₦airaland Forum

haslaw:
Don't mind them.

I don't agree with your picture. Mike Brown was the person that selected, not Alex Nwora. When Alex Nwora was the coach, Igbos were not as much as they are now in the team.

Rashkeed:
Adetokunbo so in Greece �� the name was changed have sense

How does that affect me? I know the name

gare:
Respect his decision not to do so, so as not to ridicule them , you know how we Nigerians behave, they may start stigmatizing them

That's true tho

gare:
The truth may be bitter, Reno could be speaking the truth, but because it was not in favor we are all calling for his head

He may be speaking the truth. But my question is why didn't he mention the specific Igboid group enslaved by the Binis? Why was he scared?

gare:
But if we have to go by Reno, you guys were slaves to the Binis, so which is better ?

Reno is a mad man. He was trying to deface we the Ikwerres and Aniomas. If he had the balls, why didn't he mention the ethnic nationality? He just hid under the Igbo umbrella despite the fact that we've told him times without number that we Ikwerres are not part of the Bia Hegemony. We all know the Igboid tribe that inhabits Delta State, so he should stop hiding and be a man.

Kinzo0917:
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From ur comments, it shows u are immature and still a toddler. No wonder you Igbos dont love ur selves. Anambra Igbos, hate imo Igbos, enugu Igbos hate ebonyi Igbos, Abia Igbos hates anambra Igbos. U think u guys will ever progress with this ur hates?

U no go eva understand. Igbo itself is a meta-ethnicity. The Igbo identity just sprung up in the 1900's unlike Hausa identity which has existed for centuries. An Igbo man from Abiriba in Abia State is culturally and linguistically different from an Igbo man in Oba, Anambra State. It would interest you to know that an Abiriba man is more related and connected to the Efik-Ibibios of Akwa Ibom than his "so-called" Igbo brothers in Anambra or Imo. While the Oba man is more related to the Igalas of Kogi state than his "so-called" Igbo brothers in Abia or Ebonyi State. That is why you see all these skirmishes. I don't blame Igbo people Sha, they are too different from each other and they know this.

mapet:
I am tempted to agree with you. The cry of they are mostly igbos becos this team was "chosen on merit" is very deceptive. Can someone provide me answers to the following

1. When was ever the D'Tigres team chosen not on merit?
2. Like we have Kano Pillars, Mike Meteroes etc. Which notable Basketball club exist in SE that has won something consistently in the local league?

This team are all from the States... it has nothing to do with "Igbos" and people's jaundiced interpretation of "merit"

Your question is preposterous. Which basketball club in Africa apart from Rivers Hoopers has won something valuable? Yes, Igbos dominate D'Tigers and D'Tigress, because there are more Igbos playing basketball, not because they have the best talents. Having the best talents is more of a subjective assertion. Talent is inherent in specific individuals, not heterogeneous ethnicities.

YorubarLord:
See how australia is beating these biafuro flatheadss like theives Yorubas would always be king in basketball from adetokunbo to Hakeem olajuwon

You mean the same Biafuros that won Worlds' number 1, USA?

And for the records, Antetokunpo has Igbo in him. So go and rest

Newton85:
Really? Kamaru Usman is of Yoruba heritage? Can you please further enlighten me? Where is his father's state of origin?

Shut up bro!
Kamaru Usman is Edo

theTranscriber:
I don't think you lived in SW
Most Yoruba live in the SW
We don't really go out if our lands

Stop saying what you don't know. There are many Yorubas here in Port Harcourt, working in oil companies and banks.

theTranscriber:
I was 6'3" when i left sec school
I'm approximately 6'5 now
everyone in my family including the girls are over 5'9

I am a pure Yoruba man
All the Igbo I've met are shorter than I am
I'm kinda thin though
Igbos generally have more muscle but height is a no no for igbos heaven4444

Nice to hear that! All the Igbos I met are taller than all the Yorubas I've met, even here in PH it's the thesame. What an irony!

