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podosci:
Ironsi ( Igbo man ), was the first to centralize the Govt from regional to central....marginalization started with him

because ironsi believed in 1 Nigeria,the same 1 Nigeria killed him

podosci:
Fool, I have repeatedly adviced you to use Google to cure your ignorance.. when was oil discovered in Nigeria? And when did we start exporting it in commercial quantities ?
Mumu

each region was on there own and used there own produce to fend for themsleves,north had grandnut,west cocoa and east palm oil,so dnt say they were generating revenue 4 Nigeria,they were generating revenue 4 there region

NAIJASOM:
Frequently asked questions about Igbos and their answers by Ogaranya Uju Nkwocha Afulezi, Ph.D., Duru Akwukwo III Ndi Umuohiagu



Question: Is Southeast and Igboland the same thing?

Answer: Not at all. Southeast is only about 3/5th of Igboland. Igboland covers the whole of Southeast, parts of Rivers, Delta, Benue, and Akwa Ibom states.

Question: Why were we taught in school that Igbo people are easterners?


Answer: It is both an unfortunate parroting by teachers and careless adoption by Igbo educated class. Igbo people come from Southern Nigeria and not Eastern Nigeria. It may be correct to say that the Igbo are found predominantly in eastern Nigeria. However, by saying that the Igbo are easterners, the implication is that the Igbo in western Nigeria, numbering about 2.5 million (Agbor, Ogwashi Ukwu, Ibuzo, Okpanam, Asaba, Orimili, Ndokwa, Anioma, etc) are not Igbos. The best known Igbo anthropologist Professor Mike Onwuejeogwu is from the western part of Nigeria, Chukwuma Nzeogwu, Dennis Osadebe, Okonkwo Adibe (the famous musician), Sony Odogwu, etc. are all from the western part of Nigeria. They are no less Igbo than those who live in the eastern part of Nigeria. The correct answer to your question is "the Igbo come from Southern Nigeria."

Question: Why do some Igbo refer to themselves as "core Igbo?"

Answer: That is clearly arrant nonsense. Nobody is core and others peripheral. All Igbo are the same. It is both arrogant, thoughtless and insensitive for anybody to regard others as marginal.

Question: Is Igboland landlocked?

Answer: [/b]Not at all. Igboland stretches from Igwe Ocha (Port Harcourt) to Agbor. The Atlantic ocean washes the shores of Igboland. Africa's second largest river - River Niger, traverses Igboland with one part of Igboland in the east and another part in the west of Nigeria. Uguta Lake has the potential of accommodating large ships and could be made a navigable port. If Igboland is landlocked, then all Nigeria is landlocked.

[b]Question: Is there oil in Igboland?

Answer: [/b]Yes, indeed. There is a lot of oil in Imo State, Abia, Ebonyi, Rivers State and Delta States Igbo areas, and now in Anambra. Besides, Igboland has many other natural resources, including coal, limestone, etc.

[b]Question: Are the Igbo a nation or a tribe?

Answer: [/b]The Igbo are a nation, and a very large one. There are many tribes in Igbo nation, just like you have many tribes within Israel.

[b]Question: Why do some Ikwerre people say they are not Igbo?

Answer: First, it is not up to them to say what they are and what they are not. When God created them, He did not ask them who they wanted to be. He just created them Igbo. The only way you'll know who belongs to what ethnic group in Nigeria is the name and what language the name comes from. Anybody whose name is Amadi or Onyeri, or Eke, or Odili, Wanodi (Nwanodi) does not need to tell you who he is. He is Igbo, his politics notwithstanding.

Question: But they claim that their language is Ikwerre, not Igbo.

Answer: That is politics. Ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. Just like an Ngwa man speaks Ngwa Igbo, Arochukwu speaks Arochukwu Igbo, etc.

Question: Some people say that Igbo language is not complete, is it true?

Answer: [/b]No language is complete. All languages borrow from each other. Igbo language is very rich. It has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, sayings, anecdotes, riddles, folklores, etc. Igbo language is one of the major languages of the world, being spoken by millions of people.

[b]Question: How many are the Igbo?

Answer: The Igbo are very numerous. There is educated guess that if Nigeria's census is properly enumerated, the Igbo could easily be the largest ethnic group in the country. They may number up to 40 million. Everything right now, is speculation. Nobody knows the true stratification or ethnic populations in Nigeria. The Igbo are the only ethnic group found in large numbers everywhere in Nigeria, and foreign countries more than any other ethnic group in Africa.

