asamaigho:


anoda ijaw E rat spewing trash.... hahahaha did u just say an itsekiri man felling timber in river state?...no wonder d ijaws are synonimous wit CLUELESSNESS..

They are still there floating about on their timber selling timber to Ijaw people. Go to Rivers State right now and find out you Itshekiri lowlife. . No Itshekiri can cough where Kalabari Ijaws are doing their thing so hang yourself and die.

barcanista:
Senibo, may God bless you!!!
Proudly Okrika
Proudly Ijaw

#Representing from the city of Lagos

God bless you Minabo.

Proudly Ijaw

shota:

They are still there floating about on their timber selling timber to Ijaw people. Go to Rivers State right now and find out you Itshekiri lowlife. . No Itshekiri can cough where Kalabari Ijaws are doing their thing so hang yourself and die.

look at dis drunken fisherman............

Proudly Mein
Proudly Ijaw



Stebel, JANK23H & Kel4soft where you guys at, we're having an Ijaw party here

ijawcitizen: Proudly Mein
Proudly Ijaw



Stebel, JANK23H & Kel4soft where you guys at, we're having an Ijaw party here

Morning, who is hosting? Let me inform my Ama Opu before sojourning. Meanwhile, I am looking for my doh.

shota: The problem with the tiny Itshekiri people is their ignorance. They are not even as big as Okrika Ijaws and not even as developed and civilized as any Ijaw group in Rivers state so why do they always want to bash Ijaw people ? Little about them was known even in the colonial days. They made no history and were not even mentioned in the history of the NIGER DELTA trading states. They were naked when Ijaws wore cloths and were already carving canoes. Are the Itshekiris comparable to the KALABARI Ijaws or Ibani Ijaws ? They speak Ijaw formed Pidgin English and imbibe Ijaw culture yet they think big of themselves. Silly.

Complete rubbish. Itsekiri are the singular most civilized tribe in Niger-delta.
They have a rich history if u want to know go and research
Itsekiri were explorers who settled in their current location, the entire Benin naval force was made up of Itsekiri men

the Portuguese even knew Bini through Itsekiri

All these ones una dey talk no concern me, na who go teach me how to speak be the koko, I don't mind paying.

Runaway Ijaw son, proud and present.

macof:
Complete rubbish. Itsekiri are the singular most civilized tribe in Niger-delta.
They have a rich history if u want to know go and research
Itsekiri were explorers who settled in their current location, the entire Benin naval force was made up of Itsekiri men

the Portuguese even knew Bini through Itsekiri

No beef bro, but this is total backwardness. Wetin concern me concern the battles and civilization of old? It is in no way helping the current day Nigeria. Such talks divide us. E no concern me wetin our grand papa don achieve as long as it won't help us move forward.

INDESTRUCTABLEX:

No beef bro, but this is total backwardness. Wetin concern me concern the battles and civilization of old? It is in no way helping the current day Nigeria. Such talks divide us. E no concern me wetin our grand papa don achieve as long as it won't help us move forward.

Wat is backwardness?? good History of a people is backwardness?
You are mad am sure you don't know your family house.

Current day Nigeria?? Wat is Nigeria? Did my ancestors choose to be Nigerians? To hell with Nigeria.

Because I take pride in my history it means my actions divide Nigeria? Was Nigeria ever united? No
If it was ever united, the pride of itsekiri won't bother you, instead you would be proud too

Rubbish!

macof:

Wat is backwardness?? good History of a people is backwardness?
You are mad am sure you don't know your family house.

Current day Nigeria?? Wat is Nigeria? Did my ancestors choose to be Nigerians? To hell with Nigeria.

Because I take pride in my history it means my actions divide Nigeria? Was Nigeria ever united? No
If it was ever united, the pride of itsekiri won't bother you, instead you would be proud too

Rubbish!

