This is a strange teaching. I think that the Ikwere people and Igbos are one people. Because I was born in Port Harcourt. I also know that Igbos have never colonized anybody at all. Because Ndigbo goes out for greener pastures. However Igbos do not take all the money they making in other places to their homeland. Ndigbo are known to invest and developing wherever they've immigrated to. Are you saying that Ikwere people also imitates the Igbos in naming their children their Igbo names? But Ikwere people are never related to the Igbos in anyway, is that what you're saying? Ndigbo are in Yorubaland and almost everywhere in Nigeria. But there's no arguments of whether they're relating to anybody in other places rather than coming there and seeking for the greenner pastures. But can anyone honestly say the same between the Ikwere people and who I have always maintained and believed that they are relations by blood to blood relationships to the Ikwere people. If an elderly Ikwere man dies every traditional rights performed to the Igboman are also performed to the Ikwere, and nothing would be left out of both traditional rights between an Ikwere and an Igbo. Ndigbo says prayers with Kolanots in a serious occasions and so does the Ikweres. Does Ikwere people performs such rights, through which we remembers our past relatives and our ancestors? I have watched the Elderly of the Ikwereland performed the same rights. Or are you saying that Ikwere people learned all those through only when Ndigbo came to do business in the Ikwereland and they abandoned their own culture and took the Igbos culture to replaced their own Ikwere culture, is it what you're saying? My brother prof. Myself, as someone born at Port Harcourt in Ikwereland in 1950s, I believed the Ikwere person has a developed IQ like the Ndigbo people, and there's no difference between their intelligence levels. And I also believed that Ikweres and Igbos are not different races. These mistakes had caused some people their lives in Northern Nigeria during riots, when some people have the opportunity to runway to save their lives but they insisted that they are not Igbos but Northerners arrived and taught them a lesson who and whose they knew as the Igbos. Therefore they are knowledge we will impacts to our children that could come back to hurt them in future. Meanwhile, I must continue learning. Because this took away from me all what I think that I knew about my Ikwere people's all these years. I'm an Igbo born in Ikwereland in the 1950s. I rest my case. Because I still don't know. I will continue listening. Thank you immensely Professor and remain blessed. Listening to you from USA.
I didn't want to comment, but there is a lie here, that there is no central Igbo. There is a central Igbo that every Igbo, including Ikwerre person understands. And there are dialects, and Ikwerre dialects are part of Igbo dialects. I understand there are 5 distinct Ikwerre dialects. There are over 285 dialects of Igbo language. Even in my village, we know different kindreds by the way they speak, peculiar diphthongs and expressions.
Igbo is a language with different dailects even me the part of Enugu state where i come from we have our own dailect which can be strange to an anambra man but we use igbo nzugbe (general Igbo dailect) to communicate and understand each other. Anambra people has very much presence in our Enugu markets, we Enugu people in return has hug presence too in Anambra markets. Any body can go anywere, reside and do business. I know an ikwerre man who is a serious importer in Onitsha market, we regard him as our Igbo brother. Please professor allow your brother to mingle with their brothers in south east as it will not take any thing away from ikwerre people.
If you said the man is lying that what their parents tell them who they are it means also that your own father is hausa ur mother lied to you take it like that
Oga we know ikwere is Igbo but we are tired of ikwerre misbehavior please we nologer care about ikwerre they can choose to be Fulani or Zulu we don't care let karma do the rest
A great problem simply simply solved is what you're just done Prof. Congratulations. Am a Rivers man got fed up with unnecessary bickerings between these lovely peoples (Igbo /lkwerre/), giving vacancies for political predators to invade the region with their divide -and- Rule craft. Thank you Prof for your work, God Almighty will protect you ahead, ahead!
Bro, A lot of those making anti-Igbo noise online as Ikwerre are not even Ikwerre. Most are SW people fearful that Ikwerre/Igbo rapprochement could lead to the revival of Port Harcourt as a leading port and trigger an exodus of Igbo importers from Lagos. according to the Shippers Council, over 65% of all containers shipped to Nigeria belong to the Igbos. Others are Bayelsa Ijaws playing amateur divide-and-rule politics by proclaiming every upland village a separate "ethnic nationality" even as they claim distant ethnic groups with different ethnic origins and languages as one united "Ijaw".
@OmmoleOkpiri What he is saying is that Ikwerre left Benin and came to Igboland. By that admission, Ikwerre is occupying Igboland and so Igbos have the right to demand their land back from the Ikwerre since they are Bini people. A trap has been laid by what people say.
If you claim that Inwhuruhohna otherwise known as Ikwerre came from Bini then you are settling in a land that was never yours in the first place. The resolution is that you people should sojourn back to Bini as you would be welcomed with open arms. Besides, you would relearn the Bini language that evaporated from your heads when you migrated to Igboland.
You're nothing but a confused professor. Igbo people came to Ikwere land? So who are Igbo people and who are the Ikwere people? Since my childhood from nursery school, I've never heard that there's a tribe in Nigeria called Ikwere tribe. What i do know is Igbo people of Ikwere dialect. Mcheww😂
Prof. Why Ikweres re speaking igbo and answering Igbo name and community and villages in Ikwere re Igbos by name. So how comes Do you means dat your furfather's drop their ancestral native language and start speaking Igbo. And why people are lie like this ? So simple because of Ikwere people married from other Igbo land, thy formally drop their native language and speaking Igbo language. Let me tell you That marriage alone tell's you dat we are one people's because in d old in day's nobody leave his tribe and go outside and marry another tribe. Before before in Igbo land, Is now people are marrying everywhere not before but few people marry outside their tribe. So mr man stop lie. I thank God you use your mouth said dat theirs no time Igbo colonies Ikwere people, Simple means dat thy re one people's, by tradition, culture and custom with the same belive. And let me ask you prof. Ikwere is't Igbo name or not ?? Secondly...hw come all d communities and villages in Ikwere and beccome Igbo names . And which people do it, by given all these communities and villages Igbo names, Is't British people names d hole community and villages name. OR Nigeria government change d community and villages name so tell me. We need all this answer one by one. Because you had already said dat Igbo people didn't colonies Ikwere people. And my question again is hw can one people colonies them selves. Is it possible prof ? Answer...... And what i am seeing is dat you're confusing yourself. Unless you wan to get money from Nigeria government by saying Rubish. ONLY THIN.... I knows is dat we Igbos knows ourselves, if like go to abuja and disgracing our self. Our brothers from Ikwere, Egbema, Eche Ndoki ,opopo, igwe ocha, Omoku, Awuda, and so forth All this communities knows thy re Igbo people by origin, Throu..... Languages and with different dialects. Language Culture Tradition Custom Four market day's.... Eke Orie Afor Nkwo. And igbo igbo festival re the same . Iri iji Iwa iji Emume iji Ive ji oku And so many other names in Igbo land call it. All this name here, meaning the same thing in Igbo language. So prof. Why re you twisting everything to prove Ikwere people re not Igbo people. And let me tell you, lumater hw you twist it, can work that's pure truth. Which you know. U re just waisting your time for nothing. Igbos re more than fourty million people in Nigeria. And thy knows their roots.as igbo people and not only Igbo speaking. Prof. Go and hve site one side . You re confused man with your age.
Prof. Tasie, you're a confused historian, lkwerre, is just a lineage in Igbo land just like Owerri, Ngwa, Onitsha, Abiriba etc with different dialect. Stop plunging you people into deep identity crises
The Igbo were not imperialists nor into the business of taking over people's land. This is a trait of the other regions of the nation. Stop the cap and misinformation. I am an Ijaw and Igbo man and can categorically state that Ikwere and many regions of the Riverine region are indigenously igbo. The moment you accept the truth will be the moment that your people will be liberated.
