₦airaland Forum

Suljosh:
All you southerner telling north to do there worst make me gag for breath. May we no see war in jesus name Amen. All this militants threatening north because they think they have weapons to fight northerners, no be when you shoot and bullet enter person you fit kill am?? May we not witness war.

Ask yourself why Boko Haram bullets dey enter their body ?

oduastates:
This drunk is going to set the country ablaze.

Better for us.. The Niger Delta is tired of feeding the parasites.

nayeb:
It is amazing what a fool some of these people are. You would think that with so much claimed knowledge the information would be put down in a book in chronological order as I have done in mine book, but no, that does not happen because the falsehood would show up.

First of all consider the ignorance of this "shota fool", He does not seem to understand that Kalabari has dual spelling in most cases because the Kalabari language is a confluence of two languages: the Ijaw and the Bantu; and that the Bantu language is now predominant. The spelling "Igodo-ame" is the Bantu spelling when the actual spelling is "Egodo-ame" which is the Ijaw spelling and the correct spelling because that family group was Ijaw and was of the younger brother of Kalabari by the same mother and father (Uge).

This ignorance about the origin of Kalabari language of this shota fool, I also tried to explain to him earlier that "Perebo" as having the meaning "Giver" is the Ijaw spelling because he was of Ijaw origin, and that his preferred spelling of "Piribo" is Bantu spelling but the fool is still parading hisi utter ignoramus self.

Tombia as constituted when it came to join Kalabari under Kininyanabo Mangi Suku had emptied out the original residents and had become mostly the faction of the Owuerre-Daba family of Kuro-ame who had moved over there in revolt against their own family King Owuerre-Daba. So the Tombia people were not new to Kalabari.

This is what KULA people wrote about themselves as part of the KALABARI kingdom...... READ IT and learn and stop making the history of your forefathers a general Kalabari kingdom history...

The origin of the people now known as Kula in the Eastern Niger Delta area dates back to many centuries ago with a long chequered history. The exact time of the movement from their remote ancestral homelands into the Eastern Niger Delta base to establish the Kula Kingdom is, however, not easy to come by for some prevalent reasons, being a pre-literate period. History has it that Kula is an amalgam of fourteen (14) ancient independent communities scattered around the present Kula territory. These include: Opu-Kula, Boro, Nangwo-ama, Kongo-ama, Kilama/Diaba/Offo, Isoma, Ingeje, Owuangaye, Ibiame, Tubo, Ariame, etc. Today, these and other satellite communities combine with the present Kula Town (Anyame-Kula) to make up the Kula Kingdom.

Oral traditions and recorded history portray the Kula people to be very old and well established for a long time in their present domain. Nembe traditions recall hostilities between Kula and Onyoma (one of the early seven settlements of Nembe) at a period in her early history before the reign of Kala-Ekule who regrouped together the remnants of the seven ancestor settlements (which were thitherto ravaged by either internal wars, plagues or external attacks) to form the nucleus of the present city-state or kingdom of Nembe.[2] The period of this ruler (King Kala-Ekule of Nembe) has been estimated to about 1400.[3] Judging from this tradition of the neighbouring Nembe Kingdom gives a relative age of Kula much earlier than 1400 CE. In a similar vein, early European records[4] reported European explorers meeting the Kula people in their present site in 1472 before moving to the New Calabar river due to some unfavourable environmental conditions (According to accounts by Dr P.Armoury-Talbot, a colonial administrator at Degema[5] ). More over, the report of the Justice G. G. Robinson's Commission of Inquiry into the Okrika-Kalabari dispute, in the then Degema Division, in 1950 maintained the fact that Kula (like Bille and Ke) was established before the arrival of the Kalabaris at the Old Shipping (Elem-Kalabari) despite being associated with the latter through administrative convenience, inter-marriage, neighbourliness etc.

ijawcitizen:
The Igodo ame people are not edos but part of the ancient ijaws (orus) who founded the Ogiso dynasty in ancient benin, the name has no meaning in bini. The largest chunk of those ijaws are within Iduwini clan today

My brother Thank you for that correction.. That's what I had in mind to drop tho.. This my Gbanaye uncle I am sure does not even know what the SO mean in the name SOTONYE . I am sure he does not even know what Ogina so or Ogiso is in Kalabari .

ijawcitizen:
Barcarnista pls don't ever mention me again, i'm not gonna be part of ur propaganda mechinery. I'm not ur friend on facebook too. take note

Who is this Barcarnista guy ?

