asha80:
you are now deviating...from saying that other ethnic groups are not in igboland(you had Yoruba in mind) because igbos are not accomodating..
Now on hearing about large Hausa settlements in igbo land you now reverted the hausas there keep to themselves that they do not mix(as if it is only in igboland that they do so)..bigfrancis had let you know that Hausa shops and individuals are not attacked in igboland unlike what happens up north you now diverted to marriage and bigfrancis have giving you the reason of religion....how many Hausa Muslims you know marry Igbo ladies up north?...next thing you now diverted that it is now Igbo Catholics...pls do not give me that talk about yorubas relating with you without caring about where you are from and the likes because from my experience yorubas like relating with you if their is something to gain from you....if you do not know the meaning of accomodating go to the dictionary and find out

splashbaby:


You are the one deviating and derailing! I took bigfrancis on the religion issue he brought to the table... I never did. If you read my comments carefully in response to what he said concerning Igbos preference for certain religion sect which I doubt you ever did before rushing to show your ignorance on this issue. You realise my position on Igbos been a great host.

The large population of Hausas that bigfrancis claimed to be living in his home town is just relative, they are the very few who dared to. An Hausa man will not find an Igbo lady attractive if he feared the in-laws will not welcome him, unlike in Yoruba land where integration might be seamless. Igbos are not great host like you want us to believe. It is only Igbos that have running battles with both Hausas and Yorubas.

It's an open truth that Igbos town or city are not destination choice for serious minded business men. Not only because of lack of economic opportunity alone but the hostile nature of the people that drive away foreigners. It's not only by burning shops that you drive people away from your land. When you continously steal their goods to run them down you send them to early graves.

You wonder why many Igbos like you are still stucked in Yoruba land because they welcome you or your parent in the first place..

Your people brought nothing to Yoruba land when they came...now they prosper and easily forget the good will of those that showed them love to excel... Many like you are picking the wrong enemies to fight..you should instead be grateful to your host.

Usually Igbos quickly develop animosity against people that helped them whenever they sense that they are now equals. They always believe they are smarter than people who are obviously better and more informed than them.

alphalpha:


Igbo man leave Nigeria, go UK to learn Yoruba? because the UK version na original?
tell me say Hausa man leave Sokoto go Kenya to learn ijaw....

asha80:
lol at 'stealing their goods'..you have got large imaginations..you surely know igbos more than they know themselves..please go round most Igbo towns if you would not see Hausa settlements that are even encroaching villages...as for Igbo towns not being placed for serious biz men I leave you to your ignorance...if you have problem with igbos admit it but don't be dropping half truth here and there

splashbaby:


You are the one deviating and derailing! I took bigfrancis on the religion issue he brought to the table... I never did. If you read my comments carefully in response to what he said concerning Igbos preference for certain religion sect which I doubt you ever did before rushing to show your ignorance on this issue. You realise my position on Igbos been a great host.

The large population of Hausas that bigfrancis claimed to be living in his home town is just relative, they are the very few who dared to. An Hausa man will not find an Igbo lady attractive if he feared the in-laws will not welcome him, unlike in Yoruba land where integration might be seamless. Igbos are not great host like you want us to believe. It is only Igbos that have running battles with both Hausas and Yorubas.

It's an open truth that Igbos town or city are not destination choice for serious minded business men. Not only because of lack of economic opportunity alone but the hostile nature of the people that drive away foreigners. It's not only by burning shops that you drive people away from your land. When you continously steal their goods to run them down you send them to early graves.

You wonder why many Igbos like you are still stucked in Yoruba land because they welcome you or your parent in the first place..

Your people brought nothing to Yoruba land when they came...now they prosper and easily forget the good will of those that showed them love to excel... Many like you are picking the wrong enemies to fight..you should instead be grateful to your host.

Usually Igbos quickly develop animosity against people that helped them whenever they sense that they are now equals. They always believe they are smarter than people who are obviously better and more informed than them.

Flawlessangel:

dude there's no such thing as hardest language...all languages sound alien to those who dsnt understand it, its until u put ur mind 2 it thats when u understand it.....igbos make it a tradition in learning the languages of whatever states they reside in, thats why they cud speak their language....my mum aint igbo but because she lived in d east for sometime, she cud speak igbo to the extent u wud think she's igbo, its wasnt until i turned 10 years old did i findout dat my mum aint igbo.

bigfrancis21:


Nice. I know a Yoruba guy, Ayo, living in Nsukka for about 10 years who speaks not just Igbo but core Nsukka dialect very well. Where is your mom from?

splashbaby:


You can play the Ostrich as much as you like... The fact is Igbos are always having issues with Yorubas and Hausas , while Yorubas and Hausas are busy forging a bond that's strong enough to mend their differences...Igbos are busy widening the gaps at both fronts.

