rychard:



Igbo people rule igbo states where are the developments in those states,
I'm igbo but this your statement na trash

Great question, and I agree with you. The people of igbo extraction who are governors should strive to work even harder to make a statement, and back the saying that igbos are industrious, I'm hoping the upcoming younger generation are those who'd take these stereotypes seriously . If we're talking about the likes of Orji Uzor Kalu as igbomen who could make nigeria an envy to USA, GB etc, then we all know that's never going to happen.

Let's allow intelligence to prevail fellow nigerians...

SLAP44:
If Igbo people rule Nigeria for 8 years with a good constitution, Britain, USA and Germany will be begging us for visa to come and see development.

Err, I disagree with the rhetoric, however, I do agree that for fairness and equality an Igbo Man should be supported for president next election. So in order words, although I agree with what you're saying, I'd say it in a milder way in order not to provoke negative jealous sentiments from the myriads of tribes surrounding igboland.

Dagrace01:
you must be joking, functional sea port for where? Do u want to creat an artificial ocean? Oh river Benue and Niger abi? U don miss am! You think functional seaport is a day job? Did I hear u say Lagos will suffer? I can't see how, Lagos has been the the economy capital of Nigeria even before u guys trooped in for greener pastures..

My community for starts is right on the Atlantic ocean, the obolo people have over 50kms of water front facing the atlantic ocean. The current map of abia state ends on the imo river which flows directly into the Atlantic ocean barely 20kms away. Ikwerre people's territory are on the Abonema Wharf, and many more options. Know thy map, know thy history, stop taunting those who want to breakaway from Nigeria, it could become a self fulfilling prophecy for you.

And, Please don't tell me that you don't know that over 65 percent of the people residing in Lagos are not Yoruba people but all Nigerians, even people from other west african countries too. A break up of Nigeria will turn lagos state to a shadow of itself and those iGRs you're talking about would vanish. Why do you guys wish for this on yourselves? Or mockingly joke about this? Everyone's reading these threads and these taunts stand as proof of push for those on the fence about this issue.

The people clamoring for this are a majority tribe in the country and their screams of marginalisation is legit, they've never been allowed to rule the country, their zone is the only one with 5 states while every other zone has 6 even though there are large swats of Areas in the SS and MB with igbo and igboid people, the oil resources from the area is collected without recourse to the communities or the zone and is used to develop other regions. How easy can it be for us to be reasonable? for those of you who really claim to love nigeria and want it succeed. How about we stand a ground and say this is wrong? We can not claim to be one while a major tribe is being disrespected this badly.

With the large Population of people who are middle class or wealthy in the SE/SS and a huge diaspora, all he needs is less than 0.5% people from that region to give him a measly 10 dollars a month each and thats over a Billion Naira Monthly. That may not be enough money to wage war but it's enough to continue to bring negative press and other factors that's not enabling for any country and everyone suffers. He who holds a man down, has to stay down too, why cant we be reasonable?

Anyways as per headline, I didnt see a link or account number of the said charity to contribute, so how do they expect those who want to contribute to contribute?

mohdbaffa:
Deltans aint Igbos

Dear Mr. Mohammed Baffa

Knowing what you are and staying true to it is good for a strong, positive and forward thinking state of mind, but knowing what other people see you as, is important for your survival. In otherwords, one's own opinion of theirself is not enough as we do not exist in this world alone. We need to know what other people see us as and find a proper balance.

Your opinion is well noted though!

Nna eh, ndi igbo atala ahuhu na obodo nigeria. E mana e checku godum ihe ah, aha this guy aburokwa aha igbo oh, e legom otu eshiri de ahaya. At first gi guo ya, ya dizie ka obu mistake, maka ndi awusa were ike e jo ya ahaya, ya si ha chukwuka, ha edewezie chikwunka, chewezie na oburu ofu ihe. But ihe dizie ha mkpa like this, ana emenuya mistake.

E checku godum ahaya na google owehukwa onye ozo na a za aha nka, maka ya oburu aha nmadu for real, iga awuriri umunne ya na aza ahaya na google. Odikwa owu set up oh!, na'ihe magoga politics.

