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Alabo7978:
what foreigners?
you know nothing, we held treaties with the Brits and Portuguese, we also warred with them, we captured your ancestors as slaves and renamed them you slowpoke.. seriously you need to visit the history books. for instance mbanaso okwarazurumba was bought, enculturated and renamed Jubo jubogha, the SLAVES swore filthy to their lord and masters who turned clans into powerful city states, at the mention of the coastal dwellers, the hinterlanders bow. if it wasn't for modernization, you omanambala would have been renamed igoin-tara.
you know nothing, go and visit the history books and brush up.
a slave has no guts to talk this way to his master.
we are influential, powerful and wealthy from the 1400s till tomorrow. it is because it is not in the ijaw people to make noise and brag. we do our talking when necessary, our hands are clean, we aren't ritualistic but Noble men, now crawl back to your slave infested home and shut your gutter.
bl00dy despicable rotten descendant of slaves.

Are you daft or what ? How many times on this thread have my brothers showed you how the European explorers described you. You were living in the dirty and disease infested creeks like bunch of sunhumans committing all sort of atrocities. You had no land to call your own until you started migrating to these Igbo towns like Okrika , Kalabari and Nembe.

What treaty are you talking about. Aro were already exposed , well travelled and a very intelligent people before the arrival of the white men.

You didn't know medicine , trade , metal work nor anything. Who said you could speak ??

SlayerForever:
Abriba trace what?

yes you heard it right.
I have a close friend named David from ABRIBA.
I also attended his father's traditional retirement and we talk history too. they all say they migrated from bom. THEIR CULTURE IS EVEN ROOTED IN THE MATRILINEAL CULTURE. even many of the Aro people migrated from bom, the ubini-ukpabi which you ibos claim is even an akwa-ibom deity.
certified grabbers. I know alot about many of the Igbo clans!

Omanambala:
Are you daft or what ? How many times on this thread have my brothers showed you how the European explorers described you. You were living in the dirty and disease infested creeks like bunch of sunhumans committing all sort of atrocities. You had no land to call your own until you started migrating to these Igbo towns like Okrika , Kalabari and Nembe.

What treaty are you talking about. Aro were already exposed , well travelled and a very intelligent people before the arrival of the white men.

You didn't know medicine , trade , metal work nor anything. Who said you could speak ??

this is a prove that you know nothing at all.

the first expedition was carried out in the early 1800s and only Igbo words were collected.
subsequent expeditions were carried out by smith, Merrick, Clarke, Sigismund Koelle on his book Polyglotta Africana'.
linguist such as Paul hair, Gerrit Dimmendaal, Williamson kay, Roger Blench etc later took notice of the ijoid Languages.
you are an illiterate, a dullard, a braindead buffalo.

I am a Nembe man and we are an ijoid speaking city state.
even the Alagoa you all condemn is a Nembe man.
my goodness God, grow a brain.
just as the Igbo nation has okija, umuahia, mbaise, akwa, Onitsha etc, that is how ijaw has clans or towns like Nembe, okrika, kalabari Bonny Gbaran, Obolo, Opobo, Akassa etc.

Yoruba has Ife, oyo, Lagos, ijebu etc..

that is what an ethnic nationality is. I thought you are intelligent, but you are not.
to shock you, there is no particular tribe as "ijaw" just as there is no particular tribe named Igbo or Yoruba.
everyone defending ijaw here is spread vast from the various clans. me am a Nembe man.
my God, do we still have dullards in this era were information is easily obtainable?
brother man, ijaw is the name of the nationality, check yourself you no well. there is no particular name of a location known as "ijaw" just as "Yoruba" and "IBO" it is only the name of the nationality.
what is a nation?
a nation are group of people that share same believes, habits, cultural norms, philosophy, Language, history.

all this things I took time to explain won't still enter your head because you are a natural dullard, a braindead one for that matter.

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Alabo7978:
yes you heard it right.
I have a close friend named David from ABRIBA.
I also attended his father's traditional retirement and we talk history too. they all say they migrated from bom. THEIR CULTURE IS EVEN ROOTED IN THE MATRILINEAL CULTURE. even many of the Aro people migrated from bom, the ubini-ukpabi which you ibos claim is even an akwa-ibom deity.
certified grabbers. I know alot about many of the Igbo clans!

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SaintBishop:
Yes the truth is Okrika people are Originally ijaws not the fake narratives you all keep parading In that your stupid igbo group. In an attempt to win an argument,you end up exposing your lies. Thank you Eastlink thank you very much. Now we know that Okrikans are indeed ijaws who enslaved igbos.