Which one be Ijaw and Iboman now? Which one you be? Ijaws want all or nothing hence even where they interface with Ibo, they maliciosly undermine Ibo interests even at the detriment of themselves. An example is how they destroyed the seaport in Port Harcourt after the war and drove out all shipping to Lagos. Thanks to Ijaws, over US$600billon has been stolen from eastern Nigeria and takin to Lagos/western and Northern Nigeria and overseas since 1970 and they are happy as long as nothing goes to Iboland.
Gentleman, please is ikwere a tribe as recognize by the British government or Nigeria government? Who are you as a people in Nigeria? Thanks for your anticipated understanding and response!
Oga, stop lying to people here. You are one of the reasons why a lot people are confused about the Igbos and Ikwerre. These are one people. Ikwerres are Igbo people.
Dear Prof. I think you are a confused person, you just said that onitshia man will not abandon his dialect and speak Mbaise dialect, now does that make the two of them not to be Igbo? Ikwerre is a dialect just like in onitshia, Maisel, ohafia, mbiri, Izaa etc. Now if I may ask you, why is your culture the same with the people you call Igbo. Truly so many people think they are Educated in Nigeria but there are just fools. Also you mentioned Dr Albert Nwaigwe do you know that Dr Albert Nwaigwe recognized himself as Igbo then what is your problem Prof?.
Thank you, Professor. The Igbo language, which emerged in the 18th century, is distinct from a bloodline. Most people identified as Igbo, along with other tribes from the South and East, originated from the ancient Benin Empire. Your insights are profound, sir. May God bless you. Only the well-read will truly grasp this.
So Igbo language "emerged in the 18th century" according to you? And what language did they speak before the 18th century? What a pointless clown! Why dont you just go and take a nap?
Am aware of the Isoko phenomenon who their people sent to learn from the Igbo. I met one of them in Shagamu. I thought he was Igbo. He runs a men's dress and shoe shop. He told me he was brought up at Aba. He speaks Igbo runs his shop as a typical Igbo man does. I also met a Birom woman in this town who told me she was brought by an Igbo in Jos. She runs an eatery. Those who are brought up or trained by the Igbos in business wind up loving the Igbo and marrying Igbo. The problem with Nigeria is that the other ethnic groups do no appreciate the Igbo. When the British came, we appreciated the efucation they offered. If we didn't, there would be no University Of Port Harcourt, and no professor Alex British Tasie and no orthodox medical doctors, not engineers, no chemists etc amongst. If you don't appreciate someone and what he has to offer, you cannot learn from him.
Its a very sad thing to see a person fight so hard against his own mirror reflection. The igbos are the oldest indigenous ethnicity all way from north-western Cameroon all the way to Togo and from the ocean all the way up to just before the Sahel. They have lived continuously in this location for 10,000 years. Both archeology and extensive oral tradition prove tbis. The Lejja ancient iron smelting site in Nsuka dates back to 2000 BC (4000 years ago) and its the oldest in the world, predating the next oldest (in Turkey) by almost 600 years. The oldest bronze works in all of west africa, also come from Igbo land, predating the benin and Ife bronzeworks by nearly 400 years. Even our Oral tradition describes how we are an ancient people who have always been in the present location, everyone else came to meet us here. The Ikwere always talk about how they're not Igbos, and that they're decendants of the benin kingdom (and there's essence to the claim), but the benin kingdom is only 800 years old (Ife, the Origin of the entire yoruba people, is only 900 years old) Yet, the "professor" is here claiming that the Igbos came from the Ikwere's (never mind the huge variance in population). Well, how can the Igbos, who have been here for 10,000 years, come from the Ikwere if the Ikwere's are descendants of the benin kingdom that is only 800 years old? Please make it make sense.
My contribution on these ikwerre people question is that why should people spend alot of time doing nothing. Ikwerre is part and parcrl of igbo nation, that there are differebces in our dialect does not bring any barrier to us . There's no people and tribe in Africa that does not have differences in their languages. It' was the civil war fallout that is cursing all this.
Mr. Professor stop deceiving people. You made a point that Igbos did not colonize Ikwere because Ikwere is part of Igbo. So the way you are saying Igbos as if they are different from Ikwere people. Stop deceiving people by bringing sentiments. There is a saying that: Igbo na su na olu nolu- means in dialects just like Ikwere and other Igbo speaking areas. Go to Igala people the same thing. They speak Igbo in another dialect but if you listen to them and you will understand that they are speaking Igbo dialect. Sir you need to go and do more research about Ikwere as a dialect of Igbo origin.
@@emmanuelokwara766 Part of Ohaji/Egbema was carved from Imo State to Rivers because of oil and gas. The Egbema/Ohaji of Rivers are related to the Egbema/Ohaji of Imo State. But now, Imo State has the largest gas field not only in Nigeria but in West Africa. Ikwerres were given the seized Igbo properties in PH in exchange for the oil fields. The seized properties guilt is still hanging on their necks and the shame is why they deny being Igbos.
10:20 The prof says the igbos do not have a predetermined agenda to colonize the Ikwerres. He surely does not understand the depth of the problem we face. Watch the short interview on Nnaa Mehn Tv tittled: IKWERRE LAND is Igbo's access to the sea. By Dimm Uche Okwukwu. .... And you will better understand the desperation, hence, the games and propaganda the igbos are playing. Its cold and calculated neo-colonialism.
Nonsense. Ikwerreland is the same distance to the Atlantic Ocean as Azumini in Abia State. Besides, Ikwerreland is NOT the only Ibo access to the sea. Ibos can access the Atlantic Ocean via the River Niger at Onitsha, River Cross via Oziza/Ndibe in Afikpo, Oguta in Imo State etc. not to talk of Ibo coastal settlements in Bonny and Opobo through which Ibos participated robustly in trade with Europeans for hundreds of years. Ikwerre port only became relevant when coal was discovered in Enugu. But since 1970, Ibos have ceased to use Port Harcourt seaport. And they have grown even more prosperous. So keep deceiving yourself believing Ibos are sitting in a dark room somewhere calculating how to colonise you and your lazy arse.
This Ikwerre issue has been on since over100 years ago. They are different tribes. Eegun people in Lagos speak Yoruba and answer Yoruba names but Yoruba will not force them to call themselves Yoruba because they are strongly Eegun
But the same Yoruba people force Aworis and Ijebus, Aja etc. against their will to be Yoruba which they strongly deny. Conclusion: Yoruba is Yoruba, Igbo is Igbo. Case closed. Next.
@@okasefa563 What lie? What part of the comment do you not understand? Even his Royal Majesty the Awujale of Ijebuland has said it publicly that Ijebus are not Yorubas and that they came from Sudan. Likewise, the Aworis have complained bitterly about how expansionist/imperialist Yorubas have taken over their ancestral land in Lagos and seek to subjugate them even though they have nothing to do with Yoruba people. The Ajah are the same and list go on. Go to open sources and educate yourself and stop being so ridiculous. That hornet nest you are stirring will come back to haunt you and the Igbos are always there to support the independence of Ijebu, Egun Awori, Ajah and other entrapped ethnic nationalities in the SW seeking freedom from you colonizing, grasping Yorubas. So stay on your lane, ok?
@@FolorunshoBoluwatife-un9wv Bro, Whose words? The position of the Awujale of Ijebuland is available in open sources just at the click of your mouse, unless you are now saying that you are wiser than the Ijebu king himself. BTW if you are querying the notion of Yoruba forcing Yoruba, then why are you here trying to instigate and promote the equivalent notion of Igbo forcing Igbo, or are you just being too clever by half? Therefore, the intra-ethnic squabble you came here to promote is right there simmering in your own domain whether you admit it or not.
