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Post by killayut, an Ijaw man

On the issue of Ijaw in Lagos state. People should go back in history. In no Yoruba history there is a mention of Coastal area. The ancien Oyo empire does not extend to the coast. The coast of todays Lagos state has always been settled by a fishing people. The MAHINS. Ilajes and AWORIS. who are these people. These people were Ijaws  who over many many years due to  many different reasons ( arrival of Igbiras through the creeks from Igbira land ) and other mixes  resulted in to the Ijaw minorities there being influenced to change their culture,  a big example of such changes is in to todays  town of ekiadolor where the natives  speak uhrobo but the town is an IJAW TOWN. CHIEF EDWIN CLARK is from EKIADOLOR. almost every body in Ekiadolor speak uhrobo. I dont want to talk about Aladja which is also the same with Ekiadolo.  In ONDO state the people of AROGBO were able to maintaion their Ijawness although a good number f them speak yoruba and have yoruba names. The APOIS of Ondo and parts of Edo are another Ijaw groups that have half of them speaking Yoruba and having yoruba names. along the same coast from ONDO through Ogun to lagos  are the same Ijaw people that got to the Ibeju leki area of LAGOS and eventaully setled at the coastal LAGOS ,  Till tomorrow  Ijaw people sell land in TARKWA,  The word APAPA IN Lagos is an Ijaw word meaning groundnut,  It was named after the minority natives who were fishing there when the seaport was built  to export ground nut from KANO . The sea port became known as groundnut port which is apapa port, Apapa is ground nut in Ijaw.

Today we know that there are mixes in ILORIN AND the pepople there have a lot of fulanis but that does not mean Fulanis  own Ilorin.
It is just unfortunate that the Ijaw man has a very good hospitality that other people  take advantage of,  Its the same hospitality the Ijaw people have in the eastern side where they had a lot of Igbos in to their fold and even made an Igbo freed slave their king. In   KALABARI  there is a tradition call KINI-IYA,  it means to adopt some one or to marry some one,  At that time wealth in KALABARI LAND WAS MEASured BASED ON THE NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE you bought or adopted. This led to a rush to acquire as many Igbos as possible. Some KALABARI CHIEFS HAD as many Igbo adopted people like  more than 200 and all these people were given equal right. a CEREMONY was  always made where all the adopted people would be shaven in the public and given KALABARI-IJAW names. It was the same practice in Bonny , Okrika and Nembe,

You people should know that no one from Opobo, Bonny, KALABARI and Okrika would say they are Igbos. Pretty much like no naturalized american would claim that he is from a foreign country.  The natives of those places  are IJAWS but no doubt Igbos came  to play some good parts in their midst. 

Coastal Lagos was owned by IJAW people. the  AWORIS are va mixture of IJAWS AND Eguns,  The Ijaw in Olodi APAPA is too strong all the way to Ijaw ra ( Ijo-ra ). KIRI-KIRI was an aijaw settlement it means  LAND or mainly land in Ijaw and  every one knows   Ijaw people were the ones that lived there before this time,

Yoruba people of  Ijebu and Egba have just migrated to the area hence the awori  egba wars and trouble. Most of the traditional stools now in LAGOS were recently created,  I was in laggos when they created  the Onikoyi stool in Ikoyi. a stool that never existed. In victoria island the APESE community has always been there and they owned it  the Oniru is the stool but that was  it cos maroko  through ajah to ibeju were settled by Ijaws,  The lagos state government does not just recognize this and unfortunately the Ijaws do not have serious plans for all that since their main occupation isnot threatened.

I am not talking from a position of ignorance but from that of authority! Most OPC members are aworis. Infact, I would say no more. I just wish proper awori man can come here . . lol. He would even be pissed off!

Infact, Fashola is a awori man, why was he pissed off when MEND blew the Atlas cote*? Shebi, he should also fight for MEND not against.