Neutral observers from Europe denoted Igbos as a superior race about 200years ago. What this means is that Ijaws and the rest are inferior to Igbos

SlayerForever:
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lol, ok. when you see points you can't counter you cancel.
na so you dn cancel your brain go so o.

Alabo7978:
lol, ok.
when you see points you can't counter you cancel.

na so you dn cancel your brain go so o.

Nothing of note to counter there bro.

SlayerForever:
Nothing of note to counter there bro.

you want to deny that the Aro people aren't akwa-ibomite?
you also want to deny the fact that ubini-ukpabi isn't originally a bom deity?
you also want to deny the fact that ABRIBA people migrated from bom and they also practice MATRILINEAL CULTURE?

lol, keep dodging and avoiding it like a plague.

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Alabo7978:
you want to deny that the Aro people aren't akwa-ibomite?
you also want to deny the fact that ubini-ukpabi isn't originally a bom deity?
you also want to deny the fact that ABRIBA people migrated from bom and they also practice MATRILINEAL CULTURE?

lol, keep dodging and avoiding it like a plague.

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BS.

It is by force to be Ijaw. ... The man no gree, so tey he was giving reasons to tell them they are Ijaw and rubbing mind with them. ... This Ijaw people want to colonize Rivers by force by fire. Don't mind me it's computer screenshots.

SlayerForever:
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BS.

mumu.
Igbo people ehn...God forbid...
after the ibibio ruling house welcomed the Igbo batch that came, they conspired to remove him and replacing him with another prince whose mother is Igbo, but the coup was repelled. the igbos invited the akpas from cross river who were enemies of ibibio and they drove the ibibios away.

that was what yoy wanted to do with the okoloama people but they were smarter and more crafty because they learnt the Igbo people Language.

give igbos an inch, and they will want the whole square.
anyways... the ABRIBA and Aro people are cross river/ibibio people and the ubini-ukpabi whom igbos claim is not even theirs.

claimers tufiaa.

SlayerForever:
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BS.

Aro belongs to Ibibios. The dynasty and the deities of Aro belongs to the Ibibios.

Omanambala:
Are you daft or what ? How many times on this thread have my brothers showed you how the European explorers described you. You were living in the dirty and disease infested creeks like bunch of sunhumans committing all sort of atrocities. You had no land to call your own until you started migrating to these Igbo towns like Okrika , Kalabari and Nembe.

What treaty are you talking about. Aro were already exposed , well travelled and a very intelligent people before the arrival of the white men.

You didn't know medicine , trade , metal work nor anything. Who said you could speak ??

Hahahahahahahah guy easy!

ThickSharon123:
It is by force to be Ijaw. ... The man no gree, so tey he was giving reasons to tell them they are Ijaw and rubbing mind with them. ... This Ijaw people want to colonize Rivers by force by fire. Don't mind me it's computer screenshots.

Lolzzzz omo see Warning!

ThickSharon123:
It is by force to be Ijaw. ... The man no gree, so tey he was giving reasons to tell them they are Ijaw and rubbing mind with them. ... This Ijaw people want to colonize Rivers by force by fire. Don't mind me it's computer screenshots.

Have you seen any Okrikan bearing Igbo names? Have you see any Okrikan addressing our king as Eze or igwe? Have you see any Okrikan person dressing in Igbo attire? The answer is no.
I don't believe anything you igbo bring here as evidence in our very eyes,you are trying to change the meaning of Wakirike from we are not different to children of the creeks.
Is it by force to be igbos? Is it by force to be bothers? You are doing all these things because you want to turn Port Harcourt into an Igbo city. But know this, no inch of Okrika land will be given to igbos,any Igbo you see in Okrika are descendant of Igbo slaves,and slave are owner of no land.
Okrika is still an ijaws clan it is there on Wikipedia if you have real courage, go and edit to an Igbo clan I dare you.

OfoIgbo:
Neutral observers from Europe denoted Igbos as a superior race about 200years ago. What this means is that Ijaws and the rest are inferior to Igbos

You are a superior race yet you are unable to rule Nigeria for the pass 66 yrs. Stupid. You are a superior race yet you are begging and dragging other people to join your unholy Biafra of a country. Foolishness.
You are a superior race yet you were enslaved by everyone including ijaw,heck even an ijaw an ijaw clan (Okrika) enslaved you. Worthless.
You are a superior race yet you are hated everywhere you go,be here in Nigeria, Africa Asian,the middle east, or even in Europe. Pathetic.
You are a pathetic,worthless, foolish tribe even Yahweh himself don't want you.

