kITATITA: Rivers State needs him more than he needs Rivers. He can't go back to being governor again. He's playing at the national level. He's playing at the center stage. He's playing at the power base. He's a dispenser of power now.
He never developed Rivers when he was there for 8 yeas . He squandered Rivers money .
EastField: I just hope Opobo will not be part of your I jaw Oil Rivers State?. because any attempt to include Opobo into any Ijaw state will be met with War. Opobo is d property of king jaja and Jaja is d property of Amaigbo. if you guys so much love opobo then Support them to have their own State. I repeat. Opobo will be maintained d Way Jaja left it. The Igbo language will not be Changed into ibani or any ijawlanguge . We the Amaigbo people are watching and waiting for you to come and claim it. God bless Nigeria. Abagworo. pls I need your phone number. and lyng19 phone number to. it is very important.
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King JAJA denounced his amaigbo citizenship and became Ijaw . .shame on you . And he was just a leader while the people he led were all Ijaw .
EzePromoe: [color=#DC143C]Well let me pay my own quota in lecturing you by dissecting this poor defence mechanism you've just put up here;[/color] [color=#DC143C]Yes we speak Ikwerre as our language but did our progenitors ascended from the ground with Ikwerre language? Don't you think this language was developed from somewhere not necessarily superior. Going by your postulation then there are over 50 'tribes' in Rivers state. Seems you don't know the meaning of a tribe? Ikwerre is an ethnic group and no matter how you deny this vehemently, we're speaking Igbo creole, that is why an Ikwerreman who has never left his father's compound will understand Igbo language though he won't start speaking it immediately. You won't understand this because you're not Ikwerre. I understand that many of our youths today don't know our history and sadly enough they don't care to know either, that is why ignorance is prevalent in our society today.[/color]
[color=#DC143C][b]I know it's the word KELGA that is deceiving you because that is the only instance you can give to buttress your assertion. Now, here is how the word 'KELGA' came about: Then under the Old Rivers (comprising of the present Rivers and Bayelsa states) both Ikwerre, Etche, Omuma and Emohua were under a local government authority known as Ikwerre/Etche Local Government Authority. There is even a high school still named by this location (County Grammar School Ikwerre/Etche) which is between Igwuruta and Chokocho, that is my alma mater. Now back to your point, do you think that those who created the local government were stupid not to have made that distinction between 'Ikwerre' and 'Etche'? Why was it not simply called Ikwerre Local Government since Etche people were once Ikwerre according to you. Like I said earlier I'm happy that you're picking up. Then it was 'Etche speak some kind of Ikwerre' now it is 'they're grouped alongside with Ikwerre'. I believe next time you'll come up with something better.[/b][/color]
[color=#DC143C]Nice guess. Etche dialect is almost similar to the Mbaise dialect. For the fact an Ikwerre man will understand Igbo on his first hearing, he will also understand Etche like Igbo. Here amongst Ikwerre, we even consider them to be pure Igbos though some won't agree. But when an Ozuzu man or Isu man or Akwukabi man speaks, I bet it that an Ikwerreman will not understand a sentence. IGBO language is always what it is, differing per square mile. As for Ikwerre, forget it! An Etche man who hasn't lived in Ikwerre land won't understand a sentence from it.[/color]
[color=#DC143C]Jesus! First of all, there are many distinct ethnic Igboid and Ijoid groups that make up Ahaoda. Do you know that Ahoada is divided into two local government, Ahoada East and Ahoada West. Ibaa does not even border Ahoada to start with. Who is feeding you with all this junk? Do that person know the distance between these two places. Ibaa is reputed to have one of the most complicated Ikwerre dialect. I from Igwuruta need to put my ears on ground carefully and figure out what they are saying. How come somebody from Ahoada will understand this with ease. You've just proven to all NLders that you're no Rivers man talkless of Ikwerre. Even an Ogoni man knows that there's a big difference between Ikwerre and Ahoada.[/color]
[color=#DC143C]Please name the part of Obigbo land owned by Eleme or Iriebe not by making empty assertions. It seems to me like you're using Google map to dictate and allocate piece of lands. You don't know that there are errors in that application. I've observed many of them.[/color]
[color=#DC143C]More like you've subtly requested for a lecture. Luckily enough, you got one for yourself. You claim to be from Ogbakiri but I can bet my entire fortune that you can't name the villages in Ogbakiri or the neighbouring towns. You'll crawl to Google as usual to save your face.