If you believe your own lies of being a great host to other ethnic tribes... good for you, however the results of your great hospitality are all over the place for all to see.

Anang people detest Igbos, so also the Ibibios, the Ikwere's still don't want a link to them. This are the reality... Igbos should check themselves on why they have difficulties with other ethnic tribes and not the reverse.

splashbaby:


You can play the Ostrich as much as you like... The fact is Igbos are always having issues with Yorubas and Hausas , while Yorubas and Hausas are busy forging a bond that's strong enough to mend their differences...Igbos are busy widening the gaps at both fronts.

If you believe your own lies of being a great host to other ethnic tribes... good for you, however the results of your great hospitality are all over the place for all to see.

Anang people detest Igbos, so also the Ibibios, the Ikwere's still don't want a link to them. This are the reality... Igbos should check themselves on why they have difficulties with other ethnic tribes and not the reverse.

FolarinLondon:


You need to come around and see for yourself; Pakistanians are not equally left out, they are all learning how to speak it.

alphalpha:


l don't doubt that but it's no big deal. I can go anywhere to learn any language but it doesn't mean I have "dumped" my native language. I already have it so I should learn a new one. it doesnt make one more important than the other. Hausa remains the most widely spoken Nigerian language.

asha80:
like I said if you have problems with igbos admit it rather that dropping half truths

Fulaman198:


I assume you are Tangale

splashbaby:
Sabe, Ketu, Dassa and many part of Port Novo all speaks Yoruba. The common spoken language in Benin and Togo apart from French and some few dorminant native language is Yoruba

splashbaby:
Hausa community in Igbo land do not mingle with the locals. They don't inter-marry. They even barely speak the language. ... I haven't seen any Ibos married to Hausas unlike in Yoruba land where they inter marry and live like one family. Igbos don't accommodate other tribes like the love they show to them.... That's the truth...deal with it.

splashbaby:


You are the one deviating and derailing! I took bigfrancis on the religion issue he brought to the table... I never did. If you read my comments carefully in response to what he said concerning Igbos preference for certain religion sect which I doubt you ever did before rushing to show your ignorance on this issue. You realise my position on Igbos been a great host.

The large population of Hausas that bigfrancis claimed to be living in his home town is just relative, they are the very few who dared to. An Hausa man will not find an Igbo lady attractive if he feared the in-laws will not welcome him, unlike in Yoruba land where integration might be seamless. Igbos are not great host like you want us to believe. It is only Igbos that have running battles with both Hausas and Yorubas.

It's an open truth that Igbos town or city are not destination choice for serious minded business men. Not only because of lack of economic opportunity alone but the hostile nature of the people that drive away foreigners. It's not only by burning shops that you drive people away from your land. When you continously steal their goods to run them down you send them to early graves.

You wonder why many Igbos like you are still stucked in Yoruba land because they welcome you or your parent in the first place..

Your people brought nothing to Yoruba land when they came...now they prosper and easily forget the good will of those that showed them love to excel... Many like you are picking the wrong enemies to fight..you should instead be grateful to your host.

Usually Igbos quickly develop animosity against people that helped them whenever they sense that they are now equals. They always believe they are smarter than people who are obviously better and more informed than them.

alphalpha:


they don't intermingle because of religious differences. christianity(igbo) and islam(hausa) can't mix. there are Yoruba Muslims and as such they mix with Hausa's well. igbos accommodate others. that's the hard truth. deal with this

alphalpha:


your personal opinion

alphalpha:
if there's a dominant native language,then Yoruba can't be the dominant tribe

splashbaby:
So can you explain why Igbos don't embrace Muslims...the all too knowing Igbos for centuries can only accommodate two religions... Christianity and Idol worshiping. Why is this so?

Catholic to be precise are forced on them by their slave masters...what you should deal with instead is the fact that Igbos still live in a cult like society.