MEBIyalla:
I yim bere kiwi992,

Trust you are well. I have spent a lot of time reading your posts on Kalabari people and been so fascinated with your knowledge. My name is Owunaribo Iyalla and my dad is the late comptroller of Nigerian customs Maurice E. B. Iyalla. Regardless of the many issues plaguing our dear Bakana, I'm a proud member of Chief Bagshaw's house of Iyalla polo and grandson of Chief E. S. Yellowe - Indeed, a truly PROUD Kalabari man.

It is exciting to chat to you on here. Mentioning this thread to my mom, she mentioned she spoke to big Aunty Otokini last year when her mum Sisi passed. You come from greatness as well and I salute the memory of your dad the late Dr C. I Berepiki.

I live in central London and thought I'd say hello on here.

P.s, rest assured none of that political melodrama that people drum up is none of my concern. I'm just happy to meet another true Kalabari man, more so, my brother.

Stay great,

MEBIyalla

Yall need to go back to Bakana and build that lost decaying settlement.. I still remember when I used to be the only human being sleeping at Berepiki Polo when I briefly lived in Bakana. This was because, the compound people have ran away . Today even Obuama ( Harrys town ) is more developed than BAKANA .

nayeb:
There seems to be made, quite often this mistake about the name of King Igbanibo. His name was never given to him in reaction to any rule of the Amachrees over Kalabari. It would be nice if the Bakana people would not fall into the story line of the liar Amachrees. With the arrival of Odum, and his separation of the Ende-ame into three groups under the three Princes: Odum, Otaji and Owukori, the Amachrees never had any bona fides Kalabari citizens with which to form a base, and for any person to become even a bona fides Kalabari Chief the person must have a base consisting of 100 Kalabari citizens. Hence the Amachrees were never able to become Kalabari Chiefs not to talk of being Kalabari Kings.

Now onto the name of King Igbanibo, his mother was named Igbani by her father Prince Fenibo, commonly called Ofeni. He gave her the name and died even before the Amakiri nonsense started -so the name did not have its origins with respect to the Amakiris being in Kalabari. She then gave birth to a son who was then given the name Igbani bo meaning son of Igbani, a sort of trace of his royal blood to Ofeni who coined the name Igbani for his daughter.

The reasons for which King Igbanibo mounted a Blockade against the Kalabari City State and the Amakiri Enclave was because at the time of his escape from the assassination, the Edi Abali leader stole his wealth and the rest taken by the thieving Amakiris and Princewills, and he wanted his wealth returned to him. Please read the Iwo Fe War Peace Agreement.

Do try to get it right. To learn more about the reasons for the attempt to kill Igbanibo please read my book, they are well detailed there. (http://www.amazon.com/Kalabari-History-Evolution-Under-Monarchs/dp/0988996073).

For one thing Igbanibo never allowed Abbi to ever present himself as a Kalabari citizen, and as such always blocked him from undertaking any Kalabari ceremeonies. Thus stopping Abbi from ever claiming any airs about being a Kalabari King. besides Abbi knew that Igbanibo knew that he Abbi was a fraud in claiming that he fought that infamous war at Okaki when in fact the war was fought by Chief Iyalla, and Abbi knew that Igbanibo knew his (Abbi's) fraudulent parade of himself as a warrior. There are even more reasons please refer to my book.

Just go and delete that piece of rubbish you called Kalabari history cos all the clans are coming up with their history now. The history of KE was published last year and the books are on sale. The History of KULA is in the making. History of ANGULAMA, MINAMA, IFOKO, SOKU, ABISSE are all to be made soon . These communities existed over 100s of years before the Kingdom of KALABARI was formed in the 17th century by AMAKIRI.

nayeb:
It is amazing what a fool some of these people are. You would think that with so much claimed knowledge the information would be put down in a book in chronological order as I have done in mine book, but no, that does not happen because the falsehood would show up.

First of all consider the ignorance of this "shota fool", He does not seem to understand that Kalabari has dual spelling in most cases because the Kalabari language is a confluence of two languages: the Ijaw and the Bantu; and that the Bantu language is now predominant. The spelling "Igodo-ame" is the Bantu spelling when the actual spelling is "Egodo-ame" which is the Ijaw spelling and the correct spelling because that family group was Ijaw and was of the younger brother of Kalabari by the same mother and father (Uge).

