OP Nice work.
You need to effect this little correction in your writeup, lest you indvertently mis-inform readers:
Opobo was founded by king jaja(an igboman).however, ijaw IMMIGRANTS who were mainly porters and tradesmen were allowed to reside there owing to the kings' magnanimity.
Hence,from the foregoing, it would not be out of place to say Opobo and by extension Bonny are igbo settlements.

lygn19:

I am just watching all this ediots talking rubbish, I ve been patient because of my anti-biafra stance but they keep taking us as fools they would quickly jump and say Oyigbo is part of Niger delta they forget that when the abandoned property law was passed in Rivers state oyigbo people also suffered the consequences too same with egbema people who used to be part of old east central until the Obasanjo boundary adjustment, even that mumu hopeathand spilling rubbish about Ekpeye, ikwerre people no support Biafra no mean say Ekpeye people no support am, ekpeye people actively partaked in the war but everybody moved on after 1970, let them keep giving themselves false hope should I give u link of when the rivers state government tried to force ibani language on an igbo speaking community in opobo, the list goes on. I am a strong advocate of one Nigeria because I know whats on board and how we can het our way, lemme not talk further... not everything should be said on social media.

the truth is these people rely on the one nigeria to hold stake on every igbo land in rivers state. they want to lay claim of the lands in rivers state. these people are minorities but they come on social media to form majority ethnic group in rivers state. if they were the majority ethnic group in the state, why havent they produced a governor in the state.

things like this we just ignore based on maintaining decorum in this forum. No need for fight for our land.

lygn19:

no be mouth, 100 of una against just 10 if us no fit stop us, thank God for Nigeria, keep thanking him everyday and keep praying your Niger delta dreams are never actualized, only the two of us na una go beg.igbo land stretches from igbanke in edo state down to oyigbo in rivers state with some parts of Opobo and bonny.
If this country EVER breaks after we ve finished carving out our part we would hold referendum on the other parts dont be surprised if we hold referendum even in your hometown, after that the rest can join there remaining Islands and form whatsoever Republic they choose. SIMPLE.

Fufu gobbling chest beaters.

VickJames:


the truth is these people rely on the one nigeria to hold stake on every igbo land in rivers state. they want to lay claim of the lands in rivers state. these people are minorities but they come on social media to form majority ethnic group in rivers state. if they were the majority ethnic group in the state, why havent they produced a governor in the state.

things like this we just ignore based on maintaining decorum in this forum. No need for fight for our land.

all this people just keep saying rubbish up and down, they would say igbos that dont speak the central igbos are not igbos as of ijaws have one common language, ijaws are allowed to have some cultural and language difference but are allowed to be Ijaws while igbos that even speak same language with other igbos are not allowed to be Igbos, they would say igbos dominated them in the former eastern region, igbos took the land because of there huge population, even uptil today they still refer to ikwerres as igbos then imagine back then when there was no rivers state or abia or imo state, was it not obvious that when they said igbos dominate them they meant all igbo speaking groups even the present ikwerres they saw them as the enemies dominating them, an ikwerre man would tell u he came from Benin that the only reason for igbo presence in ikwerre is because of trade and proximity, akwa ibom people have been there for centuries they didnt loose there language to us even cross rivers people have been there for hundreds of years they didnt loose there language to us even ogonI people as small as they are didnt loose there language to us but them they mysteriously came from Benin left there Benin langauge, they saw ijaws that they traded with they didnt adopt ijaw language, saw akwa ibom and ogoni in there western corner it didnt influence them but igbo language mysteriously entered there culture... is it not funny.

Truckpusher:
Fufu gobbling chest beaters.

lol... keep fasting, keep praying One Nigeria, keep shouting your Niger delta republic on Nairaland and opening millions of thread up and down shouting oil oil oil, the day e go happen, we would give u guys another long story to tell your generations to come about igbo people.

fastestfinger:
OP Nice work.
You need to effect this little correction in your writeup, lest you indvertently mis-inform readers:
Opobo was founded by king jaja(an igboman).however, ijaw IMMIGRANTS who were mainly porters and tradesmen were allowed to reside there owing to the kings' magnanimity.
Hence,from the foregoing, it would not be out of place to say Opobo and by extension Bonny are igbo settlements.

opobo and bonny has ijaws but it also has some igbo elements in them.

Oops! I thought nowadays' lady sensual wedding attires are 21century embarrassing mode of dressing. Though the pic below depicts age long practice, this shows our women now are going back to the stone age, the only difference is technology

lygn19:

opobo and bonny has ijaws but it also has some igbo elements in them.

exactly! Those are igbo settlements with ijaw elements. People from the riverine ijaw communities bordering these towns often ventured into these places to trade. Eventually, a significant number of them fell in love with the place and decided to stay behind.

dfav:
these are the types things i reading..

not one yeye SW vs SE vs North tribal war.

