Amayabor1:


Is it not possible that it was the igbos that came from ikwerre. Present day igbos are ikwerres. Igbos are the ones bearing ikwerre names and not the other way round.

Fejoku:

LMAO. Are you now saying Ngwa and Etche are Edoid people? You're like the proverbial bat who totally lost his bearing in a bid to deny being classified into a bird or mammal.
The Ekpeyes share the same local government area with the Engennis(Burna boy's ethnic group) in Ahoada West yet they were classified into Igboid and Edoid respectively. Both don't claim to share any affinity whatsoever.
Being an anti-Igbo person, it's expected that you interpret any information in such a way that it goes against Igbos. It's nothing new. Let's wait and get comments from other netizens, then we can tell who is reading upside down.

AareGaa:


Ikwerres are not Ibos.
Ibos are only coveting their abundant resources.

Ikwerres have rejected your attaché by force

Laple0541:


The fact the blacks in US speak like a native white man does not change the fact his ancestors were brought there through slavery.

History is not what you apply emotional interest to, it has to be factual without ambiguity.

The Ikwerres’ had given their ancestral migration history, you Igbos should give a superior counter-history if you have any. If not, let them be who they want to be.

Gerhards:





Illiterate, being from Anambra state does not make you an Igbo indegene, there are few Igalas carve into Anambra during the state creation and also in Enugu, there are many Igbos carved into other states in Nigeria, get it into your con thick head

Gerhards:







Listen to your fuulishness again and you will realize how dumb you are

AareGaa:


Stop this needless explanation!

Don't you people feel ashamed that these Niger Deltans keep rejecting you all the time?
They know Eebos don't genuinely love , that the attaché by force is due to the abundance resources in the Niger Delta.

Fejoku:

Did you notice that all the people Ikwerres claim to be their siblings all speak different dialects of Igbo? Ekpeye, Ogba, Etche and Ngwa. Not even one speaks anything related to Bini. Are you now insinuating that they all also married Igbo daughters and those daughters changed their languages?
Make una dey think before una dey talk o.

LadyExcellency:


Sharap there, so Aba Ngwa is no more Igbo but Bini?

001Lagos:


Attached by force!

You wan force them again, they know their papa unlike baby factory product
They're Ikwere not Igbo

Ojuntana:


I'm not interested in the politics behind it
I'm actually interested in the historicity
Whether they are igbo or not is not important in the larger scheme of things but I believe as Africans we should at least get our history right

LadyExcellency:


Sharap there, so Aba Ngwa is no more Igbo but Bini?

Amayabor1:


Same way you people sound dumb when you claim that ikwerres, anioma, Ika etc are igbos.

Clowns! 😂

fnep2smooth:
what oil can cause does not exist, see etche way i dey use leg waka enter go buy cassava for fufu that year. people way dey speak igbo , people way de practices igbo, culture and tradition na igbo. just because of oil, them dey deny their root. i dare not tell my ikewerre GF say se no be igbo.


I no sabi waytin igbo do some people , truly success comes with a lot of hate jealously and envy.


Etche LGA has common bandry with Ngor Okpala, in fact they farm in the same area with just stick as farm boundary.


i no won talk again. we way grow for village con still grow for town no waytin dey happen. all this is because of oil money

decency17:
The delta igbos have trace their migration from Benin. The rivers igbos same. Obi of onitsha has confirmed that they migrated from the great Benin kingdom. The truth is that the entire igbo race migrated from the ancient Benin kingdom. It's just that pride will not let some people admit it. Forget that lost tribe of Israel crap

Odingo1:

You have to know that the former president of Ohanaeze ndigbo is an Ikwerre man. Nobody is claiming Ikwerre to be Igbo. Ikwerres are the one divided among themselves. Stop hating on Igbos, they did not do you anything. Ikwerre have no impact in Igbo nation and no Igbo is dragging them.

Remman:
Intermarriage happens everywhere, since we settled closer to the igbos, our ancestors married Igbo daughters to avoid marrying their own siblings and somehow the Igbo daughters married into our land taught their children the Igbo language. And this practice happens till date where children found themselves speaking their mother's language. If the Igbos claim we came from them, let's hear their own Kanu and Ojukwu story about the ancestors of Ikwerres. Before the civil war, the Igbos came to settle in Ikwerre land and began to rename our streets bearing our true ancestral names to their language names. Now during the civil war they killed us and did a lot of evil to us whom they now claim is their brothers (since they're unaware of the language-work of their daughters married by our ancestors). Now, when the war was intensified, they ran away (why would they run if they owned the place?). When we saw how we were tricked by those tribes, we took back our properties they stole from us, we won the battle.

