₦airaland Forum

dahunsy:
Coughs** clear throats# Gunmen were sighted this morning in akuku toru local government of rivers state intimidating voters and even scaring potential voters aways from voting governorship candidate of their choice..the question that comes to mind is where are the security operatives?

That is not Abonnema the Ijaw town of Rivers State. It is part of Ikoyi in Lagos.

agarawu23:
ok

This picture looks like Ikoyi in Lagos..

PrincesAsinya:
young man,do me a favor..go to Cross River..Ikom LGA to be precise..and do a research..I can't believe your bothered about just a name..I mean..what will I benefit from lieing about a name?..I won't discuss this with you anymore..I have time for more important things

Interesting. I ll have to make that research cos I ve heard before that some Kalabari Ijaw remnants are still in the Cross River area after when they abandoned the present day CALABAR which was the spelling of KALABARI by the Portuguese.

PrincesAsinya:
..lol..I remember telling u its a Cross-Riverian name..its not my fault your so daft that you don't know that Cross River isn't made up of the Efiks alone!..you punk..make enquiries before you talk!!!

LOL There are no Ijaws in Cross River and ASINYA is an Ijaw name. I caught you. I don't need to inquire for anything cos my own Niece is also an ASINYA and we are Ijaws from Rivers and not Cross River..

PrincesAsinya:
Awww..thank you all so much I'll definitely adhere to all what you've said!

You punk. You are trying to make a Rivers name ASINYA an EFIK or IBIBIO name . Stop am .

OboloMAN:
Amaechi announces curfew, rivers state police
command said we should disregard the call for
curfew. For They were not informed.

The state governor can not wake up from his bed room and declare curfew... He is not a dictator.. He must meet with the house and the Police command to do that.

shadowgwalker:
that's just the bad thing about every nation, the politicians cause the war, soldiers clean the mess, the government(masses) suffer more.

War is fought for the benefit of every one so every one should be involved.. No one should sit for others to fight for their own good.

Largas:
mumu go and sleep. You don't even n ow your boundary. We know our brothers in rivers state and we a knowledge then as they a knowledge us. At the right time if Nigeria should separate they would gladly join us. Be prepared to return to the river where you live on boats.

Leave Rivers state and Rivers matter for Rivers people. PERIOD.

lygn19:
I thought it was only ijaws who know how to badmouth now, f00l, y did u change all of a sudden to saying rivers people now, u should have continued saying kalabari people and ijaw people... ediot... if wat an posting is vexing u, let it annoy u to the bone until u carry u and sat ur useless oil thieving, greedy family to Bonny river and drown dem.... mumu ijaw goat.

Mumu be proud of your state and leave Rivers alone.. Goat.

pazienza:
Unfortunately for you, we have Oyigbo and Egbema in Rivers, who are still ethnic Igbos, so through them, the rest of Igboland have access and interest in Rivers state. That which was made to be a disadvantage, has now become an advantage.


And oh, we still have Proud Igbos in the ranks of the Ikwerres( Chief Wonwu,Uche Okwukwu,etc) , Etche, Ndoni, Ogba and possibly Ekpeye, so you better prepare to jump back into the waters you use to live at, you are "rivers people", those groups are "land people", Igbo presence in Rivers is not about dying. *grins*


We still have interest in Benue state because of indigenous Igbo tribes there.

MUMU..

pazienza:
Mumu people, it is you lots that are busy causing trouble in your Rivers state, claiming people's land, when it is obvious that the land isn't yours. Stop trying to claim lands that are not yours, your ancestors were busy living on the water surface, when others were living on land, now it's 21st century, and you mofos are disadvantaged cos of lack of. lands, you no longer want to live on water surfaces, you must now claim people's lands by hiding behind an artificial creation like Rivers state. The shame is on you.

