AdaFonju:

Shut up my friend you want to create another ika vs igbo situation, the Urhobo/isoko ppl have had there identity as ancient Efa groups before bini-yorubas came from ile ife, Urhobo/isoko are languages with dialects

I dont really get u, But Ika bu ndi IGBO.

DavidEsq:

Wen I tell peepz dat I'm Bayelsan Urhobo, ofoni precisely, dem go look like say I dey yarn duza. I even have the certificate of origin before bayelsa was created. I never hear dis Isoko own before o.

I never heard about Igala in Anambra until I was 27

femolii:
Ijaw people in ondo are tanants to Ilajes because they went there for economic purposes n their from gbanran in deltal state today people calling them part of ondo state people but u don't want people to call them tanants in ondo now u are calling isoko people people tenant in bayelsa u see your life.

Obasanjo forcefully added Ijaws into Ondo state during his state creation in 1976.....To make ondo an oil producing state..ijaw in ondo are not visitors, Its their home land

AdaFonju:

I agree with you totally, they are now nonentities in Niger delta with a population less than 200k, whereas the Urhobo/isoko are numbering close to 5 million

How can urhobo be 3.5 million and isoko 1.5 million.......And most Urhobo people live in delta state, a state with a population of 4 million with Igbos and Itshekiri there as well

AdaFonju:

You see the problem, Igbos are quick to point out that they have communities in Benue but ignore that there are non-igbo tribes in the soutg east, shame on all of you

List those non-igbos in the SE that speak a language asides igbo

Logan23:


The person who owns the land, Owns the state. If igbos buy up 70% of Lagos lands and their population reaches 60 - 70 percent, lagos becomes the property of igbo and virtually all political posts in lagos will go to igbos. THERE'S ACTUALLY NOTHING SPECIAL IN THIS.

THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL IN FINDING ISOKO people few minutes drive from delta state where the main isoko block is located..nothing special @ all

Some of you write like you sat on your brains. Bask in your folly and stop with the mentions. You're not worth engaging.

babacletus:

Bros Ibibio speaking communities plenty for Aba, there's one in Obingwa lga at the border end and a lot of others

List those ibibio speaking communities in Aba and add a link too.

Sanchez01:

Some of you write like you sat on your brains. Bask in your folly and stop with the mentions. You're not worth engaging.

I've read tons of ur posts and peoples replies to ur posts...U type total bumkum

fratermathy:


Edo is NOT an ethnic group. It is collective socio-linguistic heritage of the Urhobos/Isokos/Binis/Owans/Afemais/Epies/etc.

If you don't know this, then your hegemonic attempt is dead on arrival. Try elsewhere.

Igbos were a part of the Bini kingdom too

Efewestern


Pls what does Anibeze mean?

Sanchez01:

I'm sorry but I don't take the word of an Ijaw man as final authority, particularly on land related matters and we all know why.

A simple Google search could add to your knowledge of what Efe has shared. The land grabbing tendencies of the Ijaws is mind boggling and I guess it is why your hosts sometimes put up a fight against you. The recent one is that of the Edo state tussle, not forgetting your Ondo claims and even Lagos, about owning almost all riverine areas in the Metropolis.

the people of ondo never complain for once that the ijaw ondo are not indigenes. it only igbos and edo people crying and complaining.

Afam4eva:

This is exactly my point. They were carved into Bayelsa state and did not migrate there. So, it's their. Some people make it seem like they migrated to bayelsa and were given land by the Ijaws.

stop been hypocrity.try practice what you said. you also forgot that its state creation that also carve parts of ijaw into edo state, but now benin people are claiming that as far as the given name is edo, any other tribe in it must start lose it identity and become benin overnight. and you support them without considering the state creation.

BininKingdom:
So Bayelsa is not 100% Ijaw?
Which means Ijaw people don't own any state in Nigeria

is there any state in nigeria 100% own by an ethnic group?

beside isoko only own one single community in bayelsa. it means 99% bayelsans are IZON.

ContentedK:
Which is people of niger delta again?, that's utter garbage... pls study your history thoroughly before you come here to avoid trash...

mumu. we are people of niger delta. come and beat me. fool.

AdakaBoro8:
mumu. we are people of niger delta. come and beat me. fool.

no worries una go hear with una cattles for zoogeria very soon.. e go shock una, only the lucky ones will escape, we will chase you fools to futa jalon where you come from.. no be joke o..

ContentedK:
no worries una go hear with una cattles for zoogeria very soon.. e go shock una, only the lucky ones will escape, we will chase you fools to futa jalon where you come from.. no be joke o..

mumu. wasted.. carry dat una satanic Biafra come enter niger delta na.. useless igbo tribe. i am proudly niger deltan, u can go to hell if he pain u.

