Whenever I read ceertain articles or watch adverts, movies or even doccies, I've noticed that S/South is called the east.

Even in government or commerce you find that Port Harcourt especially is referred to as the Eastern Region so certain companies with branches in PH call it the regional HQ for the East. I was watching an advert on Nigerian tourism and it was said that "Tinapa is located in the state of Cross River, Eastern Nigeria"

I just want to know why S/South and more specifically the States of Rivers, Cross river and Akwa-Ibom are called East in formal parlance and then South South/Niher Delta when revenue sharing is brought up

Easterners were thre colonial masters

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safarigirl:
Whenever I read ceertain articles or watch adverts, movies or even doccies, I've noticed that S/South is called the east.
Even in government or commerce you find that Port Harcourt especially is referred to as the Eastern Region so certain companies with branches in PH call it the regional HQ for the East. I was watching an advert on Nigerian tourism and it was said that "Tinapa is located in the state of Cross River, Eastern Nigeria"
I just want to know why S/South and more specifically the States of Rivers, Cross river and Akwa-Ibom are called East in formal parlance and then South South/Niher Delta when revenue sharing is brought up

If you take a look at this map you will notice the area I marked with red line covering Akwa Ibom and Cross River States. That area is geographicaly Southeast. Igboland could either be East central or South central as against wrongly termed Southeast. Niger Delta consists mainly Rivers,Bayelsa and Delta States with small fractions of Imo and Abia States. South-South is a wrong coinage for Southern minorities or more precisely parts of the South outside Igbo and Yoruba area.

So in essence none of the terms used represents reality.