nwanlecha:
I detest it so much when I see some Igbo people commenting on these sort of threads. Y'all should stop making some peeps feel more important than they really are. Ikenwoli is not, and can never be an Igbo name biko!

Igbos don dey claim Itshekiri also...LOL

CARLOSZ:


http://dailytimes.com.ng/warri-gets-new-olu/

Olu of Itshekiri please..

PhockPhockMan:


The Rivers State Government has said the refusal by former Governor Chibuike Amaechi to appear before the judicial commission of inquiry set up by Governor Nyesom Wike to probe the sale of valued assets of the state and other matters was an admission of guilt.


In a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the Special Adviser on Media to Wike, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, also said it was wrong for anybody to think that the Justice George Omereji Commission of Inquiry was set up to indict Amaechi.


He said: “The Omereji’s panel was set up to probe expenditures made by Amaechi’s government which is what any responsible government will do because the tax payers’ money is not for one man-especially when certain financial transaction are opaque. It is even more important when the out-going administration demurs to hand over or when there are no handover notes.”


He said the criticism of the commission by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state was a face-saving step to cover up the misdeeds of the past administration.


“The welter of criticisms by the APC in Rivers State is actuated by fear of exposure. It is just a hocus pocus,” he said.


He also said: “The sittings were not done clandestinely and all that was expected of Amaechi and his acolytes was to appear and prove their innocence if they have no skeletons in their cupboards. After all, the governor is only borrowing a leaf from the president- the embodiment of probity and rectitude.


“It was the same Amaechi and his cronies who questioned the proprietary of the commission and a court of competent jurisdiction confirmed the legitimacy with an addendum that it was set up in sync with the relevant laws.


“What else are they looking for? In my personal view, therefore, their refusal to appear before the panel is an admission of guilt.”


Inko-Tariah also accused Amaechi of double standards as he had set panels during his tenure as governor.
He said: “The allegation that the Justice Omereji commission of inquiry is a subterfuge to indict Amaechi suffers from eclipse of reasoning and poverty of logic.


“Amaechi set up the Justice Kayode Esho’s commission and when former Governor Peter Odili was invited, he obliged despite the fact that Justice Esho had made some uncomplimentary remarks about a perpetual injunction concerning Odili. Nevertheless, he appeared to prove his innocence.”

Amaechi also set up the Justice B A Georgewill’s panel after that.


“Even in the twilight of his administration, he set up the Prof Odinkalu’s panel. You can’t approbate and reprobate simultaneously.”


He stated that Wike inherited “a hobbling economy and a suffocating treasury” but has provided the people “a lifesaving machine and today the state is recuperating.”
“The implementation of the commission’s recommendations shall be devoid of fear or favour, affection or ill will,” Inko-Tariah stated.



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rivers-govt-amaechi-s-refusal-to-appear-before-panel-is-admission-of-guilt/220409/#.Vfqtgo1MxEU.facebook

Please people who do not know anything about Rivers state should not say anything about Rivers state oh..

PhockPhockMan:


The Rivers State Government has said the refusal by former Governor Chibuike Amaechi to appear before the judicial commission of inquiry set up by Governor Nyesom Wike to probe the sale of valued assets of the state and other matters was an admission of guilt.


In a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, the Special Adviser on Media to Wike, Opunabo Inko-Tariah, also said it was wrong for anybody to think that the Justice George Omereji Commission of Inquiry was set up to indict Amaechi.


He said: “The Omereji’s panel was set up to probe expenditures made by Amaechi’s government which is what any responsible government will do because the tax payers’ money is not for one man-especially when certain financial transaction are opaque. It is even more important when the out-going administration demurs to hand over or when there are no handover notes.”


He said the criticism of the commission by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state was a face-saving step to cover up the misdeeds of the past administration.


“The welter of criticisms by the APC in Rivers State is actuated by fear of exposure. It is just a hocus pocus,” he said.


He also said: “The sittings were not done clandestinely and all that was expected of Amaechi and his acolytes was to appear and prove their innocence if they have no skeletons in their cupboards. After all, the governor is only borrowing a leaf from the president- the embodiment of probity and rectitude.


“It was the same Amaechi and his cronies who questioned the proprietary of the commission and a court of competent jurisdiction confirmed the legitimacy with an addendum that it was set up in sync with the relevant laws.


“What else are they looking for? In my personal view, therefore, their refusal to appear before the panel is an admission of guilt.”


Inko-Tariah also accused Amaechi of double standards as he had set panels during his tenure as governor.
He said: “The allegation that the Justice Omereji commission of inquiry is a subterfuge to indict Amaechi suffers from eclipse of reasoning and poverty of logic.


“Amaechi set up the Justice Kayode Esho’s commission and when former Governor Peter Odili was invited, he obliged despite the fact that Justice Esho had made some uncomplimentary remarks about a perpetual injunction concerning Odili. Nevertheless, he appeared to prove his innocence.”

Amaechi also set up the Justice B A Georgewill’s panel after that.


“Even in the twilight of his administration, he set up the Prof Odinkalu’s panel. You can’t approbate and reprobate simultaneously.”


He stated that Wike inherited “a hobbling economy and a suffocating treasury” but has provided the people “a lifesaving machine and today the state is recuperating.”
“The implementation of the commission’s recommendations shall be devoid of fear or favour, affection or ill will,” Inko-Tariah stated.



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/rivers-govt-amaechi-s-refusal-to-appear-before-panel-is-admission-of-guilt/220409/#.Vfqtgo1MxEU.facebook

Do they have to beg some people to appear before govt set up panel ? Is it not time to arrest the man ?

nayeb:


Sure, you insulted your grandmother Nduba of only capable of speaking Igbotic Kalabari because you did not inherit the hereditary mentally degenerate nature from your father and grandfather. Sure! your argument made sense.

You ll never know the meaning of Nduba in Kalabari .

nayeb:


I knew who you were Tom Alabaraba when I was writing all those things including calling your father and grandfather fools and mentally deranged derelict. I never once thought that you were an Amachree. My use of the term though included their supporters as you who are dedicated liars and fabricators, making you a psychopath.