Simbrixton:
ok well I always wonder why igbos keep holding on to you guys my wish is for igbos living in rivers to work with ijaws against your interest

It is sad u guys promote animosity against igbos and yorubas in the name of fighting wazobia

From experience you guys never fight the (zo) part

From your comments, I've deciphered that you're not Itsekiri, neither are you from the Niger Delta. You must be an Igbo or Yoruba clown in disguise. What is bad in saying we don't want you guys meddling in our business? Ijaw is spoken in parts of Ondo State, yet how many times have you seen Ijaws drawing claims to them there? Ibibio is spoken in parts of Abia State, yet how many times have you seen Ibibios drawing claims there? Infact, the cradle of modern day Igbo land--Arochukwu was formerly called "Ibom". The Igbos from Rivers know themselves, and Igbos know them. Apart from Oyigbo,Etche,Omuma,Ndoni, and Egbema communities mistakenly carved into Rivers State, no other part of Rivers has anything to do with the Bia Hegemony, that some of us speak an Igboid language does not make us Igbos. The same goes to Itsekiri, that Itsekiri people speak a Yoruboid language does not make them Yorubas, we are all Niger Deltans with ancestry from Benin. We have nothing to do with the arrogant and domineering WAZOBIANS, so know this and know it well.

Newton85:
There's no group of people in Nigeria shorter than Ngwa people, lol. Go and sleep.

Before, it was Calabar people, today is Ngwa, tomorrow it may be Egba. Werey cow

Newton85:
You mean the IPOB Uchasa guy is now claiming to be from Delta State? Lmao, I don't know the bloodiest liar between the dude and , lol.

When did I say I'm from Delta State in my post . Show me just one place!! just one!! Na people like you pay for dubs for WAEC, still fail. Olodo extra!!

Simbrixton:
na igbo boy sef lol

So you easily believed that slowpoke called Newton or whatever? I'm not Igbo nor IPOB. I'm a proud Iwuruonha son from Isiokpo in Ali Ikwerre Rivers State, and I'm based in PH.

Newton85:
Lol, you're no longer Igbo? Hahaha, bloody werey! Go seek treatment for your mental instability

Show me one place where I stated I'm Igbo! Just one! Some of you are just deluded clowns!

YungMillionaire:
Shut your mouth. You are a mumu man! You are from Rivers state trying to dictate to a Warri man how to express my heritage? Are you madt? I have more in common with Plateau state (my mom's side) than I have with Ikwerre. What is Ikwerre? Wetin concern me with WAZOBIA? In case you don't know Imo and Ondo states are part of Niger Delta. So, I should also allow an Imo and Ondo man to dictate my life in Warri? Getat!

You are not from Warri! No Warri man will talk like you. You must be from one of the domineering WAZOBIA ethnicities

YungMillionaire:
Guy man. If you like call me Ogbomosho man. You couldn't even spell Itsekiri UNTIL I corrected you. Yes, I am Niger Deltan. What has that got to do with my Yoruba heritage? Are there not people in Delta with Igbo heritage?

I'm I Igbo or Yoruba? Wetin concern me with Igbo people in Delta or Yoruba in Kwara? My own is Itsekiri people are Niger Deltans like me, we are tired of the hegemony of the so-called major WAZOBIA ethnic groups looking for free land and oil to grab.

Simbrixton:
politically they believe in 1 north

Dey are also related to igbos jukun and nupe

Yoruba of today is SW and Kogi and kwara south

Thank You my brother. Igalas are heterogeneous. Some are related to Jukun, some to Igbos, some to Ebira, and some to Yorubas.

HEAVEN4444:
ahhh i see, the tall ones are concentrated in one geographical location of lagos state

I'm just speculating, you could go there and see short ones

YungMillionaire:
Say wetin? I no be Itsekiri? You can't even spell it idiot. Abeg swerve. You well so? Niger Delta na tribe? Wetin concern Warri with Ikwerre? If I carry Ogun curse you.

Stop claiming Itsekiri! They are Niger Deltans from Delta State. Nothing concern Warri man and Ibadan man, concentrate on your side.