Logan23:


Obasanjo forcefully added Ijaws into Ondo state during his state creation in 1976.....To make ondo an oil producing state..ijaw in ondo are not visitors, Its their home land

The Ijaws have been in Ondo state for ages, even before obasanjo was born, during the Urhobo exploration in Ondo, they documented how they met indigenous ijaw people in the state, I created a thread about our migration to Ikale and the significant ijaw population in Ondo, this was in the early 1900's, so this your narrative is false.

https://www.nairaland.com/5916221/look-urhobo-migration-okitipupa-other

By 1931 the Ikale occupied an area of about 1,261 square km and out of a population of 60,902 in this territory, 25% were Urhobo. Apart from lkale there were llaje (also a Yoruba people) and ljo indigenes in Okitipupa Division.

The Urhobo migrant element in the Division, which had been coming in since the 19th century, dwindled from 22.3% of the population in 1952 to 14.7% in I963. This variation in the figures has to do with the economic changes in the environment and the achievement of migrant targets and the consequent re-migration or return home. Besides the Yoruba majority of 74.4%, there were 8.2% ljo. 1% lgbo, and less than 1% each of Bini, lsoko, ltsekiri, Hausa, Efik, lbibio, and other small elements.

@Bolded, that was Ijo/Ijaw population in old Ondo state before it was divided, so you can see that they were indigenes and have lived side by side with other yoruboid groups before OBJ was born.

Logan23:


How can urhobo be 3.5 million and isoko 1.5 million.......And most Urhobo people live in delta state, a state with a population of 4 million with Igbos and Itshekiri there as well

During the last census, the Urhobos were 2.5million, that was in 2006, so by now, they should have increased in numbers. Also the population of Delta state is almost 6million.

Logan23:
Efewestern


Pls what does Anibeze mean?

Can't really tell the meaning of Anibeze, the word is deeply rooted in Isoko.

Efewestern:


The Ijaws have been in Ondo state for ages, even before obasanjo was born, during the Urhobo exploration in Ondo, they documented how they met indigenous ijaw people in the state, I created a thread about our migration to Ikale and the significant ijaw population in Ondo, this was in the early 1900's, so this your narrative is false.

https://www.nairaland.com/5916221/look-urhobo-migration-okitipupa-other



@Bolded, that was Ijo/Ijaw population in old Ondo state before it was divided, so you can see that they were indigenes and have lived side by side with other yoruboid groups before OBJ was born.



During the last census, the Urhobos were 2.5million, that was in 2006, so by now, they should have increased in numbers. Also the population of Delta state is almost 6million.



Can't really tell the meaning of Anibeze, the word is deeply rooted in Isoko.

Are u listening to urself?

In 2006 Urhobo is 2.5 million people and IGBO, Itsekiri, Ijaw and Isoko totals 1.5 million people

Wake up.


I asked the meaning of that Anibeze because it is equally an igbo word and also an igbo name

Logan23:


Are u listening to urself?

In 2006 Urhobo is 2.5 million people and IGBO, Itsekiri, Ijaw and Isoko totals 1.5 million people

Wake up.


I asked the meaning of that Anibeze because it is equally an igbo word and also an igbo name

The population of Itsekiri alone in the last census was 800-1million, I don't know where you got this stats from, regardless, Urhobo is the largest ethnic group in the state, so definitely they would top considering also their polygamous nature.

I said I don't know the meaning of Anibeze, it might have a different meaning in Igbo, for example, "Agege" is used by lagosians but in Urhobo, it has a special and different meaning.

Ethnic groups in southern Nigeria one way or the other share some few lexicons by the way.

Efewestern:


The population of Itsekiri alone in the last census was 800-1million, I don't know where you got this stats from, regardless, Urhobo is the largest ethnic group in the state, so definitely they would top considering also their polygamous nature.

I said I don't know the meaning of Anibeze, it might have a different meaning in Igbo, for example, "Agege" is used by lagosians but in Urhobo, it has a special and different meaning.

Ethnic groups in southern Nigeria one way or the other share some few lexicons by the way.

" I don't know where you got this stats from, regardless "

Stop acting ignorant, I'm using ur very own stats. U said with ur mouth that in 2006 census, Urhobo population was 2.5 million, now u said Itshekiri is about 1 million, making it 3.5 million.