Mad people are better left to spew their rubbish cos they are mad anyway .

nayeb:


I should explain myself to you? Why don't you, your father and grandfather go F***yourselves?
Now you know why I heap piles on you.

I am not an Amachree...
I am an Akiala ( Founders and owners of Abonnema ) an Owere yedaba ( Jackrich )
an Abili ( Joe Jim ) and a Berepiki ( Abite )..

[quote author=delishpot post=37705365][/quote]



The definition of Kenge is to crack .

I am not sure if delishpot is correct or not cos that music was not of my time. I was a kid when it was the music of every Ogbo in Kalabari so I d not know if they said kengeba or kien aga ba or ke anga ba..
If it is kengeba, I m not sure kengeba means anything tho. Cos no one would say I will crack or peel ( a kengeba )

Kenge actually means to crack. So if the woman was singing about her skin sickness it has to be a kind of sickness that kenge is the symptom of and not the name of the sickness. Ari oju kenge ari ( Her skin was cracking )..

But I am not sure she meant oju kenge symptom .

Now Ah minji birite means I have taken my bath and not I ll be taking my bath..
I ll be taking my bath is ( a minji birite bebe )..

in be ye be ye balama.... Ah ke anga ba balama ( this makes more sense than a kengeba )

AH KE ANGA BA means I will live with it ( I do not care ).. while , In be ye be ye means ( what ever they say )

The message there fore would be... what ever they say I do not care don't worry ( in be ye be ye ah ke angaba balama ) .

nayeb:


I have no reason to abuse you, as I have no issues with you. I have had issues with these Amachree children who think that they can tarnish me by going around spreading falsehoods about me, that I am insane, in reaction to my asserting everywhere that Amachree (original name Amakoromo) was never a Kalabari King, and was a rapist, criminal, arsonist, murderer, what have you. Unfortunately they have started to find out that those lies are not working as well as they had thought. The Yorubas have started to realize that the Amachrees have been telling lies. Only recently a Yoruba newpaper has started to refer to Theophilus Jt Princewill as traditional ruler of Buguma only and not of Kalabari Ethnic. So they are loosing and it can only get worse.

Theophilus JT Princewill was just a nothing worthless murderer


Even Asari Dokubo threatened me when all this started until they realized that I was Chemical Reactor Engineer, so then they backed off. I have since trained myself as a Biological Reactor Engineer, so now they have decided that it was more dangerous to even threaten me now than to just keep away. They are beginning to learn that in combination with my knowledge of physics and mathematics, and my network at home, their guns would not protect them if a war actually broke out.

So they keep their distance and I keep mine. Except this Tom Alabaraba another criminal who defrauded the US Govt and has been on the run from the law -running sometimes to Canada and at other times using fake names. But one of these days I am sure that they will catch up with him. He is just a petty criminal so they are not investing money on tracking him down.

AND YOU SAY YOU ARE NOT A SICK MAN ..
NOW WHAT HAS THIS RUBBISH GOT TO DO WITH DELISHPOT's POST ? explain yourself .
ARIBO like you..

delishpot:
What dles kengema mean paa si si? I remember a song I heard as a child at home
A minji biri te
A so wari mu ba
Balama
Be ye be ye
Balama
Kengeba
Balama

A minji biri te
A so wari mu ba
Balama oooo

I may have gotten tnbe spellings wrong sha.
Pa si si I wori ma o

Ani 'm gba nyanam

nayeb:



Perhaps may be you will get it better if I interspersed my responses to you:

Mr Name calling lost Abonnema man .. Make point if you have any point to make and stop the name calling and insults.. You are as old as my Grand father Mr Opubo Gbanaye ...
Thank God I have lived that long as to be your Grandfather equivalent, and as such I say to you "shut the hell up, you freaking schizophrenic"


Go back home and beg the people that have rejected you to accept you back . People already know your insanity .. Your madness is perhaps from the science you studied. Your own science got you mad instead of giving you knowledge. Please stop the name calling and make points for readers to learn things from..
That is quite funny, I am surprised that your father and grandfather did not have the good sense, and intelligence to have advised you not to communicate with an insane person. After all, I do believe that you were the one who wrote to me first. So then, it must be that both your father and grandfather were also insane, mental deranged derelicts hence they did not know any better to teach you that you could not learn from the insane. Or may be that level of mental derangement and dereliction run in your whole family.

It is in Bonny kingdom history and also in Andoni history that One Opu Koroye is the ancestor of the KORO AME who called themselves KALABARI people that were met by the Portuguese.

Now we have to repeat this for you to assimilate since you are one fat forgetful breed..

Owuere ye Daba led the Koro ame who are the same AWOME that were the first to go by the identity Kalabari to TORUSARAMA PIRI and this was in the 17th century.
Nothing new here. The Portuguese have a record of meeting King Owerre Daba in 1599, and to whom he had told that the entire community was Kalabari, consisting of several families and that his family came from a town around Dukestown. Owerre Daba was characterizing the whole community in Opouma as Iwo Kalabari and not just the Kuro-ame family. He was the ruler of the whole Kalabari Community at the time and he was speaking for the whole community and it was the whole community that was recorded as "New Calabar"

They arrived Torusarama piri and met other Ijaws like the Ende ame, Akiala ame, Igodo ame and others living along their various family sections and going about their fishing business.

The Koro ame were the last to arrive..
The Kuro-ame could not have been the last to arrive because Owerre Daba was ruling over the whole Kalabari Community at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese. Otherwise, then provide a proof about when the Ende-ame arrived, the Akiala arrived, the Egodo-ame arrived, the Amabin-ame arrived. Of course, that Owerre Daba led the Kuro-ame in the 17th Century is known to be wrong since the Portuguese put their meeting in 1599 which is not the 17 Century. I am of the Ende-ame who were the Kalabari family, and I do know about when my family arrived at Iwo Kalabari, with whom they arrived there and from where. So the challenge is for you to say when and substantiate it. Besides, it was Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye who called the Kalabari family, Ende-ame, which was about 1676 by which time Owerre Daba was already dead, and so Owerre Daba did not meet or know any people by the name of Ende-ame in his life's time. So I ask again when did the Ende-ame arrive at Opouama

The Torusarama piri itself was owned by KE people and it was a part of the KE ANGA .. At that time, The Bille, Ifoko and Oporo ama Ijaws were the owners of that vast territory controlled as ANGA be KIRI or ANGA be ama
A good question that has often been asked previously and now being asked again: The Ke and Kula people charged the Kalabari Community and later (after the formalism of the community into Union) the Kalabari Union to pay monthly Water-ways Use Commission until they (Ke and Kula) became part of the Kalabari Clan, so then how was it that they (Ke and Kula) did not demand that the Kalabari Community and later Union pay then land-use commission if the land belonged to them (Ke and Kula)?


