₦airaland Forum

zero8zero:
Akwa-ibom, Cross river, Rivers and Bayelsa are referred to as the oil rivers protectorates by the British colonialists. These communities are where majority of palm oil revenues used for the development of eastern region came from. The narrative that palm oil from Abia was used to build PH port was a false and misleading story. Where does that even come from?.
The old Western region as well was a large oil producing region made up of Delta, Edo and Ondo

Fixed

Editorialtimes:
Something like that.

Impossible. These are medications used in hospitals.

YouAreNobody:
Suit yourself, I'm not here to make irrelevant banters with a nonentity

Then why bring irrelevant picture?

YouAreNobody:
If you're not knowledgeable on a subject, ask your elders instead of disgracing yourself

Map made in Aba, distributed in Onitsha.

Ngwamankilyou2:
Good one... Rivers is Igbo Land.

Thi*f

sapele914:
Talk is cheap, action speaks, let him leave Rivers State, since Wike his boy had been in Abuja b4 the fall out with his puppet Fubara, how many times did he visit him?

Your boy dey issue C of O for Abuja, you Sidon for Port Harcourt dey do local don?

Wherever Rivers State has their guest houses in Mataima Abuja, or the central business district, or at other locations, The FCT Minister can revoke their C of O for overriding public interest, & turn it into a car park.

Houses wey Nyesom Wike dey build for retired Federal, & Supreme Court judges for Abuja, Peter Odili wife no go try collect like 2 properties instead of one, when na your person dey do the allocating?

One Thing you people fail to realize is that Nyesom Wike is not on your level, he has been Local Government Chairman, Minister, Governor, & Minister again, make Peter Odili & all you local Things go siddon for one corner.

Na person wey never go Abuja b4, no go understand the level of The FCT Minister, no foreign President dares enter Nigeria, without meeting him. Person wey done drink wine with Emmanuel Macron.

Nyesom Wike has a job working for Nigeria, still making as much money as he did as Governor, he has done his bit for Rivers State, on like the majority 99% following Nyesom Wike’s rebel puppet Fubara that are jobless.

I have never seen anyone as deluded as you are.

Armaggedon:
who dash monkey Banana 🍌? There is no such thing as Ijaw in rivers state.

Check out the map below. It's a map of the coastal Niger Delta (Benin coast) and Cameroons done by Portuguese explorers centuries ago. You can see the ethnic make-up of the coastal Niger delta, starting with the Edo's in the far west called Warre ( warri), then the brass tribes that contains ijaws in today's bayelsa. Moving closer East in what is today the coastal Rivers state and you can see it is clearly labelled "Eboes". This Eboes include Bonny, Opobo and Okirika. You can also see andonies were not even called Igbos talk more of being Ijaw. They are a mixture of Igbos and Ibibios who were labelled as quas (qua Ibo)in the north East of the map.

Ijaw are just empty land grabbers conniving with Igbo enemies to steal Igbo lands and taking advantage of vulnerable position of Igbos in the present Nigeria. Ijaw ends in certain areas in bayelsa and Delta state.

Na foreigner go write your history with myopic map for you.

Stolen:
IJAWS CAME MUCH LATER.


IF I COME TO UK, MIX WITH THEM, DOES IT MEAN THE UK IS NOW NIGERIA?


POINT IS IJAW CAME, THEY ARE NOT INDIGEOUS TO RIVERS.

Your point is useless. You claim Rivers people have either Igbo or Efik ancestry with nothing like Ijaw. Now you are saying Ijaw came later. Abeg stand one side.....

Stolen:
NO, THAT LIES HAVE TO END.


BAYELSA WAS CREATED AS A SETTLEMENT FOR THE IJAWS.


MAJORITY OF THE RIVERINE PEOPLE IN RIVERS STATE ARE ORIGINALLY A MIXTURE OF IGBO AND EFIK, THAT IS WHY IT IS CALLED NEW CALABAR AND LATER KALABARI.


IJAW EXPANSIONSIT MUST BE CHECKED AND HALTED, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY HAD THE GUTS TO DICTATAE TO OHANAEZE NOT TO ZONE PRESIDENT TO IKWERRE.


THAT WAS WHERE WE CHANGED IT FOR THEM.


THEY CROSSED THEIR BOUNDARY, AT NO TIME HAVE IGBO OR OHANAEZE INVOLVED ITSELF IN IYC BUSINESS.


AT SOME POINT, YOU CALL A SPADE A SPADE.

So if they are a mixture of "Igbo and Efik" as you claim, then that's definitely not the only 2 admixtures. So stop deluding yourself.

Last time I checked, The Abua/Odual person has more in common with an Ogbia man in Bayelsa than any Igbo or Efik.

The Engenni people have more in common with the Epie people of Bayelsa than Igbo or Efik

The Kalabari and Okrika man has more in common with the Nembe/Brass person than they do with Igbo and Efik.

So what's your point?

Stolen:
AT BOLDED. ALL MIXED AND NONE IS IJAW.

