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Ghostwon82:
Every criminal and terrorist has his own rules, that is what makes him a criminal, he refuses to follow common rules, he believes he is above the rules which all others have to follow.
You have have the same mindset as a terrorist and you don't even realize it because you are not very smart.
What if everybody decided he had his own rules and didn't need to follow common law ? What type of society would that be ?

such area will be nice and peaceful..
Let me burst your little brain.......the people trapped in this nizooria or nigeria were once peaceful.....they stay together, trade together with their respective rules...there was never bloodshed.....but it changes when white came and create an artificial nation for us...

Despite our respective rules, Ijaws, Yorubas, Ibos, Benins etc were trading together in peace, lovin one another... No sane person will see sense in nigeria

Ghostwon82:
Now you are showing how daft you are, the map in question was made hundreds of years ago by European explorers to our region.
In case you don't know, Edo-state was created in the 1990's, not in the precolonial era.

edo state was created in 1990, is dumb talk.

What you don't know is that, the very land you benins are occupying belong to the Olodiama Okumu kingdom of Ijaw..but we live it for you to stay freely... You people were chased out of ile ife by the Yorubas, but the Ijaw accommodate you.... Now, you here disrespecting them.. ingrates

Ghostwon82:
Your ancestors were litteraly called "ouyo pirates" !
You don't even know your history.
Here you are confirming that your people do not abide by the law... You are just confirming my claim that you guys have criminality I. Your DNA

we have our own rules that guide us.
And that our rules are just like the rules of israel given to them by Jehovah.

If we do not have rules, we would have been killing everybody we see in nigeria, since we have the power, but no, we are been bind by a law of not taking someone's life except in self defense or war..

We have been giving the rule to love whoever we see like ourselves..
That's why we don't collect land fees or house fees from urhobo people farming in our lands,,housas staying in our houses,,,, Fulanis using our forests,,,ibos businessing in our places..

but ignorant ones like you who has never stay with Ijaw will mistaken us for violence people or pirates just because we defend ourselves.

Ghostwon82:
Precolonial map of Benin Kingdom.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8595583b.r=Benin%20royaume?rk=107296;4

All of Edo state is converted by it.
Where is "egbama kingdom" ?

this is just an oba self made map. Go check the the original map of edo... Egbema kingdom is in delta and edo. Because state creation divide the kingdom into two states.
Egbema in delta, share warri north LGA with the itshekiri and share ovia south with other Ijaws in edo state..

Ghostwon82:
Ijaws are the "fulani herdsmen"/bandits of the south. The people who think they can trust the ijaw will only wake up to regret it one day. All the people who have problems with the ijaw today are people who showed sympathy to the ijaw and allowed them in as tenants.
But the tradition of the ijaw is piracy, criminality, it's in their DNA. They can't live by any rules, nor can they give any respect. They are agents of chaos.

Ijaw and Yoruba are the two oldest ethnicity in this southern part of nigeria..... every other ethnicity met this two ethnicities here..

Ijaws are not piracy people, but Ijaws don't accept oppression.
Ijaws are just freedom fighters and warriors, not pirates or cultists like your people.

Ijaws are the most accommodating people in the world, reason you see Fulanis and hausas doing businesses cow rearing in their communities without even paying for house rents..

Tell me, which ethnicity in this world that will give out beautiful houses to strangers without demanding for rentage? Only Ijaw does.
So we are not violence people, what we hate is oppression or taking advantage of us.

Yes, we Ijaws are not nigerians, so we can never bow to any nigeria constitution..because Ijaw and nigeria nor be mate... The name Name Izon or Ijon has been in far existence before the emergence of nigeria... nigerians should be the ones to bow to the Ijaw constitution and not other.

That's why you always the saying, "(Ijo nor know road to court)". Yes we Ijaws don't do court case with people concerning land..a land that has been far existing before court cannot be decided by court..

we are not Fulanis of south, get this into your head

Ghostwon82:
The problem is not if people have heard of "egbama kingdom", the problem is: since when is there such a thing as "egbama kingdom" ?

