I am shocked to my bone marrow by the surprising revelation of Asari Dokubo over the name Biafra. He has opined that the name Biafra belongs to the Ijaws, oron and a little bit of Ibibios and so has nothing to do with Igbo.

Further he claimed that the name was put forward by an Ijaw man Frances Opigo at the a meeting in Enugu in 1967. As far as Asari Dokubo is concerned, the region called Biafra is Ijaw nation and so in the event the independent of Biafra is declared the sovereign nation will be Ijaw republic and not Igbo speaking republic. This is a heavy pill to swallow.

Although, as interesting as his ascertain is, it leaves some trace of confusion which is that if the phrase Biafra has nothing to do with the Igbos, how come the meeting where the name was adopted was convoked in Enugu the heart of old Eastern region?

Permit me to say that the meeting may have been held in Enugu given that all present SS and SE states were referred to as Eastern Nigeria back in those days. What this means is that every state in the old Eastern Nigeria today shares in that name. Sot the dilemma will be to resolve which region between SE and SS will finally go with the name Biafra.

Said that, Asari's claim should not be brushed aside. No sensible Igbo man should sweep Asari's starling reveation under the carpet. His ascertion puts a lot of concern forward. Germaine among them is why Igbo's should be calling for a separate nation under an umbrella name that has no meaning in Igbo language as claimed by Asari Dokubo.

Our problem as it were is that we brush everything aside and we say it doesn't matter until when it matters. What we are talking aboutis a matter of serious consequence. First, I am ashamed of the Igbo tribe, a major tribe in Nigeria to be clamouring for seperation under a name that can't be found in Igbo language.

I must commend Asari for throwing up this. I have always wondered the meaning of Biafra. Oh yes now a household name in every Igbo family, but what is the meaning in Igbo language? If no Igbo man can tell me the meaning in Igbo then we have just been fooling ourselves all these years. Unfortunately, till this moment nobody had been able to put forward the meaning of Biafra in Igbo language. I really do not care what it means in Ijaw language but in Igbo language.

It is like a Yoruba person calling for the separation of Yoruba tribe and instead of saying Oduduwa he is saying Umu Chukwu nation. How do you expect people to take you serious in the first instance? The foundation of the formation of a new state must be rooted in that tribe especially in the African setting where meaning is drawn from every name.

The above is very important because the identity of an emerging new nation begins first in its name. That is the trademark. So if from the unset the name is borrowed, rootless and meaningless in the original tribe calling for separation then such a nation is already standing on a wrong footing.

Well, I also don't want to assume that the Igbo elders and the likes of MNK does not know the meaning of Biafra in Igbo language. It is very possible that they know, but decide to play along believing that the Igbos and the Ijaws will be in the new nation together.

If that is the truth, very unfortunate now that the Ijaws have washed off their hands and have denounced being part of Biafra repeatedly rather wants their own independent nation is it not gravely dangerous to continue to agitate for an Igbo nation while chanting Biafra?

If Asari Dokubo's revelation on Biafra is anything to go by, given their cold feet at joining the Igbo nation, we must then drop the name Biafra and adopt a new name that every Igbo child can call knowing its full meaning in Igbo language.

Igbos, must go back to the drawing board. Do a thoughrough work on the name of the new nation, understand the possibility of being an independent nation away from other sister regions or accept to explore other means of nationhood. We can't continue to chant a nation that is not ours, has no meaning in our dialect and can be claimed by any other region at any time. That is risky and unacceptable.

What is called Biafra came from Portuguese word Miafra... Bight of Miafra... Even Ojuckwu never claimed Biafra was an Ibo word instead he said it was suggested to him

The same problem Ojuckwu faced in the 60s is still the same problem Kanu is facing

They both want Niger Delta anexed or Ondo and Lagos for access to sea and crude oil

Unfutunately for them Niger Delta, Ondo and Lagos just won't join the Biafra project



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Dokubo is wrong

The region (which also includes present day parts of Cameroon) was names by the early Portuguese explorers

It was initially called Biafara, Biafra or Biafres, depending on the map of reference

Nobody owns a monopoly to its use.

Kondomatic:
Nnamdi is trending
Igboho is trending
Sowore is trending.





Asari doesn't want to be left behind.

thats again proved that indeed Igbos are still Ijaws slaves

Captain8:
thats again proved that indeed Igbos are still Ijaws slaves

Can a slave be greater than his master?

Captain8:
thats again proved that indeed Igbos are still Ijaws slaves

How many are this ijaws please?..
Are you a fool.. Have you heard of wazobia before?..
You think it's a coincidence in BIAfra?..