Eberem emechakwa umu SS na aza aha igbo, but ha bia eba wu topicedika nka - ha'mechie onu, chewe na'obu onye ozo ka ha na emegbu. Maka onye chowa onye igbo o ga egbu bia gidezie onye na'aza aha igbo, ya gbuo na nkiti nunu - maka na'obi ya onye ogburu buo onye igbo.

Anyiwa no na ishii miri na aza aha engrish, anyi makwa nke ako, ya buru na ogbu onye uzo'ulom e gidere ihea, echewezia na'obu onye Jamaica, ya emewe ha confusing na ishi, a hapugaya ka o puo, maka na obahu uru, ewehukwa onye ga di interested in the news. Umu ndiofe na'etimkpu eba now, ha ga emepekwanu this thread ya buru na aha ya bu Monday Brown?

Ba ha nkiti! Gi sinu Ike!

And as the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding, to my fellow ND bros, see am below!

gwarotango:
Just admit that the criminal is one of your own instead of whipping up useless sentiments. Is this the first btime an ibo man will be caught in crime? Not a single week goes by without we hearing a negative story about you people. Nonsense

Afospecialk:
100% sure that all IGBOs will definitely defend Monday Chikwunka by all means

The question is what is he doing among them ?


All the militants from Igbo's are the one hiding under herdsmen to terrorize this country

Tinubu said it all.
Evans and Chikwunka ar only representing what yeeebow ar known for

Babaheekmat:


No decieve yourself..

They're all igbo..

No matter how they denied it

MetaPhysical:


My friend get lost if you cant contribute to the subject. Ok!

The subject is the purchase of Nigeria. I said its a lie and i gave reasons. At the foundation of Nigeria is a series of negotiations and exchanges made with treaties. Those without treaties were the lands under RNC, now Unilever.

If you feel different present your treaty to exclude Iboland from purchase. Stop making noise about your white wife and America and all other nonsense. Who cares if your wife is white or green?

@ the bolded, I had a good laugh reading that! You're actually quite a funny guy, I'll give you that!
But your username though? it's misleading, too intellectual for you, I'd rather your username was something like Oily-Pussy or something more comical, cause you're funny!

Ok, so you've made me laugh, I'm happy and I want to make you happy too, so I'll just agree to make your day easier.

So you're saying, the Igala people enslaved the entire igboland , okay! okay! Agreed! Yaaaay! Three gbosa for the Igala people, they're super warriors! And now metaphysical is happy as a puppy! Yay!

And three gbosas for the hausa people too, they enslaved north kwara aka the entire yorubaland?, they're super soldiers! Yay!

Just messing with you. Sending nothing but peace, prosperity and positive vibes your way - You have a great week sir!

P/S: My grandfather's dad worked for the Royal Niger Company in the late 1880's, they had their regional head office in my very own community at a point. Alot of the slave snatching, trading, exporting, treaty signing etc was done and witnessed by people from my community. So while this is all some phantom history for most nigerians, this is more like family history for me. I have undiluted first account stories.

Deuces!

MetaPhysical:


Dude,
Everything Ive written is targeted at the false headline of the thread. Nigeria was never sold or bought.

British entered into treaty with rulers. Those who were bought did not have treaties...their exchange was a purchase with receipts.

Show us a treaty between Ibo and Britain if I lie.

The OP and whoever he quoted that said Nigeria was purchased lacks knowledge. Some areas in Nigeria like Iboland was purchased, not everywhere.

Iboland was not a member of the original Colony and Protectorate instituted in Nigeria. Iboland was a right under proprietary ownership of Royal Niger Company after they signed treaty of peace with Igala and took over the administration of your land from Attah.

Colony and Protectorate later expanded and the expansion included areas purchased, like Iboland, and you were then joined into the Protectorate.

You're still on that gibberish yeah? You know you're not trying to make any protectorate statements, you're just trying to throw your usual BS cheap shots below the belt. The Igala people colonized certain communities in North Anambra and South Benue and In your very intelligent mind, those few communities translates into igboland right?