Non-Igbo groups moved to the area to get closer to the Europeans that would port there. Meaning the Europeans were even there before the Ijaw etc.

Liebermantic:
Thank God for ancient documented history of Bonny, Opobo, Kalabari and Okrika..
Ijaws were claiming Igbo language came to these places through slave trade..This is false as all ancient Precolonial and colonial history books on these towns all point to Igbo Origin.

Yes that's why we bear ijaw names and not igbos, We are waiting for the day you unwanted souls will come and claim Okrika physical and not on Nairaland. It is amazing how you are thanking the Europeans,the same Europeans you hate for creating Nigeria who you called zoo. The way Wike nearly wipe you out on this surface of this earth in Oyigbo,will be a child's play compare to what we will do to you land grabbing pests,this time around you will scream more than abandoned properties

SlayerForever:
INTRODUCTION TO BONNY HISTORY

Chapter 2 - CULTURE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction.

2. Culture of historical Bonny Kingdom.

2.1 Perception of the Supreme Being amongst the Bonny people in history.

2.2 Other traditional practices of the Bonny people in history.

- Iguana worship.

- New Yam festival.

- Shaving as act of mourning.

- Symbolism of the elephant tusk.

- Iria ceremony.

- Hunting expeditions.


INTRODUCTION

In this chapter we look at the core cultural and traditional practices of the Bonny people as recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries. These practices were observed by various scholars of that era, and consequently recorded as first-hand information, the sources of which include, in some cases, discussions and interviews with the Pepple kings.

Before we proceed however, we customarily access the viewpoints of some academic giants in the subject of interest. Professor Jones M. Jaja, Professor of African and social history, institute of foundation studies, Rivers state university of science and technology, whilst speaking about Ibani culture in the academic release "Ibani dieties and methods of worship...", informs us as follows, "The Ibani trace linkages through the kitchen lineages called "Burusoyo" or "Burusu". Lineage is also traced through the ereji blade. The ereji refers to the matriarch who ritually admitted new slaves into the family...” (pg. 34406) ¹.

The above submission paints the picture of a matriarchal society, and therefore by consequence would mean that the Ibani people, Bonny and Opobo, are a matriarchal race. This generally is in agreement with the matrilineal perception of the ijaw people traditionally.
Professor Jones continuing on Ibani culture presents that, "Eremina-Ogbo (Ere-Ogbo) is a female dance group with a few men who beat the drums. Eremina-Ogbo is the dance group associated with the Iria-bo womanhood rites” (pg 34406) ¹.

Above mentioned is the Iria ceremony (Iriabo). The Iria ceremony is a feminine cultural practice that celebrates the coming of age of a young woman amongst the people of Bonny, Opobo, Okrika, Kalabari etc which in recent times has gained international coverage from several reputable media.


In getting a clearer understanding of the Ijaw feminine concept of divinity we are aided by the work of Professor Christopher Abraham Ajueyitsi titled "God: Male, female or asexual?", an inaugural lecture presented at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma in 2004. According to Professor Christopher Ajueyitsi, "the classical example of this feminine concept of God in Africa is found among the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria, who speak of God STRICTLY in feminine terms. All their names and attributes for God are strictly feminine, and they apply to Her alone. They have four names for the Supreme Being, namely, Temearau (Tamara), moulder of the universe. Tamuno is the Kalabari variant of Temearau. The second name is Ayebaarau..."the foundress of the universe”, (thirdly) Woyingi or Oyin, “our mother” and Oginarau, "she who dwells in the heavens.." (pg 10) ²

Hence we can observe the strictly feminine nature of the supreme being as perceived by the Ijaw Ethnicity. Another worthy mention is the devotion to water spirits which is also a fundamental feature in the Ijaw traditional religion.


CULTURE OF HISTORICAL BONNY KINGDOM

Unlike origin which is usually a static point, culture bears the capacity to reshape, absorb and drop aspects of itself with the passing of time. It is observed that the current cultural practices of a people in the present may vary greatly from what was obtainable centuries ago. This mostly is due to an array of circumstances, many beyond the control of man. However, the practices of the long past paint a clearer picture of the heritage of a people, before several distortions over time, and helps to better understand, piece together and appreciate the present.