What you ijaws seem to ignore is that you can't create a kingdom within a kingdom. And kingdoms of Nigeria are kingdoms which existed before Nigeria was created by the British (by fighting wars against these kingdoms and forcing their land into a British colony). So you can't just wake up one day and claim "kingdom" !

The thing is, as I already said, your ijaw ancestors were pirates who had very little land under their name, most places in which your ancestors found themselves were foreign kingdoms and your ancestors were there as criminals, pirates killing and stealing and raping and being chased away by local armies.

Now that Nigeria exists you took the advantage of freely moving around, and taking refuge in other people's lands with the initial blessing and sympathy of the people of that land, but some 60 years later, you started claiming that land as yours and making up fake history and fake kingdoms.

Did I dumb it down enough for you ?

It is just the same as if Igbos who migrated to kano during the colonial era were suddenly claiming the town in which they reside to be an igbo kingdom and were making a fake history to back it.

This your write-up just shows the level of your ignorance.

Egbema is an ancient kingdom..not just an ancient kingdom, but mighty kingdom that has fight in every Ijaw and niger delta struggle right from slave capturing and resisting capturing.

Just inquire of the the kingdom Egbema.

Just ask any Ijaw person about the Egbema kingdom, they will tell you.

even government has bombarded the Egbema kingdom for about occasions..

Egbema is the largest kingdom in Ijaw Nation.

Egbema is the largest kingdom in Ijaw land.

Egbema is a father Kingdom that even gave birth to the Egbema in imo and rivers state.

do you think Egbema is a today kingdom?

The Egbema kingdom predate the entire Igbo ethnicity..
Egbema kingdom predate the benin kingdom.

Egbema kingdom has gave birth many kingdoms, such as the Egbema of river and imo state.

Egbema kingdom population is more than the population of the benin kingdom.

Ask itshekiri people, the will tell you about Egbema...

Ghostwon82:
Ijaw proselytism at its finest. "What is mine is mine and what is yours is open for debate", spoken like a true pirate, your ijo ancestors must be very proud that you are carrying out their tradition of creating chaos everywhere like the pirates they were.

Bayelsa is not entirely ijaw, there are some Edoid people who originate from parts of Bayelsa

there is no urhobo or any other ethnicity in bayelsa.. you don't even have respect.

Ghostwon82:
Ijaw just keep creating fake kingdoms out of thin air and creating fake history to accompany their fake kingdoms.
You guys are crazy.

say no to ignorance

**EGBEMA THE SINGLE LARGEST IJAW CLAN OUT OF THE 86*
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*HISTORY OF EGBEMA KINGDOM*



The ancient Kingdom of Egbema is politically split into Edo and Delta States of Nigeria. Egbema Kingdom is bounded on the north by the Olodiama of Edo State and the Itsekiri of Delta State, west by the Arogbo Kingdom of Ondo State, east by Gbaramatu Kingdom and the Itsekiri of Delta State and South by the Ilaje of Ondo State and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Egbema people are the most likely Ijo sub-group to which the allegation of Ijo piracy on the Benin River could have been made. The only other sub-group with access to the Benin River are the Gbaramatu.

Egbema traditions, in fact, give indirect evidence of their predatory activities in the region of the Benin River. While they refer to the Oba of Benin as Ugbo Pere (lord of the hinter lands), the priest king of Egbema was Bini Pere (lord of Waters). Apart from cultural and other relations with other Ijo groups, therefore, Egbema history was affected by relations with the Benin Empire to the North, and with the Itsekiri to the south and with white traders in slaves on Benin river and its estuaries.

The dual relationship with the Edo and the Itsekiri is now reflected in the demarcation of the Egbema into the administrative areas of the Benin Division and Warri Division.

Origin and Settlement:
According to Pere G.O.E Tiemo, The AGADAGBA OF EGBEMA KINGDOM BINI PERE III (2006), there are nine traditional towns in Egbema known as Egbema Isenabiri, namely – Ofiniama, Ajakurama, Abere, Gbeuba, Bolou Jamagie/Abadigbene, Opuama/Polobubo, Ogbinbiri, Ogbudugbudu and Tu-Jamagie. In addition there are over Three hundred and fifty villages and hamlets. The people are fishermen, hunters, canoe builders, distillers of local gin and farmers.

