shizzle1:
there are minute populations of igbos in akwa ibom and C/R states. Similarly their is a minute population of akwaibomites and C/riverians in abia state especially in the boundary areas

Cc:ariesbull

There are no akwaibom tribe in Abia state. Unless you are speaking of the one village called Item mba uzo who have fully assimilated as Igbos eons ago and speak Igbo as mother tongue now.

There came a time when Fans protested against Fourth Place. Many people see it as a Joke Now but they were absolutely spot on.

Really strange that people STILL do not see what the problem here was.

The club did not do enough to improve on top 4. Fans always sensed an opportunity to climb up a table with few additions here and there but Wenger and Gazidis could go in an entire window and sign no one.

Year on year club judged that staying still was good enough and then started falling away as those Teams lower than us improved. How do people not see that.

This really applies to most work/business situations. If you don't do enough to improve/better your skills, those below you will catch-up and eventually surpass your level.

That summer of 2015 when all we did was sign Cech is a classic example of just aiming to stay still. Club desperately needed an Aubameyang type Striker to take massive strides. God knows what could do with Aubameyang and Giroud as back up but Wenger decided Giroud was enough.

If we showed just a little bit of ambition and signed a proper striker to play with Ozil -who was one of the top three #10s in the world at the time, we could've won it. No doubt we could've won it.

All these Decisions and Summers and winters without signing anyone are coming to bite us now.

#Copied

Bkayyy:

The price of one fried chicken is more costly than a barrel of oil now.
The worst is that Nigeria has identified our gas (Igbos gas) as their next resource for survival and these people think we will be like them and sit in this country for it to happen.
All we want is an Igbo only Republic. Nnamdi Kanu can go to hell with his south south Biafra.
We can't carry the luggage that comes with this people. Luggages like victim mentality, insecurity, polluted environment and militancy.
We better carry our gas comot before Naija suck am dry like they did to Niger Delta oil

IPOB and MNK have spoilt lots of things for Ndiigbo, its no longer funny.
Imagine proposing a country between Ndiigbo and a tower of babel! Nawao.

True. They have their eyes now set on SE natural gas!

Proeast2:


Only a madman who can't think straight will advocate for a country with these insecure minorities.
How can Nigeria scam them for 50+ years only to hand them over to us to clean up the mess they left behind?! Worse still, now that oil has become worthless, of what use will they be to themselves talk more of others?

I will rather remain in Nigeria than to share a country with these guys, it will be terrible.

It is either we have an only Igbo Biafra or nothing!!

I tire.
Check out how much it will take to clean just Ogoniland.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/cleanup-oil-producing-areas-cost-50-billion/amp/

And the environmental degradation has not stopped. Nigeria kana arakwa ndia!
By the time Nigeria is done with them and there are no more crude oil, or crude oil become useless, it might be 100billion for the clean up.

We would now be using meagre resources to develop Igboland , lest we have these people screaming marginalization if we don't cough out money for their environmental cleaning.

Chukwu aju! That fence must be built at Obigbo ASAP. The dead must bury themselves.

hammerP:
BONNY AND OPOBO ISLAND SHOULD BE GROUPED AS PART OF OBIGBO

HENCE PART AND PARCEL OF THE IGBO NATION.

Stop your pipe dreams.
Bonny don't see themselves as Igbo.

If SE should build a seaport, it should be in SE.

Proeast2:


Honestly, at first, I used to overlook the false sense of importance of these minorities until recently.
I have taken it as a personal task to be knocking sense into their empty heads.

Imagine these minorities feeling funky. Who in his right senses will advocate for such a Babel society to join Igbos in Biafra. So, others would exploit their oil for over 50 years when it oil was hotcake and use the proceeds to develop Abuja and Lagos, only for them to handover the world's most polluted environment with frustrated inhabitants to us No, we are smarter than that

It happened because many Igbo nationalist kept quiet until IPOB vocal minority voice assumed the voice of Ndiigbo.

If you run referendum in Igboland today, majority would choose Nigeria over a mini Nigeria with these minorities.

Its either Igbo only country or we stay in Nigeria and finish the oil together.