Torusarama piri was a KE ANGA BE AMA ( Kengema being the adulterated version ).
I will now write some statements I used to make as a boy at play, to further show you up as the daft and ignorant person that you are; and this time I will not give you any explanations:
(1) "Ani kengema"
(2) "Aniye kengeama"
(3) "A kengema te"
This is just to illustrate to you that Kengema has many meanings, the usage of which you have even admitted to being ignorant of.

The people spoke IJAW language which is the ORU Ijaw version.

The ORU IJAWS are all the Ijaws who say BO as Come or So as Leave or Mu as Go .. The Oru Ijaw dialect was the language of the Ijaw proper before the infiltration of Ijaw land by Isoko, Uhrobo and Edo and Ilaje that changed the Oru dialect of the Western and Central Ijaws of today.. However, many of the Western Ijaws up to Arogbo in Ondo state and the Egbema of Edo state still maintain 80% similarity with the Ijaws of the East ( Okrika, Ibani, Kengema , Billein and Kula and Ekulema )..

Evidences show that Ke, Ilelema, Fibiri, Okpoama, Soku , Ifoko, Ancient Oporoama and Abisse ( Oloma ) are about the Oldest settlements of the Niger Delta ..

The Koroama or Awome land of CALABAR today may have been the farthest Ijaw enclave to the East. Their dialect was the same ORU dialect although they claimed to be Kalabari people.

The Awome or Koroame abandoned that enclave in the 17th century and got back to the land of their cousins to dwell among them. Some of them settled in Okoloma ( Bonny kingdom today ) while the bulk of them ended up in Torusarama piri.

Some of them remained and settled at scattered places to become the Obolo Ijaws of today ..
If the Kuro-ame left in the 17th Century, how was it that the Portuguese met them in the 16th Century as per the Portuguese records? BTW I know when, why and how some of the Owerre Daba (and not the non-Owerre Daba Kuro-ame) ended up in Bonny and Tombia, but I am just not telling you that's all. The modern day Tombia people know they are Owerre Daba, and Tombia people have told that just last year.

. The dialect Ibani, Kalabari, Bille, Okrika today have not changed much and are still intelligible to each other despite that it was never documented .
Required is a proof based on Time sequencing relative to the Ke being Trace Center

It is the same Ijaw language of the ORU version spoken by the Central ansd Western Ijaws which have been slightly distorted due to Isoko and Uhrobo and Edo influence.


Finally, even in your allegation of my insanity, I still know my one single posture: prove you wrong, show you up as a falsehood-monger and disclose nothing. Now who is the big fat forgetful?

Hopefully you would realize that your father and grandfather were fools and mentally deranged derelicts to not have advised you to not write to or to expect to learn anything from one whom you consider insane. As I am old enough to be your grandfather, it is to them (your father and grandfather) I deflect and reflect your statements, even as you shower public indictments on them by your behaviour of ill-bred ogling of prominence.

You need to take your medication before you respond to me cos your responses are off point..

your words go bellow ..


If the Kuro-ame left in the 17th Century, how was it that the Portuguese met them in the 16th Century as per the Portuguese records? BTW I know when, why and how some of the Owerre Daba (and not the non-Owerre Daba Kuro-ame) ended up in Bonny and Tombia, but I am just not telling you that's all. The modern day Tombia people know they are Owerre Daba, and Tombia people have told that just last year.

So you do not know where the KORO AME left from to meet the rest at Torusarama piri ?

I told you, you are one confused old man.

The Portuguese MET THE KORO AME at Present day Calabar and documented them so cos the Koro ame people have said they were KALABARI people..


Your other response goes


Torusarama piri was a KE ANGA BE AMA ( Kengema being the adulterated version ).
I will now write some statements I used to make as a boy at play, to further show you up as the daft and ignorant person that you are; and this time I will not give you any explanations:
(1) "Ani kengema"
(2) "Aniye kengeama"
(3) "A kengema te"
This is just to illustrate to you that Kengema has many meanings, the usage of which you have even admitted to being ignorant of.


Bro.. Please give the world the meanings of 1 ,2 ,3... Do not forget you were insisting there is no word like Kenge ...Now you are using the phrase Kenge-ma as a word.......... In KALABARI there is nothing like ANIYE KENGEAMA..... There is also nothing like Kengema te in Kalabari .

nayeb:


Now lets see; Kininyanabo Daba occasionally visited his friend of Amanyanabo of Ke, and did so because, Ke was the Center of Trade of the Kalabari Clan as of the time. Prior to Ke and Kula becoming part of the Kalabari Clan, the language, Kalabari, was primarily spoken only within the Kalabari Community and after the community was formalized into a Union by Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye, then it was spoken within the Kalabari Union. So it was until Kininaynabo Igonibo came to power, and ordered that every citizen of the Kalabari Clan speak Kalabari, establishing it as lingua franca. This is between 1711 -1720.

Several years later, Kininyanabo Kalagbaa, a nephew of Kininyanabo Igonibo then ruled, and died in 1770 - an event that is also recorded by Captain Hugh Crowe of the English, which information is in the Oxford University archives. Later, Amakiri had then killed Osimini Alali which dastardly act is also recorded as occurring later than 1770.

So here was Ke a Trade Center even earlier than 1735, which was the year when Amakiri sought shelter in the Royal House of Kininyanabo Daba. Indeed then everybody spoke Kalabari already in order to trade, and you blighted ignoramus suggest that it was Amakiri who ordered everybody to speak Kalabari? You are a fool.

It is not KININYANABO but Kimi nyanabo kimi and not kini..

nayeb:


I remember you: You are the freaking schizophrenic personality that is one of the many personalities of Tom Alabaraba. You are back again.