Alagoa (1972) states that the earliest settlement of Ofiniama was founded by two traders Alopomini and Opiti from the Mein town of Gbekebo (patrilineal) in the Western Delta. They used to stop at the site to shoot birds (ofini) for food on their way to Ukuroama, Iko, Eko or Lagos.

The founders of Ajakurama, Gbeoba, Abere and Opuama/Polobubo first lived at Ofiniama for some time before they settled in their present site. The fifth settlement, Gbolukangan, was founded by settlers from Gbeoba. A new group of immigrants came from Operemo in the Western Delta and founded the settlement of Jamagie. The founders of Opuama, Ogbudugbudu and Ogbinbiri were also migrants from the Western Delta – apparently from Amatu in Iduwini ibe. The only unifying force in Egbema tradition was the common worship of Egbesu (Alagoa 1972:42-46).

Egbesu was the symbol of the unity of all Egbema and the Pere served as the human embodiment of that unity. But the very importance of Egbesu resulted in disputes over the control of the shrine and over the priesthood. Such disputes were avoided among sub-groups with traditions of common origin, where there was a recognised seniority among the towns, and within the town founded by the common ancestor, the lineage of that ancestor would be accorded right to the priesthood.

In Egbema, Ofiniama acquired de facto primacy as the most ancient settlement. But the founders of Ofiniama (Alopomini and Opiti) were never priests of Egbesu. Even the shrine, said to have been originally sited at Ofiniama is now at Ajakoroama.

According to the Pere Obula, the original location of Egbesu in Egbema was Bolou-Jamagie from where it was removed, first to Ogun-Ode at Ofiniama and finally to Ajakuroma. It was never “stolen” but carried to these places by agreement of all Egbema because of threats by first Olomu of the Itsekiri and later of his son Nana, to steal Egbesu and wage war against the Egbema.

The Egbema people collaborated in the installation of a Pere. Ofiniama put the sacred chalk on the new Pere (tori pu), the chief of Ogboinbiri served the wine (wuru tua) and the closest to the Pere. This need for a wide consensus must have helped to produce long periods without a Pere. It may be noted that the national god of the Mein (from whose territory Ofiniama was founded) is Mein Dirimegbeya, and not Egbesu, and that it is at Ekeremo of the Operemo from where Jamagie migrated that an Egbesu is to be found. These facts suggest that the Egbema may represent a case where political power and ritual authority were separated. That is, that although the temporal rulers of Ofiniama and its related settlements held political power, the source of spiritual authority appears to have come originally from elsewhere; although the ritual centre was eventually moved to Ajakoroama, an offshoot of Ofiniama (Alagoa 1972).

Trade and External Relations:
Egbema traditions give prominence to trade and contact with neighbouring groups and even the traditions of origin characterise the founders of Ofiniama as traders to Ukuroama or Iko. Ofiniama, like Arogbo, is situated on the modern route from the Western and Eastern Delta to Lagos. The traditions names two commodities used by the Ofiniama in this trade, namely camwood (Isele) and big canoes. Egbema traditions recorded at Ofiniama speak of early contact with Benin. Inabiri, son of Opiti, one of the founding fathers, was already a rich slave, owner when contact was establish with Benin. It was slaves of Inabiri called Okitia, who met some men from Udo.
According to Chief Pius Ikpi, the people of Ofunama through Inabiri made a live covenant with the people of Udo under a tree along the road at present day Arakhuan near UDO as confirmed by the Iyase of Udo in recent times.
That forms the basis for which Inabiri’s men made friends with the men of Udo, and soon Inabiri himself went by way of Udo to Benin where the reigning Oba gave him medicine that helped him get his first child. The road through Udo was closed, for some unknown reason, but a second route to Benin was opened in the life time of Inabiri. A third road through Ikusanghan in Olodiama became the normal route until the colonial period. This third route is to be identified with the road referred to by the records of European visitors.