Every Rivers land belongs to every Rivers man .. Fool.. they are using Rivers money now to develop Greater PH and they are not using Igbo money. Go and develop your own Igbo land and Leave Rivers state alone... Senseless Igbo people.. Ikwere Land is Rivers land and it belongs to every Rivers man and not to Igbos.. We don't want you Igbos.. Go and blend with Benue people your brothers.. DAMN!!!! Leave Rivers state alone You gays.

lygn19:
ok we re dragging Rivers state so pls do ur worse, stup1d ijaw man... so all of a sudden u remember der is ikwerre, I thought u said Amaechi an Ikwerre man was not developing ijaw land but was developing igbo land and dat him and d entire igbos wud suffer for it, when I read it I almost died of laugh, a useless stup1d ijaw goat threatening igbos, u guys don't know ur level at all, so if lions re competition with igbos tilapia fishes dat only make noise wud be making noise... if u like write yoruba or Hausa, u think I wud listen to ur useless epistle, ediot

Rivers loving shameless MUMU.. Leave Rivers alone you he Nama..

lygn19:
I know it pains u so much dat ikwerre land and, a sub group of d igbo's re d hope of Rivers, I know it pains u so much to hear dat there re Amaechis, Amadi, and d rest in Rivers state... obigbo, wud continue to be an igbo town, etche wud continue to be an igbo town, omoku ppl wud continue to have igbo names, ph wud continue to be dominated by d ikwerres... if u dae vex go and die, u can tie a big dynamite around urself, look for d nearest pipeline and bomb urself along with it... f00l.

Mumu is bringing Ikwere to it.. Leave Rivers state means leave Ikwere land you fool. Ikweres and Kalabaris and Okrikas live together . Leave them alone and face your Yammiri problem and land. Leave Oyigbo. You are not an Oyigbo person.. Leave Etche. You are not an Etche person. Your Igbo trick is not working now. Go and Leave Rivers people alone you trouble makers.. You are not Ikwere so leave and face your Igbo land.. Igbo goat.

pazienza:
You are the greedy covertous and lazy ones, you go about trying to claim lands. and people ( Degema, Andoni, Ogbia, etc ) not belonging to you, and when you were checked, you go off tangent blabbing nonsense. You want to make Ikwerreland London by claiming their ancestral lands? How about you start by making Yenegoa, the Ijaw capital London first, cos the last time I checked, Yenegoa is still a village capital.

Those places except Ogbia are Rivers state and not Igbo or your places. Are you from any of those places ? Fool. The people from those places do not want you so Leave us alone.. A Rivers man is a Rivers man .. Useless senseless people. Struggling to cause trouble among Rivers people. Degema, Andoni, are Rivers land except Ogbia and even Ogbia is an Ijaw land and part of us.... FOOL..

pazienza:
If you don't want non Rivers people to comment on this thread, then you might have to move the discussion to you village square, I am sure non Rivers won't be there.

You can also comment on my anus. It is Rivers anus..

pazienza:
Taa! Gbafuo! what is it to be envious of, when the average Igboman is financially and economically better off than the average Ijaw man, and most of the international stars in Nigeria is Igbo.


There is nothing like "rivers man" , if there was, Obi wali and co wouldn't have been running around to ship Ijaws into Bayelsa state. If there was anything like "rivers man" , Peter Odili would have been the VP to Yaradua, and the president today. We had seen through the facade of the "rivers man" tag, time and time over.

Another Igbo troll.. LOL these people LOVE anything Rivers.. Thank God the only Rivers state they are madly in love with is the small Ikwere part. Mumu them..

lygn19:
stup1d ijaw ppl who think Igbos are dragging Rivers state with them... as far as der re indigenous igbos in Rivers u can go and kill urself and ur family at Bonny river, for all I care.

