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Is this not that very corrupt nigga that owns Orange Spot along Ifite Road?

Number one shoulda been Abolish Lauretta Onochie's position and fire her. What the feck is Special Adviser on New Media?

'Most Beautiful Model in Nigeria'?? SMH!

I'm sorry, that's a regular mixed-race girl. She won't stand out in a crowd of girls of the same skin tone and racial background. Y'all worship light skin way too much.

Chocolate girls rock!!!

shamack:
We leave in country where only Yoruba habour any tribe,,,,,,,,

Really? You have tried to "leave" among the Idoma or Isoko or Ibibio or Igbo or Efik and they chased you away?

This is junior secondary school social studies na. Daura.

Are you sure you know what riverine means? All the areas you want us to take note of are either riverine or just next to riverine areas.

It's clear you don't even know the history of the area.

Marcelini:
Simple, concise and apt.

Thanks.
cc: Redbonesmith

Why cc me to a post that makes factually inaccurate statements like, "Igbo is older than Ijaw thousands of years apart" when it is generally known that Ijaw are one of the oldest groups in southern nigeria? And makes subjective (at best) comments like "Owu has been in Isu before the founding of the first Ijaw settlement?"

Bruh,,you both can do better.

There is a reason why Owu is restricted to riverain Igbo and southern Igbo which are the areas with documented historical relations with Ijaw or Ijaw-associated people, whereas in Ijaw there is no such restriction, as it exists in all corners of Ijawland, from Ondo to Rivers. When you are willing to step outside your narrow,,subjective boxes and adopt an unbiased approach, then cc me.

Marcelini:
The default is that Owu is an Igbo festival, the burden of proof lie on those who say that it is an Ijaw festival that spread to Igboland.

When the word for masquerade in every Ijaw community, every Ijaw community, as far west as Apoi and Arogbo in Ondo State is owu or its variants ou or awu, how is it Igbo by default? More than half of Igboland doesn't even know what is Owu. Every Ijaw community does. So, I ask again: How is it Igbo by default.

Can you even break down the word 'owuogbo' and explain it? Every Ijaw speaker can.

Marcelini:
Any colonial document to prove this?

NB: only colonial documents will be acceptable, as they were provided by an unbiased third party. Another thing is my word against yours.

Do colonial documents prove it diffused from Igbo to Ijaw?

Marcelini:
4. Owu/ Owogbo is an Igbo festival that diffused into Opobo/ Bonny, unless you have a colonial evidence to back this your contrary claim, Owu remains an Igbo influence on Ibani, not the other way round.

Everything I know about Owu suggests the diffusion was the other way, i.e., from Ijaw to Igbo.

Is Abagworo a typical Oguta name, and what does it mean?

Abagworo:
Oguta is closely linked with Ukwuani. Ossai means "God's will". Adizua means "full of wealth". They are both Bini names originally but modified to Igbo over time.

Which Bini name corresponds to Ossai?

Ifeanyi Okowa is from Owa, not Agbor.

chijiblaze:
This looks like:"Ị bịala" , "unu abịala".
That's actually "welcome" not "good morning" which is: "Ị bọọla chi", "unu abọọla chi".

What is this?

An Ikwerre man is telling you how they say good morning in his place, and you're bringing your own village (mis)interpretation into it. Does his people have to use the same expressions your people use in greeting?

sinceraconcept:
leave the girl alone >>>Drchristian.
The girl love Yorubas and she wants to be called Yoruba than a Bini girl because she thinks yorubas are worth it

'She' is not a girl. And 'she' is not Bini.