You really are a freaking mental case, aren't you? Why would you think that because you have written something people should treat your writings as truths or facts as to respond to them? What proof do you show in the rubbish you have written that the Awome went to your-alleged "Torusarama"? What fact have you given that the Ende-ame were already at your so-called "Torusarama" before the Awome got there? You forget that I am of the Ende-ame by blood-descendancy, so I should have a fairly good idea when the Ende-ame got to Opouma also called Iwo Kalabari.

What trace have you given about the travels of the Awome to your supposed "Torusarama" for anybody to take you seriously? After all how many false statements have you made and have been proven as false by me? What credibility do you have?

You are a really freaking mental case, aren't you?

First have you asked the Ke people what their language is? Whom did you ask who told you that the Ke people have always spoken Kalabari? Do you now realize what a twerp you are? You want to make statements but you have nothing to back it up.

Second, who told you that there was ever "Kininyanabo of Kalabari"? Listen you freaking fool, it is "Kalabari Kininyanabo"

Third do you even realize that the Ende-ame are the same as the Kalabari family, and that the Kalabari Kininyanabo Igonibo was of the Ende-ame?

Fourth, have you not yet learned that Ido that you claim to be in your fictional Kalabari Kingdom and supposedly sharing boundary with Buguma, has already established in the Court of Law (and therefore created a record document) that they have never been part of the alleged Kingdom that the Amachrees claim to be existing in the Kalabari community? You are just a waste of human intellect.

Certainly I waste my time with you worthless trash of a human being. Encourage Tom Alabaraba to seek psychiatric attention, he needs help.

Mr Name calling lost Abonnema man .. Make point if you have any point to make and stop the name calling and insults.. You are as old as my Grand father Mr Opubo Gbanaye ...

Go back home and beg the people that have rejected you to accept you back . People already know your insanity .. Your madness is perhaps from the science you studied. Your own science got you mad instead of giving you knowledge. Please stop the name calling and make points for readers to learn things from..

It is in Bonny kingdom history and also in Andoni history that One Opu Koroye is the ancestor of the KORO AME who called themselves KALABARI people that were met by the Portuguese.

Now we have to repeat this for you to assimilate since you are one fat forgetful breed..

Owuere ye Daba led the Koro ame who are the same AWOME that were the first to go by the identity Kalabari to TORUSARAMA PIRI and this was in the 17th century.

They arrived Torusarama piri and met other Ijaws like the Ende ame, Akiala ame, Igodo ame and others living along their various family sections and going about their fishing business.

The Koro ame were the last to arrive..

The Torusarama piri itself was owned by KE people and it was a part of the KE ANGA .. At that time, The Bille, Ifoko and Oporo ama Ijaws were the owners of that vast territory controlled as ANGA be KIRI or ANGA be ama

Torusarama piri was a KE ANGA BE AMA ( Kengema being the adulterated version ).

The people spoke IJAW language which is the ORU Ijaw version.

The ORU IJAWS are all the Ijaws who say BO as Come or So as Leave or Mu as Go .. The Oru Ijaw dialect was the language of the Ijaw proper before the infiltration of Ijaw land by Isoko, Uhrobo and Edo and Ilaje that changed the Oru dialect of the Western and Central Ijaws of today.. However, many of the Western Ijaws up to Arogbo in Ondo state and the Egbema of Edo state still maintain 80% similarity with the Ijaws of the East ( Okrika, Ibani, Kengema , Billein and Kula and Ekulema )..

Evidences show that Ke, Ilelema, Fibiri, Okpoama, Soku , Ifoko, Ancient Oporoama and Abisse ( Oloma ) are about the Oldest settlements of the Niger Delta ..

The Koroama or Awome land of CALABAR today may have been the farthest Ijaw enclave to the East. Their dialect was the same ORU dialect although they claimed to be Kalabari people.

The Awome or Koroame abandoned that enclave in the 17th century and got back to the land of their cousins to dwell among them. Some of them settled in Okoloma ( Bonny kingdom today ) while the bulk of them ended up in Torusarama piri.

Some of them remained and settled at scattered places to become the Obolo Ijaws of today ..

. The dialect Ibani, Kalabari, Bille, Okrika today have not changed much and are still intelligible to each other despite that it was never documented .

It is the same Ijaw language of the ORU version spoken by the Central ansd Western Ijaws which have been slightly distorted due to Isoko and Uhrobo and Edo influence..

nayeb:


Now lets see; Kininyanabo Daba occasionally visited his friend of Amanyanabo of Ke, and did so because, Ke was the Center of Trade of the Kalabari Clan as of the time. Prior to Ke and Kula becoming part of the Kalabari Clan, the language, Kalabari, was primarily spoken only within the Kalabari Community and after the community was formalized into a Union by Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye, then it was spoken within the Kalabari Union. So it was until Kininaynabo Igonibo came to power, and ordered that every citizen of the Kalabari Clan speak Kalabari, establishing it as lingua franca. This is between 1711 -1720.

Several years later, Kininyanabo Kalagbaa, a nephew of Kininyanabo Igonibo then ruled, and died in 1770 - an event that is also recorded by Captain Hugh Crowe of the English, which information is in the Oxford University archives. Later, Amakiri had then killed Osimini Alali which dastardly act is also recorded as occurring later than 1770.

So here was Ke a Trade Center even earlier than 1735, which was the year when Amakiri sought shelter in the Royal House of Kininyanabo Daba. Indeed then everybody spoke Kalabari already in order to trade, and you blighted ignoramus suggest that it was Amakiri who ordered everybody to speak Kalabari? You are a fool.

So tell us PLEASE..