We don't even want ikewere to be igbo, one day Nigeria we separate and we go see where ikewere people will go,, you guys said that you came from benin kingdom and you don't answer the same name, the culture is different... 😢
This man is from northern Nigeria. It happened after the Nigeria civil war lot of Hausa migrated to Port Harcourt and settled in Ikwerre land. Some of them changed their northern names to Igbo name to assimilate.
Mr professor you said that igbos didn't colonize ikewere and why did ikewere people answer igbos name,, is it because igbos is doing their business in ikewere?? Professor pls go and get anot history book.
You are telling stories and pleading to your people.History is a discipline of study.Anthropology is not constructed it evolved. Fear not yourself God dey make mistakes. Ikwerre , mmekanu, Nwadiali.
As a Benin man that I'm, there's no way parts of porharcort if not all be Igbos because every ikwerri persons I have seen so far speak and understand Igbos language, but there's one thing I will urge the Igbos should stop doing is, to telling other people or ethics groups whose didn't fall into the 5 major Eastern state as a minority, because the hausas and yorubas have almost succeeding dividing the southern part of Nigeria for their political greed , so they managed to create the divisions by creating the majority and the minority which some persons seen as an insult, the yorubas and the hausas already know that they can't have the southern part of Nigeria to themselves and for that reason they cannot also let the igbo have it instead the create segregation by creating south-south and some of us are falling for their games and the people in the area they carved out as the south-south beginning to look at it that way, instead we'll be under the yorubas or Igbos, we can create our own nation from the south-south where everyone that fall into the south-south will all see themselves as equal instead of be a minority under any person. Sometimes when I seen the Igbos on media especially joining the yorubas calling other minority, i will just laugh 😅 I will just say, the Igbos having still learn at all, the yorubas cannot fools the Benin, they know, that's why our elderly for the past fought for the WIDWEST .
Everything you said is lies mr historian, why are Yorubas not speaking Igbo, ikwerre people didn’t learn Igbo language or their culture, ikwerre language is a dialect of Igbo language, that makes them Igbo, it is as simple as ABC, corrupt elder 😢
The issue is : you do not tell people where they come from or try to force them that they're from a particular place And whether they have been acculturated and now bear Igbo names doesn't mean you can tell them where they come from. It's wrong. A change in demography happens everywhere. Kwara State used to be purely for the Yorubas, but the coming of the Fulanis changed that after the several tribal wars fought in that region in those days. Lebanon as we know it today was originally a Christian country. But today the case is different. Intermarriages can happen and change the demographic order of a particular place. Period. So, let's stop this childish way of thinking.
Bro, You again? You have no coherent knowledge base to comment on this matter and yet you return over and over again to advance your infantile views along with your impoverished and unrelated examples. Who told you that Igbo people have an equivalent or near equivalent history as Yorubas of Kwara state or Christians of Lebanon? Can you provide any evidence of demographic change and its causes in the area under discussion beyond mere speculation? This is precisely how you people barge into every intra-Igbo discussions with your all-knowing, vacuous posturing, then turn around and start whining when the same Igbos come down on you like a ton of bricks. You definitely need to stop your childish way of thinking which is exclusive to you and stay in your lane or face relentless bashing by the Igbos.
Direct remedial action by elders is needed here. As I opined somewhere, Port Harcourt is growing and engulfing surrounding villages, Ohanaeze can help by working with local groups such as Ogbakor Ikwerre to issue a guideline on land transactions with the aim to achieving justice, equity and ensuring the preservation of local culture. These guidelines can be cascaded to local Ibo town unions and made binding to members. An example is where a local "lazy" youth attempts to sell off farm land or land containing local deities etc. and leaving villagers landless but helpless. Such transactions must be stopped at both ends. Local youths should instead be offered skills training, integrated into the wider Ibo apprenticeship system and set up in profitable businesses with introduction to networks and credit lines in leading Ibo cities. This will discourage land sale as the only means of making money since nobody benefits from the creation of a landless underclass anywhere.
This man called professor has answered the question but still seeking a way to see how he can twist the truth he has already said indirectly,abeg papa u are Igbo, every Igbo clans has their different dialects from others but intelligible to the known Igbo language which ur own is included thanks
I can’t even listen any further, you’re a writer, yet you’re teaching my kids that in Nigeria, they have a south southern region, confused people.. una shame de shame me..
This man just say onitsha,dont speak same,with awka, nsukka,dont speak same with ebonyi,even unde nssukka we have many dialect ,but we know are all igbos ,passing six is not passing sense ,now i understand the scripture who said the lost tribe of isreal,now i also understand the bible was writting because igbo, umu isreal and their bulding the talest tower
...music ok if it helps ur composure, but definitely lose d excessive hand gestures. Topic while intersting, gets hit with & suffers so much verbiage that no coherence or linearity is possible, rather unfortunately!
How can a person who claims to be a professor come this short of making any sense here. Who are the Ikwerres? Answer: they're Igbos that speak a different dialect of Igbo. Trying to make sense out of shear nonsense is rash. Thank God that I did all of my tertiary education outside Nigeria...what sort of mind boggle is this? This man is reasoning out of his arse! Igbo music in church 😅🫣😳
Thank you for the clarification. I don't understand why the Igbo people are so desperate about wanting to turn the Ikwerre people around 😊😅 Do you have to tell people where they come from? So annoying!
What clarification? Do you even understand what the man is saying or are you just chatting rubbish? Which Ibo people are so "desperate" about wanting to turn who around? Who is the one speaking Ibo language in their homes, giving their children Ibo names, singing Ibo hymns in church, marrying Ibos, playing Ibo music, selling their homesteads to Ibos etc? Who is the "desperate" one here?
,you don't tell a people where they come from, do you? The Igbos should stop doing that, okay! He has said the Ikwerre people are not Igbos. Period! And whether they speak Igbo or give Igbo names to their children doesn't mean you should tell them where they come from. Africans were taken to different parts of the world as slaves. Today, do they speak their ancestral languages or give African names to their children? So, please, stop deceiving yourself...
@@izodek My friend, you are inebriated with ogogoro. You made two comments, both of them off point - no relation whatsoever with what the vlogger was talking about. Right now you are nothing but an emotional wreck with a chip on your shoulder. You need to get offline, sober up and try again or just shush. Imagine drunken peasant telling Ibos what to stop or not stop and being cocky about it to boot!
You wanna know why the igbos are so desperate to conquer Ikwerreland? Watch the short interview on Nnaa Mehn Tv tittled: IKWERRE LAND is Igbo's access to the sea. By Dimm Uche Okwukwu. .... And you will better understand the desperation, hence, the games and propaganda the igbos are playing. Its cold and calculated neo-colonialism.
@@officialmail8489 Well, Mazi Okwukwu and Nna men erred. Azumini in Abia State is nearer to the sea than anywhere in Ikwerreland being only a few nautical miles. Besides, Ikwerre area which connects to the sea via Bonny River is NOT the only Ibo access to the sea. Ibos can access the Atlantic Ocean via the River Niger an international waterway at Onitsha, River Cross via Oziza/Ndibe in Afikpo, Oguta in Imo State etc. in addition to Ibo coastal settlements in Bonny and Opobo through which Ibos participated in trade with Europeans for hundreds of years without hinderance. Ibos are also in Equatorial Guinea a connection which was used during the war and may also be available if sea access is needed. Ikwerre area only became relevant when coal was discovered in Enugu as the British shut down all existing ports to create Port Harcourt. Since 1970, Ibos have ceased to use Port Harcourt seaport, creating trade diasporas in West/Central Africa instead and they have grown even more prosperous while you continue pining and whining about sea. If you have sea access, why are you still wallowing in abject poverty, selling off family homesteads for peanuts as the presenter said instead of prospering with your sea? Oga landlord, travel & see.
