₦airaland Forum

Nice.
God bless all Ijaw lands
God bless Ijaw people

JANK23H:
But I thought at some time in the life of Nairaland you said Kalabaris are Igbos,so also are Okrika.All these were done to reduce the presence of Ijaws in the costal area.

Are they now Ijaws?

They are a confused set of beings.
Imagine people who said they are majority yet don't know what that means.

"Ibos are ready to kneel n beg for presidency"...Ezeife 2021

JANK23H:
I just shake my head reading their comments.The desperation is shameful really.

Why not visit those places first,interact with the people on a one-on-one basis.

Their self esteem in Nigeria has been bashed really.They'll clutch at anything to get it back.

It's pitiful!

This their desperate attempt at claiming Opobo n bonny started the moment Buhari said they are like a dot in a circle.
Go thro the timeline, you will notice that.
Don't worry brother, their noise ends in this forum, no be today dem start to claim lands.
No where e reach.
After all they yet to see anyone in this forum who claims to be Ibo at the same time from Opobo or Bonny

Igboid:
Then stop panicking

Let me tell you an example of effort in futility.

The useless attempt to implant the dead Kalabari language called Ibani in Opobo and Bonny.
That's an example of an exercise in futility.

It has been on since 1990s and now a yearly jamboree and avenue for funds embezzlement for Opobo and Bonny politicians.
I bet they would be earmarking huge state funds for it.
And after the whole jamboree, they all go back home to speak their beautiful Igbo language with their wives and children, probably mocking you desperate Bayelsans in their bedrooms.

Continue, when you are done we own the town come n chase us away.
Online tigers, real life pusssy asss

Igboid:
So you agree on breaking the history down to parts then.

Part 1 should be all about Bonny and Opobo early history and their early settlers.
The list of kings, the intrigues and power tussle amongst them.
The evolution of early Bonny from the Okpara bu isi system of it's early settlers to adoption of the "Wari" war house system of the riverine tribes around them.


What do you think about the above?

Effort in futility...

JANK23H:
RobbStark have you been able to meet with that coconut guy?

Would have been great if you did a video one of these days.Let the people speak for themselves.

He was not in Opobo, cos if he was they wud have told him that the most public place we have in Opobo is the waterfront or king Jaja palace play ground.
How can he say he is in Opobo at the same time where he is there are no Opobo person to ask where is safe. Lies.

I believe even if he was in town, the same people that spoke Ibo wud have also told him that they are Ijaws who can't speak ibani

Biafrarep:
Ignorance has finished this one. Now let me educate you, of all the Igbo clans in the SS, Opobo is the only one that observe annual reunion with Igbos of SE. They do this in two ways; by celebrating the Nwaotam cultural festival in Aba and by royal fathers visit! Ask anyone who is living in Aba and they will inform you that the two most popular and flamboyant Igbo cultural festivals celebrated in the city are the Abriba cultural parade and Nwaotam masquerade festival.

Now, ask yourself the following questions;

1. If the Opobo people doesn't consider themselves Igbos, why would they be bringing their most prestigious cultural event to Aba?

2. If the ijaws truly believe that Opobo people are their brothers, then why did Isaac boro use the cover of Nigerian army to commit crimes against the good people of Opobo during the civil war?

I just dey laugh una because too much of ogogoro has really messed you guys up

That shudnt be the questions you shud be asking.
Rather, why didn't Jaja after getting the land, gave it an Ijaw name instead of an Ibo name.
Same with other Opobo communities.
Why didn't Jaja gave his children Ibo names.
Nwaotam is a borrowed play, it can be played anywhere even in planet Mars.

Aren't there any ibos from Opobo or Bonny who are suppose to come here n say they are Ibos or did the Ijaws drove all of them away.