In view of the above stated fact, we once more look into the earliest documented history of Bonny as recorded centuries ago.


PERCEPTION OF THE SUPREME BEING AMONGST THE BONNY PEOPLE IN HISTORY

Perhaps of the greatest significance in evaluating Bonny's perception of a supreme diety was the recorded conversation between King Pepple and Trade Captain John Smith circa 1835. In this interesting exchange, Pepple shares his desire to kill God if he can, because according to him, if he succeeds in killing God then he Pepple, can live forever. Apparently, in Pepple’s estimation, God is the one who takes a man's life (Pg 90) ³.

An abridged representation of Pepple's conversation with John Smith is captured below :

Pepple : Suppose God was here I must kill him one minute!

John Smith : You can not kill God.

Pepple : I know I cannot kill him but suppose I could kill him, I would.

John Smith : And suppose you could, why would you kill him.
Pepple : Because he makes men to die.

From the above discourse it is very clear that the traditional religion of Pepple and consequentially, his subjects, was one that identified their Supreme Being as a male manifestation rather than a female, and Pepple wished to physically subdue Him if he ever got the chance, as any man would wish towards an adversary. The conversation however did not end there.

John Smith may be credited as the first European to forward the notion of a Christian God to a Pepple King, and by consequence to the Bonny people. John Smith, during the tricky conversation captured above, goes ahead to carefully describe the tenets of Christianity to a Pepple he knew very well could be very obstinate and unyielding to a foreign tradition. He shares the Bible creation story which Pepple enjoys while expressing his opinion that the serpent should have been destroyed immediately. Afterwards, John presents the gospel of the messiah.

It is worthy of note that while John Smith shares the Christian belief of a God who is a Father and his son who is the messiah, no where does Pepple ever interject in the conversation that God is indeed a woman (Pg 94) ³, as would have been the case if that was the belief he held. Pepple and indeed most of the Bonnians were not known to keep mute when the very core of their tradition was being challenged. If the God Creator of the Bonny people was a woman, Pepple would definitely have challenged the Christian notion of a masculine God.

Also of a strong note is the fact that across hundreds of books written in that era, hardly any one of the scholars recorded a matriarchal trado-religion for the Bonny people. Such a detail would never have escaped the very meticulous scholars if such was the case. Instead they all record the Bonnians as believing in a more regular masculine Deity, and also a patriarchal system of inheritance as obtainable within any other Igbo community. The foreign matriarchal inheritance system adopted by some Bonnians of today is a source of contention and turbulence within the Bonny society.


OTHER TRADITIONAL PRACTICES OF THE BONNY PEOPLE IN HISTORY

Numerous practices were observed amongst the Bonny people, however for the sake of brevity and focus we consider the core traditional elements.

IGUANA WORSHIP : One of the most frequently mentioned practices of the Bonny people was the worship of the iguana. The iguana was the tutelary diety of the Bonny people until its destruction in the wake of Bonny’s acceptance of Christianity. However, before the adoption of the iguana as the national emblem, the Bonny people were noted to have revered the monkey, as recorded by John Smith (pg 61) ³ and Major Arthur Glynn (pg 280) ⁴. Reverence of the monkey is of consequence and points to the fact that though the Bonnians had adapted to life on the coast, their original ancestors were most likely forest dwellers. This is generally in agreement with the established fact that the Bonnians originally came from the forest regions of the Igbo hinterland.

NEW YAM FESTIVAL: Another practice of note observed amongst the Bonny people is the New Yam festival. According to Crow, "On occasion of planting the yam, which is a principal article of food, and also when it is dug up, a grand ceremony is performed, intended as an expression of thankfulness to Providence for its bountiful supply of the fruits of the earth" (pg 223) ⁵.

From the above we are able to appreciate the ancient life of the Bonny people, in their traditional way of celebrating the yam. This is one traditional practice that is at the very foundation of Igbo tradition. There is arguably nowhere else in the entire world that yam holds the extolled position it does amongst the Igbos, hence for the Bonny people to have celebrated both the beginning of the yam planting season and the festival of the new yam, it is indeed a no-brainer that Bonny was like any other Igbo community. Observe also that the writer informs us that not only is yam celebrated, but also it is a principal meal amongst the early Bonnians. In addition to yam, cassava was also identified as a staple food of the Bonny people (pg 252) ⁵. A common feature in the Igbo diet.

