₦airaland Forum

deekseen:
I just laugh at these internet nzogbu warriors dragging Ijaw territories. The Igbos in the real world don't even have time for such. They respect boundaries and are very accommodating.

donbachi:
Op, port Harcourt is not ijaw.mind you;90% of rivers state speaks ibo including opobo

donbachi:
Op, port Harcourt is not ijaw.mind you;90% of rivers state speaks ibo including opobo

Ebi2233:
All Nigeria speak Igbo.Just say that. Oya tell me what Siminaliayi mean in Igbo. That is Fubara Governor elect name. He is from Opobo. Infact tell me Fubara meaning in Igbo too.

Ebi2233:
All Nigeria speak Igbo.Just say that. Oya tell me what Siminaliayi mean in Igbo. That is Fubara Governor elect name. He is from Opobo. Infact tell me Fubara meaning in Igbo too.

kettykings:
What he is saying is that wike has betrayed rivers people and have have lost the heritage and leadership finally to non igboid groups

paramakina202:
Ijaw people are primarily found in Bayelsa state.
There are no Ijaw in Rivers state.
Most people they claim are Ijaw are of Igbo origin.

Ebi2233:
1.Ijaw, 2. Igboid, [Including Ikwerre] 3. Ogoni..


Ijaw with 11 Lgas, out of 23 Lgas are the largest Rivers State Tribe.
Since democracy, only Ijaw have been Deputies for 24 years and now, we are coming as Governor in 2 days time. Ijaw occupy half of Rivers State while other tribes share half.


Ogoni have 4 LGAS.

The Ijaw 11 LGAs are Asari Toru, Akuku Toru, Bonny, Degema, Okrika, Ogu/Bolo, Port Harcourt South, Opobo/Nkoro, Abua/Odual, Andoni, Ahoada West.

These are the ones under all Ijaw Social Cultural Organizations and sign Ijaw accord.

Note; There is no particular language called Ijaw. Ijaw is an association of different groups related by same Ancestry that come together as one.



GENERAL DITARI.

Ebi2233:
All Nigeria speak Igbo.Just say that. Oya tell me what Siminaliayi mean in Igbo. That is Fubara Governor elect name. He is from Opobo. Infact tell me Fubara meaning in Igbo too.

Ebi2233:
Jaja was a slave that we made to be part of us. We made him Ijaw first.

Ebi2233:
1.Ijaw, 2. Igboid, [Including Ikwerre] 3. Ogoni..


Ijaw with 11 Lgas, out of 23 Lgas are the largest Rivers State Tribe.
Since democracy, only Ijaw have been Deputies for 24 years and now, we are coming as Governor in 2 days time. Ijaw occupy half of Rivers State while other tribes share half.


Ogoni have 4 LGAS.

The Ijaw 11 LGAs are Asari Toru, Akuku Toru, Bonny, Degema, Okrika, Ogu/Bolo, Port Harcourt South, Opobo/Nkoro, Abua/Odual, Andoni, Ahoada West.

These are the ones under all Ijaw Social Cultural Organizations and sign Ijaw accord.

Note; There is no particular language called Ijaw. Ijaw is an association of different groups related by same Ancestry that come together as one.



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favor914:
So then are you agreeing, or admitting to the fact that you were once slaves to the Ijaws in the real Biafra nation?

favor914:
Why will the Ijaws the real biafrans leave their waterside the bight of Biafra to the hinterland of Aro Chukwu to fraternize with the nomads?

Ebi2233:
All Nigeria speak Igbo.Just say that. Oya tell me what Siminaliayi mean in Igbo. That is Fubara Governor elect name. He is from Opobo. Infact tell me Fubara meaning in Igbo too.

deekseen:
So many things making me laugh on this thread and this one takes the cake.

Like Mungo Park founded River Niger. I'm thinking he was the one that brought the first droplets of water from Europe, just the same way I'm thinking one Jubo Jubogha (a slave who was later made King as the dying wish of his Master) also brought the sand, stones and water in Opobo from the East. What wise men they were!