What was the language of interaction between your so called kininyanabo of Kalabari and the people of Ke and Kula when Ke was the center of trade ? Meanwhile you did not tell us how the people of Torusarama lost their dialect to the Awome who came to join them . I hope you can see your mix up. Your tales that make no sense .. Before the AWOME came to Torusarama piri, the place was occupied by several Ijaw people including Ende ame and Aki ala ame and the rest.. You jumped the dialect the people spoke cos you are fixated on your AWOME tale... OGA , The people including the AWOME and even the ANDONI ( ( Ido ni Apu ) .Mind you Some of the Andoni people are still speaking their original dialect and are now in Kalabari kingdom sharing border with Buguma. The dialect they speak today is the same they spoke right from time and it is the same Kalabari ) up to the Defaka, Ibani villages and even the NKORO and OKRIKA and also the BILLEIN people SPOKE similar IJAW dialect and that DIALECT is called ORU but simply referred to as TOMO NI A BIPI.. TOMI NI A BIPI is today distorted to TOMINA BIBI... This simply means The language of the people..

nayeb:



I see that you do not know the Kalabari word that is used to demand an answer which entails summon or command. I will also not tell you. As I have been saying you are fishing for information.

Though you have made a valiant attempt to address the usage of "gbo" as a syllable in gbola, you completely skipped the usage in the syllable of "I salute you" I guess you fall flat on your face there right?

BTW, Kengema does not mean crack it. Crack it is "ani ba" as in "apapa ba" or "ibin ba". You may want to try again. But what about the usage in "Aniye kengemam" and " a kengema te"? I guess you fall flat on your face there as well right?

Apparently, now you have no more issues with King Owerre Daba being met at Old shipping by the Portuguese now that you know you can be shown as ignorant with the matter of the Longitude and Latitude.

Now a lesson for you: Know this Owerre Daba was the grandfather of Kininyanabo Mangi Suku, who ruled from 1702 - 1710. Kininyanabo Igonibo (the first son of Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye) then followed from 1711 - 1720 and forced both Kula and Ke to capitulate to him, and consequentially subordinated their monarchies to him, and thereby became part of the Kalabari Clan. After the capitulation ( I am deliberately holding out some info here) which finalized the forming of the Kalabari Clan, Kininyanabo Igonibo then ordered that the Kalabari language as the lingua franca; and hence everybody spoke the Kalabari language. It was part of the process of forming the Kalabari Ethnic Nationality.

Obviously, it took Kininyanabo Igonibo in about 1713/14 (almost 100+ years after King Owerre Daba had died in early 1600+ s) to force everybody in the Clan to speak the Kalabari language. That Kininyanabo Igonibo would have to order Kalabari as lingua frnca should tell you that they each had their own language, because if everybody already spoke Kalabari, such order would not have been necessary to be issued. Moreover, sometime after that, Ke was made the Center of Trade in the Kalabari Clan, and the Okoloba people, Okirika people and other neighboring traders, including Ijaws, who came to trade there were required to speak and trade in the Kalabari language only, invariably making it the pervasively spoken language.

I hope that you have learned something today. Now what languages the other spoke before then? That you have to research and discover for yourself.

BTW, I have never said the Owerre Daba were the true Kalabari. Never have I said that. I said the Kuro-ame and the Ende-ame own the language, because they developed it amongst them from a combination of the Ijaw and Kwa languages, but the Kalabari language is 80% Kwa language and was brought to Kalabari by the Awome Families -that is what I have said.

Finally whether or not you are Tom Alabaraba, my challenge remains, what does the "baraba"' in the surname mean? I dare to assert that you do not know it.

It was king Amakiri who issued that all the migrant Igbos both slaves and freed ones must learn Kalabari and the secrete society of the Ekine called KORONI OGBO was the squad used to commit that crime.. Every non native in the town who could not speak Kalabari was killed.. That was how Elem Kalabari people of Elem ama preserved Kalabari that made Kalabari people retain Kalabari if not they would have gone the Bonny way where IBANI was lost in Okoloma to Igbo..

nayeb:



I see that you do not know the Kalabari word that is used to demand an answer which entails summon or command. I will also not tell you. As I have been saying you are fishing for information.

Though you have made a valiant attempt to address the usage of "gbo" as a syllable in gbola, you completely skipped the usage in the syllable of "I salute you" I guess you fall flat on your face there right?

BTW, Kengema does not mean crack it. Crack it is "ani ba" as in "apapa ba" or "ibin ba". You may want to try again. But what about the usage in "Aniye kengemam" and " a kengema te"? I guess you fall flat on your face there as well right?

Apparently, now you have no more issues with King Owerre Daba being met at Old shipping by the Portuguese now that you know you can be shown as ignorant with the matter of the Longitude and Latitude.

Now a lesson for you: Know this Owerre Daba was the grandfather of Kininyanabo Mangi Suku, who ruled from 1702 - 1710. Kininyanabo Igonibo (the first son of Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye) then followed from 1711 - 1720 and forced both Kula and Ke to capitulate to him, and consequentially subordinated their monarchies to him, and thereby became part of the Kalabari Clan. After the capitulation ( I am deliberately holding out some info here) which finalized the forming of the Kalabari Clan, Kininyanabo Igonibo then ordered that the Kalabari language as the lingua franca; and hence everybody spoke the Kalabari language. It was part of the process of forming the Kalabari Ethnic Nationality.

Obviously, it took Kininyanabo Igonibo in about 1713/14 (almost 100+ years after King Owerre Daba had died in early 1600+ s) to force everybody in the Clan to speak the Kalabari language. That Kininyanabo Igonibo would have to order Kalabari as lingua frnca should tell you that they each had their own language, because if everybody already spoke Kalabari, such order would not have been necessary to be issued. Moreover, sometime after that, Ke was made the Center of Trade in the Kalabari Clan, and the Okoloba people, Okirika people and other neighboring traders, including Ijaws, who came to trade there were required to speak and trade in the Kalabari language only, invariably making it the pervasively spoken language.

I hope that you have learned something today. Now what languages the other spoke before then? That you have to research and discover for yourself.

BTW, I have never said the Owerre Daba were the true Kalabari. Never have I said that. I said the Kuro-ame and the Ende-ame own the language, because they developed it amongst them from a combination of the Ijaw and Kwa languages, but the Kalabari language is 80% Kwa language and was brought to Kalabari by the Awome Families -that is what I have said.

Finally whether or not you are Tom Alabaraba, my challenge remains, what does the "baraba"' in the surname mean? I dare to assert that you do not know it.

proper Kalabari for salute is Bii... Kini bii...
kini gbola is to ask after the person..

