₦airaland Forum

JonOfAustrlia:
i just tried to look up the definition of coney and couldnt find it. What do u mean?

Lol. He meant cunning.

CyynthiaKiss:
Who knows this clown might end up being the worst Governor in Nigeria.. Did he become a governor to provide for Anambra people or did he become a governor to use Ipob to chase clout ?

What made him think he can achieve what other four governors couldn't achieve jointly alone ?
Why can't him leave IPOB and do what he was elected to do.. Setting up committe up and down because of IPOB, granting amnesty to IPOB as if IPOBS are Islamic terrorists that needs rehabilitation ...

Soludo focus on the government, your 100 days in office is around the corner.. Maybe that day you will sing Ipob national anthem .

Idiots are free to wail on my mention

Leave IPOB to keep trying to run the state into the ground. All of you that are supporting this madness going on in the east are full-on retardéd and insane.

"How the Igbos falsely claimed Olaudah Equiano".

(proceeds to post an excerpt from Olaudah where the man himself said he was Eboe)

I am skeptical about this. Nuella doesn't have a last name? Doesn't have a picture?

How about her Facebook page? Chinmark's victims (sorry, investors) were drawn largely from Facebook, so I'd expect that someone that threw in that sum of money would have a Facebook presence.

It's the Eurocentric ideas of beauty that Negroes have been swallowing like Vitamin C since being invaded by white people that make y'all think Shuwa Arabs are the most beautiful women in Nigeria. Y'all can't seem to keep it together anytime y'all sight light skin, straight nose and straight hair.

No, he's not. Any man can start a fight (especially with someone he knows he's physically stronger than).

It takes a real man to keep his emotions in check.

Most African countries don't even use African languages as their official languages. The few that actually list African languages among their official languages (in southern and Eastern Africa) still predominantly use European languages in formal settings. This is what you should address first before going to the UN.

You didn't indicate the language. I am assuming it's Urhobo/Isoko. In which case okpolo means big.

aribisala0:
You are a liar , Her research was not carried out during the Civil War. Do you have evidence for this fictitious claim ?
It is better you keep quiet instead of just fabricating IPOB rubbish.
A woman who published probably the first Ibo dictionary and worked for decades on Ibo language and is peerless in the area and you are talking of interviews > Is that the methodology used to classify languages?

This person you mention is unknown and ireelevant

Lol. Typical Omonnakoda.

First, I am not IPOB. But I know to some of you, anyone that says anything that is pro-Igbo in the slightest is IPOB. Me that have fought IPOB supporters so hard Igbo nationalists have decided to rip me of my Igboness


Second, Professor Emenanjo is not unknown in linguistic circles by any stretch. You don't know him because you don't follow linguistics. The only linguist you know is Williamson. And you only got interested in her and her work because they give you the opportunity to troll Igbos.

Third, I said Williamson's work was done "athwart" the Civil War. In English, that means the period close to the beginning and shortly after the Civil War, when anti-Igbo feelings were high. Her study on "Lower Niger languages" came out in 1973. "Lower Niger languages" by the way are what we today call "Igboid" languages. She initially won't even call them a collective name that had "Igbo" in it. Professor Manfredi was the one who introduced "Igboid" as a compromise in 1989, and it stuck.

Interesting enough, Williamson did most of her linguistic work in different Ijo dialects. She is more known as an authority in Ijo than in Igbo/Igboid. . She was well aware that all forms of Ijo were not mutually intelligible. Yet she called them Ijo and called them dialects. She didn't try to come up with a neutral term like "Niger Delta languages" the way she did with Igbo/Igboid.

By the way, she didn't publish the first Igbo dictionary. French missionaries did. And yes, she interviewed native speakers for her work on the Igbo, because as she herself admitted, she didn't speak the language. Again, her primary area of interest was Ijo.

aribisala0:
to date no Eboe scholar of note has come out to dispute her conclusions

Professor Nolue Emenanjo was a notable "EbOe" academic linguist from Delta State, and he disputed Williamson's conclusions. Among other things, Williamson's research was carried out in the period athwart the Civil War, and practically all of the people she interviewed during her fieldwork were "Igbo"-speaking people on the Nigerian side of the conflict. I don't think anyone needs to be reminded that there were real political reasons at the time for people on the periphery of "Igbosphere" to dissociate themselves from the "core."

Just pointing this out.

ChebeNdigboCalm:
If you were honest with yourself you obviously are biased. In brackets next to the word Oba they literally put (Eze Ogba). At MOST you can argue that it is also Oba as well as Eze Ogba. From what I have seen you have made no contribution. All you have done is tell us to stop actually putting the claims here to logical and critical scrutiny.

Leave that troll. Old Intelligence reports and colonial writings record Eze Ogba and never Oba. Oba in Ogbaland is post-1967.

A linguistic group. Like Celts or Slavs or Nguni or Akan.