It's okay, i'll save you trouble and stop responding, you obviously don't intend on contributing anything factual! cheers!

oyatz:
Bros ,calm down and stop attributing so many things to me.

I have no qualms in anybody claiming any tribe/ethnic group, I just think I can contribute to what I think should be an intelligent discussion without unnecessary emotional outbursts from fellow disscusants.

Tribal identity is the least of my problems (not even a problem to me). I work in the private sector, I welcome and deal with any clients to patronize our services regardless of their tribes. I don't discriminate because money has no tribe!
This is my number-1 interest.
The igboness or non-igboness of any tribe does not put food on my table or pay my children' school fees sir.

My response to you is as intelligent as it gets (for me atleast). If you truly are an impartial person as you say, then your input in the thread is proving otherwise. You've been on the offensive since you jumped in with an obvious intent to undermine the igboness of the anioma people. That itself is an emotional conversation for those from there, I can imagine.

The polity is very heated right now, nigerians are at each others throat, to you - you're just having fun on NL trying to have an "intelligent conversation" by whipping up people's emotions on a very sensitive topic, you're not helping. 20 years ago I was an open minded young Nigerian open to all nigerian tribes, today unlike you I can not claim to be that. All because of the hate I consume on nairaland from comments and zingers like yours.

We could all do better, God help us all!

tsdarkside:


wait wait....we deltans are not aro....

aro was a union of igbo chiefs....

demandin that all tribes in the delta join biafra is madness....

asari is not pure igbo....he has his own agenda....add to it,he is muslim too....
una real wahalas didnt even started sef and you are already havin issues....

We deltans? there's no tribe called deltan, Why don't you state your tribe in Delta state and then speak for it. And yes, a couple of the tribes within Delta state were not part of Aro...And we know that you're not from the tribe that was part of it, so no one's talking about you, friend. And this is an old thread why bring it back up?

ElsonMorali:


Oh I know Asari Dokubo is a criminal, no doubt. The only reason I keep mentioning his name is because he has been hailed several times by se as a great ally from the ss. It was meant as a taunt.

The various smaller ethnic groups that make up the south south would be most unfortunate should they throw their hats in with the southeast. They'd be swallowed whole. But that's not for me to say, is it. My people are comfortably cocooned in the Southwest and whatever dangers threatens the Yoruba people they will face it together, as sure as God made little apples.

Damn, How can a negro connect with some of y'all dense mutherfxckers! Oh but we should join you in SW? and be obliterated? how much cocooning have you guys done for the very few ijaws who resided in ondo state?

Read negro, PLEASE read and slowly - im from one of those small communities in the SS and i'm pro SE, they're who most of the tribes here in SS have been in cahoots with for over 500 years. So if you really want this country to be together, then stop trolling, poking and taunting the SE because if they successfully break out of today's nigeria you best believe the Aro tribes of the SS is going with them, that should come as common sense to you people, but the denial in this forum is deep.

And hey! sell your fear and vitriol of the SE to the edos, itshekiris, isokos that are posting here, they might be interested! No offence to anyone, just stating facts.

Deadlytruth:

But you have forgotten that when Asari Dokubo just began to identify with Biafra movement, IPOBians used to make reference to him in representative capacity of the SS as an evidence that the SS had keyed fully into Biafra idea.

Well atleast I've given you a reason to stop using his name, most people writing do not know much about this man, and ofcourse the biggest noise makers get noticed first, him being one ofcourse.

One of the strongest strongholds of IPOB is in Oyigbo in Rivers State, because they never get raided by police compared to the SE states,not sure why maybe Gov. wike is a closet ipobian, who knows, but point is, if you really needed proof to know whether not people of the ND were part believers in the Biafran story you would google it. There are tens of thousands of articles and videos of people from the SS clamouring passionately for it. Kings, elders statesmen, it's all there for you to see. Although I know you guys love mentioning him now that he made a u turn, so I understand the touche effect that you guys are doing and it would be okay if not for the fact that the man is a mass murderer who's being made relevant by this forum.

