₦airaland Forum

JuliusMalemaTR:
By now, you should have retired from IPOB engagements.
IPOB is a terrorist organisation.

Ningi2020:
You are a FOOL if you will compare Katsina and the SE states, of not because you are daft you completely forgot that Katsina is declared ward zone. We pray that the SE will soon be declared a war zone too..

Morphinne:
Your first paragraph is a perfect description of the mistake that birthed you
Again, I will explain to you in kindergarten terms.
I said and I’m still maintaining that the difference here is that the people living in the communities where soldiers were killed in the north (Katsina) are not celebrating the bandits’ terror acts and don’t see them as freedom fighters unlike Aba people.
The northerners are a mile wiser than the south easterners in this regard.
A sane community of people (Delta for instance) will try everything possible to dissociate themselves from the attackers but yeebos were seen jubilating on the streets. Even if they are in support of the terrorists, right-thinking people would do so tacitly but then again, ibos and sanity can’t just be put in the same sentence and you’re a living proof.

Jemex003:
You sound like IPOB are competing with bandit? If you like kill all the Igbo’s finish e know concern be but nothing must happen to my guy Kingsley if una know wan see wahala

Chinkoalhaji34:
Isnt it ironic that despite their education, the Igbo community still suffers from selfinflicted pain and insecurity issues, while obsessing over a potential presidency for Obi?

Morphinne:
The picture you posted to support your comment shows you aren’t bright at all and I’m not surprised. Now here is the difference, the people of Katsina weren’t celebrating the carnage but same can’t be said of the savages living in Abia. Do you now understand why the Nigerian army is treating one people like humans and the others (South Easterners) like animals when events like this happen?

helinues:
True, considering this news with them sharing chocolates and candy

Who gave the other of forced sit at home? Who then should be the likely culprits?

Goodvibes007:
You can only deceive gullible people. You are not more IPOB than Nnamdi Kanu or Uche Mefor.

ArewaQuitessenc:
3 of the soldiers are Igbos, the Augustine Emmanuel fellow might also be Igbo even though his name sounds more "South South". My point is the foolish enablers of this senseless madness that celebrated these killings only ended up scoring an own goal. You are killing your own brothers in uniform and thinking it's "Zoo army" or Northerners you're killing...at the end it's still the Hausa/fulani soldiers that will enter Aba and start causing mayhem on innocent civilians.

When I say IPOB and idiots like Simon Ekpa who want to destroy the good PR going on in the SE are the most tactless set of idiots, I couldn't be more correct. When they are done killing all the Igbo soldiers in the SE, who then will defend Igbos when jungle matures? is it the untrained criminals who call themselves freedom fighters that will fight the Biafra with their stolen weapons?

I love Igbos but they need to wisen up and stamp out unstable individuals like Simon Ekpa and his gangs. Stop feeding the monsters that will come back and destroy you!

RIP to the fallen heroes smh.

Jagabanarmy:
Ipob will pay a heavy price never seen before but I urge the military to protect innocent people in Igbo land . It high time to totally eliminate ipob in Eastern region

xukwaa:
Everything now looks like personal dream fulfilled rather than the likely impact on the people.

ChinenyeN:
Please provide the name of the author and the publication. Thank you.

Putindbutt:
Try as much as you can, you can never rewrite history. Ijaws are the natives, ibos are settlers. Jaja himself was given the title by his ijaw masters, he was captured a slave from the hinterland in the east and sold to his ijaw masters. how possibly can a slave found the land of his master?. the ruiling houses from bonny to opobo were created by Amayanabo. facts are sacred.

Putindbutt:
Try as much as you can, you can never rewrite history. Ijaws are the natives, ibos are settlers. Jaja himself was given the title by his ijaw masters, he was captured a slave from the hinterland in the east and sold to his ijaw masters. how possibly can a slave found the land of his master?. the ruiling houses from bonny to opobo were created by Amayanabo. facts are sacred.

ChinenyeN:
No, this would be incorrect. It's actually well established that the Amanyanabo system in Bonny comes from Kalabari. Okrika and Bonny adopted the Amanyanabo system by the 17th century. It is an Ijaw expression, not Igbo.

ChinenyeN:
From the works of Charles Ogan (1980s), Finapiri (2001), Alagoa & Fombo (1960s) and Nzewuwa (1980s), among others, it is well-established that the Amanyanabo system is a modern monarchy system that first came about in the 17th century among most Eastern Ijaw communities.

Nzewuwa (1983) showed that the House System and a feudal/factional kingship system already existed in the Elem Kalabari area. Kalabari oral traditions and documentary evidence from European traders suggests that these institutions came to be in active practice by the 17th century. Additionaly, Amakiri I (the first of the modern Kalabari monarchs), is recollected as becoming the first "overall Amanyanabo", creating the modern Kalabari dynasty and galvanizing the Kalabari kingdom. This tradition of Amakiri I becoming the first "overall Amanyanabo" suggests the presence of other feudal kings (at least some, not all) going by "Amanyanabo" (Alagoa, 1970s, 2005).

Unlike the series of events/oral traditions of Kalabari, the picture was rather different for Okrika. Charles Ogan (1980s) did a decent job in marking down a chronology for the adoption of both the House System and the Amanyanabo System within Okrika (which Charles Ogan refers to as Amanyanaboship). Charles shows that the Amanyanabo institution did not exist in Okrika prior to its adopted in the seventeeth century. The first Amanyanabo of Okrika (Ado I) was installed as part of the ongoing effort to free Okrika from Bonny's political and economic authority.

Finapiri (2001) researched and collected Bonny oral traditions which credit Perekule as having brought drastic changes to the kingship system in Bonny in the 18th century, in which Perekule was officially proclaimed as the "Amanyanabo", starting the new Amanyanabo dynasty in Bonny. For Bonny, both the House System and the Amanyanabo system were imported between the late 17th to early 18th centuries (Alagoa 1971, Oriji 2011).

9Pluto:
Very insightful!
Your article identifies three Ottam groups and it is the 3rd group near Obani that were acknowledged as igbos.
Also in the language table for Ottam, while the second one for counting numbers one, two, three, four is the same for igbo language, the first one for Father, Mother etc seems to be different.

jamesversion:
Why can't you accommodate him. Afterall, we were all part of Eastern region and defunct Biafra.

Nailly:
Bros, there is no particular language called Ijaw so stop fooling around

Ogbia is a subgroup under the Ijaw umbrella.

9japride:
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You guys just love trolling. Who knows Ijaw people?
If not for GEJ who became president, a large majority of people have never met an Ijaw person.
It's only someone from another region entirely that will be making this kind of dumb statement just to annoy Igbos.
Even in Abuja or Lagos, one can move around in a whole month and will never even meet an Ijaw person. But just stepping out of one's house, the next fellow walking by is an Igbo man/woman.

1nice:
Careless talkers like you always run your mouth anyhow online.
Just try to come out to disrupt protesters and be in the front, then you will see the rude surprise that await you. Na your body go tell you wella.

1nice:
You people eyes would soon clear, this coming protests are not endsars protests but economy hardship protest; any killing of protesters will result in serious consequences.

Any miscreants that will try to stop protesters from exercising their fundamental human rights in Lagos or anywhere else in Nigeria will be dealt with in the language they will understand.