There's already an active discussion thread about this. Why start another one?

bigfrancis21:
This is new to me. I'm not sure where you're getting this from but I know Yorubas use 'Oyinbo' and Igbos use 'Oyibo'. There is documented evidence of the usage of 'Oyibo' amongst Igbos as of the 18th/19th century pre-Christianity times. Some missionaries had been to Igboland to spread the gospel and the natives, on sighting them, repeatedly called them 'oyibo', 'oyibo'. Olaudah Equiano, the Igbo ex-slave, in his book wrote of his Igbo people referring to light-skinned men from a distance as 'oyeboe'. Mind you, Olaudah was born around 1745 or the 18th century, at a time before the arrival of westernization or Christianity. Mind you, this was a village of Olaudah located deep in the middle of Igboland, with little influence to the outside world. Your coming now to claim 'Oyibo' as used by Igbos since time immemorial as 'Yoruba' is obviously false as it may come. Mind you, no documented evidence so far has shown the usage of 'oyinbo' by the Yorubas before or as of the same time Igbos were using 'Oyibo', which leads any researcher to conclude that Oyinbo may be a borrowed and corrupted word from the Igbo 'Oyibo'. Mind you also that most of the tribes in the south (Binis, Igalas, Idomas etc.) also use the same word, 'oyibo' as Igbos except the Yorubas that say 'oyinbo' instead, indicating an adoption somewhere and the nasalization of the word to 'oyinbo', Yoruba being a nasal language. For example, Ebonyi would be Eboyin in Yoruba, Egwugwu masquerade is Egungun in Yoruba, Ogwu (charm) in Igbo is Ogun in Yoruba, Onye in Igbo is to Eyin in Yoruba, and so forth.

Please try to do some research as to the use of 'oyibo' or 'oyinbo' in Yorubaland and come up with tangible sources. Trying to ascribe yoruba meanings to a word is not conclusive evidence of ownership of a word. Thousands of Yoruba words have meanings in Igbo (Abeokuta or Ebe okwute in Igbo meaning a place of rock/stones, Ibeji in Yoruba which could mean place of yams or yam barn in my dialect of Igbo etc), but it would make no sense for Igbos to try to claim those words as Igbo words simply because they have meanings in Igbo.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/equiano1.html

It is strange how you insist that Equiano's Oye-Eboe is Oyibo when there are other explanations that make better sense.

First, it could also be Onye Igbo. We all know how in the old days, some Igbo clans would call other Igbos 'Nwa Onye Igbo', but would not use the same designation for themselves. Equiano's people may have been using 'Onye Igbo' in a similar way to describe these traders who came from a distance.

Second, it could be Onye Aboh. That is someone from Aboh. Abo was often also written as Ebo or Eboe in travelers accounts. Some clans still call them Ebo today. And they traded in the kind of merchandise that Equiano described in the book.

The Oyibo explanation which you have been pushing to explain 'Oye-Eboe' is by far the least tenable.

Oyibo (white man) is most likely to have originated in Yorubaland and reached the Niger by relay trade maybe early in the 19th century. I have snapped this page from Equiano's Travels edited by Paul Edwards where the writer briefly analysed the explanations for 'Oye-Eboe'.

bigfrancis21:
Well, Jaja's full Igbo name is Jubogha

In what universe is Jubogha an Igbo name?

Abeg let's not get carried away here.

AjiereTuwo:
Okay, dats a good point, so if "the bearer"accepted it why are you denying it for him, Jaja was sold when he was very young, so he knew no other culture apart from the ways of the Ibani Ijaws

What are you getting at, please? Denying what? Will you say that the Ibanis born and raised in Ibadan who know no other culture apart from the ways of the Yorubas are not Ibanis anymore?

I hope you don't want to play that old game of dragging Jaja's origin and identity because I won't indulge you.

AjiereTuwo:
Its just a question I asked, why not king Mbanaso, we all answer English names, but do we all bear Ijaw names?

He was adopted into an Ijaw household, and given an Ijaw name which he used for the rest of his life. I see no problem with addressing him by that name, none at all.

AjiereTuwo:
Why do you keep referring to him as Jaja(jubo jubogha) if he was Igbo

What does that have to do with anything? Does Edwin Clark stop being Ijaw because his name is Edwin Clark?

Enuguboy4nsk:
the bone of contention is between Enugu and Anambra...am proudly from Enugu state no matter how u want to twist it......Enugu bu obodo ndi eze; obodo mara mma; obodo udo na achi eze unlike ur polluted onitsha and lassa fever ravaged anambra..dirty people with fake ugu export

Oh. Now Nsukka is no longer Enugu? Bwahahahahaha!