Again, the SS is a new political Union and we are all working together for the progress of the region politicatically and for the good of the south, for the good of nigeria. But the SS or ND is not a tribe. When issues get tribal the tone is different, if igbo people in the SE are screaming about an issue which is tribal it's best to believe that the igbo, igboid,and their cousin tribes in the SS are also echoing thesame sentiments perhaps not as loud. It would be mistaken to believe or think that igbo people in the SS are clapping for the people who are insulting or trying the shred the SE, when we know you people can't really tell us apart. Don't point to what a politician said or a communal clash as prove of disagreement because they also have this between communities in SE.

The fact remains that if the SE was actually going to leave Nigeria, then the Igbo/igboid and closely related tribes in the SS are leaving with them because whatever remains of Nigeria becomes impractically impossible for our people to live or survive with when our next of kins and those we are closely related with are out the window. This is not a hate speech, it's common sense, common reasoning. It's important some of us in the ND speak up so we don't wake up one day and we are being told that we are now this or that by people from the west because of our silence, with quotes of peoples comments on nairaland as the word of God.

This thread is about the Middle Belt having an awakening, I will not reply any further so that I dont derail the thread. Cheers!

oyatz:
The 88% Igbo is from which research sir?

They can be Igbo, Fulani or Ijaw if they say so. Allow them to define themselves.

I know you're trying your best to sound intelligent but your political impartiality is so brazenly open. So many comments on this thread from people from the same place have commented saying they're proudly igbo people, and you're still saying the people should decide what to call their selves, you've skipped the video of the queen of Anioma proudly advocating for igbos to be one, you've skipped the twit of the current Gov who is from Ika, saying he was proud to be at the Ohaneze meeting and is proud of the igbo unity, What else do you want the Anioma people to do for you? do they have to show up to your house with placards and demonstrate? would that be enough to pacify you? You want us to accept the opinion your imaginary friend ebuka oliseh.

You refuse that the olukumi could have in centuries past settled in Anioma, you rather want people to say that they are originally from Anioma, but you're very quick to argue that the Ijaw people in Ondo state are mere settlers because there's no land borders between bayelsa and ondo state, so how close via water is ondo from bayelsa?

For the record, you peoples argument that igbo people started out in the west and morphed into igala and morphed into igbo people is quack science and defies biology, physics and human migration.

Here's a better layman explanation that could better debunk your myth. If you put a chunk of purple paint on one end of a rectangular basin and white paint on the other end, you'll get pink in the middle.

another one, you have white people in the north black people in the south and arabs in the middle. The metamorphosis starts in the middle. The Igala, ebira etc exist because of the cohabitation between the igbos on the east and the yorubas on the west. The igbo tribe is as original as the yoruba.

Watching the anioma queen speak so elagantly and proudly is quite emotional, I wonder how bad the Anioma people would feel reading these comments of other people trying to say that they are not igbo. How would you feel if a Hausa guy was trying hard to argue how non yoruba you and your village is? Stop it oh!

PrecisionFx:


Arochukwu in Abia state have efik n Ibibio as part of them.

Enugu state have Igala, idoma n Bini among dem.

Anambra state has Bini n Igala among dem.

Ebonyi state have Efik among dem too.

The list is endless

at the bolded I keep forgetting to write that every time on these tribal threads No one seems to be saying that clear enough on these threads. I'm sure most igbos further north of Abia State do not fully know or understand how powerful the relationship is.

The people of Abia south and Akwa Ibom are practically thesame people. they have always been bilingual, speaking both igbo and qua ibo languages for centuries. This strong brotherhood for centuries is responsible for the creation of the Andoni(Obolo) people, who bear Akwa ibom names, practice Ngwa festivals, and speak a language that sounds akwa ibomish but if you understand central igbo you'd get atleast 30 percent of every conversation. It's important to ad that the Andoni also have a little mix of a now extinct ijaw tribe called defakha. The strongest hold of the Aro's was in today's Akwaibom while the Feared deity Ibini Ukpabi (An akwa ibom word) is in Abia state. The people of south Abia and Akwa Ibom have fought side by side on every war recorded in history. Any scholar of nigerian history would find this relationship worthy of deep study. I still am myself

Just putting this info out there for those who keep drawing dream maps and lines in the niger-delta. Know thy history!