This ignorance about the origin of Kalabari language of this shota fool, I also tried to explain to him earlier that "Perebo" as having the meaning "Giver" is the Ijaw spelling because he was of Ijaw origin, and that his preferred spelling of "Piribo" is Bantu spelling but the fool is still parading hisi utter ignoramus self.

Tombia as constituted when it came to join Kalabari under Kininyanabo Mangi Suku had emptied out the original residents and had become mostly the faction of the Owuerre-Daba family of Kuro-ame who had moved over there in revolt against their own family King Owuerre-Daba. So the Tombia people were not new to Kalabari.

There is Piri ( Pere ) in Ijaw which means Give and it is different from Pere which means wealth or King Pere as wealth or King is also spelt as Peri in Kalabari . The PEREBO in question simply means PERE of.. Your problem is senselessness . BANTU is not a language group but a Race and every Southern West African tribe is of the BANTU race. IGODO is an EDO word and the IGODO ame were Edo people that lived in Torusarama piri... The Father of Perebo Kalabari ( Not a name but a title ) is a MAN from MEIN kingdom whose name was not also known... MEIN is an Ijaw clan . Perebo Kalabari's father is from OGOBIRI settlement of MEIN clan which is more than 1000 years far from UGE era.

HopeAtHand:
I dnt have time to go in circles with you..

Since you own the land in Rumuolumeni, be prepared to carry it along with you when they create your Oil Rivers State.

Fool How many Bayelsans were you able to chase out of Port Harcourt when they created Bayelsa state ?

HopeAtHand:
I seriously doubt your capacity to comprehend.

Do not be duluded, Kalabaris do not own anything in Ikwerreland.If it was good for Igbos, it is good for any other tribe..get d drift.

If Kalabaris are comfortable developing Ikwerreland for us, good for them..but in our local govts be sure to expect us to make laws that will only favour us and get ready to pay the backlog of levies, permits and taxes You guys and every other settler in Ikwerreland didnt pay as a result of Amaechi foolishness once Nyesom Wike is declared Governor of R/State.

You are an Igbo man who does not even know Rivers state.. Go to Rumuoluemeni and see who owns things there.. Perhaps the Obio Akpor you know are the New areas at the Northern side. Mind you Rumuolumeni is called IWO FE and Iwo fe is a KALABARI word. You better find out the history before you make more noise... Every Kalabari Family owns land and property in Ikwere land but NO one single Ikwere can own anything in any KALABARI land. That is how they are doing it so open your eyes...

HopeAtHand:
Hahaha...please do not crossover with Stupidity into the new year.

Kalabari people are a joke..16 of them were there and Wike became flagbearer of PDP.

60% of everything is owned by you, in that case u must have representation in the Local govt council as a proof...So please kindly name the Kalabari councillors in Obio/Akpor LGA or PHALGA....You are a total Clown.

Useless Igbo people always on Rivers affairs. The monkeys are even very very shameless. What has owning properties got to do with contesting for elective posts. The question you should ask is if they have the right to stand or not ? Mumu, Wont an Average Igbo idiot vote for any name he sees that sound Igbo ? You forgot about the tribalism of the useless Igbo shoe makers and bus conductors in Obio Akpor abi ?

HopeAtHand:
Tut u said ure from Kalabari..if u are, pls talk what u know.

That area of PH is in dispute btwn Ikwerres and Okrikans, u shouldnt conclude in what dsnt concern u.

Heard Bakana people claim they own Abonnema wharf and Tombia people own Iwofe...hahaha, u riverines are getting delusional with too much consumption of kai kai.

As far as PH is concerned, u, like Igbos are f.ucking settlers.

You are crazy, You Igbo thing . What is the difference between Okrika and Kalabari ? If you think they don't own those places go and send them away let us see . They own 60% of everything in those places..

nextdoor84:
Name is nothing but what you are called!! Dakuku might sound ijaw. But believe me most folks from opobo are igbos..ask sir gabriel tobi..please before commenting take your time and know the history of opobo people!! Thanks

The people might be Igbo which I might agree to cos many of them are children of freed Igbo slaves owned by chiefs in Now Bonny.. But the land they occupy is Ijaw .. I also do not count the Opobos as Ijaw although they strongly think they are part of the Ibani Ijaws. They are onw NKORO IJAW land which is the original land of the DEFAKA IJAWS...I am not also sure DAKUKU represents Ijaws also..

ibiso1986:
do u know that majority of riverine people are based upland.. Go to old portharcourt township and check for yourself.. Its the riverine that produce most of the oil in rivers state. Their votes will surely count

Idiot Old Port Harcourt is an Okrika town and it is Riverine .

meforyou1:
amaechi is now an igbo man? Wonders shall never end

He has always been an Igbo man... I am not Ikwere you punk.. Ikweres might say they are not Igbos but Ijaws know them as Igbos.