Cheruv Tonychristopher Freeglobe shota xtorse Easternlion and so on, you guys should stop dissing the Ikwerres because of this boy because he's not one.[/color]
Jamaicans speak English and so to you they must be English... Haitians speak French so to you they must be French . Opobo speak Igbo and Bonny speak Igbo so to you they are Igbos , Apoi Ijaws speak Yoruba so to you Apoi must be Yorubas. You don't consider the reason why people speak other people's language ... Igbo people in Oyigbo are all settlers.. They are people who went there to trade and Oyigbo was a market and never a settlement ..
EUROBOMBER: These people are dumber than camels I tell you. Very daft set of people.
Why dont you goats march on Hausa land and Yoruba land also ? Why muct you march on Ijaw land ? We just dont want to take laws in our own hands... We ll continue to allow the security men do their job.
JSJaja: Everybody must not support Biafra, and please stop castigating #Biafrans and friends of Biafra bcus Biafrans have d right to self determination and d world acknowledge that...wether or not d SS or Ijaw(Izon) and other ethnic groups therein support Biafra will play out in a referendum, believe me majority in these areas are in for Biafra. In Rivers State where I come from, Opobo kingdom to be precise, the ikwerre, Ijaw, ogoni, Ibibio,igbo and other tribes attend our IPOB meetings and we are great in number, we staged our protest massively in PH when d opposition became too much IPOB in Aba and Bayelsa had to march down to PH to join force with us and we prevailed. our resolve is more than u can imagine. If Biafra comes it will be better for all, we will continue to coexist Nigeria is not working; d Igbo man is not our problem, oil and gas is not the drive we can share the oil with our brothers in oduduwa and arewa with agreement, please...God bless Biafra
Menn shut up.. You are nothing close to OPOBO and No Rivers fellow attended any IPOB meeting.. Enough of you Igbo people struggling to add Niger delta to your Biafra.. PLEASE we are not Biafrans.. Be warned...
Nctrice: Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Victor Attah, former Minister of Lands and Survey, Chief Nduese Essien, and other state caucus members at the National Conference have kicked against the recommendation of the conference to create “Oil Rivers State” from the present Akwa Ibom and Rivers States. In a protest letter addressed to the chairman of the conference, the 13 delegates from the state said the provision was now contained on page 4, line 11 of the “draft constitution” produced by the conference secretariat. According to the delegates from the oil-rich state, the proposed plan to dismember some parts of Akwa Ibom state to form an “Oil Rivers State” is not only treacherous but amounts to a hidden agenda by people whose aim might be to scuttle the final outcome of the conference. Part of the letter reads: “This action is at variance with the conference decision of the Committee on Restructuring and Forms of Government. The conference decision as correctly reflected on page 281 (b) of the draft report was that ‘the third state to be created in the South-south zone will be named later along with its state capital’. “This inclusion is a slight of hand, unholy and completely unacceptable to us as there was no prior discussion with Akwa Ibom State and her delegates on the matter.” The group said although it supported the creation of more states where deserving, the process should be in consultation with all relevant stakeholders. “As the true representatives of our state and people at this conference, we have been mandated to reject totally and disassociate ourselves and our state completely from this provision. “We assert that no part of Akwa Ibom State should be excised to form a new state,” the letter further reads. Also, Ondo State delegate, Sola Ebiseni, said the best way out was dialogue. According to him, “What this has demonstrated is the need for continuous dialogue among the constituent groups within the country. Some of the things we hold tenaciously to, we might discover at the end of the day are resolvable when there is dialogue. “The issues whether we are bringing a new draft constitution that the public thought would tear the conference apart today (yesterday) turned out to be of less importance to the conference. “This is because we discovered at the end of the day that these are issues of formality. Some of the opponents of the new draft constitution appeared to me not to be concerned with the content but with whether it is going be translated to a new constitution. “I will rather say whatever their passion is for the 1999 constitution, in my own view, it has not changed the fact that the decision of this conference has torn the 1999 constitution into shreds through most of the fundamental recommendations we have made that would turn Nigeria into a truly federal state. “At the end of the day, those who wish to stick with the status quo can keep the carcass of the 1999 Constitution because the content of our report, in term of quality, reach and objective is monumental.