Kenge is the proper word for crack in Kalabari.. Even when I was a kid playing Ngia in Bakana we carve the Osin and the process is to Kenge it.. . This Kalabari you Abonnema people do not know..
to ba groundnut is not the same as Kenge.. Ba means to apply pressure to burst it open.. you must have heard of Ba polo .. It means to burst to explode...


you have not answered any question I asked about Kula and Ke and the rest. You only keep ranting about the Koro ame and Owuere ye daba that came to the Ke territory .. Who were the KE people and what language or dialect did they speak ?

The people you call Okoloba are actually Okoloma people and the bulk of them were from Ke, Abisse and Bille.. The defunct OLOMA of Abisse produced the Oloma and Aki ama people of Bonny and the AKI ALA AME of KALABARI. Kala ibiama in Bonny was also founded by KE people while Kuru ama of Bonny was founded by Bille people.. Fibiri of Bonny was founded by Ifoko people .. In KALABARI, THE people of Abalama were from ancient Abalama in Bonny.. . Now you see the relationship of the people and why their dialect are intelligible or infact alike .. The people you have been calling Awome or Koro ame were children of OPU KOROYE who in Andoni history is claimed to be an Andonni man from ASARAMA.. But it seems he was a child of Perebo kalabari from Obu amafa which is why his offspring claim to be KALABARI people.


The actual name you are trying to mess with is ANABRABA and not Alabraba.. Anabraba is the distortion of AH ININA BARABAGHA.. ( Ah ininabarabaa ) which means I do not challenge you. to Baraba in Kalabari means to Challenge .

nayeb:


So you say that in Kalabari "Gbo" means invoke or summon; yet,
(1) the statement "a 'o gbola mo" in reality means "I salute you" but literary means "I ask you all" being derivative of "o bate" which is a sentential question.
(2) the statement " 'i o gbola te" means "have you asked him"
Now in both cases the letters group "gbo" is use as a syllable in the word "gbola" and which has different meaning in each case, and the meanings are different from invoke or summon. I hope that you have learned about the concept of syllable.

Shame that you are so uneducated, and yet want to present yourself as educated. Now who is daft?

I will now write some statements I used to make as a boy at play, to further show you up as the daft and ignorant person that you are; and this time I will not give you any explanations:
(1) "Ani kengema"
(2) "Aniye kengeama"
(3) "A kengema te"
This is just to illustrate to you that Kengema has many meanings, the usage of which you have even admitted to being ignorant of.

Shame that you are so uneducated as to not understand the word "reflexively". Calabar was called Calabar reflexively, but that you can not understand. Now let me show you up once again: The record of the Portuguese has the Longitude and Latitude of the location in which they met with Owerre Daba, and the location record is not on Calabar but on New Calabar also known as Old Shipping - it was called New Calabar because Owerre Daba told them that this was their new location, or New Kalabari (Iwo Kalabari). In those days as now, all locations were marked with the Longitude and Latitude of the place. Even till today, properties in the Cities of the Western World are marked in Longitude and Latitude relative to a reference point. But you would not know that as you are uninformed of rational standard just as you are all about Kalabari. Owerre Daba was never in Calabar, because he was born in Old Shipping. When you get to understand reflexively then you will understand, the use of Calabar.

A little education, and a little research on record keeping, and you would have been aware of the use by Merchant Ships of Longitude and Latitude in marking off geographical locations.

Don't you have any friends from Ke or Minaama? Ask any of them and they will speak their language for you. I told you;, you were fishing for information? I am, of course, not about to give you any; really you should try working for it. You are indeed a very lazy brain.

Now look at who is tired of teaching anything.

Quite shameful you choose to display your ignorance with such boast instead of asking someone in your family about these things before you come out to write. Then, of course, there is most likely no one in your family of my intelligence and knowledge, who can set you straight, hence you have no choice but to parade your ignorance with such pride, while acting out an indictment of your family.

You know, Tom Alabaraba, you are an ass. BTW what does the "baraba" mean in your surname? I dare you, you do not know the answer.

If you really know the English meaning of ask you d know that Gbola is just as good as ask.. ASK some one means to Query the person or to summon the person to answer accusations. Gbo-la means to ask as in to summon the person to answer ...

Ani kengema means do not crack it .. In this case Kengema is not a word but a phrase.. Just as KE ANGE BE AMA is a sentence... Kengema means do not crack it where Kenge means to crack .

And this is not Tom Alabraba so stop dreaming.

what language or dialect were the people of Torusarama piri speaking when Owuere ye daba and his Koroame people arrived ? And what language or dialect is TORUSARAMA PIRI ? Since you are saying Owuere ye daba people are the true KALABARI that own the language Kalabari .. Tell the world what language the AKI ALA AME and the Ende ame and the rest were speaking ?

nayeb:


I am free to ask questions -you suggest? Are you serious? I am a child of Kalabari and of Awome and you are not, and you think I should have questions to ask you on this gibberish you have written? Really? When I say to you that "I am child of Kalabari and of awome the implication is that I was raised in families that own the language, and therefore being taught the language properly, and also challenging you to assert that you are in fact as qualified to speak about the language or the origin.

Obviously you are fishing for information; now while I would prove you wrong in just about everything, I will still not disclose any information to you.

First of all, your statements of #1-7 betrays you as not intelligent. Consider that I wrote about the etymology of the language, to assert to you about the origin of the migration of the Awome and you are talking about modern day meaning of words. Again consider, did I even use the "gbo" as a standalone word? Do please recognize I used it as a syllable. Do you understand the concept of a syllable within a word? Does 'Gbo' the standalone word has the same phonetic sound as 'gbo' the syllable? Does Omongibo being an elder person take away from the etymology of being spelled as Omongigbo? Rational thinking escapes you. By the way if Tubo is adulterated from Otubo, then what did Atubo get adulterated into? Here is another, if Jubo is an adulterated word from Je bo then why is the name of King Jaja spelled as "Jugbo jugbo aa"?