Denn:
Dokubo is wrong

The region (which also includes present day parts of Cameroon) was names by the early Portuguese explorers

It was initially called Biafara, Biafra or Biafres, depending on the map of reference

Nobody owns a monopoly to its use.

He is 100% correct the Biafrans are the people @ the shores the Bight of Benin (Bonny) The Ndiigbos are the hinterland people. The shore people sold the hinterland people as slaves to the white man. The history is there in black & white.

referendum01:
I am shocked to my bone marrow by the surprising revelation of Asari Dokubo over the name Biafra. He has opined that the name Biafra belongs to the Ijaws, oron and a little bit of Ibibios and so has nothing to do with Igbo.

Further he claimed that the name was put forward by an Ijaw man Frances Opigo at the a meeting in Enugu in 1967. As far as Asari Dokubo is concerned, the region called Biafra is Ijaw nation and so in the event the independent of Biafra is declared the sovereign nation will be Ijaw republic and not Igbo speaking republic. This is a heavy pill to swallow.

Although, as interesting as his ascertain is, it leaves some trace of confusion which is that if the phrase Biafra has nothing to do with the Igbos, how come the meeting where the name was adopted was convoked in Enugu the heart of old Eastern region?

Permit me to say that the meeting may have been held in Enugu given that all present SS and SE states were referred to as Eastern Nigeria back in those days. What this means is that every state in the old Eastern Nigeria today shares in that name. Sot the dilemma will be to resolve which region between SE and SS will finally go with the name Biafra.

Said that, Asari's claim should not be brushed aside. No sensible Igbo man should sweep Asari's starling reveation under the carpet. His ascertion puts a lot of concern forward. Germaine among them is why Igbo's should be calling for a separate nation under an umbrella name that has no meaning in Igbo language as claimed by Asari Dokubo.

Our problem as it were is that we brush everything aside and we say it doesn't matter until when it matters. What we are talking aboutis a matter of serious consequence. First, I am ashamed of the Igbo tribe, a major tribe in Nigeria to be clamouring for seperation under a name that can't be found in Igbo language.

I must commend Asari for throwing up this. I have always wondered the meaning of Biafra. Oh yes now a household name in every Igbo family, but what is the meaning in Igbo language? If no Igbo man can tell me the meaning in Igbo then we have just been fooling ourselves all these years. Unfortunately, till this moment nobody had been able to put forward the meaning of Biafra in Igbo language. I really do not care what it means in Ijaw language but in Igbo language.

It is like a Yoruba person calling for the separation of Yoruba tribe and instead of saying Oduduwa he is saying Umu Chukwu nation. How do you expect people to take you serious in the first instance? The foundation of the formation of a new state must be rooted in that tribe especially in the African setting where meaning is drawn from every name.

The above is very important because the identity of an emerging new nation begins first in its name. That is the trademark. So if from the unset the name is borrowed, rootless and meaningless in the original tribe calling for separation then such a nation is already standing on a wrong footing.

Well, I also don't want to assume that the Igbo elders and the likes of MNK does not know the meaning of Biafra in Igbo language. It is very possible that they know, but decide to play along believing that the Igbos and the Ijaws will be in the new nation together.

If that is the truth, very unfortunate now that the Ijaws have washed off their hands and have denounced being part of Biafra repeatedly rather wants their own independent nation is it not gravely dangerous to continue to agitate for an Igbo nation while chanting Biafra?

If Asari Dokubo's revelation on Biafra is anything to go by, given their cold feet at joining the Igbo nation, we must then drop the name Biafra and adopt a new name that every Igbo child can call knowing its full meaning in Igbo language.

Igbos, must go back to the drawing board. Do a thoughrough work on the name of the new nation, understand the possibility of being an independent nation away from other sister regions or accept to explore other means of nationhood. We can't continue to chant a nation that is not ours, has no meaning in our dialect and can be claimed by any other region at any time. That is risky and unacceptable.

You are just a block head like asari, a simple Google search could have saved you from this embarrassing topic.

Biafra is a Portuguese word, it was named after a town in Portugal, maybe ijaws live in Portugal now. Lol

And lastly block head IGBOS WOULD NOT DROP THE NAME BIAFRA FOR ANYONE.. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF IJAWS THEY CAN GO AND DO THEIR WORSE

zombieHUNTER:


How many are this ijaws please?..
Are you a fool.. Have you heard of wazobia before?..
You think it's a coincidence in BIAfra?..

Not Ijaws specifically, the riverine people sold them as slaves, abi na only ijaw people dey waterside?

Jerryherd:




What is called Biafra came from Portuguese word Miafra... Bight of Miafra... Even Ojuckwu never claimed Biafra was an Ibo word instead he said it was suggested to him

The same problem Ojuckwu faced in the 60s is still the same problem Kanu is facing

They both want Niger Delta anexed or Ondo and Lagos for access to sea and crude oil

Unfutunately for them Niger Delta, Ondo and Lagos just won't join the Biafra project



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Ijele aka oyigboupdate is aka udele1 you don come with your lies.