Its about time Ndiigbo make our voice known. Left for IPOB , they will eat shit and drink urine from these minorities as well as denigrate Ndiigbo in their misguided pursuit of doomed tower of Babel ethnic heterogeneous Biafra!

Sinzumoney:
imagine trying to form a country with a group of people that betrayed you, killed you and seized tour property during the civil war.A war that they started Ojukwu didn't want it it was the minorities that were pushing him to declare it after they left him and sided with Nigeria. It was even them that executed the first coup they are the ones that caused all this trouble for us yet MNK and ipob still wants to add them in their online country so they would be insulting us

Worst is that many of them are hoping for a similar situation again so that they can steal Igbo lands and property.
These people are full of bitterness.

IPOB is surely misguided and should be resisted in Igboland until they grow brain.

Those minorities including the Bini claiming Igboids among them are no brothers to us. They are mere neighbors looking out for their own gains and wouldn't mind doing us harm to advance their own gains.
We MUST see them for who they are, which is mere neighbors looking out for themselves.

No need to hate or love them. We just make sure we put ourselves in position where they will never have the opportunity to unleash their full hate on us without serious fight back from us,as happened during and after civil war.

Erecting a national boundary/fence between us and them would insulate us from their machinations and ensure we have peaceful mutual relationship with them.

Igbo only country is the logical and rational way to go. Anything else is stupidity and shortsighted.

IPOB senseless unity begging really gave this minorities a false sense of importance.

Its time Igbo nationalist rejected IPOB false representation of Ndiigbo and tear these minorities sense of importance to us to shreds with cold truth and exposure to reality.

I like what I am seeing on this thread.

Its either Igbo only country or we remain in Nigeria until the oil dries up. A tower of Babel country with irreconcilable minorities in.SS is a big No for Ndiigbo.
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It's not an option at all. If IPOB don't understand and fine tune their struggle to reflect this Igbo nationalist view, they would never gain full support in Igboland.

We say a big NO to ethnically heterogeneous Biafra. And a big Yes to Igbo only Biafra!
Let the dead bury themselves biko!

Proeast2:


You get the drift. Those minorities will be a huge distraction and pockets of instability that will hamper our growth as a nation.
It will be foolish for others to milk them for over 50 years and now that oil has become worthless, they hand over the world's most polluted environment with frustrated inhabitants to us God forbid bad thing!!

Nkita raa Shi, eze eree ewu?! Mbanu!!

You are just giving me joy with your points.

NaijirianKing:
If anything, the Delta Igbos need the East, imagine them being stuck in an Ijaw dominated country. It would be like old Rivers State where the Igbo groups had no pull and were relegated to the back. It was the SE that created Rivers & Bayelsa to give their brethren some breathing room, the last thing Delta Igbos want is to be returned to another situation where they get the hatred for being Igbo without the majority tribe status, that's a net loss for them. If anything, a branch needs the tree to withstand the wind.

In regards to resources, the gas in the SE will generate trillions over the next 80 years, if the nation splits today, this will be exclusively in the hands of the SE, which will hep in creating an economic base for a new nation. Most likely, Akwa Ibom and Cross River, will look to join their brothers in the SE as they did in the past when the SE took the lead to form their own nation. The last thing those groups would want is to be in a nation where Ijaw rule,

Please, AkwaCross should stay independent as neighbors to Ndiigbo.

Sharing a country with any non Igbo group post Nigeria should be a No No.

Fences make for good neighbors.

proeast:


It has already fused as one city. What demarcate them is just the Niger bridge. If Lagos mainland and Island can be one city despite being demarcated by large lagoons then Onitsha and Asaba are already joined together. The second bridge will even escalate it the more

True. Light calls to light.

We have Eight main cities in Igboland.

In alphabetical order:
1.Aba
2.Abakaleke
3.Ahaba
4. Enugwu
5.Oka
6.Onicha
7.Owerri
8.Umuahia


Then we have big towns with city potentials

Okigwe, Orlu , Nsukka, Nnewi, Arochukwu, Afikpo, etc

I think we are good to go. Republic of Igboland will be a great success.
Each of those eight main urban centres can be built into big cities of at least 10 million each with good planning.
Freeing up lands in rural areas for agriculture and other needs.

proeast:


That's the spirit. I love the way our people are investing in Asaba and they're appreciative of it, unlike confused identity crises ridden people who use our names, culture and identity but claim to be Bini.
Nollywood is now based in Asaba and it's helping the city immensely while building our cultural heritage and bond with Igbos west of the River Niger.

