₦airaland Forum

Iamgrey5:
So you believe Cross River accounts for 30% of cocoa in Nigeria and it doesn't have a single plant processing Cocoa all this while.

Oyo state has the FTN cocoa processing factory since 1991 which is listed on the Nigerian stock exchange

Ondo also has one

Osun also has one.

don't mind the reporter and the guy you quote

totit:
Even if it's owned by Yoloba .. Or Congolese or even Fulani are these not verified facts compiled by....

Citing data from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN).

Let's face it, it is what it is, it doesn't matter where the news emanated from.

You know the slang of our brothers across the Niger

“South East does not have a functioning and operational industrial cluster. Unfortunately, most of the industrial layouts have been converted to estates. While the DAWN Commission in the South West has done so well for the region in promoting investments, our own South East Governors’ Forum Secretariat, which ultimately should serve as the think-tank, seems to be more political than it should be.

on the record, DAWN means Development agenda of western Nigeria setup by Afenifere with her headoffice at cocoa house in Ibadan in 2011. DAWN initiated the Amotekun, they are the ones that insist that South west states will resume in August and will write waec before the federal government finally agree that waec will hold in August

The last time I check, guardian is owned by a native of delta state.

omazus:
This is eye opening. It is a pointer to the type of politics we play in SE, that is, the type of leaders we elect. SE believes so much that they can do everything for themselves and pay little attention to what can be gained from others. Unfortunately lazy leaders like this approach. It gives them opportunity to steal and live the people wallow in their self conceived omnipotence.

Read the wrote up very well. Even your leaders are concerned.

OfoIgbo:
OK, let me go slightly further.

Any Igbo man reading this should be seated, lest you break your computer screen or kick your shoes at your TV screen.

There is a place called IPONRI, in Lagos.
For those who understand modern Yoruba writings IPO in Yoruba will be pronounced as IKPO in Igbo.

Igbos at times go by the title ONO NA IKPO AKU, which means SEATED ON A HEAP OF WEALTH. Basically IKPO means HEAP in English.

Now getting back to my tale, in IPONRI, there is a shrine there till today, which is maintained, exactly the same way the Umu Nris maintain shrines.

What this means, is that Nris (Igbos) made it to Lagos in ancient times. With this in mind, IPONRI now assumes a different meaning as it would have meant NRI JOINT or NRI SETTLEMENT or NRI HEAP.

It was an Oba in Agukwu that informed me of this in Dec 2019, and I had in mind to visit the place and look for this shrine, unfortunately Coronavirus had other plans for the nation

What I am trying to say is that Igbos made it way past Ife. Igbos are extremely ancient people

.. IPO In Yoruba is condition, heap in Yoruba means aso. This your history ooo this thread has been derailed anytime you wanna create yoruba - igbo history mention me. Cos this rubbish you're writing, I need to check your brain

AreaFada2:
Well now Na three way fight.

Igbo were fed up being spectators. They were just clapping hands before. Now dem don enter dance floor.

At the end of all this oyinbo researchers will later tell us nobody came from Egypt, Saudi, Yemen, Israel or Nubia. Na that same 9ja our ur-ancestors dey Tele Tele. All just moved in different directions over time.

Even their dance floor no strong, all are speculations and guesses no written documents /pictures and evidence to counter

God bless Osun state.

AreaFada2:
Oh boy you just dey form Nri supremacy story.

Take permission from Nri?

Benin was a place where every kingdom had what today would be called an embassy. Though not permanent structure as today but regular envoys.

It's no secret that noblemen and princes from far and wide came to understudy Benin administration, culture, and monarchy.

You can focus on Igbo cultural renaissance without trying to claim Edo like Yoruba are doing.

They want the shine of Benin history. Claiming to have controlled Benin is an attractive but dubious short cut to relevance. When put in their place, they call Benin is 2 x 2.
Why bother about and scramble over "2 x 2"?

When pikin drag something and e nor reach him hand e go say I nor even want am before sef.
I guess post Biafra war Igbo were too busy pursuing individual wealth. Now it's becoming obvious that history and culture are vast inexhaustible wealth on their own.

I wholeheartedly support any group researching and bringing their culture, art and history to the fore. Igbo culture is important to nearby cultures of Edo, Yoruba, Idah, Idoma, Efik/Ibibio, Izon, etc.