You know what? I better let an awori man tell you this and not me! SMH AND LOL

this would be a good and funny thread

lagosians and yoruba is it true or the poster is running mad again

infact oyo.ondo.osun.ekiti,ogun are not owned by yorubas.the yorubas drove d aboriginal hausas away to kwara.i no fil laugh

Much as am tempted to ridicule the poster, this write-up is thought-provoking:

1.) How come the Ijaws never ruled any of these their Lagos communities, is it that they don't have leadership capabilities? They didn't even have traditional rulers amongst themselves, ruling their own minor communities? (Which were eventually overwhelmed by the Yoruba 'settlers' as the writer would have us believe.

2.) If a community of people do not farm (i.e. possess a culture of tilling the land to produce food) then on what basis can they lay claim to land? and Ijaw people do not farm, we know they're lazy like that

Obiagu1:

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Post by killayut, an Ijaw man

show of stupidit.y. Why dont you say OGUN belongs to Ojukwu barbaric ibos. F.ool.

seanet02:

show of stupidit.y. Why dont you say OGUN belongs to Ojukwu barbaric ibos. F.ool.

Why are you insulting him? He was not the person that posted this stupi.d post

Obiagu1:

Please I'm not the author of this post.

lol  

seanet02:

show of stupidit.y. Why dont you say OGUN belongs to Ojukwu barbaric ibos. F.ool.

not necessary here

Any place called Kiri Kiri in Lagos musta been an Ijaw settlement.  

Obiagu1:

It is just unfortunate that the Ijaw man has a very good hospitality that other people  take advantage of,  Its the same hospitality the Ijaw people have in the eastern side where they had a lot of Igbos in to their fold and even made an Igbo freed slave their king. In   KALABARI  there is a tradition call KINI-IYA,  it means to adopt some one or to marry some one,  At that time wealth in KALABARI LAND WAS MEASured BASED ON THE NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE you bought or adopted. This led to a rush to acquire as many Igbos as possible. Some KALABARI CHIEFS HAD as many Igbo adopted people like  more than 200 and all these people were given equal right. a CEREMONY was  always made where all the adopted people would be shaven in the public and given KALABARI-IJAW names. It was the same practice in Bonny , Okrika and Nembe,

You people should know that no one from Opobo, Bonny, KALABARI and Okrika would say they are Igbos. Pretty much like no naturalized american would claim that he is from a foreign country.  The natives of those places  are IJAWS but no doubt Igbos came  to play some good parts in their midst.

This na wetin I dey tell una since.

Wonders shall never end, Ijaw wetin. I see small Ijaw tribe is trying to boost their population. They jumped from Bayelsa to Lagos. Do they think we have riverine area's or how did they get to Lagos, through the large waves of bar beach? From this assertion is it not right to claim Ijaw as Yoruba? Afterall Yoruba have Ilaje, whose way of life is similar to Ijaw. We can reasonably say Ilaje is the parent tribe of the Ijaw, and they are Yoruba. Hence Yoruba own Bayelsa state? That should be the topic. Wetin join riverine and ocean people together?

Ibime:

Any place called[b] Kiri Kiri[/b] in Lagos musta been an Ijaw settlement.  


This na wetin I dey tell una since.

(K) alaba (iri)= kiri kiri

k (alaba) iri = Igboland

^^There is no Ijaw town without at least one compound or family with kiri in the name

Kiri ke - Okrika

Borokiri

Owubokiri

Tarakiri

Ekpirikiri

Kala-Orubokiri

Canus-kiri

Inibomoyekiri

Imbebekiri

Fekorukiri

Kiripogu-Iwokiri

Kponogbokiri

Kinkiamakiri

Kponogbokiri

Kiri-Kasamma

Iwokiri

Okokokiri

Otumakiri

Ibime:

^^There is no Ijaw town without at least one compound or family with kiri in the name

Kiri ke - Okrika

Borokiri

Owubokiri

Tarakiri

Ekpirikiri

Kala-Orubokiri

Canus-kiri

Inibomoyekiri

Imbebekiri

Fekorukiri

Kiripogu-Iwokiri

Kponogbokiri

Kinkiamakiri

Kponogbokiri

Kiri-Kasamma

Iwokiri

Okokokiri

Otumakiri

Can be translated to have yoruba meaning's as well. Though hilarious. So your point is . That mean's we own Bayelsa. I am about to make up something meaningless to prove this.

Hahaha na wa for oil and its attendant wahala.