In the future Asaba and Onitsha would fuse into one indivisible Igbo city connected by River Niger and not divided by it.

The Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu has felicitated the Asagba of Asaba, His Royal Majesty, Obi (Prof) Chike Edozien on the occasion of his 96th birthday anniversary.

In his good will message on Tuesday, 28th July, 2020, Hon Elumelu said that the life of Obi (Prof) Edozien has been amazing and a blessing not only to the people of Asaba, but humanity in general, saying that his intellectual and leadership qualities has paved way for development in deferent facet of human edervour especially in medicine and academics.

Elumelu commended the Monarch for being an exemplary king who has contributed immensely to the rapid transformation of the Kingdom of Asaba where he has sustained and strengthened the rich cultural heritage of the people, , adding that his reign has witnessed the transformation of Asaba into a vibrant social and investment hub in the South Eastern region.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/flashpointnews.com/2020/07/28/elumelu-felicitates-asagba-of-asaba-96/amp/

Good thread.

Happy to see you didn't add PH here.

Asaba is representing very well.

Recently the Asagba of Ahaba, the Obi agwu ! Celebrated his 96th birthday, and all Ahaba sons were sending in their congratulatory messages.
There was something remarkable about Elumelu congratulatory message to the king.
He was grateful for SEners investment in Ahaba.
That was very thoughtful of him.

Abohboy:
Nonsense, Nigeria has over 500 different tribes/ethnic groups, and aboh is one of them it is in delta state along the River Niger

Aboh is now independent of Ukwuani/Ndokwa?

Confused lots.

chukz84yz:
211. Egi - Rivers.
212. Igburu- Rivers

So Egi is now independent from Ogba?

Ogba bini people are confused set.

richie240:

So having a Yoruba ñame makes him Yoruba?
***https://www.nairaland.com/2322460/why-father-named-me-rotimi

Even sef, d young man son tork say him be igbo yet u siddon 4 one corner dey postulate him origin whilst he's still alive.
Na ya type dey drag property with owner wey never die

***https://www.nairaland.com/5900390/cant-deny-me-igbo-identity

You don't become Igbo by just claiming Igbo.
Amaechi or anyone from Ikwerre claiming Igbo is a fraud and would soon be sued for impersonation and identity theft by Ndiigbo.

Amaechi is Ikwerre bini man. Igbos have no link with Ikwerre Binis.

richie240:

Oh my days!
Just when you thot u've heard it all!

Amaechi = igbo+ss+sw
#3_in_1
Clowns everywhere!

Amaechi is actually SS + SW

Ikwerre is Bini and Bini is Yoruba, therefore, Ikwerre is SS +SW and Amaechi is an Ikwerre Bini man.
Better still, he already has a Yoruba name, Rotimi to match his claims.

Hopebringer:


It was the locally backed militancy and kidnapping of expatriates that ruined Rivers State and delta state . The local elders where sponsoring these boys thinking that the foreign workers can't operate without coming down to the state. So what happened? They left the region and took with them their forex

Who lost at the end of the day? Today ordinary businesses find it hard to thrive in these states ...

What you don't realize is expatriate workers bring hard currency they spend in your community and that gives the barber next door some income or the food seller and meat seller

Look at Rivers State today , a wasted Poverty eroded , cultism and militancy ruled back water state

If Imo and Akwa Ibom states are smart they will continue to avoid sliding down the way Rivers and delta state went ..

Many miscreants from Rivers especially from Ogba-Bini ethnic nationality in ONELGA have been migrating to Ohaji and infecting the youths with cultism and laziness.
.Okorocha Rochas did a good job keeping those Ogba miscreants in check, I hope Uzodimma don't neglect them and allow them ruin Ohaji.

cc: Abagworo.

Tell your APC governor in Imo to keep a close eye on Ogba hoodlums from Rivers state migrating into Ohaji, opening branches of their cults their and corrupting the youths.

