Below is a picture of the coat of arms of the old Eastern Region. The individual with a spear depicts the fighting spirit of the people as well as the attire mostly worn by people of the Region. The Leopard is a symbol of power. The Eagle resting on an Elephant tusk is a symbol of vigilance. The rising sun on the shield is a symbol of the Region its self as the sun only rises in the East. The eleven rays on the rising sun indicate the eleven original provinces that initially made up the Eastern.

The Eastern Region used to be made up of eleven provinces. However, when the Eastern Region achieved self rule in 1954, the Eastern Regional parliament increased it to 19 provinces plus the Regional capital of Enugu, making 20 provinces in all. They were:

1. Calabar Province
2. Nsukka Province
3. Uyo Province
4. Onitsha Province
5. Aba Province
6. Eket Province
7. Abakiliki Province
8. Owerri Province
9. Umuahia Province
10. Orlu Province
11. Degema Province
12. Portharcourt Province
13. Ogoja Province
14. Awka Province
15. Oji River Province
16. Okigwe Province
17. Opobo Province
18. Yenagoa Province
19 Annang Province
20. Enugu Province(Regional capital)

On the 27th of May 1967, General Yakubu Gowon issued decree 14 of 1967 which abolished all 4 Regions in Nigeria, including the Eastern Region, replacing them with 12 states. This was in direct violation of the agreement Gowon had signed with the Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Col Ojukwu, in Aburi, Ghana

With the agreement broken, Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region a separate country called the Republic of Biafra. The name "Biafra" was suggested to Ojukwu by the head of Yenagoa Province, Frank Opigo. After the declaration of Biafra, Ojukwu changed the Eastern coat of arms to the Biafran coat of arms by removing the man with the spear and replacing him with an identical supporting Leopard.

The government created what they call South south just to separate people of the Eastern Region even more.

It is called the Eastern Region or East. Nothing like South South. Those south south states is one with the 5 eastern state. OPEN YOUR EYES.

Long live people of the eastern region. Imagine what they could have achieved by now, if they were still one as the eastern region. They keep creating states in the East to separate them even more. Akwaibom, Rivers, Delta etc...

So na the leopard wey Amotekun borrow be that? Oya make some people begin call for my head

East lead others follow

Dead and buried Igbo kingdom of Eastern region

So upon their claim of being creative, they still had to create the Aba version of the Nigerian coat of arm

lovecares34:
The government created what they call South south just to separate people of the Eastern Region even more.

It is called the Eastern Region or East. Nothing like South South. Those south south states is one with the 5 eastern state. OPEN YOUR EYES.

Long live people of the eastern region. Imagine what they could have achieved by now, if they were still one as the eastern region. They keep creating states in the East to separate them even more. Akwaibom, Rivers, Delta etc...

Says who?
The igbos or the Niger Deltans who are relieved to be free from igbo hegemony?

ijawcitizen:


Says who?
The igbos or the Niger Deltans who are relieved to be free from igbo hegemony?

You were ‘unshackled’ from your nightmare the Igbos since 1967! The fact you haven’t achieved much since then....esp’ when compared with your contemporaries that equally have oyel and gas like UAE and Kuwait, says you are the problem and not the Igbo!

And there are Igbos in your Niger-Delta, so you’d do well to speak for your ethnicity only!

Breast taking. Not Breath

Bluntguy:
So na the leopard wey Amotekun borrow be that? Oya make some people begin call for my head

When I told you guys that we are civilising them you people think I was joking. Go to there land and see how our people are working day and night to make sure they follow the modern trends.

If left for them they will walking up and down with agbada screaming E MI omo dada from morning till night

ijawcitizen:


Says who?
The igbos or the Niger Deltans who are relieved to be free from igbo hegemony?

You seem to forget that there are more than 100 no nonsense Igbo towns in that your so called Niger Delta.

Fulani wanna be

PROUDIGBO:


You were ‘unshackled’ from your nightmare the Igbos since 1967! The fact you haven’t achieved much since then....esp’ when compared with your contemporaries that equally have oyel and gas like UAE and Kuwait, says you are the problem and not the Igbo!

And there are Igbos in your Niger-Delta, so you’d do well to speak for your ethnicity only!

Tell that kaffir cow rustler like it is.

Arewa merchants are freely selling oil across border in takers no wahala but if ijawman is caught with a jerrycan of oil army fit kill am for oil sabotage. These freaks blame their enslavement on Igbo. I cant understand.

ijawcitizen:


Says who?
The igbos or the Niger Deltans who are relieved to be free from igbo hegemony?

Well if Ijaws felt they were free of Igbo hegemony in the Eastern Region, I wonder how they felt now that their Oil wealth has been stolen in Nigeria and they are now in Hausa-Fulani hegemony which is even worse

ijawcitizen:


Says who?
The igbos or the Niger Deltans who are relieved to be free from igbo hegemony?