Idiot if you are not dragging Rivers state whay are you goats always on about Rivers state ? Did you see Yorubas and Hausas on Rivers issues ? If you do not define Opobo, Bonny, Kalabari and Okrika as Igbo people you ll want to use Ikwere to cause trouble among Rivers people . You useless stupid beings.. Can't you see why Hausa people always kill you guys up North ? Have you ever read in History of any war between KALABARI and Ikwere before ? Do Kalabari people complain to you about anything ? How does it concern you Igbo animals if Kalabari and other Ijaws choose to make Ikwere land an AFRICAN LONDON ? Stupid useless idiots always defining Port Harcourt wrongly on wiki and else where when they are not even Rivers people... What fucking useless morons ...Damn !!

Do the native Rivers Igbos complain to you ? Are they doing what you fools do ? Are they no better than you monkeys who want to use them to steal use treasure ? Now in the name of one Nigeria you are foolishly migrating to Rivers state enmass only to come cause trouble or claim Rivers state with the intention to oppress the others... Beasts.

lygn19:
bitter ijaw goat, if dats wats paining u, u better go and start drinking crude oil, mumu human being. ikwerres wud continue to own d Rumus of ph, until thy kingdom come, if u re not ok with that go and become a militant.

Useless Igbo people don't want Rivers state to rest . Damn!!

lygn19:
bitter ijaw goat, if dats wats paining u, u better go and start drinking crude oil, mumu human being. ikwerres wud continue to own d Rumus of ph, until thy kingdom come, if u re not ok with that go and become a militant.

You can't be a Rivers man. Stop being ashame of your impoverish Igbo state and claim it. You are not a Rivers mana and stop trolling on every Rivers forum. You can not be a Rivers man no matter the tactics you use. You obviously have sinister plans against the Ijaws so no matter how you disguise as Ikwere we will fish you out and feed you to sharks. Ikwere's now own Rumu. I was giving it to the Igbos when I said all Rumus were Umu but thank God Okilo changed them and they are now all Ikwere with no Igbo Identity no more so go and drink your Igbo Nri wine at Aguleri..

lygn19:
I will, as far as ur fantasies abt d Rumus of rivers state remains in ur dreams, and u neva in ur militant stricken life try to claim any part of igbo land in Rivers state, u ijaw goat.

Shame on you no matter how you attend Ikwere meetings you ll never be a Rivers Man.. Envious Igbo monkey. Leave Rivers people alone.

lygn19:
lol... guy let it stop here, u re beginning to talk anyhow, guy I didn't start up dz argument with u because we igbo's want to take anything from u or we igbo's re dragging anything with u, like I told u b4 I was just curious, u say no ikwerre person is native to dz Rumu towns dat they re just igbos claiming to be ikwerre, if I argue any further u wud say non Rivers ppl shud not put mouth in things dat don't concern them. well it doesn't concern me, but let d Rivers ppl especially my ikwerre brethrens not hear it from ur mouth. Thanks for d debate though, it was quite educating, der are alot of lies der but like u said non Rivers ppl shud not put der mouth in things dat don't concern them.

Now go and face your Igbo problem you Igbo Monkey. Leave Rivers people alone.

lygn19:
don't know anything abt lagos, but wat u re trying to tell me now is dat lagos has indigenous ijaws?

Did you know that Ondo has native Ijaws and that many Ijaws of Ondo now speak Yoruba as first language.. The APOI are some... Find out why Lagos was never part of ancient OYO EMPIRE.. The Yorubas or Lagos migrated to Lagos from OYO empire and they are not natives.. When you study the history of Isale Eko you ll know how and why Edo ruled it.. Lagos is the only Western town that has an a king titled OBA.. thAT IS COS oba IS AN edO WORD AND NOT A yORUBA word.. But anyway this is not our argument.

lygn19:
I don't want to claim Rivers State, just dat I was just curious. u think that if I wanted to claim Rivers State I wud be mentioning countless times dat am nor a Rivers man?... also if u wud like to know hopeathand is a rivers man ikwerre to be precise. so when u talk it's asif everybody u re arguing with is non Rivers.