It will be foolhardy to think they love other religion outside Christian... But in truth they don't like Muslims. You will hardly find a Mosque in Igbo land...what a show of intolerance, not that there are no Muslims but the community will not welcome them.

splashbaby:
Good points. I agree with you on most. Can you explain why Igbos don't embrace Islam? If you can, you will understand why Yorubas are better host than Igbos. My father used to tell me this "whenever you visit a new town... See if they have an Igbo trader, if they don't, then they must be a bad host" this is the mindset of Yorubas when they open their doors to Igbos...I doubt if Igbos are conscious of the presence of stranger among them...

bigfrancis21:


One word laced your entire comment and that is ignorance.

As for religion, Yorubas are roughly divided into christians and muslims, thus making it easier for muslim hausas to intermingle with the Yoruba muslims than it is for Igbo. You should know that religion is of serious business to easterners and they wouldn't sacrifice their religion for anything. Certain eastern families have issues today mainly because of what? Simple difference in religious beliefs.

Igbos are just not found in the SW, just a subtle reminder to let go of 'Igbo indebtedness' to the SW. They are found all over Africa - SA, Cameroon, Benin, Ghana, Togo, Senegal, Gambia e.t.c, wherever they are settling, going to school, working or doing business. At work last week here in US, a Togolese Dell technician came into my office to fix a faulty work station of ours and I engaged him in a discussion. Along the line, he said 'there are a lot of Nigerians in Togo, especially Ibo people who do business'. Those were his words. Igbo people are migrants by nature, always wanting to migrate outside to foreign lands to take advantage of business opportunities there because the competition amongst Igbos themselves in the east is exceedingly high, where everybody knows what you think you know, thus reducing your chances of making good business, hence the need to migrate to anywhere but Igboland. If you visit Onitsha, Aba or Owerri main markets, you will see how deadly aggressive the traders are in those markets. They literally struggle for customers, once you step foot into the market, every store person would be calling you from left to right, grabbing your hand to draw you into their store, and there is a reason they do this. Some customers enter the market without knowing exactly what they are looking for or what they want to buy, these customers are called 50-50 and for such customers and you have to go out of your way to help them decide and get them to buy something else they would take their money elsewhere - to your competitor. It is business strategy and I learned in my business class spring semester last year that when you are in the market, you always have to innovate things that give you a competitive advantage over your competitors. At the main market in Calabar called Watt market, you have Igbo and Efik/Ibibio traders in the market. The Efik traders would sit in their shops and wait patiently for you to come in out of your own will but the Igbo traders stand by their doors literally struggling for and dragging customers into their stores. Its all about competition which they understand better. That's just the way it is.

The Igbo man is simply ambitious and sometimes he might take it too far but that is his nature. It is only on NL that you meet people who have issues with someone being ambitious and hardworking.

Some times you just need to stop looking at things from a bird point of view and look at life the way an Igbo man looks at life, then will you understand his nature better. He is simply a human being like you with a differing thought process, stemming mostly from cultural upbringing.

splashbaby:
So which known countries do we have Igbos with cultural ties to Igbos in Nigeria... Please no lies here... remember Google will expose you! Waiting!

bigfrancis21:


On a side thought, why do Igbo have to embrace Islam?

What point are you trying to make?

bigfrancis21:


Equatorial guinea and Cameroon.

splashbaby:
So can you explain why Igbos don't embrace Muslims...the all too knowing Igbos for centuries can only accommodate two religions... Christianity and Idol worshiping. Why is this so?

Catholic to be precise are forced on them by their slave masters...what you should deal with instead is the fact that Igbos still live in a cult like society.

It will be foolhardy to think they love other religion outside Christian... But in truth they don't like Muslims. You will hardly find a Mosque in Igbo land...what a show of intolerance, not that there are no Muslims but the community will not welcome them.

splashbaby:
So which known countries do we have Igbos with cultural ties to Igbos in Nigeria... Please no lies here... remember Google will expose you! Waiting!

alphalpha:


what is your problem with Igbos? now you have deviated from Igbo not welcoming other ethnic groups to Igbo not welcoming Islam...

what is your problem with Igbos?

splashbaby:
I have no problems with Igbos...infact I have a very close friend who also call my mum mother. He treats her like her real mother. I am merely saying the obvious. Igbos have caused a senseless civil war and they haven't learnt anything from it.

They are seriously in search of an identity. They want to be in two countries at once. Yet they want to be alone.... So confusing I must say. This has led them to mortgage their national rights in Nigeria as one of the three leading race in this country.

I know the strength of many Igbos and one of them is not assimilating other cultures or religion. When you start comparing that with the Yorubas who are champions of hospitality then you get this kind of embarrassment.

alphalpha:


that's it. You have made up your mind and there's no going back for you. have it your way.