Ugomba:
ijaw lands are in ondo state.

point of correction, ijaw land isn't in ondo state rather, they migrated to ondo state centuries ago to engage in their business of fishing. Ijaws are predominantly fishermen and women and they carry out their fishing activities along the coastal areas the niger-delta, including that of ondo state. Look and the map, it's crystal clear. I don't know why the afenifere leader is jumping the entire edo state to claim ijaw is part of us. It's a joke which everybody should ignore. If he says itsekiri is part of oduduwa, it would have made sense because they migrated from Ondo centuries ago to settle in that area. This is evident in their dialect and likewise their names.

BankeSmalls:


Am ashamed being yoruba too, same tribe as denrele?

Nibo n ile Baba ti e ni Ile yoruba ati wipe ta n Baba ti e?

Ugomba:
ijaw lands are in ondo state.

You mean the ones they are trying to take by force? They have no land in Ondo. Let them return to where they migrated from. They hadn't been anything good in Ondo state but nuisance, Ilaje vs Ijaw comes to mind (Thanks aiyetoro, a developed community that produces alot of what it uses, including electricity and artillery, water, etc

BankeSmalls:


What you wrote here my friend, is a load of unadulterated rubbish.

Oh enlightened one, show me the way!

I'm sure you can do better than a one line non-constructive criticism. Convince me with your superior argument.

Tales by moonlight.

thuggCheetah:
I regret being yoruba

Hahahahahha


Why now

Oduduwa trying to steal Egbesu's lands. The small gods are at war.

DanseMacabre:


You no suppose dey waste this your skill for NL. You suppose turn private investigator or investigative journalist.
Wehdone oga Sherlock Holmes.

Na the guy rebuttal thread I even dey wait for sef, I am very sure that he is going to litter the thread with igberetv made link as his source.

See what Nnamdi Kanu has caused, now he has used his Biafra radio to open the eyes of the Niger Delta people to the antics of the Yorubas.

Now we know why they invade any thread that mentions Nnamdi Kanu with so much bile and bitterness calling his supporters Liepods, Ipod, Biafra bla bla bla

For many years people in the Niger Delta where manipulated to view their long marginalised Igbo neighbours as their enemy while the real enemy is the Yorubas and not even the North.

Guestlander:


Ilaje and Ijebu are not Yorubas right? How come Awolowo, an Ijebu man founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa?

Leave ignorant people alone na, Ijaws don't even know that they are migrants in Ondo state.
The reason the Ijaws are in Ondo state is because Ijaws are riverine dwellers, they migrate to the present day Ondo state and other river banks in Nigeria.
They better start asking their fore fathers how they got to Ondo, before it becomes too late.

TonyeBarcanista:

WTH? Don't you think this obsession is driving you to insanity?

What obsession?? Look at this zuwo! Cos I mentioned Tonye? Mgbada di ka gi...See this small man.

Snowpikin:



Hahahahahha


Why now

Enjoy nairaland my friend. The guy you quoted speak more Igbo than I do.

Exciton:


Oh enlightened one, show me the way!

I'm sure you can do better than a one line non-constructive criticism. Convince me with your superior argument.

What you seem to support, is a way for people to compromise their cultural identities in favour of a fake nationalism with very very different cultural backgrounds.
I advise you to first change your own culture, learn a new culture and language, marry from another tribe and change your own religion first. Then come back and talk here.

laiza:
you probably was born yoruba, clearly that was a mistake. Nobody forced you to remain one! The sooner the lot of you leave the earlier we'd know who is remaining. I am proud to be yoruba.....our forefathers might have made mistakes it is therefore left to us to right the wrongs of our heroes past.

That guy is igbo. Lol

KINGOFTHEEAST:
this is a bad time to be an afonja

what an ambiguous and a contradictory comment. what's your adjective "bad" stating?

laiza:
every tribe gas it's shortcomings and we yorubas and not left out. Now either anyone associates with us or not we'd still gonna be yoruba and a force to reckon with. Quick question tho; what have you done to change that belief?

These people are igbos with Yoruba moniker

Guyman02:
See what Nnamdi Kanu has caused, now he has used hia Biafra radio to open the eyes of the Niger Delta people to the antics of the Yorubas

Nnamdi Kanu is a genius.

bantudra:
the same message goes to ipob biafrans too...

una think the delta is divided and can be played anyhow...we deltans have leaders and elders too...

What"s the meaning of Delta? Which language is the word "delta"? People talking about indigenous names here - Ijaw, Yoruba, Igbo etc and you talking stupid delta that was given you by Nigeria government. Abeg park well.

franksam2009:
Why this ijaw people too like fight? It is impossible for south south to be independent, they will have to take a side, either with the Igbo's, Yoruba's, or nigeria

Remove yorubas because we do not want ijaws. You people can have them

Utsekiri is ok for us thanks

Fremancipation:


Listen, Nigeria is an artificial creation and will never work until its forced inhabitants come together and draft a brand new constitution on the terms of engagement and nationhood. For now let's continue to pretend and beat around the bush.