Oga you are talking trash ikwerre is Igbo both in language, names, traditional and everything, said that owerre dose not speak onitsha and nsukka dose not speak ikwerre both we are all igbos with different dialect
@@jonathanogbuji-ji3yk Ok if he speaks for himself. But if he generalises and includes others without their consent in his personal issues, then he is probably talking trash.
@@LabaraNdoniaStop forcing yourself on them by using language, dress code and others as an excuse with them. Their ancestors never identified as Igbo, so why would they start now? Your argument is solely based on language and other cultural things which can change over time and doesn't determine someone's heritage. Avoid blaming the Nigeria civil war, British influence, or the Nigerian state for their refusal to accept being Igbo - this has been the case since their ancestors' time.
Someone told you that he is not Igbo and you are forcing yourself on him.... Don't worry one day all Nigerian tribes will flog Igbos and they will face the consequences of their actions.
Something that we should be consciously, strategically, and forcefully pushing for, is for a regional and decentralized system of government in Nigeria. Prior to the 1966 coup, there were 4 constitutions in Nigeria. The federal constitution and 3 other regional constitutions. And because the constituation allowed for local policing, each region could enact and enforce laws for the benefit of its people. The unitary system that we currently practice, is the bane of our problems in this country. Not only economically and developmentally, but socially and culturally as well. The unitary constitution stipulates one system of governance to be applied to a multi-ethnic and diverse population, allowing for the free and unencumbered flow of people to "grab" other people's land and resources without recourse. This is colonization in a different guise. The "colonization" problem you are talking about is not new. It's been like this since the British joined different ethnicities together to form one country. In the early 60s, to solve this problem, the northern region under Ahmadu Bello, enacted a law in the northern constituation that any available job or business established in the northern region MUST employ a northerner first. Certain people did not like it, however, in hindsight, the man was just acting in the best interest of his people. If a Hausa-Fulani man, from a tribe that makes up one of the majority in Nigeria felt the heat of the "scavengers" as you put it; imagine the plight of the Ikwerres and other minorities. If an Ikwerre man for whatever reason decides to set up a business in the SE, 99% of his employees will be Igbo. Same thing if he goes to the SW, except for maybe Lagos, 95% of his employees will be Yoruba. Same thing if he goes to the NW, 90% of his employees will be Hausa-Fulani. However, on the contrary, when an Igbo man comes to Port Harcourt to set up a business, he will still employ 90% Igbos. In a land that is not his! This is injustice. A travesty. The WAZOBIA ethnicities should not be able to eat their cakes and have it too, especially since the resource that powers ALL the states in Nigeria comes mainly from us in the SS. The only way that we, the minorities, can uphold our relevance and save/maintain our culture and heritage in this WAZOBIA dominated country called Nigeria, is to be the most vociferous and staunch supporters of a return to regional governmrnt, if not the outright disintegration of Nigeria as Adako Boro propsoed, fought, and eventually died for. With a decentralized system of govt, like what obtained in Nigeria pre the 1966 coup, and currently obtains in all sane climes from the US, UK, and UAE, to Japan, Canada, and Spain; we, the minotities, can enact laws to promote and safeguard our existence. We will be able to control our resources, our security, and our destiny. Without it, we will keep talking and complaining and fighting for relevance. However, the sad truth is that, because of the atrocious unitary system of govt that we currently operate, the WAZOBIA ethnicities will ultimately overrun us all. Take a cursory look at ALL the federal parastatals in your state. They are usually filled with and dominated by outsiders than the indigenes. This is the curse of a unitary system of govt and we should fight tooth and nail to change it for posterity and prosperity.
You are confusing yourself switching from ethnic to geographical characterizations. Are the no Ibos in the SS even if Ikwerre are not one of them? Or are you suggesting that those resources that power ALL states in Nigeria are not also found in the Ibo areas? Any Ibo person setting up business anywhere including Port Harcourt does so to make profit and he pays taxes. He employ those who have the skills to achieve his business objectives irrespective of ethnic origins. So if you want to be employed, ditch your crass sense of entitlement and upgrade your skills or go to Shell BP and Shevron, Mobil etc. and complain. The Ibo man is not there to to provide social services which is the role of the state. Isaac Boro fought to establish Ijaw republic in present day Bayelsa State and Ahmadu Bello, your role model and his Fulani is not majority anywhere in Nigeria, so get your facts right.
@@officialmail8489 Who cares about the opinion of an ogogoro-addled alpha-numeric nobody sitting in a water-logged batcher bar in Kolokuma and theorizing about quota system for Ibo businesses. You once prohibited the same Ibos from employment in both the public and private sectors and excluded them from the informal sector by refusing to allocate them market stalls. Now that you have lost and Ibos are progressing, you want quota system so that you can be employed in jobs you are not qualified to do, no be so? And you think you can wheel in SS to obfuscate issues, forgetting that Ibos are SS too. You talk about Port Harcourt which is not your land, you should have mentioned Asaba too, another bona fide Ibo territory. Just remember that if a regional government is going to be created, all Ibos in the SS will not be part of you hateful lot and you will only have Bayelsa State to play with. Take wise counsel, if you want employment, ditch your crass sense of self-entitlement, upgrade yourself and seek employment in any of the various viable Ibo businesses in any of the numerous Ibo cities or elsewhere or keep wallowing in self-pity.
@@RadioTV595 If you put it that way, then yes! If you are a scavenger doing scavenging business in my space, then yes, I, as an indigene should be given employment priority to do the scavenging. Same thing applies if I go to your space to scavenge, you get employment priority to scavenge. Fair is fair.
Let me use dis opportunity ask you? Hw is possible all d married woman come from other Igbo land, change your native language, culture, tradition, and custom. And later change all the kindred in Ikwere communities name's And question is hw possible is for a married woman in community change community name and villages and including kindred. So why lie prof ? There's no way you will tell us is married woman in your communities change all this name's Mr man called prof. You better tell yourself truth and both your children now not tomorrow ok. And beg for forgiveness
This is a strange teaching. I think that the Ikwere people and Igbos are one people.
Because I was born in Port Harcourt. I also know that Igbos have never colonized anybody at all.
Because Ndigbo goes out for greener pastures. However Igbos do not take all the money they making in other places to their homeland.
Ndigbo are known to invest and developing wherever they've immigrated to.
Are you saying that Ikwere people also imitates the Igbos in naming their children their Igbo names? But Ikwere people are never related to the Igbos in anyway, is that what you're saying? Ndigbo are in Yorubaland and almost everywhere in Nigeria. But there's no arguments of whether they're relating to anybody in other places rather than coming there and seeking for the greenner pastures. But can anyone honestly say the same between the Ikwere people and who I have always maintained and believed that they are relations by blood to blood relationships to the Ikwere people. If an elderly Ikwere man dies every traditional rights performed to the Igboman are also performed to the Ikwere, and nothing would be left out of both traditional rights between an Ikwere and an Igbo. Ndigbo says prayers with Kolanots in a serious occasions and so does the Ikweres. Does Ikwere people performs such rights, through which we remembers our past relatives and our ancestors? I have watched the Elderly of the Ikwereland performed the same rights. Or are you saying that Ikwere people learned all those through only when Ndigbo came to do business in the Ikwereland and they abandoned their own culture and took the Igbos culture to replaced their own Ikwere culture, is it what you're saying? My brother prof. Myself, as someone born at Port Harcourt in Ikwereland in 1950s, I believed the Ikwere person has a developed IQ like the Ndigbo people, and there's no difference between their intelligence levels. And I also believed that Ikweres and Igbos are not different races. These mistakes had caused some people their lives in Northern Nigeria during riots, when some people have the opportunity to runway to save their lives but they insisted that they are not Igbos but Northerners arrived and taught them a lesson who and whose they knew as the Igbos. Therefore they are knowledge we will impacts to our children that could come back to hurt them in future. Meanwhile, I must continue learning. Because this took away from me all what I think that I knew about my Ikwere people's all these years. I'm an Igbo born in Ikwereland in the 1950s. I rest my case. Because I still don't know. I will continue listening. Thank you immensely Professor and remain blessed. Listening to you from USA.
