Igboid: Haha! I suspect this . But we need to bring evidence. Strong irrefutable ones. The type we brought to that Bonny thread.
We are a Great race, but we have kept quiet for too long, so much that everyone around us have started taking our greatness for granted. Our ancestors achieved alot that we are not being given credit for today.
We have to start telling our stories ourselves.
For example, do you know that the money called "Manilla" used in the slave trade era as money, was invented by the Igbo.
Yet if you go to Wikipedia page, you see that they listed Calabar as the origin of Manilla.
This is because the colonials first saw Manilla at Calabar slave ports being used by Aros and Efiks for exchange of slaves . And in error, they accredited Calabar with the money. Even When Efiks are not known as blacksmiths, they have no iron ore minning sites in Efik land, so how could they have invented Manilla.
Moreover even in Efik, Manilla is called Okpoho. Guess what? Okpoho is the name of Igbo blacksmith town in modern day Ezeagu LGA Enugu State where Manilla was traditionally minted and circulated all over Igboland and beyond. Okpoho people were like the CBN of Ancient Igboland, minting Okpoho aka "Ego-Igwe". Manilla is so Ancient to Igboland that it was even found among the materials buried in Igbo ukwu.
We have alot of misinformation about Ndiigbo to correct.
See our cultural heritage been stolen by other tribes. I didn't even know the ego-igwe I hear all the time in my village is manilla
I don't have access to this material. Anyone with access to it should open it, less see what is in it.
Apparently we not only brought superior metallurgy to Yorubas, we brought to Edos as well. No surprises. You have to get to Edo before you get to Yoruba, if you are coming from Igboland. And we have Idumoka village in Igueben town in Esan. This village was founded by Oka blacksmiths and they were responsible for making the Eben and Ada of royal houses in Edo world.
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I'm salivating at the content of this book. Please anyone with access should help us.
I think the Ada and Eben every Oba uses as symbol of authority was made by Oka smiths.
You are desperate. All the major cultural events lined up in Bonny and Opobo this Christmas are all Igbo festivals. Every cultural masquerade group is getting ready for their Nwaotam and boat regatta display. This year there's going to be Abam headhunters display like is seen in Ohafia. They are putting things in place to impress their Igbo brothers that will be flooding both islands. But here you are showing us this thing nobody will see this December. Even this people in the video will come and watch Ugele Mkpa this December. Nwanne ndo oooo.
Truthvalue41: Operation "python dance" was way too soft, we should do operation "python strangle hold" and operation "tigre bite"... The southeasterners need to be dealt with again and again and again until it sinks into their dead brains.
Your wisdom is in drops. Let me impact on you something you will not hear from another living being.
When the time comes for Ika to fall back into the Igbo nation it is not any of us here you will be fighting against. It is your people who are proud Igbos who will deal with you. They will hunt people like you out, from home to home and execute you in a barbaric manner.
But here you are, pointing fingers at people who will be in their individual town squares waving triumphantly when the time comes.
The Igbo nation owes it to Opobo and Ubani to always flood their Nwaotam festivals in December and even sponsor some Nwaotam groups if possible. This is where the major bonding and reconnection takes place especially as Ijaw are trying to force Igbo to disappear from both towns through cultural genocide.
michelz: There are some strong pointers to what you said. There's a place in Ego L.G.A of Ewhotubu in Benin, called Okhokugbo. During my time there, I curiously inquired the meaning of Okhokugbo, and I learnt that that it means a farm for fowls. They told me that some people who lived there in some years back majored farming, chiefly of which was poultry. Now look at the word 'Okhokugbo' and the Igbo words 'Ugbo Okuko' or 'Okuko Ugbo' and draw your inference.
I might not know the place but your breakdown is spot on. However, how far long ago did this poultry farmers occupy the area?
Putindbutt: Lol. It's rather appalling seeing ibos use one hand to discredit Crowther's account on one thread while accepting his account with the other hand on another thread. Typical ibos double standard.
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The only sentiments you harbour towards the Igbos is raw undiluted hate. It shows in all your comments that's why I don't bother arguing with you. Your mind is made up already. Go to hell with your comment.