There are so many Igbos that claim Ikwere and we know that.. Any aggressive person that claims Ikwere who claims to be native of any Rumu village is actually an Igbo man. True Ikweres are not from Rumu villages.. They are from towns like Igwuruta, Omagwa, Isiokpo, Elele, Chioba and all these towns have ancient cemeteries but the Rumu towns do not have ancient cemeteries..

As per you, You have also started attending so called Ikwere town meetings. How can a non Ikwere man who does not have interest in Ikwere affairs be attending Ikwere town meetings and now very curious about Ikwere issues. TAKE to what I told you .. KALABARI people are too much and are not struggling to share Ikwere land with them. It is the Okrika that are ready to defend their land with their last blood and ofcourse the KALABARI would not stand asaide to see Okrika destroyed by an Igbo gang... Original Port harcourt has no any form of Ikwere.. OBIO AKPOR is not Port Harcourt. It is just a merged suburb which seems to now have become more Port Harcourt than Port Harcourt itself.. You Igbos are funny.. You do not make Oba as part of Onitsha.. You do no also make NEKEDE as part of Owere but you want every Ikwere village to be a PORT HARCOURT.. maybe soon ABA too will be part of Port Harcourt.

NON Rivers people should stop commenting on this. They argue blindly and have unnecessary interest in Rivers matter.. They should face their own problem I beg.. It is becoming funny.

lygn19:
also shota d main reason y most ijaws are in Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor or can I say in parts of ikwerre land and not the Rivers being d case i.e ikwerres being in ijaw land e.g abonnema or wherever is dat the ijaws have more to gain by coming to ikwerre land than the ikwerres having to gain by going to ijaw land. take away d ikwerres/ ikwerre land from Rivers state and rivers state wud be like every other regular state in Nigeria... though it wud hv sm potentials because of d oil wealth accrued to it.

Ijaws claim right in APAPA, AJEGUNLE and TARKWA BAY.. Ijaws sell land in Tarkwa bay lagos.. Ijaws also claim land at places in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos. You are not a RIVERS MAN so why are you even so interested in Rivers matter / Ikweres have no problem with KALABARI so why are you so interested in Rivers ISSUE ? YOu also want to claim Rivers State ?

lygn19:
etche is not ikwerre, they claim a distinct ethnic group just as ikwerres but they speak d Igbo language. Obio akpor if u say it's not an Ikwerre local govt, pls tell me if obi or akpor is an ijaw word, even if Obio akpor is not completely ikwerre majority is ikwerre. also d part u said abt port Harcourt not being ikwerre is false, ph is made up of ikwerre and Okrika, but ikwerre territories make up most of ph while d minority part is Okrika. also u know igbos cannot claim right in Lagos and Kano just as u ijaws cannot claim right der because there re no indigenous igbos in any of doz states... ma guy Rivers igbos re more than u think, I don't hv much info abt d riverine area coz am more based up land and I haven't crossed any river b4 to the other side, though one of dz daiz I wud like to visit dz opobo nkoro, to study them.

You are beginning to sound stupid I am sorry to say. You do not understand English.Obio Akpor was a forest.. Federal govt college Rumuokoro was at Rumuola and the Rumuokoro forest was cleared to built the school. There were no natives there but just a farm land called UMUOKORO which means belonging to the family of Okoro.. All the Rumu you see in Obi Akpor were UMU and owned by Igbo farmers and never Ikweres... You see how they changed OBI IGBO to Oyi igbo / It is cos the place was a market where Igbos traded and it was not a town. Go there even at this time and ask for a cemetary where dead Igbos were burried and see that even as at the 1970s, the place was still a market and not a town. Obi akpor was named after AKPOR clan of the Ikweres and the Obio clans . The Obio people are a very small group and they are the ORO Ikweres who owned REBISI.. Their main town is Orogbum and Ogbunabali.... AMADI AMA is an Okrika land owned by the Okrika man called AMADI.. he was named AMADI by his Igbo trading partners and all around AMADI AMA to ABULOMA are Okrika towns.... I do not know how else to explain this..yOU SEE THAT there are little or no Ikwere people in TOWN of Port Harcourt.. TOWN is the main Port HARCOURT built by the English...

