₦airaland Forum

ishiamu:

Why u def laf nah? Err your view jare

kingofdemons:
educative piece

nice one bro but longest time oooo how far naa

Am fine boss...thanks so much...We have got to subject some fallacies to the sanctuary of empirical verification... and see their extent of veracity...

Ejaisky:
Igbo people nor dey tire

Why not stand by the side if you have no intelligent input here outside your bandwagon mentality

Cc Duru1, ezeagu, Eastlink, Beremx, xetima, mezabull, IsraeliAirforce,

The impression that Nigeria is made up of 250 or 300 ethnic groups is not true. At the conference of Nationalities convened by the Campaign for Democracy (CD) in Lagos in 1999, participant overwhelmingly identified thirty-four (34) ethnic nationalities in Nigeria namely Hausa, Fulani, Igbo, Yoruba, Bini, Ibibio, Efik, Ogoni, Ijaw, Nupe, Itsekiri, Tiv, Oron, Igala, Edoma, Kanuri, Urhobo, Gwari, Zango -Kataf etc.

What many linguistics mistake to mean autonomous languages and therefore distinct ethnicities are dialects or variants of standard languages. Due to some misunderstanding among linguistics, the contention had remained that any dialect which autograph could be developed is no longer a variant of its original language.

[b]The point is that language difference alone does not constitute a people into an ethnic nationality. Other characteristics include distinction in culture and religion. Therefore, since the cultures and religions and even histories of a people claiming to be different nationalities are same and their dialects only variants of one language, such people are not people of different ethnic nationalities.

For further illustration, Igbo has different dialects...Nsukka has a different dialect so also Enugu Ezike, UDI, Ezeagu, Ebonyi state etc. An Anambra man may not understand them but understands Anioma dialect or even some Rivers state Igbo dialect more easily. All these are different dialects of Igbo language that has evolved and keeps evolving...But in all, the homogeneity in culture, religion etc are intact...So they are Igbo...Even if they choose to deny their Igbo origin today for political convenience or other selfish reasons...it doesn't change the fact that they are Igbo...That I disown my father doesn't make me the son of another man or remove my father's DNA from my body[/b]...Balkanization of Igbo after the civil war didn't help matters...as well as political inconvenience of being Igbo at that time...

The Igbo experience may not be same for other areas in Nigeria, who may have their own tales...but claiming home to about 250/300 ethnic groups is a farce.

Copied from Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo timeline and slightly edited by me...Thanks and God bless

explorer250:
I will create a thread to celebrate reputable sons of ss igbo extraction
we truely need to break the siege of the enemy

Kindly do this...and mention historians like duru1, ezeagu etc to assist you...Unless you counter their propaganda, it will stick as truth...success nwanne

@ explorer250 ...Kudos for this...Don't allow anybody define your identity for you...For every thread or propaganda they raise, Raise yours double...It takes ONLY silence for them to usurp your land and identity... Kick as much as you can nwanne m ...Walls have ears...kudos

FreeGlobe:
Again I have been vindicated. Peter obi is a thief. He must provide the balance of the money wherever he claimed he left. I just blame obiano for taking this long to denounce this peter obi's claim allowing him to take credit for his stellar performance.

Lalasticlala FP

Onuku ...Where is the petition you boasted since 7months ago that you have sent to EFCC and Obi would be picked up? Obiano may get himself messed up because he's picking up dirts and sycophants like you to confuse him daily...anu mpama

sunnyb0b0:
Did Peter Obi at any point in time say he left 75 b lion naira liquid cash? He consistently said the sum was in cash and investments

See attached.

I think Obiano is simply being mischievous here...

OdenigboAroli:
I wonder why it took him this long to address this matter. By the way,didn't Peter Obi made it clear the 75 billion wasn't in liquid cash.

1)Obiano for me got it wrong when he started running to those who felt left behind under Obi...These charlatans would only ruin him, because he's expected to consolidate on Obi's foundation...

2)Recounting tales about N9b & N75b is dubious here...It seems someone is trying to play on people's intelligence... Did Obi ever say he left N75b cash so why the lie and confusion here?

3)Why calculate and mischievously term the uncompleted projects handed over as debts incurred for your administration...Did allocation to continue such projects stop coming after Obi left office?

4)Funds invested Foreign currency will keep appreciating unless someone tries to liquidate them before maturity... Such funds have fixed term and interest... So why the lie about losing value?

5)Obiano is simply being smart by half here...I hope he doesn't shoot himself in the foot...

Freemanan:
Igbo is not Biafra.... You might want to write that down... I love Igbo's (My babe is ) but I hate Biafra...

