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History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 2:31am On Oct 16, 2021
History of Jebba City

Jebba is a city in Kwara State, Nigeria.It has incredibly beautiful views of the River Niger and as of 2007 had an estimated population of 22,411.

The town has the benefit of being split into North and South Jebba. South Jebba falling in Kwara State and North in Niger State. It is home to the largest papermill in West Africa, as well as being the proud of home of one of Nigeria’s, three Hydro Electric Damns.

Powering the whole of Nigeria, every day. It has also a monument to Mungo Park, in remembrance of the shipwreck which took place there, while he tried to trace the source of the Niger.

More recently it has taken in 16 new residents in the form of volunteers from Nigeria and the UK. Jebba’s main quality is its mix of Christian and Islamic culture.

Transportation in jebba

Jebba has one main road running through it connecting the North and the South of Nigeria. The train station has a functioning yet in frequent service. The railway station is also home to one of the Mango Park Monuments. The town has a large number of motorbike-taxis.

Hydro Electric Dam in Jebba

Owned and operated the P.H.C.N, it is one only three purpose built damns in Nigeria. It supplies huge amounts of energy to the Nigerian grid as well as giving Jebba twenty-four-hour power. The dam is a beautiful testament to Nigerian productivity with an excellent management team.

They actively support community projects and the town's development. The dam operates with six generators, using the great power of the Niger River to generate enormous amounts of electricity. The artificial lake created by the dam is a gorgeous sight to behold. If you’re ever lucky enough to be invited along for a tour, grab the opportunity with both hands. The site is interesting and a day well spent.

Paper Mill in Jebba

Built and originally owned by Nigerians, the Paper Mill is the largest in West Africa. Sadly due to mismanagement and lack of investment the Paper Mill closed.

It was recently taken over by an Indian Business man and began to function again. Once a provider for so many in the town, which, upon its closer left people jobless and lost. Now as it begins to turn the cogs again, it has hired few local workers but is finally being properly managed.

In its glory days the Paper Mill employed a huge population of the town to function its huge production line.

King of Jebba

Jebba, much like the majority of Nigeria, is a melting pot of culture and tribes. Adebara Dynasty is the Traditional Ruling House in Jebba.The present King remained as the fifth Oba of Jebba.

The First Oba of Jebba was Adebola Adebara who reign between 1865 to 1900.

2nd King was Odaso Adebara (1901-1930),

3rd King was Oba Muhammad Ayoola Adebara (1931-1943),

4th King was (Alh) Oba Ahmadu Akanbi Adebara who lived on the throne for 60 years (1943-2003) and the present and

5th King is Oba (Alh) Abdulkadir Alabi Adebara (2003-date).

The people in Jebba live in harmony, functioning peacefully.

There are Jumaat mosque within and around Jebba metropolis with an appointed Imams. There are also several churches for the Christians.

Tourist sites in Jebba City

General

Jebba is one of the crossing points over the river Niger. It is where the A1 main road and the railway to the north cross the river. Jebba has an important railway station and is of historical importance.

Tourist sites

a. The remains of Baikie’s boat, the ‘Dayspring’. Baikie was sent to Africa to set up trading stations on the Niger his boat, unfortunately foundered on some hidden rocks at jebba on October 7th, 1857. The only remaining relics of the boat are metal items, including the propeller, so it is of limited interest. They are at the railway station besides an old steam engines which would be of interest to children and railway buffs.

b. The Mungo Park and Lander monument, a white obelisk, is on the island in the middle of the river which is spanned by the bridges. To reach it, drive off the northbound bridge to to the right by the police station, turn underneath the bridge to the left and park. Follow the path on foot across the railway line and up to the monument, where you will get a spectacular view. For further reading on Mungo park, Lander and Baikie, see The Story of the Niger – The Strong Brown God by Sanche de Gramont.

c. The Jebba Hydro-electro Dam – on the River Niger, north of jebba. You can see it from the bridge, but it may be possible to visit it, with permission from the NEPA.

d. Juju Rock. This is an outstanding rocky island in the River Niger which can also be clearly seen from the bridge. It is here that some extraordinary Nupe bronze figures, dating from the 15th century, were discovered. The nine Toesede bronzes, from here and from the village of Tada, are the largest cast bronzes ever found in Africa, and six are now in the National museum, Lagos. They have clear affinities with early Ife and Benin bronze-work.

The City i Grow up.

Long live Jebba

Long live Kwara

Long live Nigeria

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 2:33am On Oct 16, 2021
History it's one the best subject...
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 2:37am On Oct 16, 2021
Yoruba is the largest tribe in Nigeria... Covered 20% population of north central of Nigerian...

