With this thread, It is my hope that every true born Bonny or Opobo man would take a close and critical look in the mirror and start asking pertinent questions.

Questions like:
Who am I ?
Who were my ancestors?
Am I really who I have been told to say I am?
What if I am not who I have been told I am?
Why do I feel different?
Why do I share the same cultural traits with some people and not others?
What really happened during the Bonny civil war?
What happened in Bonny and Opobo during the Nigerian civil war?
Why am I being made to learn another local language?
Is there a hidden agenda?
What does historical records say about my proud ancestors?
etc

Shalom.

9Pluto:
With this thread, It is my hope that every true born Bonny or Opobo man would take a close and critical look in the mirror and start asking pertinent questions.

Questions like:
Who am I ?
Who were my ancestors?
Am I really who I have been told to say I am?
What if I am not who I have been told I am?
Why do I feel different?
Why do I share the same cultural traits with some people and not others?
What really happened during the Bonny civil war?
What happened in Bonny and Opobo during the Nigerian civil war?
Why am I being made to learn another local language?
Is there a hidden agenda?
What does historical records say about my proud ancestors?
etc

Shalom.

Thank you so much for the effort at digging this up. I have a friend from Opobo. His name is Jaja. He was the one that made me realize that Opobo people are Ndigbo. I have a cousin that lived in Bonny. She told me that these a re Ndigbo too. I really do not see the issue here debar the fact that the Nigerian government has been doing to Igbo what happens to people who lose wars. It happened to the German empire after world war 1. They're striving using any means possible and any adversary possible to reduce Igbo territory, but I assure you that many of these people know who they are. With the advent of the internet, we Igbo have what it takes to reach out to all our Igbo people all over Nigeria. It is also a matter of time before the Igbo homeland is re-united.

OfoIgbo:


Anywhere that bears Igbo name will remain in Igboland. Any of the Ndoki elders betraying Ndigbo, after collecting money from Ijaw landgrabbing organisations, will be exiled to Gbaramatu, at the appointed time

How is Ndoki an Igbo name.

makemoneywbsite:


Thank you so much for the effort at digging this up. I have a friend from Opobo. His name is Jaja. He was the one that made me realize that Opobo people are Ndigbo. I have a cousin that lived in Bonny. She told me that these a re Ndigbo too. I really do not see the issue here debar the fact that the Nigerian government has been doing to Igbo what happens to people who lose wars. It happened to the German empire after world war 1. They're striving using any means possible and any adversary possible to reduce Igbo territory, but I assure you that many of these people know who they are. With the advent of the internet, we Igbo have what it takes to reach out to all our Igbo people all over Nigeria. It is also a matter of time before the Igbo homeland is re-united.

Oya go and claim them physical.

AfonjaFula:


@Slayerfoever . I always laugh when this people just like us refere them Bonny's as Ibani-Ijaw. It's just like us here with our Hausa-Fulani conjunction. Laughably, it automatically outshows that it's telling of differing people's as the Sene-gambia, the Hausa and us, then the Ijaws and the Ubani's.
Now who are this Ubani's since even them Jo's know they not Ijaw as we know Hausa not Fulani.

When you know nothing about Ijaw just shut up.

Ijaw is made up of different subgroups.

Kalabari-Ijaw
Nembe-Ijaw
Wakirike-Ijaw
Ibani-Ijaw
Obolo-Ijaw
Ogbia-Ijaw
Izon dialect of Ijaw.
Etc.

OfoIgbo:


Anywhere that bears Igbo name will remain in Igboland. Any of the Ndoki elders betraying Ndigbo, after collecting money from Ijaw landgrabbing organisations, will be exiled to Gbaramatu, at the appointed time

You are foolish.
How is Ndoki an Igbo name??

GreatBoss:


You are foolish.
How is Ndoki an Igbo name??

Ndoki is a subtribe of Igbo.

Omanambala:


Ndoki is a subtribe of Igbo.

The map the different Aminadokiari (Ndoki) Ijaw leaders brought to the Ijaw Republic Liberation Movement Militant Forces, saying that they are Ibani Ijaw people and since they share close borders with other ijaw areas, they want to come with their Ijaw relations.
God be my witness on this.