Kiri means walking around in yoruba. If the place was a holding port for slaves, there you have it.

wahala dey for southern nigeria

Interesting post, but how do we know that the Ijaws didn't just move there after Lagos started growing? Remember that the Ijaws moved around a lot. They were spread out into separated clans sharing a common language/linguistic characteristic.

The presence of "Ijos" in many places other than what is now Bayelsa, Rivers, and Delta, was noted by early European explorers (Portuguese explorers, Richard Burton, etc.) who were exploring those other places, but there was no evidence that they had actually preceded the "main" groups that were there in settling in those locations, and it's even likely, given their huge involvement in trade, that they moved there after others had established commercially relevant city-states, cities, or villages.


(Just stating the obvious.)

These ppl and Lagos wahala sha.
Yest Lagos was Igbos (90%), today, Lagos belongs to the Ijaws. LOL who is next jare

Cities are the creations of evolved/ing minds not tribal or cave minds.

These people are funny. All these expansionist agenda and roughing of feathers of the Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo can only lead to a possible genocide which I do not pray for. The OPC has already fought them in lagos and Ondo state. It is my people I really pity

Hey!  Either the original author is smoking the good s#*t or there is something to this.  As they say, there is nothing new under the sun.

Anything is possible, but I never heard this before. 

We must look at it further:
1) We need Katsumoto, Kilode, Aigbofa and any of our Yoruba/Nigeria historians;
2) I will be talking to my Awori mom in a couple of hours; will ask her if she ever heard that the Ijaw/Ijo people settled Eko. 

I don't mind at all.  We are all one.

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isale_gan2:

Hey!  Either the original author is smoking the good s#*t or there is something to this.  As they say, there is nothing new under the sun.

Anything is possible, but I never heard this before. 

We must look at it further:
1) We need Katsumoto, Kilode, Aigbofa and any of our Yoruba historians;
2) I will be talking to my Awori mom in a couple of hours; will ask her if she ever heard that the Ijaw/Ijo people settled Eko. 

I don't mind at all.  We are all one.

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Ask her if she's Ijaw

Ijaws= fulanis of the south.

ziddy:

Ask her if she's Ijaw

What if she is?  Isn't an Ijaw a human being? 

Our President Goodluck is Ijaw nau. 

We, the Ijaw (Ijo, Izon) inhabiting the Niger Delta and coastal regions of Nigeria, stretching from Apoi/Arogbo in Lagos State in the West to Ibeno on the banks of the Qua Iboe River in Akwa Ibom State in the East of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in territories herein stated as follows:

The territories of the indigenous Ijaw communities from the Apoi and Arogbo clans in Lagos State;

The territories of the indigenous Ijaw communities from the Apoi and Arogbo clans in Ondo State;

The territories of the indigenous Egbema, Olodiama, Furupagha and Okomu clans in Edo State;


http://www.ijawfoundation.org/resolution_001_08.htm

The  Ijaws must be Bini then since every minority tribe is claiming to have ruled over a majority ethnic ''yoruba '' .
Na wa o !

EzeUche_:

These Ijaws boys are so warlike. They are an aggressive bunch. Ijaws do not care who they fight. 

[b][s]Ijaws vs. Ilaje (Yoruba)

Ijaws vs. Itsekiri[/s]

Ijaws vs. Ibibio

Ijaws vs. Ikwerre (Igbo)
[/b]

Their fighting has got them nowhere, as far as taking land. Both the Ilaje and Itsekiri got the OPC to come and punish them. The Ikwere(Igbo)came with cults and punnished them plus Gov. Amaechi is driving them completely out of Port Harcourt. Im starting to notice that Ijaws attack groups whose name state with an "I" .

isale_gan2:

What if she is?  Isn't an Ijaw a human being? 

Our President Goodluck is Ijaw nau. 

I am also an Awori man from Isele eko, but the question is how can be called Ijaw :beats me

step1:

I am also an Awori man from Isele eko, but the question is how can be called Ijaw :beats me

Don't mind that lost tribe that don't even know its origin;always trying to claim anywhere they found water.why can't they go to Argungun to claim their water or land.Are they not destined to live in water ?