Please lets unite to grow this country

I want to refer you to no. 6. Igbos like their own space, they want their own stuff; buildings, big compounds, goodie goodies, independence.

Some people can't exist without living in clusters...aka face me I face you.

lygn19:

all this people just keep saying rubbish up and down, they would say igbos that dont speak the central igbos are not igbos as of ijaws have one common language, ijaws are allowed to have some cultural and language difference but are allowed to be Ijaws while igbos that even speak same language with other igbos are not allowed to be Igbos, they would say igbos dominated them in the former eastern region, igbos took the land because of there huge population, even uptil today they still refer to ikwerres as igbos then imagine back then when there was no rivers state or abia or imo state, was it not obvious that when they said igbos dominate them they meant all igbo speaking groups even the present ikwerres they saw them as the enemies dominating them, an ikwerre man would tell u he came from Benin that the only reason for igbo presence in ikwerre is because of trade and proximity, akwa ibom people have been there for centuries they didnt loose there language to us even cross rivers people have been there for hundreds of years they didnt loose there language to us even ogonI people as small as they are didnt loose there language to us but them they mysteriously came from Benin left there Benin langauge, they saw ijaws that they traded with they didnt adopt ijaw language, saw akwa ibom and ogoni in there western corner it didnt influence them but igbo language mysteriously entered there culture... is it not funny.

When you listen to the points they give in this forum, you wont help but ask if these people went to school or they just got educated from a roadside mechanic. I dont usually comment on such senseless threads because they end up killing my intelligence level because whenever i see people talk like that, I feel sad about the next generation of some people.

One man can make a whole tribe speak his language in opobo? He forced everyone in opobo to speak his language there? They will not read history where other people read history but they will cite one blog and call it history of our people. Even when they read normal history, they refuse to picture the happenings of then and make sense in what is happening. but they love living in denial.

Lets say the binis left their kingdom to come to the now ikwerre land like the story claimed, but they refused to cite in the story that the man that was running away saw some people where he started living. So, they told us that the only man who left bini started giving birth kids while other people he met stopped living and expanding. They became barren and lost the penile organ. the way people think in this forum is as a result of lack of critical thinking.

Their revered asari dokubo said that, rivers state is a battle ground which the hausa/fulani people created to cause trouble between the igbos and the minorities. why cant they join the remaining ijaws in the state with their brothers in bayelsa since bayelsa is an ijaw state. they didnt do it, they want to cause more troubles for themselves. the Ijaws are always been known to be riverine people, while attach them to upland people? to cause problems?

they have big problems and they dont even know how to solve it.

dfav:
these are the types things i reading..

not one yeye SW vs SE vs North tribal war.

Please lets unite to grow this country

I want to refer you to no. 6. Igbos like their own space, they want their own stuff; buildings, big compounds, goodie goodies, independence.

Some people can't exist without living in clusters...aka face me I face you...

fastestfinger:
exactly! Those are igbo settlements with ijaw elements. People from the riverine ijaw communities bordering these towns often ventured into these places to trade. Eventually, a significant number of them fell in love with the place and decided to stay behind.

Read about the emergence of the opobo kingdom from reputable book and see why opobo is igbo speaking.

Why is it that the ikwerre people are not always represented in things like this....abii dem no get culture nii?? Abii dem be artificial people wey Naija created. .

fratermathy:
Please if you want to comment or post a reply, do well to avoid quoting the original post so that graphics wont flood the thread. Thank you!!!

Really love the thread...
Am always on the lookout for subject matters that deal with our heritage as Africans..not the biased crap served to us in school
It's time we take pride in wat was ours so we can have a foundation to build the future.

@ o.p, more if you have it..

lygn19:

no matter how u people try to change things u csn never re write history, the name Igbo has been engraved with permanent markers in this place and nothing can change that.

Thank you very much.
if you look very well at d picture below.
you will see very well where d "real bonny" is.
they took our island after d civil war and made it d capital of Bonny.
thereby renaming it.
but when d ryt tym comes.
if they like let dem rename d island including opobo.
let them enforce their I jaw language there.
when d ryt tym comes.
I tell you.
d truth will down on Tonyebarcanista and co.

johnydon22:
Wow nice one, educating and intriguing... It is always a thing of joy going back to the days, seeing the wonderful rich colourful heritage that we are rich in.

Africa and Nigeria is filled with such colourful cultures that its almost a shame watching us get lost in other people's cultures letting ours slip down the drain and die a slow but painful death.

Its time we reconnected and preserved these rich cultures left by our fathers to us, it is our only identity in this world that distinguishes us from others and is very unique.

I love this... Proudly and always Repping Igbo 100%

I support all you said, kudos to the researcher, this thread has just solved a big task given to me at work.

