soulpeppersoup:


Have you ever heard of Arochukwu local government? Two towns I know there have boundary with the Mediterranean sea. So I don't know why uninformed people go online to talk what they don't know.

Many of them think Igbo end with with a few town they know. I don't blame them, I blame the government that has neglected to develop some of these places.

We are talking about the cement factory dangote is going for at isu, but many don't know it is because of the sea route that is attracting him not the lime deposits.

Truckpusher:
You can use all those smiley to make yourself feel better even as you die in pains but the truth remains that the moment you remember that we have our own identity and that people like me who's not an Ijaw man is willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with an Ijaw man to put to an end to your expansionist agenda, you'll always come back to your senses and reevaluate your lies and stop spreading further lies that will make you bite the dust again.
You'll never get an inch from a width and breadth of any part of Niger Delta or South South or whatever freely by preying on our pride and cheap blackmail but under the barrels of the gun amidst sweat and blood. Go figure .......

SpaceTour:
I hate some people trying to attach themselves to others, to me it is complex issue. As far as I am still an Anambran I care-less about any other place unless it is strictly business.

simplycarro:
Igboland is land locked. Take it or leave it.!!!!
For any Igboman to see the sea, he or she MUST step out of his or her village in Igboland.

Truckpusher:
Opobo isn't an igbo town and can never be an Igbo until you're ready to lose and lose until you come back to your senses.

TonyeBarcanista:
No be everything you go de argue.

glassjar1:







mulattaclaro claro / weed smoking

simplycarro:

Did you ever see the sea before leaving your village?
Igbo have no sea - take it or leave it!

pazienza:


Silly. Jaja doesn't see himself as an Igbo man, and you think it was a coincidence he subtly created an Igbo speaking Opobo to send a message to future generations.
I know you Ijaws have weird theories on how Opobo ended up Igbo speaking today. Jaja an Igbo man played a fast one on you Ijaw people is an angle you won't accept.
Of course Jajas had to blend into Ijaw ways to maintain Peace and stability in the place, but it would be silly of you to believe that Jaja never considered himself an Igbo, if he didn't, why do you think he retained his connection with Amaigbo his home town, and never stopped telling anyone he came from there.

Igbos sold in far away places in New world did all they could to retain their Igbo identity, but in your Ijawtic mind, an Igboman sold into Ijawland just close to Igboland suddenly stopped seeing himself as Igbo.

Kam nukwa!

willow0802:



We are not leaving our brothers in SS! Bonny island as a whole, phc, parts of benue , edo and kogi, none will be left to waste

simplycarro:

Did you ever see the sea before leaving your village?
Igbo have no sea - take it or leave it!

glassjar1:



I see lagoon

THE IRONY OF BIAFRA AGITATORS
Not even the British Colonialists had the audacity to give us this horrible unitary system; this pan-handling pseudo-federalism.
Each of the former three regions of Nigeria came into Independence as an autonomous unit with its own separate Constitution.
Yes, Igbo people are the first group in Nigeria to form an ethnic political union, the Ibo Federal Union in 1944.
NCNC was formed by a coalition of Trade Unions all over Nigeria in 1944, majority of whom were Yorubas, led by Herbert Macaulay and Zik his Secretary.

At the death of Herbert Macaulay in 1946, Zik took over, installed Igbo people in the party's prominent positions and also made some unpleasant comments about how God has made Igbo the leader of other Nigerian ethnic groups.
This alienated a lot of prominent Yoruba and other ethnic groups and this was how NCNC became Igbo Party.
Egbe Omo Oduduwa did not transform to a party to checkmate NCNC until 1951.
The appointment of Zik as the Governor-General of Nigeria and the alliance of NCNC with NPC gave a lot of advantages to Igbo people, because the North was educationally disadvantaged.