Tranquill:
Why can't you people just mind your business?
Are you from Ogba?
What is Igboid Kingdom?
You guys can just continue wailing and writing bs on nairaland and wikipedia but what you can not do is to force Ibo identity on any tribe.

Oga, lie nsi. Lijuo nsi onu.

MyopicMods:
Wike urges new Oba of Ogbaland to emulate his late father

Oba gha to kpere. Ise.

They've started saying Oba gha to kpere in Ogba, too? Changing the title of the ruler from Eze Ogba to Oba wasn't enough, I see.

Lol. Even other "Igboid" kingdoms that are far more Benin-like in their political structure than Ogba haven't gone quite as far yet. The complex is strong in these ones.

Awww. Trevor Noah called. He wants his joke back.

Iziduhjoseph5:
A video of a Nigerian man went viral on the internet because of his ability to switch into different accents. Watch the video below and see for yourself.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggNs2w3d8mQ

All I can say is keep practising. This was hilarious.

What does Ochichi mean in the Etche/Ikwerre land? Does it mean rulership?

noobsaibot2:
Dude, I just checked your profile, from your posts it seems you are from igboid region, and you are here arguing with a core near Central Igbo man... I advised you to go and ask elders for more information.

I am of the Ngwa dialect.

Regards

There they go again with this core Igbo nonsense. Ngwa is as peripheral, geographically, as my axis is. I'm not sure whats makes you feel so "core" or so "central".

My questions are simple, and you could have used the time you used to run a background check on me or the time you used to type this to answer them.

noobsaibot2:
Am not here to argue with you. Kindly consult your village elders for more knowledge.

Regards

Asking direct simple questions have now become arguing. Typical deflective reply of someone who doesn't know what they are talking about.

noobsaibot2:
Wrong... Nze is Leopard , Agu is Tiger while Odum is Lion, Ediabali is Civet.

Mind you, I grew up in the village, read and studied Igbo language for some years...

In which Igbo dialect is Nze Leopard?

Did you also have tigers in that village you grew up?

Predictable. An attempt waa bound to be made on his life at some point, especially as the war becomes more and more unpopular inside Russia. Probably won't succeed though. He seems like a very careful man.

I didn't know Ben Murray Bruce has been doing this for this long! Didn't even know Silverbird was around in 1989.

Again, why are you guys so obsessed with ranking traditional rulers in the 21st century? There's like a new post every week.

Anyway, I don't know how one-town rulers like the Olubadan and the Obi of Agbor made it, and the Shehu of Borno isn't there.

Provide the names of the Annang communities in Obi Ngwa, Ugwunagbo and Ukwa East, please. Thank you.

naturefellow:
chicken are raised, poultry. Like livestock. They don't finish.

Pigeons will go extinct at this rate. Heard of the passenger pigeon?

At what rate? LOL. It's literally one bird and one dude. Everyone is not going around slaughtering pigeons. Calm down.

By the way, suggesting that passenger pigeons are extinct because humans killed and ate them all is too simplistic. Humans destroyed their habitat and upset the ecosystem they depended on when they began clearing vast tracts of land for agriculture.

RedEnergy:
So a pigeon is not safe again? Sad. Well, good luck to you. I can't eat a pigeon, too innocent for me

Too innocent? Lmao!

The chicken you've been eating since, what did they do to you?

What is this hypocrisy of eating beef, chicken, goat, snail and even the so-called "bushmeat", and then getting outraged when people eat other kinds of meat?!

Why is chicken good enough to end up in the pot, but not a pigeon?

keiraa87:
Hello, am not from Nigeria and i want to know if it's true that igbo from Anambra state don't marry foreigners. I have a son with a nigerian from Anambra and i still don't know yet his parents. And he didn't even tell me his plans for us. No judgeful comments please, thank you.

You know the popular Nwanyiocha on Facebook? The Swiss lady married to an Igbo man? The man is from Anambra. There are many Anambra men I know one on one who are married to foreigners. One of my oldest Anambra friends recently married his Filipino girlfriend. Another married a Jamaican-British woman.

But that said, you need to get clarity from this man. There's every chance he doesn't want to tie the knots with you. Get clarity from him. Trying to figure out what his plans are by stereotyping his people might not be very helpful.

I used water and soap. Tissue doesn't get everything out and it still leaves you with a stinky booty.

Water and soap. Then wash my hands with soap afterwards.

Tired of posters repeating this story. If there's no new development on the story, make una rest.

To many black men, white women are a status symbol. Blame it on centuries of black dehumanization.

Jameseddi1:
Akoko Edo
Benin
Esan
Isoko
Uhobo
Itshekiri
Okpe

How many others do you know?

If you knew what it meant to speak an Edoid language, you wouldn't put Itsekiri there. You guys just can't seem to learn to stop conflating linguistics with tradition.