The people of Egbema claim to have dealt directly with the White traders on the coast and to have supplied Edo traders with foreign goods (cannons, guns, matchets, coral beads). Egbema traditions refer to sailing ships bringing goods to them on the coast, but refer the crew men as dark white men (Dirimo Bekewei), thus implying mulattoes or people of mixed white and black ancestry, but apparently Sierra Leonians or Liberians.

Egbema claims to pre-eminence on the coast and on the Benin River support Itsekiri (and European) reference to Ijo interference with their trade in this area. Traditions of the Egbema in the Benin River area do, in fact, contain accounts of wars and treaties with Itsekiri settlements such as Jakpa, Itebu and others.

Chronology:
Egbema king lists and genealogies do not take their traditions beyond the early eighteen century, but elements in their traditions refer to earlier times.
The official accounts recorded by Alagoa (1972), for example, gave the name of the Oba who administered medicine to Inabiri as EKaladeran, the son of Ogiso. Benin tradition gives the name of the son of the last Ogiso ruler Benin variously as Ekaladerhan and Kaladerhan. These Benin traditions say Ekeladerhan never became Oba, but was exiled South to found the town of Ughoton or Gwato. In any case, the date of about 1170 at which the Ogiso dynasty gave place to the current dynasty is rather thesame period for the Ijo migrations to this corner of the Niger Delta. Other Egbema privately give the amen of the Oba who made medicine for Inabiri as Eware. If this name is identified as Oba Ewuare the Great, who was also a maker of charms and magic according to Benin tradition, it would give us a date for Egbema migrations in the late fifteenth century. It may be noted in addition, that the route to Benin through Ughoton (Kadaderhan’s town) was the last known of the Egbema, and since the Egbema claim to have supplied European goods to the Edo, this must refer to a period after the European factories at Ughoton were removed to locations in the Delta in the mid-seventeenth century. Accordingly, we may date Egebma settlement of the Western Delta limit between the end of the fifteenth and middle of the seventeenth century (Alagoa 1972).

Accounts of early European (Portuguese) trade with some Egbema villages like Arbo, Uloli and Boededoe (Benidodogha or Beninidodoa) provide a basis for claims to Egbema settlement prior to the seventeenth century. Contemporary historians have noted that there were several pirates attacks on Europeans in the course of their expeditions obviously owing to their relationship with the Itsekiris. One of such cases was exemplified in show of solidarity during the capture of Nana to the Gold coast immediately after the deportation of Oba Ovoranmwen from Benin through Gelegele waterside to Calabar. It is on records that the British colonialists took permission by way of right of passage on the water ways so as to avoid confrontations along the Benin river. The port at Binidodogha corrupted to read Binidodoe was under the command of Toni of Binidodo.

Extract from the book: “The Izon of the Niger Delta” Chapter 18 – by E.J Alagoa, E.A Kowei, B.J Owei, J.B Dunu and Chief Pius Ikpi.

**EGBEMA THE SINGLE LARGEST IJAW CLAN OUT OF THE 86*
*



*HISTORY OF EGBEMA KINGDOM*



The ancient Kingdom of Egbema is politically split into Edo and Delta States of Nigeria. Egbema Kingdom is bounded on the north by the Olodiama of Edo State and the Itsekiri of Delta State, west by the Arogbo Kingdom of Ondo State, east by Gbaramatu Kingdom and the Itsekiri of Delta State and South by the Ilaje of Ondo State and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Egbema people are the most likely Ijo sub-group to which the allegation of Ijo piracy on the Benin River could have been made. The only other sub-group with access to the Benin River are the Gbaramatu.

Egbema traditions, in fact, give indirect evidence of their predatory activities in the region of the Benin River. While they refer to the Oba of Benin as Ugbo Pere (lord of the hinter lands), the priest king of Egbema was Bini Pere (lord of Waters). Apart from cultural and other relations with other Ijo groups, therefore, Egbema history was affected by relations with the Benin Empire to the North, and with the Itsekiri to the south and with white traders in slaves on Benin river and its estuaries.

