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Ikaeniyan0:
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Simon Eba also claimed Ijaw land as part of Biafla.


Ijaws want you igbos to stop claiming Ijaw is part of Igbo neither do ijaw land belong to igbos. Simple as ABC

opicgif:
you are igbo!
you support IPOB
be proud of where you are from

look at your no2.
its the exact message IPOB spreads about ikwerre's, etche, opobo etc... "...... that they don't know their roots"
who are you and how old are you to tell millions of people about their roots??


no4. the unity of igbos is not a worry to anybody. igbos and all other tribes live in peace, all over the world
rather, IPOBs version of Biafra is a worry to other tribes in the south.

no9. nobody is against any tribe.

12. cross river is not any ally to IPOB. neither is akwaibom.

15. alas, you call yoruba "foolish". Mr Man, you are IPOB!!!!

blabulu2000:
Ijaw youth should learn from Lagos state...to avoid the story that touches....

They will soon come with a slogan....Ijaw is no-mans Land.....or they will say...they are the one who developed the entire Ijaw region....or they are richer in Ijaw than your village chiefs....

Nnnyamiri people are more of a curse to the people that hist them than a blessings..m

Ikaeniyan0:
Jaja was bought as a slave like any other igbos that were bought as slaves by the ibanis

How do that link Ijaws and igbos?

Absuchat:
Anybody that says Lagos is a no man's land is a f0ol.... Lagos belongs to the Benins

SonOfDSoil01:
So what is now left for the average ibo man😞the people they so much love to attachee with, don dey denie them. What a pity, no one want too have anything to do witb Biafra😊 they thought they could claim lagos, but yoruba too strong for them and have been resisted in all front...honestly this people deserve our pity now there so called we SS/se now want to restrict them to there 5 dot nation😂

lapintoz:
See ipig propagandist....Simon Ikpea 2nd in command....

Una don lule....failed woefully....

Na only wailing remain for una

😄😄😄😄

Sleekfingers:
They are confused people.....

That's why I like Buhari, Wike, Fasola.......

They call lagos all sorta names, but they are rushing to lagos like rats.
Ogun and Oyo state their people are looking there daily.....
Kano and Kaduna they are trooping like pigs...
It is only a fool will develop his neighbors house, when his/her father house is dilapidated.

Crazybeard:
This has nothing to do with Tinubu.You IPoB apologists have been at this even on Nairaland for some years now.You dolts even went as far as altering Bonny and Kalabari history on Wikipedia. As a result,the pidgin Igbo spoken in Opobo has been banned by the Amayanabo.

jamesversion:
Your answer lies in your question. Igbo slaves means they Originated in Igboland. So it's in their right to retrace their ancestry.

Wutinky:
Af .... on....ja the head slammer please tone down your wailing, it's disgusting, we will make sure you continue to cry like this even your unborn children will go through this suffering of wailing too, you go defend tire

Ikaeniyan0:
Ijaws are not against anybody retracing their ancestry, they are saying igbos should stop claiming Ijaw land

Go through the letter and read it again

Obi1kenobi:
Who are these Igbo people that you speak of? I don't know any Igbo who is "determined" to rewrite your history. It's actually the complete opposite: such is the Igbophobic obsession of Ikwerres that they invented a non-existent history of Benin origins to feed their Igbo denialism narrative. The consensus I've always known among Igbos is that people who are that lost to reinvent history because of oil politics aren't worth the effort. Ikwerres obsess over non-existent Igbos that are "forcing" Igbo identity on them because it makes them feel important. I honestly don't know any of us that care - except you're talking about a few online trolls.

chucks185:
youths, as long as the sun keeps shinning, Biafra is gonna keep living, and conquering , you could join the force ;

NotMagicBishop:
Did the council of chiefs headed by the king of Bonny not ban your slave tongue in their kingdom ?

They are rejecting you left , right , center.

Instead of you to take a deep reflection on why they hate your ass and want nothing to associate with you, you are here shadow boxing Yorubas online.

If you like continue thinking it's Yorubas that are doing propaganda and influencing the people of the Niger Delta to be rejecting you .


I have been telling you land thieves to take this your useless IPOB campaign to the streets in the Niger Delta and see if you will come out alive..


Fools thinking they are wise.

Ikaeniyan0:
Jaja was bought as a slave like any other igbos that were bought as slaves by the ibanis

How do that link Ijaws and igbos?

jamesversion:
It's either you're being Insincere with this post or Ignorant.

Jaja was born in Imo/Asia and sold into slavery. He was sold to Bonny. He excelled in his masters house and rose to become a chief, thereby regaining his freedom from slavery. After many years, disagreement arose between the Chiefs of Bonny and Jaja sought a place where he can establish himself separate from the Bonny Chiefs. He discovered an island, settled there and called the place Opobo.

If his descendants have decided they are Igbos due to ancestry, then I don't see why there's an issue. Jaja discovered Opobo land himself so no ijaw should lay claims to owning Opobo land.