“The outcome of the conference today (yesterday) can be said to be victory for dialogue and victory for the Nigerian people and not for a section. “Those who thought there were centrifugal forces within the conference aiming to tear the country apart must have realised the futility of their actions because we all want to belong to a big, powerful and proactive Nigeria that would be a pride of the African continent.”
If the purpose for state creation is well explained or defined with Delta and Edo or even Kwara and present day Rivers state as examples to exaplain that state creation has got no ethnic agenda but for development sake, These Akwa Ibom people would have no point to stop the creation of Oil Rivers State. The so called places of Akwa Ibom to be in the new Oil Rivers State have been neglected and oppressed . They are Nigerians living in those places and Nigeria is not an Apartheid state so even if the residents there are Efiks or Ibibios, they have the right to belong to where they want to belong for the purpose of development . It is therefore not a question of natives or non natives but a question of neglected Nigerians. Those Akwa Ibom people kicking against the move do not live in those places and have never lived there so they can not speak on behalf of the people who live there .
OboloMAN: What is special in being Minister of Niger Delta? Will he be the first person to hold such position if he is ever given? After all his efforts, V.P = No S.G F = No Chief of Staff = No And the so called lion is settling to be a mere Minister.
A Sheep indeed.
He is going to marginalize the Ijaws again.. The Niger delta ministry is strictly for Ijaw development cos by every standard , the Niger delta is Ijaw land.. Every other parts added to form the Niger delta in Nigeria is mere politics.. Ikwere is never in the Niger delta. There is no river or creek in Ikwere land that came from the lower Niger...
ZelrothCloven: Loooool! You stu.pid F.uck do you think the argungu fishing festival is attended by hausas alone? Loooool! No you twirly d.umb F.uck, it's attended by all ethnicities, I'd say other ethnicities outnumber hausas there, just goes to show the power and appeal of the Hausa culture. And so what if I look like these people? Are you referring to their dark skin? Which there is nothing wrong with? Or to their unkept appearance? They are fishermen, not fashion models stu.pid.
ZelrothCloven: Beautiful is it not? The productivity and skill of these fishermen is breathtaking. The arguing fishing festival is one of the largest of its kind. And is a tourist attraction. No need to thank us.
ZelrothCloven: Lol! This is your argument? This is what you choose to compare? LOOOL! First of all What is hausa fulani please? Who are they? I don't know them. And btw, even in this comparison with the music and all, the video of your people shows a group of cultureless sleep depraved weird looking breed of people I still maintain aren't fully evolved humans. You my friend do not know what culture is.
Fulaman198: I speak both Fulfulde and Hausa. Fulfulde is my first language and Hausa is my second language. Like Arabic, Hausa is an Afro-Asiatic language. There are a total of 150 Afro-Asiatic languages in Nigeria, with Hausa being the most widespread, Hausa belongs to the Chadic family of Afro-Asiatic languages, however there are other family trees of Afro-Asiatic languages like Berber, Chadic (mentioned earlier), Oromoic, Semetic, etc.
If you were a TRUE African you would know that. You would also know that Afro-Asiatic languages originated from Africa and no where else.
Language groups that are in close proximity to one another often borrow words and incorporate it in their language (that's how language works). Hausa has Arabic loan words for this reason. I'm sure there are dialects of Arabic that have Hausa influence (Like the Shuwa dialect of Arabic spoken in Nigeria amongst the Baggara Arabs that inhabit NE Nigeria, Chad, Northern Cameroon and Sudan.)
Politics › Re: Rivers Rerun Election: Live Result Thread by shota(m): 6:29pm On Mar 19, 2016
