cheruv:

I've read that stuff over and over again but all I could see was ignorance...please go and remove it before you get people wondering which part of the bush you ran out from

Lool, n asking to be enligthened more on the one i already known is an act of ignorance?
…They say you can direct, follow, pull, beat or drag a horse to the stream but can never force it to drink water, if you have really read over n over again n still see no difference in what you understood b4....then i can only say i feel sorry n sad that you are this handicapped when it comes to reading n comprehending.... But i wont take the blame for that...bcoz its not my fault.

Truth be told. Ikwerres are igbos. They maybe too shy to openly admit it after what they did (or were forced to do) after the civil war. Yes, they have their own igbo dialect, but so do every igbo clan/subgroup in the southeast. There is no language in the world that doesn't have dialects. The ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. It is no big deal if they add 'R' prefix to most of their words as some of my southeast igbo brethren are fuming about. Infact, they have every right to do that as that is their own dialect. The ngwa/ukwa man from abia state tend to remove the 'N' prefix from most of their words such that they bear 'Wogu' instead of 'Nwogu', 'Wabara' instead of 'Nwabara' etc,. But that doesn't make them any less igbo. So why should the ikwerre case be different? I think this misunderstanding is coming more from some of us in the southeast who don't want to appreciate the uniqueness of the ikwerre dialect and have used it as a pretext to launch unwarranted attacks on them which is now backfiring.

freshkik:

Lool, n asking to be enligthened more on the one i already known is an act of ignorance?
…They say you can direct, follow, pull, beat or drag a horse to the stream but can never force it to drink water, if you have really read over n over again n still see no difference in what you understood b4....then i can only say i feel sorry n sad that you are this handicapped when it comes to reading n comprehending.... But i wont take the blame for that...bcoz its not my fault.

Guy...you talk too much...at the same time you talk nonsense
You're basically ignorant of the SESS region so I'd forgive you despite your feeble attempts to appear smart

nonsobaba:
Truth be told. Ikwerres are igbos. They maybe too shy to openly admit it after what they did (or were forced to do) after the civil war. Yes, they have their own igbo dialect, but so do every igbo clan/subgroup in the southeast. There is no language in the world that doesn't have dialects. The ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. It is no big deal if they add 'R' prefix to most of their words as some of my southeast igbo brethren are fuming about. Infact, they have every right to do that as that is their own dialect. The ngwa/ukwa man from abia state tend to remove the 'N' prefix from most of their words such that they bear 'Wogu' instead of 'Nwogu', 'Wabara' instead of 'Nwabara' etc,. But that doesn't make them any less igbo. So why should the ikwerre case be different? I think this misunderstanding is coming more from some of us in the southeast who don't want to appreciate the uniqueness of the ikwerre dialect and have used it as a pretext to launch unwarranted attacks on them which is now backfiring.

Some Ikwerre don't have problem identifying with the Igbos, but the distrust is too deep, when it comes to political matters.I once had an argument with an Ikwerre man, on the need for alignment.... he made it clear to me that the Igbos are politically naive....., and so the need for the Ikwerres to be on their own. We are not helping matters either. I think we need to understand this people properly before we extend any hand of brotherhood, otherwise, we'll keep hitting our head on a tick brick wall. No doubt, Ikwerre is an Igboid tribe.

Alexxgold:


illiteracy is truly a disease..

check the meaning of referendum and cases where it can be applied. it has nothing to do with renaming streets, cities or countries

You can have a referendum on changing a name of a place.

Alexxgold:


whatever!

PH belongs to SS not igbo.. get that into your skull
Noone will allow you land grabbers take the land, definitely not yorubas or hausas.. let's see who will give you thieves referendum in the first place

Igwe ocha my ass.. bloody thieves

IBO HAVE THE SPIRIT OF STEALING AND THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE

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Ekinematics:
We have never for ones meddled with the history of these Ibos, if they like they can be Jews or Ugandans we don't care, but every now and then they want to tell us our own history. History story made in Aba.
You people should please stop, because no matter how hard you try you only end up making fool of yourself and make us hate your Biafra the more. Long Live Port Harcourt, Long Live Niger Delta.

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RABID

IBOS ARE CONFUSION PEOPLE THEIR LAND IS INTACT YET THEY WANT TO CLAIM ANOTHER MANS LAND. JUST BOMB ARIARIA MKT OR ONITSHA MKT OR SEND 2 FULANI HERDSMEN IN THEIR LAND AND SEE HOW THEY WILL CRY

Indiaindia:
[s]IBOS ARE CONFUSION PEOPLE THEIR LAND IS INTACT YET THEY WANT TO CLAIM ANOTHER MANS LAND. JUST BOMB ARIARIA MKT OR ONITSHA MKT OR SEND 2 FULANI HERDSMEN IN THEIR LAND AND SEE HOW THEY WILL CRY[/s]

You are good in making incoherent noise. I strongly believe that you look impish and dwarfish in your physical look. #dibia.

cheruv:

