₦airaland Forum

Truckpusher:
I have vowed not to engage these people anymore , leave them alone - let them run along with their warped ideologies that are tainted with lies from the pit of hell.

Simply put , some people have refused to learn from history and that would be their ultimate downfall.

Abagworo:
You are wrong. I've always been one of the voices against Igbo meddling in Rivers State but Barcanista is claiming Abia is Ijaw hence meddling into core Igbo issues. Igbos and Ijaws were never united. Igbos only thought that by sinking with Jonathan, they would win the love of Ijaws but politics is not like that. If Jonathan appreciated Igbo sacrifices, he could have addressed the abandoned property saga once and for all either through compensation or peace and reconciliation panel.

dearpreye:
My able brother, I'm here.

Yanks101:
This is naive politics and not looking out for our interests.
Whoever controls political power controls the oil and the attendants benefits and the north will always do. And one thing about the north is that they are not shy in throwing oil blocs around for their allies if it means a continuous control of the oil. And that is exactly what ndi-igbo should have benefited.
The likes of alakija, adenuga, otedola got oil blocs via being boy-boy to the north.

WhiteTechnology:
Yujin

You missed the fight

TonyeBarcanista:
Truckpusher IzonOwei Dearpreye Erunz Stebell Goodboiy HopeAtHand Enahi etc..

Please correct me IF I'm wrong.

Truckpusher:
I was replying to IPOB touts unless you're one of them - There are lots of Igbos I speak with on daily basis who knew my house and I know them too but you people really need to understand that most of these IPOB touts and street urchins are destroying whatever impression you've left in the minds of your allies for the last 5 years.They are doing more damages else why would they be creating divisive threads all over this forum, ask yourself that hard question.

Truckpusher:
It doesn't matter , if Wike loses to the APC you're still in problem because Rivers State would be made so ungovernable that your shops will remain locked permanently and if he wins by you sitting on the fence then you're fate is sealed, either way you've got no much choice here - Go figure......

pazienza:
I don't think Ndiigbo have any enemy or friends in Rivers state. What we have are interests. We work with any Victor in Rivers state to achieve these interests.

Tkester:
The 2008 economic crises did no damage to Americas defense spending. Afterall America still has the highest defense budget each year. Truth is that Russia is far ahead of America in non-conventional warfare.

InvertedHammer:
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You can arrest dissidents. But once many are killed, it shadows the whole purpose. Pretty much every town has a philanthropist in Igbo land. Some built roads, houses, even gave out cars, etc without any bloodshed.

Dr. Maduka is an icon. But that does not make it right to champion the slaughter of people's siblings and parents. I don't think Nkerehi will ever move beyond that. Emeka Offor, Late Ezego, Ibeto, Prof. Okpala, Alex Ekwueme, etc. are many people that uplifted their towns without any bloodshed.

The people whose parents and siblings were killed may grow up to be something someday just as Dr. Maduka propped up from obscurity.

Every observation should not be viewed from the prism of envy. A typical Igbo man will tell you, "after all, he is not feeding me". So what do I have to lose or gain from speaking up against a perceived atrocity? He is not the first philanthropist neither is he going to be the last. One can always do right by the people without recourse to bloodshed.
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InvertedHammer:
You cannot compare Dr.Maduka with Chief M.N. Ugochukwu (Ugo Foam) of blessed memory. Ugochukwu built a united Umunze while Maduka messed up his town, Nkerehi. No one is doubting the impact that he has made in Nkerehi. The end does not always justify the means. Nkerehi would have been greater today if Maduka had used diplomacy instead of violence. Just like a tussle for kingship crisis, when a town reaches this advanced stage in intra-communcal crisis, peace will elude them forever.



This was the build up to the Nkerehi crisis:




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bigfrancis21:
I see a lot of similarities between Orumba south dialects and my mother's town dialect of Oji River Enugu state. The Achi people also say, 'ibo akala, for discussion, 'la' instead of 'na' for present tense, 'ghu' for 'you', 'nwa agaba' for 'nwa diana', etc.

A typical Achi Oji River sentence would be: Okwa mu la ghu lo ibe e la-abo akala (Okwa mu na gi no ebe a na-akpa nkata) or, Njii iye mmeru ghu (Kedu ife melu gi?)

simplycarro:
When your folks come home in December, blow up the Niger bridge and shut down your airports, you will be taken serious

soonest:
Nawfijah! You guys are making me feel like visiting. They always welcome me and call me Nwa agabo

tochimas:
don't mind them. I'm from umunze and has been going to umunze and can't remember any imo town I cross to get to isuochi which is abia state

soonest:
Loving this. My mum is from orumba south, i so love their dialect

soonest:
Loving this. My mum is from orumba south, i so love their dialect

pazienza:
It's the same in Umunneochi. I just confirmed from my source. It's Oshi for Ohi and "ndu la agum" for ndu gu gam".