Truthvalue41: Why do the usual Nigerian ignoramus always assume he is intellectually superior to whomever he is talking to ? For your information, I am a mathematician who earned his degrees in France, also I am a teacher in France. Now you know I am smarter than you so you can stop beating your empty chest.
As I already stated, all precolonial maps of the region show it as being part of a precolonial country named Benin Kingdom/empire, the capital of that kingdom is called Benin city, you are obviously confusing the capital with the country itself. You clearly have a terrible grasp at history like most Nigerians. I had the luck of studying history in a country in which it actually is a serious field studied with logics rather than the Nigerian usual fairytales and politically motivated revisionism.
N.B: Edo state is located in Benin, not the other way around.
Answer to my question: most illiterates think they are geniuses because they are not exposed to higher thinking and thinkers. That is why you assumed you were my intellectual senior whereas I could probably teach the teacher of your teacher.
Truthvalue41: All precolonial maps show Anioma as being part of Benin, also I am Anioma and my uncle Obaseki is Anioma. All Anioma kings not only dress like the Oba of Benin but they also identify as relatives of the Oba of Benin. You live in a world of illusions. You are going to need to wake up to reality one day.
When inputting your pin pull the pos machine close to yourself. Or keep your eyes on the attendant while he's handling your card. Anything short of this you're in danger.
Nightaccountant: [color=#006600][/color][left][/left] He snap the front and back of your ATM card, then monitored closely the pin you used. After which he used the cash to purchase something online making it quite untraceable. Maybe he used the money to buy a new smart phone for his girlfriend. Very easy Just forget the cash. No way out And also try to be wise while making use of pos
Truthvalue41: Later when a non-igbo says he doesn't like Igbos, people will start calling him "igbophobic", you guys are a hatefilled bunch, all you seem to dream of all day is ways to hurt other people, if the devil was a human he would probably be Igbo.
Now let us discus how you basically think you are as strong as the British empire was, because your dream seems to be about you basically doing to Benin empire's capital what the British did. The British and Benin empire fought a war and you iPod deluded fools are far from being as strong as the Benin empire or the British empire.
You guys will never make friends and quite frankly, I used to pity Igbos in the passed and I always stood by you guys when I felt others were unfair to you, but not anymore ! You guys deserve whatever you get, and stop claiming my Anioma people, we are not part of your gang of cannibals, we are part of Benin empire. All your hatred comes from the fact your ancestors used to eat humans. That cannibalism is encoded in your dna and you act it out through your hatefulness. This is the reason why nobody likes Igbos, even southern Cameroonians who used to be part of eastern Nigeria had to join Cameroon in order to not be in the same country with igbos. You guys caused a civil war, you guys go all around the world pushing drugs and making every country think all Nigerians are drug dealers... Nobody likes you guys, maybe it is time to question your behaviour ...
peleson1: Our ijaw brothers andoni and nkoro were the original aborigins in Opobo kingdom, terms we're discussed and We Opobo people still hand over Gordon gin to nkoro every 31st December. U see how nonsense u v made urself look by land grabbing what DOES NOT belong to u
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Tale spinner. You are only deceiving yourself. I am saying something else and you're covering up with this thrash. Andoni are not your brothers.
The Ijaws had it so good in the immediate post civil war era. Anything they wanted, the Hausa Fulanis granted them for their role in helping them defeat Biafra. That was how Opobo moved from Akwaibom to old Rivers State controlled by Ijaws through boundary adjustment. I bet this was part of their long term plan to claim the Island. Because I think if Opobo remained in Akwaibom, we wouldn't be having all these argument about Opobo as those lots in Akwaibom are not land grabbers like the Izons.
Once Bayelsa was created they asked that Kalabari, Bonny and Opobo be added to the new Bayelsa. Some were in support some were not. But the then Jaja on seat stoutly refused for Opobo to be added to Bayelsa. Some highly Influential Ibani Chiefs led the opposition to Jaja. It was a brutal fight that bred serious bad blood. Though I think there was later a reconciliation.
Kalabari refused to join too. But I don't know the details of that.
9Pluto: For the benefit of those that don't know what we are talking about, can someone be kind enough to post some of those recent videos from Opobo where they were speaking the Ebane language.
Especially the one of one Portharcourt based pastor who was embarking on a charity mission in Opobo recently. Apostle Cookey.