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Igboid: 2:49am On Oct 16, 2021
Yoruba is one with Arewa and should stay with them in Nigeria while Ndiigbo move to have our own independent republic of Igboland free from being entangled with Yoruba and Arewa.

cc: Bkayy
Slayerforever

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by blaqoracle: 3:21am On Oct 16, 2021
Igboid:
Yoruba is one with Arewa and should stay with them in Nigeria while Ndiigbo move to have our own independent republic of Igboland free from being entangled with Yoruba and Arewa.

cc: Bkayy
Slayerforever
indigbo and inferiority comples?

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by nicho450(m): 3:23am On Oct 16, 2021
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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Romanoff(f): 4:07am On Oct 16, 2021
This was quite educative. I assumed the Okun people were the only Yorubas in the North Central.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Tomek09(m): 4:33am On Oct 16, 2021
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walefresh3:
Yoruba is the largest tribe in Nigeria... Covered 20% population of north central of Nigerian...
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How's Yoruba the largest? Larger than Igbo and Hausa-Fulani? I laugh you in Buhari's language(Fulfude). Despite Yoruba muslims having multiple wives and all that, ur population can't possibly be more than Igbo presently if we are do an exact, concise, accurate and precised head count of each tribe. Let me not talk about Hausa-Fulani people.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Tomek09(m): 5:00am On Oct 16, 2021
walefresh3:
Yoruba is the largest tribe in Nigeria... Covered 20% population of north central of Nigerian...
IGBO.
SouthEast—98.8% indigenous Igbo tribe
SouthSouth—55% Indigenous Igbo speaking population.
SouthWest—Appreciable population of Igbos in Lagos, Oyo, Akure and Ogun State.
North(West, East and Central)—Igbos in the 3 regions of North are too many to write off.

YORUBA
SouthWest—99.5% Indigenous Yoruba tribe.
SouthEast—0.8% population of Yoruba extraction.
SouthSouth—1.06% of Yoruba native.
North(West, East and Central)—21% of Yorubas mainly in NC and about 3% in NW and NE respectively.

HAUSA-FULANI
NorthWest—91.6% indigenous Hausa tribe with about 6.3% Fulani making up the population in this region.
NorthEast—75% indigenous native of Hausa–Fulani extraction. Many minority tribes are found in this NorthEast but unfortunately they've lost their language or about to lose their language to dominant Hausa which is like a lingua franca(generally accepted) adopted in the whole North.
NorthCentral—Hausa-Fulani population here is not up to 30% with many minority tribes existing in the 6 States of NC with Nupe, Igala, TIV and Idoma dominating Niger, Kogi and Benue respectively.
SouthEast— 0.9% Hausa-Fulani exists in SE with about 1.4% found within the shores of SouthSouth.
SouthWest—Appreciable number of Hausa/Fulani are found indigenous to SouthWest having lost their language to Yoruba dominant language.

So, without mincing words and being biased...... anyone can easily give a rough estimate or near accuracy about Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba population.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by middlebelter(m): 5:19am On Oct 16, 2021
Romanoff:
This was quite educative. I assumed the Okun people were the only Yorubas in the North Central.


If you look at your map of Nigeria, the Yoruba occupies the geographical SW of Nigeria with northern boundaries in at Lokoja and Jebba the two crossing points to the north of River Niger.

However, the British Empire , for her political convenience decided to extend the North across River Niger down SW an attempt to weaken the South against the North.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by SlayerForever: 5:37am On Oct 16, 2021
Igboid:
Yoruba is one with Arewa and should stay with them in Nigeria while Ndiigbo move to have our own independent republic of Igboland free from being entangled with Yoruba and Arewa.

cc: Bka.yy
Slayerforever


In the past week I have said so severally. Although my stance was based on close observation of the two tribes and not research.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by IkpuMmadu: 6:52am On Oct 16, 2021
Okun and Jebba don't identify as Yoruba

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by IkpuMmadu: 6:53am On Oct 16, 2021
walefresh3:
Yoruba is the largest tribe in Nigeria... Covered 20% population of north central of Nigerian...
is that so ?
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by temitope27(m): 8:52am On Oct 16, 2021
Tomek09:

IGBO.
SouthEast—98.8% indigenous Igbo tribe
SouthSouth—55% Indigenous Igbo speaking population.
SouthWest—Appreciable population of Igbos in Lagos, Oyo, Akure and Ogun State.
North(West, East and Central)—Igbos in the 3 regions of North are too many to write off.

YORUBA
SouthWest—99.5% Indigenous Yoruba tribe.
SouthEast—0.8% population of Yoruba extraction.
SouthSouth—1.06% of Yoruba native.
North(West, East and Central)—21% of Yorubas mainly in NC and about 3% in NW and NE respectively.

