Armaggedon:
I thought you were an adult seeking true education with facts. I should've know you're a known troll seeking an everyday interaction with Igbos to boost your inferior social identity.

Putindbutt:

If ijaws catch you, they'd slap your head. Amayanabo is ijaw originated. ibo language dominated eastern religion due to their large population and migration, it was the common language used for trade and communication during slave era, just as hausa language in the north.

Lizzysamuel:

How many times will I correct you.
Igbo and not Ibo.
Tick head

Putindbutt:

I said a few tribes, i didn't limit it to only ijaw. And there's no ocean/sea in the north. Those rivers are just a few feet deep.

Goodvibes007:

That was how I went with a couple of friends (4 of us) to the abattoir to share a cow. One Yoruba guy mistakenly called an Ika man "Ibo". Omo, the Ika guy almost punched the Yoruba guy ooo saying their origin is Bini. He said Ibo migrated into their region and started influencing others, and later started thinking they can grab their land. lol.
These guys hate to be associated with ibos. To put things into perspective Jim Ovia, Emefiele, obaigbena, hanks anuku e.t.c are Ikas

gammarays:

Do you know most deep rivers in the East flows from the ocean and seas? We even have Oguta and Egbema too
There are some deep water areas in the North even Lake Chad

Badagry in the South West has access to the ocean

Ijaws shouldn't think they're the only ones surrounded by deep waters

Goodday90:
Do igbos live on water,what kind of a question is that?
Na so one Yoruba man see Agulu,and said it’s not igboland that there are no water bodies in Igboland,must be what they feed them as Children in Yoruba land,lol

They think igboland is desert

Putindbutt:
When do ibos start living on water?, can they swim?, do they have any history of being fishermen?. Have they ever traded with the European on the sea?, have they ever fought on water?. So why are they claiming the ocean bodies of Bonny and Opobo?.
The kings of Bonny and Opobo bear the ijaw title of Amayanabo. Jaja of Opobo was an ibo slave purchased by ijaw merchants to work as a slave. The nickname Jaja was an ijaw name given to him to embrace him into the royal house. Ibos were captured from the hinterlands and sold as slaves in Bonny, many would then settle after abolishment of slave trade while others migrated to present day bonny.

Abagworo:


Everybody in Bonny migrated from elsewhere but Igbos are majority. The reason it is considered as Ijawland is because the earliest settlers were Ijaw while Igbos populated it in bulk later either as traders, slaves, mercenaries or acculturated slaves. In answer to the bolded Igbos were always the better traders whether with Europeans or with fellow Africans and yes fishing is a predominant occupation among various Igbo groups especially the ones living near large water bodies.

pazienza:


No colonial document supports the claim that Ijaws were the first settlers in Bonny or Opobo.
If you have any, please post it here, I would want to learn too.

Goodday90:
Do igbos live on water,what kind of a question is that?
Na so one Yoruba man see Agulu,and said it’s not igboland that there are no water bodies in Igboland,must be what they feed them as Children in Yoruba land,lol

They think igboland is desert

Abagworo:


Everybody in Bonny migrated from elsewhere but Igbos are majority. The reason it is considered as Ijawland is because the earliest settlers were Ijaw while Igbos populated it in bulk later either as traders, slaves, mercenaries or acculturated slaves. In answer to the bolded Igbos were always the better traders whether with Europeans or with fellow Africans and yes fishing is a predominant occupation among various Igbo groups especially the ones living near large water bodies.

Putindbutt:

You only have rivers where you take bath and fetch to drink, that's different from living on water or around water. The nature of ibo is not water friendly.

Lizzysamuel:


That's what they feed them as kids.

No jokes


I did my NYSC in SW.