The new Ijaw Central dialect being worked on in preparation for Ijaw Republic will set all things right for all Ijaws.

God bless the Ijaw Republic.

God bless our hero General Ditari.

GreatBoss:


You are foolish.
How is Ndoki an Igbo name??

How is Ndoki an Ijaw name?

How is Awka an Igbo name

How is Abagana an Igbo name?

But they all count from 1 to 10 the same way, so they are all Igbos

OfoIgbo:


Africanus Horton did not make a guess. To him, Ubani was Igboland as a matter of fact.

Even Ajayi Crowther did not say Bonny was Ijaw

All I see here are a bunch of enthusiasts claiming Bonny as an ibo town even though, from records Bonny was referred to as a mix tribe. In the same vein, ibos supplied the highest number of slaves from the interior to Bonny. The king makers in Bonny are ijaws. These are facts. It would be more plausible for you and your ilks go to Bonny for fact finding. Go find out the ruling houses and who are the kingmakers. These are some of the challenges the ijaws on this thread have consistently thrown at you. I'm sure as a researcher, the Bonny kingdom would be glad to oblige you.

Malawian:

Coastal traders? What were you selling to the Portuguese? Fish?

You wish ibo slaves were fish?

OfoIgbo:


But Equiano noted that cocoayam was EDEA (EDE) in his native language and that his dad was an EMBRENCHE (MGBURU-ICHI). This clearly meant he was Igbo

Lol. Is this a proof he was ibo?

Putindbutt:

Lol. Is this a proof he was ibo?

it is proof that he is a Russian.... A man said he is igbo and he had igbo culture you are there asking stupid questions

It's a proof that he is from the Northern region of Russia and the coldest region

ariesbull:
it is proof that he is a Russian.... A man said he is igbo and he had igbo culture you are there asking stupid questions

It's a proof that he is from the Northern region of Russia and the coldest region

Lol, is this how you guys think?. Did you have an idea why he was referred to as " self-acclaimed west African"?... I bet you didn't.

Putindbutt:

Lol, is this how you guys think?. Did you have an idea why he was referred to as " self-acclaimed west African"?... I bet you didn't.

No he isn't igbo... Equiano (ekwu anọ) isn't igbo as we said before, he is from Siberia region of Russia...

He made a mistake describing himself as igbo and mgbirichi man

Let agree he is from Siberia.... In Russia

Putindbutt:

Lol, is this how you guys think?. Did you have an idea why he was referred to as " self-acclaimed west African"?... I bet you didn't.

I know you are looking for just anything at all to discredit anything Igbo but just to correct you.

Not one soul doubted Equiano's account for 100s of years until an overzealous English man in 1999 by the name of Vincent Carretta, who is a closet slavery denier and sometimes apologist criticised and publish something related to Equiano's account because he claimed he saw a record of someone bearing a "similar birth name" in Virginia.

ariesbull:


No he isn't igbo... Equiano (ekwu anọ) isn't igbo as we said before, he is from Siberia region of Russia...

He made a mistake describing himself as igbo and mgbirichi man

Let agree he is from Siberia.... In Russia

Lol@bold. You guys are clowns, to you,anything that sounds ibo is ibo.
should we also accept Benin claiming him as well, for making reference to Benin kingdom?
The main purpose of Equaino writing his book was to call for the abolition of slave trade in Africa. He visited several African slave camps as an emissary and had a first hand witness accounts extracted from Africa slaves, prompting him to call for end of slavery.

BKayy:

They say half knowledge is worse than none. This terminology from Ajayi Crowther was posted here by Ekealterego but you drunks have been carrying it up and down without knowing the meaning.

The meaning is that Bonny assertion that they are from Ndoki is true and the evidence was Okoloma which is in Ndoki, Igboland.

Have any of you bothered to ask Ekealterego what happened after this page?
Or bothered to look for the book?
No, just jumping up and down with the crumbs that fell from Ekealterego's research table like monkeys.
You drunks eh...