One thing though, I rep Yoruba 100%!

TonyeBarcanista:

Which Igbo name dem they bear for Opobo and Bonny? All the towns and communities are Ijaw names. I doubt if you have every been there in your life. Is Dakuku igbo name? Is Pepple Igbo name? Abeg shift...

guy stop all this lies.
Dakuku is an ijaw man from ijaw community called Nkorro.
Go figure

bnovative:
Nice attempt at history but some of your post are factually incorrect. The Annang people don't have a culture of fattening a lady b4 marriage, the Efiks do.

Heartibaby:


Thank u. Was going to point that out to the Op but u already have. The picture she tagged as an annang maiden getting fattened is even boldly labelled "Calabar Girl".
OP Pls make necessary adjustments. Nice thread though

My research was factual and correct.
Anaang people employ fattening rooms. It's even on Anaang wiki page.

The Efiks also have this too. However, I didn't write the title of the photo. The original photographer did. I have no right to tamper with that.


http://www.bubblews.com/posts/fattening-room-used-by-a-nigerian-group-to-gain-weight
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaang_people#Anaang_fattening_Room

let me add some pictures I saw on Facebook.

Gen Yakubu Gowon visiting the Ooni of ife in the palace

Gen Johnson Aguiyi ironsi

1979 the newly installed Omono Oba nEdo came to visit Ooni of Ife in the palace.


portrait of two European adult males and four young adult males possibly sapele or bonny1905

Commissioner Shagari (center) was met by his Mid-Western counterpart Mr. Edwin Clark (right), and other officials of the state's branch of the Central Bank

chiMoni37:
...abeg park well....Dey don't speak izon Ebe....E dey pain u say dem dey speak IBO and bear IBO names....?

I'll ignore you.

Obi of Onitsha with OBJ

Fulani girl from Kano, Nigeria, pictured here is distinguished by her tribal dress as well as by her dazzling smile

Kano

Portrait photograph of a woman in Bini traditional attire and coral beads taken in the 1940s in Benin City by Nigerian photographer Solomon Alonge

kel4soft:


I'll ignore you.

...wereee...neither was I referring to u

lygn19:

I am just watching all this ediots talking rubbish, I ve been patient because of my anti-biafra stance but they keep taking us as fools they would quickly jump and say Oyigbo is part of Niger delta they forget that when the abandoned property law was passed in Rivers state oyigbo people also suffered the consequences too same with egbema people who used to be part of old east central until the Obasanjo boundary adjustment, even that mumu hopeathand spilling rubbish about Ekpeye, ikwerre people no support Biafra no mean say Ekpeye people no support am, ekpeye people actively partaked in the war but everybody moved on after 1970, let them keep giving themselves false hope should I give u link of when the rivers state government tried to force ibani language on an igbo speaking community in opobo, the list goes on. I am a strong advocate of one Nigeria because I know whats on board and how we can het our way, lemme not talk further... not everything should be said on social media.

Forget hopeathand.. Pls...he is a goner

bnovative:
Efik is the purest form of the language, though spoken by minority group; others are variant form of efik.

Please where are your references. I don't believe this piece of sentimental junks.

Nicepoker:
Ibibio man in ikot ekpene? Op. I Think it should be an anang man in ikot ekpene.

the ikot ekpene people re anang, the uyo people re ibibio including eket .

TonyeBarcanista:

Which Igbo name dem they bear for Opobo and Bonny? All the towns and communities are Ijaw names. I doubt if you have every been there in your life. Is Dakuku igbo name? Is Pepple Igbo name? Abeg shift...

ok na only the language of igbo them dey speak abi?

Na ask I ask o?

gbosaa:



I want to refer you to no. 6. Igbos like their own space, they want their own stuff; buildings, big compounds, goodie goodies, independence.

Some people can't exist without living in clusters...aka face me I face you.

correct guy, you even noticed it..

nextdoor84:
Why is it that the ikwerre people are not always represented in things like this....abii dem no get culture nii?? Abii dem be artificial people wey Naija created. .

ask hopeathand and gykes .

Correction: ONLY the Igbos consider themselves brave - no one else does. Take note.

Incorrect:
Nice...but the ohaffia people stay in abia state not cross river

And the Ohafia people now currently serve as slaves to Fulani Herdsmen and the Fulani flag. IPOB Youth.

nextdoor84:
Why is it that the ikwerre people are not always represented in things like this....abii dem no get culture nii?? Abii dem be artificial people wey Naija created. .

The Op is already biased..He created a thread sometime and referred to Ikwerre as Igbo, even we tried to correct him, he didnt seem to bother..it is safe to say he has lumped us together.

Not that i cared what this op writes, its his thread, but his ignorance may land him in trouble in PH.