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Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Efewestern: 6:17pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
onuwaje: what do you say about the fact presented by fratermathy? Also I would love to add to the little he said, 90% of industry / institution in warri are in Urhobo land, although the refinery is extend to itsekiri land, so it's 50/50. am still looking for where to place ijaw in my ranking, In fact urhoboland is warri city and warri city is urhobo land. Note I used Warri city, The other part of warri na itseke domain. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Afam4eva(m): 6:19pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
PrecisionFx:Cross Rivers is a state and not an ethnic group. The tribes.ethnic groups in the state don't speak the same language. 2 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Afam4eva(m): 6:24pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
efeski:Why are people this silly. Does the land that Anioma are presently your land? What do you people always mean that they should go and join their people in the south-east? Are you saying they should pack their bags and properties and cross the bridge leaving Asaba, Agbor, Ogwashi-ukwu behind? Are some of you inherently daft or just trolling? 9 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 6:25pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
xzibit44: The last time I checked, there is no ethnic group recognized as Anioma within or outside Nigeria 4 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Buylekkinownow(m): 6:28pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
okay Please check my signature |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by asamaigho(m): 6:55pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
fratermathy: nope! am just concerned abt ur maps,t hey are somewhat misleading. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by tobtap: 7:04pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
sandammy:great people... peaceful n powerful(jazz tinz) .. one of my best friend is baruba... picked up a few of der language from him...cheers |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by jordinsparkles(f): 7:36pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
ewa26:u don come again! U wan start war abii? 1 Like |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Eastfield1: 7:41pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
efeski:this is funny. we are watching. we are waiting 2 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 7:48pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Afam4eva: Are u still insisting that tribes and ethnic group are the same thing? |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 7:54pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
fratermathy: Ukwuani is IGBO and IGBO is Ukwuani... I really wander where u people pick up all these lies from. We don't have one igbo language per sey, We have very many dialects... There are so many dialects of the igbo language that I don't understand even though I am a pure breed. I don't hear Jack wen someone from Izza/Ezilo speaks igbo. Also try n forget what they might be teaching in schools, it's just how they keep dividing the igbos. 3 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Zoolezoo(m): 7:55pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
fratermathy: Who owns the following parts/towns of Warri township: Ubeji Ajatiton Ajamimigha Ifie Ugbolokposo Jalla Ogunnu Ugboroke Aren't these all Itsekiri locales within the actual Warri township? cc: Efewestern 1 Like |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 7:55pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
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Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Zoolezoo(m): 8:31pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
PrecisionFx: So What are the other significant tribes in the SW? |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by pazienza(m): 8:51pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
efeski: You are already roaming, just remove your cloths and you would paint the full picture of who you are. In what world do second class citizens rule the first class ones? Anioma are second class Igbos, yet Uwaechue, an Anioma son from Ogwashi uku. was elected the president of the apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndiigbo for two tenures. Aniomas are second class Igbos, yet for years, the Asagba of Asaba was the chairman of the Igbo traditional rulers association and a grand patron of Ohanaeze Ndiigbo. Anioma sons like Achuzia, Okocha Peter, have held / still holds high positions in Ohanaeze Ndiigbo. You Igbophobic Edoids in Delta keep wishing that Ndiigbo across the Niger hate those of us in the East so that you can appropriate them in your phantom Niger Delta republic, but you will always keep failing, because our Enu-ani people know better, after the bile your spilled over the Capital status of Asaba in Delta state, instead of Warri, you must think they are foolish. And let me remind you, the lands of Enu ani people remain their ancestral lands, any day you attempt rubbish is the day you will feel the full strength of the Igbo nation. Just keep roaming. 14 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 9:00pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
The great tragedy of Nairaland : A beautiful thread ruined by the usual e-war nonsense 1 Like |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 9:03pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
PrecisionFx: This is perhaps the second most sensible comment I've seen here since the usual ewar started here. However in Nigeria, the issue is slightly more convoluted than that. Political issues I guess. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by fratermathy(m): 9:27pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
asamaigho: I didn't draw the maps man. I saw it on Delta STate government website. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by onuwaje(m): 9:30pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Efewestern: how many industries are in Warri u can list them out so we take it from there |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by fratermathy(m): 9:30pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Zoolezoo: Ogunu is an Urhobo town, under Agbassa Kingdom. Ajamimogha and Ugboroke are in Warri City are Itsekiri locales. The others are communities in the local government. They are not within the metropolitan Warri. They are to Warri, what Okwe and Ibusa are to Asaba (if you are familiar with Asaba). 1 Like |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by fratermathy(m): 9:31pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