"Half Knowledge is worse than none"

I didn't bother to answer your other clowns, but something caught me that probed me to answer you, you know what? The bolded statement up there. Either you're a liar or a fool.
1) ndoki wasn't mentioned
2) let's say ndoki is mentioned, can we now say calabari speaks that same language?
I thought your other white dude said igbos will always identify under igbos?
How come "ibos" was affiliated with slavery, and okoloama was affiliated with INDIGENES.
All of you, bkayy, Ekealterego SlayerForever Igboid are dunce, masturbating on wrong reports that has since been discarded in Britain and all over the world as false, hasty generalization and absurd; more especially Horton's report which said Nembe was Igbo LMAO.
Reason you don't see any of such on any information website in Nigeria or the world at large.
Nigga bring those poo to court and you'll get bounced.
You people aren't informed at all.
This report your stupid friend Ekealterego mistakenly brought shows the real truth, and that is what all information repository talk about. Like ditaridesciple2 will say, your grabbing ends on nairaland, I trust the people in all of the clans in ijo nation, go and vomit this rubbish to them, them go use you replace smoked fish.

Putindbutt:

Equiano famously known as Gustavus Vassa has his origin very much in contention. Y'all always pick controversial battles.

As controversial as it may be, there's still no other ethnicity that has been offered for his origin outside Igbo. He wrote himself that he is of Eboe origin. You can argue with his words and even his claims but his description of Igboland, his homeland and country is very apt. That was about 250 years ago.
Being controversial is not always bad. Sometimes, it just means you are unique which cause little friction when others don't seem to understand you.

Putindbutt:

Lol, is this how you guys think?. Did you have an idea why he was referred to as " self-acclaimed west African"?... I bet you didn't.

The term 'grabbing at straws' never started today. It has tayyyeeed since it started.
If I may ask you what the idea was behind such reference of him. Could it be that they doubted a black man with just a short period of informal education could write so well (at that time) or that his vivid descriptions in his book didn't tally with what someone of his age at departure of Igboland could remember of his country?
Whatever the case, he never left in doubt his ethnicity. He wrote it boldly that he was Igbo. You can choke on it.

Ekealterego:

Okoloma existed before any human dwelled in Bonny. Stop your fables. OKoloma is as old as Ndoki.
Another fable, Tales by the moonlight. Where is this written? We come with fact, you come with myths with no receipts.
See the difference.
Slayerforever, Eastlink (see your Alinsaw Egbema), Newage98, see your Ekpahia (Ekpeye), Bkayy, Igboid.
Let us make reference to a colonial map of Igboland.

You can see Ubani at the bottom

you said that is a map of Igbo subgroup, but I am seeing
Abak, eket, ikot ekpene,
Explain this.
Have you seen why even the British threw away that report?
Similar report which Horton said Nembe was Igbo, now those clowns are including Abak, ikot ekpene, eket, and you wonder why the information isn't what you see on various information repository or even the British archives.
Nwan'nem you are a fool.
Come on take this stupid rubbish out of my face.

Putindbutt:

Lol. Is this a proof he was ibo?

Of course it is a proof that he was Igbo, alongside his statement that he came from the Eboe country.

Otherwise show us how Eboe is a misspelling of Ijaw.

OfoIgbo:


How is Ndoki an Ijaw name?

How is Awka an Igbo name

How is Abagana an Igbo name?

But they all count from 1 to 10 the same way, so they are all Igbos

They are Ibani Ijaw people.
Ndoki was Aminadokiari meaning we were looking for our relations. The white couldn't pronounce it and called it Ndoki.
Today Ibani dialect will still say Waminadokiari. Meaning same thing.
The relations they had missed and we're looking for was Bonny people.

Alabo7978:
you said that is a map of Igbo subgroup, but I am seeing
Abak, eket, ikot ekpene,
Explain this.
Have you seen why even the British threw away that report?
Similar report which Horton said Nembe was Igbo, now those clowns are including Abak, ikot ekpene, eket, and you wonder why the information isn't what you see on various information repository or even the British archives.
Nwan'nem you are a fool.
Come on take this stupid rubbish out of my face.