Question: Do the Igbo have a culture of their own?

Answer: [/b]Yes, indeed. Igbo culture is perhaps, one of the richest and all-encompassing cultures in this world. Igbo culture always observes the temporal and the spiritual aspects of cosmology. The study of Igbo culture reveals that it is extremely deep and original.

[b]Question: Why do the Igbo wear Yoruba Agbada and Hausa babban riga but the Yoruba and the Hausa do not ever wear Igbo national dress?

Answer: Unfortunately this is the case. The Igbo have very attractive and resplendent national dresses. And they come in assortments that are extremely dignifying. The Igbo take up foreign cultures more readily than other Nigerians, and they seem not to care that nobody reciprocates their carefree attitude to life. Most ethnics promote their cultures and show off what makes them unique. Actually, it is still the same so-called educated Igbo class who behave in such disgraceful and the devil-may-care attitude.

Question: Why do the Igbo call themselves Biafrans?

Answer: Great question. Some people have the idea that Biafra originates from the Bight of Biafra. But that is wrong. There was the Kingdom of Biafra that ruled most of the ancient world about 50,000 years ago. Unfortunately, nobody talks about it, for whatever reason, I do not know. But, it is in the ancient maps of the world. If you wish I'll make a copy and send to you.

Question: Were the Igbo also taken into slavery during the slave trade?

Answer: [/b]Yes. The Igbo slaves themselves gave account of their travails in slavery. Olauda Ekwuano an Igbo ex-slave who bought his freedom in Britain was the first slave to write about his experience in slavery. His book has become a classic. You ought to find it and read it. Also, other Igbos who were brought to America revolted and some walked back on water and were said to have returned to Africa. Several books have been written about them. One of such books is "Ibo Landing." It is available in bookstores like Barnes & Noble. In Haiti, the Igbo settled there and refused to be colonized by anybody. There are many places where the Igbo left their mark or their signature.

[b]Question: How did the Igbo know days and years?

Answer: [/b]The Igbo invented an accurate, if not the most accurate calendar called "Iguafo Igbo (Igbo Calendar)." In Igbo calendar, there are four market days - Eke, Afor, Nkwo, Orie that make one week. Four days make one week, seven weeks make one month, and thirteen months make one year. There are 28 days for each month, with the last month having 29 days. Each month starts the same day as the previous. Igbo calendar forms the perfect astronomical alignment with the cosmos, and regulates the seasons, agriculture, navigation, astrology, geography, mathematics, travel, etc.

[b]Question: Did the Igbo have their own alphabets?

Answer: [/b]Yes, indeed. It is called "Nsibidi."

[b]Question: How about mathematics; did the Igbo know mathematics?

Answer: [/b]Yes, indeed. There are such inventions as "Okwe" and "Mkpisi" which the Igbo used to resolve figures.

[b]Question: Did the Igbo know anything about banking?

Answer: [/b]Yes. Igbo banking was more in the nature of Savings and Loans. The authentic Igbo savings and loans invention called "Isusu' in which contributions are pooled each week and one person, who has the need, collects, is still in practice. Igbo slaves took this invention to the Caribbean Islands where they still practise it and call it "Sue Sue."

[b]Question: Some people say that Igboland is too small for the Igbo, that they have no alternative than to live as Nigerians: is this true?

Answer: False. Igboland is a large country. Do every Igbo need to stay and work in Igboland? No. Everywhere in the world, some will stay home while others venture abroad in search of opportunities. Igboland is large enough for the Igbo. And it is a very rich and hospitable part of the world. It has rich soil for agriculture, abundant rainfall, good sunshine, and table land in many parts. Its land space and population are more than that of over half of the present countries in the world.

Question: Where did the Igbo come from?

Answer: That question is still being asked. There are very intriguing theories or histories now being studied. You may have heard of the Jewish angle, the Egypt angle, and the Origin of man angle. This twenty-first century, hopefully, will resolve the mystery.

Question: Why do people say that the Igbo are not united?

