Igboid:


Who are the "We"?

Does this your we contain Egbema, Oyigbo. Oshimili/ Aniocha?

You are a disgrace. A clown at best.

Better be proud of your ethnic group and learn to speak for them.

Yes! We have Igbos in SS and you cannot speak for them. You can only speak for your insignificant ethnic group that you are so much ashamed of that you would hide behind hazy terms like "Niger Delta" "SS" etc to project your baseless and jaundiced opinions.

Igboid:


I'm an Igbo, and I have nothing to do with Isoko too.
Lol, are you feeling important or what? Newsflash! You are not.

However, there are some Igbo speaking people with ancestral relationship with some Isoko towns. Yours might not be one of those parts of Isoko.

Igbide for example is strongly linked with Mgbidi/ Awka.

CeoMYN:

I call South South Niger Delta.
Abeg Igbos we are not you people, be contented with your land.

Enuguboy4nsk:

is Niger Delta a tribe-----NO
is Niger Delta a state-----No
is Niger Delta a geopolitical zone---No

be proud of your tribe or if u have lost touch with your tribe just like op u can mention your state...

last time i checked Ondo a yoruba state is in Niger delta
Imo and Abia; both igbo states are in Niger Delta too

it sucks for one to lose his/her identity

Igboid:


Niger Delta is not a name of an ethnic group. It's not even an African language. So obviously it can't be Igbo or any other African ethnic group for that matter.

Geez, where are these people crawling out from?

Igboid:


Who are the "We"?

Does this your we contain Egbema, Oyigbo. Oshimili/ Aniocha?

You are a disgrace. A clown at best.

Better be proud of your ethnic group and learn to speak for them.

Yes! We have Igbos in SS and you cannot speak for them. You can only speak for your insignificant ethnic group that you are so much ashamed of that you would hide behind hazy terms like "Niger Delta" "SS" etc to project your baseless and jaundiced opinions.

Enuguboy4nsk:

mention your tribe first or have u lost your identity?? smh

Enuguboy4nsk:

ignorance is truly a disease....and do u think that cross-river a south south state is part of Niger-delta??

[b] Delta State is ethnically diverse with peoples and seven major languages and
dialects are spoken in the state. The state is divided into two regions on
account of state creation movements (between 1976 and 1996) which was a
feature of the military governance of Nigeria. This culminated to the increment
of states in Nigeria from 12 states to the present 36 states.
The first group are Anioma (Igboid group) which consists of Aniocha/Oshimili,
Ndokwa/Ukwuani ethnic nationality, and Ika. These areas occupy the Delta
North senatorial district of the state.
The second group comprises Urhobo/Isoko (Edoid group), Itsekiri (Yoruboid
group), and Ezon ethnic groups. These ethnic groups occupy the Central and
South Senatorial districts of the state. The Urhobo and Isoko speak very
similar dialects unlike the Ezon and Itsekiri people but have a loosely related
culture as they traded and intermarried for centuries before colonization. The
Itsekiri are linguistically and culturally related to the Yoruba and Edo ethnic
groups of Western Nigeria, while the Ezon are a branch of their kith and kin in
neighbouring Bayelsa state. Most inhabitants of the state practice Christianity
and very few traditional faiths—although the Ukwuanis also have many
cultural affiliation with these groups most especially in their cosmic outlook.
[/b]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State
read and cure yourself of ignorance....

Efewestern:








Please mod do something about this.. they re derailing this thread.. I don't just get you.. What has Urhobo language gat to do with this?

Please and please

Igboid:


I'm an Igbo, and I have nothing to do with Isoko too.
Lol, are you feeling important or what? Newsflash! You are not.

However, there are some Igbo speaking people with ancestral relationship with some Isoko towns. Yours might not be one of those parts of Isoko.

Igbide for example is strongly linked with Mgbidi/ Awka.

Igboid:


Orogun( Urhobo) and Igbide( Isoko) are examples of Urhobo and Igbide towns with Igbo ancestry.