Igbos naturally are a handful. They will test your resolve almost perpetually, so live with them or let them go

Ikaeniyan0:
I wander why IPOB is trying to claim Ijaw land. And none of their elder is stopping them from this madness that can lead to bloodshed

The Ibani, an offshoot of the Ijaw people is located in Southern Rivers State, Nigeria. Its
alternate name is Ubani made up of Bonny Town, on Bonny Island, the Kingdom of Opobo in
Opobo Island and its settlements. Both kingdoms have a strong central authority structure and
a long-established royal lineage. Bonny’s development was also shaped by the close interaction
with European traders. It was the melting point of economic activities right from the 16th
century. It served as Christianity’s first port of call in West Africa. With a thriving traditional
system and robust cultural heritage, it stands out as one of the foremost local communities in
Nigeria.
The community is subdivided into two main segments – the mainland and the hinterland. The
mainland is comprised of the Township, Sandfield, Iwoama, Orosikiri, Aganya, Agambo,
Akiama, Workers Camp, Finima and some outlying fishing settlements lying along the Bonny
River’s coastline. The hinterland includes the villages that houses indigenes of Bonny kingdom.
The Kingdom of Opobo is in many instances a replica of the Old Bonny Kingdom but unique
in its planning; showing a combination of modernity and the ancient. Yet not totally bastardized
by the impact of Western influences brought into the local community as the Bonny case.
Opobo Kingdom is made of Opobo Town which is the seat of authority and the outlying
settlements or plantation settlements called Kalama and owned by chiefs of some main Houses
in Opobo. The structure of authority revolves round the House system. The Alabo – in council
is the highest policy making institution. The council members are elders – Warisenapu who
constitute the council. The Amanyanabo in council is the policy making institution and the
highest administrative organ. Although there are title holders, they play little or no role in
governance. In recent times, specific assignments like raising funds in socio-economic
development have been assigned to them.
The main town which was virtually submerged by the rising water level was sand filled in 2007.
The social history of Opobo Kingdom was also shaped by interaction with Europeans and her
neighbours, from the Igbo hinterland, and to a little extent by the Ibibio Ogoni and Andoni.
Unlike Bonny, Opobo played little part in the oil and gas industry, thus shielding the Kingdom
from the eroding influences of modernization.

One of the reasons for this gradual loss of the Ibani language was the injection of Igbo people
(not culture) in the Ibani regions which culminated in the age-long interaction between Ibani
and Ndoki people (who are actually Ijaws that allowed Igbo migrants to settle amongst them).
Many of them now speak variants of Igbo and are sometimes classified as Igbo but their Ijaw
culture is still very pronounced. The main reason why Bonny and Opobo regions speak Igbo
dialects is because of continuous relations (mainly through intermarriage) with their Ndoki
relatives. Note that the Ndoki people are Ijaw people that reside close to the mainstream Igbo
who accommodated Igbo migrants and lost their language to the visitors a long time ago.
Opobo became the worst hit because they are located at the mouth of the Imo River that
connects Ndoki and Ibaniland. The Ibani do not share a boundary with the Igbo people. They
only share boundaries with Ibibio, Ogonis and Ndoki people who have adopted variants of the
Igbo language (Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ogba, Ndokwa etc).

Another probable reason for the dearth of the Ibani language is the absence of literary materials
in the Ibani language. Written materials in a particular language, serve to preserve that
language. Roger Blench had this to say in the preface of his Ibani dictionary; “despite the
importance attached to literacy in the Ibani area, there are a few accessible modem publications on the language. We have a few historical accounts which state the possible causes of the
decline of the Ibani language.”

Paul Hair (1967) seems to have been the first bibliographer to cite the history and citations of
Ijo in early historical sources and the following is largely adapted from his essay.

The first actual words of Ibani were recorded by Captain Hugh Crow, an English slave-trader who
operated from Bonny around the end of the eighteenth century. From his account one would
think that there was only one language, namely Eboe [Igbo] spoken at Bonny, but in his wordlist
of Eboe’, a few Ibani words are found casually embedded in it.

The expedition of 1832 - 34 up the Niger collected vocabularies of a number of languages but not of Ijo.
Edwin Norris, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, used these when he
compiled a handbook for the use of the next Niger Expedition and added materials from other
sources, including numerals in ‘Bonny’, i.e. Ibani (Norris 1840).

In 1840 a German doctor spent some four months in Bonny as a ship’s doctor, and wrote a
detailed account of Bonny including a long vocabulary of Ibani. (Köler 1842-43), reprinted as
Köler 1848). He notes the use of two languages, Ibani and Igbo, at Bonny, and the attempts by
elders to prevent boys from teaching him Ibani. This confirms what is said today, that the major
reason for the decline of Ibani is the successful attempt to keep it from being learnt by outsiders,
which in the nineteenth century included a large slave population. The result of this policy is
that Igbo has become the common language of communication.

Two more dialects of Ijo were recorded for the first time by John Clarke (1848). These were
‘Numbe’ [Nembe] and ‘Akrika’ [Okrika], together with further lists of Kalabari and Ibani.
Clarke was a Baptist missionary who, with the help of an Afro- American colleague, Merrick,
collected his wordlists in an unsystematic way, some in Fernando Po and some in the West
Indies (Hair 1967).