Hmm! The Ijaw intellect!!!
Well, bro, it is a pity, If I need to start explaining map reading to you.
Everyone with an IQ above that of a monkey could see the bold highlights demarcating the boundaries.
It is a standard practice in mapping to show the boundaries to the west, East, North and South of the boundary in focus.

Do not be like this your brother recorded by Koell here in 1850s

Ekealterego:

You are not far from the truth. One of those explorers in the 1800, mentioned how "Fulata" people (Fulani) were lying to ambush people around today's Benue or around Kwara or Kogi. I was like wow, just like today.
Concentrating on Igbo, these accounts by Beale Horton (1868) could summerise some of the Igbo character (either positive or negative).
It states that they could copy anything and reproduce it immediately.

it states that they were very competitive.

The fonts are small, but I hope you can see it.

I have been on nairaland since over 10 years but I must say that this thread is probably the most educative and expository thread I have ever seen on this forum. It's quite unfortunate that many people have believed a lie for years now without even making an effort to find out the truth.

Ijaws have absolutely no case in their landgrabbing attempts on Bonny and Opobo because these places have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be Igbo people since recorded history!!

We must keep this thread going while also bringing forth every material/exhibit we can lay our hands on. You're already doing that already, and we must take it from here and also intelligently go to Facebook groups of Bonny and Opobo people and present these facts to them. The reason is because many of them are unfortunately ignorant of these facts and their true heritage. The ijaws are now desperately exploiting this situation to impose a foreign language and culture on them. If the youths of Opobo and Bonny are made to know about these facts of their history, they would be more emboldened to challenge ijaw incursions into their land.

I bet you, there are many ijaw members of IYC and their other groups who are always alarmed and uncomfortable when their lies are exposed. Please if you have any link to Bonny and Opobo Facebook groups, you can share it here too so we can help to enlighten them.

Trying to force Bonny people to abandon the language of their forefathers and learn a foreign one is the height of desperation by the Ijaws and for them to even contemplate it shows the extent of brainwashing that has been going on.

Biafrarep:


I have been on nairaland since over 10 years but I must say that this thread is probably the most educative and expository thread I have ever seen on this forum. It's quite unfortunate that many people have believed a lie for years now without even making an effort to find out the truth.
Mk
We must keep this thread going while

also bringing forth every material/exhibit we can lay our hands on. You're already doing that already, and we must take it from here and also intelligently go to Facebook groups of Bonny and Opobo people and present these facts to them. The reason is because many of them are unfortunately ignorant of these facts and their true heritage. The ijaws are now desperately exploiting this situation to impose a foreign language and culture on them. If the youths of Opobo and Bonny are made to know about these facts of their history, they would be more emboldened to challenge ijaw incursions into their land.

I bet you, there are many ijaw members of IYC and their other groups who are always alarmed and uncomfortable when their lies are exposed. Please if you have any link to Bonny and Opobo Facebook groups, you can share it here too so we can help to enlighten them.

Trying to force Bonny people to abandon the language of their forefathers and learn a foreign one is the height of desperation by the Ijaws and for them to even contemplate it shows the extent of brainwashing that has been going on.

Go claim them physical not online.


Even Ndoki come with Ijaw Republic.
They are Ibani-Ijaw people.
We've headed to the request of their leaders. We've added their areas to the Ijaw Republic map.

You guys must also not forget that I'm from Bonny LGA and we are Ibani Ijaw and never Ibo.

Go and claim us physical.
Then u see world war 3. We sink all Igbos in d ocean.
After all una b stone.

Ekealterego:

Hmm! The Ijaw intellect!!!
Well, bro, it is a pity, If I need to start explaining map reading to you.
Everyone with an IQ above that of a monkey could see the bold highlights demarcating the boundaries.
It is a standard practice in mapping to show the boundaries to the west, East, North and South of the boundary in focus.

Do not be like this your brother recorded by Koell here in 1850s

Don't show us lie write up created by Ibo.

ariesbull:


No he isn't igbo... Equiano (ekwu anọ) isn't igbo as we said before, he is from Siberia region of Russia...

He made a mistake describing himself as igbo and mgbirichi man

Let agree he is from Siberia.... In Russia

Shut up, he was a Beni man
Don't you see your screenshots shows you he was taken from great Beni?