I just found just found it, but I don't know how to link youtube videos.
I forward a hypothesis that during and after the civil war (1970s) Bonny and Opobo families were forced to take up Ijaw first names and family names to escape persecution. As well as clan and community names.
I have once read arguments from Opobians who claim their Ijaw names mean nothing in their language.
real1000: Daminabo Prince Eugene▶IBANI NATION (BON).IBANI HISTORY OF GIG BOATS AND REGATTA"by Senibo Abinye Morgan Ogolo.The Ibani people of Bonny and Opobo of the Ijaw tribe have always been coastal dwellers, even prior to the founding of Okoloama (Bonny) in the 13th or 14th century. In fact the families of these Ijaw migrants and founders of the would bepowerful city states navigated by canoes through the creeks and seas of the Niger Delta up to the Imo River linings in search of a peaceful abode until they arrived Bonny well before the 15th century.The tradition of Gigi and Regatta via war canoe is held by a school of thought to be naturally thought out by the ancestors of the West African coastline dwellers through inventive ingenuity to serve commercial and military purposes based on our peculiar ecosystem, which the Ibani people are key players, bearing on mind this thought considers the prehistoric era. Notably is another school of thought of Ibani scholars, which suggests that the major influences of different European pre-historic stages affectedIbani sizes of our dugout canoes, the flamboyance is entrenched in the fleets etc.These influences ranges from the era that can be dated to between 1450 and 1550, which made the Rio Real an important trading river for the Portuguese empire ( called by the Ibani people Potokiri apu). During this Period was the first crowned Bonny King Asimini. Again the Dutch influencesof early and Mid 17th century era, and finally the very dominant trade influence of English era that can be dated from the end of 17th century into the 20th century, of which Bonny and afterwards Opobo had expanded so vast in trade and culture.A well known Ibani chronological tradition suggests that AdaBiriye of Peterside Bonny(whose descendants are in Opobo now) by the encouragement of King Asimini, ferried in flotillas of Gig, well decorated to Azuogu Ndoki in a bid to lure back Princess Edemini Kambasa the daughter of the King around 1449. This tradition suggests strongly that the Ibani people paddling heavy canoes were influenced by the portugese, who themselves were great sailors, row mates and masters.However by imperative traditions; it is suggestive that the Gig boat and Regatta in Ibani land took a dramatic turn during the reign of King Perekule (called Pepple) or captain Pepple 1704-1754; of which during the English vast influence on trade and aculturization strategies of gaining British Colonies all over the world, the British influenced the Ibani people greatly. On the visit of an English explorer James Barbot into Bonny 1699; he was met with an already influential King Perekule, who declared himself to the European as a captain of his own war canoes in his own right. At that time, Captain Boileau, Alderman Bougsty, Lord Willyby, Duke of Monmouth and Drunken Henry were already good friends of Captain Pepple (Perekule) in nurturing the European cultures to his people. By 1740 when Perekule instituted the first princely Houses in a rather English Royal Style with flags, cannons and canoe regattas etc. it was quite welcomed by the Ibani people then. Apparently canoe regatta and heavy paddling took a dramatic turn from small boats of 4 to 5 feets long paddling, to a huge economic modeled canoe, long and heavy burrow paddled by seemingly gladiators ( called Aru asawo) around the era of 1700. An example of this kind of paddle can be seen in Queens town Opobo today by the tomb of an Opobo nobleman called Ada Aritom, who fought the Bonny civil war of the Annie Pepples and Manilla Pepples 1869, and imagine how big those canoes would had been.By the memoir of Captain Crow 1792, a vivid description of our Ibani war Canoe ceremonial gigi was made:“Bonny has long been celebrated for the size and construction of her canoes, and those of the King deserve notice. They are formed out of a single log of the capot, a species of cotton tree, which attains so enormous a size, that it is said that one was seen at Akim, which ten men could scarcely grasp. The canoes in general use, have about fifteen paddles on a side; but those of the king, which are superior vessels of the sort, carry besides the rowers, as many as a hundred and fifty warriors, well furnished