Ekealterego:

only a town? There are several places called Oru.. Oru/Olu/Orlu are Igbos who live near the rivers. They have their water dieties and great at navigating waters.
There are 3 Orlu/Oru based LGAs in Imo state alone. Oguta people are also Oru.

You see that Oru you talk about are priests who brought the oracles of Oru to the rest of Ijaws.

Ekealterego:


First, Igbo refers to other riverine Igbos are Mba Mmiri... Mba Mmiri is not an ethnicity but refers to a geographical feature and people living there. Mba Mmiri translates to "Riverine areas" or River people or people living around water. Both Igbos, Hausa or anyone living by the water is called, "Mba Mmiri".

Which of the Google? How did Ijaw become 10% of 200 million? Where did all the Ijaws go to? Are you counting spirits?
You have 4 LGAs in Bayelsa and 2¼ in Delta state. Bayelsa your home town is the smallest state in Nigeria in terms of population. So, small with only 8 LGAs and only 4 of them are Ijaws. and in the last census, Bayelsa is 1.7 million. if Ijaws are 900k minus the other minorities, where are the rest of the 19 million?

Ijaws are not more than 2.5 million and I am being generous.

So, Ijaws are more than Ibibios that have up to 15 LGAs to themselves alone? or Kanuri that owns Bornu and Tiv that are majority in Benue and with a very large population in Taraba, Niger and Nassarawa?

Boss, check am now.

Ekealterego:


First, Igbo refers to other riverine Igbos are Mba Mmiri... Mba Mmiri is not an ethnicity but refers to a geographical feature and people living there. Mba Mmiri translates to "Riverine areas" or River people or people living around water. Both Igbos, Hausa or anyone living by the water is called, "Mba Mmiri".

Which of the Google? How did Ijaw become 10% of 200 million? Where did all the Ijaws go to? Are you counting spirits?
You have 4 LGAs in Bayelsa and 2¼ in Delta state. Bayelsa your home town is the smallest state in Nigeria in terms of population. So, small with only 8 LGAs and only 4 of them are Ijaws. and in the last census, Bayelsa is 1.7 million. if Ijaws are 900k minus the other minorities, where are the rest of the 19 million?

Ijaws are not more than 2.5 million and I am being generous.

So, Ijaws are more than Ibibios that have up to 15 LGAs to themselves alone? or Kanuri that owns Bornu and Tiv that are majority in Benue and with a very large population in Taraba, Niger and Nassarawa?

Boss, check am now.

lalasticlala:


Two Weeks After It Blew, an Oil Well in Nigeria Is Still Spewing

An oil and gas well in southern Nigeria is still spewing its contents at least 14 days after it first blew, causing growing anxiety among the local communities that rely on the surrounding land and waterways.

The world’s oil and gas markets have been all but unaffected by the incident because the well in question had been capped and wasn’t producing. But community leaders are increasingly worried about its impact on people’s livelihoods.

A not-much-reported, 2-week-old oil spill in Nigeria reminds us of what is an ongoing problem in the country. The footage, shot earlier this week, was sent to us by a local community leader. It's still leaking.

Aiteo acquired the license from a consortium of oil majors headed by Royal Dutch Shell Plc in 2015. The sale price of $2.4 billion for the permit and a pipeline is the largest paid so far by Nigerian companies acquiring assets from their international counterparts. Spills, particularly from pipelines, are common in Africa’s largest oil producer.

Experts are now ready to start the work of sealing the well so that the cause and scale of the leak can be determined, Idris Musa, director general of Nigeria’s National Oil Spill Detection and Reponse Agency, said by text message. A spokesman for Aiteo declined to

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-19/two-weeks-after-it-blew-an-oil-well-in-nigeria-is-still-spewing

Anonymous15:

there is no Igbo speaking settlement or clan that is Igbo.
there is no chieftaincy war canoe-house that is Igbo.

your friend is deluded, even if she was decended from a captured slave, the Nembeians weren't careless like the opobo people...the Igbo slaves were quickly absorbed into Nembe and their children spoke the Nembe language. the Nembe culture and tradition was very strong. once a chief or a rich person buys an Igbo slave or from any other tribe, he or she will answer the name and will be inducted into the war canoe house and even renamed.
you didn't hear your friend well.
ask her well.
i can even drop my contact or mail address to hear from this your friend in person!

kingsmecca:
Oil spewing from a Wellhead for 2weeks now yet no Emergency response? This is serious!

