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Fejoku:
Which paragraph? Is it of the second page I uploaded? If so, yes I did. It's an over 400 page research done by an Obolo man detailing the history of the Obolos. He wrote the various connections and history Obolos share with their neighbours. He quoted lots of sources including the field work he did to make his work one of the best references.
In one of the numerous wars fought between Bonny and Obolos, one of the men that led the Bonny soldiers was named 'Okunnaya'. He died in that war.
There are many things I've discovered so far between Bonny and Ndoki. The relationship is more cordial than any that Bonny shares with either New Calabar or Opobo.
A lot of history was really altered to suit the narrative of the Ijaws.

Fejoku:
Here's another identity I found about a Bonny king.

SaintBishop:
Slayerforever how far

RedboneSmith:
You are yet to name these 40 languages Igbo has birthed as well as show linguistic evidence that they wete birthed by Igbo

Izuchukwu18:
Nwanne m wayo kwá.

9Pluto:
Africans rely on oral history which gets adulterated and unreliable over time. With documented history, you are more likely to have your historical facts preserved. Bonny, Benin, Lagos and Calabar are parts of southern Nigeria with the most documented history.

Anyone outrightly claiming Bonny and Opobo as ijaw territory is absolutely ignorant. A lost of revisionism has taken place and is still going on, so much that even people that originated from these places are confused about their origin.

I have heard people talk about acculturation of Jaja of Opobo into ijaw culture whatever that means.
Language is one of the basic indentifier of peoples origin and the pertinent questions is how come most of these people speak igbo if they are not igbos?

I would do a write up when I return to base with hard-coded historical facts on the true identity of the Bonny and Opobo people. Rich history to the tiniest detail.

Meanwhile, I will like to challenge any interested person to a live debate on the identity of Bonny and Opobo people.

RIVERS1stson:


You are just deceiving yourself. Odili doesn't speak Ijaw or kalabari, he speaks igbo, same with Amaechi and Wike.

It doesn't matter how you wanna fool yourself but igbos have ruled Rivers state for almost 24yrs. You are even a minority. Ntoor

Mightyhaiz:
I never see this news for any other site

tutudesz:
Igboland come and claim it

izac82:
Most Bonny people I have come across identity as Ijaw. Igbos should leave them alone. They are not interested in anything Igbo, this is a first hand experience

Rexwalters1:
You must be blind? The igbos are the interior people, which 5 present Eastern states is on the coast of the map?

tutudesz:
Abua wanted out of INC and they left without being blackmailed, like the Ikwerre people

Ekealterego:
Well, I believe a lot of things happened though and the last event could have had a more lasting effect to what made okrika what it is.

I believe you can find the answer to the Okirika (Krike as wrirten in older documents) story by looking at New Calabar.
I believe it had a very multiethnic influence. I personally do not believe that Igbos or Ijaws alone or together influenced the place. Each village or quarter seem to have a different history If you look well, that place seem to be meeting point of Igboids, Ijoids and Ibiobiods (Cross River) people.

That's why the language itself, although somewhat Ijoid, is not mutually intelligible with Ijaw.

The "riverine" area is an interesting area. Elemee for instance, do not submit to the Ogoni tag because some of them are actually without doubt Igbo (Arochukwu to be specific) Before the civil war, they were called Mboli (Another city/second city) even by themselves and even on the records. Arochukwu people migrated and made that place a second home or even a mini colony. Till today, many of them bear Arochukwu names. The names and imprints are there... they altered the language to a bit but did not change the main language ultimately.

It was interesting to note that Ekpeye call God, "ubini ukpabi" (That 100% is the Aro god) Only Aros refer to any god/diety as "Ubini Ukpabi", although Aros also use Chiokike Abiama/Chukukwu Okike Abiama. Some portions of Ikwerre too were highly influenced by Aros and they still have their quarters.

However Aros did not completely change anyone's language, they rather adapt to the language of any place they settled.


I believe the Aros had a strong influence on all those areas.

I will mention Eastlink (Egbema) and Nextdoor84 (Ekpeye). They are the two Igbos in River state, they will know better and dispute or collaborate what I have written.

tutudesz:
Number doesn't matter when it's come to Ijaw people So get that into your drug addict brain
10 Ijaws is better than 100 Igbos, anytime anyday

tutudesz:
Igbo Nation more like Drug Addicts Nation

tutudesz:
I said girlfriend, please don't tell me you are married I pity the poor girl and children staying under one roof with you

tutudesz:
https://www.nairaland.com/6870300/igbo-ibani-language-bonny

https://www.nairaland.com/6862321/good-afternoon-umunnem-enemies-now

https://www.nairaland.com/6843809/back-opobo-again

https://www.nairaland.com/6814310/ijaw-youth-council-sit-home

https://www.nairaland.com/6772502/nembe-people-bayelsa-igbos

https://www.nairaland.com/6736824/kalabari-denial-ijaw-not-sitting

https://www.nairaland.com/6739242/there-igbos-bayelsa
All this in the 3 months

Kinematics:
Let me give you another secrete. Ibos are the first tribe in the world to see the Atlantic ocean.

tutudesz:
You never met a Ijaw person, yet your obsessed with them Is that madness

itsme01:
No single valid evidence, just writers ignorant opinion like a typical Ibo man who needs to chest beat a little just to boost his low self-esteem

tutudesz:
Your obsession with Ijaw people too much O! One Ijaw boy steal your girlfriend

Ekealterego:
Sorry, it's actually King Ibanichuka.

He was deported by the British because he was hostile to European missionaries around 1896.

He was also probably part of the Okrika elder who provided the information to this other document will upload.

Ekealterego:
There was an Igbo Okrika king that went by the name Ibanichukwu?

Actually, UBA (Wealth; Rich) and IBA (To get rich/wealth) are the same thing and the same meaning. Like Ibala... or some will say Iba ego as an alternative to the noun. Uba.

Iba-Uba, some will say Iba-ba

However, in central Igbo, Iba is the Verb for Uba. Uba is the Noun.
However in dialects, Some use "Iba (insert specific subject) as the noun.