AlPeter:


there are no indigenous Igbos in Edo

patrick89:

Are ijebus yoruba?
are aworis yoruba?
are Egun yoruba?
if ekiti people are the same with egba why did awolowo discriminate against them? why did he give the ekiti people only useless courses to study? course like yoruba, culture, religion etc.. while he gave egbas doctor, engineers accountant etc! this is the main reason why we have highest number of professors in ekiti!!

NaijaTalkTown:
Ijaw for real men. They are also the strongest politically in the whole of the south after the Yorubas.

Enahi:
Hi dafty stop twisting histroy, the head of the dead ile-ife oba is usually burid in Benin and that was several centuries ago. Please no tribe wants to be part of Yoruba or Igbo you guys are too racist and uncouth to be associated with.

Goodboiyy:


Wrong wrong wrong wrong....

What's d population of Igbos in Edo, Bayelsa, Ak ? re they upto 80,000 ? No

then the Igbos in Delta re over one million, + The ones in Rivers, Wen you sum both they won't be more than 3million, y Urhobo population alone is Over 3Million not including d urhobos in Bayelsa , Not to talk of Ijaw that re more than 5million .

So how is Igbo more popular that Ijaw ?, urhobo ?.. no doubt wen you add The Igbo from SE they re more popular than Ijaw, But as far as SS is concerned Igbo re minority.

asamaigho:


i think d ijaws are large,but efik ,ibibio benin are large aswell.
but to say d ijaws are strongest politically is laffable,....jona stumbled into power under wings of obj,and not by ijaw political "prowes".
but i must agree they got a political boost from their six years presidential adventure...although dat is being reduced by buharis govt.

patrick89:


ijebu are not yoruba and they can never be! they are the most industrious in SW. Egun are like hausas in the North they don't even go to school, they very backward! while aworis have missed with slaves deported from Brazil.
kwara people are not yoruba. The name of the king of Ife is different from the king of lagos(meanwhile it is bini territory) in ogun state, egba is the most educated.. they are not like bush people from ijesha or greedy people of ijebu..

Iykopee:


^^^^ bros do they have igbo speaking people in akwa ibom state? I simply think ijaws are the big weight of the SS.

zendy:


The Igbanke people of Edo state are Igbo speaking people

cheruv:

Thanks for the enlightenment..
Its now official.. SW has 4 ethnicities
Yoruba
Ijebu
Awori
Ogu

AlPeter:


there are yoruba speaking folks In EDO STATE does that make them Yoruba?

pazienza:


There are no Yoruba speaking people in Edo. Stop the madness already.

Akoko Edos don't speak Yoruba or Yoruboid languages.
Don't confuse them with the Akokos of Ondo.

If truth be told, Ondo is not really 100% Yoruba speaking, there appear to be some non Yoruba speaking groups in Ondo that over time became "Yorubanized" to a large extent, but still managed to retain their uniqueness.

zendy:
The majority in the SS might be Igbos. Delta-Igbos make up over 30% of Delta state. Rivers Igbos also have 30% of Rivers state. With smaller pockets of Igbos in Edo, Akaibom and Bayelsa, Igbos could be the largest ethnic group in the SS

zendy:



Yes there are Igbo speaking people in Akwa ibom from what I have been told. The immediate past Governor of the state is said to be from the Igbo speaking part

NCP:
Ijaws. They are RIGHTFULLY the 3rd Largest ethnic group in Nigeria followed by the Igbos.

rudebouy:


Who told you dat? Pls stop swallowing lies from fools around. I am an akwa ibom man and der is no igbo speaking part in akwa ibom. Akpabio only married an igbo woman. And it is only the traders that live close to abia and anambra dat speak igbo becos of dia trade relations with aba boys. Its like saying dose alaba is an igbo speaking part of lagos becos of the influx of anambra traders.

Pls u guys shd stop spewing lies abt akwa ibom. D oda day a guy on facebook was talking abt umuessien in akwa ibom. Na wa oh! Der is no place like dat in my state. Where do all dis lies come from?

pazienza:


Guy, there are few Ndoki-Igbo towns that were put into the old Cross Rivers state during the boundary adjustment programme that the Odua-Arewa "victors" carried out immediately after the civil war to balkanize Igboland.

Ndoki was balkanized into Rivers and Old SouthEastern states( the modern day Akwa-ibom and Cross River
states).

Ohaobu is one of the Ndoki Igbo towns in the present Ukuanafun LGA of Akwa ibom state.

http://theinknewspaper..com.ng/2014/08/aksg-to-commence-free-education-at.html?m=1

Zendy made a mistake though, Akwa-ibom has not produced an Igbo speaking governor, Akpabio was only married to an Igbo woman.

I think he meant to say Liyel Imoke, the immediate past Governor of Cross Rivers, who hails from Abi LGA of cross rivers and from Agbo tribe.
There have been suggestions in some Quarters that Agbo are Igbos, but I had personally examined their language and found it to be more of Ekoid, with few borrowed Igbo words, the people are neighbors to Ebonyi people.
Liyel Imoke Wikipedia page says he is Igbo, don't know why, but I know that Liyel Imoke is married to an Enuani- Igbo woman.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liyel_Imoke
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abi,_Nigeria

menabadoo:
Yorubas are cursed, that tribe is the problem of the world.

Mogidi:

Edo is not an ethnic group but a state.

rudebouy:



That was how ur ppl sed that etches are igbo. Well, we were in etche yesterday for a biz transaction. I now remembad and asked the chiefs and youths in the townhall meeting and day all denied being igbo. Day even asked me to show dem the person dat sed so, and I told dem to cool down dat it was just an internet joke. I was both shocked and embarassed.

Who den is an igboman? The man that speaks igbo? Or the one that says he is from igbo and also speaks igbo? Or the one that the igbos claim to be from igbo? Who is really an igbo man?

zendy:
The majority in the SS might be Igbos. Delta-Igbos make up over 30% of Delta state. Rivers Igbos also have 30% of Rivers state. With smaller pockets of Igbos in Edo, Akaibom and Bayelsa, Igbos could be the largest ethnic group in the SS

forgiveness:
Ika
Total population
240,000
Languages
Edoid languages
The Ika people number around 240,000.[1]The Ika people are found in north west Delta State. They share borders linguistically in the west with the Edo speakers, in the north with the Ishan speakers, in the East with the Aniocha language speakers and in the south with the Ukwuani speakers.[2]