somehow:
Locate all health centers in Agege and Alimosho LG

somehow:


Is this a sincere question? if you have been to lag, you won't ask this question

somehow:
The interior shown so far looks like that of health care centers built by LGs in Lagos.

Kilamiti:
Isoko girls get bad character oh. Small thing dem Don break bottle for ya head

Afamed:

Is the position for tribal superiority? Is the occupant not qualified to hold the position? Most of you don't deserve attention.You should be by now afraid of your existence when what only concerns your choice is tribal affiliation

fratermathy:


There's no need arguing what can easily be verified with someone whose disposition is not fertile for learning.

Isoko people, for over 30 years, had their provincial headquarters at Ughelli before the Isoko province was created in 1963 with headquarters at Oleh. When they went to Ughelli, what language do you think they spoke to the Urhobos there?


Think about it. I don't need your response, however pretentiously civil it may be this time.

modath:
Naija press & the kind of reportage they keep dishing is one for the record books..... Headline & main body ogarticle? no correlation.


I still maintain that the majority of crisis in this country has a root cause in how in how the press chooses to report on topical issues...

Mohammed Indimi is an in law to IBB, Abacha, Abdusalami & Buhari but in order to click bait people, they made his UK issues only about Buhari... Wonderful.

itunuoluwa4490:
I don't know none of those language

Please we don't seem to understand your English language either.

What do you actually mean with that grammer?

fratermathy:


Isoko is not a dialect of Urhobo and vice versa. Isoko is an equal member with Urhobo in the Edoid language family. However, Urhobo, Isoko, Okpe, Erhowa and Uvwie all form a cluster which can be effectively called the Urhobo-Isoko languages cluster or what Ben Elugbe called Southwestern Edoid languages. The oldest language in this cluster, which also happens to be the most threatened language in terms of its number of speakers, is Erhowa. Indeed, many linguists believe that all the languages in the Urhobo-Isoko cluster evolved from Erhowa, which in turn evolved from a proto-Edoid language.

Despite the fact that Isoko and Urhobo are distinct languages in their own rights, they are 80% similar in grammar, vocabulary, and phonology. Differences in both languages become greater the farther you move from the collective center of Iyede-Evwreni-Enwhe. In the towns I just listed, Urhobo and Isoko are almost the same as speakers here can communicate with each other without qualms. However, when you move from this center and go farther towards Ozoro and Oleh, the dialects become deeper and the average Urhobo man may not understand what is said completely. The same scenario plays out when the Isoko man is confronted with Uvwie, Okpe and to some extent, Ughievwen and Udu.


Erhowa is not a dialect of Isoko, just as Okpe and Uvwie are not really dialects of Urhobo. However, those who speak the languages identify as Isoko or Urhobo, as the case may be. This identification has led to the situation where their languages are treated as dialects. It is this identification that also led to the idea that Isoko is a dialect of Urhobo. Realistically, they are all in a language cluster in which common words, grammar, vocabulary and culture are shared. Each of the languages has its own dialects and units too. For the sake of expediency, Okpe and Uvwie are usually treated as variant languages under Urhobo while Erhowa is treated as a variant language under Isoko.


Furthermore, since central Urhobo (Agbarho-Ughelli dialect) is virtually understood by all members of the Urhobo-Isoko cluster, Urhobo has become the overarching language and thus, takes the role as the unifying tongue that connects all. Again, Isoko gained socio-political identity from the Urhobos, with whom they shared common heritage, historical and socio-political identity prior to 1958 when an Isoko division was created by the then Western Regional Government as a punishment to the Urhobos who didn't support Awolowo's party. It was a move that sought to reduce the perceived importance and numerical strength of the Urhobos. Attempts were also made to create Okpe and Uvwie divisions which would have seen Okpe and Uvwie as separate ethnic groups but the Okpe and Uvwie people did not see any sense in it and did not support the move. They had invested too much in the Urhobo identity for them to establish a distinct ethnic identity. Furthermore, the Isoko division was possible because many of the Isoko elite then already held resentments for their perceived marginalisation by Urhobo leaders. They felt that Urhobos were trying to swallow their identity. It was against this backdrop that they left the Eastern Urhobo division. Ironically, the [s]Isoko language is going extinct at a much higher rate than Okpe and Uvwie [/s] NOT TRUE and that can be said for all Minority languages including Urhobo who remained with Urhobo and whose languages have been preserved in many forms via collective efforts from the Urhobo nation.

Because of the creation of Isoko division, the Isoko Development Union was formed to cater for the Isokos who no longer partook in Urhobo Progress Union. Isokos started to switch from the Ughelli Urhobo dialect which was gaining popularity to the Uzere dialect which is now the central Isoko language. Many other changes occurred that all culminated in the birth of Isoko as an ethnic group. Because of how Isoko evolved from a language into an ethnicity, many people still consider it as a sub-group of Urhobo and therefore, that the language is a dialect of Urhobo. [s]While it is true that the people and their culture are 100% Urhoboid, [/s] the language is regarded by scholars as a distinct Edoid language. However, this categorisation is also new and was done by Ben Elugbe, a non-Urhobo-Isoko scholar and so one can argue that it is a personal view. Unfortunately, many other Urhobo and Isoko scholars have authenticated the categorisation in their works.

EfemenaXY:


It sure does.

I read somewhere that with proper linguistics investigation, a lot of history can be unearthed about a people’s tribe, migration, etc

Now this is something I definitely would be interested in

@ BabyfaceAfrica: do keep us updated on your research findings

I pray he does something we can keep for history and future sakes though!
Efemena of life! Where have you been yo?

Evé obuwo?

This will entail an exit from production in its Agbara plant.

babyfaceafrica:
thank you very much.. my masters thesis is on isoko language and how their grammar structure looks like..I don't speak it..and stay in Lagos..... we were advised to choose isoko to help its promotion.. thanks

Grammar structure?? That is a bit of some serious studies right there ! Don't know if i know all those things well enough but i can help with the little knowledge at my disposal .

Please send mail to baronyconsult@gmail.com,
I cant seem to access this monikers email

babyfaceafrica:
good day Sir, please I am a linguistics Pg student at UI working on the isoko language.. I really know nothing about the language.. I need all the help I can get