. Don't mind them they're claiming Yoruba too now. We and you guys, we never settle matter, we still dey on top each other like superiority or where each other come from, Igbo con enter the matter saying we're from Igbos

OfoIgbo:
The bolded is because you don't know the meaning of ODUDU, and by the way, it is not ODUDU-IWA

read my comment up there

Obalatule:
Lots of igala sounds and letters are missing from Yoruba language but present in Igbo, "gw" , "kw", "ch" ,"Z" ,"V" "GH" and few others

Yoruba language doesn't have GW but ondo dialects, ekiti and some Yorubas dialects has GW so what are you saying stop writing what you don't know

Obalatule:
lol, you can't offer any meaning of Oduduwa in Yoruba language, just like you can't explain the name "Yoruba" itself

lol just tell me you want me to io say it. Except Yorubas that ain't versed in history will not know the meaning of Oduduwa, I intentionally tell you his last name iwa shortened as (wa) that's not his full name just like Fayemi, mimiko those surnames are not their full names it was just shorten

Dedetwo:
I do not give a ratass about Oduduwa the womanizer. You really do not want me to open up on Oduduwa and Akanbi .

Abeq I no get time, you can write it if it's interesting I'll reply you if not, don't expect my reply

Obalatule:
As states earlier by ofoigbo, Oduduwa may mean Onye Oduduwa or their leader....other schools of thought have it that ododuwa is actually a corruption of the word Lastborn in Igbo which is Odudu nwa

OfoIgbo:
Sorry, I thought you're Igbo.

But I hope you have learnt something with regards to the Yoruba origin and the real meaning of ODUDUWA

lol keep making yourself happy oo, even his name (iwa - means character) I won't tell you what Odudu means continue making yourself happy, I'm out

UdechiHD:
Igala are Yoruba’s from present Okun hills who left their homeland to settle in Igboland. The coming of the Benin throne in Idah is what made the Igala grow in height and later the Jukuns who came through the River Benue and expanded into Igboland.

. So where is the igboness in them? Lol I'm done with you. Thank God we don't share borders

Obalatule:
Of course you know better than The Ooni of ife himself, you even know his intentions and why he says the things he says, For you information this was a press release he did and he still insists on it till today

lol yes I know better than Ooni, yet you guys didn't agree with Ikewerrepikin when he said they're from Benin. He even showed videos of benin king visiting Wike

Dedetwo:
I guess you know the connotation of "Ooni" in Yari.ba. Neither Odudwau nor Akanbi was Oba. It was Obatala that gave rise to the so-called Obaship in Yari.ba land.

stop writing what you don't know. What is the meaning of Oduduwa in Igbo?

OfoIgbo:
Where are you from, so I can write in your dialect?

.. Write in Ondo dialect

UdechiHD:
The same .way the Igbos are the autochtonous people of Kogi state. The Igala during their sojourn from Okun hills met the Igbos who gave them shelter to settle. This is why till today, Igbo blood flows in the veins of people from Odolu/Igalamela down to Ibaji. Had the Attah Igala not ask to be joined with north, would you know the difference between them and Ndigbo?

lol even igalas were the earliest offshoots of Yorubas reason why their language is 70% Yoruba. You can't understand igala language while I can

OfoIgbo:
On the contrary

I think it makes sense to tell the Yorubas, how they came about.

I will say something in Igbo, so you can now jili ile gi guo eze gi onu

Ofo kpaa ike, a gwaya osisi esiri pi ya.

Because na
Agwo emero nke ojili bulu agwo, umuazi (ndi ofe mmanu) ewelu ya kebe nku.

I don't have your time, would have counter you in my dialect too but prove whatever you guys dey say there. Which igbo and Yoruba relationship

Obalatule:
Nobody is destroying anything, Ooni of ife the most respected Yoruba king Made it clear that Igbos were in IFE a long time ago in the past, Oduduwa is a corrupted Igbo name...read up his press release

Stop saying nonsense Abeq.
Anyone can make claims, and he said that to boost you guys Ego during your festival or so, their is nothing like Igbo in Yoruba land, if there is prove it here let me read it

Dedetwo:
Ndigbo are not loudmouthed as your forbearers and will never give silly narratives of Igbo people different from what is\are obtained on the ground.
Till today, Igala has no inches of Igbo land

I've you forgotten igalas are indigenous to Anambra state

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OfoIgbo:
Thanks Obalatule for reeling out those most Igbo of practices that Benin got from the Igbos (Umu-Nri). I'm already aware of most of them except the EGHO.