Anonymous15:


and there is no other ethnic group in bayelsa except the ijaws.
kolokuma, Epie etc ARE CLANS OR TRIBES under the ijaws.
infact there are 51 clans or tribes which are descendants of ijo and they are stretched across bayelsa, rivers, akwa ibom, ondo, delta, edo.

there are also ijaws in Sierra Leone and Gabon who are migrant fishermen.

Anonymous15:

bro stop confusing yourself ORLU and ORU are different.
your photographed material only talked about some Nembeians who went to enquire something from Aro.
now let's end this madness for the last time.
FIRSTLY! ORU is not a deity but a word WHICH MEANS JUJU
SECONDLY! ORU IS NOT A NAME OF A PLACE, LOCATION OR ENTITY IN NEMBE.

I want to ask you, what is the meaning of your so called oru or olu or oguta whatever... does it mean the same thing?
NO!
BYE BYE!

Ekealterego:

So, I want to understand your logic. Opobo speaks Igbo as their mother tongue, we converse with Opobo in our native Igbo tongue and do everything together but they are not Igbo but you want us to agree that Nembe is not Igbo because of Language?

Nembe is Igbo territory. Thank you.

Ijaw is not in the top 5 biggest ethnic group.

Fulani, Tiv, Kanuri, Urhobo are larger than Ijaw.

Thank you!

ThickSharon123:


You people are deluded. There was no Igbo slaves for Ijaw. God forbid, where do you people concort your story from.

There was Igbo slaves but your judiciary and governmental area in the former time was the Aro god.

Stop changing history, you people are mad because Igbo spilled into other areas, and are greater than you people, so you people cannot take it rather you resort to lies from the pit of hell.

If I said, oh Nembe is Ijaw and this girl said so. You'll be like, yes...but there are proofs online of people going there and interacting with the people, there's even one on YouTube were we could hear them clearly speaking Igbo, you have a search engine research it yourself and check out facts.

Rather than filling hurt, because you want Bayelsa state only for you, so any other major tribe that you see there, you try to topple them down. Isn't that witchcraft.

Keep on speaking for the Nembe people, before you people said Opobo wasn't Igbo, now there's proof becuase someone had to go to the land and bring you proof, you guys are quiet.

Why don't you head to the Nembe streets, show us the street name and all as proof, go around the area and hear them talk, or go to the chiefs in the land, and let's have our evidence too, rather than you exchanging batter here that holds nothing.

Ekealterego:

Oga, we have trashed this before. Epie are Ogua people. They don't speak Ijaw. You see how dishonest you want to be. You are denying Isoko and Urhobo people in Sagbama. Denying the Edoid people in Bayelsa and denying the existence of Igboid people in Bayelsa.. and you don't even want the Cross-Riverian people in Bayelsa to exist but you are running around claiming others in other state that do not speak your language as Ijaw. You see your hypocrysy and dishonesty?

There is no single Ijaw soul in Akwa-Ibom. IYC is a political franchise and not an ethnic group.

Epie people have the right to their ethnicity. They are not ijaws, neither do they speak Ijaw.

Ekealterego:

I wrote that there are Oru and also Orlu. In Igbo they are the same, just dialectical differences in the pronunciation.

There is Oru West and Oru east in Imo, asides from. Orlu.

Anonymous15:
I have treated how opobo ( an ijaw community becaame Igbo. the ijaws there had too many slaves who outgrew them, and the opobo lost their language particularly after Jaja himself became the king and most influential man there, note that Jaja was an Igbo man. don't be a fool young woman, there were Igbo slaves Because the ijaws were middle men who sold the igbos to the white men, stop being daft. even your fellow igbos sold their brothers to the brokers (ijaws) who sold to the white men. your Igbo brothers are still selling yourselves today. stop spewing trash, the Aro god wasn't the principal God in Nembe. the Nembeians worshiped ogidiga (the sacred python) and some worshiped the black tortoise.