PrecisionFx: Are you not the same person that said there are only 3 ethnic groups in Nigeria? I guess Urhobo is a tribe of Igbo? Right? You just wake up one day and come up with "bright ideas" about ethnicities. For your information mister, the word "tribe" is out of fashion. Your usage of it is reminiscent of the colonial masters who balkanised Nigeria and her ethnicities. Ethnic groups are peopled by those of common languages and cultures. Within ethnicities, there are sub-ethnicities/clans/kingdoms/etc. Don't delude yourself and think your ethnic group is so important just because of the colonial mistake called Nigeria. SirWere: Political? Like really? So in your mind, all the ethnicities in the Niger Delta area that speak their own diverse languages (without any relationship to each other whatsoever) are political creations? Right? Many of you from the Nigerian reductionist triad of Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba, are so deluded by this contraption that you really feel you are better than the average man who was chanced to be born into a small ethnic group. Well, guess what? We really don't care what you think. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 9:43pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
What is the difference between a tribe and an ethnic group? As far as I can tell, nothing really. But don’t take my word for it. Let’s see what dictionary.com has to say on the matter. “Tribe – any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.” “Ethnic group – pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a group (ethnic group) sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.” Do you see a difference? Then why is it that Africa is said to have tribes, and Europe is said to have ethnic groups? Note ethnic groups have a “common and distinctive culture, religion, language.” There are at least one thousand groups in Africa with common and distinctive culture, religion and language, whereas in Europe many ethnic groups have the same language and religion. If anything, that would make the term “ethnic group” more appropriate to Africa than Europe. But essentially the two terms have the same denotative meaning. What a word “denotes” is its direct meaning. What a word “connotes’ is its indirect meaning. Connotations are the shades of meaning that a word has picked up over time. The word “tribe” has connotations of being primitive while the word “ethnic group” does not. However, if one goes by that criteria, it should be noted that when the Portuguese arrived in the Congo, they were surprised at the sophisticated medical procedures of the people which included Caesarean sections, something they were totally ignorant of. Likewise, the military tactics of Shaka were copied and emulated by the British and the Germans. The Native American groups were also called tribes. However, the entire political structure of the United States government with its separation of powers of branches of government and its decentralized federal system and other key aspects were lifted wholesale from the Iroquois Nation in New York by Benjamin Franklin. In short, words have power. We must be careful how we use them. ( by Arthur Lewin, author of Africa Is Not A Country: Its A Continent ) 2 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by TheUmbra: 9:43pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Some Delta Igbos saying they're not Igbos bears no significance any more than an Okpe man says he's not Urhobo. And while the Delta Igbos produced 11 generals in Ojukwu's Biafran army lead by the great Kaduna Nsogwu, the Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, the largest, most significant, and influential Igbo socio-cultural body has been headed by a Delta Igbo son. This is proof that Igbos across the Niger have and always recognise their kin west of the Niger. So your second class citizenship rant has less value than a cow's dung. You're politically naive and backward. Have the Anoimas which control 9 local government Area in Delta State not applied for Anioma state? Does that sound to you like they want to remain in Delta with or without Nigeria? It is an uncommon foolishness for you to come explain to me what goes on in my father's house. efeski: 5 Likes |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by kenny1795(m): 9:46pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
ewa26:pEpper content |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Dayoto: 9:54pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
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Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 9:57pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Zoolezoo: Awori, Egun Egba,etc all make up the ethnic group called Yoruba. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by genieluv(f): 10:02pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Mujtahida: Naaah, i really did not study history, i just love learning history on my own. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 10:13pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
fratermathy: Difference in language does not mean difference in ethnicity. please go and read what ethnicity n tribe means, it's not a Nigerian thing, it's world over. Read Scholarly articles on these definitions, it will help u a lot. Urobo, isoko, etc are tribes n not ethnic groups. |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by genieluv(f): 10:19pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
Realgana: Well, am not an expert here, but the little i know about this was that the jihad wars of the fulanis against Kwararafa and other middlebelt groups occured around the early to mid 19th century (1810-1840) and even until the late 19th century till the british arrived and defeated the caliphate, emirates and all of the rest of Nigerian peoples. **** The fulanis immediately conquered and expanded to form Adamawa (Yola) and Gombe emirates from Sokoto sultanate as soon as the conquest of hausaland was complete and Kwararafa was attacked from Yola & Gombe emirates. Yola gave birth to Muri (Jalingo) and Wase emirates (am not so sure about the latter). That was the begining of Jihad attacks/conquest on Kwararafa people because both Muri and Wase people were Kwararafans (Jukunoid peoples). However Wukari (the capital of Kwararafa) defeated the fulanis woefully when the fulanis wanted to lauch further and they and the other neighbouring tribes of present day Adamawa/Taraba states (like the tribes of Numan federation), Mumuyes, Chambas and others who were not conquered by jihad continued warring with the Yola & Muri emirates until the British came. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by david102(m): 10:36pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
What of the Igede/Egede people?
Is there no analysis on them |
Re: 30 Interesting Facts About Some Nigerian Minority Ethnic Groups by Nobody: 10:37pm On Jun 21, 2017 |
PrecisionFx:On this you're quite wrong. They are sub tribes, not sub ethnic groups. The Egba man is as Yoruba as the Ile ife man. |
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