EdmundChidera:
You could have said ijaw tribes because Rivers state indigenes mostly use Igbo names.

lielbree:

Lol. We took on English names because back then you were posh if u could speak English

My ancestors traded for centuries with the Portuguese and British

Iamgrey5:
@ emboldened shows you know nothing

There is no such thing as Yariiba or Yoruba in Hausa or Fulani Language.

The Yaribaza slag which roughly translates to " Yoruba bastards" was formed when Awolowo played opposition to the coalition of Hausa and igbo government in the first republic. .

I repeat Oba of Lagos has no Land of his own in Lagos. Hence, he needs to form political affiliations for relevance.

oneeast3:
Read my post again before posting OP. Be specific. I said, which school in Rivers state is older than DMGS and CKC.

oneeast3:
Read my post again before posting OP. Be specific. I said, which school in Rivers state is older than DMGS and CKC.

RexTramadol1:





I know of a man in Bayelsa who named his kids



Chairman, governor,senator, president


I was shocked af

Iamgrey5:
Oba of Lagos has no Land of his own in Lagos outside where his palace is situated. Bini didn't actually conquer the Aworis, the Aworis welcome Bini with open hand because of Oba of Bini affinity to Ife.

Same thing happened in Ibeju area of Lagos


By the way, same thing happened to the ishekiris.

oneeast3:



Why are niger Deltans not bearing portugese names since they came before the British in that region.

AreaFada2:

Oh actually Benin elite people spoke Potuguese pidgin until late 19th century.

How do you think a word like sabi or over sabi came into pidgin English? Why do you think Niger Delta still shape pidgin? Because pidgin European languages have a long history there.

Sabi comes from Portuguese sabir, which is "to know". From old Latin that today is Saber in Spanish, savoir in French and Sabere in Italian.

Many of us don't just speak pidgin in SS. The words were known to our ancestors hundreds of years back. Of course English later displaced Portuguese. Until 1918, end of First World War, Togo, and much of Cameroon spoke German as German colonies. French has since displaced German.

I write my epistle not for those who argue blindly but for reasonable people silently reading.

Customtest:

Ijaws
Especially eastern ijaws were the richest tribe in nigeria then and by resources are still the richest tribe today in nigeria

Deborah98:
PM I will let you know

oneeast3:



Commonsense is not common. Tell us why they passed all those places and didn't establish a single school. Passing through a place is different from settling in the same place. English language is hard. If they actually settled in Rivers state before going to Onitsha, then there should be schools built in PORT HARCOURT in 1800. But it's not the case here.

codemaniacs:


Egba is a kingdom/town/village within the Oyo empire same with ife, Oko which binis corrupted to eko, abeokuta e.t.c...

it was not about 'unity', Oyo empire always granted autonomy to some villages/towns/kingdoms, the same autonomy was granted to the binis to establish their kingdom/town/villages...

Yorubas are never ever about unity, they believe every person can be and should be allowed to be independent and work peacefully with others...

FGonline:
I will delete it now

Call 08120998601

AreaFada2:

Because Benin were not looking for Lebensraum. Everywhere Benin went to rule, they had no interest in land grab. They didn't even want Benin Language spoken by New subjects. Benin also resisted mass migration of Benin people. Even introducing Iwu or body tattoo to identify Benin people.

Abeg stop lying. Yoruba is far older than recent political issues between Awo and Yoruba.
Perhaps it's your Yoruba writers that know nothing. Public place is awash with how Yoruba came about.

ultimatebas:
The Ijaws bear names like Whyte, Jack, George, Lawson, Graham-Douglas, Duke, Hampson, Benson, Briggs, Black-Duke ,Jumbo ,Harry ,Georgewill ,Bestman, Sinclair ,Horsfall ,Goodhead ,Brown ,Green ,Jackmay ,Bob-manuel, Finecountry, Peterside, Fyneface, Hart ,Princewill ,Yellowe ,West ,Pepple, Spiff ,Cole ,Clarke ,Braide ,Jackreece ,Memberr ,Jonathan ,Sydney

Obdk:


So why didn't the Europeans change thr names to ijaw name

peterbello:

t was stated earlier that traders and slave traders were the first to come who weren't interested in building anything before the missionaries who came to build missions and schools so as to abolish slave trade. But since you are daft and blind, you wouldn't see it. So, as I said earlier, take your ethnic ass to the back and stop displaying your folly. No one is interested.

codemaniacs:





white people were against teaching black people how to read and write. do you think they would have taught an African how to read and write..

Every African tribe already knew how to read and write before the europeans came.
every African tribe had and have their own writing scripts and patterns before the europeans came...

RexTramadol1:





I know of a man in Bayelsa who named his kids



Chairman, governor,senator, president


I was shocked af

Daum:



The Aworis submitted their rule to Benin Monarchy. That's what Areafada is saying.

Bolosiye:
..... unlike the rivers people. The people of ijaw and itsekiri stock like the calabar, also had long contracts with the europeans elements, but 4 two different motives. With the calabar it was mainly for slave trade and exploitations, but the ijaw and itsekiri were basically for trade reasons, so the business of slave trading never gain currency with these tribes. And so the whites saw that, there was a need to kind of assimilate with these people so as to have a flourish trade, hence they inter- married. This explains why you see the foreign surname common with people of ijaw and itsekiri who are situated in the present day bayelsa state.

Bhukkis:


The first Europeans to land in Nigeria were the slave traders who were not interested in investing here but to pack slaves for trading overseas. It was the greediness of the people in the south south which made them the first point of call and they sold their people out in droves. The Christian Missionary Society (CMS) came after and their point of entry was the south west. That's why you have the first school and the first story building right there

anastasius:

I was shocked to see Police, Nurse, as names. Ijaw people in my school. I used to think they were picked from the street and decided to have such funny names

Deborah98:
you can

Customtest:

In addition,
Pepple,dodd, Sam, Coookey, Bell-Gam, Cookey-Gam, John-Africa, Africanus, samuelson, williams, Park, Allison, Clark,Claude,Stewart, Finebone,Edmund,George, calebs, Mac-Pepple, Abbey, Toby,Brown,etc

MrOjay1:
I've noticed the for a long time now that many Rivers state indigenes bear westernized surnames like Blankson, Douglas, Perricosta, Souza, Graham, Peterson, McColumbus, etc.

I have seen indigenes of Rivers who bear the above listed surnames alongside other ones too numerous to mention.Was there any kind of foreign culture influx in Rivers State that influenced these surnames?? Or have they just been bearing these kind of surnames right from inception?

I need opinions on this.

bluefilm:


The same thing Black Americans will be saying.

Meanwhile their names are Jackson, Michael, John, Peters, and so on and so forth.

Go and ask Cassius Clay why he changed his name.

I know you don't even know who Cassius Clay is...

Deborah98:
PM I will let you know