boyfrank:
Ijaw and benin e-warriors seem to be on steroids

mancoconut:
Ijaws and Edos have to be the most irritating minority groups ever, na dem dey claim every ethnic groups in Nigeria even when their facts (or lack thereof) defies logic and common sense... the Ijaws especially have become particularly more annoying and desperate with their expansionist agendas... very useless bunch of desperadoes.

michelz:
Well, it is their problem. Some few years ago on this forum, they both ganged up against Igbos. They were everywhere postulating and grandstanding against Igbos in the name of " our oyel" and" niger delta".
Now, they are claiming almost everywhere in Niger Delta. Not my business.

Nwanyiogwashi:
Both Urhobo and ijaw can go to hell

Nwanyiogwashi:

God bless you so much you have said it all

Christistruth00:
Urhobos migrated from Benin when one Benin Oba was Stressing everyone too much

So they decided to hit the road and didn’t return to Benin no more

mancoconut:
[s]Ijaws and Edos have to be the most irritating minority groups ever, na dem dey claim every ethnic groups in Nigeria even when their facts (or lack thereof) defies logic and common sense... the Ijaws especially have become particularly more annoying and desperate with their expansionist agendas... very useless bunch of desperadoes.[/s]

Efewestern:


Not all Urhobos were of Bini Origin, no ethnic group as big as Urhobo can claim they had a single ancestors. Some urhobo clans had a mixture of Ijaw ancestors, especially those around the Ughelli axis. I made a post about this yesterday.

Several Ijaw clans also had Urhobo ancestors, like the Kiagbodo people. Even the Epie people in Bayelsa were of Urhobo/Edo origin. Migration of people back then was just so inevitable.

So yes, the OP was partially correct.

Cc: SlayerForever

lalajnr:
You and you landlock dry land can go to grave Ndi Dot

Dartilo:
Do you know that there is a popular claim that Urohbo speaks the ancient idu language...

Idu is same as Edo

ThEGodFaThEr104:

Shaarap, ewu.

Truthvalue41:

And when exactly did the name "idu" appear ?
The Urhobo speak a version of Edo language.
There is no such thing as "idu".

Truthvalue41:
What people keep forgetting is that as from the 1400's the region was visited by literate people and those people called made maps and even called the sea: "Bight of Benin", not bight of yoruba nor bight of ijaw, nor bight of whatever. So I would really want to understand where all these attempts at denying Benin's past is coming from.

Dartilo:



Bro,firstly let discuss and not argue and I don't trade insult plz....having said that....
1.Yes it's generally blv that Urohbo are ediod

2.Edo was first used as a name of the empire by Oba Ewaure the first in the 14th century

3.Urhobo migrated way before Ewaure came into power

4.The ancient name of Edo is,Aka or idu or igodo or igodomogodo

5.If truly urhobo left became the empire name was change,then why not refer to it as the name they are familiar with....

Don't get me wrong am not here to cause argument okay

boyfrank:
Ijaw and benin e-warriors seem to be on steroids

mancoconut:
Ijaws and Edos have to be the most irritating minority groups ever, na dem dey claim every ethnic groups in Nigeria even when their facts (or lack thereof) defies logic and common sense... the Ijaws especially have become particularly more annoying and desperate with their expansionist agendas... very useless bunch of desperadoes.

MASTAkiLLAh:
After causing enmity between Yorubas and Igbos online, the next target of the BMC supporter of APC îmbeciles was the Ijaw and Igbo, we kept quiet then the bástards came up with Ijaw vs Benin kingdom, we still kept quiet and now the fóols have come up with Ijaw vs Urhobo. They keep calling us "land grabbers" because we keep quiet to their insults but I curse them down to the very last day they spend on earth, may they weep and gnash their teeth without consolation till they die miserable deaths after a long hard life

Truthvalue41:

You guys need to stop guessing history.
You just said a bunch of nonsense.
If you didn't know, it takes DNA tests to claim all the rubbish which you said with confidence as if you were 900 years old and witnessed your ancestors.
Look, if you knew anything about history then [s]you would know that ijos didn't mix with anybody at all, according to all the eyewitness account which I have read, the ancestors of the ijos were pirates ! [/s]When they "migrated" anywhere, they were either chased by the army of the kingdom or the locals, either the locals fled, either the ijaw commited genocide.
This is one of the reasons the ijos had almost no lands, they were very nomadic, being chased from one area to an other by local armies and peoples.

Stop guessing history, punk.

What we know is that Urhobo tradition is the same as their other Edo brothers and also that the Urhobo language is the same as their other Edo brothers and also that Urhobo were part of Benin empire according to precolonial maps.
Even Urhobo oral story claims they migrated from Benin. So man, stop being a punk.

Efewestern:


It looks like you are Ijawphobic and unfortunately I don't share your tribal isssh, I am just here to discuss culture and not to get myself soaked in any tribal supremacism .

First, the Ijaws weren't pirates, they are indigenous to the Delta as any group occupying that territory today.

Secondly, the Ijaws had mix with almost every ethic group in southern Nigeria which is event in their languages.

Ooopss, You just said I guessed history, how ignorantly can you assume. That the Urhobos migrated from Bini (Aka) doesn't mean that never had ancestors from other places, no major ethnic group traces its origin to just a single place, it beats common sense and logic.

Tribal ethnicity grows due to fusion of people from various places, Kiagbodo is an Ijaw town that shares ancestral linkage with Olomu (Ughelli), an urhobo town. Infact, till date, Kiagbodo still speak both the Urhobo and Ijaw language. The likes of Chief Edwin Clark (A Kiagbodo son) was once a member of UPU until recently. In Sagbama LGA of Bayelsa State, we have several of these inter-ancestral linkage between the Urhobos and Ijaws, and it is this connection that birthed some Urhobo communities such as Ofoni. Epie, another sub-ijaw groups were also of Urhobo/Edo origin that got fused with the aboriginal Ijaws.

What other scientific prove do you need despite these glaring facts?

@bolded, if you want to engage me in anything, you should do away of foul words. Happy Sunday.

valirex:



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