Which stupid crude oil is that. Are you people just stupid? Igbos have crude oil what do we need anybodys oil for

fenibak:


You are just a block head like asari, a simple Google search could have saved you from this embarrassing topic.

Biafra is a Portuguese word, it was named after a town in Portugal, maybe ijaws live in Portugal now. Lol

But one fact is certain, Biafra has no business with the hinterland Ndiigbos.

LordVoldermort:
IPOB is already disintegrating, later Emma powerful will come to dispute this claim and call this man a saboteur, Asari Dokubo will soon start his own madness.

Long live Nigeria!!!

Well ladies and gents I said it first

fenibak:


Ijele aka oyigboupdate is aka udele1 you don come with your lies.

Which stupid crude oil is that. Are you people just stupid? Igbos have crude oil what do we need anybodys oil for

What of refinery?

favor914:
But one fact is certain, Biafra has no business with the hinterland Ndiigbos.

I don't give a f, they can decide for themselves and not you, ijaws only have aa half state in Nigeria and that is bayelsa and even in the bayelsa they don't fully own it

favor914:
What of refinery?

The ones you have are they working? Igbos can build a refinery and this should not be your business

Juliusmalema:
He is right


100%

Are you pretending to be stupid or you are really stupid? Now read the screen shot below slowly so you can be cure of your self inflicted ignorance

favor914:
He is 100% correct the Biafrans are the people @ the shores the Bight of Benin (Bonny) The Ndiigbos are the hinterland people. The shore people sold the hinterland people as slaves to the white man. The history is there in black & white.

Bight of Biafra (not benin) is bight of bonny

You statements are not far from the truth.

However, he is wrong to say the ijaws named the region in 1967. The name had been there all along hundreds of years before any of the people in that meeting was born

Oksman:




Can a slave be greater than his master?

shut up and listen to me your master.... see we gave ibos names....our elders told buhari to give you another name "dot in big circle" and you gladly accept it again....

this supposed to let you know that Ijaws are igbos masters.... we have gave you people two names biafra and dot...

zombieHUNTER:


How many are this ijaws please?..
Are you a fool.. Have you heard of wazobia before?..
You think it's a coincidence in BIAfra?..

shut up biafra is not an ibo word.... biafra is a name given to you ibos by Ijaws your masters... kindly embraced the name to appreciate our work on you....
thats why i love ipob..they embraced the name tightly.....

fenibak:


I don't give a f, they can decide for themselves and not you, ijaws only have aa half state in Nigeria and that is bayelsa and even in the bayelsa they don't fully own it

what about the ibos that own only one state anambra?

enugu belong to igala.
imo belong to mbaise and egbema Ijaws..
abia belong to ibibio and ndoki ijaws...

ibos are business migrants to those states... the only state created for ibos is anambra....

fenibak:


You are just a block head like asari, a simple Google search could have saved you from this embarrassing topic.

Biafra is a Portuguese word, it was named after a town in Portugal, maybe ijaws live in Portugal now. Lol

And lastly block head IGBOS WOULD NOT DROP THE NAME BIAFRA FOR ANYONE.. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF IJAWS THEY CAN GO AND DO THEIR WORSE

It speaks woe of you to bounce on someone's post and insult the person. Since you are google yourself, what will it cost you to simply put your findingd forward and not throw insult?

Your insult is only a product of failed family upbringing. Sorry!

referendum01:



It speaks woe of you to bounce on someone's post and insult the person. Since you are google yourself, what will it cost you to simply put your findingd forward and not throw insult?

Your insult is only a product of failed family upbringing. Sorry!

Trust me nairaland made me this way, I am just saying the truth, you are trying to play games and mock igbos, since you figured out what I said is true why didn't you take down the thread?

referendum01:
I am shocked to my bone marrow by the surprising revelation of Asari Dokubo over the name Biafra. He has opined that the name Biafra belongs to the Ijaws, oron and a little bit of Ibibios and so has nothing to do with Igbo.

Further he claimed that the name was put forward by an Ijaw man Frances Opigo at the a meeting in Enugu in 1967. As far as Asari Dokubo is concerned, the region called Biafra is Ijaw nation and so in the event the independent of Biafra is declared the sovereign nation will be Ijaw republic and not Igbo speaking republic. This is a heavy pill to swallow.

Although, as interesting as his ascertain is, it leaves some trace of confusion which is that if the phrase Biafra has nothing to do with the Igbos, how come the meeting where the name was adopted was convoked in Enugu the heart of old Eastern region?