lygn19:
also shota d main reason y most ijaws are in Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor or can I say in parts of ikwerre land and not the Rivers being d case i.e ikwerres being in ijaw land e.g abonnema or wherever is dat the ijaws have more to gain by coming to ikwerre land than the ikwerres having to gain by going to ijaw land. take away d ikwerres/ ikwerre land from Rivers state and rivers state wud be like every other regular state in Nigeria... though it wud hv sm potentials because of d oil wealth accrued to it.

The colonial masters that ruled and built Port Harcourt ruled the Ijaws and there were no Ikweres even near to Port Harcourt.. Diobu was built by the same Europeans as residential quarters for workers who worked at the Harbour and rail way terminal and 90% of the workers were Igbos.. All the Rumus of Obio Akpor were originally called Umu.. Hence Umumasi and never Rumumasi, Umubekwe and never Rumubekwe. They were all farmlands claimed by the Igbo residents.. Ikwere villages were Choba, Eneka, Elele, Ibaa, Emohua, Isiokpo and they were not called Rumu.. Kalabari people were the main traders with the Ikweres and the main markets were Ogbogolo, Ibaa and Emohua.. Rumuolumeni was a KALABARI town called IWOFE.. The word Iwofe is still used today... The first inter clan war that happened over te ownership of Port Harcourt was between KALABARI and Okrika .. Ikweres were not even near Port Harcourt then...Till 1999, the secodary schools in PH such as ENITONA, baptist, holy rosary, stella maris, comprehensive Were all mainly KALABARI, OKRIKA and Ibani with few Ogoni schools .. Ikwere people schooled at County grammar school , st Aquinas Elele and Akpor national Ozuoba. I attended Comprehensive Borikiri and it was called COMPRE OBOKO.. Oboko is a KALABARI word...At that time all these places called OBIO AKPOR today were forest, WOJI was a forest and called man must wack..Kalabari people especially wanted to make their land only for themselves was why they never allowed the development of Port Harcourt spread to their land like BAKANA and Tombia where there are large land mass leading to the ocean.

I don't know why non Rivers people always argue with Rivers people over Rivers things and Issues.... Today development is getting deeper and deeper in to Ikwere land and soon even Isiokpo would be called Port Harcourt just as Igwuruta and Omagwa are called Port Harcourt now.. Very soon even emohua would be called Port harcourt and then the non Rivers people at that time to come would argue that Isiokpo and Emohua are Port HARCOURT..

PrincesAsinya:
Morning Nairaland family!..this question goes to all the night Jackophytes in the building..please how do I use coffee to stay up all night..waking up to read at night is the difficult and staying up that same night is the most difficult..the highest I could do is 1 hour when most of my mates can go all-night..I have lectures from 8am to about 4pm and sometimes practicals could take till 6pm..so there's no time during the day..I really need your help on this guys..haven't covered much at all..and how do I go about reading courses like physics and chemistry...I understand my word-related courses better than calculative courses really need help..its weighing me down!..and I'm in 100lvl..thanks!

Sounds like some high school game... to Murder night was what we called it when we were in high school. You simply train your self and your body would get used to it. It happens like magic . Have some sleep in the afternoon everyday and eat well too. Take shower by 8.00pm and the night would be yours to stay awake for any activity. But honestly, you do not need to force your self to stay awake to be a standard EFICO. Just make sure you read every time you are awake.