HAUSA-FULANI
NorthWest—91.6% indigenous Hausa tribe with about 6.3% Fulani making up the population in this region.
NorthEast—75% indigenous native of Hausa–Fulani extraction. Many minority tribes are found in this NorthEast but unfortunately they've lost their language or about to lose their language to dominant Hausa which is like a lingua franca(generally accepted) adopted in the whole North.
NorthCentral—Hausa-Fulani population here is not up to 30% with many minority tribes existing in the 6 States of NC with Nupe, Igala, TIV and Idoma dominating Niger, Kogi and Benue respectively.
SouthEast— 0.9% Hausa-Fulani exists in SE with about 1.4% found within the shores of SouthSouth.
SouthWest—Appreciable number of Hausa/Fulani are found indigenous to SouthWest having lost their language to Yoruba dominant language.

So, without mincing words and being biased...... anyone can easily give a rough estimate or near accuracy about Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba population.
you are talking out of sense

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by BKayy: 9:25am On Oct 16, 2021
Igboid:
Yoruba is one with Arewa and should stay with them in Nigeria while Ndiigbo move to have our own independent republic of Igboland free from being entangled with Yoruba and Arewa.

cc: Bkayy
Slayerforever
Na today you know?
Google Hausa Banza, you will see Yoruba boldly sitting there.
Yoruba have been classified as part of Hausa since time immemorial that was why Uthman Dan Fodio said that Yoruba is destined to be under the Caliphate as their Hausa brothers.

Yoruba is boldly Hausa Banza and they don't deny it. The only strangers in this contraption is Igbo and Associates (Efik, Ibibio etc). The others (Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa) knew themselves before amalgamation.
As for us, those we know are in Central Africa (Equatorial Guinea, Southern Cameroon, Gabon etc).

We have no business wasting time with these Hausa people (both Yoruba and the other 13)

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Igboid: 11:27am On Oct 16, 2021
SlayerForever:



In the past week I have said so severally. Although my stance was based on close observation of the two tribes and not research.

It is a good observation.
Both groups have a precolonial pact that predates Nigeria.
While Ndiigbo had no contact with both groups before the whites arrived.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Igboid: 11:29am On Oct 16, 2021
BKayy:

Na today you know?
Google Hausa Banza, you will see Yoruba boldly sitting there.
Yoruba have been classified as part of Hausa since time immemorial that was why Uthman Dan Fodio said that Yoruba is destined to be under the Caliphate as their Hausa brothers.

Yoruba is boldly Hausa Banza and they don't deny it. The only strangers in this contraption is Igbo and Associates (Efik, Ibibio etc). The others (Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa) knew themselves before amalgamation.
As for us, those we know are in Central Africa (Equatorial Guinea, Southern Cameroon, Gabon etc).

We have no business wasting time with these Hausa people (both Yoruba and the other 13)

At all. We have no business whatsoever.
Look, both groups are Muslims and even dress alike bar that one decided to bend the cap while the other left it standing.
The more I reason it, the more I hate Zik and the more his lack of Wisdom and foresight is exposed.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 1:36pm On Oct 16, 2021
Tomek09:
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How's Yoruba the largest? Larger than Igbo and Hausa-Fulani? I laugh you in Buhari's language(Fulfude). Despite Yoruba muslims having multiple wives and all that, ur population can't possibly be more than Igbo presently if we are do an exact, concise, accurate and precised head count of each tribe. Let me not talk about Hausa-Fulani people.
keep shut the bungur people that honoured tinubu with jagaban title are Yoruba speaking area / domain in niger state.... These are Yoruba tribes that traced thier historical lienage to ife ... Not Igbo type that are not recognized in Delta... No ibo in portharcout and Delta... ..
In Edo ,Delta, kwara, kogi and niger state, we have indigenous Yoruba ... I am not talking of migrant here ....

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 1:58pm On Oct 16, 2021
Okun peoples is the term generally used to describe groups of Yoruba-speaking communities in Kogi state, North-central Nigeria. Their dialects are generally classified in the Northeast Yoruba language (NEY) grouping.[1] They are collectively called "Okun", which in the Yoruba language means 'vitality' or 'strength', and is the word commonly used in greeting among the people, although this form of greeting is also found among the Ekiti and Igbomina groups of Yoruba people. This identity, which was probably first suggested by Eva Kraft-Askari during a 1965 field expedition, has gained wide acceptance among the indigenous Yoruba people and scholars. The individual Okun subgroups share some historical and linguistic affinity but still maintain individual peculiarities.[2] "Okun" therefore refers to the distinct, but culturally related Owé, Ìyàgbà, Ìjùmú, Gbẹdẹ, Bùnú or Abunu, Ikiri and Òwòrò peoples, who together are said to make up 20% of the Kogi State population, according to the highly controversial 2006 National population census.

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 2:01pm On Oct 16, 2021
We also have oworo people.. they are also Yoruba ethnic group in kogi state....

