₦airaland Forum

DataMina:
Seems like some nots are missing from your head.
The Nsukka people you speak of which I am one of are high achievers

Dpharisee:
Ngwa people in Abia state and many Igbo communities in Nsukka doesn't practise Osu caste and it doesn't make them less Igbo in anyway

Tranquill:
Nsukka too wey naturally get body odour wan follow insult Ikwerre people. Wawa that even your own fellow Igbo no rate with one penny.

Very imbecil.ic and shameless I.gbo people that have chosen to become nuisance all around Nigeria and beyond.

caleboxylic:
You can say whatever you like about nsukka cultural group but know that, we are more educated, exposed and wealthier than your ogbakiri/ emuoha clan.
Tell us what you have in that your primitive clan of ogbakiri/emuoha!

saddler:
Ode!

Ika, Ikwerre, Ogba and the rest do not speak igbo.

They speak their own distinct language. That there are similarities in language is normal everywhere in the world. Even within the igbo group, they dont understand themselves e.g there are groups in Enonyi state whose language is not understand by other igbos.

Another fact is that, ika, Ikwerre and other south south nationalities are older than igbo.
These groups have a well defined history and how their progenitor migrated from Benin. Same cannot be said about igbos who till this day cannot tell the world where they came from.

Stop trying to be a land grabber and focus on your five plots of land. It was Ajayi that caused this nonsense when he brought strange people together and started teaching them a language called "ibo".

Kreesxxx:
Classifying language under a group doesn't make the people the same. It is for easy of study and identity. If ikwerre had 5 states as Igbos and Igbos 4 LGA the classification will be in reverse. Understand this. Having some words in common with you doesn't make me you.

Kreesxxx:
Igbos staying in their conclave wouldn't understand me. The only igbo that will understand ikwerre are those who have spent some times in Port Harcourt.
Igbos have known ikwerre for over a hundred years and every effort to annex ikwerre has failed. We may be a related ethnic but not one the other. Our cultures, beliefs and values differ.
Igbo has advantage because of numbers. That is why ikwerre is being classified as Igbo. An average Igbo man knows that if not for territorial expansion he doesn't have any similarities with an Ikwerre man.

Tranquill:
Because most of them are Igala or Benin origin.

In reality, Igbo is far less than 40% of the people they actually claim to be Igbo after they came to Nigeria from their original homeland Guinée Equitoriale.

Here’s Bianca Ojukwu’s brother narrating how his family and Ngwo people migrated from Benin, but na Ikwerre all idi0ts and illiterates of Igboland want to tell who they are, and force their smelly identity on.

babasolution:
Those communities in Akoko-edo, named aiyetoro etc were renamed in the colonial era by Yoruba influence.

That area was a war ravaged zone in the 19th century,some of those communities were renamed by the Yoruba priest and colonial officers during the late 19th century

EmekaA125:
Lol
You are older than Igbo with ur 300k population home and abroad??
Nairaland is becoming a comic forum.

ariesbull:
that's a lie ...trust me. Which Yoruba influence , what about the language

ariesbull:
that's a lie ...trust me. Which Yoruba influence , what about the language

babasolution:
The communities like aiyetoro etc are even new settlements ,they are not original Akoko-edo settlements

ariesbull:
are they original what ?

saddler:
Population size doesn't determine age of a tribe.

Kreesxxx:
Ikwerres do not practice the OSU caste system.
The only people who live with us but are treated almost as the Igbos treat the OSU are the Arnu people that's Arochukwu descendants.
Bros there is no tie anywhere that link ikwerres to the Igbos. See as close as Omerelu is to imo state communities there is no tie between this ikwerre community to these Igbo communities. Rather some of these communities in imo State are saying they are not igbo but ikwerres. But we can't claim them because there is no historic link that they are ikwerre.
See all ikwerre communities are linked by blood ties
Like the Akpor Kingdom was actually formed by nine brothers.

babasolution:
Most of them are settlers settlements peopled by mostly ebira farmers

Cindypresh:
There's no osu caste system in my hometown too. It isn't a general practice.

Who are the Arochukwu and who are the Igbos, what made Arochukwu Igbos?

When you say Igbos just know you're also refering to ikwerre people too, except you start singling other Igbo groups out for comparison.

Akpor people are not Igbos too??

EmekaA125:
Ikwerre has 3 LGA.

EmekaA125:
Igbo is a very ancient tribe that has been in existence for years. What was recent is Christianity in 1857.

Kreesxxx:
Can you please come to Akpor Ancestral Hall to remind us of our igboness? Some of us have forgotten. I will give you transport in case you don't have.

Cindypresh:
Ikechukwu keep beating your chest and reminding your delusion that you're from Benin.

Arochukwu people are Igbo but akpor people are not Igbo? Etche people nko? Can you even understand a single statement from a Benin man??

You see Owerri, orlu, Nsukka, Onitsha, ngwa, Arochukwu, Afikpo, izaa, nkanu etc and call them Igbo but akpọr is not Igbo?? Are you even aware that there're akpọr people in Nnewi south local government?? Is there any akpọr anywhere in Edo state??

Why are you not speaking Benin and bearing Benin names??

Ghostagain:
Map published in 1747 by Emanuel Bowen. The Ikweres are indeed Edo. Nothing more to add.

saddler:
Ofcourse the ancestors of the igbos are ancient. The difference is that they were not in this present location in Nigeria.

Igbo as a tribe in Nigeria is a very recent thing. Most of the people called igbo today were not known by that name till the missionaries came and grouped them together and taught them ibo language.

Cindypresh:
I can't even see Yoruba or igbo on the map? Are they Edo too??

Why are you not answering Benin names like they do in Edo state? Why are your villages named "ụmụ" instead of "Omo"??

Cindypresh:
Missionaries came and taught them ibo languages they themselves learnt from Europe?? You see you no get sense?

Who teach ikwerre people the language that is related to the missionaries language that they taught to the people called Igbo today??

Do you think Anambra alone speak the same dialect? Have you heard Nsukka person speak? So the missionaries taught Nsukka people nsukka-ibo, ikwerre people ikwerre-ibo etc??

And finally, how did the missionaries grouped them together??

Cindypresh:
Missionaries came and taught them ibo languages they themselves learnt from Europe?? You see you no get sense?

Who teach ikwerre people the language that is related to the missionaries language that they taught to the people called Igbo today??

Do you think Anambra alone speak the same dialect? Have you heard Nsukka person speak? So the missionaries taught Nsukka people nsukka-ibo, ikwerre people ikwerre-ibo etc??

And finally, how did the missionaries grouped them together??

Cindypresh:
I can't even see Yoruba or igbo on the map? Are they Edo too??

Why are you not answering Benin names like they do in Edo state? Why are your villages named "ụmụ" instead of "Omo"??