Answer: Those who say so, do so out of ignorance. The Igbo are famous for their unity. In the colonial period and the First Republic of Nigeria, the Igbo were always envied for their unity. Under Igbo Union, they accomplished many things. They were feared by others for this. Since after the war, the Igbo are gradually recovering and getting rid of the individualism they developed brought about by their war experience which enabled them to survive as a disinherited people. Now, there are vigorous efforts to reunite them and return them to their old glory which served them well in the past.

Question: Some people say that the Igbo are susceptible to being bought by some other Nigerians, and that they "sell" the Igbo in the bargain; is this true?

Answer: The same parroting and recycling of unfounded talk. When you hear such a talk, challenge the one who is mouthing it to give you evidence, or to cite an example of such an Igbo person. He is likely to say "what of Jim Nwobodo?" Tell him that the Igbo number about 40 million, if it would be fair for the action of one person to represent the integrity of the other 3.99.9 million. The truth is that an Igbo is like any other human being, when he sees where he can take advantage of a situation, he goes for it. It has nothing to do with "selling." Were we not told that fish clusters where the river was deepest or that the dog follows he who has crumbs? Not long ago in the history of Nigeria, other Nigerians were also running after the Igbo for crumbs because the Igbo were in position to call the shots. Things will not remain as they are today. In fact, things are changing fast.

Question: Why are other Nigerians always persecuting the Igbo?

[b]Answer: [/b]I have always tried to know myself. I am one of those who believe that the Igbo are among the most peaceful people on earth. But, because of the fact that they are very hardworking, ambitious, and not afraid to live anywhere, or take up any task, they tend to be resented by their less ambitious and successful neighbors or hosts. When you confront a non-Igbo to say what specific offense the Igbo have committed against them, oftentimes they draw blank, or engage in fabrications, which they insist must stand for a fact. The Igbo believe in live-and-let-live. It is virtually impossible for any Igbo to rise against their guests or hosts. It has never happened in Nigeria, or elsewhere. It is an abomination in Igboland for a host to cause his guest harm. Instead, a guest is considered metaphysically and physically under the protection of the host. All Igbo deities forbid doing harm to a guest. The Igbo are accused of "loving money." I suppose the charge is based on the fact that they work hard and acquire money in the bargain. One would like to believe that the outcome of hardwork is good harvest and hopefully prosperity. If anybody take-Do the Igbo have their own system of jurisprudence before the arrival of the white mans offense at the prosperity of a hardworking person, then the Igbo or for that matter any other person or persons, have no apologies to render.


Answer: [/b]Yes. The Igbo had a system of resolving conflicts. The elders were presented with cases that could not be satisfactorily settled within the family or kindred. Matters where veracity must be ascertained, the Igbo resort to spirituality. Oath-taking is a matter left to the spirits to settle. Those who swear falsely were expected to be killed by the spirits within a given period. After the period, he is acquitted and he could celebrate with public merry-making. The Igbo did not have any prisons, but they could ostracise a culprit, exile him, or send him into slavery or to serve to a deity.

[b]Question: Why don't the Igbo teach these things you are telling me to their children?

[b]Answer: [/b]In the pursuit of what they taught was the "new way" either from Europeans or o Christianity, the Igbo began to distance themselves from their heritage, and in the process became lost in the wilderness of a world they hardly understand. They have learned their lesson the hard way. The twenty-first century will lead them back home.

Uju Afulezi is from my villa. God bless Biafra

pazienza:
Since when has banding up to form a unit to invade other people's lands, conquer them, and take spoils of war now seen as something to be proud of.

You accuse Igbos of land grabbing, when we never did such, yet you derive pleasure in knowing that you terrorized and grabbed people's lands, can you smell your hypocrisy?


An unorganized group have managed to produce a first military president, a civilian president, a speaker of house, a Senate president, all the damn Post Nigeria can ever offer, name it, and they have had them all.

An unorganized group has the most developed human resources in Nigeria.