JustYourself:
what's the meaning of inya in Igbo,you don't determine an igbo speaking person by his name only but how he speaks and his language,their might borrow the name from Ijaw since their live very close to ijaw just like Afikpo people answer inya which is borrowed from cross river inyang because their live very close to efik people.

Ebi2233:
All Nigeria speak Igbo.Just say that. Oya tell me what Siminaliayi mean in Igbo. That is Fubara Governor elect name. He is from Opobo. Infact tell me Fubara meaning in Igbo too.

Ebi2233:
1.Ijaw, 2. Igboid, [Including Ikwerre] 3. Ogoni..


Ijaw with 11 Lgas, out of 23 Lgas are the largest Rivers State Tribe.
Since democracy, only Ijaw have been Deputies for 24 years and now, we are coming as Governor in 2 days time. Ijaw occupy half of Rivers State while other tribes share half.


Ogoni have 4 LGAS.

The Ijaw 11 LGAs are Asari Toru, Akuku Toru, Bonny, Degema, Okrika, Ogu/Bolo, Port Harcourt South, Opobo/Nkoro, Abua/Odual, Andoni, Ahoada West.

These are the ones under all Ijaw Social Cultural Organizations and sign Ijaw accord.

Note; There is no particular language called Ijaw. Ijaw is an association of different groups related by same Ancestry that come together as one.



GENERAL DITARI.

Gentlesniper:
Like someone said, the thread is entertaining and enlightening as well. I am a non ibo but due to the nature of my work, I have been opportuned to be in different parts of southern Nigeria. The Op said andoni people are ijaws to buy I have seen some andonis with ibo names like uche secondus of pdp. I have seen some people of eastern obolo in akwaibom state who are andonis bear ibo names, and I think they are under the ijaw socio cultural group. And we have the ijaws in ondo state(Ilaje) who speak Yoruba too. I think the ijaws are a people with interesting history, would love to know more about them

Swiftgrp:
Point of correction.

The Ilaje-Yoruba folks who fully occupy the Atlantic coastline of Ondo State which has rich onshore and offshore oil and gas resources are not Ijaws.

You probably meant to refer to the Arogbo Ijaws who migrated for fishing purposes from the Bayelsa/Delta States axis to stay near the Apoi. The Apoi from where Omoyele Sowore (who is from Kiribo in Ese Odo LGA) hails from claim a direct Ile Ife descent from their progenitors who went on an expedition centuries back and lost their way so had to settle in the modern Bayelsa State area before finally coming back with descendants to Yorubaland and their current location.

The Apoi folks essentially speak Yoruba language and bear Yoruba names and their Kings bear the Oba title like other parts of Yorubaland. But being that they returned from the Bayelsa area, they have Ijoid influences too. So it is the Arogbo who speak Ijaw (but settled near the Apoi) as later day fishing migrants that you meant to refer to NOT the Ilaje-Yoruba folks who are pure Yorubas.


I was able to glean these facts from many online and offline sources years back so it is near-accurate.

igwebuike01:
Uche Secondus is Andoni but has Igbo name. But his village doesn't speak Igbo dialects therefore he is not igbo. Fubara may have ijaw name but he is from Igbo dialects speaking community therefore he is igbo.

igwebuike01:
Very dumb analogy.

Swiftgrp:
As of 1870 (when Jaja an Ijawnized former slave originally sold by his kinsfolk from Amaigbo in Imo, fled from Bonny Island with some of his men to escape being killed by more powerfully armed rivals in Bonny, but fortunately some of his European friends came to his aid and saved him and his team) what we call Opobo was actually called Ikot Abasi in Ibibioland. Opobo was neither Ijaw nor Ibo but fully Ibibioland! The modern Opobo you see today has ancestries from Ibibio, Ijaw, and Ibo mixed.

The Ijaws had elaborate initiation ceremonies that they usually did for some of their freed slaves to convert them to Ijaws (and that is what happened to all the slaves that were brought by the Aros and Abams from the interior Ibo tribes or other ethnic group). The Ijaws were the middlemen in Bonny Island and other slave export areas. The Ibibios, Efiks, etc, also acted as middlemen in the slave trade.