SHAVING AS AN ACT OF MOURNING : Another practice of note was the burial rites observed on occasion of death. One of the major rites as documented, was the shaving of the hair and wearing of specified clothes in mourning of a deceased relation (pg 72) ³. A traditional practice still very common amongst the Igbos to this day.

SYMBOLISM OF THE ELEPHANT TUSK : As far back as 300 years ago the reverence of the elephant tusk amongst the Bonny people had already been well established. During Barbot's stay at Bandy (French adaptation of Bonny) in 1699, he observed the symbolic use of elephant tusks. According to John Barbot, "Thus with much patience all our matters were adjusted indifferently....The king ordered the public cryer to proclaim the permission (of his people to/) of trade with us, with the noise of his trumpets, being elephant's teeth..." (pg 459) ⁶.

Over a hundred years later, John Smith will also observe and record the significant use of the elephant tusk amongst the Bonny people as means of making key announcements (pg 120) ³. Exactly as obtainable in the general Igbo society.
But perhaps the most illustrative of the high significance of the elephant tusk in Bonny culture is its use by its most prominent person, the King. Bonny kings from time immemorial have been known to carry the Ọdụ mkpa alọ (Odu as called in Bonny to this day) as a symbol of their authority. This practice is steeped in tradition, Igbo tradition to be precise, where a bearer of the Odu is regarded as having attained the pinnacle of societal achievements.
The Ọdụ, till this day is carried by the Kings of Bonny and Opobo as their symbol of authority over their domain.

IRIA CEREMONY : The Iria ceremony as observed amongst the Bonny people and the neighboring tribes of Okrika and Kalabari is a cultural practice that has attained wide recognition in recent times. The Iria is celebrated amongst the women folk at different stages of their lives from early youth through adulthood.

Whilst the ceremony has continued to gain recognition, little is researched on as regards its origin. This had lead to a situation where it is erroneously linked to the Ijaw Ethnicity of Nigeria.
The Iria ceremony has as its original traditional name : Ị rụ Mgbede (coming of age/maturity). A keen eye can quickly observe how time and circumstances have worn and distorted the original Igbo words of Ị rụ (to attain/to reach) to Iria, while the Mgbede (maturity) has been casually discarded. Hence the current name of “Iria” could be argued to be meaningless, or at best a poor reproduction of the original. The Iru Mgbede ceremony is an age long female coming of age ceremony found amongst several Igbo communities. The ceremony was usually practiced as soon as the girl child attained puberty. At this time the girl(s) go into seclusion as the traditional rites begin in earnest. According to Igbo culture the men were never allowed into the seclusion area.

For the stipulated time of seclusion, usually about 3 months, the girls are closely tended and taught in clear details how to manage their homes by mostly aged mothers. Also the girls are fattened and their shapes worked upon such that they are irresistible to the male folk on completion of Iru Mgbede.
On completion of their time in Ị rụ Mgbede the girls were made to go through the ceremony of "Ipu Ama" i.e stepping out/public display, in some cases at the village square or at the market, with her body beautifully adorned in uli (camwood).
At the completion of this the girls were now completely qualified to be espoused.

lru Mgbede also served to ensure that girls did not engage in premarital engagements as it was a taboo for a girl to be impregnated before her Iru Mgbede ceremony.
In the Ngwa and Ukwa-Ngwa areas of Igbo land where Bonny people descend from, the ceremony bears the exact name as captured above : Ị rụ Mgbede, as against other variations of the name to be found in other parts of Igbo land like Ida Mgbede, Ịnọ Mkpuke, Ikwaezi in Mgbidi, Ibauke in Umuahia. The neighboring communities to Bonny where Iria is celebrated today which include Okrika, Kalabari (New Calabar), are all recorded to originally have Igbo ancestry, Okrika being from Afam Ndoki (pg 24) ⁴ and New Calabar descended from Arochukwu and a section of the Efik from the Duke Ephraim family of Calabar (pg 265) ⁷ and (pg 25) ⁴ with elements of both Igbo and Efik culture still observable in New Calabar. Until the modern era it was still the practice in new Calabar to take a deceased chief to Arochukwu to be buried.

The claims in some quarters that the Iru Mgbede now Iria and also the Nwaotam forest masquerade of the Igbo race are mediums of connecting to the water spirits, are bogus and should be consequently disregarded. The culturally inclined can observe there is no connection to water divinities whatsoever in both ceremonies, and there are no basis for such whatsoever.