Now to #8: First do get it into your head: Awome my family name is pronounce with long 'a' as in "aaa wo me" while the other word is pronounced with short 'a' as "a wome" though they both have the diacritical marks below the 'o'; but they are two different words. Also awome does not mean children, because children are human beings, yet the Kalabari people also say "Obiri awome" and obiri is not human being. Again you display your ignorance. By inference then Awome is not the same as Awoame. Awo does not have the diacritical mark under the 'o'. Another ignorance you show well, "ame" does not mean group, but I am also not telling you what it means.

Now onto #11 -#21: Kalabari was once known as Awome Kalabari and then known as Kengema Kalabari from when Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye ruled. It was called Awome Kalabari when King Awome, the first Bantu King of Kalabari ruled. Interestingly Awome was the grandfather of Opukuroye who was the grandfather of Owerre Daba, who was the great grandfather of So-alabo Akoko of whom I am a descendant. Now you were saying Opukuroye was an Andoni man? If so how was it that he was the grandchild of King Awome who was already in Elemu Kalabari? king Owerre Daba was ruling Kalabari even before the Portuguese met him at Old Shipping (Iwo Kalabari) in late 1599 -this is a written record of the Portuguese. You say the Koro-ame vacated the land of Calabar in the 1640s, but King Owerre Daba was already dead by 1640s, and Akeamaoloye's father Mgbessa was ruling Kalabari by then.

Finally one more lie you tell freely: The Koro ame had vacated the land and the Obong of Calabar had moved in to take over the land. The problem with this your lie is that Opukuroye was never in Bantu-land, and the Bantu Community near Duketown is still there. Awome and his people left but the Bantu community still exists till today. The Bantus migrated from Congo Basin and settled there.

Do go find out for yourself that King Owerre Daba told the Portuguese that his family group came from a community near Duketown. That Old Shipping was the new location of Kalabari, and that they moved from Obu amafor called Old Kalabari.

Now onto #22: Amatemeso was never the Awome Kasso. The Kalabari family had its own deity, and the Kuro-ame had its own deity. Goes to show your level ignorance.

Now onto #26: Nobody had even adopted Amakiri. Osimini Alali openly and publicly called him a "slave"; and the younger sister of Osimini named Gbana also came out into the public and called him a Slave, and challenged him to prove to the contrary that he was not a slave which he never could prove. By the way, Gbana gave birth to Ikoru who became the mother of Awoye Kio (aka Odum). Amakiri was a slave of the Kalabari family and was never adopted by any Kalabari child. He was never even allowed to Naturalize as Kalabari, so shut the hell up.

Regarding the word Kengema, started to be used from the reign of King Akeamaoloye, I will only say this to you, "go and review my recent profile in life, and you will realize that "a kengema te" Now go figure why Kengema is associated with Kininyanabo Akeamaoloye

I am going to stop here and not write anymore because your level stupidity, given the mounds of records in the oxford University Archives about Kalabari, I waste my time.

Do I need to respond to you or simply let Kalabari people laugh at you ?

Listen, Opobo was founded when the people have already lost their Ibani dialect. So the Jugbojugbo agha is not correct. .. I have explained to you that Bo is not Gbo cos Gbo in Kalabari means Invoke or summon ...
I am tired of teaching you..
Please tell me the dialect of Kula, Oporoama, Ke, Minama, Ifoko, Sangama, Akia ala, Igodo ame, Buko ame , Idama , Tombia and Bille...
Why do the speak the same dialect ?
Mind you the AWOAME ( Koroame ) can not lay claim to land in the present Kalabari KINGDOM Apart from Sangama owned by my ancestors where my Maternal grand mother's dad was the King as a Jackrich of the KOROAME ..

Amatemeso simply mean deity.. Yes the Koroame has its own called AKASO and the the amatemeso of the AKIALA group is OGINA SO.. The other groups have their own Ametemso also.


Owuere yedaba came from a community near Duketown.. I have explained this but cos you are just one daft man you could not understand.. Duketown was known as ATAKPA and the Owuere ye daba town near duke town was what is called Kalabari town that was documented as CALABAR.. The efiks moved their Obong from Duke town to Calabar when the Koroame left it.

There is no other meaning of kengema apart from what I wrote about Kengema.. It is not associated with any person but simply Ke Anga be Ama Kalabari...

nayeb:



Really, I have no idea when this your stupidity will end. I am bloodline descendant of the Awome family which joined the Kalabari family sometime between 1090 and 1100; and I am also bloodline descendant of Prince Awo who was born at about 1761/62 into the Kalabari family, and yet you parade your stupidity that Awome is Awo ame. You see that is what happens to people who do not know the history but try to interpret the little they have instead of doing research. First of all Awome is pronounced (A wor me as in or which reflects a diacritical mark beneath the 'o') and Awo as in Prince Awo is pronounced (A woo as the O in Orange which indicates the absence of a diacritical mark beneath the 'o'). Really were you truly of Kalabari origin you would have understood the differences, but you are not; so you continue to bumble around and deceive yourself into thinking as truly performing some service.

Now get this into your head, what you call the Kalabari language is the Kalabari language, formed mostly from the language of the Awome, who originated from the Congo basin where the language was in its purest form known as the Kwa Language. For instance, Omongibo is not the correct word, rather it is Omongigbo, Tubo is actually Tugbo, and Jumo which used to be Jubo is actually Jugbo. These words are found in the Kwa language and not in the Ijaw language. Eighty percent of the Kalabari language is of Kwa origin brought by the Awome family. Because the "g" of the "gbo" is often pronounced in the throat, the concept of diacritical marks were introduced to account for its effects while dropping the "g" altogether. That would mean that Awome would actually be spelled Awgbome, but you would not know that as you are of Igbo origin and so can only interpret the Kalabari words.