Guy...you talk too much...at the same time you talk nonsense
You're basically ignorant of the SESS region so I'd forgive you despite your feeble attempts to appear smart

Lol, same way u tribalist reason, very cheap thinking...." Disagreement with me then u are an afonja or almaijri" way of reasoning..... I know nothing bout se/ss... smh, dude, u obviously even the ignorant one, i'm from the SS child, n i have stayed in ph, benin and many parts of delta state (my state), n besides i see nothing sensible that uv typed here to even believe u know anything, not to talk of me learning anything from you...at this rate of reasoning, i doubt if u know anything bout ur village sef, but i believe, u ll be very efficient in freely throwing insults to ppl of different tribes

giftedben:


Is this all you can say "Igbo boy". Ojukwu fought war without money and locally made weapon for 3years. Did you hear that "for 3years" even with the armies and weapon at the disposal of Nigeria they couldn't even defeat Ojukwu for 3years. Look at the business and properties we have everywhere that is becoming a threat to your existence and you call igbo slow. It will take your clan 300years to reach that milestone, that is if your clan is still existing.

Mumu what properties do the Igbos have in Nigeria or across the globe. How much does your father have in his bank account ? Which of the major tribe of Yoruba n Hausa is there Igbo doing better than ?

Tell your gang of fools that want to read about your chest beating about local weapon Igbo fought the war with. History is there for sensible human to know how much weapon France dropped off to Ojukwu. Did you read about how he preferred more ammunition to food when millions of his kinsmen were dying of starvation ?.

Only God will give you grace n insight to stop having lunatics as leader in the East. With all your sophistication n blessing you claim you got from God as Jews it is a handful of unlearned Aboki that nearly wiped out your entire tribe on your home turf O. What institutions did you claim Ojukwu graduated from in the UK again. Oloriburuku loud mouthed dimwit.

Who and what comprised central delta and delta edoiod

nowpresence:
Who and what comprised central delta and delta edoiod

Central Delta: Abua, Odua
Delta Edo: Engenni, Degema

karfe:


Central Delta: Abua, Odua
Delta Edo: Engenni, Degema

Are they close to edos languages

Ballmer:


Mum what properties do the Igbos have in Nigeria or across the globe. How much does your father have in his bank account ? Which of the major tribe of Yoruba n Hausa is there Igbo doing better than ?

Tell your gang of fools that want to read about your chest beating about local weapon Igbo fought the war with. History is there for sensible human to know how much weapon France dropped off to Ojukwu. Did you read about how he preferred more ammunition to food when millions of his kinsmen were dying of starvation ?.

Only God will give you grace n insight to stop having lunatics as leader in the East. With all your sophistication n blessing you claim you got from God as Jews it is a handful of unlearned Aboki that nearly wiped out your entire tribe on your home turf O. What institutions did you claim Ojukwu graduated from in the UK again. Oloriburuku loud mouthed dimwit.

see ur conny head and ur scratch face like a chymp.ozuo

We igbo own PH It was created to supply oil to enugu then the capital of eastern nigeria

Ballmer:


Mum what properties do the Igbos have in Nigeria or across the globe. How much does your father have in his bank account ? Which of the major tribe of Yoruba n Hausa is there Igbo doing better than ?

Tell your gang of fools that want to read about your chest beating about local weapon Igbo fought the war with. History is there for sensible human to know how much weapon France dropped off to Ojukwu. Did you read about how he preferred more ammunition to food when millions of his kinsmen were dying of starvation ?.

Only God will give you grace n insight to stop having lunatics as leader in the East. With all your sophistication n blessing you claim you got from God as Jews it is a handful of unlearned Aboki that nearly wiped out your entire tribe on your home turf O. What institutions did you claim Ojukwu graduated from in the UK again. Oloriburuku loud mouthed dimwit.

Yoruba as usual. Mouth action tribe. Awolowo & Soyinka are Cowards. one committed suicide by drinking rat poison and the other is already a mentally deranged person whom could not fulfill a simple task by tearing his green card. These are the most intelligent she-men yoruba could boost of. Mumu have you returned to ketu mile 12, i heard is now aboki territory.

nowpresence:

Are they close to edos languages

Yes, the Delta Edoid languages are in the Edo family. Same with Epie in Bayelsa. The speakers of these languages claim to understand Bini

Alexxgold:
Those land grabbers won't ever learn
Thank God nothing of such can happen in Lagos or SW.. na shoot at sight straight

Dumb dumb dumb!!!

Just rushed to comment without reading.

A very insightful article... Too bad some mofos turned it to a tribalistic thread..

Alexxgold:


whatever!

PH belongs to SS not igbo.. get that into your skull
Noone will allow you land grabbers take the land, definitely not yorubas or hausas.. let's see who will give you thieves referendum in the first place

Igwe ocha my ass.. bloody thieves

You will soon come and say that asaba belongs to ijaws.

Being in SS doesn't make it any less Igbo, Abi you want to tell me that no Yorubas in kwara or kogi because it is north central?
My brother all those things are just geopolitical zoning as the name implies.