Ikwere people are Igbo don't mind brain washers 😅
I didn't want to comment, but there is a lie here, that there is no central Igbo. There is a central Igbo that every Igbo, including Ikwerre person understands. And there are dialects, and Ikwerre dialects are part of Igbo dialects. I understand there are 5 distinct Ikwerre dialects. There are over 285 dialects of Igbo language. Even in my village, we know different kindreds by the way they speak, peculiar diphthongs and expressions.
Igbo is a language with different dailects even me the part of Enugu state where i come from we have our own dailect which can be strange to an anambra man but we use igbo nzugbe (general Igbo dailect) to communicate and understand each other.
Anambra people has very much presence in our Enugu markets, we Enugu people in return has hug presence too in Anambra markets. Any body can go anywere, reside and do business. I know an ikwerre man who is a serious importer in Onitsha market, we regard him as our Igbo brother. Please professor allow your brother to mingle with their brothers in south east as it will not take any thing away from ikwerre people.
You have said it all. Ikwere language is one of the dialects spoken in Igbo land be proud of the Igbo man you are. Anunmeka oo.
Mr. professor, you just answered the question. Nobody colonized anybody. Ikwerre is Igbo. Stop trying to be political regarding your answer.
If you said the man is lying that what their parents tell them who they are it means also that your own father is hausa ur mother lied to you take it like that
Oga we know ikwere is Igbo but we are tired of ikwerre misbehavior please we nologer care about ikwerre they can choose to be Fulani or Zulu we don't care let karma do the rest
His name is Alex Chinedu Tasie yet he's claiming not to be Igbo,what a confused professor.
@@tonyekwueme3993 He is more of a naughty professor than confused.
A great problem simply simply solved is what you're just done Prof. Congratulations. Am a Rivers man got fed up with unnecessary bickerings between these lovely peoples (Igbo /lkwerre/), giving vacancies for political predators to invade the region with their divide -and- Rule craft. Thank you Prof for your work, God Almighty will protect you ahead, ahead!
Bro,
A lot of those making anti-Igbo noise online as Ikwerre are not even Ikwerre. Most are SW people fearful that Ikwerre/Igbo rapprochement could lead to the revival of Port Harcourt as a leading port and trigger an exodus of Igbo importers from Lagos. according to the Shippers Council, over 65% of all containers shipped to Nigeria belong to the Igbos. Others are Bayelsa Ijaws playing amateur divide-and-rule politics by proclaiming every upland village a separate "ethnic nationality" even as they claim distant ethnic groups with different ethnic origins and languages as one united "Ijaw".
@OmmoleOkpiri What he is saying is that Ikwerre left Benin and came to Igboland. By that admission, Ikwerre is occupying Igboland and so Igbos have the right to demand their land back from the Ikwerre since they are Bini people. A trap has been laid by what people say.
If you claim that Inwhuruhohna otherwise known as Ikwerre came from Bini then you are settling in a land that was never yours in the first place. The resolution is that you people should sojourn back to Bini as you would be welcomed with open arms. Besides, you would relearn the Bini language that evaporated from your heads when you migrated to Igboland.
Sir you spoke well god bless you
You're nothing but a confused professor. Igbo people came to Ikwere land? So who are Igbo people and who are the Ikwere people? Since my childhood from nursery school, I've never heard that there's a tribe in Nigeria called Ikwere tribe. What i do know is Igbo people of Ikwere dialect. Mcheww😂
Igboes classes should establish in every Igbo Land
Prof. Why Ikweres re speaking igbo and answering Igbo name and community and villages in Ikwere re Igbos by name.
So how comes
Do you means dat your furfather's drop their ancestral native language and start speaking Igbo.
And why people are lie like this ? So simple because of Ikwere people married from other Igbo land, thy formally drop their native language and speaking Igbo language.
Let me tell you
That marriage alone tell's you dat we are one people's because in d old in day's nobody leave his tribe and go outside and marry another tribe. Before before in Igbo land,
Is now people are marrying everywhere not before but few people marry outside their tribe.
So mr man stop lie.
I thank God you use your mouth said dat theirs no time Igbo colonies Ikwere people,
Simple means dat thy re one people's, by tradition, culture and custom with the same belive.
And let me ask you prof.
Ikwere is't Igbo name or not ??
Secondly...hw come all d communities and villages in Ikwere and beccome Igbo names .
And which people do it, by given all these communities and villages Igbo names,
Is't British people names d hole community and villages name.
OR Nigeria government change d community and villages name so tell me.
We need all this answer one by one.
Because you had already said dat Igbo people didn't colonies Ikwere people.
And my question again is hw can one people colonies them selves. Is it possible prof ?
Answer......
And what i am seeing is dat you're confusing yourself.
Unless you wan to get money from Nigeria government by saying Rubish.
ONLY THIN.... I knows is dat we Igbos knows ourselves, if like go to abuja and disgracing our self.
Our brothers from Ikwere, Egbema, Eche Ndoki ,opopo, igwe ocha, Omoku, Awuda, and so forth
All this communities knows thy re Igbo people by origin,
Throu.....
Languages and with different dialects.
Language
Culture
Tradition
Custom
Four market day's....
Eke
Orie
Afor
Nkwo.
And igbo igbo festival re the same .
Iri iji
Iwa iji
Emume iji
Ive ji oku
And so many other names in Igbo land call it.
All this name here, meaning the same thing in Igbo language.
So prof. Why re you twisting everything to prove Ikwere people re not Igbo people.
And let me tell you, lumater hw you twist it, can work that's pure truth. Which you know. U re just waisting your time for nothing.
Igbos re more than fourty million people in Nigeria. And thy knows their roots.as igbo people and not only Igbo speaking.
Prof. Go and hve site one side .
You re confused man with your age.
Prof. Tasie, you're a confused historian, lkwerre, is just a lineage in Igbo land just like Owerri, Ngwa, Onitsha, Abiriba etc with different dialect. Stop plunging you people into deep identity crises
His name is Alex(British) Chinedu Tasie yet he's claiming not to be Igbo,what a confused professor 😂😂
This man is a good man
The Igbo were not imperialists nor into the business of taking over people's land. This is a trait of the other regions of the nation. Stop the cap and misinformation. I am an Ijaw and Igbo man and can categorically state that Ikwere and many regions of the Riverine region are indigenously igbo. The moment you accept the truth will be the moment that your people will be liberated.
Which one be Ijaw and Iboman now? Which one you be?
Ijaws want all or nothing hence even where they interface with Ibo, they maliciosly undermine Ibo interests even at the detriment of themselves. An example is how they destroyed the seaport in Port Harcourt after the war and drove out all shipping to Lagos. Thanks to Ijaws, over US$600billon has been stolen from eastern Nigeria and takin to Lagos/western and Northern Nigeria and overseas since 1970 and they are happy as long as nothing goes to Iboland.
Gentleman, please is ikwere a tribe as recognize by the British government or Nigeria government? Who are you as a people in Nigeria? Thanks for your anticipated understanding and response!
Oga, stop lying to people here. You are one of the reasons why a lot people are confused about the Igbos and Ikwerre. These are one people. Ikwerres are Igbo people.
This is what Fulani and hausa use to destroy you, today they own your oil,
Stop dividing ikwerre from igbo
Cos dey are one people..if u are a historian as u said..learn it well so dat u dish out true history to d people
Mr. Prof how do you use the word "scavenger "for Ndi Igbo ? Ogbako Ikwere's position on this identity issue is clear .
What did Ogbakor Ikwerre say? Just curious.