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by macof(m): 5:45pm On Oct 16, 2021
Tomek09:

[s]IGBO.
SouthEast—98.8% indigenous Igbo tribe
SouthSouth—55% Indigenous Igbo speaking population.
SouthWest—Appreciable population of Igbos in Lagos, Oyo, Akure and Ogun State.
North(West, East and Central)—Igbos in the 3 regions of North are too many to write off.

YORUBA
SouthWest—99.5% Indigenous Yoruba tribe.
SouthEast—0.8% population of Yoruba extraction.
SouthSouth—1.06% of Yoruba native.
North(West, East and Central)—21% of Yorubas mainly in NC and about 3% in NW and NE respectively.

HAUSA-FULANI
NorthWest—91.6% indigenous Hausa tribe with about 6.3% Fulani making up the population in this region.
NorthEast—75% indigenous native of Hausa–Fulani extraction. Many minority tribes are found in this NorthEast but unfortunately they've lost their language or about to lose their language to dominant Hausa which is like a lingua franca(generally accepted) adopted in the whole North.
NorthCentral—Hausa-Fulani population here is not up to 30% with many minority tribes existing in the 6 States of NC with Nupe, Igala, TIV and Idoma dominating Niger, Kogi and Benue respectively.
SouthEast— 0.9% Hausa-Fulani exists in SE with about 1.4% found within the shores of SouthSouth.
SouthWest—Appreciable number of Hausa/Fulani are found indigenous to SouthWest having lost their language to Yoruba dominant language.

So, without mincing words and being biased...... anyone can easily give a rough estimate or near accuracy about Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba population.[/s]
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by macof(m): 5:46pm On Oct 16, 2021
IkpuMmadu:
Okun and Jebba don't identify as Yoruba
everyone is not like Ikwerre, ika and the rest who don't identify with Igbos

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by macof(m): 5:48pm On Oct 16, 2021
walefresh3:
keep shut the bungur people that honoured tinubu with jagaban title are Yoruba speaking area / domain in niger state.... These are Yoruba tribes that traced thier historical lienage to ife ... Not Igbo type that are not recognized in Delta... No ibo in portharcout and Delta... ..
In Edo ,Delta, kwara, kogi and niger state, we have indigenous Yoruba ... I am not talking of migrant here ....
I'm sure you mean the Borgu people.
And no, they are not Yoruba speaking nor trace their lineage to Ife

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Abohboy: 6:41pm On Oct 16, 2021
Igboid:


It is a good observation.
Both groups have a precolonial pact that predates Nigeria.
While Ndiigbo had no contact with both groups before the whites arrived.

So the British reporting of Ijebu traders in Igbo land wasn't real? You had trade relations with every single other group in Nigeria and Cameroon thousands of years before the British arrived stop lying to yourself
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by IkpuMmadu: 8:11pm On Oct 16, 2021
macof:
everyone is not like Ikwerre, ika and the rest who don't identify with Igbos

you can play ostrich but that is the reality on ground

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by IkpuMmadu: 8:12pm On Oct 16, 2021
Abohboy:


So the British reporting of Ijebu traders in Igbo land wasn't real? You had trade relations with every single other group in Nigeria and Cameroon thousands of years before the British arrived stop lying to yourself
give us references
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by IkpuMmadu: 8:12pm On Oct 16, 2021
macof:
I'm sure you mean the Borgu people.
And no, they are not Yoruba speaking nor trace their lineage to Ife
tell them

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by IkpuMmadu: 8:13pm On Oct 16, 2021
walefresh3:
We also have oworo people.. they are also Yoruba ethnic group in kogi state....
they do not see themselves as yoruba
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by Abohboy: 8:55pm On Oct 16, 2021
IkpuMmadu:
give us references

use Jstor
Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by macof(m): 9:26pm On Oct 16, 2021
IkpuMmadu:
tell them
IkpuMmadu:


you can play ostrich but that is the reality on ground
tell them what? don't patronize me, you and i are not in any way on the same side.
you seem too excited when it comes to declaring people to not be yorubas, whether they are actually yoruba or not.

One would think you should invest your time and energy on building the igbo nation and bringing your brothers who deny you back into the fold...instead of wishing for the same problem with other ethnicities

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 9:31am On Oct 17, 2021
IkpuMmadu:
Okun and Jebba don't identify as Yoruba
u better don't let ur emotion control ur senses ? U lack knowledge of something.. u need to learn more history about the great Yoruba people....

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Re: History Of Jebba.. Yoruba Kingdom In The North Central Nigeria by walefresh3(m): 9:37am On Oct 17, 2021
IkpuMmadu:
Okun and Jebba don't identify as Yoruba
bros stop lieing to 7rself.. I went there for research on history few weeks back...

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