Funny. I know my family houses in both Bayelsa and Delta. Well I have nothing to say to you. You are an e-warrior.

omonuan:

You are wrong too. In the south south, the Igbo are the number one group. Forget the propaganda. Igbo is the only tribe native to all the Niger delta states and are dominant in Rivers and Delta states. Starting from Igbanke, Inyele, Ekpon in Edo state to the nine Anioma Local government areas in Delta to Ndoni, Ahoada, Ogba and Ikwerre people in Rivers, the Igbo predominate. I am a Niger Delta Igbo and proud of it!

The Efik/Ibibio/Anang/oron may be next before the Ijaws who have some how succeeded in making people think the Niger Delta is synonymous with Ijaw.

Why is this thread dull? Let join hands to revive it. Igbos, Itshekiris, Ijaws and Efik/Ibibio/Andonis.

macof:
Complete rubbish. Itsekiri are the singular most civilized tribe in Niger-delta.
They have a rich history if u want to know go and research
Itsekiri were explorers who settled in their current location, the entire Benin naval force was made up of Itsekiri men

the Portuguese even knew Bini through Itsekiri

Google Niger Delta trading states and cry cos Itshekiri was never mentioned. It's all IJAW affair.. Read it and discuss it with us and know that your Itshekiri were timber loggers right from time till this moment.

macof:

Wat is backwardness?? good History of a people is backwardness?
You are mad am sure you don't know your family house.

Current day Nigeria?? Wat is Nigeria? Did my ancestors choose to be Nigerians? To hell with Nigeria.

Because I take pride in my history it means my actions divide Nigeria? Was Nigeria ever united? No
If it was ever united, the pride of itsekiri won't bother you, instead you would be proud too

Rubbish!

Itshekiris of today can not even cough where Ijaws of Okrika , Kalabari, Ibani are talking . Your problem is ignorance.

Henryjr: Haa Ijaw! am proud of my tribe. those who know us cnt deny d fact that we are interesting......

That is just what it is.

macof: Ijaw people pls chk this out

www.kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane..com.es/2013/02/ijaw-people-nigerias-aboriginal-water.html?m=1

was Oru or Kumoni ever used to describe the any group in d ijaw area?

Ignoramus.. google towns like Oru Abalama, Oru Sangama, Oru ama, Oruma.. Those are the ancestral settlements of the Kalabari Ijaws.Ijaws were also Known as ORU... And it means gods or Godly people..

shota:

Google Niger Delta trading states and cry cos Itshekiri was never mentioned. It's all IJAW affair.. Read it and discuss it with us and know that your Itshekiri were timber loggers right from time till this moment.

complete bull. This is a known fact am telling you

In all history no one knows anything good from ijaw, it has always been Itsekiri, Urhobo with the civilization of d area

macof:

complete bull. This is a known fact am telling you

In all history no one knows anything good from ijaw, it has always been Itsekiri, Urhobo with the civilization of d area

Na wa oh. Oga go commit suicide naw. If it is a fact provide proofs. Don't come here and talk based on sentiments or old-people's tale.

OPOBO AND BONNY AINT IJAW TERRITIORIES CANT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT...IJAWS ARE IMMIGRANT THERE


IGBO OWN EM

benson81: The Ijaw speak nine closely related Niger–Congo languages, all of which belong to the Ijoid branch of the Niger–Congo tree. The primary division between the Ijo languages is that between Eastern Ijo and Western Ijo, the most important of the former group of languages being Izon, which is spoken by about four million people.

There are two prominent groupings of the Izon language. The first, termed either Western or Central Izon (Ijaw) consists of Western Ijaw speakers: Ekeremor, Sagbama (Mein), Bassan, Apoi, Arogbo, Boma (Bumo), Kabo (Kabuowei), Ogboin, Tarakiri, and Kolokuma-Opokuma (Yenagoa).[citation needed] Nembe, Brass and Akassa (Akaha) dialects represent Southeast Ijo (Izon).[citation needed]. Buseni and Okordia dialects are considered Inland Ijo.[citation needed]

The other major Ijaw linguistic group is Kalabari. Kalabari is considered an Eastern Ijaw language but the term "Eastern Ijaw" is not the normal nomenclature. Kalabari is the name of one of the Ijaw clans that reside on the eastern side of the Niger-Delta (Abonnema, Buguma, Bakana, Degema etc.) who form a major group in Rivers State, hence their involvement in the fight for greater oil control. Other "Eastern" Ijaw clans are the Okrika, Ibani (the natives of Bonny, Finima and Opobo) and Nkoroo. They are neighbours to the Kalabari people in present day Rivers State, Nigeria.