I am from Opobo n I am proudly Ijaw.

ebufa:
Leave nairaland idle banter, Igbo get people! all sorts of people for that matter! The day Ijaws make the error of attacking Igbos, we will cure their madness wella.........let ijaw braggadocio remain online o! Igbos that have taken on almajiris in kano and bested them,fought all Nigerians with one arm tied behind our backs by Great Britain for a bloody 30 months civil war, taken on fulani herdsmen and their army accomplices since January and forced a stalemate!................Igbos are not itshekiris o,it will end in bitter tears for ijaw people.

Noise as always.
Continue chest beating.
We don't talk much, we act.
Ask Kanu, when he ran away from the army that came, where was he all that while before he surfaced in Israel.
The Ijaws are like a God to you people

Kabongo1:
Interesting view. How come Jaja didn't give Opobo an Igbo name?

This is not a battle these guys will want to fight, instead of building alliances and forhing forward, they keep giving other groups a clue of what they will do if given the opportunity to rule...

Jaja cudnt name Opobo an Ibo name cos he knows that if he had tried that, na eviction get am.
Some of them don't even know how Jaja got the land Opobo.
Let them continue winning online battles, the real winners are occupying the lands

MelesZenawi:
I have little patience for ffffooooolllllls.

Take your jargons to those that patronizes you.

Tout, Nland resident zombie, I have all the time for miscreants like you.
Cry me a river

MelesZenawi:
Typical of an inferior being.

Well ogogoro is nothing new me as I learnt it can make normal person behave like idiiotts.

Next time don't rush to quote me with abstract ssssttttuuuuppppiddddity.

I have little patience for ffffooooolllllls.

I don't know what is paining you.
Whatever it is, stay pained.
You just showing the world that you have a very poor upbringing
Continue dancing naked, children are watching you.
Fish

MelesZenawi:
You are the one wriggling yourself in pain because I don't see reason for that trash of reply.

Did I ask for it or do I look like someone who cares to know wherever anyone comes from?

You should learn to control your pain and emotion and not dropping such at the feet of a post totally different from the writer submission.

What madness.

Look at this one that I heard udele n oyigbo update have won the zombie trophy.
If you want to be a zombie, atleast win something.
Month just ended, hope you have been given your own 30k. Zombie

Malawian:
Ijaw people are probably from Togo.

Na today you know.
Infact, we from heaven

MelesZenawi:
Who ask you all this rubbish?

I doubt if you read my submission very well before writing this jargons.

Truth stares you in the face. Stay pained.
Ibos own Opobo n Bonny online, while the Ijaws own it on ground

JOemmy:
Igbos should just forget about them if opobo and bonny indigens themselves don't want to belong to the larger igbo nation. Igbos should only fight for them if they vehemently refused to join the ijaws kwara state naturally belonged to the yorubas but has been conquered by the fulanis no need for unnecessary blood letting because of two little towns.

I am from Opobo, we are not ibos.
We are true n true Ijaws.
They know it but are hiding under the cover of say some persons there speak Ibo.
Ever since Buhari said they are a dot in a circle, they have been trying very hard to prove that they are not.
Since Buhari speech, do you know how many threads they have opened for Opobo n Bonny alone.
Its a world record.
Let them try harder, we the Ijaws don't brag over anything, and that is our greatest strength we act wen the time comes.

Let them come n chase us away.
Ndi dot

ThumbzTNA:
Eastlink made these suggestions and I agree 100%. And if I had the resources I would have sponsored them.
He says.....


"

Bringing facts here on Nairaland is a right step in the right direction, but more needs to be done. Such as.
1. Inviting Bonny/Opobo people to Igbo the cultural gathering as was the case with the forgotten Ahajioku festival held in Owerri. King Jaja Jeki V used to be a guest.

2. Informing Ohaneze or any Igbo group to open up Igbo associations in Bonny. Getting King Pepple of Bonny and King Jaja of Opobo to endorse these pro-Igbo Ubani unions.

3. Sending an Igbo delegation to visit with Bonny/Opobo.

4. Sponsorship of Igbo language competitions in Bonny/Opobo.

5. Opening of Facebook groups where Igbophilic Bonny/Opobo indigenes are admin. This will help to counter the guerrilla warfare being financed and sponsored by INC/IYC.