BTW, tell you Anambra-obsessed Enugu chics to get off my dickk.

Enuguboy4nsk:
Enugu bu obodo oyibo...ndi anambra are p!gs...onitsha is the dirtiest and most polluted and now lassa fever has invaded u p!gs

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/lassa-fever-kills-doctor-2-others-in-anambra-official/

ezhi offia ka ndi anambra bu....infact anambra should be merged with p!gs

What does Nsk stand for sef? Nsukka?

A primitive Nsukka boy who probably never saw a car until he left his dusty thatch-hut ridden village na-ewetalu his Anambra superiors onu?

Do you know what we call people who are stupid and act like primitive people in Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, etc? We call them 'Nwa Nsukka', 'cause your folks who live in Anambra be acting like they are severely mentally challenged.

I was rolling with a few of them in my Nnewi days. Yea, your people are everywhere in Nkwo Nnewi market, serving Anambra masters and trying to get some of that business sense to rub off on them. But you can take an Nsukka man out of Nsukka, but you can never take the Nsukka out of the Nsukka man. They stay retarded.

Enuguboy4nsk:
makana ndi anambra bu ndi iberibe.....they're just only into drug pushing and selling fake products..did i forget that they are the most hateful and bigoted human beings

Bwahahaha! Look at this fvcking retarded Wawa boy.

I understand your pain though. Your girls are running after every successful Anambra boy. Once an Enugu chic hears you from Anambra, she lets her panties drop faster than a piece of piping hot potato.

Babalegba:
We are still in the same habitat.I double dare you to go out in the street dressed like that

Times change. Our sense of decency and what is appropriate changes too.
That still doesn't make our sense of dressing any more superior than that of those who dressed to suit their environment.

The ancient Egyptians wore much less clothing than the Vikings of Europe. Yet the Vikings were barbarians and the ancient Egyptians were civilised. The Egyptians simply wore less because their environment demanded it.

Babalegba:
You are too funny.Those photos reek of primitivity.

Because they are not dressed in stifling voulminous robes in the suffocating heat of the rainforest? Because they are dressed to suit their habitat?

*loud yawn*

Why does the Governor have the Hausa phrase 'Sai Maigida' next to his name?

Junior66:
Actually i dn't know what Okolo means in Igala. Okolobia means youngman in Igala though. Okolo is a common Igala name. My cousin's surname is Okolo and dey are not even close to the igbo border areas.

Interesting. But I am not surprised as I already knew about this.

Igbo people also use Okolobia/Okorobia to mean young man. It's either you say Okolo/Okoro or you say Okolobia/Okorobia. Young woman is Agbogho or Agboghobia. Notice the similar format with 'bia'. I'll like to know what you guys call young woman in Igala.

Okolo/Okoro as a name is so deeply entrenched in Igbo naming culture that it has several derivatives apart from just plain Okolo.

Nwokolo/Nwokoro = son of the youth.

Okoroafor = young man born on Afor day.

Okorocha = Light-skinned young man.

Okolobu = young man born in his father's reception hall (obu/obu)

Etc.

Junior66:
@OP OKOLO is a name common to the Igalas or igala-igbo border areas. The Igbos bear Okoro while the Igalas bear Okolo, both names are the same but one was corrupted by the borrowee tribe. Originally an Igala name i think.

The Igbo bear both Okolo and Okoro depending on the dialect. I didn't even know the Igalas use it until now. But if there was a borrowing, the Igbos were definitely not the ones who did the borrowing.

Okolo/Okoro has a definite meaning in Igbo. It means 'young man'. There is no other word for young man in Igbo that I know. What does Okolo mean in Igala?

Hi. I tried accessing your business page a number of times, but there seems to be a problem because I keep getting a plain white page (I am using a phone, by the way). I don't know whether the problem is from my end or from yours.

I am definitely interested. I ga-enweta ozi m tutu chi ejie taa.