The dual relationship with the Edo and the Itsekiri is now reflected in the demarcation of the Egbema into the administrative areas of the Benin Division and Warri Division.

Origin and Settlement:
According to Pere G.O.E Tiemo, The AGADAGBA OF EGBEMA KINGDOM BINI PERE III (2006), there are nine traditional towns in Egbema known as Egbema Isenabiri, namely – Ofiniama, Ajakurama, Abere, Gbeuba, Bolou Jamagie/Abadigbene, Opuama/Polobubo, Ogbinbiri, Ogbudugbudu and Tu-Jamagie. In addition there are over Three hundred and fifty villages and hamlets. The people are fishermen, hunters, canoe builders, distillers of local gin and farmers.

Alagoa (1972) states that the earliest settlement of Ofiniama was founded by two traders Alopomini and Opiti from the Mein town of Gbekebo (patrilineal) in the Western Delta. They used to stop at the site to shoot birds (ofini) for food on their way to Ukuroama, Iko, Eko or Lagos.

The founders of Ajakurama, Gbeoba, Abere and Opuama/Polobubo first lived at Ofiniama for some time before they settled in their present site. The fifth settlement, Gbolukangan, was founded by settlers from Gbeoba. A new group of immigrants came from Operemo in the Western Delta and founded the settlement of Jamagie. The founders of Opuama, Ogbudugbudu and Ogbinbiri were also migrants from the Western Delta – apparently from Amatu in Iduwini ibe. The only unifying force in Egbema tradition was the common worship of Egbesu (Alagoa 1972:42-46).

Egbesu was the symbol of the unity of all Egbema and the Pere served as the human embodiment of that unity. But the very importance of Egbesu resulted in disputes over the control of the shrine and over the priesthood. Such disputes were avoided among sub-groups with traditions of common origin, where there was a recognised seniority among the towns, and within the town founded by the common ancestor, the lineage of that ancestor would be accorded right to the priesthood.

In Egbema, Ofiniama acquired de facto primacy as the most ancient settlement. But the founders of Ofiniama (Alopomini and Opiti) were never priests of Egbesu. Even the shrine, said to have been originally sited at Ofiniama is now at Ajakoroama.

According to the Pere Obula, the original location of Egbesu in Egbema was Bolou-Jamagie from where it was removed, first to Ogun-Ode at Ofiniama and finally to Ajakuroma. It was never “stolen” but carried to these places by agreement of all Egbema because of threats by first Olomu of the Itsekiri and later of his son Nana, to steal Egbesu and wage war against the Egbema.

The Egbema people collaborated in the installation of a Pere. Ofiniama put the sacred chalk on the new Pere (tori pu), the chief of Ogboinbiri served the wine (wuru tua) and the closest to the Pere. This need for a wide consensus must have helped to produce long periods without a Pere. It may be noted that the national god of the Mein (from whose territory Ofiniama was founded) is Mein Dirimegbeya, and not Egbesu, and that it is at Ekeremo of the Operemo from where Jamagie migrated that an Egbesu is to be found. These facts suggest that the Egbema may represent a case where political power and ritual authority were separated. That is, that although the temporal rulers of Ofiniama and its related settlements held political power, the source of spiritual authority appears to have come originally from elsewhere; although the ritual centre was eventually moved to Ajakoroama, an offshoot of Ofiniama (Alagoa 1972).

Trade and External Relations:
Egbema traditions give prominence to trade and contact with neighbouring groups and even the traditions of origin characterise the founders of Ofiniama as traders to Ukuroama or Iko. Ofiniama, like Arogbo, is situated on the modern route from the Western and Eastern Delta to Lagos. The traditions names two commodities used by the Ofiniama in this trade, namely camwood (Isele) and big canoes. Egbema traditions recorded at Ofiniama speak of early contact with Benin. Inabiri, son of Opiti, one of the founding fathers, was already a rich slave, owner when contact was establish with Benin. It was slaves of Inabiri called Okitia, who met some men from Udo.
According to Chief Pius Ikpi, the people of Ofunama through Inabiri made a live covenant with the people of Udo under a tree along the road at present day Arakhuan near UDO as confirmed by the Iyase of Udo in recent times.
That forms the basis for which Inabiri’s men made friends with the men of Udo, and soon Inabiri himself went by way of Udo to Benin where the reigning Oba gave him medicine that helped him get his first child. The road through Udo was closed, for some unknown reason, but a second route to Benin was opened in the life time of Inabiri. A third road through Ikusanghan in Olodiama became the normal route until the colonial period. This third route is to be identified with the road referred to by the records of European visitors.