And you dare to suggest that I a bloodline descendant of the Kalabari founding two-wards (Ende-ame and Kuro-ame) should come and rub shoulders with reef-rafts as you, discussing Kalabari. You are so insolent and don't even know it -what Stupid Punk-ass kid you are

1.. Gbo in Kalabari mean to invoke
2. An individual in Kalabari meaan BO not same pronunciation with the BO that is COME.
3. Tombo means person but it is the adulteration of TOM NI BO.. ( Check: Tomini iru-- Palm wine )
4. Omongi means Elder or OLD... hence OMONGI- BO means individual ( bo ) that is Old ( Omongi )-- Old person
5 Tubo is the adulteration of OTU-BO where OTU means Being in Ijaw and BO is individual hence Otubo means individual being . Otubo was adulterated to TUBO
6. Te bo or Te tubo means who or whose individual.. Te is a question in Ijaw... EG Te anga-- Where, Te bara-- How, Te ye-- What
7. Jumo is also an adulteration of Jubo which itself is an adulteration of JE BO where Je means Another in Ijaw and BO is Individual hence Je bo means another individual .... Je Anga-- ANOTHER PLACE.. Je nye-- Another thing.. Je nye bara -- Another method.
8. Awome actually means Children while Awo ame means people of Awo or Group of Awo people where AME in Ijaw means Group
1. Awo means children while AME means group making Awome ( awoame) mean Group of children...
9. Kalabari clan or kingdom speak the same dialect with the Okrika, Ibani, Bille while the same dialect has been heavily distorted in the other Ijaw clans... The distortion is due to the mixture of Isoko, Urhobo, Edo and even Yoruba languages.
10. Minama, Ke, Bille, Ifoko, Sangama, Oporoama, Soku, Kula, Ekulema, Krakrama, Oloma, Nyakpo ( Tombia and Finima ) have been several different Ijaw clans that have been speaking the same dialect till now .. That same dialect is the same Kalabari Dialect of today.
11. The first people to use the word Kalabari AS an Identity were the KORO AME Ijaws.. Their origin have not been told but I know.. We have to skip it for next lecture.. They were the natives of modern Calabar and the word CALABAR is KALABARI documented as Calabar By the Portuguese.. In Portuguese there is no K and the last R consonant is pronounced to give the Ri sound where C would be the K sound to make it KALABAR and pronouncing the last R to make it the KALABARI sound..
12. The Efiks were their neighbor and the Efik town of Atakpa was the town closest to them..
13. tHE LEFT the place during the Dutch rule due to slavery cos the Dutch decided to enslave the people instead of the normal Igbos the Portuguese took.. Their leader Owuere ye daba was the slave master that controlled the River Calabar where he met the AROCHUKWU Igbos at the mouth of the river.. It was in his days Kalabari PEOPLE used to go to Arochukwu which they called SUKU..
14 .They abandoned the place in the 1640s and the Efik people moved in taking alond with them their Obong..
15. The Koro ame were so called cos their ancestor was named OPU KOROYE.. In Andoni history they claim the Opukoroye WAS an Andoni man.. This was when the Andonis were speaking Pure Ijaw dialect also called Defaka.
16. The Koro ame dispersed to different places when they Abandoned Calabar. It is this history the Bille people are using to say Kalabari people are Calabar people that came to their region..
17. Some of the Koro ame ended up in Okoloma while the rest mobved with Owuere ye daba to Torusarama piri
18. Torusarama piri was a fishing port of KE people. It was a KE ANGA BE AMA..
19. Anga be ama means territory in the Ke and Bille dialect.. The Territory of Bille is called Bille anga be ama and that of Ke is Ke anga be ama.. It is this Ke anga be ama that transformed to Kengema and it was referred to the settlement of Torusarama piri.
20. In Torusarama piri different Ijaw people lived like the Ifoko, Minama, Oloma, Bille, Tombians and others from far away . They lived just along their various sections and it was not a one group settlement. It was a settlement where the people were scattered apart.
21. When the Koro ame came there , they were more civilized than the rest so they easily influenced the rest
22. They brought their own deity ( Amatemeso ) which they called AKASO... Mind you Oginaso was the deity of the Abisse and Oloma Ijaws.. So means divinity .
23. While they were there in Torusarama piri, The Okrikans invaded them and destroyed more than half of the Koro ame section.
24. That Okrika invasion was what made the people decide to form a united group. They formed that group and wanted a leader which they could not get from the Koro ame cos the child of the dead Koroame leader was too young and his mother did not want him to be in that position.. So an elder from the Koroame came out who was not accepted by the settlers.
25.. Meanwhile at another section called the Endeame, some one has been chosen to represent them and he was AMAKIRI..

26. Amakiri was an adopted child of the Ende ame leader .
27.. It was agreed that Amakiri and the Koro ame elder would have to do a gladiator kind of fight for the winner to become the leader of the community. Amakiri won and so Amakiri became the first leader of the united settlement....

28.. Amakiri then changed the name of the settlement from Torusarama piri to KALABARI . Perhaps because the Ende ame were also children of Perebo ye KALABARI who was the ancestor of the Opukorye koro ame people.
29. That settlement became known as KALABARI town and the solgan.. Ke anga be ama Kalabari became popular.

30.. Amakiri then went on to defend the rest of the Ijaw nearby settlements against NINI KON APU--
31.. NINI KON APU means raiders of people or kidnappers of people for either slavery purpose or even for food.. And the Bille people and Okrika people were the main NINI KON APU back then.
32.. Its was in that process King Amakiri brought those settlements under his rule and KALABARI became a large kingdom ALL SPEAKING the same DIALECT which is still the dialect of TODAY..

33.. It was the Kalabari CIVIL WAR that led to the splitting of Ifoko and eventual abandoning of the ancient Ifoko
34. It was the onslaught of Bille people that made Oporoama abandon its ancient settlement and became Sama and Oporoama today.
35. It was cos of Bille onslaught that a good number of the Sangama people which was founded by the Koroame to move to Buguma to become Jackrich. Sangama was under the control of JACK THE RICH..
36. The same Koro ame Ijaws founded Sangama in Bonny today.
37. Abalama people came from ancient Abalama in Bonny today and ABALAMABIE in Bonny is the second half of the same Abalama in Kalabari kingdom
38. The Aki ala Ijaws of Elem ama ( Torusarama piri ) were parts of the Oloma Ijaws of Abisse that fled due to Bille Onslaught.. The bulk of them went to Oloma town which is in Bonny today . Oloma was not mysteriously destroyed by fire as told by some people.. Fire destruction would not let a people run away. It was due to Bille onslaught ..
39. The bulk of Elem KALABARI Ijaws were from KE..

.This is from Modern day research. You are free to ask any question. And please be constructive if you want to criticize ..

Please There is no Ijaw family or ancestral land in Congo..