So Igbo took over all the scholarship positions meant for the whole of the South and juicy federal portfolios. For this reason, [size=15pt]Igbo leaders are the ones that have always wanted a unified, not necessarily a united Nigeria.[/size]
The North never left anyone in doubt about wanting to be let alone to manage its own people. Their party was named NORTHERN People's Congress, when ABU was first created, it was named University of NORTHERN Nigeria before it was changed to Ahmadu Bello University. When they wanted to copy Awolowo's model of a regional bank, named National Bank, they named their own Bank of the NORTH. No one is in doubt where their heart is, up till now.

Awolowo never minced a word about his love for live and let live under a REAL federalist state. He wrote it in many of his works and it is no coincidence that the only state that has ever been created by a plebiscite in Nigeria was from the old Western Region, the Mid-Western State, even though there were agitations in other two regions.
Igbos are the one that named their University, the University of NIGERIA, their party NCNC was National Council of NIGERIAN Citizens, when they copied Awo's National Bank, they took it a step further and named it AFRICAN Continental Bank! They love big things.
I don't blame them for loving Nigeria so much, they were having a swell time, they became rapidly educated by seizing the opportunity of federal scholarships that should belong to the whole South, because the country understood only North/South dichotomy under its federal system. They took close to 90% of the slots. Others can fight for the rest.

Those adventurous military coup plotters wanted more. It wasn't a coincidence that four of the five military Majors that planned it were Igbos. There was a story of a coup within that coup. Nzeogwu was allegedly used for his charisma and Wale Ademoyega to create a semblance of ethnic balance. It was therefore not a coincidence that no Igbo leader died and the only NCNC guy that died in the coup Chief Okotie-Eboh was an Urhobo guy who had a problem with the likes of Mbadiwe over the Finance Ministry portfolio!
It wasn't surprising that when the coup failed Aguiyi-Ironsi instead of helping the most senior civilian Dipcharman to consolidate power, he decided to seize power and found advisers and comfort only amongst his kinsmen like Nwafor Orizu. Those who have always wanted to unify Nigeria. It has always been a part of NCNC agenda.
So, Aguiyi-Ironsi did the "needful" promulgated the Unification Decree. It didn't end there, a unified civil service required posting according to seniority. Since we had more educated Igbo, they started posting Igbo to take over positions from the Northerners as provincial heads. It was the last stroke that broke the camel's back.
You guys will recall that the coup that killed Northern and Western leaders took place in January 1966. The killing of Igbo in the North didn't happen until months later.

Aguiyi-Ironsi failed to prosecute the coup plotters, when he unified the system and Igbo people started taking over in their territories, all hell was let loose.

The real reason behind the pogrom. The Northerners as said by Tafawa Balewa had always been wary of Igbo tendency for dominating others.
So it is an irony that it was an Igbo man that gave us this crooked federalism they are the ones that had always wanted a unified Nigeria and they were the first to go to three and a half years of war fighting it just a few months after they created it.
Of course when the Notherners tasted the amount of power vested in this unitary system, they have refused to let go.
Here we are, 49 years after, Biafrans are still fighting their creation. A case of be careful what you wish for.

Let's go back to 1963 Constitution.
Caveat:
Please note that these are verifiable historical facts and not an attempt to diss anyone. If you don't like it, write your own.

TonyeBarcanista:

We are our own people. We know who we are and we know our heritage. No outsider can determine for us. I have already made the position of our people and Rivers state very clear without sentiment.
The Status of Every Ijawland is non-negotiable.