This unorganized group that practiced democracy in its purest form when Greece was still uninhabited, will always naturally be ahead of you!
https://www.nairaland.com/237534/look-going-school-nigeria-statistics
https://www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment

I always find comments like Mr coolscott's very amusing. I thank my ancestors that they left the earliest evidence of a sophisticated civilization in southern Nigeria in the form of the Igbo-Ukwu bronze figures from the 9th century (not 19th century oh). Some of the beads discovered at Igbo-Ukwu came from as far as the Nile Delta (Egypt for the ignorant) showing that we didn't start building our commercial network yesterday. That's why I always laugh when people talk about how we were unorganized and all sorts of crap. Even the area we occupy as well as the sheer population density in Igboland is a clear evidence of an old and successful culture.

sweetgala:
Frankly the Igbo seem to have an inferiority complex. They feel like they have a war with the Yoruba, like there is an active competition ongoing, they may have to update the Yoruba because we are oblivious to it, it is just recently the constant rambling and ranting has gotten to a peak ; as uncomfortable as the gobbledygook that is a bee's buzzing in ones ears, it's just goes on an you either have to please the bee or kill it for that drivel to stop.

I propose a Biafra referendum , let these people go, they may never let off on their inferiority complex and would forever compete with the Nigerian organisation, but their luney arguments would be made redundant and their success or failure would be lesson on how to birth a nation.

Thank you.
They don't even know how to secceed and it does not necessarily require arms. At this rate, they will never succeed unless the rest of the country kicks them out.

So let us help them.
Show them the diplomatic route to take and achieve this as soon as possible.

melzabull:
op God bless you!

It is common knowledge that schacris and ngeneukwenu aka cleverly aka urennaNkoli are two self-hating ba.stads. All the threads they have created on nairaland are anti-igbo.

That said, as an Igbo girl from Anioma, i don't see anything that makes me different from an Igbo person from Abia, Anambra, Ebony, Imo, Enugu or Rivers. The divide and rule tactics by the north aimed at alienating Igbos in the SE from Igbo in SS and to further emasculate the Igbo territory is nothing but pure, unadulterated evil which every reasonable Igbo man should kick against.


Any Igbo man from the skewed geographical SS that isn't proud of his Igbo heritage needs his or her head examined.


God bless proudly ndi Igbo in SE & SS
Abia
Anambra
Anioma
Ebonyi
Enugu
Imo
& Rivers

We should not forget Ndiigbo in Benue, Kogi, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.

melzabull:
you are a pathetic, unreasonable fool.

Na wah oh! Why the name calling, ranting and hostility?? Just because someone speaks his mind, and has declined to be in the same boat with you??

Is that how you people want to achieve your Biafra by insulting and demeaning those who do not share your viewpoint? Must everybody agree with you? God gave each man freedom of choice, oh!

melzabull:
ymodulus abi noddles

I knew fools like you bastad will come here with your usual idiotic opinion. Keep consoling yourself with the nonsense you posted. We already knew that st√pid goats like you want to tell us who we are. As you want to die on top igbo matter instead of taking your sickle cell medication, I hope you soon die of your hate.

Hopeless numbskull

Another long rant! Honestly, your middle name should be 'insults and aggression'! Is it possible for you to debate issues in a civilised manner and address issues, with respect? Your tactics indicate that you want to browbeat those whose opinions do not fit your perspective, into submission. Hostility leaves a dirty aftermath, and can lead to conflict. Na wah, oh!

carnegiefan:
The main gist of this thread is that EDO is NOT part of Biafra. In fact Edo is like a freak of nature in the so called "SS", because nearly all other groups in SS have names starting with "i"; example Isoko, Isobo (Urhobo), Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio.
Edo is like the bat - a mammalian freak that FLY in the night and "stand" on trees upside down. I still can't place them politically, socially, or culturally.
Biafra is not an experimental freak-show. It is a nation which existed peacefully for hundreds of years before the white man landed in the west coast of Africa.
Some of you Edo people can't place or understand the fact that we were not killing and forcefully ruling any clan or ethnic group in Biafra irrespective of size. It is because we have freedom encoded in our DNA. You call it weakness; we call it love for freedom and justice -egbe bere ugo bere (live and let live!) .
Please try to understand that we are not same with you. Thank you.

Chukwu biko! Another hate monger! Must you spill bile each time others do not share your view point?

Duru1:
We should not forget Ndiigbo in Benue, Kogi, Cross River and Akwa Ibom States.

Ehn? Which Igbo in Benue & Kogi? Are you sure you are not mixing up the Igala people in the border areas, thinking they are Igbo?

tobtap:
kk

So long a letter.remember that novel? I'm watching.

nwadiuko1:
edo is closer to yorubas and italians

Apart from the Oba monarchial system and worship of Ogun, Olokun and etc., Edos and Yorubas don't have much in common. They're in two different language groups for God's sake.. Ignorant peons.