lygn19:
lemme correct sm things, even if am not a rivers man, I ve lived here almost all my life, my mother is ikwerre I sometimes attend der town hall meeting I can understand both ikwerre and igbo but am not fluent in any.
Rivers state is made up of different ethnicities d ijaws used to be d majority but after d creation of Bayelsa state things have changed as d Ijaw majority now have a state of there own, ryt now in ph the igboid groups like ikwerre, etche, Oyigbo combined might be d majority but they re only seconded by the Ijaws from which I think Kalabari makes up a bulk, also as for opobo as oboloman said they having a king with an igbo origin doesn't mk dem igbo though there re some igbo elements in der culture they re ijaw... also from that link I think Dakuku only said opobo is ijaw based on campaign strategies, though he might be based on d fact that opobo nkoro is igbo from my research ... one other thing Mr shota u can say ph is Ijaw land, u can even say Obio akpor is ijaw land but when they want to create d proposed oil rivers state u ppl wud ve shown where your boundary stops, till then peace.

Proposed Oil Rivers state is going to cut Port Harcourt with the Okrika part in Oil Rivers state. But the Okrikas want to remain in Rivers state instead. so WHERE EVER OKRIKA goes is where Old Port Harcourt is going..

lygn19:
mk ikwerre ppl no hear an from ur mouth o.

I called it Old Port harcourt just to flow with the ignorant masses if not What people are calling Port HARCOURT TODAY ARE all Ikwere villages.. The MAIN PORT HARCOURT is an Okrika town and even the Ikweres know that. There is no need arguing about that.. .

lygn19:
lemme correct sm things, even if am not a rivers man, I ve lived here almost all my life, my mother is ikwerre I sometimes attend der town hall meeting I can understand both ikwerre and igbo but am not fluent in any.
Rivers state is made up of different ethnicities d ijaws used to be d majority but after d creation of Bayelsa state things have changed as d Ijaw majority now have a state of there own, ryt now in ph the igboid groups like ikwerre, etche, Oyigbo combined might be d majority but they re only seconded by the Ijaws from which I think Kalabari makes up a bulk, also as for opobo as oboloman said they having a king with an igbo origin doesn't mk dem igbo though there re some igbo elements in der culture they re ijaw... also from that link I think Dakuku only said opobo is ijaw based on campaign strategies, though he might be based on d fact that opobo nkoro is igbo from my research ... one other thing Mr shota u can say ph is Ijaw land, u can even say Obio akpor is ijaw land but when they want to create d proposed oil rivers state u ppl wud ve shown where your boundary stops, till then peace.

You tried but not correct.. The Majority people in Rivers state remains Ijaw tribe.. You are deceived by the presence of Igbos in Ikwere villages to mean Ikwere population.. Do not forget almost 80% of the Rivers Ijaws are in Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor. . I wonder how Oyigbo even became a major town cos Obiigbo was a Yam market and there were no natives. Gradually the Ngwa Igbos crossed from Igbo land to settle there and the Ndoki area in the name of One Nigeria. The Igbos claim right in Rivers when they can not claim such right in Lagos and Kano..

Opobo is purely an Ijaw Lga . They speaking Igbo do not make them Igbo and Nkoro is one of the oldest Ijaw communities in that area although it is considerably small.. Ijaw Lgas of present day Rivers are.. Degema, Asalga, Akulga, Bonny, Okrika, Opobo Nkoro, Ogu Bolo, majority of Western Ahoada, Majority of Abua Odual..... Ikwere Lgas are Emohua, Ikwere, Etche and Umuma.... Oyigbo is considered Igbo.... Port Harcourt and Obio Akpor are not Ikwere LGS. they are cosmopolitan and population there is a mix of all Nigerians..Reason why Ikwere guys take the lead in Obio Akpor is because the Igbos favor them and most times, the Ijaws just prefer not being involved in the politics of Obio Akpor.

lygn19:
shota and ibiso wat do u guys think of opobo nkoro?

Nkoro is a much more older community than Opobo. I don't know what you are asking about Opobo Nkoro.. It is an Lga and about the smallest LGA in Rivers state and one of the Ijaw Lgas.