Permit me to say that the meeting may have been held in Enugu given that all present SS and SE states were referred to as Eastern Nigeria back in those days. What this means is that every state in the old Eastern Nigeria today shares in that name. Sot the dilemma will be to resolve which region between SE and SS will finally go with the name Biafra.

Said that, Asari's claim should not be brushed aside. No sensible Igbo man should sweep Asari's starling reveation under the carpet. His ascertion puts a lot of concern forward. Germaine among them is why Igbo's should be calling for a separate nation under an umbrella name that has no meaning in Igbo language as claimed by Asari Dokubo.

Our problem as it were is that we brush everything aside and we say it doesn't matter until when it matters. What we are talking aboutis a matter of serious consequence. First, I am ashamed of the Igbo tribe, a major tribe in Nigeria to be clamouring for seperation under a name that can't be found in Igbo language.

I must commend Asari for throwing up this. I have always wondered the meaning of Biafra. Oh yes now a household name in every Igbo family, but what is the meaning in Igbo language? If no Igbo man can tell me the meaning in Igbo then we have just been fooling ourselves all these years. Unfortunately, till this moment nobody had been able to put forward the meaning of Biafra in Igbo language. I really do not care what it means in Ijaw language but in Igbo language.

It is like a Yoruba person calling for the separation of Yoruba tribe and instead of saying Oduduwa he is saying Umu Chukwu nation. How do you expect people to take you serious in the first instance? The foundation of the formation of a new state must be rooted in that tribe especially in the African setting where meaning is drawn from every name.

The above is very important because the identity of an emerging new nation begins first in its name. That is the trademark. So if from the unset the name is borrowed, rootless and meaningless in the original tribe calling for separation then such a nation is already standing on a wrong footing.

Well, I also don't want to assume that the Igbo elders and the likes of MNK does not know the meaning of Biafra in Igbo language. It is very possible that they know, but decide to play along believing that the Igbos and the Ijaws will be in the new nation together.

If that is the truth, very unfortunate now that the Ijaws have washed off their hands and have denounced being part of Biafra repeatedly rather wants their own independent nation is it not gravely dangerous to continue to agitate for an Igbo nation while chanting Biafra?

If Asari Dokubo's revelation on Biafra is anything to go by, given their cold feet at joining the Igbo nation, we must then drop the name Biafra and adopt a new name that every Igbo child can call knowing its full meaning in Igbo language.

Igbos, must go back to the drawing board. Do a thoughrough work on the name of the new nation, understand the possibility of being an independent nation away from other sister regions or accept to explore other means of nationhood. We can't continue to chant a nation that is not ours, has no meaning in our dialect and can be claimed by any other region at any time. That is risky and unacceptable.

Stop talking nonsense. The name Biafra is not supposed to be an Igbo word. The Eastern Region that Ojukwu declared Biafra had many other ethnic groups such as Ijaw, Ogoni, Efik, Ibibio and so on. So why would it be called an Igbo word?

What matters is that the people met in Enugu and freeky decided to adopt that name for the proposed country, unlike Nigeria where Lugard had to rain bombs and bullets on people to get them to accept the name Nigeria

Biafra has never been an Igbo only thing.

Captain8:
shut up and listen to me your master.... see we gave ibos names....our elders told buhari to give you another name "dot in big circle" and you gladly accept it again....

this supposed to let you know that Ijaws are igbos masters.... we have gave you people two names biafra and dot...

your stupidity has no boundary, how can a tribe of few thousands or million, claiming Master over ethnic nation of Millions? that can be madness.

Captain8:
shut up biafra is not an ibo word.... biafra is a name given to you ibos by Ijaws your masters... kindly embraced the name to appreciate our work on you....
thats why i love ipob..they embraced the name tightly.....

If Biafara is an Igbo word
May you die a miserable death this year

zombieHUNTER:

If Biafara is an Igbo word
May you die a miserable death this year

fool it is biafra not biafara...stop twisting it to make it igbo........ even that biafara has no meaning in igbo sef.....

velocity25:
your stupidity has no boundary, how can a tribe of few thousands or million, claiming Master over ethnic nation of Millions? that can be madness.

it doesnt matter....... if fulani smaller than ijaw tribe can mastered big hausa....Ijaw then have bigger chance of mastering Igbos...

its called small but mighty

Captain8:
shut up and listen to me your master.... see we gave ibos names....our elders told buhari to give you another name "dot in big circle" and you gladly accept it again....

this supposed to let you know that Ijaws are igbos masters.... we have gave you people two names biafra and dot...

It's very easy to spot an idiot even if the forum is faceless. The question seembfar beyond you level of comprehension. Such innocuous question!