Back to Opobo, many years ago, I first read advanced archival historical books written by Europeans NOT the doctored online propaganda we see today indicating that the Ibibios gave Jaja some of their land which was part of Ikot Abasi to stay but later became very brutal and started challenging and preventing the interior tribes along the river from engaging in the lucrative trading with the white guys and these caused wars between Jaja and other ethnicities. The British (who refered to Jaja as a middlemen chief NOT as a king from a royal family and infact Ijaw custom does NOT allow freed slaves like Jaja or freeborns to become kings or Amayanabos. So how he ended up being called a king is dubious), also got tired of his arrogance and brutal killings and beheadings of rival ethnicities that they finally got rid of him. After all it was his British trader friends who rescued him from the onslaught of Bonny warriors otherwise, he would have been killed as of 1870!

Swiftgrp:
As of 1870 (when Jaja an Ijawnized former slave originally sold by his kinsfolk from Amaigbo in Imo, fled from Bonny Island with some of his men to escape being killed by more powerfully armed rivals in Bonny, but fortunately some of his European friends came to his aid and saved him and his team) what we call Opobo was actually called Ikot Abasi in Ibibioland. Opobo was neither Ijaw nor Ibo but fully Ibibioland! The modern Opobo you see today has ancestries from Ibibio, Ijaw, and Ibo mixed.

=>https://www.britannica.com/place/Ikot-Abasi

The Ijaws had elaborate initiation ceremonies that they usually did for some of their freed slaves to convert them to Ijaws (and that is what happened to all the slaves (Ibos and others) who were brought by the Aros and Abams from the interior Ibo tribes or other ethnic groups). The Ijaws were the middlemen in Bonny Island and other slave export areas. The Ibibios, Efiks, etc, also acted as middlemen in the slave trade.

Back to Opobo, many years ago, I first read advanced archival historical books written by Europeans NOT the doctored online propaganda we see today indicating that the Ibibios gave Jaja some of their land which was part of Ikot Abasi to stay but he later became very brutal and started challenging and preventing the interior tribes along the river from engaging in the lucrative trading with the white guys and these caused wars between Jaja and other ethnicities.

The British (who refered to Jaja as a middlemen Chief NOT as a King from a royal family and infact Ijaw custom does NOT allow freed slaves like Jaja or freeborns to become kings or Amayanabos. So how he ended up being called a king in the Nigerian Social Studies books is dubious), also got tired of his arrogance and brutal killings and beheadings of rival ethnicities that they finally got rid of him in 1887. After all it was his British trader friends who rescued him from the onslaught of Bonny warriors otherwise, he would have been killed as of 1870!

=> https://www.britannica.com/place/Ikot-Abasi

igwebuike01:
There is no ibibioland across Imo River

Sleekcode:
90% of topics in this section will always have something to do with this Igbos



Igbos will always be dragged in other people's delusions.


If you want to trend in this section just create anything and sprinkle a little bit of something that will bring Igbo conversation to your rants

Sleekcode:
It's the other way around


The Yorubas will always drag Igbos in anything


Post about a dead rat or snake


Yoruba will find way to bring Igbo in the conversation

Ebi2233:
1.Ijaw, 2. Igboid, [Including Ikwerre] 3. Ogoni..


Ijaw with 11 Lgas, out of 23 Lgas are the largest Rivers State Tribe.
Since democracy, only Ijaw have been Deputies for 24 years and now, we are coming as Governor in 2 days time. Ijaw occupy half of Rivers State while other tribes share half.


Ogoni have 4 LGAS.

The Ijaw 11 LGAs are Asari Toru, Akuku Toru, Bonny, Degema, Okrika, Ogu/Bolo, Port Harcourt South, Opobo/Nkoro, Abua/Odual, Andoni, Ahoada West.

These are the ones under all Ijaw Social Cultural Organizations and sign Ijaw accord.

Note; There is no particular language called Ijaw. Ijaw is an association of different groups related by same Ancestry that come together as one.



GENERAL DITARI.

paramakina202:
Ijaw people are primarily found in Bayelsa state.
There are no Ijaw in Rivers state.
Most people they claim are Ijaw are of Igbo origin.