Dear Prof. I think you are a confused person, you just said that onitshia man will not abandon his dialect and speak Mbaise dialect, now does that make the two of them not to be Igbo? Ikwerre is a dialect just like in onitshia, Maisel, ohafia, mbiri, Izaa etc. Now if I may ask you, why is your culture the same with the people you call Igbo. Truly so many people think they are Educated in Nigeria but there are just fools. Also you mentioned Dr Albert Nwaigwe do you know that Dr Albert Nwaigwe recognized himself as Igbo then what is your problem Prof?.
We ikwerre are Igboes we have our brother and sister in imo and Anambra in Anambra they call nkwelle in imo state they nkwerre
Thank you, Professor. The Igbo language, which emerged in the 18th century, is distinct from a bloodline. Most people identified as Igbo, along with other tribes from the South and East, originated from the ancient Benin Empire. Your insights are profound, sir. May God bless you. Only the well-read will truly grasp this.
So Igbo language "emerged in the 18th century" according to you? And what language did they speak before the 18th century?
What a pointless clown! Why dont you just go and take a nap?
Am aware of the Isoko phenomenon who their people sent to learn from the Igbo. I met one of them in Shagamu. I thought he was Igbo. He runs a men's dress and shoe shop. He told me he was brought up at Aba. He speaks Igbo runs his shop as a typical Igbo man does. I also met a Birom woman in this town who told me she was brought by an Igbo in Jos. She runs an eatery. Those who are brought up or trained by the Igbos in business wind up loving the Igbo and marrying Igbo.
The problem with Nigeria is that the other ethnic groups do no appreciate the Igbo. When the British came, we appreciated the efucation they offered. If we didn't, there would be no University Of Port Harcourt, and no professor Alex British Tasie and no orthodox medical doctors, not engineers, no chemists etc amongst. If you don't appreciate someone and what he has to offer, you cannot learn from him.
Oga Igwerre is purly Igbos and stop nareting this stories. Only the name alone tells whom they are.
Lost professor, political professor
Its a very sad thing to see a person fight so hard against his own mirror reflection.
The igbos are the oldest indigenous ethnicity all way from north-western Cameroon all the way to Togo and from the ocean all the way up to just before the Sahel. They have lived continuously in this location for 10,000 years. Both archeology and extensive oral tradition prove tbis.
The Lejja ancient iron smelting site in Nsuka dates back to 2000 BC (4000 years ago) and its the oldest in the world, predating the next oldest (in Turkey) by almost 600 years.
The oldest bronze works in all of west africa, also come from Igbo land, predating the benin and Ife bronzeworks by nearly 400 years. Even our Oral tradition describes how we are an ancient people who have always been in the present location, everyone else came to meet us here.
The Ikwere always talk about how they're not Igbos, and that they're decendants of the benin kingdom (and there's essence to the claim), but the benin kingdom is only 800 years old (Ife, the Origin of the entire yoruba people, is only 900 years old)
Yet, the "professor" is here claiming that the Igbos came from the Ikwere's (never mind the huge variance in population).
Well, how can the Igbos, who have been here for 10,000 years, come from the Ikwere if the Ikwere's are descendants of the benin kingdom that is only 800 years old? Please make it make sense.
My contribution on these ikwerre people question is that why should people spend alot of time doing nothing.
Ikwerre is part and parcrl of igbo nation, that there are differebces in our dialect does not bring any barrier to us .
There's no people and tribe in Africa that does not have differences in their languages. It' was the civil war fallout that is cursing all this.
Mr. Professor stop deceiving people. You made a point that Igbos did not colonize Ikwere because Ikwere is part of Igbo. So the way you are saying Igbos as if they are different from Ikwere people. Stop deceiving people by bringing sentiments. There is a saying that: Igbo na su na olu nolu- means in dialects just like Ikwere and other Igbo speaking areas. Go to Igala people the same thing. They speak Igbo in another dialect but if you listen to them and you will understand that they are speaking Igbo dialect. Sir you need to go and do more research about Ikwere as a dialect of Igbo origin.
Am from Assah ohaji/Egbema, imo state, is there any relationship between my people and ikwerre people of Rivers state.
No nwanne. You can ask your elders more about this
@@emmanuelokwara766 Part of Ohaji/Egbema was carved from Imo State to Rivers because of oil and gas. The Egbema/Ohaji of Rivers are related to the Egbema/Ohaji of Imo State. But now, Imo State has the largest gas field not only in Nigeria but in West Africa. Ikwerres were given the seized Igbo properties in PH in exchange for the oil fields. The seized properties guilt is still hanging on their necks and the shame is why they deny being Igbos.
10:20 The prof says the igbos do not have a predetermined agenda to colonize the Ikwerres. He surely does not understand the depth of the problem we face.
Watch the short interview on Nnaa Mehn Tv tittled: IKWERRE LAND is Igbo's access to the
sea. By Dimm Uche Okwukwu. .... And you will better understand the desperation, hence, the games and propaganda the igbos are playing. Its cold and calculated neo-colonialism.
Nonsense. Ikwerreland is the same distance to the Atlantic Ocean as Azumini in Abia State.
Besides, Ikwerreland is NOT the only Ibo access to the sea. Ibos can access the Atlantic Ocean
via the River Niger at Onitsha, River Cross via Oziza/Ndibe in Afikpo, Oguta in Imo State etc. not
to talk of Ibo coastal settlements in Bonny and Opobo through which Ibos participated robustly in
trade with Europeans for hundreds of years. Ikwerre port only became relevant when coal was
discovered in Enugu. But since 1970, Ibos have ceased to use Port Harcourt seaport.
And they have grown even more prosperous. So keep deceiving yourself believing Ibos
are sitting in a dark room somewhere calculating how to colonise you and your lazy arse.
Is Dim Okwukwu who made that statement not Ikwerre man?
Exactly!
We don't care about ikwere
This Ikwerre issue has been on since over100 years ago. They are different tribes. Eegun people in Lagos speak Yoruba and answer Yoruba names but Yoruba will not force them to call themselves Yoruba because they are strongly Eegun
But the same Yoruba people force Aworis and Ijebus, Aja etc. against their will to be Yoruba which they strongly deny. Conclusion: Yoruba is Yoruba, Igbo is Igbo. Case closed. Next.
@@RadioTV595 100% lie.
@@okasefa563
What lie? What part of the comment do you not understand? Even his Royal Majesty the Awujale of Ijebuland has said it publicly that Ijebus are not Yorubas and that they came from Sudan. Likewise, the Aworis have complained bitterly about how expansionist/imperialist Yorubas have taken over their ancestral land in Lagos and seek to subjugate them even though they have nothing to do with Yoruba people. The Ajah are the same and list go on. Go to open sources and educate yourself and stop being so ridiculous. That hornet nest you are stirring will come back to haunt you and the Igbos are always there to support the independence of Ijebu, Egun Awori, Ajah and other entrapped ethnic nationalities in the SW seeking freedom from you colonizing, grasping Yorubas. So stay on your lane, ok?
@@RadioTV595how Yoruba force ijebu?
Is it possible for Yoruba to force Yoruba cause am from ijebu and your words makes no sense
@@FolorunshoBoluwatife-un9wv
Bro,
Whose words? The position of the Awujale of Ijebuland is available in open sources just at the click of your mouse, unless you are now saying that you are wiser than the Ijebu king himself.
BTW if you are querying the notion of Yoruba forcing Yoruba, then why are you here trying to instigate and promote the equivalent notion of Igbo forcing Igbo, or are you just being too clever by half? Therefore, the intra-ethnic squabble you came here to promote is right there simmering in your own domain whether you admit it or not.
We don't even want ikewere to be igbo, one day Nigeria we separate and we go see where ikewere people will go,, you guys said that you came from benin kingdom and you don't answer the same name, the culture is different... 😢
This man is from northern Nigeria. It happened after the Nigeria civil war lot of Hausa migrated to Port Harcourt and settled in Ikwerre land. Some of them changed their northern names to Igbo name to assimilate.
