Donโt you think it is a huge disrespect to our fathers and mothers in the riverine areas when you say they learnt how to speak Okwu Ubani (which is pure Igbo) simply because of intermarriage?
Languages are not inherited through marriage; they are inherited through ancestry, culture, and generations of identity. Our elders did not โborrowโ Okwu Ubani from somewhere else. It is the language that has lived with our people for centuries, spoken in homes, markets, gatherings, and traditional institutions long before modern political narratives tried to redefine who we are.
To reduce such a deep cultural heritage to mere intermarriage is to ignore history and undermine the identity of entire communities in the riverine areas. Our fathers and mothers were not imitators of another peopleโs language they were carriers of it.
Okwu Ubani is not an accident of contact. It is a reflection of shared roots, shared history, and shared ancestry with the wider Igbo cultural family.
History should be discussed with honesty and respect, not rewritten in ways that dismiss the heritage of the very people who preserved it.
Ike'm wu @Mazi_Opobo
Do not let anybody gaslight you, Ndigbo are indigenous to these 13 states in Nigeria ๐๐พ
1. Abia
2. Anambra
3. Ebonyi
4. Enugu
5. Imo
6. Delta (Aniแปma area)
7. Rivers
8. Bayelsa
9. Akwa Ibom
10. Cross River
11. Benue
12. Kogi
13. Edo (Igbanke area)
These Igbo communities existed in these areas long before colonial state boundaries were created.
If you like, go to the highest palace in Igwuruta, Ubima, Omagwa and Isiokpo and gather chiefs to read a communique that doesn't support the unity of Nigeria.
You see, the Hausa/Fulani community will not leave Ikwerre LGA.
Most of them have bought landed properties from you. This means Hausa/Fulani are bona fide to the LGA too.
Peace comes with dialogue and mutual respect. You can't wake up and ask people to leave your LGA.
Nigeria is for all. Thank you.
Growing up in Aba those days, itโs a normal thing to wear rubber slippers or rain boots, thatโs if youโre someone who loves to keep a good ๐ฆถ , because season to season, no good road.
Dear Gov. @alexottiofr you really performed wonders here. God Bless you sir ๐
individuals โ reportedly involving a Hausa/Fulani okada rider and a trader from Benue State. It was not an ethnic war. It was not an organized attack. It was not โIgbos versus Hausas.โ
ENOUGH OF THE FALSE ETHNIC NARRATIVES.
We categorically reject the reckless and misleading claim that โIgbos in Port Harcourt attacked Hausa Muslims.โ
That narrative is FALSE.
The incident at Eleme Junction was a criminal altercation between
Dear @PoliceNG@HQNigerianArmy@OfficialDSSNG@NuhuRibadu
There is an ongoing attack on Hausa Muslims, those doing menial jobs in Port Harcourt, and allegedly championed not by the indigenous Ekwerre people, but by Igbos in Port Harcourt. In as much as I always condemn the rate at which young Hausa boys flood some southern states doing menial jobs (of course due to the failure of the north and its leaders to provide them quality education), as Nigerians they have the right to live anywhere. According to some sources, an Igbo boy snatched the motorcycle of one Hausa Okada rider, and when they recovered the stolen motorcycle, they beat the thief to a pulp. Some said he died in the hospital. The Okada riders have complained that several of their members were killed along that Eleme Junction and their motorcycle stolen. So this time, they took laws into their hands. This is condemnable. It was after such altercations that some Igbos living in that area went in rampage, destroying properties of Hausa people & protesting that "Aboki Must Go".
We call on the authorities to intervene ASAP. As always, I remind those that are quick to attack other tribes living in the midst that, your own tribesmen are also living in other areas, and nobody has the monopoly of the madness you're displaying.
The law should take its cause and those criminals should be arrested from those that took laws in their hands to those that went on ramoag attacking innocent Hausa people doing their business in Port Harcourt.
The Apo Six killings of June 8, 2005.
Five Igbo traders at Apo auto spare parts market, Abuja, and a lady Tina Arebu, were murdered in cold blood for no reason on the order of DCP Danjuma.
What was their crime? It's a Thread!
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