ElsonMorali:


Tell that to Asari Dokubo.

Can you people please stop using this man's name as someone who speaks for the Niger Delta or SS, please this is a huge insult to the region. We have great minds, and intellects who have and continue to express their opinions on regional issues and yet every time I hear some SS or Niger Delta, mischievous people continue to quote Asari. Asari is not a regional leader nor spokesman, he is a criminal and a mass murderer. Is this the type of person you would want people to quote as the spokesman of your region? how can you people continue to insult the Niger Delta like this?

Asari and boys killed hundreds of people in his village,ph during his fight for supremacy with Ateke tom in the early 2000s. His boys thereafter robbed, raped and killed people at creek road market waterside for months. That man Asari is from the most troublesome Clan in Rivers State, the okrika people are known for starting wars by land grabbing. Anyone over 35 who grew up around Borokiri would have heard of the Okrika wars they fought the kalabaris, nembe, ogoni etc. As a child growing up in King Jaja street, I know that the Okrikas during the clash with ogonis killed and literally ate the ogoni people in the early 90s. They're still starting land clashes with neigbouring clans till today. Many people outside rivers state think the ikwerre's are the biggest trouble makers but ikwerres do not go outside ikwerreland to look for trouble and will not bother you if you dont rub your nose in their matter. You can see how jonathan's wife (from Okrika) could not resist trying to control amaechi when he was gov. of rivers, which was how the niger delta lost Amaechi to APC and why we have these blood baths during election, Amaechi is now being disrespected in ikwerreland, but he did what he had to do to keep his dignity. Even here on nairaland, theres only one guy tonye who always hides behind the name ijaw (although he's from okrika) and creates threads or comment to claim lands in Akwaibom, SE, edo etc, thereby causing online tension here amongst people in the SS and nigerdelta. Only Okrika would that, the okrika people are not even honestly Izon people and only started calling themselves ijaw during GEJs regime for politics. Core ijaw people have no energy to drag land because ijaw people have lands that are blessed by Baba God himself, and the thing ijaws want is control of the resources on the land they know is theirs.

Other SS/SE people who kept praising Asari because he was shouting resource control have now seen that he can never be trusted! Sad that I have to air dirty laundry of the ND here, but people mentioning Asari have to understand the evil behind his name.

I'm know I'm off topic and sorry for the Rant, but I and other people whose friends and family were killed, raped or had their houses burnt by Asari and his boys are still waiting for his judgement, to come here and see you people quoting him as a spokeperson for the SS is insult to injury, it really hurts!

OGHENAOGIE:
all u wrote is thrash...if u want biafra carry the five eastern states and good luck in ur achievements also tel kanu to come down to Nigeria to lead a. sane fight not hiding in Europe and instigating foolish ibos like him... u can't colonize other tribes to ur illusion of biafra...i repeat should Nigeria break up it breaks into 7 countries...oliseh from delta state told the world he is not ibo even if his middle name is ogochukwu so stop this rubbish

Friend, You're not paying attention, I'm not from the SE. I'm from the SS and I'm just telling you how it is. I really do hope that Nigeria works, and I trust that you're praying for that too. You sound pissed off and I'm sorry if I offended you, but I'm only trying to tell you what the reality would be in the event of a breakup.

I don't know who the oliseh ogochukwu you're talking about is and everyone has the right to say their opinion of what they think they are or be political with it. But the question should you should be asking yourself - the question that you need to honestly answer by yourself - The essence of my entire write up is: if shit hits the fan and this country was being broken up, do you believe that the oliseh Ogochukwu's that you know would leave a break away igbo region and rather choose to be with bini or yoruba country?...I didnt so either...I don't even think that Oliseh would be excited seeing you bashing the SE, knowing that most people from your area can't tell him apart from those in the SE.

So let's all temper words with care, let's stop poking our eastern neighbours, you binis need this nigeria to work more than the igbos or even yorubas do. Let's continue to work together to make this country work. Have a nice day!

Japhet31:


In you people's stupid mind now... You are doing something useful and productive with your brains o....