Amaechi is an Ikwerre Bini man. He is not loved or hated in SE, he is just not Igbo and can't represent Ndiigbo.
He can only represent his Ikwerre Bini or SS, but unfortunately for him, SS have had their turn under GEJ and even Edwin Clark the SS leader knows that there wouldn't be another SS presidency before Igbo presidency.

If Amaechi tries to impersonate Ndiigbo, we would drag him to the mud and disgrace him and his Ikwerre Bini people.

kodded:

Lol!
I am happy it turned out different.

Roland17:


A free transfer should not excuse/ justfiy such wage especially for a below average and untested player moving to the EPL. We have negotaited very poorly over the last 5 years and now suffering. The Sokratis situation buttresses my point and I don't blame Stuttgart because his wages makes absolutely no sense. If you were Sokratis you go gree leave that kain money? Maga make mistake, no be him fault, consequently, we are stuck with these sort of contracts except we find. That is a big reason our deadwoods are content sitting on the bench and getting paid than getting playing time elsewhere for less.

Kolasinac might be below average now, but he came with the hype of the best LB in bundesliga and made the Bundesliga team of the season that.
The hype was too much and I suspect our scouts were lazy and failed to do their job well.

Roland17:


Here comes the issue with offloading deadwoods like the body builder Kolasinac. Which team is willing to pay such player 100K/week? The person in charge of negotiations for contracts needs correct flogging!!!

He came as free transfer. That's why his wage is that high.
Sokratis is refusing to take a pay cut to move to Stuggart who wants to buy him. He is choosing to stay at Arsenal and run down his contract.

We have too many championship level players on champions league level wages. That's the problem. We can't sell our dead woods because no one else is,stupid enough to pay them what we are currently paying them.
Our recruitment last decade has been catastrophic.

Fkhalifa:

My brother be patient, Arterta will mould him into a Kolarov/Marcelo type of player next season
Don't forget he used to do cut backs for Auba last season, please bear with him,its just a temporary bad form.

Lol! You are catching cruise obviously.

Kolasinac is championship standard.

Spy360:

You are being too harsh in my view.

Kola does not have the energy and tactical nous to sprint up and down the touch line both attacking and defending. But I have seen him do well when assigned a specific job, like marking out a player or playing LWB without much defensive work or just playing on the left side of a back three.

In the first place he is never a first 11 player, he should be coming off the bench for an club as Arsenal. So if we out of poverty of players choose to start him, how is it his fault?
Besides errors are part of football even DDG, as good as he is, is full of errors, talk less of an average dude like Kola.

Problem is that Kolasinac is on 100k/weeek salary.
You can't afford to pay such amount to a player who is not a solid nailed on starter.

Kola has to go. He is simply not good enough.

RTSC:

That is because he has a legitimate claim.

A Uhrobo man cannot claim he is igbo because of the presidency.

It would look stupid.

He has no legitimate claim whatsoever.

His group Ikwerre are independent from Igbo.
He can't represent Ndiigbo. One can't be Igbo just by claiming Igbo at convenient time.

An Ikwerre man can't claim Igbo ,he will look stupid . Ikwerre is Bini.
And when the time is right, real Igbos will make sure Amaechi and any person and group trying to project him as Igbo, look stupid.

Amaechi will soon be made to understand the reason we use this phrase "Igbo bu Igbo" in Igbo gatherings.

Bkayyy:

He is claiming igbo because of his presidential ambition

Some Igbos are brainless.

How difficult is it to see that Amaechi is only claiming Igbo now because he wants Igbo backing for presidency.

Our people annoy the hell out of me. How can we make ourselves this easy for opportunists to manipulate.

Amaechi is a bonafide member of Ogbakor Ikwerre and have never for once openly challenged Ogbakor Ikwerre anti Igbo stance.

But he tell you he is Igbo to scam you, and because you are an emotional being incapable of reasoning, you swallow it hook , line and sinker, you are too blind to see the con game at play.


Amaechi is Igbo my foot! We are waiting for him.and those retarded Igbos coming to sell the scam. We will reset their brains.