Nobody is interested in having Urhobo in Biafra, I refuse to see what you lots will bring to the table that Ndiigbo don't already have.

I'm only stating history as they are. Nothing more and nothing less.

BarryX:
I think this idea of Igbide having Igbo ancestry gives you serious heavenly feelings going by how many times you mention it in a Niger-delta alignment discourse.

You have always sang it in your mind that the burst out through your fingers. I'm maternally Igbide and trust me, the history that we have never had it the way your ecstacy realism suggest.

If I were you, I will play down that "Igbide ownership" mentality in public discourse or these people will have no other option than to sever ties if any with the Igbos.

It's appaling already

Sanchez01:
fratermathy, God bless your mind! I was speaking with a friend on the phone some days back and she said she finds it embarrassing to speak Urhobo with her peers in public because it is considered 'local'. Being fully aware of my plight (born and bred outside Urhoboland, yet, speak Urhobo flawlessly), she is motivated now and clearly enjoys speaking the language.

The multi tribe in the ND is really fizzling out the Urhobo language and other ND languages. I blame Asaba though, the part of Delta that see all parts of the state, come together and speak pidgin till thy kingdom come.

Sanchez01:
fratermathy, God bless your mind! I was speaking with a friend on the phone some days back and she said she finds it embarrassing to speak Urhobo with her peers in public because it is considered 'local'. Being fully aware of my plight (born and bred outside Urhoboland, yet, speak Urhobo flawlessly), she is motivated now and clearly enjoys speaking the language.

The multi tribe in the ND is really fizzling out the Urhobo language and other ND languages. I blame Asaba though, the part of Delta that see all parts of the state, come together and speak pidgin till thy kingdom come.

tyrone07:
I am Uhrobo and i am seriously ashamed of myself for not being able to utter a single uhrobo word apart from the greeting Migwo. I hope i even spelt that correctly. I grew up in different cities in Nigeria and abroad but that is no excuse and i blame my parents for it. Only yesterday i was going through a website wadoo.org to try and learn a few words. Currently i'm in Asia amd would appreciate if anyone can point me to any meaningful source that will enable me learn at my own pace.

Igboid:
I often encounter individuals of the two Nigerian largest tribes who believe all Niger Deltans are Igbos. They don't even recognise that most of these tribes have NOTHING to do with Igbo!

The only Niger Delta group that has nothing to do with Ndiigbo is Itsekiri.

It's okay to say that all Niger Deltans are not Igbos, that I agree 100% with. But you start stretching it when you say that MOST of Niger Delta tribes has nothing to do with Ndiigbo.

Infact, the only thing that Unites all Niger Delta tribes culturally, excluding Itsekiri is Shared history with Igbo speaking neighbors.

Urhobo/ Isoko has some towns with Igbo ancestry and still share boundary and cultures with the Igbo speaking Ukwuani even unto today.

Some Esan towns were founded by Igbo speaking people, like wise some Esan people who were absorbed into Igbo speaking Anioma today. As we speak, Ekpon, an Esan town in Edo is losing her Edoid language in favour of an Igboid( Ika) one. And we all know of the Existence of Igbo( Ika) speaking Igbanke people right in Edo state, and the Edo origin stories of many Igbo towns today in Anioma, Anambra, Rivers, and even some Enugu towns.

Ogoni people share a long history with Ndoki Igbo, just as a significant section of Okrika people are said to have originated in Ndoki. Ndoki also has ancestral connection with the Ibani people in Bonny and Opobo as well as with Ibibios.

Ngwa Igbo and Ikwuano Igbos share alot with the Annang people, their interactions was pre colonial as neighbors with Inter marriage and trading as well as diffusion of cultures both ways, like the Ekpo society.

The Aro Igbo people were traversing the entire Ibibio- Efik-Ekoi area,breaking cultural barriers by development of unified cultural ideologies like the Ekpe cult system and the Nsibidi writing system, centuries before the white man created Nigeria and the Urhobo man became aware that there was ever a people called Ibibio- Efik-Ekoi people.
And these people remain neighbors to Aros and to Ehugbo Igbos and Ikwo Igbos even till today.