Dakuku is more an IGBO MAN than WIKE .. Make una open una eyes.. Dakuku might be from Opobo but I bet he does not know nothing about his IBANI clan.. He speaks only Igbo , has only Igbo friends and is a member of the pan Igbo ohaneze and he works for them.. He is AMAECHI's right hand man and together they are working for the Igbo dream of merging Port harcourt to the Igbo mainland where they ll construct bridges across many points of the imo river to firmly make PH and Igbo area for the Igbos....

IGBOS discussing Rivers politics.. mtchew..

Collynzo9:
But upland has far more votes, influence and money na.
It is not by shouting o, it is by votes.

What do you know about Rivers state you punk ? All the upland advantage from odili to AMAECHI were from KALABARI.. And even right now the same KALABARI are the brain behind WIKE.. if not for KALABARI no upland would ever win anything. But right now the KALABARI youths are against the KALABARI godfathers from sponsoring any Uplander...

OboloMAN:
I will stop responding to you if you continue to derail this thread.

As an Obolo Man i am in a better position to Enligthen you about my people.

Obolo(Andoni) is part and parcel of Eastern Ijaw. and fully represented in the Ijaw Youth Congress(IYC) Eastern Zone which currently has an Obolo Son as President.

Opobo and Bonny can never affiliate with Igboland.

As i said earlier this Thread is about Dakuku and APC so center your discussion on that.

Tell them my brother .

freenortheast:
LET THE RIVERS PEOPLE PEOPLE KILL EACH OTHER TILL THY KINGDOM COME
. IS KARMA AND AMARGEDDON THAT HAS BE FALLING U PEOPLE.

Sickler.. The problem in Rivers state are caused by the IGBOS and if not for the federal character issue, the Igbos would have been sent packing since.

They felt deceived by the Igbos of Ikwere and Etche and OMUMA . Amaechi the Igbo man promised them the APAC guber slot and used Igbo wayo on them as usual.. They were too stupid to be with AMAECHI the crafty man. Now they want to resort to violence instead of leaving APC enmass.

Jbossrymes:
the ijaws think they have monopoly of violence, how can the ijaws demand for the renaming of a project that is not located in their land they believe everything they want they get because their son is there as the president but they should know there are constitution guiding this country
but if GEJ succumb to the threat then indeed he is the most clueless president in the world, we are watching

If a Bunch of Igbo guys go to the forest of Ondo state to establish settlements, would they not be in Yoruba land ? Now use your geography to see the ENCLAVE of the Ijaws and see how Yoruba people jumped from Yoruba land to Ijaw land to become Itshekiris.. The so called Itshekiri land has more Ijaw settlements than Itshekiris owned by the Ogbe Ijaws. The West of Warri is the kingdom of EGBEMA Ijaws, Arogbo Ijaws, Apoi Ijaws and the Gbaramatu Ijaws..Four solid Ijaw kingdoms while the East of Warri is the rest of the Ijaw enclave.. ASk your self How The Itsheikiris got in to Ijaw land before you lay claim to any Land there ..

smallJagaban:
YOU ARE FUNNY.

OBASANJO, ONE MAN MOPOL. OBASANJO IS RUTHLESS PERSON.

OBJ CURTAIL THE POWER OF ASARI AND CO DURING HIS TENURE.
ZAKI ,ODIM, ASARI WILL NEVER FORGET.

#I AM SURE IF OBJ IS IN POWER, HE WOULD HAVE STOPPED THE MENACE OF BOKOHARAM

Ruthless Obasanjo was scared of Cameroon. He had to give away BAKASSI, The land of the Efiks, Ibibios and Ijaws to Cameroon for free..

noblezone:
Thats what you get, when you get different nations and "amalgamate" them into a mirage you called a country.

This same thing will happen if you amalgamate Iran and Britain.

This whole nonsense started the day, slave masters came and took over our heritage.
The circle of blood will never stop until we do the right thing.