with small arms” .Therefore evidently, the Nwaotam regatta of every 31st of December in Opobo is just a natural adoption of who we really are; and the displays during installations of the Amayanabo or war canoe house chiefs.Captain Crow also gave a clear description of Ibani war Canoe Regatta 1792:“As at Bonny guns are mounted in the bows of their war canoes, which are full of armed warriors; and when they startoff, with Bangees (likely the seven ekere and Agaama) or drum beating, and colours flying, they present the appearance of an armament with which it would be no child’s work to cope”( cit.3p.276)Imperatively therefore, from the accounts of captain crow, regattas and war canoes as exciting as it might appear, havealways not been a child’s play at all. It very well depict the gallant valor a chieftain who most times sits or stands in the war canoe possesses, his economic power, material and military condor. Canoe regatta and war canoes have always been a play for men of valor and prowess. Apparently by 1792 Bonny during the reign of King Opubo, it had become a traditional norm and prerequisite to becoming a country chief or owning a co-perative canoe Household. Such chieftain must gear up a war canoe if he is to bear the ama alabo status, which normally will escort flotillas of Gigs to the hinterlands. By these canoes our numerous wars were fought in Bonny and out of Bonny. Even at Opobo the expeditions on the Ibibios and Anangs of Akwas were carried out by King Jaja and his chiefs via fully armed Ibani type war canoes.The English tradition of trade very well influenced this art greatly; as war canoe houses formation were linked not only to trade and domain (polo or Biri) as in European co-peratives or agency. For instance the major agent of king Jaja was Alex miller Bros. Company. The war canoe House also owned their own logo or seal of authority which was engraved on the hoisted flag of such House. This also by British style was to show power of attorney, autonomy and finally a regal display of identification.Apart from these already mentioned British influence on the Ibani Gigis and war canoes( Omu aru),each of them bore a name and like English Royal Boats are Personified.For instance, the King Opubo Annie Pepple of Bonny personal war canoe Boat ‘QUEENI’ , that was launched for King Opubo by his father King Perekule (Pepple) by 1740 back in Bonny, was handed over to Ada Madu, to Ada Alali, toAda Iloli, then to Ada Juwo Juwo (Jaja); while King Jajas’ Personal war canoe Boat is ‘Asu Jecki’(Jajas’ Horse) .In 1869. Chief Wogu Dappa war canoe Boat a crescendo of Prince Dappu Pepple of Bonny called ‘OKPANI’; Annie Stewart Pepple or Kiepirima war canoe Boat called ‘OBUKU SIAGHARI’; Chief Obulu( Ogolo) Annie Pepple war canoe Boat called ‘BOA’ or ‘ABOA’; Chief Oko Sunju Minima war canoe Boat called ‘IKASI’; while the personal war canoe Boat of Prince Fredrick Sunday Jaja is Called ‘OBI JECKI’, so on and so forth.Consequently, civil wars, military and trade expeditions were all embarked on by the use of war canoe Boats of the component unit Houses that make up Opobo Kingdom; in fact it was one seeming statutory military tool to dominate our neighboring communities. The war canoes Presupposes the existence of a war Canoe House, as it became a criteria to launch a war canoe House since from our ancient Bonny.Apparently in Opobo kingdom, having sixty seven war canoe Houses, means ability to marshal out sixty seven war canoe Boats, fully geared with men of war, or otherwise sixty seven flotillas of Ceremonial Gigs at any time of its need; and all of them must be marshaled out in order of traditional statutory position. In the ranks and filing of Ibani war canoe boats in Opobo, the head House (king Jaja), must be first.followed by Ogolo war canoe boat, followed by Kiepirima war canoe boat, followed by Sam Annie Pepple war canoe boat, then Agba Fubara war canoe boat and followed by other main H
Don't worry we have read this crap before. Once Ijaw's claims on a territory fail they will revise history and say they were the earliest settlers before the town was discovered. Bunch of lowlives.
This is what they are doing to King Jaja today. They keep spinning tales that Jaja met aborigine Ijaws on the land he founded Opobo. I pity that man if he doesn't align with the Igbo nation soonest. In fact among Ijaw Ibani land thieves there is a saying they always use to back up their lies. They will say, it is the first person to enter the bush that owns the bush.
Culture › Re: Early Igbo Sojourners In Eastern Yorubaland by SlayerForever: 11:47pm On Dec 03, 2021