6. Supporting Pro-Igbo Bonny/Opobo sons like Dakuku Peterside for Governorship.

7. Sponsoring historians to write the true Bonny Igbo origin history of her Kings and people that will give Alagoa’s fraudulent revision the death knell.

"

Culled from Eastlink

That wud be a wasted effort.
It will yield nothing las las.

Go ahead n see if I am ready to say I am Ibo. Continue.
No be today Una don dey for this Opobo matter.
Drug addicts

MelesZenawi:
You guys should allow these people rest.

None of u guys arguing all these nonsense are even from opobo.

Let them decide who they want to be and so be it.

Stop dragging a whole town unnecessarily.


What rubbish. People will just be constituting nuisance.

You from Ebonyi state what is your business with what opobo people decides to be addressed as?

Mad people everywhere.

I am from.Opobo n currently in Opobo my beloved town.
Believe me, we are Ijaws nothing make us ibos.
Call us ibos na vex get us ooo.
I don't hate them but their miscreants here are on drugs.
So I will be avoiding them.
Jaja was an Ibo man who was brought into the Ijaw culture before being made to lead a house.

Ask them here, how come we Jaja went to found Opobo, he didn't name those other communities in Ibo name rather those towns around Opobo all near Ijaw names.
They are only trying to twist history which they have succeeded here in Nland bit on ground, we dey kampe nothing do us.
Jaja himself have children how come his children didn't bear Ibo names.
Question they are yet to answer.
How come we don't address our king as Eze but Amanyanabo?
They won't tell you, they will dodge.
Ask them if they know road to Opobo.
You claim you own Opobo yet you passed all the beautiful land in Ogoni, eleme to own a swamp, island.
Make Una dey lie gear God.

Biafrarep:
Dunce, the earliest recorded history of Igboland is what will be used and not Aboki military creations of yesterday.

All recorded data dating back to early 1600's, 1700's and after by both the Portuguese and English explorers all recorded that Igbo clans, particularly the Ndoki established Opobo, Bonny and Azumini areas! Till date, all these areas still speak Igbo language and practice Igbo culture!

Even the first Igbo language Bible was written in Bonny Igbo dialect!

That we lost a civil war doesn't mean our native lands will be taken away from us! Germany lost the WW11 and was divided into two with communists ruling the East Germany but at the end of the day, the Iron Curtain fell and they were reunified!

Pray that Nigeria doesn't break up because the day it breaks up is the day Bonny and Opobo will be reunified fully with the rest of Igbo country. We have the exhibits and all facts on our side to win in any court of arbitration and if any fool thinks they can stand on our way, we push them all into the Atlantic ocean.

Bonny, Opobo and Azumini will host three of our ports and we will ensure they become prosperous cities.

Na dream you dey dream abi na wetin.
You well like this so.
Opobo n Bonny host what exactly.
No sea route for you guys

Come Opobo n claim it not ranting n foaming in the mouth.
Why aren't there any body person from who have come openly to say they are Ibos. Lol.
You Miscreants will be here telling millions of people who they are. Aren't there ibos from bonny in this forum.
Oh I forgot, there is no Ibo indigene from bonny. Hahahaha

mancoconut:
What time will be good for you then? I'm here till Thursday.

Can't tell until I get to the office.
Why can't we meet this nite at the palace.
Are you sure it's the main town you in or some other Opobo community.

Just asking, cos you need someone to show you places. It a free place

mancoconut:
Don't worry about what I'm doing here on my end, I wouldn't be so confident about meeting you if I didn't hear Igbo been spoken here at my lodge. Everyone is a witness to this, 10AM you said

We shall see tomorrow.

I have never said the Ibo language isn't spoken in Opobo, no.
Go check my comments.
I said the land belongs to the Ijaws.
Ibo is a borrowed language. The ibani language got lost somewhere but some of us do speak the ibani language and can communicate with our kalabari brothers, Okrika people n southern Ijaw people very well.

I really wanted to meet mancoconut this evening
I will be going to work in the morning.
So that time won't be possible again.