TopGee:
If you are from South-south, which tribe? I know Igbo tribe are superior to other tribes in Nigeria both in science and technology and even sports and commerce. Please mention which area your tribe is superior to Igbos. Educationally we are ahead and militarily we dictated the pace in 1960.

We don't rely in oil because it can dry tomorrow. We now produce cars and your tribe cannot boast of a wheelbarrow and yet you brag ignorantly just because of oil that can dry tomorrow and your tribe will be worst than Somalia. Can your tribe fight and sustain a war without relying on importation of arms? Those are the things that make people strong. You cannot produce even pump action gun. How dare you compare your people with Igbos that can produce their own rockets and guide them to targets? Your people are far from being tagged inferior to Igbos. It is incomparable and don't go there.

Saudi Arabia with all their oil cannot attempt to claim superiority over Japan. What you can produce is what makes you great and not a lazy tribe that is so backward virtually in everything comparing itself with highly industrious Igbos.

[size=13pt]We are superior in the thing that has made the aboki subjugate you perpetually over the last 40 something years - COMMON SENSE.[/size]

TopGee:
If you are from South-south, which tribe? I know Igbo tribe are superior to other tribes in Nigeria both in science and technology and even sports and commerce. Please mention which area your tribe is superior to Igbos. Educationally we are ahead and militarily we dictated the pace in 1960.

We don't rely in oil because it can dry tomorrow. We now produce cars and your tribe cannot boast of a wheelbarrow and yet you brag ignorantly just because of oil that can dry tomorrow and your tribe will be worst than Somalia. Can your tribe fight and sustain a war without relying on importation of arms? Those are the things that make people strong. You cannot produce even pump action gun. How dare you compare your people with Igbos that can produce their own rockets and guide them to targets? Your people are far from being tagged inferior to Igbos. It is incomparable and don't go there.

Saudi Arabia with all their oil cannot attempt to claim superiority over Japan. What you can produce is what makes you great and not a lazy tribe that is so backward virtually in everything comparing itself with highly industrious Igbos.

[size=13pt]We are superior in the thing that has made the aboki subjugate you perpetually over the last 40 something years - COMMON SENSE[/size].

TopGee:
If you are from South-south, which tribe? I know Igbo tribe are superior to other tribes in Nigeria both in science and technology and even sports and commerce. Please mention which area your tribe is superior to Igbos. Educationally we are ahead and militarily we dictated the pace in 1960.

We don't rely in oil because it can dry tomorrow. We now produce cars and your tribe cannot boast of a wheelbarrow and yet you brag ignorantly just because of oil that can dry tomorrow and your tribe will be worst than Somalia. Can your tribe fight and sustain a war without relying on importation of arms? Those are the things that make people strong. You cannot produce even pump action gun. How dare you compare your people with Igbos that can produce their own rockets and guide them to targets? Your people are far from being tagged inferior to Igbos. It is incomparable and don't go there.

Saudi Arabia with all their oil cannot attempt to claim superiority over Japan. What you can produce is what makes you great and not a lazy tribe that is so backward virtually in everything comparing itself with highly industrious Igbos.

[size=14pt]We are superior in the thing that has made the aboki subjugate you perpetually over the last 40 something years - COMMON SENSE

How come as perpetually as you call him the Hausa man inferior and unintelligent so also does he perpetually sit on you after every political contest?

So much so that an Ijaw man has become a civilian president in this era (and not you).

To feel a sense of belonging, you rallied behind ijaw-accented Jonathan, kissing south-south a$$ just to beggarly feel a sense of power by proxy.


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coolscott:
Thank you.
They don't even know how to secceed and it does not necessarily require arms. At this rate, they will never succeed unless the rest of the country kicks them out.

So let us help them.
Show them the diplomatic route to take and achieve this as soon as possible.

Has anyone carried arms yet except when provoked by senseless killings or has any mosque or church been bombed yet?
What are you waiting for? Inform your president to start kicking us out

Help yourself or the yorubas by taking back kwara from the islamic caliphate.
You sit in your generator and mosquito powered zone and think no diplomatic route has been taken. Seek for knowledge, you have been noticed.

IPOB Youth

coolscott:
We are superior in the thing that has made the aboki subjugate you perpetually over the last 40 something years - COMMON SENSE.