How does these your agitations/arguments/buffoonery contribute to the topic of this thread.... When will you guys develop sense.

Was the thread about Niger-Delta or Nigerian geopolitics.... ? Do you guys have anything in that empty box on your necks?

Someone created a thread on OML 13. You're both discussing ibo /Niger delta politics... make una go create una own thread nah.

At the bolded, the thread is about an oil block in the niger delta, recently acquired by an igbo man, we're not on the wrong forum.

I thought Nigeria was a secular state, how do expect a man who studied Islamic law to be the Chief Justice of a SECULAR STATE. The country is not governed by islamic law, even in most states with majority muslim population. So what exactly is this man's qualification for being the CJN?

Nchenches:


Mr Divide and conquer and rule and exploit.
You for try more. Your head is like the shape of Niger delta. I bet you don't know where Rivers or Delta states are.
What's Igboid? Do you have Yorubaoid or Fulanoid

Torture? The herdsmen and Boko torture de sweet you.
A clown who believes that a country without crude oil can't survive.

Interesting you call me divide and conquer but you're showing a divided map that has included my town in your deluded imagination of a future Niger delta carved out of the known biafran map.

I'm not sure which tribe in the Niger Delta you are speaking for. But understand that the niger delta is not a tribe and neither is SS. If this country chooses to break up, the tribes of the niger -delta would break out along with the bigger tribes whose language and culture we practice, we will chose our peers period!. FYI I'm from rivers state.

uduak2016:

Harlem2:


What is afonja


If you reply me again, I will slap that your Afonja face. Get out from here. Natural wicked things!

Can you imagine this guy was claiming to be from from Akwaibom in many threads spewing hatred and bigotry against SS and SE, and I was thinking akwaibom kwa the border to my town is akwaibom, and their people would never say the kind of evil things this guy has said. I was wondering what akwaibom people did to him to deserve such wickedness. Thanks for calling him out.

Nchenches:



They drill oil in the south, more than 70% of oil proceeds goes to north through north's 19 states and Abuja capital, as well as through hundreds of local government areas created by northern soldiers in the north, and through corrupt practices.
New cities and modern developments sprinkle out in once tiny northern villages, whereas the 1970s towns in the south, except state capitas stagnate.

Southern environment gets degraded with pollution from oil effluent

Nigeria is a huge fraud.

Nice stupid map, united niger delta, and you have added igbo speaking communities into that stupid map. If you really truly want to form a country that is void of igbo people why add igboid speaking communities into that stupid map. So in you peoples mind, you believe their would be country where the rest of the other igbo speaking communities are in and we igboic communities in the ND would leave that country and come and join you people in your mini nigerian country with over 50 languages? so that you can continue to torture us with your "igboman this igboman that"? How can you believe that any igboic speaking community would accept to join you and become a minority in your dreamland country when they can simply join the rest of the igbo/igboic speaking country and be thesame as everyone else. If you really dont want to be in a break out nigerian country that has igbo/igboic speaking people, then please keep praying for Nigeria to work, because if this country is going to split,then know that It's not everyone from the niger delta that do not know where they come from, because if that time comes we will be joining our peers!

continue dreaming but please remove my community from that your dream country. Thanks!

He was the highest ranking rivers indigene in the army before hid demise, a big loss for the state.

Lets not just call it bokoharam and leave it at that. His death, and the circumstances that lead to it should be investigated!

OEPHIUS:
The Federal Government school feeding Program is achieving great strides, the program is having positive effect

1.       Attendance and enrolment of pupils in public primary schools is increasing.

2.       Health and nutrition of the children is improving and many children are provided with at least one egg per week.

3.       Many local farmers in poultry, cattle, fisheries, vegetables and market women are benefiting.

4.       Employment to over 100 thousand cooks across 32 States.

More children have received their branded bowls provided by the Federal government. Below Are pictures from Kaduna, Katsina, Oyo and Delta. This is a good one for Nigeria

Sorry but which of the pictures is delta?

safarigirl:

Igbos rarely seize kids, who wan feed the pikin? They can insist the mother stays closeby, except she wants to remarry, then she is expected to return the child to their father's people.