I forgot that today was Sunday.
Maybe because I was at the site all thro the day.

Alua ooo

mancoconut:
.

Not sure if you suffer from dyslexia or something, but I categorically stated in my earlier post that this is my first time here and my friends are not natives of this place either. What time can we meet up at the King Jajas play ground tomorrow? I'm coming with my camera to take pictures and start interviews as well, thank God I'm finally meeting someone from Nairaland who is man enough to at least show up.

I am glad that you have asked n the palace play ground you choose.
Fine.
I will be there by 10am hope to meet you.

Better still, start asking the natives the question you have. They are friendly, they won't bite you

ThickSharon123:
I won't, like some people on Nairaland here have seen me and can testify. No capping.

On video call self.

You mean face padded with brown powder or what.
Forget that thing.
I know Ibo girls are beautiful cos I have run things with some, but not all.
Some are mgbeke heat to toe

ThickSharon123:
It's not saying they are Igbos or not Igbos that's not relevant. When you've brainswashed them and called them Igbo slaves, what do you want them to say? If I said your forefathers were Ijaw slaves, how would you feel. Be in their situation.

We want to know if they speak Igbo.

Language alone does not determine the true origin of a people.
The Argentines speak Latin, that doesn't mean they are spanish

mancoconut:
Bro for security reasons I won't be that stupid to disclose my location... Like common, choose a neutral public spot where I can be sure a lot people will be (like a local bar, resteurant, market etc) and I'll meet you there, and may God punish me and my generation if I fail to show up at the rendezvous

I believe you are with some Opobo guys, start by asking them who dey are.
Believe me, if you say they are Ibos, they will put you in a bus this nite n send you back to wherever you came from

mancoconut:
Bro for security reasons I won't be that stupid to disclose my location... Like common, choose a neutral public spot where I can be sure a lot people will be (like a local bar, resteurant, market etc) and I'll meet you there, and may God punish me and my generation if I fail to show up at the rendezvous

If you know Opobo very well, or you don't ask people you are with, they will tell you the most public place is the waterfront, followed by the king Jajas palace play ground.
Ask around people close to you will tell you same

9Pluto:
I won't advice or encourage this for obvious reasons. Gently, make your observations and leave there.

I have no I'll intentions.
I just want him to know the truth.

We start by asking their names and who dey are.
If they say they are Ibos, fine
But if they say they not ibos, he is going to buy me a drink. Then we take pictures this nite and chill

ThickSharon123:
.... I know myself and all other Igbo women. But let me not speak for all other Igbo women, you yourself know the know.

For me, you'll lick your lips when you set your eyes on just my face.

Ashanti girl mixed with Igbo blood. You make the result

Show your face na let's lick our lips.
Or you no fine as you dey talk

mancoconut:
Make I pm you my number? Let's meet up, no hostility or banter... just two men trying to find the truth about Opobo.

Why is it difficult to state your location in Opobo.
I have told you where I am already.
Since you are a stranger here I will come meet you.

DitariDisciple2:
Since u claim that u are in Opobo tell them to leave all Ijaw socia-cultural organizations they belong, then u tell them to enter ibo own.
Mumu.

Not to tell them to leave, ask them who dey are. Start from there.

If they tell you dey are Ibos then you win.
But I'd they say they are Ijaws, then you stop ranting

mancoconut:
I'm in a bar now and the language I'm hearing sounds more Igbo to me so far oooo!!! are Ijaws really ready for this?

Cc: RobbStark

Where in Opobo are you? If you're man let's meet up and put this debate to rest already by doing interviews? are you game?

I am at the waterfront,
The bar no get name.
I am at the jetty in front of "Welcome to Opobo"

mancoconut:
I'm in a market now and the language I'm hearing sounds more Igbo to me so far oooo!!! are Ijaws really ready for this?

Cc: RobbStark

Where in Opobo are you? If you're man let's meet up and put this debate to rest already by doing interviews? are you game?

Which market by this time 7:44pm