I can go on and on.

But I'm sure you already get the point.

Enuguboy4nsk:

is Niger Delta a tribe-----NO
is Niger Delta a state-----No
is Niger Delta a geopolitical zone---No

be proud of your tribe or if u have lost touch with your tribe just like op u can mention your state...

last time i checked Ondo a yoruba state is in Niger delta
Imo and Abia; both igbo states are in Niger Delta too

it sucks for one to lose his/her identity

Enuguboy4nsk:

which ties.....who even knows igbide...am just knowing for the first time..up North so far you are a southerner and not yoruba u are automatically igbo..soon we will annex minority tribes in south south

247Dior:
I hate dumb peeps.. he commented with historical facts and evident, y not prove him wrong with your own facts and not allow your hatred for igbos to control u.. at the end saying trash

Enuguboy4nsk:

which ties.....who even knows igbide...am just knowing for the first time..up North so far you are a southerner and not yoruba u are automatically igbo..soon we will annex minority tribes in south south

Enuguboy4nsk:

how is asaba responsible for your woes

LorDBolton:


Smh. See delusion? Igbos that do not even know their history telling us OUR own history? If not cos it's 2016 you will even claim igbos 'own' lagos that many of your ancestors settled here. Mtcheeew

The fact u cannot distinguish between a settlement and owners of a land shows you even a kid who wasn't well groomed.

Even the obi of onithsa cannot open his mouth to say this crap... only GOD can punish the white men who came and released you guys from the captivity oyo, benin and other hausa kingdoms have subjected ya'll to.

Core igbos are black... go and find out the history of the fair skinned ones (they started popping up when the whites came guess u already know y)

erico2k2:

Niger Delta is a geographical zone . That's the only thing there is to it.

CeoMYN:

Niger Delta Is Not Igbo!

fratermathy:


Was he directing his writing to you? Are you from Delta State? Are you an Asaba person?


Put yourself where you belong. Don't come fooling your sef in a "minority" thread. The same "minority" you want to forcibly annex.

Sanchez01:
fratermathy, God bless your mind! I was speaking with a friend on the phone some days back and she said she finds it embarrassing to speak Urhobo with her peers in public because it is considered 'local'. Being fully aware of my plight (born and bred outside Urhoboland, yet, speak Urhobo flawlessly), she is motivated now and clearly enjoys speaking the language.

The multi tribe in the ND is really fizzling out the Urhobo language and other ND languages. I blame Asaba though, the part of Delta that see all parts of the state, come together and speak pidgin till thy kingdom come.

Enuguboy4nsk:

asaba is igbo and i am igbo so he is indirectly directing it to me....leave igbo areas out of your comatous urhobo language which is too local and sound like animal language that the owners themselves are very much ashamed to speak it

fratermathy:


That last statement you made is the reason why no Niger Delta ethnic group will ever trust Igbos, or follow them for anything. It's as simple as that.

Igbos are not trustworthy. Sorry to the good ones that I'm generalizing. My fiancee is Igbo yet she doesn't behave as these online miscreants do.




The Urhobo language is dying and Urhobos are the sole cause. We need to declare a state of emergency in this regards. I don't even know what UPU is doing with regards to this. Whether Urhobo survives as a mere intellectual curiosity in the future depends on what we do now.


As for the igbos derailing this thread with their annexation syndrome. I say "Dallu so". You can feel big when minorities are concerned but when Hausas trash you, you guys will be the ones to cry "Biafra"! . May Biafra ever remain a shadowy vision.

Enuguboy4nsk:

annexing you people truly is the only solution to your woes...atleast you will lose your culture and language to an African gian tribe 'igbo' or will you prefer to continue with your pidgeon English

fratermathy:


My question still stands... What are you doing in an Urhobo thread? Is Urhobo also Igbo?

Enuguboy4nsk:

my concern is that he mentioned 'asaba' as responsible for your woes and am just wondering how u can blame another group'asaba which is an igbo sub-group' for your woes?