AareGaa:


I feel ashamed when I see the way Eebos embarrass themselves with all this attaché by force.

Ikwerres are not Eebos, period!

Eebos should stop coveting the resources in the Niger Delta.

It's not the fault of anyone that cursed Biafran land is barren

Ezeama400:


Igbo women must be very powerful then to the extent of making their husbands to drop their names, language and culture and start adopting everything Igbo, and even made their
children to drop everything about their father and copy their mother's culture and way of life...

Are your men that weak ?

anonymous1759:



You’re Maaad, like I said you can’t take what you dish out . Its only your South East state that was carved no other state had experiences such Idi0t , no be only carve na portion.
Always crying victim mentality.
Before colonial masters came was the entire SS under SE?

Every tribe were on their own . Colonialism made states and tribe to conjoin, when these same people want to go you forcefully you grab them.
simple question why did igbos fled the SS and other parts of Nigeria during the civil war to their 5 states ? they should’ve stayed in S/S because it’s their birthright.

everyday you clamor to leave Nigeria but you don’t want to let go of the people carved into your region by the same colonialism you claim is making you stay on Nigeria Idl0t Ago place in Lagos is also an Igbo state because igbos are in large numbers there M00r000#.

lacasera14:
It could also mean Etche and Ngwa are not Igbos or the Igbos are Benin. Remember Onitsha is Benin.

franchasofficia:
lol


One of my close friends is from Etche, he happily identifies himself as Rivers Igbo man even though his mom is from Bayelsa.

All these na aftermath of the Biafra civil war that Igbos lost but Una no wan get sense lol


3 siblings (Ngwa, Ikwerre, Etche according to our Bini Ikwerre historians).

Ngwa agrees they are Igbo
Ikwerre some agree to be Igbo some say no
Etche some agree to be Igbo some say no


Now tell me who is confused?


Na Naija crude oil politics of tribe and religion cause am, one has to identify with the side controlling federal power so they won't lose out, we know all these, so Bini Ikwerre people can continue to deny their Igbo identity no wahala we understand


All these denial of Igbo identity by some Igbo descendant communities in Niger Delta started after the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria and followed by the civil war which Igbos lost, so it's normal lol

Odingo1:

Are you an Etche man , go to Etche land and tell them they are not Igbos

Noneroone:
No where in the article did they deny being Igbo.

No where in the article did they deny any link with the southeast.

Why such misleading headline?

DomPerignon:


The most rabid anti southerners in Arewa were from the middlebelt .

One was from present day Okun in Kogi and the other was an Idoma man who resigned uncerermoniously after Fulanis attached his Idoma people.


There are judases in every 12 so that excuse doesn't hold

Goodvibes007:

He must be talking about the video below l. One Google search away.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zcQQ1ve7bU?si=GCVVvxAHXlWhft03

javascript1901:

What are you saying sef... So these Ikwerre elders that said they are not Igbos are now Yorubas?

AareGaa:


The fact is Ikwerres, Ijaws and other major ethnic groups in the Niger Delta have disowned Eebos.

Eebos should respect themselves and stop this attaché by force.
It's embarrassing

LadyExcellency:


Imagine, Ngwa which has a larger population than Bayelsa State and the most populated Igbo clan is no more Igbo but Bini. Bini language and empire must have been neo-Igbo

Gerhards:






Stark illiterate can you stop disgracing your wurthless lineage on Nairaland? it's normal all over the world for people to return to their ancestral homes during war unless you are part of the fighters, the same thing happened all over Igbo land during the war, liar it's not entire south south was under Eastern Region, you have been feed with useless, bigoted propaganda, spit

anonymous1759:




But you guys said Bini founded Lagos , yet there’s no trace of Benin heritage In Lagos.
the name Oba is a Yoruba name .

Secondly if PH is SE, why did they ( igbos) ran way during the civil war to their original land ?

(3) part of Anambra speaks igala you guys never said those parts are Kogi’s or idomas, but if any other tribe speaks Igbo in a different state you’ll claim the land .

I’ve never for once seen where you guys contemplated on ceding parts of Anambra to Kogi because they speak igala in Igbo land.
What you can’t take is always what you dish out.

AviatorMoney:

Trying to console urself Right?
Good,tell ur friend to keep identifying himself with wherever he wants.....it changes nothing about rivers state.
Oil belongs to us, not Igbos. That settles it, wherever we choose to share it with