HUNTING EXPEDITION : Great hunting expeditions were recorded amongst the ancient Bonny people by writers and other observers of the time. Until the modern era, every year the great chiefs and men of Bonny held a hunting festival. As reported by Richard Francis Burton, “Once a year every great house with its chief repairs to the bush and makes a surround of men and boys to trap gazelles and antelopes...the evening of the battue is spent in devouring its proceeds and in hard striving with strong drinks” (pg 293) ⁷. John Smith also reports on this annual hunting festival, “...After a successful battue when more deer have been captured than suffice to satisfy their appetites, they (deer) are laid about in their rooms with their four legs tied together...” (pg 153) ³.

Great hunting expeditions into the outlying forests were a commonplace event in the Igbo society and both the young and older men looked upon this hunting expeditions as an opportunity to show their hunting prowess to the admiration of the community. Great hunters were given high recognition amongst the Igbo people.
In recent times though hunting expeditions have declined with the rise in modernisation.
Most of the aforementioned points which have been discussed above are major cultural elements of the Bonny people, some of which are still observed even to this day. These cultural elements as investigated, stand side by side with practices obtainable across the rest of the Igbo nation.


REFERENCES

1. Jones M. Jaja (2015). Ibani Dieties and Methods of Worship : A survey of extinct traditions in the Niger Delta.

2. Dime, C. A. (2004). God: Male, female or asexual? Inaugural Lecture. Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.

3. John Smith (1851). Trade and travels In The Gulf of Guinea, Western Africa. Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Stationers Hall Court, And Thomas Gill, Easingworld.

4. Major Arthur Glynn Leonard (1906). The Lower Niger And It’s Tribes. London : Macmillan and Co. Limited.

5. Hugh Crow (1830). Memoirs of the late Captain Crow of Liverpool. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; And G. And J. Robinson , Liverpool.

6. John Barbot (1746). A Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea. London : Assignment from Messrs Churchill.

7. Richard Francis Burton (1863). Wanderings in West Africa Volume II. London : Tinsley Brothers.

I see, so in your history/write up no relationship between Bille and Bonny. Bille and Bonny has no cultural relationship/ties meanwhile both has been aged long best of friends and brothers. Is alright.

At bolded, that history is not correct. Is that what the Okrikans tell the publisher of this historic books? Indeed true history is been buried for centuries what we see now are half baked histories or distorted history. For record sake Okrikans migrated from Akpata Bille(Okolo Bille/Old Bille) in Ogonokom, Centeal Abua in Abua/Odual LGA. Same thing goes to Bille people, Ibani, Nembe people and Ogoloma people all were settled as relatives at that Ogonokom metropolis community which is now a small village and still existing in Abua. I would stop here but if you doubt go and ask questions.

I come in peace.

Bokroma Owu tuwo

WorWorBoy:
Have you seen any Okrikan bearing Igbo names? Have you see any Okrikan addressing our king as Eze or igwe? Have you see any Okrikan person dressing in Igbo attire? The answer is no.
I don't believe anything you igbo bring here as evidence in our very eyes,you are trying to change the meaning of Wakirike from we are not different to children of the creeks.
Is it by force to be igbos? Is it by force to be bothers? You are doing all these things because you want to turn Port Harcourt into an Igbo city. But know this, no inch of Okrika land will be given to igbos,any Igbo you see in Okrika are descendant of Igbo slaves,and slave are owner of no land.
Okrika is still an ijaws clan it is there on Wikipedia if you have real courage, go and edit to an Igbo clan I dare you.

Abeg rest. Now you're bringing name into it ... You people are total clowns. ... Sometimes I shame for these IYC Ijaw youths. And by the way, Okrirka has fierce, bold Igbo ancestors that was greatly adored by foreigners, iJaws are trying to attach themselves by using the past, and heinous trade of slaveery to peel out any Igbo origin, but let's just say we thank God for the past historians who wrote down the details of these cultures in the past. If not it would have been oral, or totally lost.

But we thank God, most Okrirkans are waking up to this, this is the time of awakening nnugo... Not that fabricated history of Alagoa (which is even a portrguese name self, Ijaws have no culture at all) that has been made and tailored by that conman.