Ndi ara! Amaechi bu Igbo kpokwa ha oku ebe ahu. Ndi uche ha ezughi ezu. Achoro ili gi, yet imaghi. Ina enyelu onye cholu iri gi mugu aka.

Amaechi bu Bini. When he is tired of wearing Isiagu to deceive gullible Igbos, he will go and change into his Ijaw or Bini proper tire. Some of us are not stupid.

IkwerrePikin:


Ikwerre has four local govt areas: Port harcourt, Emuoha, Ikwerre and Obio-akpor with a population of approximately 3million indigenous people.

Ikwerre has 3.5 LGAs. You share PHLGA with Okrika people.

3 million Ikwerre people?

I doubt.

At most 1.5 million and that's me being generous.

NLandIsHypocrit:
You Fulani bastard, I challenge you once again to reply me with Ikwere language to prove that you're actually an Ikwere person. And by the way I know that this nonsense you're yapping up there is according to how it handed to you by your employers, because I know you don't know that AKALAKA is an Igbo language which means DESTINY do you see why Fulani nomads will always remain nomads? Because you're never intelligent, you reason like your cows.

He is likely an Ikwerre man.
I know many of them on facebook, and they regurgitate everything tha poster do here.

Even if he is an impostor, he is representing Ikwerre views very well, which is why you would notice that no Ikwerre man have ever challenged him on this forum.
Their silence is a well calculated affirmation and support to his posts.
You should watch Ogbakor Ikwerre meetings on U tube too if you can.

Its time Ndiigbo start knowing the Ikwerres for who they truly are, because some of us are living in ignorance as far as Ikwerre attitude and manners towards Ndiigbo are concerned.

Bkayyy:

What they are doing now is what they did to clinch that presidency in ohaneze Ndigbo, they worked on the members emotions and they fumbled, now they are trying to use this igbo exit to gain needed popularity across igbo land but it will backfire because right now the igbos are now looking towards homogeneity

Well thats the big problem we have.
Putting emotions ahead of pragmatism.
It makes it easy for other groups to exploit us.

Naturally, there is no difference between how the average Yoruba bigot see the Igboman and how the Ikwerre see the Igbo. In fact, the Ikwerre is worst.
The Igbo man who has ever lived in Ph knows this. The Ikwerres never fail to show him hate and ridicule every single day, yet because an Ikwerre bear an Igbo name or speak an igbo dialect, the emotional Igbo will want to pretend like he can't see how Igbophobic these people are.
I personally will choose a Yoruba man over an Ikwerre, because Yorubas are far away from me.

Many times an Ikwerre man posts something on NL and an.average Igbo will start calling the Ikwerre man afonja, because he is yet to grasp the fact that there is no difference between Ikwerre and Yoruba . If in doubt, go to Ikwerre rant HQ Facebook page and see real Ikwerres.

Our people are living in illusions , and don't want to wake up. If not, this Ikwerre issue should have been done with by now, but here we are in 2020 still going in circles.

Bkayyy:

I just addressed that. The only problem is that some online warriors here are just pawns in this game.
The question right now is what does bini stand to gain?
The answer is simply number, we all know how our ethnocentric political system works, becoming one of the major ethnicity in this country makes the FG take your requests seriously . So my brother it's all about politics and economy

What is the,population of Ikwerre to give Bini majority status.

A unity formed out of falsehood will never stand the test of time. If adding Ikwerre and other Bini claiming Igboid groups like Ogba, Ekpeye and Etche will make Binis majority group overnight, then I wish them goodluck.

For Ndiigbo, unity with Igbophobic and bitter Igboid groups in SS is counter productive, its like harbouring a snake in your house or a mad rabies infected dog. Its only a matter of when and not if, before it bites you, and you migh not survive the bite.
With 5 SE states, we are already a majority group.
We don't need confused Bini wannabes if we know what we are doing. We should be the ones rejecting them and returning their hate back to them.
But when I look at Ohanaeze Ndiigbo and see an Ikwerre man as its Secretary General, or I see Igbos claiming Ikwerre people despite the ridicule and insults they bring to us, I come to the realization that Ndiigbo really lack direction and don't know what we are doing.