The people of Egbema claim to have dealt directly with the White traders on the coast and to have supplied Edo traders with foreign goods (cannons, guns, matchets, coral beads). Egbema traditions refer to sailing ships bringing goods to them on the coast, but refer the crew men as dark white men (Dirimo Bekewei), thus implying mulattoes or people of mixed white and black ancestry, but apparently Sierra Leonians or Liberians.

Egbema claims to pre-eminence on the coast and on the Benin River support Itsekiri (and European) reference to Ijo interference with their trade in this area. Traditions of the Egbema in the Benin River area do, in fact, contain accounts of wars and treaties with Itsekiri settlements such as Jakpa, Itebu and others.

Chronology:
Egbema king lists and genealogies do not take their traditions beyond the early eighteen century, but elements in their traditions refer to earlier times.
The official accounts recorded by Alagoa (1972), for example, gave the name of the Oba who administered medicine to Inabiri as EKaladeran, the son of Ogiso. Benin tradition gives the name of the son of the last Ogiso ruler Benin variously as Ekaladerhan and Kaladerhan. These Benin traditions say Ekeladerhan never became Oba, but was exiled South to found the town of Ughoton or Gwato. In any case, the date of about 1170 at which the Ogiso dynasty gave place to the current dynasty is rather thesame period for the Ijo migrations to this corner of the Niger Delta. Other Egbema privately give the amen of the Oba who made medicine for Inabiri as Eware. If this name is identified as Oba Ewuare the Great, who was also a maker of charms and magic according to Benin tradition, it would give us a date for Egbema migrations in the late fifteenth century. It may be noted in addition, that the route to Benin through Ughoton (Kadaderhan’s town) was the last known of the Egbema, and since the Egbema claim to have supplied European goods to the Edo, this must refer to a period after the European factories at Ughoton were removed to locations in the Delta in the mid-seventeenth century. Accordingly, we may date Egebma settlement of the Western Delta limit between the end of the fifteenth and middle of the seventeenth century (Alagoa 1972).

Accounts of early European (Portuguese) trade with some Egbema villages like Arbo, Uloli and Boededoe (Benidodogha or Beninidodoa) provide a basis for claims to Egbema settlement prior to the seventeenth century. Contemporary historians have noted that there were several pirates attacks on Europeans in the course of their expeditions obviously owing to their relationship with the Itsekiris. One of such cases was exemplified in show of solidarity during the capture of Nana to the Gold coast immediately after the deportation of Oba Ovoranmwen from Benin through Gelegele waterside to Calabar. It is on records that the British colonialists took permission by way of right of passage on the water ways so as to avoid confrontations along the Benin river. The port at Binidodogha corrupted to read Binidodoe was under the command of Toni of Binidodo.

Extract from the book: “The Izon of the Niger Delta” Chapter 18 – by E.J Alagoa, E.A Kowei, B.J Owei, J.B Dunu and Chief Pius Ikpi.

factcheckmmm:
Mad madder maddest

Cry a sea and no longer a River

we are not biafra, you can go and die..

Cantonese:
But an Ijaw man declared the name. Today, Asari Dokubo campaigns and hopes for Biafra to be achieved. Is Asari Dokubo not an Ijaw person?