Other related Ijaw subgroups which have distinct languages but very close kinship, cultural and territorial ties with the rest of the Ijaw are the Epie-Atissa, Engenni (also known as Ẹgẹnẹ), and Degema (also called Udekama or Udekaama).[3] These groups speak Delta Edoid languages. The Ogbia clan, Andoni people, as well as residents of Bukuma and Abuloma (Obulom) speak Cross River languages.[citation needed]

It was discovered in the 1980s that a nearly extinct Berbice Creole Dutch, spoken in Guyana, is partly based on Ijo lexicon and grammar. Its nearest relative seems to be Eastern Ijo, most likely Kalabari (Kouwenberg 1994).

Proudly Bille-Ijaw, Proudly Rivers-Ijaw. My Kingdom, Bille whom i luv and proud of coming from that Clan. God bless Bille Clan of Rivers Ijaws, God bless Ijaw land and Nigeria.

macof:

complete bull. This is a known fact am telling you

In all history no one knows anything good from ijaw, it has always been Itsekiri, Urhobo with the civilization of d area

Just to take you to few sites to read about the NIGER DELTA....

http://images.library.wisc.edu/AfricanStudies/EFacs/Lovejoy/reference/africanstudies.lovejoy.ejalagoa.pdf

http://books.google.ca/books?id=MJ7KylvsgYEC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=trading+states+of+niger+delta&source=bl&ots=dUxTQkp8hM&sig=BuRC2PUAGMOSItj_bc-4h_TCTAc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z2IkVP_tB9CgyATdwoK4DQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=trading%20states%20of%20niger%20delta&f=false

christopher123: OPOBO AND BONNY AINT IJAW TERRITIORIES CANT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT...IJAWS ARE IMMIGRANT THERE


IGBO OWN EM

Igbo man, na only you waka come

ijawcitizen: Igbo man, na only you waka come

before nko, na ijaw get opobo, abi them wan move enter there even bonny...i laugh in egbesu voice

christopher123:

before nko, na ijaw get opobo, abi them wan move enter there even bonny...i laugh in egbesu voice

You sound like a traumatized Igbo man suffering from landlockophobia.

ijawcitizen: You sound like a traumatized Igbo man suffering from landlockophobia.

And you suffer from what is called sea sickness ...nearness to see has made you complacent

Igbo people should not be responded to again on Ijaw issues.

christopher123:

before nko, na ijaw get opobo, abi them wan move enter there even bonny...i laugh in egbesu voice

Bille has a strong history and very interesting one also .

engrsyer: Proudly Bille-Ijaw, Proudly Rivers-Ijaw. My Kingdom, Bille whom i luv and proud of coming from that Clan. God bless Bille Clan of Rivers Ijaws, God bless Ijaw land and Nigeria.

Pls why is it that almost all ijaw related online articles are linking them to Adimula- the 3rd king of Ile-Ife??

macof:
Pls why is it that almost all ijaw related online articles are linking them to Adimula- the 3rd king of Ile-Ife??

You mean Adumu ?

shota:


You mean Adumu ?

yh
I first saw it on a thread and checked up...almost all articles show a link
How true is that?

chai ,you mean say this thread dey NL and i nor know ? my brodas and sisters i say NUA OOO
i rep Opkoama town in Brass LGA

macof:
yh
I first saw it on a thread and checked up...almost all articles show a link
How true is that?

Adumu might be the child of a prominent Ijaw man from the Agadagba bou which is now Kolokuma Opokuma area.. The ADUMU is actually the progenitor of many of the ancient Eastern Ijaw clans. He was a Priest of the ORU lodge . But Some historians link him to some Yoruba man that came to father the Ijaw race. An not sure about that and there is no evidence to that .