HEAVEN4444:
its funny you say that because i have not met too many tall igbo boys in my lifetime and i aint no spring chicken. they are muscular but they are never tall. but these are just my own observations. maybe the tall ones are hiding from me

but i see tall hausa and yoruba guys everyday

That's why I said it's a subjective assertion . But if you happen to be more curious about seeing tall Igbo boys, you can easily see them in Amuwo/Okota/Abule Ado/Satellite Town areas, especially the residential estates.

YungMillionaire:
Adetokunbo?! This guy na Yoruba nigga o! He should try and visit Warri because Itsekiris are also Yoruba people. We are one family o! I will gladly host him in Warri. The dude is my favorite basketballer.

Itshekiri people are Niger Deltans like me, not Yoruba. You are not itshekiri, concentrate on South West

HEAVEN4444:
not true. igbos are bigger but yorubas are taller. from my own observation

That's a subjective assertion. I haven't met half the people you've met, and you've not met half the people I've met. I grew up in Lagos, but now base in my town, PH. While in Lagos, in my high school, the tallest boys I knew were Igbos, same when I went to University. Yours could be the other way round, so no problem.

HEAVEN4444:
born in auchi. yoruba heritage. dad was in army stationed at auchi baracks

You're a clown and a devoted liar, Usman has nothing to do with Yoruba. Dude is a pure Edo boy.

Dagrace01:
He said it himself that his name Adetokunbo was mispelt at the Greek passport office..

Wetin u wan hear again?
Ugochukwu ko, Chukwuchkwu ni

You tribalistic clowns are here again! Are you arguing if Giannis has an Igbo mum or what? Or are you so docile that you can't check his profile to know where he is from.

His full name is : Giannis(Greek) Sina(Yoruba) Ugo(Igbo) Antetokunpo (Yoruba hellenized to Greek), so what's the fuss about?

Emilokoiyawon:
Keep fooling yourself. Igbos on average are shorter than Yorubas. You can take that to the bank.

That's your own thinking. Most Yorubas I've met are shorter and thinner than Igbos on average. Most Igbos are tall and huge as compared to Yorubas.

Emilokoiyawon:
Say wetin? Getat! The shortest people I have ever met in Nigeria are Igbos and Calabar. The only thing for sure is that Igbos have yam legs. That I give to them.

Who are more shorter than Yorubas in Southern Nigeria

Buckeyemedia1:
The irony is that the players are proud Nigerians, it is the Peasant Tribalist (Social & Economic) Failures that carry ethnicity on their coconut heads that will be shouting Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba,The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Though your intention was to spite me, I agree on this. Tribalism is only for the poor.

Barcelona2021:
David Has won a total of 27 major honours.

no Nigerian player has won a/an half of that.


Paolo Maldini
Joan Cruyff
Oliver Khan
Michael Ballack
Roberto Baggio
Dennis Bergkamp (who recently got unveiled together with other 11 legends to the first phase of EPL hall of fame)
Luis Figo
David Beckham
Frank Lampard
Steven Gerrard
The list goes on, are the football wizards who never won an international trophy.

perhaps international honour might be insignificant after all, unless you disagree that the folks I listed above are not football legends.

Is Afcon even important in the scheme of things? HAHAHAHAHA.

People like you are the same people that would have lambasted Messi months ago for not having a major international trophy, yet you are doing the direct opposite here. My question is, what international trophy has he won, how many times has he played in the world cup,etc?

TimeTraveller:
I knew one mumu would come here to spew nonsense. Igbo dis, Igbo dat, yet the entire southeast looks like a wasteland. Turn that region around first, then we will believe ya nonsense.

What concerns Igbo land and the players they produce? Aren't you ashamed that the wasteland has produced top footballers playing in top leagues than your region? I'm not Igbo, but I hate nonsense!

Barcelona2021:
The most successful footballer of Nigerian heritage.

Successful footballer with no major international trophy? Are we Nigerians that bad?