Asari is no longer a campaigning for biafra again, the Ijaw Nation have called him to order.. Ijaw has never been buafra before and will never be..

gidgiddy:
The cracks in the foundation of Nigeria started to appear almost as soon the British granted Nigeria independence in 1960. Operation Wetie(1962), marshal declared in the Western Region (1963), the census crises of 1963, the disastrous elections of 1964 and the all round violence of 1965. 1966 was worse, there was a coup, counter-coup, hundreds of officers were killed and a pogrom led to thousands of people being murdered, mainly Igbos

But far much worse was to come the following year in 1967 as Nigeria would descend into a civil war that would clam millions of lives.

Six events would occured in 1967 that led to war

1. January 4th 1967: - The Military Head Of State Of Ghana, General Joe Ankrah, hosts Gowon and Ojukwu at his Hill top Mansion in Aburi, Ghana, to find peace. Gowon and Ojukwu reach a 12 point agreement that effectively turns Nigeria into a confederation of 4 Regions. The agreement came to be known as the "Aburi Accord" . Item Seven of the accord said - "The four Regional structure of Nigeria is not to be changed during the period of military rule without the concurrence of all four military Governors of the four Regions"

2. May 26th 1967: - Gowon breaks the Aburi Accord by promulgating Decree 14 which abolished all 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 brand new states and ended resource control, without concurrence of any military Governor

3. May 27th 1967:- Finding this unacceptable,
Ojukwu summons the Eastern Nigeria Consultative Forum, a body comprising all the heads of provinces and Chiefs of the Eastern Region. Ojukwu asks them to advice him on the way foward following Gowon's Decree 14

4. May 29th 1967 :- After debating for two days and voting on the issue, the forum advices Ojukwu, via a public communique, that since Gowon chose to violate the Aburi Accord, Ojukwu should declare the Eastern Region a separate country at the "earliest practical date". The head of the Yenagoa province, an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo, suggests the name "Biafra" as the name of the new country

5. 30th May 1967 : - Ojukwu declares the Eastern Region a new country to be known as the "Republic Of Biafra". Wild joy envelops the Eastern Region, Ojukwu is sworn in as the new  country's President


6. 6th June 1967 :- Gowon declares "Police Action" against the breakaway Eastern Region, now known as Biafra.

On 5th July 1967, the Nigerian Army fires shells at Gakem, a Biafran border town in present day cross River State. Biafran troops there dig in and return fire. The war begins

Ijaw is not biafra

CASTING A SPELL FOR THE END OF NIGERIA

Whether you are Christian, moslem or traditionalist,
When you go to the churches,mosques or shrines to pray
There is only one prayer that you should have on your lips for Nigeria.

Let Nigeria be destroyed.
Let Nigeria come to an End.
Let Nigeria scatter by fire.
Let Nigeria end
Let Nigeria rest In pieces

No this prayer is not that harm should come to the people of Nigeria.
But that the entity called Nigeria should be brought to a speedy end.

Nigeria is a slave camp for 200 million people
Nigeria is a prison for 500 countries.
Nigeria holds Africa to ransom.
Nigeria is death trap for its people
Nigeria cages the talents and potentials of its youths
Nigeria was created by enemies of our people.
Who where the people in agreement for Nigeria to be created? Were the indigenous people consulted?Were they in agreement?
Nigeria is forcefully sustained to the detriment of its people.

All over the word Homogeneous nations do Better . It is very easy to have war and corruption and divisions in a country of multiple ethnics for every man will support and celebrate his kinsman when they steal . But in homogeneous nations built on ethno linguistic lines leaders who steal are easily identified and their testicles chopped off!!

Nigeria is a curse to its people.
Nigeria holds lands and resources in captivity and allow foreigners harvest it while the people starve.

May the Gods curse And destroy Nigeria. May the powers that be and the elements disentangle Nigeria.I cast the spell and Libate the energies to this end and for this purpose and so shall it be so that new homogeneous nations built on ethnolinguistic lines be born from and within Nigeria.
Let Ijaw Nation be born.
Let Yoruba Nation be born
Let Arewa Nation be born
Let the Middle belt birth new Nations
So that we might have full control on our lands waters and resources!!
So there can be peace in the ancient holy lands ..
So I decreee it.

