Chyz*:

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:

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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TewMuch:



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?

PhysicsRND:

As for the first part, I'm stunned Ijaws are trying to claim Benin like that

This claiming getting way out of hand.

dayokanu:

Igbos own 95% of Lagos, Binis were the original settlers in Lagos, Ijaws now own Lagos,

The rate at which lagos changes ownership self is mindboggling

ShangoThor:

According to research, the Ilaje (Mahins et al) have always had a very early presence in Lagos. If you do a Google maps search for Mahin you will understand why.

However, the Ilaje trace their roots back to Oduduwa, and are affiliated with the Yoruba (fact). Nevertheless, they do share a river dependant life style and relationship with the Ijaw, so much so that they are intertwined but at the same time distinctive groups. They also share a common deity, Ayelala (a god against treachery, wickedness, dishonesty and evil), which legend has it ironically came into being due to a conflict between both the Ijaw and the Ilaje.

This is ‘OUR’ anthropological story of Human Evolution in the Niger Delta, and Southern Nigeria, we are all intertwined.

EzeUche_:

Well the Ijaw language is a "language isolate."

Could they possibly be the original inhabitants of Southern Nigeria and were pushed into the creeks of the Delta, by the Niger-Congo groups?

PhysicsRND:


Ijaw is a Niger-Congo language so it's part of the same larger language family as the Western Kwa group and also the Volta-Niger (Yoruba, Igbo, Idoma, Edo, etc.) group that I think you were referring to.

alj harem:

tell them my brother

PhysicsRND:

I also don't see how they could be "pushed into the creeks" unless that was done systematically by every Volta-Niger group that encountered them.


There's food and water in the creeks/rivers and by the sea so it's perfectly reasonable to settle around water.


Why they leaned towards that much more than other groups isn't really clear though.

ezeagu:

This is what happens when a country refuses to teach its full history.

EzeUche_:

Then where are these peoples from? They had to migrate from somewhere. But their language has nothing in common with the Igboid, Yoruboid, Edoid, Ogoni or Ibibio speaking groups.

They remain a mystery. Maybe they came from the sea. People in Ghana used to say the same things about the Ga people whose language is strange to the Akan and Ewe speakers.

step1:

This is madness, I have come from to realise that until we yorubas from awori, egun, oyo etc come together and kill this ijaw and igbos in lagos then we will have no peace.

Alj harem do you remember Alausa when Hausa people were claim lagos because it is call alausa

step1:

This is madness, I have come from to realise that until we yorubas from awori, egun, oyo etc come together and kill this ijaw and igbos in lagos then we will have no peace.

Alj harem do you remember Alausa when Hausa people were claim lagos because it is call alausa

Katsumoto:

Eyon mi, that language is a bit extreme.

EzeUche_:


What the hell does Igbos have to do with this topic?

Most Igbos do not claim Lagos.

And the Igbos who refered to claiming Lagos, such as myself were only doing so jokingly, because we know how some Yorubas get when we discuss Lagos.

We Igbos have more pressing matters like Port Harcourt and Bonny.

step1:

This is madness, I have come from to realise that until we yorubas from awori, egun, oyo etc come together and kill this ijaw and igbos in lagos then we will have no peace.

Alj harem do you remember Alausa when Hausa people were claim lagos because it is call alausa

Katsumoto:

Eyon mi, that language is a bit extreme.

step1:

This is madness, I have come from to realise that until we yorubas from awori, egun, oyo etc come together and kill this ijaw and igbos in lagos then we will have no peace.

Alj harem do you remember Alausa when Hausa people were claim lagos because it is call alausa

step1:

This is madness, I have come from to realise that until we yorubas from awori, egun, oyo etc come together and kill this ijaw and igbos in lagos then we will have no peace.

Alj harem do you remember Alausa when Hausa people were claim lagos because it is call alausa

TewMuch:


Dem see fire!!! Since then we no hear pim. They have gone back to selling their cow meat.

alj harem:

ideeiot i remember, i think you are an opc member,  you are making fun of us  

step1, this is war between me and you

step1:

Sorry brother if you can not read my yoruba, it is the awori dialect. Hope you can read it