Mr professor you said that igbos didn't colonize ikewere and why did ikewere people answer igbos name,, is it because igbos is doing their business in ikewere?? Professor pls go and get anot history book.
But you are not an African ,your are a British man talk about British not ikwerri ( nkwerri land )
You are telling stories and pleading to your people.History is a discipline of study.Anthropology is not constructed it evolved. Fear not yourself God dey make mistakes. Ikwerre , mmekanu, Nwadiali.
As a Benin man that I'm, there's no way parts of porharcort if not all be Igbos because every ikwerri persons I have seen so far speak and understand Igbos language, but there's one thing I will urge the Igbos should stop doing is, to telling other people or ethics groups whose didn't fall into the 5 major Eastern state as a minority, because the hausas and yorubas have almost succeeding dividing the southern part of Nigeria for their political greed , so they managed to create the divisions by creating the majority and the minority which some persons seen as an insult, the yorubas and the hausas already know that they can't have the southern part of Nigeria to themselves and for that reason they cannot also let the igbo have it instead the create segregation by creating south-south and some of us are falling for their games and the people in the area they carved out as the south-south beginning to look at it that way, instead we'll be under the yorubas or Igbos, we can create our own nation from the south-south where everyone that fall into the south-south will all see themselves as equal instead of be a minority under any person.
Sometimes when I seen the Igbos on media especially joining the yorubas calling other minority, i will just laugh 😅
I will just say, the Igbos having still learn at all, the yorubas cannot fools the Benin, they know, that's why our elderly for the past fought for the WIDWEST .
What are you actually saying? I don't understand.
Everything you said is lies mr historian, why are Yorubas not speaking Igbo, ikwerre people didn’t learn Igbo language or their culture, ikwerre language is a dialect of Igbo language, that makes them Igbo, it is as simple as ABC, corrupt elder 😢
The issue is : you do not tell people where they come from or try to force them that they're from a particular place And whether they have been acculturated and now bear Igbo names doesn't mean you can tell them where they come from. It's wrong. A change in demography happens everywhere. Kwara State used to be purely for the Yorubas, but the coming of the Fulanis changed that after the several tribal wars fought in that region in those days. Lebanon as we know it today was originally a Christian country. But today the case is different. Intermarriages can happen and change the demographic order of a particular place. Period. So, let's stop this childish way of thinking.
Bro,
You again? You have no coherent knowledge base to comment on this matter and yet you return over and over again to advance your infantile views along with your impoverished and unrelated examples. Who told you that Igbo people have an equivalent or near equivalent history as Yorubas of Kwara state or Christians of Lebanon? Can you provide any evidence of demographic change and its causes in the area under discussion beyond mere speculation? This is precisely how you people barge into every intra-Igbo discussions with your all-knowing, vacuous posturing, then turn around and start whining when the same Igbos come down on you like a ton of bricks. You definitely need to stop your childish way of thinking which is exclusive to you and stay in your lane or face relentless bashing by the Igbos.
Direct remedial action by elders is needed here. As I opined somewhere, Port Harcourt is growing and engulfing surrounding villages, Ohanaeze can help by working with local groups such as Ogbakor Ikwerre to issue a guideline on land transactions with the aim to achieving justice, equity and ensuring the preservation of local culture. These guidelines can be cascaded to local Ibo town unions and made binding to members. An example is where a local "lazy" youth attempts to sell off farm land or land containing local deities etc. and leaving villagers landless but helpless. Such transactions must be stopped at both ends. Local youths should instead be offered skills training, integrated into the wider Ibo apprenticeship system and set up in profitable businesses with introduction to networks and credit lines in leading Ibo cities. This will discourage land sale as the only means of making money since nobody benefits from the creation of a landless underclass anywhere.
You are great dear
You refer to OGBAKOR IKWERRE a as local group? You must be insane!!
Very confused researcher, mr chinedu British
This man called professor has answered the question but still seeking a way to see how he can twist the truth he has already said indirectly,abeg papa u are Igbo, every Igbo clans has their different dialects from others but intelligible to the known Igbo language which ur own is included thanks
His name is even Chinedu 😂😂😂
@@Nwa_ArinzeI wonder oo very confused professor.
Brother you are very close to the truth but you will be there fully in due time.
I can’t even listen any further, you’re a writer, yet you’re teaching my kids that in Nigeria, they have a south southern region, confused people.. una shame de shame me..
The nutty professor ranting gibberish. The man professorship need to be overhaul
What is ikwere and who's is ikwere
Nonsense making mouth and dead research Israel have 12tribes, please go and find something else to do
Oga just lying to yourself and also stop confusing younger people, you are a lost ship, all your stories are lies
This man just say onitsha,dont speak same,with awka, nsukka,dont speak same with ebonyi,even unde nssukka we have many dialect ,but we know are all igbos ,passing six is not passing sense ,now i understand the scripture who said the lost tribe of isreal,now i also understand the bible was writting because igbo, umu isreal and their bulding the talest tower
So British an ikwere name
...music ok if it helps ur composure, but definitely lose d excessive hand gestures. Topic while intersting, gets hit with & suffers so much verbiage that no coherence or linearity is possible, rather unfortunately!
Oga you're okoko professor.
Who's Igbo and who is Ikwere
This man sounds politically correct and brainwashed 😮. Ikwere is Igbo, no more no less 🤷.
This man really market his backwardnes and that of his so called ikwere with no identity or history his name and song playing at the back ground
I feel ashamed on your behalf sir. I honestly don't know what you stand to gain by denying your Igbo ancestry.
You should be ashamed of yourself by trying to force an Ethnic group as Ekwere to be Igbo, it's not done
Maybe he got his Igbo name from his wife as he claimed..😅😅
Look at Old man talking rubbish by saying ikwerre is not IGBO.
Mister man change you name to alex ikwerri before you address to biafrans please
How can a person who claims to be a professor come this short of making any sense here. Who are the Ikwerres? Answer: they're Igbos that speak a different dialect of Igbo. Trying to make sense out of shear nonsense is rash. Thank God that I did all of my tertiary education outside Nigeria...what sort of mind boggle is this? This man is reasoning out of his arse! Igbo music in church 😅🫣😳
Thank you for the clarification. I don't understand why the Igbo people are so desperate about wanting to turn the Ikwerre people around 😊😅 Do you have to tell people where they come from? So annoying!
What clarification? Do you even understand what the man is saying or are you just chatting rubbish?
Which Ibo people are so "desperate" about wanting to turn who around? Who is the one speaking Ibo
language in their homes, giving their children Ibo names, singing Ibo hymns in church, marrying Ibos,
playing Ibo music, selling their homesteads to Ibos etc? Who is the "desperate" one here?
,you don't tell a people where they come from, do you? The Igbos should stop doing that, okay! He has said the Ikwerre people are not Igbos. Period! And whether they speak Igbo or give Igbo names to their children doesn't mean you should tell them where they come from. Africans were taken to different parts of the world as slaves. Today, do they speak their ancestral languages or give African names to their children? So, please, stop deceiving yourself...
@@izodek
My friend, you are inebriated with ogogoro. You made two comments, both of them off point - no relation whatsoever with what the vlogger was
talking about. Right now you are nothing but an emotional wreck with a chip on your shoulder. You need to get offline, sober up and try again or
just shush. Imagine drunken peasant telling Ibos what to stop or not stop and being cocky about it to boot!
You wanna know why the igbos are so desperate to conquer Ikwerreland? Watch the short interview on Nnaa Mehn Tv tittled: IKWERRE LAND is Igbo's access to the sea. By Dimm Uche Okwukwu. .... And you will better understand the desperation, hence, the games and propaganda the igbos are playing. Its cold and calculated neo-colonialism.