Chai!!

we igbos know we are one, propaganda can't change our genes

homosapien:
if igbo's can lay claim to Lagos that is a yoruba land, despite the Yoruba been the second largest ethnic group, what do you think will happen to the minority Niger Deltans?

Una eye don dey open?, i dey laugh o .
There is nothing wrong in having a vision but jamming it down other people's throat is tantamount to a rape.
Greed, selfishness,arrogance, barbarism, oppression, envy and hatred is not a vision, it is barbarism.

Product of a primitive mind from an archaic faculty. A worthless read.

podosci:
Economically speaking it would not benefit us to join with the five eastern states to form baifra...apart from being marginalized by the Igbos and the fact that they would be far superior to us in terms of population, we have nothing to gain from the five eastern states.
Its good to remain in Nigeria but if there is to be a succession, Republic of SS states would make more sense than joining the igbos in there biafran state

Language is very unifying. You are better off with the people you speak the same language with than the ones you need translators to deal with. One of the key factors why Africa is still very tribal is because of the language differences.

Language is the soul of a people and when it is interfered with, nothing ever remains the same. It is their windows to the world.

Going bybthat notion then only the Igbo speaking five eastern states should form their Biafra because last tike I checked the ijaw language or orobo or ogoni is different entire from igbo language. Even Delta Igbo is seen as not pure because of the small disparities in their own igbo language

Niger Delta my home, Bifra my fortress

Am a Niger Delta man from Owa-Alero in Ika Land of Delta
I support Biafra, Niger Delta will be better of with Biafra than Nigeria where there's No Job, Electricity, Road, Water, security, Police are enemy corruption.
I call on people Not deceived by Yoruba, Hausa devisive strategies to discourage our people from joining this struggle. They ganged up against our brother (GEJ) but claimed we are one.

djon78:
Advanced in which way? The main problem with most blacks is complete ignorance. Tell me one black tribe in Africa that had its own written language? It was the white man that even gave us the writing of our language with their alphabet. The Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Indians, Arabs, Greeks, Romans etc all had writen languges prfating some 2000years. You were advanced and the white man colonised and forced you to pay tax to their foreign government. Who were your philosophers and thinkthanks? None. See the entire black were realy backward, it was the coming of the whites that brought a bit civilization, they left us 50+ years ago and till today we are where they left us. While Countries like Singapore and Malaysia that the whites gave independence almost same time with us have leapt in bounds and achieved great developments. Better open your eyes.

[size=14pt]If ignorance and confidence had not found a successful marriage in you, I am sure you would not have posted this.
Have you had of the Timbuktu scrolls in Mali?
You only wish others where as uncivilized as you because, as you admit, you were uncivilized yourselves.

The Malians did write in both Arabic and their own local dialects. For those that did not already know this, international attention was drawn to this when the terrorists in Mali not long ago wanted to destroy these precious artifacts and actually destroyed some.

http://www.soundvision.com/article/timbuktus-desert-scrolls-re-writing-the-history-of-africa

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/fight-save-ancient-texts-timbuktu-001243

As for kingdoms of the south of Nigeria, the white man had to pay royalties to us during the slave trade.
And during the palm oil trade, when the slave trade was abolished, they also paid royalties to our kings and chiefs. For years upon years on end, we did business with them.

It was only when the move for colonisation was made that they fought (and eventually conquered) all local resistance.

The kingdoms of the south, they brought to play ball, kingdom by kingdom (more dignified), sometimes sending stubborn kings on exile. But you? You were conquered village by village, because that was what you were. Just villages and clans. That was the strength of your political reach and power - clans.

You are obviously not aware of the exposure, and writings of our great great great grand fathers as they dealt with the British and Portugese business-wise.

You also are oblivious of the treaties that existed officially between the English monarchy and the kingdoms of the south. In your own case, there was not much of a political unit to make treaties with. You were villages and clans.

Your chiefs could neither read nor write. Youre village level political resistance was dismissed with little or no respect

And this is what what has trailed you and caused your political, and socio-cultural shallowness in this era. It takes years of social practice to have depth socially. It is not brought about by out-of-the-blues shouting "we the best" as if you inwardly fear being looked down upon on account of having a shallow or non-existent heritage as an ethnic nation
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aim5:
Apart from the Oba monarchial system and worship of Ogun, Olokun and etc., Edos and Yorubas don't have much in common. They're in two different language groups for God's sake.. Ignorant peons.

what of italians?

homosapien:
if igbo's can lay claim to Lagos that is a yoruba land, despite the Yoruba been the second largest ethnic group, what do you think will happen to the minority Niger Deltans?