Let me just expand a little bit on ODUDUWA.
English = Them
Anambra Igbo = Fa
Imo/Abia = Ha
Anioma = Wa

Bear in mind that these activities were happening across the Niger i.e just beyond ANIOMA. So WA becomes the pronoun.
ONYE ODUDU WA = Their leader

BINI itself was coined from the Igbo phrase ILO OBI INU, which basically means THE ROAD/WAY OF (BITTER HEARTS)/ANGER.

The first Oba of Benin was Oba IWEKA, an Nri titled man. OBA is a title in Nri and it doesn't mean KING. Now the IWEKA appendage will usually be an alias.
So obviously he took on an alias that described the inhabitants of Benin (Ilo Obi Inu).
Every Igbo man knows the meaning of IWEKA (IWE means ANGER). For some reason the name has been corrupted to EWEKA.
The SW almajiris have also muscled into the argument by claiming that Bini is the short form for Ile-Ibunu. All these twisting of history has come about because Nri in its heyday, was a pacifist cultural society.

In the past, every Oba of Benin or Attah of Igala must be made an Ozo by Nri priests, as princes before they mount their respective royal stools.

I have heard the Isu, Igwekala, Kamalu e.t.c tales in the past by a prof. from Imo state, but I have never heard my people (The Nris) talk about it, and the deep traditionalists in my clan have never mentioned them, so because of that, and the fact the it is hard to prove, I normally do not bring up that issue, as I will not be able to back the tales up with proofs. That doesn't mean it didn't happen. It simply means I cannot back them up with existing evidence.

which kind of lies is this. How can you make claims you cannot prove? .. I think you wanna destroy this thread by including Oduduwa and Yorubas

MinorityOpinion:
This is BS and you know it.

Cc ThatF airGuy, sammy07

. I'm not sure of that ascertion

proeast:
Good development!
Something caught my attention, the report stated that Cross River State accounts for about 30% of cocoa production in Nigeria. Then why are some people claiming that SW accounts for almost all the cocoa in Nigeria? Remember that Abia, Taraba, Delta and others also produce cocoa.

..

Ondo state amounts to 50 - 60% of cocoa export in Nigeria

proeast:
Good development!
Something caught my attention, the report stated that Cross River State accounts for about 30% of cocoa production in Nigeria. Then why are some people claiming that SW accounts for almost all the cocoa in Nigeria? Remember that Abia, Taraba, Delta and others also produce cocoa.

.


I was shocked like Buhari.

If cross river amounts to 30% of cocoa

What will Ondo claim?
What will Osun claim?
What will Oyo claim?

In fact Ondo state has over 6 cocoa factories in the state
Idanre, Akure, Ile Oluji, Ondo, akoko, Owo etc

junketer:
It baffles me how the sw are hoping that the north will vote against a northerner if the pdp fields one in 2023. How can you hope on north's vote in 2023 against a northerner? Very funny indeed.

But Abiola won Tafa in the north
Tofa won Abiola in south
Good luck won Buhari in the North in 2011

What are you saying

einsteine:
When Obasanjo was President, did he give you a job?

Are Northerners not still extremely poor and destitute despite having Buhari in charge? Buhari has more in common with Jonathan and Obasanjo than with an average poor Hausa-Fulani man.

Don't go and seek your personal salvation, keep living vicariously through your more successful tribespeople

You're not a politician and you're not doing politics so forget ...
And probably none of your family are doing politics.

einsteine:
How does a Yoruba man being President improve your (likely miserable) life?

Ethnic jingoist.

The way some of you talk as if when someone from your ethnicity becomes President, you will get a straight passage to a heaven flowing with milk and honey.

Oh yeah it will improve our life's by giving lots of jobs to the souths as we witnessed what is happening in Buhari administration where the jobs are given to the northerner.

You can still vote for northners nah your biz be that Mr. Ethnic non bias.

Dedetwo:
I thought loudmouth is the only skewed inherent traits among certain people in Nigeria. However the emergency of clowns has opened another concern. The uniform shenanigan looks quit clownish with ribbons cut out of painted paper sheet. How much state fund was wasted on this silly joke?

Trailer of kerosene sir

When we told them 2023 that has a Yoruba candidate will have overwhelming supports they thought we are joking. Even the likes of Afenifere would fall in line. Till then