Putindbutt:
When do ibos start living on water?, can they swim?, do they have any history of being fishermen?. Have they ever traded with the European on the sea?, have they ever fought on water?. So why are they claiming the ocean bodies of Bonny and Opobo?.
The kings of Bonny and Opobo bear the ijaw title of Amayanabo. Jaja of Opobo was an ibo slave purchased by ijaw merchants to work as a slave. The nickname Jaja was an ijaw name given to him to embrace him into the royal house. Ibos were captured from the hinterlands and sold as slaves in Bonny, many would then settle after abolishment of slave trade while others migrated to present day bonny.

pazienza:


No colonial document supports the claim that Ijaws were the first settlers in Bonny or Opobo.
If you have any, please post it here, I would want to learn too.

Abagworo:


Everybody in Bonny migrated from elsewhere but Igbos are majority. The reason it is considered as Ijawland is because the earliest settlers were Ijaw while Igbos populated it in bulk later either as traders, slaves, mercenaries or acculturated slaves. In answer to the bolded Igbos were always the better traders whether with Europeans or with fellow Africans and yes fishing is a predominant occupation among various Igbo groups especially the ones living near large water bodies.

Goodday90:
now we are making progress
So there are rivers in iboland,I used to think that you guys believe there are no water bodies in Iboland

Guy,you should go back to your free Palestine movement,this topic pass your grade

Putindbutt:
When do ibos start living on water?, can they swim?, do they have any history of being fishermen?. Have they ever traded with the European on the sea?, have they ever fought on water?. So why are they claiming the ocean bodies of Bonny and Opobo?.
The kings of Bonny and Opobo bear the ijaw title of Amayanabo. Jaja of Opobo was an ibo slave purchased by ijaw merchants to work as a slave. The nickname Jaja was an ijaw name given to him to embrace him into the royal house. Ibos were captured from the hinterlands and sold as slaves in Bonny, many would then settle after abolishment of slave trade while others migrated to present day bonny.

chopnaira:

If all Igbos were like abagworo, there would be peace.

OfoIgbo:


In this ancient document, it clearly states that the kings of Bonny and Kalabari are of Igbo ancestry, so your point can't even make it past the first hurdle.

Armaggedon:
waited for you to answer my first question but you ran away.
Amayanabo is not an Ijaw title perse. Ijaw word for king is perekule not Amayanabo.

There are even proofs the word has ndoki origin. Again, for the records, Opobo and Bonny people are basically Ndoki Igbos. They speak Igbo and practice Igbo culture. However, riverine people of the nigerdelta be it Igbos, those in Bayelsa, Ibenos, Urhobo etc have a certain way of life peculiar to them such answering European names. Opobo and Bonny are not exceptions but that does not diminish their Igboness.

I am currently watching governor Fubara of Rivers state commissioning a road and a Kalabari leader who called the Governor an Ijaw man had to interpret the Kalabari language to governor in English Lol

Abagworo:


Everybody in Bonny migrated from elsewhere but Igbos are majority. The reason it is considered as Ijawland is because the earliest settlers were Ijaw while Igbos populated it in bulk later either as traders, slaves, mercenaries or acculturated slaves. In answer to the bolded Igbos were always the better traders whether with Europeans or with fellow Africans and yes fishing is a predominant occupation among various Igbo groups especially the ones living near large water bodies.

Putindbutt:

Except you touch Okorocha, since Okorocha collect small cane, he switched camp to opposition. when Obidients show face, he run inside.

OfoIgbo:


In this ancient document, it clearly states that the kings of Bonny and Kalabari are of Igbo ancestry, so your point can't even make it past the first hurdle.

Putindbutt:

Read very well the first sentence on the screenshot. Captain Adams himself admitted that his opinion of the natives of Bonny was probable (not certain or definate). the native language of Bonny is ibani but people speak ibos predominantly because of trade. you can easily mistaken the natives as ibos. One can pardon the foreign man for mistaken identity.

Vischy:
The only language spoken in Opobo and bonny is igbo. The culture is igbo. Food is igbo.

What else do you need to know that these people are igbos.