These culture is a remnant of their ibibio ancestry and heritage.

The igbos are occupying ancestral ibibio land and majority in those ancestral ibibio land are our own kith and kin.

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Please... Ngwa and Arochuku are not Igbo...
As for Ngwa...
We did not chase you out completely rather we intermarried with you...
Then the product of the intertribal marriage did the invasion...
Don't judge us using the comments of non Ngwa who will insult you for this..
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If you are observant you will notice that the don't like us... and we don't like them either...

Atouke:
I dare anyone to challenge this truth and I will refer you to the history of the ihibio people and their wars prior to the arrival of the white men in the territory now known as Nigeria.

I was Insulted and banned from an Igbo group recently because i told them that I'm Ngwa and that Ngwa has Ibibio and Efik heritage...
the Anambra and Enugu guys in the group started throwing tantrums on me...
I just pity them only if they know that Ngwa is not related to them...we only share similar language with them...

During the civil war Ngwa participated until the biafra troops decided to invade Ibibio and their efik neighbors...
Little did the know that the Ngwa people the were expecting to join them in the Ethnic cleansing were mostly Ibibio... while others have Ibibio mothers...
This caused most Ngwa to become saboteur...
and they Igbos hated us for not killi*ng our brothers...

pazienza:
The Aba in Aba Ngwa does not have the same meaning as that in Ibibio. We have Aba all over Igboland.
Aba keleke
Aba Agana
Aba Omege
Aba Cha

Etc. Are they all Ibibio lands as well. What you did here is spread of falsehood. I can as well claim that Uyo is Igboland. We have streams all over Igboland called "Uyo". Does it make sense to you?

Abiriba means "Ebiri aba" which in Igbo means "If you live, you will become wealthy".
It was never Ibibio land. It was Igboland all from the very beginning as you can see from the name.

Ngwa means Ngwa Ngwa, which in English translates to Fast Fast! It's Igbo. The name came about when a group of Igbo people migrating from Imo to Abia suddenly became separated by a river. While one group was quick to cross the River before the River became impasseable, the other were busy roasting yam and by the time they were done roasting yam, they could no longer cross the River as the volume had grown.
Those who crossed the River (Imo) were called Ndi Ngwa Ngwa, meaning people who were fast, while those who were cut off by the river because they were roasting yam were called "Ndi Ohuhu ji".
In time, Ngwa Ngwa became Ngwa, while Ohuhu Ji became "Ohuhu".
This is the story of Ngwa. It has nothing to do with your Ibibio concocted stories.

Arochukwu has always been Igbo. They call themselves Okeigbo, meaning Great Igbo.
Yes, Arochukwu was established in a previously Ibibio land, but it was not straight forward. It was achieved by a Union between the Igbos, be Akpa (From Cross River) and some indigenous Ibibio people.
The Ibibio and Akpa elements were very minor and were quickly assimilated by the overwhelmingly Igbo population there.
Arochukwu means "God's spear". "Aro" means "spear" in Igbo. It has nothing to do with Ibibio.

No Igbo hate Ngwa or Arochukwu people, we are all Igbos, stop making things up.
Nsibidi belongs to Ejagham and not to Ibibios, you copied from Ejagham just like we did.

Ndiigbo who are neighbors to Ibibio borrowed some Ibibio culturally practices, such as Ekpo and Ekpe cults, it doesn't make them Ibibios, it's just what it is, they borrowed an aspect of your culture they feel is good.
Igbos close to Bini borrowed BIni cultural practices, Igbo close to Igala borrowed those of Igala.
But these were never one way traffic. Those Igbo neighbors including Ibibio also borrowed one or two things from Ndiigbo.

Other than Arochukwu, no Ibibio land is occupied by Igbos, but Efiks (Ibibio cousins) occupied and have now claimed parts of Igboland now in Odukpani LGA, and the Ibibios are still dragging parts of Ndoki land in Akirika.

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Please Ngwa does not have anything to do with Imo state except for the fact that Some Ndi Ngwa known as Ezihite (migrated to mbaise) and not the other way around ...
And Yes we Ngwa people are a mixture of Diobu (Ikwerre desendant) and MBIBI People (Efik, Ibibio)....
Arochuku (formally known as Aro Obasi), Abiriba are also of Ibibio origin....

pazienza:
The Aba in Aba Ngwa does not have the same meaning as that in Ibibio. We have Aba all over Igboland.
Aba keleke
Aba Agana
Aba Omege
Aba Cha

Etc. Are they all Ibibio lands as well. What you did here is spread of falsehood. I can as well claim that Uyo is Igboland. We have streams all over Igboland called "Uyo". Does it make sense to you?

Abiriba means "Ebiri aba" which in Igbo means "If you live, you will become wealthy".
It was never Ibibio land. It was Igboland all from the very beginning as you can see from the name.

Ngwa means Ngwa Ngwa, which in English translates to Fast Fast! It's Igbo. The name came about when a group of Igbo people migrating from Imo to Abia suddenly became separated by a river. While one group was quick to cross the River before the River became impasseable, the other were busy roasting yam and by the time they were done roasting yam, they could no longer cross the River as the volume had grown.
Those who crossed the River (Imo) were called Ndi Ngwa Ngwa, meaning people who were fast, while those who were cut off by the river because they were roasting yam were called "Ndi Ohuhu ji".
In time, Ngwa Ngwa became Ngwa, while Ohuhu Ji became "Ohuhu".
This is the story of Ngwa. It has nothing to do with your Ibibio concocted stories.

Arochukwu has always been Igbo. They call themselves Okeigbo, meaning Great Igbo.
Yes, Arochukwu was established in a previously Ibibio land, but it was not straight forward. It was achieved by a Union between the Igbos, be Akpa (From Cross River) and some indigenous Ibibio people.
The Ibibio and Akpa elements were very minor and were quickly assimilated by the overwhelmingly Igbo population there.
Arochukwu means "God's spear". "Aro" means "spear" in Igbo. It has nothing to do with Ibibio.

No Igbo hate Ngwa or Arochukwu people, we are all Igbos, stop making things up.
Nsibidi belongs to Ejagham and not to Ibibios, you copied from Ejagham just like we did.

Ndiigbo who are neighbors to Ibibio borrowed some Ibibio culturally practices, such as Ekpo and Ekpe cults, it doesn't make them Ibibios, it's just what it is, they borrowed an aspect of your culture they feel is good.
Igbos close to Bini borrowed BIni cultural practices, Igbo close to Igala borrowed those of Igala.
But these were never one way traffic. Those Igbo neighbors including Ibibio also borrowed one or two things from Ndiigbo.

Other than Arochukwu, no Ibibio land is occupied by Igbos, but Efiks (Ibibio cousins) occupied and have now claimed parts of Igboland now in Odukpani LGA, and the Ibibios are still dragging parts of Ndoki land in Akirika.

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GIGO
Garbage In Garbage Out

Sofistcatdmoron:
ibibio igbo, ijaw igbo delta igbo aro igbo ,jewish igbo,ikwerre igbos, whatever igbo we are biafrans,

Ijaw is not part of Biafra

ljoh:
Ijaw is not part of Biafra

They said ijaw igbos