This baby is too young to be separated from her mother

Wrong! while the igbo/igboid speaking speaking people of Nigeria have a language that is intelligible, they do not practice tradition as a monolith, meaning there are different different traditions among the different igbo/igboic speaking people. For example the Becheve people in the hills of crossriver state is an igbo community with an igbo king in cross river state, they are into Bride buying and selling till this very moment. And I'm very certain that while that tradition is alien to most other igbo tribe, it does not take away the fact the community is an igbo community.

So technically saying that igbo people perform a certain tradition is right and wrong, because when it comes to tradition the word igbo becomes a complex term, it's usually better to state the clan. This is the basis of contention about whether a clan is igbo or not in many communities outside the SE, people argue with this context forgetting that what makes your clan igbo should be whether or not igbo/igboic language is spoken natively in your community and whether or not that language can be understood on a basic level by other igbo clans without translation, because in general speaking, when it come it comes to tradition, the igbo people are very diverse, it's almost like saying nigerian people practice a tradition.

At the OP go to the police and then lawyer up, although I understand that money might be an issue, put up your acc number here, next to the story and give updates, I'm sure nairalanders would be willing to help

laudate:

You people have started your meaningless categorisation again. Let people call themselves whatever they like.

I have met many Itsekiri people and Edo folks from the Afenmai area, with Yoruba first names or last names, who insist that they are pure Itsekiri or pure Edo, and would never call themselves Yoruba.

The Yoruba people respect such people and their identity, and have not tried to give them a different label.

I have met Kanuri people who speak fluent Hausa, and even have Hausa sounding names, but maintain their distinct Identity. No Hausa group has come out to claim that such people are Hausaoid or something ridiculous.

Leave people alone to bear whatever identity they want to bear. Chikena!

I wonder who you're calling "you people"... But I guess when an okrika man calls himself Ijoid - you're basically okay with that right?

Anyways, my input on the thread is based on face value, No one was originally claiming or disclaiming anyone, the thread is just starting to digress. The point that most of the commenters were trying to make is that Burna is basically pointing fingers at himself. Not unless you're one of those who enjoy hating igbos you wouldnt find the need to argue or defend or critize.

Here is my re-explanation maybe you'll get my input. In nigeria when we say people from the east, we mean people from the ss/se and to be specific about what east you're talking about most people would say SE.

So Burna Boy says people from the east only listen to their kind and someone comments saying but you're from ahoada which an igboic speaking clan in rivers state by the border with imo state...and igboid yourself, so what are you pointing fingers at...

That is a factual and correct troll back sentence. If you don't have any problem with everything igboic, then you'd have nothing negative to say. Those who deteriorated the thread are those went on to start claiming that he prefers to be yoruba or whatever. You get my point now?

Peace

beamtopola:

There is nothing like rivers igboid.

Sorry, but there is, and that's the actually the majority population of the state.


P/S: I'm from rivers state.

DuBLINGreenb:
How is Burna Boy igbo? Timi dakolo or Timaya are all south south Ijaw ethnic nationality Niger delta Republic Google about any of those words/terms abeg we are not igbo thank you we are the fourth largest ethnic group in Nigeria and not a sub group of igbo.
Igbo people want us for our oil daz all they want to use us as fuel to run biafra. It will not work.
Tamara/Tamuno is different from Chukwu

If you read the entire comments thus far properly, you'd have noticed that no one said timi dakolor or timaya were igbos. However Calling Burna Boy based on his place of origin (which is Ahoada) Igboid/igboic is not wrong. He's from a tribe that's some where between ogba and ogbia, their people bear igbo last names, their spoken language is a slightly more twisted Ogba which is an igbo subgroup, the first indegine from his village that built the first primary school in the area had a full igbo name, their kings have igbo names.

And sorry but there's no tribe called niger delta in nigeria, sorry for busting that bubble bro!

Funny question - making it sound like only igbos in the SE hate him...The man is equally despised by igbo people in the South South and most other tribes in the in the South South too. You can see that video of Gov. Nwike mocking the Ruga plan and talking about contributing water to the north, with loud laughter in the backgroud.