Nembeians in those days only went to Aro to consult the juju on disputes not because the gods in Nembe were not powerful, but because priests may adulterate the judgement, so for a clearer judgement, people in ancient times travel far away, not because their native doctor isn't strong or their god isn't strong. they only seeked the most perfect and unaltered verdict.
and on the Nembe issue, Nembe is made up of two towns, (opu Nembe and Nembe city, some know it as ogbolomabiri and bassambiri) there is no chieftaincy house, nor sub clan that is Igbo.
my God people can say nonesense. I know all the major houses and chieftaincy war canoe there.
my own community una dey talk nonesense on top am.
for you to mention Nembe street, it could be a street in Port Harcourt named Nembe street na him dey confuse you.
but in Nembe clan (ogbolomabiri, bassambiri, obioku) there is no Igbo in it.
na wa o.go and confirm from your friend madam.
ask her her surname abi family or chieftaincy war canoe house. stop coming here to spread fake rumor.

Ekealterego:

Oga, we have trashed this before. Epie are Ogua people. They don't speak Ijaw. You see how dishonest you want to be. You are denying Isoko and Urhobo people in Sagbama. Denying the Edoid people in Bayelsa and denying the existence of Igboid people in Bayelsa.. and you don't even want the Cross-Riverian people in Bayelsa to exist but you are running around claiming others in other state that do not speak your language as Ijaw. You see your hypocrysy and dishonesty?

There is no single Ijaw soul in Akwa-Ibom. IYC is a political franchise and not an ethnic group.

Epie people have the right to their ethnicity. They are not ijaws, neither do they speak Ijaw.

ThickSharon123:



Is not your town, biko...stop lying. I can say I'm from Nembe too. Mtcheww. That's by the way. First of all, as you said the Igbos held much respect by you people that's why you went to their God for unadulterated verdict.

Secondly, I've seen a video of Nembe youths, youths, not elders speaking Igbo in one of their many festivals. So, that means all the community in Nembe are Slaves. That's an insult to all Nembe people and Igbos too..for how dare you call the brethren slaves. Igbos can never be a slave to anyone.
Can't you see what they did in the iGbo landing, it's now common Ijaw they'll bow too.

You people may have told them or pleaded with them to join your culture. But you can be so humble to accept.

Rather than talking here, please go to Nembe make a video of the elders, the market Square, where there are lots of people talking the language. Ask the village chiefs, I mean old men and women about the Nembe culture and tag me please, let me keep quiet.

I'm saying this because on YouTube, there's been proof given, if in Nairaland here with videos, I've forgotten the thread.

So, do that as your research, and you can keep me shut forever.

EeGooBetter:
Don't mind that anonymous15 he is a northern divide and rule agent. Agents of distraction. I have reqd his comments and seen that he doesn't know what he is saying, probably a kid.

Odingo1:

[s]Nembe people speak Igbo dialects like Ikwere, Ubani and Opobo people in Rivers State.[/s]

erico2k2:

Plz look at them again very well and tell me if they do anything that looks like IGBO.People change due to evolution once upon a time the people of the whole of Europe where romans, now tell me, are the English Romans today? The quicker you get with reality the better for you easterners!

Lovelyn451:
what language is spoken in nembe?

ariesbull:
nembe is not igbo


You guys stop this

Anonymous15:

ikwerre is never Nembe.
ikwerre is a tribe on its own Mr Man. and Nembe do not speak ikwerre or opobo. stop spreading fake informations.
try and be learned, I won't be hard on you because you're ignorant. there are over 360 ethnic groups in Nigeria, (hausa , Igbo, Yoruba, ijaw, ibibio) are the top 5
now in each of this ethnic groups are tribes.
for instance in your Igbo, they have nsuka tribe or language, they have mbanno, arochukwu, etc, distinct languages and tribes but under the Igbo ETHNIC GROUP.

In the IJAW ETHNIC GROUP, we have (Nembe, ibani, okrika, kalabari, gbaran, opobo, etc) all are tribes and different language under the IJAW ETHNIC GROUP.
same goes for the HAUSA AND YORUBA.