Aguata? I doubt, even Orumba North dialects differ from those of Orumba south and Umunneochi, let alone far away Aguata.

I have stayed in Ekwulobia before, their dialect is significantly different from those of Ogbunka, Umuchukwu, Owerre Ezukala and Umunze.

DikeOha882:
Are talking about Ugo Foam

bigfrancis21:
Iwuchukwu being a boundary town between Anambra and Abiastate, it would be interesting to know the type of Igbo spoken in the area. Nwaisuochi, pazienza, and others, what is the Igbo spoken in Isuochi like? Does it flow with mainstream Anambra Igbo or does it tend towards Southern (Abia) like Igbo or a mix of both?

pazienza:
The entire Orumba south speak similar dialect of Igbo as Eziama and Isuochi towns of Umunneochi LGA of Abia state.

Example of Umuchukwu( Nkerehi) sentences :

Shi kaa fuo! ( get out of there)
Ndu gu gam ( I am scared)

Ha no kaa boga akala. ( They are there discussing)

I wu onye ohi. ( You are a thief)

Agam igbu gi iru. ( I am going to beat the hell out of you)

I wu onye? ( who are you)

O shi ghu gaje I bia( He said that he is going to come)

Bia kanu( come here).


As you can see, it is quite different from from the Onitsha- Idemili-Oyi- Dunukofia- Njikoka- Aniocha cluster of dialects we have come to see as a typical Anambra dialect.

pazienza:
Yea. I mean the three major roads in the SE ie Enugu-PH, Enugu- Onitsha and Onitsha- Owerri express roads.


You know, Madukaji is doing for Umuchukwu, what Ugochukwu Umunze did for Umunze in the late 70's and Early 80's.

Ugo was basically the one that pushed Umunze to where she is today.

He invested alot in upgrading the human resources of Umunze and the physical infrastructures.

GodMode:
You're very wrong...

Its the same with the Syrians migrating because of war...

Lots of Igbos migrated out of SE to the SW after the biafra war.

The igbos that could afford to migrate overseas migrated.

The biafra war experience by the older igbos is been passed down to younger igbos and some younger igbos are migrating to avoid such.

sukkot:
[b]you are stu-pid. i dont mean to be insultive but igbos for the most part have the lowest IQ. and the reason igbos have the lowest IQ is because you can never get 3 million people out of any tribe in this world to kill themselves for a useless cause. as if that is not enough, you have your own land which you stay on and you are sorrounded by your own people, and you are ruled by igbo governors, and your states recieve the same amount of allocation from the federal government, BUT YOU ARE SHOUTING YOU WANT FREEDOM ? freedom from what ? you live on your own land and are governed by igbo governors and recieve allocation from the federal government but you want freedom ? you are the only people stup-id enough to want freedom when you are already free. if your allocation is not getting to the masses-it is because your igbo governors are looting the money and nothing to do with nigeria. so you need to be fighting your governors not demanding freedom when you are already free. this your whole biafran shout shows you are a people with very low IQ. you are fighting nigeria when you should be fighting your governors. it takes someone with very low IQ not to see this picture.

and with regards to you moving around doing the jobs that others dont want to do in their lands, that makes you the mexicans of nigeria. you travel to other places and do jobs others cant do in their own land. do you see the chinese coming to nigeria to chase cars in hot sun selling gala ? so stop comparing yourself to the chinese. the chinese travel to take advantage of resources. you travel to do the jobs that others dont want to do in their own land. its two different things. that does not make you intelligent. [/b]

pazienza:
Yea. But the truth is that no major road pass through Orumba south LGA. To get to Orumba south, you must stop at a point on the major roads, and use the inter- town roads , and some of those inter town roads are tarred.

sukkot:
so why are millions of people escaping from igbo-land everyday ? please come again with a different story. no fantasies allowed on a saturday morning. non fiction story is what we need not fiction

sukkot:
please stop getting overtly emotional and sentimental and lying. this man is a very rare igbo man. no igbo man attains wealth and helps his brother. if all igbo men attained wealth and helped their brother the 5 igbo states will be like heaven now. igbos like to oppress each other. thats the truth. if everybody is rich then there is no one to oppress right ?