WorWorBoy:
Yes that's why we bear ijaw names and not igbos, We are waiting for the day you unwanted souls will come and claim Okrika physical and not on Nairaland. It is amazing how you are thanking the Europeans,the same Europeans you hate for creating Nigeria who you called zoo. The way Wike nearly wipe you out on this surface of this earth in Oyigbo,will be a child's play compare to what we will do to you land grabbing pests,this time around you will scream more than abandoned properties

Ijaw doesn't have names. Is it Hart, Periwinkle Bakosi, Highland, Tammy, Tobin Alagoa, Dickson, Sylva or Perry that are iJaw names? All those names you do see that are a bit ethnic in Bayelsa like, Ebiere, Adugo, or the likes are Nembe , Ogbia and the likes which either have Igbo or Edo origin in one way.

Ijaw names are mostly British, you people bow to the British, so you had to incorporate their culture by all means.

Bia here, don't you hear when the books say Ijaw was never a tribe, not to talk of clan. Stop being silly.

And you people claim meet them in physical. My question I want to ask, are Igbo's not living there, not the ones from Okrirka oooo... But Igbos and communicating with their kins men in Okrirka in their language. We do see Facebook posts, and various posts online. So all these physical, physical Is not sounding like a child crying for his sweet. A pained child.

Why don't you go there in physical and tell all of them in the market you are Ijaw and let's see how it goes. ... ozuo, Nnama.


And another thing, I heard the Olobiri oil in Bayelsa has finished. How true is that? ...chai, chai.... I weep for Ijaws, parasites of the highest order. But I won't make fun of Ogbia when I saw that comment one of them made in Ijaw history, I was struck with compassion, she doesn't want to do anything with Ijaw, she even went as far as saying they came from Congo basin, I understand the plight. .

Kantinue Mr. Ijaw man, all these you gra-gra and claim is becuase of oil, and perhaps because of the importance Nigeria held Ijaws when they found the oil in your lands. One day it go finish, or the world would move on to something else, just like the moved from the rich coal area of Enugu to another thing.

And the most silliest part of it all as I've read in books and the Willinks report, how the Igbos shared their treasures almost equally with you, there was no mention of one tribe having more or trying to usurp another in the Eastern region. But becuase boom Ijaw found oil, they felt they can do and undo ... Not knowing as the oil destroys your land and makes it infertile who do you have to confide in.

Wait a minute, I believe I now know why the attachment and colonization of lands by the Ijaws. Their land is infertile at this point because of the oil smear so they have to search for more lands to live on.... Oh my gosh

SaintBishop:
You are a superior race yet you are unable to rule Nigeria for the pass 66 yrs. Stupid. You are a superior race yet you are begging and dragging other people to join your unholy Biafra of a country. Foolishness.
You are a superior race yet you were enslaved by everyone including ijaw,heck even an ijaw an ijaw clan (Okrika) enslaved you. Worthless.
You are a superior race yet you are hated everywhere you go,be here in Nigeria, Africa Asian,the middle east, or even in Europe. Pathetic.
You are a pathetic,worthless, foolish tribe even Yahweh himself don't want you.

No Ijaw clan can ever enslave Igbos. All these Una Alagoa crap can't work on me.
Go to the Americas and you will find traces of Ijaw slaves, obviously sold by their Igbo superiors of Ubani.

Now you can go and hang yourself on the information provided by neutral European observers that Igbos are superior to the Jos men.

Show us ancient records to prove that Ijaws even had the intelligence to sell Igbos. None exists.
Any modern tale by bloggers and Twitter users, are just Alagoa inspired pieces of crap

OfoIgbo:
No Ijaw clan can ever enslave Igbos. All these Una Alagoa crap can't work on me.
Go to the Americas and you will find traces of Ijaw slaves, obviously sold by their Igbo superiors of Ubani.

Now you can go and hang yourself on the information provided by neutral European observers that Igbos are superior to the Jos men

You want to cry? let me give you tissue to wipe your tears? You are a worthless and useless tribe. You can't even saves yourselves from getting fvck from small ikwerres,who claim to be from Benin. How useless can you baboons be? And there's nothing like ubani, it Is IBANI you land grabbing lost Jews.

SaintBishop:
You want to cry? let me give you tissue to wipe your tears? You are a worthless and useless tribe. You can't even saves yourselves from getting fvck from small ikwerres,who claim to be from Benin. How useless can you baboons be? And there's nothing ubani, is IBANI.

Point of correction it's Ubani. ... We all know Ibani is Ijaws way of pronoucniation. The history books have divulged all the secrets.

And Ijaws never sold Igbos. Impossicant.

ThickSharon123:
Stay there and keep on fooling yoruself, Mr. Physical. After I give you points the answer would be, "Go and meet them physical nah."