Ikwerre isn't any where associated with the Ijaw ethnicity or Nembe.
go and read up and stop spreading fake knowledge.

PrinceOfLagos:
In my next life, I don't want to be a Nigerian

SlayerForever:
Nembe are Igbo people. It's a pity our Igbo brothers in Bayelsa have had their environment destroyed.

Lovelyn451:
what language is spoken in nembe?

SlayerForever:
Nembe are Igbo people. It's a pity our Igbo brothers in Bayelsa have had their environment destroyed.

ThickSharon123:
please u people should stop this, Igbo people even join the Yoruba to sing their songs in Yoruba land, when u heard Igbo songs in Nembe, doesn't make Nembe to be Igbo.

You people are deluded. There was no Igbo slaves for Ijaw. God forbid, where do you people concort your story from.

There was Igbo slaves but your judiciary and governmental area in the former time was the Aro god.

Stop changing history, you people are mad because Igbo spilled into other areas, and are greater than you people, so you people cannot take it rather you resort to lies from the pit of hell.

If I said, oh Nembe is Ijaw and this girl said so. You'll be like, yes...but there are proofs online of people going there and interacting with the people, there's even one on YouTube were we could hear them clearly speaking Igbo, you have a search engine research it yourself and check out facts.

Rather than filling hurt, because you want Bayelsa state only for you, so any other major tribe that you see there, you try to topple them down. Isn't that witchcraft.

Keep on speaking for the Nembe people, before you people said Opobo wasn't Igbo, now there's proof becuase someone had to go to the land and bring you proof, you guys are quiet.

Why don't you head to the Nembe streets, show us the street name and all as proof, go around the area and hear them talk, or go to the chiefs in the land, and let's have our evidence too, rather than you exchanging batter here that holds nothing.

Nooneonline:
sorry we are not igbos and never will be

Anonymous15:
Igbo hatred for Ijaw will never allow Igbo to achieve their plans. This one too much ooo!

and there is no other ethnic group in bayelsa except the ijaws.
kolokuma, Epie etc ARE CLANS OR TRIBES under the ijaws.
infact there are 51 clans or tribes which are descendants of ijo and they are stretched across bayelsa, rivers, akwa ibom, ondo, delta, edo.

there are also ijaws in Sierra Leone and Gabon who are migrant fishermen.

Ekealterego:

That's not how it works, language doesn't matter. If you claim Kalabari is Ijoh and claim Ogbia (that doesn't speak Ijaw as Ijaw). Nembe is also Igbo

Igboid, Bkayy make we claim our lost people and territories.

If an Ogbia man that speaks mmoghu can be Ijaw, why can't a Nembe be Igbo?

Nembe people sailed from Ndi Olu or Oru or Orlu people to Nembe. They were merchants and we remember them in this difficult times.

Thank you!

Odingo1:

Nembe people speak Igbo dialects like Ikwere, Ubani and Opobo people in Rivers State.

Anonymous15:

madam I am a Nembe man, I would have mentioned my war canoe house and my chieftaincy house, but for privacy sake.
even I can speak Igbo so that isn't an excuse. most of my cousins like me schooled in the East and can speak Igbo so does that make me an Igbo man?
you talk about the Igbo landing, so it is the plantation in the landing was the only place igbos were sold?
the ijaws were very powerful and because of how reselient we were, we controlled the trading routes. stop being daft, we sold you people for mirror, Dane guns and rum, even umbrellas and fine fabrics.
we were the brokers between the Europeans, the Igbo pride can be measured in the fist of the ijaws, go and read your history properly. ok how did you get to the spot of the Igbo landing?
the ijaws put you in the white men ships and sent you there Madam... go and read up your history. the ijaws are the only people who had Cannons, do you know how expensive canons were?
I even saw my great great great grandpa's Canon when I visited my hometown last year. he got a Canon by exchanging Igbo slaves to the white men, and most war canoe houses had canons.
stop saying trash. we were the wealthiest in those days and we made those wealth by trading igbos and sending them to go and cultivate sugar Cain plantations in the Americas stop talking what you don't know madam, I will School you. you don't know history...I don't blame you because Nigeria do not teach history