Sigismund Koelle was a German scholar who worked for the Church
Missionary Society (CMS) in Freetown. There he compiled his Polyglotta Africana in 1850
which was published in 1854. It was a collection of vocabularies of African languages,
compiled by interviewing the freed slaves who had been resettled in Freetown. Koelle used a
standard wordlist of about three hundred items and added notes on his informants and their
homelands, from which he was able to draw a map which is remarkably accurate for a period
when no European knew the interior of West Africa. His vocabularies are grouped according
to genetic relationship in so far as he could trace it from the wordlists. He has two wordlists of
Ijo, grouped together as V.C., the group which conjoins Igboid and Edoid.
The first list, ‘OkuIma’, is a wordlist of Ibani, named for the town Okólómá, although Koelle’s informant
was from Orupiri (órüpIrI). Koelle (1854: refers to Obäne as the name for these people given
by the Ibos and Kerekas [Okrika]. Williamson (1966) discusses Koelle’s Ijo lists in detail. In
the case of Ibani, she shows that some 73% of Koelle’s forms were accurate and also yield
interesting information about lexical and phonological change in the language since they were
recorded. In 1856, Baikie published his account of the 1854 voyage to explore the Niger. In his
appendix on the languages, he states:
From the Rio Formoso to the Nun, including all the western portion of the Delta, the natives
speak Orü or Ejó, and to the westward of Abó a distinct dialect is used, namely the Sóbo, Nimbe
or Brass is very nearly related to the Orú, and I believe that from the Brass River to the New
Kalabár, the natives dwelling on the banks of each of the intervening rivers all talk differently.

BossGerald:
Just like you were chased in ilorin ??

NotMagicBishop:
Did the council of chiefs headed by the king of Bonny not ban your slave tongue in their kingdom ?

They are rejecting you left , right , center.

Instead of you to take a deep reflection on why they hate your ass and want nothing to associate with you, you are here shadow boxing Yorubas online.

If you like continue thinking it's Yorubas that are doing propaganda and influencing the people of the Niger Delta to be rejecting you .


I have been telling you land thieves to take this your useless IPOB campaign to the streets in the Niger Delta and see if you will come out alive..


Fools thinking they are wise.

NotMagicBishop:
You mind the fools.

When they finish from radio Biafra they think whatever nonesense they have been programmed into their shrunken skulls can be foisted on others.

Slaves thinking they can annex and rule their betters.

chucks185:
youths, as long as the sun keeps shinning, Biafra is gonna keep living, and conquering , you could join the force ;

Pkid1:
Continue giving them hot hot until them get sense by force

NaMe4:
Many cunning (or ignorant) individuals attempt to use Jaja of Opobo(~1821 - 1891) to lay claim on Ijaw and Kalabari lands.

He was born in Imo State and taken as a slave to Ijaw land (present day Rivers State).

With the abolishment of slave trade and assimilation into the general society, with the conversion of camps to communities and the magnanimity of the host communities, he was ordained leader (king) of the community in Opobo. All these events occurred just towards the end of the 19th Century. Today, certain ipobs are telling the indigenes who embraced them they are not the owners of their lands.
NAh for thier Igbo land dem dey talk that, U forgot what happen in Rivers when they tried that shyte with Wike

Sleekfingers:
Lagosians don get serious plans for them..... And I am strongly in support. Can you imagine, the audacity, calling lagos a no man's land......

BrodaBenad:
The guy is a content creator


If you don't like what he's doing go and do yours


We know YellowBa Muslims are behind these fake ass publication


We no send anybody

Theweekend:
if it pains u pls hug a big transformer becos lagos belongs to benin people

dragunov:
It is statements like this that had attracted and will continue to attract wotowoto, humiliation, hatred and defeat to the Igbos in Nigeria. You will never learn. The people you taught have now bested you in every act of subjugation and dominance. Biafra will only work as long as you desist from attempts to conscript other peoples into your ill conceived project. I can bet it that no piece of space and land from the SS region will fall into Biafra.

YelloweWest:
The fact that you think our history is nonexistent, you are exactly what I described . You and your god MNK are lairs! That's how kanu said brass an Ijaw community is Igbo.

Abeg yall should focus on your hopeless Biafra and leave those who are not interested alone.

Ikwerre has never been, is not and will never be Igbo!

NaMe4:
Many cunning (or ignorant) individuals attempt to use Jaja of Opobo(~1821 - 1891) to lay claim on Ijaw and Kalabari lands.

He was born in Imo State and taken as a slave to Ijaw land (present day Rivers State).

With the abolishment of slave trade and assimilation into the general society, with the conversion of camps to communities and the magnanimity of the host communities, he was ordained leader (king) of the community in Opobo. All these events occurred just towards the end of the 19th Century. Today, certain ipobs are telling the indigenes who embraced them they are not the owners of their lands.

Unfortunately, this would only heighten distrust and worsen the level of hostility of potential hosts towards even innocent Igbos who have no business with such madness as has been seen in Lagos, now PH.

Ikaeniyan0:
You're in pains because of this letter

Is better you guys stop claiming Ijaw land