Putindbutt:

Lol@bold. You guys are clowns, to you,anything that sounds ibo is ibo.
should we also accept Benin claiming him as well, for making reference to Benin kingdom?
The main purpose of Equaino writing his book was to call for the abolition of slave trade in Africa. He visited several African slave camps as an emissary and had a first hand witness accounts extracted from Africa slaves, prompting him to call for end of slavery.

Lol, those people are very creative liars and fraudsters.
I saw one some years back on Twitter claiming Babylon as an ancient Igbo speaking people.
He said Nebuchadnezzar was neburu'kam'bu'eze. Omo I was laughing for a week whenever I remember it
Lol... Igbos?
Very creative liars
Elodiau equaino is now being called Igbo because they want to change his name to ekwu'ano,
A Benin man o.
God forbid Igbo people.
Wayo.
They are known for that.

Biafrarep:


I have been on nairaland since over 10 years but I must say that this thread is probably the most educative and expository thread I have ever seen on this forum. It's quite unfortunate that many people have believed a lie for years now without even making an effort to find out the truth.

Ijaws have absolutely no case in their landgrabbing attempts on Bonny and Opobo because these places have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be Igbo people since recorded history!!

We must keep this thread going while also bringing forth every material/exhibit we can lay our hands on. You're already doing that already, and we must take it from here and also intelligently go to Facebook groups of Bonny and Opobo people and present these facts to them. The reason is because many of them are unfortunately ignorant of these facts and their true heritage. The ijaws are now desperately exploiting this situation to impose a foreign language and culture on them. If the youths of Opobo and Bonny are made to know about these facts of their history, they would be more emboldened to challenge ijaw incursions into their land.

I bet you, there are many ijaw members of IYC and their other groups who are always alarmed and uncomfortable when their lies are exposed. Please if you have any link to Bonny and Opobo Facebook groups, you can share it here too so we can help to enlighten them.

Trying to force Bonny people to abandon the language of their forefathers and learn a foreign one is the height of desperation by the Ijaws and for them to even contemplate it shows the extent of brainwashing that has been going on.

in Opobo, an overwhelming number of them know the truth. In Bonny, the Ijaw preaching and propaganda have been there for years however, an overwhelming number of them know the truth.
I believe it is them that will do this mass healings and undoing of miseducations. However, theirs is a very simple case, you do not need too much effort and you do not have to fabricate history, because the records speak volumes.
Someone from Bonny actually explained the Biafran war incident and how they suffered and looking for help while Adaka Boro plundered their land with the federal forces.

Biafrarep:


I have been on nairaland since over 10 years but I must say that this thread is probably the most educative and expository thread I have ever seen on this forum. It's quite unfortunate that many people have believed a lie for years now without even making an effort to find out the truth.

Ijaws have absolutely no case in their landgrabbing attempts on Bonny and Opobo because these places have been proven beyond any reasonable doubt to be Igbo people since recorded history!!

We must keep this thread going while also bringing forth every material/exhibit we can lay our hands on. You're already doing that already, and we must take it from here and also intelligently go to Facebook groups of Bonny and Opobo people and present these facts to them. The reason is because many of them are unfortunately ignorant of these facts and their true heritage. The ijaws are now desperately exploiting this situation to impose a foreign language and culture on them. If the youths of Opobo and Bonny are made to know about these facts of their history, they would be more emboldened to challenge ijaw incursions into their land.

I bet you, there are many ijaw members of IYC and their other groups who are always alarmed and uncomfortable when their lies are exposed. Please if you have any link to Bonny and Opobo Facebook groups, you can share it here too so we can help to enlighten them.

Trying to force Bonny people to abandon the language of their forefathers and learn a foreign one is the height of desperation by the Ijaws and for them to even contemplate it shows the extent of brainwashing that has been going on.

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GreatBoss:



Don't show us lie write up created by Ibo.

Koelle, S.W. (1854.) Polyglotta Africana, or a comparative vocabulary of nearly three hundred words and phrases, in more than one hundred distinct African languages. London, Church Missionary House

This is the source. I understand you people are not very intelligent.