Ekinematics:
We have never for ones meddled with the history of these Ibos, if they like they can be Jews or Ugandans we don't care, but every now and then they want to tell us our own history. History story made in Aba.
You people should please stop, because no matter how hard you try you only end up making fool of yourself and make us hate your Biafra the more. Long Live Port Harcourt, Long Live Niger Delta.

Bro where are you from?

freshkik:
Lol, all these yoruba n igbo tribalists have started again, this is 2.0.1.7, grow up bruh


and to the guy saying the locals refer to ph as igweocha? Lol, bro abeg nor dey lie na.... i have been in ph for close to 7yrs,but this is the 1st time i'm hearing that name.... and to clarify, igbos don't have the whole ph, (maybe just a little part, i dunno), but if you believe you do, then pls kindly enlighten me, of where the ikwerres, kalabaris,etc originated/migrated from.
It's like saying Asaba is an igboland or say Urhobos own delta state, or itsekiri own Warri or saying edo belongs to the ishans

Please who owns asaba? Ijaws or urhobo or itshekiri?

Fck biafra fck Nigeria fck Africa sh#t hole continent

blues20:

Some Ikwerre don't have problem identifying with the Igbos, but the distrust is too deep, when it comes to political matters.I once had an argument with an Ikwerre man, on the need for alignment.... he made it clear to me that the Igbos are politically naive....., and so the need for the Ikwerres to be on their own. We are not helping matters either. I think we need to understand this people properly before we extend any hand of brotherhood, otherwise, we'll keep hitting our head on a tick brick wall. No doubt, Ikwerre is an Igboid tribe.

We might share history or language but Ikwerre is not Igbo. Igboland starts after Iriebe in Rivers State.

Abagworo:


We might share history or language but Ikwerre is not Igbo. Igboland starts after Iriebe in Rivers State.

Ikwerre Is Fulani.

Noneroone:
smh...which court case? a referendum by the indigeneous people is enough to decide the name of a city overnight.

What is the acceptable definition of indigenous peoples of Port-Harcourt? Do you have a register of all the indigenous peoples of Port-Harcourt?

Noneroone:
lol...you must be a cretinous creature. Where in my post do you "streets"? I specifically mentioned cities. St petersburg of russia like igweocha was once named leningrad in honour of lenin (like lewis harcourt for port harcourt) but was reverted to its name through a referendum. Another russian city will soon try to undergo name change through referendum.

Do you know berlin also attempted name change in 1916 through referendum? Reverting to original name of ph is easy but it'll just be for formality sake cos everyone know its true name and true owners. You prolly think referendum is one of the protocols of secession only. To think of the fact that you called me illiterate...lol fool

There was no city in Port-Harcourt before the Colonial Government created the city in 1913 and named it Port-Harcourt. However Ikwerre village of Diobu was already existing close by and the elders of Ikwerre granted the British the approval to build a port on their land.

The city had however enlarged into Ijaw and other Ikwerre Territories.


Igwe-Ocha is the term used by Igbos to refer to the city which came about in the 1920s years after the port was built.


If you think any city named Igwe-Ocha existed before 1913, please name the kings/Administrators/Warrant Chiefs of that city. Name the traditional institutions of the city, it's boundaries and treaties signed with her neighbours.

explorer250:


OGA I be rivers indigene obigbo precisely and I know that you are an afonja working in porthacourt who can't accept the fact that pH is igboland! even the locals refer pH as igweocha and their is nothing your scratched face can do about that.

I was expecting you to present a historical disprove but you didnt.

No local will call it Igweocha
There is no community in Port Harcourt /Rebisi or Obio-Akpor that does not have a name. Every district has a name and there is NOTHING like Igweocha
Also there is nothing like obigbo it is Oyigbo

Only external intruders will insist on Obigbo

cheruv:
I hereby issue a patriotic call to "Ogbako Ikwerre", which represents the Ihuruoha people to take charge of their destinies and revert the name Port Harcourt back to its original ihuruoha name.
As for that akaligooli calling the Kirike here,lemme remind you that even the Kirike themselves know that PH was bought by the Brits from Ihuruoha chiefs in 1912

Port Harcourt is not entirely Ikwerre . Let us not forget that a lot of what we call Port Harcourt today is Obio-Akpor and not really Port harcourt


Isaka, Abuloma and Borokiri e.g are not Ikwerre territory

aribisala0:
No local will call it Igweocha
There is no community in Port Harcourt /Rebisi or Obio-Akpor that does not have a name. Every district has a name and there is NOTHING like Igweocha
Also there is nothing like obigbo it is Oyigbo

The original name of the land on which Portharcourt started as a city before expanding to include other areas was called "Igu-ocha', which many now misspell as 'Igwe-ocha'. Thats why may Ikwerres still refer to Portharcourt by that name

Also, there was no place called "Oyigbo" until 1976 when Obigbo was cut out of Imo State, added to Rivers State, and renamed Oyigbo