You're mumu raise to power 10 BTW As an urhobo man, you must be promiscuous...it is genetically engrained in u

Freemanan:
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Typical Nairaland Igbo youth ...... You all see anything that is not on the same side with you as an attack... I wonder why you guys are so paranoid here on NL... Funny thing is all my years in Awkuzu, Owerri, Agbani and Awka, I met some of the best human beings yet... You lots just come online and paint the Igbo nation bad and say all sort of things hence making those who have never been to your land have a bad impression... Its sickening mate...

slowpoke like you...who wrote this? Is that how you write love letter to your parents;

Biafra is alone on their course .. We are not against them, but God and Satan forbid thatbwe will be allies.... Nigeria remains

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Silly goat

Freemanan:
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Typical Nairaland Igbo youth ...... You all see anything that is not on the same side with you as an attack... I wonder why you guys are so paranoid here on NL... Funny thing is all my years in Awkuzu, Owerri, Agbani and Awka, I met some of the best human beings yet... You lots just come online and paint the Igbo nation bad and say all sort of things hence making those who have never been to your land have a bad impression... Its sickening mate...

Has this rant any correlation with your previous ignorant assertion Idiot

Freemanan:
IMO STATE
http://leadership.ng/features/388826/osu-caste-system-affects-marriages-seast

ENUGU STATE (Very chronic here) and even Delta state.....


And according to Wikipedia, I quote


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_Africa




Well, I will always enlighten you. I promise sir..

Enlighten me on what? Why not read the fairytale in your first link and see how disjointed it is...

Empty braggarts like you aren't new here...I think I have wasted enough time on you today...

Freemanan:
Chief, he was not a soldier when he fought for the emancipation of Niger Delta Republic. I was referring to his post civilian lifetime..

Mehn .... Chai.

See mumu...Just like he said you're still contradicting yourself...

Post-whatever you think...where was he? In Nigeria prison having been sentenced to death for treasonable offense...but Ironsi the Igbo you you fight, decided to spare him and keep him life...Did Gowon or his Nigerian lovers spare him too as Igbo did Same Igbo made him leader in nsukka...Same Igbo you all stupidly hate and fight...BTW I am not perturbed by whatever opinion you hold of my tribe

Heromaniaa:
National interest is above personal interest. Some wailers keep portraying Jonathan as a saint. But facts are emerging that he was as vindictive as a loser. someone failed a reelection bid and accepted failure and he is celebrated as a hero. smh.

Yes he's a hero...because buhari failed in 2011 and took over 800 innocent lives with him...who knows if yours & your entire household would have been taken if Jonathan behaved like buhari

Freemanan:
I noticed you didn't read it so let me highlight the focal point for you. Please take note of the date the article was written and also the use of present and continuous tense by the writer... An Igbo man wrote this chief...

Whynotthetruth:
Aren't you an idiot? which community did your link name still ostracizes anybody today in the name of OSU? ...Does the fact that I publish a book on civil war today mean the war is being fought today mumu philosopher

Freemanan:
I noticed you didn't read it so let me highlight the focal point for you. Please take note of the date the article was written and also the use of present and continuous tense by the writer... An Igbo man wrote this chief...

Which community name did you highlight

Aside writing it in present tense, which LGA or state or whatever did he name the caste system exists in?

Seeking traditional rulership as the author desires doesn't equate to same...Why can't emir or oba or whatever traditional title in other tribes be thrown open too? Are they practising OSU caste system too bye for now biko

Freemanan:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/the-osu-caste-system-the-shame-of-a-nation/

This is a recent post.... By an Igbo Authority.... I hope this is salient enough... Evening sir...

Cc Whynottuth

Aren't you an idiot? which community did your link name still ostracizes anybody today in the name of OSU? ...Does the fact that I publish a book on civil war today mean the war is being fought today mumu philosopher

Freemanan:
You just dey fall my hand... So because the degree of consequences differs that makes Urhobo worse off... Smh.... You know I Dont engage in dialectics that defiles reasoning.. Please stay focus sir...

Bad is bad... Degree doesn't matter in issues of ethnic deficiency...

I detest liars and braggarts ...You wrote THESIS about OSU caste system...when you just finished NYSC this year;2015
https://www.nairaland.com/2422240/passing-out-banta-drop-goodwill

You copied this from somewhere ...smh...
https://www.nairaland.com/2619613/osu-caste-system-igbo-tradition


ND/SS is against Biafra...this happened in your state... https://www.nairaland.com/2582791/over-100-biafra-separatists-arrested

Tell me why you aren't a silly idiotic schizophrenic patient Take time boy...

Freemanan:
Go through every chapter sir... Dont pick a part of a whole and come back here to argue without bearing..

smh...Not sure you did read that yourself... good day

Freemanan:
You just dey fall my hand... So because the degree of consequences differs that makes Urhobo worse off... Smh.... You know I Dont engage in dialectics that defiles reasoning.. Please stay focus sir...

Bad is bad... Degree doesn't matter in issues of ethnic deficiency...

OSU is history... good day

Freemanan:
Dont read only the first chapter... Its a sequence... It has different episodes....

His death is in episode what?

Freemanan:
I respect that.