Point is, most people in the SE/SS despise the man and party that he represents, the reasons are obvious, stop asking, google is your friend.

Na wa oh, so the only igboic people in that list were sent to be CP in Borno and Zamfara, two active War Zones. In order to be fair and NOT obviously castigating this tribe, why not send them to atleast places with dignity while flooding SE/SS states with Hausas...Why not swap CPs of ethnic Groups in the SE/SS between themselves for equity for example give an Igbo Guy CP of Bayelsa and an Ijaw Guy CP of Anambra, etc and use christian hausas to fill in positions in the far muslim hausa north and vice versa to counter the ying yang situation they are trying to create. Why pick a man all the way from igboland to go and oversee an issue that he barely understands in a wartorn area...The thinking of people in this country just tire me. Obviously, no one is serious about tackling security yet.

YorubaHero12:

Igbo what is wrong with the English lol, is that too complex for you to understand? Do I need to start teaching you ABCD before you can assimilate this simple English?

Interesting, You seem to be very proud of the Fact that Yorubas are into yahoo, and you make it look like internet SCAMS are not that serious of crime. Well I would like to go deeper into both crimes and give you a bit more insight my "educated" fellow nairalander.

Mind you, I personally consider breaking any laws as Bad, and it's always smarter to work legally, smart and be patient to get real wealth. For now, lets dig into the topic of the day.

1. SELLING OF COCAINE/ METH and other Hard drugs.

Cocaine is designated as a class 1 drug by all countries across world for today, but guess what other items used to be class 1? I'll help - Alcohol/Beer/whisky etc, Marijuana, even tobacco. People caught dealing on Alcohol in the 1900s used to punished by death in the US. Marijuana which used to carry the Death Penalty in many countries across the world is now being legalized world over, so at some point in the future you should expecting the legalization of cocaine. While many people might paint cocaine as a substance from hell which no one should touch, the truth is if you hang around a lot of rich expatriates world over you'd see that atleast 30% of them are hooked on some sort of moderated use of the one those class 1 drugs like cocaine.

In the eyes of religion, a drug dealer is technically not doing anything wrong, as he is not compelling people to buy from him, he simply has product that people who need it look for him to buy it from him without him having to convince them about nothing, the only people he is wronging are governments who for the record are the biggest drug dealers in the world. So people actually argue that cocaine has immensely helped them either through a medical or psychological trauma - google it!

YAHOO/ INTERNET FRAUD

As an internet fraudster you track people on the web, and then mislead people to believe that you're something that you're not and STEAL their hard earned money. A lot of people who are conned end up committing suicides. People lose their life savings to internet scammers, their children's future, their blood and sweat. Internet scammers are not ONLY doing what is abominable to their fellow humans, but it's also Abominable in the eyes of God. An internet scammer is equivalent to armed robber, just that he's masking behind the computer as opposed to a Gun.

It's a no brainer that internet scams is a Bigger EVIL in the eyes of anything judging. So keep consoling yourself!

daroz:
I am happy for him.
Congratulations to all South Southerners.

Hmm congratulations to South Southerners?

...This is a country of tribes my friend, those "new political terms" don't matter when tribal injuries start to cut too deep. No matter how many times that word south south is thrown around it wouldnt mislead the common man in Ogoja, crossriver state into believing that he has any ancestral or cultural links with an Uhrobo man, it's just a political term. However congratulations to the Uhrobo people, even though we know these political positions never mean anything to the common man of whose tribe a leader is from - But atleast it's a been a good way by the ruling class to keep making everyone believe that the unity of the country mattered to them, which is obviously not happening now.

The way I see this now is that the 6 top government positions in the country based on names is split between two tribes, the Hausas and the Yoruba's. The yorubas have the VP slot, then took their own for Senate President and then another Yoruboid tribe in the SS as deputy SP. If you are looking the names on paper just 2 tribes are visible. I think it is a clear coded message by the Yoruba ruling class to anyone who's paying attention that the Yoruba's run the south.

A great achievement for whichever Yoruba guy was trying to prove a point, however a nail in the coffin for nigeria.