@@officialmail8489
Well, Mazi Okwukwu and Nna men erred. Azumini in Abia State is nearer to the sea than anywhere in Ikwerreland being only a few nautical miles. Besides, Ikwerre area which connects to the sea via Bonny River is NOT the only Ibo access to the sea. Ibos can access the Atlantic Ocean via the River Niger an international waterway at Onitsha, River Cross via Oziza/Ndibe in Afikpo, Oguta in Imo State etc. in addition to Ibo coastal settlements in Bonny and Opobo through which Ibos participated in trade with Europeans for hundreds of years without hinderance. Ibos are also in Equatorial Guinea a connection which was used during the war and may also be available if sea access is needed. Ikwerre area only became relevant when coal was discovered in Enugu as the British shut down all existing ports to create Port Harcourt. Since 1970, Ibos have ceased to use Port Harcourt seaport, creating trade diasporas in West/Central Africa instead and they have grown even more prosperous while you continue pining and whining about sea. If you have sea access, why are you still wallowing in abject poverty, selling off family homesteads for peanuts as the presenter said instead of prospering with your sea?
Oga landlord, travel & see.
Ikwerre are Igbo..LOVE FROM JAMAICA
His name is Igbo name shame to this people
Oga you are talking trash ikwerre is Igbo both in language, names, traditional and everything, said that owerre dose not speak onitsha and nsukka dose not speak ikwerre both we are all igbos with different dialect
Somebody said he's not part of you, and you said he's talking trash, Igbos are not lacking population.
@@jonathanogbuji-ji3yk
Ok if he speaks for himself. But if he generalises and includes others without their consent in his
personal issues, then he is probably talking trash.
@@LabaraNdoniaStop forcing yourself on them by using language, dress code and others as an excuse with them. Their ancestors never identified as Igbo, so why would they start now? Your argument is solely based on language and other cultural things which can change over time and doesn't determine someone's heritage. Avoid blaming the Nigeria civil war, British influence, or the Nigerian state for their refusal to accept being Igbo - this has been the case since their ancestors' time.
Someone told you that he is not Igbo and you are forcing yourself on him.... Don't worry one day all Nigerian tribes will flog Igbos and they will face the consequences of their actions.
Who's father is 😂😂😂😂
So why didn't igbo not dominate ibibo and anag and efik and izon
Something that we should be consciously, strategically, and forcefully pushing for, is for a regional and decentralized system of government in Nigeria. Prior to the 1966 coup, there were 4 constitutions in Nigeria. The federal constitution and 3 other regional constitutions. And because the constituation allowed for local policing, each region could enact and enforce laws for the benefit of its people.
The unitary system that we currently practice, is the bane of our problems in this country. Not only economically and developmentally, but socially and culturally as well. The unitary constitution stipulates one system of governance to be applied to a multi-ethnic and diverse population, allowing for the free and unencumbered flow of people to "grab" other people's land and resources without recourse. This is colonization in a different guise.
The "colonization" problem you are talking about is not new. It's been like this since the British joined different ethnicities together to form one country. In the early 60s, to solve this problem, the northern region under Ahmadu Bello, enacted a law in the northern constituation that any available job or business established in the northern region MUST employ a northerner first. Certain people did not like it, however, in hindsight, the man was just acting in the best interest of his people. If a Hausa-Fulani man, from a tribe that makes up one of the majority in Nigeria felt the heat of the "scavengers" as you put it; imagine the plight of the Ikwerres and other minorities.
If an Ikwerre man for whatever reason decides to set up a business in the SE, 99% of his employees will be Igbo. Same thing if he goes to the SW, except for maybe Lagos, 95% of his employees will be Yoruba. Same thing if he goes to the NW, 90% of his employees will be Hausa-Fulani. However, on the contrary, when an Igbo man comes to Port Harcourt to set up a business, he will still employ 90% Igbos. In a land that is not his! This is injustice. A travesty. The WAZOBIA ethnicities should not be able to eat their cakes and have it too, especially since the resource that powers ALL the states in Nigeria comes mainly from us in the SS.
The only way that we, the minorities, can uphold our relevance and save/maintain our culture and heritage in this WAZOBIA dominated country called Nigeria, is to be the most vociferous and staunch supporters of a return to regional governmrnt, if not the outright disintegration of Nigeria as Adako Boro propsoed, fought, and eventually died for.
With a decentralized system of govt, like what obtained in Nigeria pre the 1966 coup, and currently obtains in all sane climes from the US, UK, and UAE, to Japan, Canada, and Spain; we, the minotities, can enact laws to promote and safeguard our existence. We will be able to control our resources, our security, and our destiny. Without it, we will keep talking and complaining and fighting for relevance. However, the sad truth is that, because of the atrocious unitary system of govt that we currently operate, the WAZOBIA ethnicities will ultimately overrun us all. Take a cursory look at ALL the federal parastatals in your state. They are usually filled with and dominated by outsiders than the indigenes. This is the curse of a unitary system of govt and we should fight tooth and nail to change it for posterity and prosperity.
You are confusing yourself switching from ethnic to geographical characterizations. Are the no Ibos in the SS even if Ikwerre are not one of them? Or are you suggesting that those resources that power ALL states in Nigeria are not also found in the Ibo areas? Any Ibo person setting up business anywhere including Port Harcourt does so to make profit and he pays taxes. He employ those who have the skills to achieve his business objectives irrespective of ethnic origins. So if you want to be employed, ditch your crass sense of entitlement and upgrade your skills or go to Shell BP and Shevron, Mobil etc. and complain. The Ibo man is not there to to provide social services which is the role of the state. Isaac Boro fought to establish Ijaw republic in present day Bayelsa State and Ahmadu Bello, your role model and his Fulani is not majority anywhere in Nigeria, so get your facts right.
@@LabaraNdonia spoken like a true wazobia scavenger
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Who cares about the opinion of an ogogoro-addled alpha-numeric nobody sitting in a water-logged batcher bar in Kolokuma and theorizing about quota system for Ibo businesses. You once prohibited the same Ibos from employment in both the public and private sectors and excluded them from the informal sector by refusing to allocate
them market stalls. Now that you have lost and Ibos are progressing, you want quota system so that you can be employed in jobs you are not qualified to do, no be so?
And you think you can wheel in SS to obfuscate issues, forgetting that Ibos are SS too. You talk about Port Harcourt which is not your land, you should have mentioned Asaba too, another bona fide Ibo territory. Just remember that if a regional government is going to be created, all Ibos in the SS will not be part of you hateful lot and you will only have Bayelsa State to play with. Take wise counsel, if you want employment, ditch your crass sense of self-entitlement, upgrade yourself and seek employment in any of the various viable Ibo businesses in any of the numerous Ibo cities or elsewhere or keep wallowing in self-pity.
So you want to be employed by scavengers as a scavenger to do scavenging or what?
What exactly is your point?
@@RadioTV595 If you put it that way, then yes! If you are a scavenger doing scavenging business in my space, then yes, I, as an indigene should be given employment priority to do the scavenging. Same thing applies if I go to your space to scavenge, you get employment priority to scavenge. Fair is fair.
Professor nothing in your brain
you are a confused individual
Oga you are a lier ikwerre is igbo
Prof.of falsehood
this man you're big liar
Stop dividing us from our brothers evil historian
Let me use dis opportunity ask you? Hw is possible all d married woman come from other Igbo land, change your native language, culture, tradition, and custom.
And later change all the kindred in Ikwere communities name's And question is hw possible is for a married woman in community change community name and villages and including kindred.
So why lie prof ?
There's no way you will tell us is married woman in your communities change all this name's
Mr man called prof.
You better tell yourself truth and both your children now not tomorrow ok.
And beg for forgiveness