The dispute is still there, though tamed for now. I will not blind my sight to our deficiencies as a state and a nation, we got issues and we are dealing with it. Yes... Now let's turn to the Biafrans, have you heard of the OSU cast system? Well, I did a thesis on it which required me to travel down to Enugu (Agbani), you should see the inhumane treatment these guys give their fellow Igbos... Now as I said, every nation and people got their issue so please stop shooting yourself in the foot...
My apologies if I come out as an expansionist, I am the opposite... My opinions are mine only and its always in a bit to promote my Nation.

Lacks credibility

OSU is history to the best of my knowledge...Is it bloody as yours Do they shed blood like you do? So how am I shooting myself in the foot?

SS or ND should not be used...rather make it personally always... thanks...

Why not search through to investigate including his Biafra pictures online? Do pictures or images lack credibility too?

Freemanan:
I will advice you and your cohorts to Visit http://adakaboro.org/the12dayrev/chap-1-my-early-life

That's the website for Boro Center which handles his biography and will answer any question you need....

Be enlightened sir

Glanced through it...NOTHING about his death...Show me if you saw any

LieDetector:
I've come to realize that the pseudo political analyst cum protection seeker and his cohorts speak for themselves and do not represent the opinion of the ijaws. Was surprised the other when a cross riverine friend of mine told me he's biafra and same goes for his family. I've never taken tonyebarcanista serious on here but sometimes, his assertions need ruthless rejoinders.

For the guy named Freemanan, well, his tribe can't be ascertained and I'm allergic to his likes.

He's urhobo

Freemanan:
I am tired of educating you guys really. So because he was voted (due to merit and promising talents), by some Ibo students, he should turn against his commander in chief and his country

Grow up...

Ironsi was supposed to execute him including Nzeogwu...Igbo were killed in 1966 chiefly because he kept these folks alive ...Nigeria remember they are Igbo when they feel like marginalizing Igbo...and ND or SS or any other mischievous acronym at other times

Was it merit and talent that saved him from being executed by Ironsi

Freemanan:
Respect is earned... Its beyond you.


Dont blame me for your lack of astute comprehensive cerebrum..

...
I am an Urhobo boy from The Niger Delta


They chose their path... I am choosing mine... Not all Scots voted for a republic Scotland in the referendum...

[s] Read attached
https://www.nairaland.com/2731852/biafra-more-ijaw-ibibiooron-etc/2[/s]

I don't plead for online attention or respect... because it is delusional


As in you see yourself as one with high IQ? Even lunatics share same thought as you

Urhobo in Delta state Have you stopped communal disputes with ijaw ? Anioma and some others need Biafra more

When you choose yours... try and make it personal like they did...Don't usurp a collective identity for personal interest... that's expansionist

Why cancel the link? truth is bitter and painful most times

Freemanan:
What makes him a villain please??

Which history books did you read? Name and drop links here plz

LieDetector:
I'll leave you to whynottruth

Don't mind the boy Freemanan: he's having identity crisis...He's a schizophrenic patient claiming philosopher Is ND or SS a defined geographical territory in Nigeria's dictionary otherwise why has it been subject to change by different leaders? Is ND or SS a tribe in which case what's their cultural, language, religious etc homogeneity? ...Is the area referred to as SS today devoid of Igbo communities; so why is it a taboo for IGbo to look for them "estranged" brothers? ...

Freemanan:




You couldn't address the issue any more hence you stoop to insults.... I won't take that road with you... I will remain on the issue under discussion...



Niger Delta are a set of people different from your Biafra farce... We Dont share history and we have no ties ... Adios

You're a silly boy...I decided against letting your stupidity slide...Check your quotes of me here and tell me how respectful you have been to me...mumu

Aren't you silly to have started answering a simple question with an ambiguous long sentence

Is your tribe or ethnicity ND or SS...Is there such a tribe or ethnicity in Nigeria or anywhere in the world?...

Most Delta guys here who you lump with you are for Biafra...Define yourself and boundary...Have a unique identity for yourself...

Read attached
https://www.nairaland.com/2731852/biafra-more-ijaw-ibibiooron-etc/2

Freemanan:
Argumentum ad baculum....


Pity you Dont know the meaning of Niger Delta.... Well, for your information, only Bayelsa, Rivers and Riverine Delta are Niger Delta geographically...

Obasanjo added the other states due to the oil they also have. I hope you now know the difference... Mate...

Summary...
Before oil, their had been a Niger Delta. . A Delta that is the Niger... The name implies its location...

Oil discovery in the region and neighboring places made Obasanjo categorised everywhere as NigerDelta...

So Mate, there are aborigines in Niger Delta. Just because you only know of the Oil Niger Delta doesn't warrant your obstinate ignorance in the face of enlightenment.

If you Dont grab all this, then, Oboy....

Mumu philosopher...so did you contradict any of my statements by this rant here now? ...smh...


So is your tribe or ethnicity ND now?

ishiamu:
But is there no single truth in what osundefender wrote?

Never said that...