Now are u saying that the population of isoko, ijaw and igbos who sits on more local govt areas than urhobo make up 500k people?? Totalling abt 4 million people, which was the population of Delta state in 2006? Think again n correct urself

SicilianMafia:
This ijaws are really the smallest minorities in this country even the tiny bayelsa they are also sharing it they are even tenants there sef

talk sense na. even delta ijaws are more the whole edo state.. bayelsa is 99% ijaw. isoko own only 1 tiny community.. even that edo state 20% are ijaws.

femolii:
Ijaw people in ondo are tanants to Ilajes because they went there for economic purposes n their from gbanran in deltal state today people calling them part of ondo state people but u don't want people to call them tanants in ondo now u are calling isoko people people tenant in bayelsa u see your life.

what u saying is beyond your comprehension.. how can you called an ages long people a tenant because state carve say so??

Ijaws are in two LGAs in ondo state. even the ilages cant deny that.

SicilianMafia:


Don't mind those useless fools..... They still remain the smallest minorities in this country and that's what they will always be!!

IZON remain the 4th largest ethnic in nigeria. all those small small microscopic tribes are ijawphobia

femolii:
Shut up oga two fowl hause is now community,where is 100 communities u are talking about the one ontop water at arogbo? try and get sense.

mumunii. arogbo and apoi own up to 100

Logan23:


I never heard about Igala in Anambra until I was 27

U see am?

DavidEsq:

U see am?

Ya. Same way u can be from Ofoni and not know that there are isoko people in baye8

AdakaBoro8:
is there any state in nigeria 100% own by an ethnic group?

beside isoko only own one single community in bayelsa. it means 99% bayelsans are IZON.

that is not true, isoko has up to eight communities in bayelsa state

isokomarine:
that is not true, isoko has up to eight communities in bayelsa state

Pls name them.

fratermathy:


I won't keep running around circles with a deluded infant. Bini is just one of the ethnic groups speaking an Edoid language. Whatever your King calls himself is his own palaver. My king may as well title himself as the Ovie r'Nigeria. That doesn't ascribe to him any hegemonic hold over Nigerians.

Don't mention me on this issue again. My point has been made. Feel free to keep deluding yourself in Benin City or whichever European city you've crossed the Sahara desert to get to.

Some persons really need to teleport themselves from the 18th century to the present. Such a shame.

I am not bothered about the other point but I wish to correct something. There is a group called Edo and that group is Bini. No group refers to theirselves as EDO when speaking their native tongue except Benin. There's nothing like Benin in Edo language, we call ourselves Iviedo and when we say that we are referring to Binis alone. likewise an Esan man will not call himself Oviedo but Oviesan. But if he is referring to the the Binis in his native language he will say Iviedo. and not Oviebini hence the term "Esangbedo". Bini is a Yoruba or itsekiri cum Colonial relic that stuck it makes no meaning in the language and to any Edo man. No Bini man will use it to refer to himself if not for easy identification so as not to confuse the Person he is communicating himself to.. infact No Bini use it except he is speaking English but same cannot be said of the Appelation of other tribes Esan, etsako, owan etc. Edo is used to refer to the city, the entire Bini speaking land, the people and the language. There is a language and a tribe called Edo and that is Benin. If you are familiar with the land, the city, language and the people you would know this. Other great Benins before me on this forum have written on this topic before, If you want me to search such threads out I can, PhysicsQed, Areafada2. Sincerely I am not alone, we all feel the same way.

UGBE634:
I am not bothered about the other point but I wish to correct something. There is a group called Edo and that group is Bini. No group refers to theirselves as EDO when speaking their native tongue except Benin. There's nothing like Benin in Edo language, we call ourselves Iviedo and when we say that we are referring to Binis alone. likewise an Esan man will not call himself Oviedo but Oviesan. But if he is referring to the the Binis in his native language he will say Iviedo. and not Oviebini hence the term "Esangbedo". Bini is a Yoruba or itsekiri cum Colonial relic that stuck it makes no meaning in the language and to any Edo man. No Bini man will use it to refer to himself if not for easy identification so as not to confuse the Person he is communicating himself to.. infact No Bini use it except he is speaking English but same cannot be said of the Appelation of other tribes Esan, etsako, owan etc. Edo is used to refer to the city, the entire Bini speaking land, the people and the language. There is a language and a tribe called Edo and that is Benin. If you are familiar with the land, the city, language and the people you would know this. Other great Benins before me on this forum have written on this topic before, If you want me to search such threads out I can, PhysicsQed, Areafada2. Sincerely I am not alone, we all feel the same way.

Thanks for your explanation. Really helpful.

Ovis1302:

Pls name them.

isoko community of sagbama local government area bayelsa state
Osekwenike
Kanan
Osifo
Anibeze
Ikpide
Abuetor
Ogbokiri - ama

isokomarine:
isoko community of sagbama local government area bayelsa state
Osekwenike
Kanan
Osifo
Anibeze
Ikpide
Abuetor

Okay..These communities should be at Odi, Toru- fani axis I guess