Let each nation govern themselves. We can still have common currency, name (Like Nigeria), but but each nation rule themselves.
Thats the meaning of Democracy:
Government of the people for the people by the people.
When you have a man from Ogun state coming to Anambra to impose who will rule over us, thats colonialism!

Imagine Igbos as a nation without a sea port and resources ... That would not be good for them..

akinz4u:
KaLaBaRi d tribe with d biggest Bride Price!!!

Kalabari is not a tribe.. It is a Kingdom. Kalabari people are of the IJAW tribe.

OboloMAN:
Why you try to write a revisionist history of Kalabari people , You should not do so by draging other ethnic Nationalities like Obolos(Andoni) into your quest.

Obolo is a new name. The ancient settlers of that territory were the Defaka and remnants of Defaka are the NKORO. Obolo is not an Ijaw word. It is the new word for the mixed breed of people who are mixed with Defaka, Ibibio, Igbos and Engenni . The Original natives of the place are the Defaka Ijaws like I have . Defaka Ijaws are part of the ancient people of Koro ame also known as AWO ame . The Koro ame are children of Opu Koro ye who is also found in OBOLO HISTORY..

Chiwude:
No, na only Ijaw masses go vote. The fathom Ijo masses will be imported from Delta and Bayelsa to come install your Ijaw Governor. Where did you keep the Ogoni's? Oh so Governorship no dey sweet them too abi? Even if Wike steps down, it will be geared towards installing an Ogoni governor. But, if Amaechi can put forth an Ogoni man as the APC flagbearer then be rest assured that people will vote massively for APC. Anything other than that is a no go area.
In addition, if una like make una screeeam Ijos are marginalized? Or even shout voicelessly about that fraudulent Upland/Riverine charter crafted by some crooks in their bedroom, nobody gives a damn about it. However, after an Ogoni rule it goes to the ibani/Kalabari section.

Bro you are not a Rivers man so gallop away to your Nri pot and drown ?

barcanista:
I am surprised at you all. You don't know who Clark is? He is an Old Opportunistic Fraud using the name of Ijaw for his personal bank account. What contribution has Clark made to Ijawland? Even in His own Delta State what has he done? Who is Clark in Rivers State? What are his conribution to Bayelsa State? Who exactly is he? Please, Ijaw as long as I am concerned have NO political elder or leader. The INC and IYC are disgrace of a group and sellers. I am rooting for the candidacy of Hon. Dakuku Peterside, not because he is Ijaw but because of his disposition to issues, though my NUMBER ONE Choice remain Tonye Princewill-Sadly, he may not govern Rivers State again.

What did Mandela contribute to the blacks of South Africa ? What did Martin Luther contribute to the blacks of USA ? If you know, you 'd also know what Clark has contributed to the Ijaws of Nigeria unless you are not informed.

barcanista:
I am surprised at you all. You don't know who Clark is? He is an Old Opportunistic Fraud using the name of Ijaw for his personal bank account. What contribution has Clark made to Ijawland? Even in His own Delta State what has he done? Who is Clark in Rivers State? What are his conribution to Bayelsa State? Who exactly is he? Please, Ijaw as long as I am concerned have NO political elder or leader. The INC and IYC are disgrace of a group and sellers. I am rooting for the candidacy of Hon. Dakuku Peterside, not because he is Ijaw but because of his disposition to issues, though my NUMBER ONE Choice remain Tonye Princewill-Sadly, he may not govern Rivers State again.

Oh here is Barcanista... LOL..

stebell:
I wonder hw Kel4soft and the rest of yu APC clowns hav decided to talk about PDP wen no one is purchasing APC guber form.

Y'all shud focus on hw y will get a credible candidate and leave Pa Clark alone.

The Ijaws in Rivers State are not ready yet. The masses willl decide who governs Rivers

Ijaws in Rivers are not ready yet, the masses will decide.. You mean Igbo masses ?

kopite:
Chief Clarke has asked the 15 ijaw gubernatorial aspirants in rivers state where they were when wike was fighting his brother for Jonathan. He also asked them if any of dem hv d structure on ground to win elections. My fellow nairalanders, ask yourselves, y are 15 people frightened because of one man, just one man. Is zoning in d constitution? Even apc acknowledged d strength of wike. Lets b objective. Election in rivers state are not won in delta state or Abuja. Thanks all.

It seems you are senseless... With people like you, Nigeria will never change. Shame on you bro.