For example, how would you feel if suddenly I forced you and your neighbors to live in one house without any mutual terms or agreements?

Na only you make sense among your kinsmen with this post

thuggCheetah:
I regret being yoruba

Ipob....we have heard you. You can't regret what you never were

mandarin:
I don't think anyone is laying claim to Izon or Ijaw least the Yoruba. Some Ijaw are in Ondo State but have no land there. Just like Fulani, the Ijaw are migrants in many parts of southern Nigeria and there's no way they can proof the ownership of anywhere in Edo and Ondo state.
The coastal areas from Escravos Warri to Edo and Ondo state do not have any Izonland.
I do not think Yoruba want to claim Ijaw but has been affirming their kinsmen the Itsekiri.
This statement by the Ijaw is deliberate message to Itsekiri and Edo, trying to affirm ownership and I will advise that they perish the idea.

Now on a more pragmatic level, who really need who? Compare what ijaw have to the Yoruba in all ramifications, they are not mates;is it productive landmass good for agriculture, population with good purchasing power, educated population, already organized communities in terms of economic power, what are the ijaw fighting for?
1. Crude oil: The exclusive land area the ijaw can claim is Forcados to Bayelsa and maybe some areas of Kalabari in Rivers. They can make do with their resources and lets see how many decades it take them to be like the Yoruba or Igbo. Other ethnic groups have oil too, by the time your Nigeria is fully divided(I don't advocate for such) you will know that Yoruba and Igbo has oil than you can think. This is also applicable to natural gas.
2.Warri: Former oil capital of Nigeria, wealthy oil potentials and location of a refinery and proposed gas FTZ, the ijaw can't claim the one at Porthacourt and so looking at warri will to them be a good starting point. Now, if the Itsekiri should stand with Yoruba it will be zero probability of getting what they want. The Gelegele at Edo is slipping away already and consolidating through Toru-Ibe is a dead dream, the ijaw are led largely by youths who just want economic empowerment but with little grasp of history and diplomacy.

What options do they really have if they want an Ijaw country?
Live in peace with their neighbors, hold to those undisputed areas and trade away those disputed areas for strong economic and cultural ties because they can't win the Yoruba or the Edo in eventuality. They need to consolidate on their areas in Rivers and Beayelsa else they may be fighting battles against all their big neighbors and they can't win.
So, what would the Yoruba want from ijaw apart from oil, don't think there's anything and its not looking like Oduduwa will want to include the Ijaw even though historically the ijaw claim ife and, when the value of oil becomes less and less a driving force, the ijaw will see the light.
happy Sunday to all.
My take is let the Izon live in peace with all their neighbors, negotiate a confederation with any big side and you will win from both sides.

Thank you !!!! Nicely done

BankeSmalls:


Am ashamed being yoruba too, same tribe as denrele?

why na?
Don't u like having oblong skulls like d rest of us??

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Odkosh:
we know we are not a tribe, but we are Niger delta. stop dragging us into your stupid nation, we are on our own, we don't want anybody to drag us because of our oil, be it Yoruba or Igbo. we are not Igbo and will never ever be Igbo or part if your Biafra. we know our root and history. we are never Yoruba or Igbo. so get that Mr man. we are Niger Delta. thanks.

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which one be niger delta?
is ND a tribe or ethnic group?
state your tribe jorr stop attaching yourself to other tribes be proud of your little minority tribe.
Igbos are majority in the so called ND so i guess they prefer to be identify with their brothers not some stranger under rubbish ND
your oil? how many oil Wells are owned by your people
dumb people everywhere

BankeSmalls:


So you want an ijaw man to be forced to eat amala and share his oil wealth with Yorubas?

Hehehe. It's exactly how our ancestors must have felt when the missionaries introduced Christianity to them.


That's not what I want. I want an Ijaw or Yoruba or whatever tribal pure blood to exist only in the history books! I want each Nigerian to have like 3 different tribal ancestries so that tribes no longer matter!

Eddiecute86:


Except for The Eguns， They are definitely not Yoruba. Don't get it twisted am not saying they are not or won't be part of your Oduduwa. I am just stating the obvious.

My guy if you say that infront of an Egun man na serious fight u dey look for oo.

Ugomba:
ijaw lands are in ondo state.

Tell them oh

Did i just saw abia state in that map?
This afonjas must be drunk on lagoon water.

Please can someone school me if the Deltans are running away from Oduduwa why do they bear Yoruba names. And have some Yoruba words in their language. I dont know and i want to know. tnx

thuggCheetah:
I regret being yoruba

You must have a reason, kindly share please.

This is the real map. Bleep that thing up there