The name is Ibani https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibani_tribe it is there on Wikipedia there's nothing like ubani in wikipedia bloody Igbo criminal. Oh I'm waiting or the day Bonny people will roast you unholy land grabbers alive.

SaintBishop:
The name is Ibani https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibani_tribe it is there on Wikipedia there's nothing like ubani in wikipedia bloody Igbo criminal. Oh I'm waiting or the day Bonny people will roast you unholy land grabbers alive.

It is Ubani, argue with your keyboard ...most Bonny and especially Opobo people know, so that Ibani is simply an adulterated form of Ijaw language and no one is buying it.

Bonny and Opobo Igbo language is Ubani, and I'm not speaking of your Ibani nosnese if you're misunderstanding me.

ThickSharon123:
Born slaves. Even Ijaw, I mean Ijaw were sold as slaves. You people were a thousand or so, and they sound a thousand of you. So how many you people come be abeg for that time?

. I know the reason why you Ijaws can't stand the Igbos becuase they are way better than you in all things, and you so want to be like them. That's why you imitate them in all things. But as I always say, you people no reach.
By the way, Ijaws are the real born slaves. See Pot that's calling clean kettle black.

Why we will ijaws want to be like your worthless pathetic abominations slaves who are yet to rule Nigeria since 66 years ago? Spit.And btw ijaws are not slaves,we are your lords. Even Asari boast of how his kalabari clan enslaved you worthless people.

SaintBishop:
Why we ijaws want to be like your worthless pathetic abominations slaves who are yet to rule Nigeria since 66 years ago? Spit.And btw ijaws ate not slaves,we are you lords. Even Asari boast of how his kalabari clan enslaved your worthless people.

You People want to be like us by all means. Our clothes, masquerades, culture everything you people copy, copy. That's how on that silly, baseless Ijaw forum I saw one that said Isia agu was made by Ijaws; funny bunch of creek nomads.

It was said by a past historian and I quote explicitly;

"Jo men seem to be lost, they have no origin and culture whatsoever..."
I can never forget that quote ... So the question is, where was your culture derived from? That's how you people claim from Bini, to Oru in Imo state, to Aboh, to Ile-Ife trying to make up for the mess you people are.

ThickSharon123:
Ijaw doesn't have names. Is it Hart, Periwinkle Bakosi, Highland, Tammy, Tobin Alagoa, Dickson, Sylva or Perry that are iJaw names? All those names you do see that are a bit ethnic in Bayelsa like, Ebiere, Adugo, or the likes are Nembe , Ogbia and the likes which either have Igbo or Edo origin in one way.

Ijaw names are mostly British, you people bow to the British, so you had to incorporate their culture by all means.

Bia here, don't you hear when the books say Ijaw was never a tribe, not to talk of clan. Stop being silly.

And you people claim meet them in physical. My question I want to ask, are Igbo's not living there, not the ones from Okrirka oooo... But Igbos and communicating with their kins men in Okrirka in their language. We do see Facebook posts, and various posts online. So all these physical, physical Is not sounding like a child crying for his sweet. A pained child.

Why don't you go there in physical and tell all of them in the market you are Ijaw and let's see how it goes. ... ozuo, Nnama.


And another thing, I heard the Olobiri oil in Bayelsa has finished. How true is that? ...chai, chai.... I week for Ijaws, parasites of the highest order. But I won't make fun of Ogbia when I saw that comment one of them made in Ijaw history, I was struck with compassion, she doesn't want to do anything with Ijaw, she even went as far as saying they came from Congo basin, I understand the plight. .

Kantinue Mr. Ijaw man, all these you gra-gra and claim is becuase of oil, and perhaps because of the importance Nigeria held Ijaws when they found the oil in your lands. One day it go finish, or the world would move on to something else, just like the moved from the rich coal area of Enugu to another thing.

And the most silliest part of it all as I've read in books and the Willinks report, how the Igbos shared their treasures almost equally with you, there was no mention of one tribe having more or trying to usurp another in the Eastern region. But becuase boom Ijaw found oil, they felt they can do and undo ... Not knowing as the oil destroys your land and makes it infertile who do you have to confide in.

Wait a minute, I believe I now know why the attachment and colonization of lands by the Ijaws. Their land is infertile at this point because of the oil smear so they have to search for more lands to live on.... Oh my gosh

Any Igbos you see in Okrika are descendant of Igbo slaves. We are waiting for the day you will come and claim Okrika.