Everybody on earth is mixed with one thing or the other if you want to go there.

I'm surprised you are not concerned about if the other groups are mixed or not, but your problem is just the Ijaw.

I smell fish...

Hector09:
Lol most of us in rivers state Ain't ijew... So we are just neighbors

Rivers State is divided like this

Ijoid (Abua/Odual, Ahoada West (Engenni), Degema, Asari Toru, Akuku Toru, Bonny, Opobo/Nkoro, Andoni, Okrika, Ogubolo and PH South)

Ogoni (Khana, Gokana, Tai and Eleme)

Igboid (Oyigbo, Omuma, Obio-Akpor, PH North(The majority of PHALGA), Emuoha, Ahoada East, Ahoada West(the Ekpeye), Ikwerre, Etche and Onelga)

Rivers State has really suffered the most in this country. Oil revenue Nigeria milk the state. VAT Rivers is still milked. Chai!

Bkelly2:
Then you do not know the real issue. There was a crisis between Atiku faction and wike faction. The mistake those 27 did was to defect. Affidavit to this effect is in the open space. ZLP has a damning evidence against those 27. The case is in court. No technicality by the judiciary can solve this in favour of the 27

There was absolutely no issue in the PDP. Hence there defection was miscalculated, not knowing that the other political parties are just waiting for their slip up, which they did. As soon as they noticed that they have messed up, they now start saying they never defected, because they know that they've scored a political own goal.

sholatech:
Damn. So this banquet hall is inside his personal house? What will it be used for when he is no longer active political? Turn it to hotel with event centre?

First thought that came to mind.

Sundaymessi:
They said he was "ungrateful".
That was his crime nothing more than that.

So that's reason enough to seize the allocation of Rivers or cause the kind of political unrest that's going on in Rivers? When did being ungrateful become a crime in our constitution?

Goodnewsforlife:
but hope we won't hear Nigeria is finished when wike starts winning

In a sane clime this would never happen. What exactly does he want to win? Has Wike and people like yourself been able to let us know the crime of Fubara? Let's start from there.

Jorussia:
I have heard you and lets wait for that time.

I can see that you are all for illegality. Was there an internal problem in the pdp before the 27 wike lapdogs defected?

Jorussia:
I hope when the Judiciary rule that Pro wike lawmakers are the authentic house of assembly in rivers state u won't say the Judiciary has been bought over by Wike?

In a sane clime such ruling can never happen.

Wike and his goons will continue to fail.

exposition:
ethnic politics

This is sad!

Dem don com wit anoda lamba.

Lance008:
How can he avoid it when he actually have no helper
Life hard without helper

You don't need a helper to avoid every trigger of sickle cell crisis.

exposition:
The same thing is happening in cross river state.

Tell us what's going on in Cross River...

I understand you and I know that this is very distressing to live with. All you can do is to avoid things that will cause crisis and live your life the best possible way you can.

Justiceleague1:
During that evil buhari,there was a time almost the entire federal govt petroleum and maritime agencies, NNPC ptdf DPR PPPMC PPPRA NPA NIMASA were all headed by northerners!!!! It meant that whenever they were together,they as well be communicating in Hausa!


Banzas abbokis

Atleast it was northerners. Buhari focused on everyone from the north, both NE, NW and NC. Here we have a president from Southern Nigeria and he's focusing all his key employment on one section of Southern Nigeria.

nairalanda1:
12th time this year.

Until we do what Ivory coast did, we are going to keep having grid collapse.

We better wake up.


Goo goo exist

What did Ivory Coast do?

Hopebringer:
Rivers state is the stupidest state in Nigeria. A state where the people have allowed evil become the norm

I just don't know what wrong with iboz

And you remain the stup*d*est person on nairaland.

Righthussle:
If they were in the Rivers state House of assembly, by now the governor would have declared their seats vacant and stopped their salaries. The laws in Rivers state are different from the laws in Abuja

M*m*. Na your type dey open mouth wahhh. Ignorance is not an excuse before the court of law. LP has a problem in the party, so these ones have a reason to move and it's backed by law.

Softmirror:
So you don't even know what oil producing states get? lol.

Is that what they are supposed to get in a sane clime?

Softmirror:
We not talking about Arabs lol. Have you ever been to Bayelsa? Does the state reflect the derivation they have been getting? That is the point. It's a mind set issue.

How is the derivation of Bayelsa? Most times some of us go just open mouth wahhh.

Kukutente23:
Like I told you, the latest value I got was from 2021 and it shows Bayelsa generated 12bn and got 17bn. In fact, of the figure, only Lagos, Oyo and Rivers got less than they generated throughout the Federation except FCT that did not get anything from the VAT they generated. What this means in essence is that only 3 states got far below the VAT the generated. The rest got far above it.

If you have a more recent statistics that back up your claim, I'll be glad to see it

That is wrong. Bayelsa has always received less than what they generated from VAT. States that enjoy this are mainly in the SE and North.