To the ignorant folks, a google search will help

explorer250:
Ijaws and lies are like bread and butter. I once heard an ijaw saying that they are the 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria,these guys are on a quest of expansionism and when i knew this was when he said that we(ndokis) are ijaws. I hail from obigbo and i know that barcanistas claims only ends on nairaland. He cant come to my land and spew that trash.
In the event of this countries break up, opobo and bonny would go with us. I dont suscribe to a biafra of ijaws,urhobos and itshekiris. If we want to consider minorities, then it should be with akwa ibom and cross rivers,these guys have been in good terms with us 4 ages. 4 example arochukwu and ibibios forming the ogboni and ibini ukpabi cult

kel4soft:


You summarised to suit your ego. Clap for yourself. Opobo was founded not as an Igbo nation, we had different culture from Igbo bar the language which is still been an issue with the people of Bonny. So Bonny is still an Igbo land since Jumbo houses are Igbo slaves. Please go and read history of Opobo Kingdom written by her indigene not what one man at Arochukwu wrote.

patrick89:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkoro


Opobo–Nkoro (also spelled Opobo/Nkoro) is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. It is part of the Andoni/Opobo/nkoro constituency of the Nigerian National Assembly delegation from Rivers. The capital is Opobo Town.[1]

The Opobo–Nkoro people are mainly farmers and fishermen.They are of Igbo extraction. They speak Igbo language. Just like the neighbouring Bonny, founded by Ndokis of Azuogu, slaves from the hinterland transformed the demography of the area when the Transatlantic Slave Trade was abolished. Ijaws who came in as porters also settled there and the Igbo language was adopted. Although, there are no indigenous Ijaw communities there, most Ijaw migrants and porters have fully been integrated into the original indigenous Igbo communities.

Pro-Natura International Nigeria has been assisting in community-led development in the LGA.

willow0802:
To those who says igboland is landlocked, heres a post from an opobo lady who is very vepround.d of her igbo lineage..... Mind u, i used the word 'VERY VERY PROUD'

It's a great blessing to be IGBO!
I can tell you a million and one reasons why I relish being IGBO!
In my next twenty lifetimes, I would love to still remain IGBO!
We are like the Jews. Anytime a group is persecuted, guess what?, they become stronger in virtually all aspects of life.

My story will be short because I have clients (HIV-infected professionals and non-HIV clients) waiting for me.

I remember going to Opobo in the company of my late father, Chief Sir Edmund Obizukowa EZIE, the late town clerk of Portharcourt Municipality from 1960 to about (not exactly sure now) 1964. We visited the compound of the historical and beloved KING JAJA of Opobo. My dad told us that the late king hailed from AMAIGBO in Orlu and was the father/founder of Opobo.

Opobo, Ahoada and many of these areas are IGBO.
Please do not disgrace God by renouncing your IGBO HERITAGE!!
Instead, please remain proud of it.

Sincerely,

Dr. Tina Edmunds-OGBUOKIRI (Nee EZIE)
Professor of Pharmacology/Therapeutics, College of Medicine of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus and Consultant Clinical Pharmacist to the UNTH (1979-1994).
Takemi Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, (1994-1995)
Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy ( 1996-2014)
CEO/Founder Tina Ogbuokiri and Associates , Expert Witnessing and Technical Defense for Litigations (2014 -present)

tsdarkside:


ohhhh,heavens no.....Biafra is not getting even 1m2 land from nigeria........

TonyeBarcanista:

We are our own people. We know who we are and we know our heritage. No outsider can determine for us. I have already made the position of our people and Rivers state very clear without sentiment.
The Status of Every Ijawland is non-negotiable.

To the ignorant folks, a google search will help

soulpeppersoup:


Have you ever heard of Arochukwu local government? Two towns I know there have boundary with the Mediterranean sea. So I don't know why uninformed people go online to talk what they don't know.

Many of them think Igbo end with with a few town they know. I don't blame them, I blame the government that has neglected to develop some of these places.

We are talking about the cement factory dangote is going for at isu, but many don't know it is because of the sea route that is attracting him not the lime deposits.

kel4soft:


Is a thrash now. Distorted history to pride his ego and his followers. King Jaja is just one man in Ibani (Ijaw sub group like Kalabari and Wakireke))Land, Bonny. He moved with Ibani chiefs to another Ijaw lands which are the present day Opobo and was elected to be the King in same Ijaw land. So how is it now an Ibo land?

willow0802:


So wats your point Boy!