The best time in the history of you minorities was as part of the old Eastern region. But in the old Western region you were marginalized and ran for your life

PROUDIGBO:


You were ‘unshackled’ from your nightmare the Igbos since 1967! The fact you haven’t achieved much since then....esp’ when compared with your contemporaries that equally have oyel and gas like UAE and Kuwait, says you are the problem and not the Igbo!

And there are Igbos in your Niger-Delta, so you’d do well to speak for your ethnicity only!

He is afonja... his ethnicity is yellowbat

ijawcitizen:
Dead and buried Igbo kingdom of Eastern region

Bloody minority

PROUDIGBO:


You were ‘unshackled’ from your nightmare the Igbos since 1967! The fact you haven’t achieved much since then....esp’ when compared with your contemporaries that equally have oyel and gas like UAE and Kuwait, says you are the problem and not the Igbo!

And there are Igbos in your Niger-Delta, so you’d do well to speak for your ethnicity only!

You nailed it. They have been free from Igbos suffocating grip since 1967 ,yet none of their cities could match Dubai yet.

We are surrounded by empty skulls in this nation. Just close your eyes and imagine a Nigeria without the workaholic Igbos' pushing and driving commerce. Creating opportunities out of nothing.

gidgiddy:
Below is a picture of the coat of arms of the old Eastern Region. The individual with a spear depicts the fighting spirit of the people as well as the attire mostly worn by people of the Region. The Leopard is a symbol of power. The Eagle resting on an Elephant tusk is a symbol of vigilance. The rising sun on the shield is a symbol of the Region its self as the sun only rises in the East. The eleven rays on the rising sun indicate the eleven original provinces that initially made up the Eastern.

The Eastern Region used to be made up of eleven provinces. However, when the Eastern Region achieved self rule in 1954, the Eastern Regional parliament increased it to 19 provinces plus the Regional capital of Enugu, making 20 provinces in all. They were:

1. Calabar Province
2. Nsukka Province
3. Uyo Province
4. Onitsha Province
5. Aba Province
6. Eket Province
7. Abakiliki Province
8. Owerri Province
9. Umuahia Province
10. Orlu Province
11. Degema Province
12. Portharcourt Province
13. Ogoja Province
14. Awka Province
15. Oji River Province
16. Okigwe Province
17. Opobo Province
18. Yenagoa Province
19 Annang Province
20. Enugu Province(Regional capital)

On the 27th of May 1967, General Yakubu Gowon issued decree 14 of 1967 which abolished all 4 Regions in Nigeria, including the Eastern Region, replacing them with 12 states. This was in direct violation of the agreement Gowon had signed with the Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Col Ojukwu, in Aburi, Ghana

With the agreement broken, Ojukwu declared the Eastern Region a separate country called the Republic of Biafra. The name "Biafra" was suggested to Ojukwu by the head of Yenagoa Province, Frank Opigo. After the declaration of Biafra, Ojukwu changed the Eastern coat of arms to the Biafran coat of arms by removing the man with the spear and replacing him with an identical supporting Leopard.

@ OP, WOW! this is very informative!
I must commend the person that designed the coat of arms of the old Eastern Region because he/she did a good job. Eventhough, they removed the picture of the man with the spear, I think it showcased the aggressive and consistent spirit in a Biafrian.

No Delta, Kogi and Benue state....

This list is wrong Ñnamdi kàlu have the original fake list

Looks like they're posing for a photoshoot

There is so much power in that coat of arms

It looks..... Local

obehi247:
No Delta, Kogi and Benue state....

This list is wrong Ñnamdi kàlu have the original fake list

Moronic

ijawcitizen:


Says who?
The igbos or the Niger Deltans who are relieved to be free from igbo hegemony?

And since the Niger delta has been relieved from igbo hegemony,,,,,They av developed and become like Doha

Okpo

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Tolexander:
So upon their claim of being creative, they still had to create the Aba version of the Nigerian coat of arm

. Alex you said you were never a bigot

Common, don't you get tired of this tribal bickering?

See as Tribalists want to ruin an innocent thread

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lovecares34:
The government created what they call South south just to separate people of the Eastern Region even more.

It is called the Eastern Region or East. Nothing like South South. Those south south states is one with the 5 eastern state. OPEN YOUR EYES.

Long live people of the eastern region. Imagine what they could have achieved by now, if they were still one as the eastern region. They keep creating states in the East to separate them even more. Akwaibom, Rivers, Delta etc...

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Lol atachee by force

ijawcitizen:
Dead and buried Igbo kingdom of Eastern region

more like "Dead and buried Igbo portoporto kingdom of Eastern region"

Rubbish, design something with no similarlty with Nigeria's own.

Very NONSENSICAL region.....
AkwaIbom and others now proudly make up South South region

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A very thievery and Tribalistic region, that us why COR ( Cross River, Ogoja and Rivers) provinces demanded their own States.
Southern Cameroon, a people with same ancestry with AkwaIbom/ Cross River people joined French Cameroon because of the regional tribalistic Eastern government.