Lies..
Yoruba, second largest ethnic group? HOW?
Igbos are more than Yorubas.. WITH FACT...

laudate:
Ehn? Which Igbo in Benue & Kogi? Are you sure you are not mixing up the Igala people in the border areas, thinking they are Igbo?

http://www.mynewswatchtimesng.com/forgotten-igbo-communities-in-benue/
...
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/weve-abandoned-igbos-benue-cry/

https://m.facebook.com/pages/Benue-Igbo-Development-Union-BIDU/634072953328370

EasternLion:
Nwokem shift small for me, o bu gini di.
(Nze Odum Owuwa Anyanwu [EasternLion] - calls out to wife at the other end of the compound) - Mama Nnaemeka, wetere m mu na Ichie ugba na okporoko ahu igworo agwo, ka anyi were ya turugodi nke bu ndu mmanu.

(Nze Odum Owuwa Anyanwu - continues) - Oh oh ya o! Chukwu Abiama nara ekele o.

(Ichie Laffytaffy1 - replies) - Isee!!

Chai! Igbo Amaka!

Ekele kelere m Umuigbo n' ozuzu uwa nile!

O bu m; Frank nwa Aba na Biafra.

Curlieweed:
I always find comments like Mr coolscott's very amusing. I thank my ancestors that they left the earliest evidence of a sophisticated civilization in southern Nigeria in the form of the Igbo-Ukwu bronze figures from the 9th century (not 19th century oh). Some of the beads discovered at Igbo-Ukwu came from as far as the Nile Delta (Egypt for the ignorant) showing that we didn't start building our commercial network yesterday. That's why I always laugh when people talk about how we were unorganized and all sorts of crap. Even the area we occupy as well as the sheer population density in Igboland is a clear evidence of an old and successful culture.

[size=13pt]Perhaps this is why your cultural political structure remained (and still remains) feeble. You obviously believe making bronze figures translates into a solid, large and well organised political block.

If that was the case, all the Yorubas needed to do to create their well structured system would be to make bronze artifacts.

In fact, all any society needed to do anywhere in the world was just make bronze artifacts.

Maybe that's what you did and that's why you ended up like this.[/size]

coolscott:
[size=13pt]Perhaps this is why your cultural political structure remained (and still remains) feeble. You obviously believe making bronze figures translates into a solid, large and well organised political block.

If that was the case, all the Yorubas needed to do to create their well structured system would be to make bronze artifacts.

In fact, all any society needed to do anywhere in the world was just make bronze artifacts.

Maybe that's what you did and that's why you ended up like this.[/size]

Thank you for sharing your ravings with me but you're clearly mistaking me for a psychiatrist or someone that can help resolve whatever deep emotional trauma you're going through.

Again, I apologize for my inability to help you and hope you find the help you need.

Curlieweed:
Thank you for sharing your ravings with me but you're clearly mistaking me for a psychiatrist or someone that can help resolve whatever deep emotional trauma you're going through.

Again, I apologize for my inability to help you and hope you find the help you need.

[size=14pt]I am not the one disturbing everyone, asking for Biafra and recognition within the Nigerian polity at the same time[/size]

coolscott:
[size=14pt]I am not the one disturbing everyone, asking for Biafra and recognition within the Nigerian polity at the same time[/size]

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Ok. Good to know.

Curlieweed:
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Ok. Good to know.

[size=14pt]Em... *clears throat*
Next time you forget, look in the mirror.[/size]

fr3do:
read about the Ekumeku war where Anioma and present day Anambra communities unitedly doughty against british colonial invaders.

Again you buttress my point.

"Anioma and present day Anambra communities..."

What percentage do these two make of the Igbo people? And what was the rest of the Igbo population doing when these two were fighting?

Let me guess.
1) going to their farms
2) getting married
3) organising yam festivals
4) and doing all the other things that communities that mind their business do

If you could not see this before you made your post, I am tempted to say that a shallow intellect plaguing you and your kind has helped immensely in keeping your kind in their second fiddle role politically in Nigeria