If 200 million people pray like this in public and in their closet casting this spell, libating the energies , calling Jesus , calling Allah ..
whithin a very short time Nigeria will come to an end .

For prayers and spell will translate to words and actions and if done in such agreement, Nigeria will come to an end even without war or conflict

Lionnation:
Are you saying only igbos were fighting wR in all front and sustain the war for 3 years, and almost decimating entire Nigerian military including foreign messineries, I think igbos should be studied, just like saying half of the world army were fighting the Igbo at the same time,
those guys deserve some respect joor

you can deceive ignorant North people,,, you forgot that I am Ijaw..
I know the biafra war just like you and even more than you..

1967 BIAFRA war was fought by the following ethnicities:
Ibibios
Efiks
Annang
Ogojas
Orons

Ibos were though the majority, so they only claim the glory..

Only 1000 Ijaws boys killed all the Ibibio Efik Annang Ogojas ibo biafrans forces out of river state..

Taba21:
He mentioned southerners, instead of focusing on the region.

Did you heard me say that okrika is ijaw?

fool, Okrika is Ijaw

[quote author=urbobo20 post=116238522][/quote]did the man testified to you that he is Ijaw or you are the one declaring for him his ethnicity?

There is no Urhobo in Bayelsa

MyVILLAGEpeople:
Obaseki wife na Ijaw ??

From where ?

obaseki wife is Ijaw 100%...she is Ijaw from left and right..

Nonam:
OK. I have doubt be cos they and the Itsekiris are minority.

Ijaws in delta are not minorities, stopped typing anything that enter your brain

Nonam:
As an young man from Delta north, I keep wondering. Will an Ijaw man ever govern Delta State.?

If Ijaws in delta really want to be governor, nothing will stopped it..but, nigeria is a zoo, only animals put all efforts on a zoo politics

Nonam:
As an young man from Delta north, I keep wondering. Will an Ijaw man ever govern Delta State.?

Ijaws are not nigerians,,,, Ijaws are never slavery nigeria, Ijaws are Ijaw Republic...

What is Ijaw Republic? Ijaw Republic was the Republic, God created during time of babelon story in the bible...

Taba21:
Say south east, how many many ijaw, Isoko, okrika etc have you seen or heard partaking in criminality outside Nigeria

Okrika is Ijaw....

redPUSSY:
Oya switch to your alternative account and start arguing Igbos this, Ijaws that...



Such a clown !!

what is your claim on the above message?

Because, na all of una bin dey claim dat time sey, Ijaw were biafla

This has proved again and justified Ijaws claimed they weren't biafra.....

If truly Ijaws were indeed part of the ojukwu declared biafra which I know is a lie, Ijaw men would have occupied the following offices:
Chief of defence staff..
Chief of Naval staff...
Chief of Army staff...

Though, no need of this, because our fathers already had told us how they weren't part of 1967 biafra,,,,only igbo ignorant and deluded youths thinking they could brainwashed us to believe our fathers were part of the biafra.....

See biafra list of key offices holders, no single Ijaw,,,,even, in our birthright warrior positions, like chief of defence staff,,, chief of Naval staff,,, chief of Army staff,,still no Ijaw..

BIAFRA: FACTS & HIERARCHY

Independence : May 30, 1967

Capital: Enugu (Umuahia from Oct. 1967)


Population: 15 million

Area: 30,000 sq. miles

Ethnic Groups: Igbo, Ibibio, Efik, Ogoja, Ijaw, etc.

Resources: Palm produce, crude oil, coal, natural gas, limestone, iron ore,
cocoa, timber, etc.

Human Resources: 500 doctors, 700 lawyers, 600 hundred, 300 economists, etc.

University: University of Biafra, Nsukka [projected University of Port
Harcourt]

Head of State:
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, jssc.

Chief of General Staff:
Major-General Philip Effiong

Chief Secretary:
Mr. N. U. Akpan

GOC Biafran Army:
Major-General Alexander Madiebo [replaced Brigadier Hilary Njoku]

Commander, Biafran Air Force:
Wing Commander G. I. Ezeilo

Commander, Biafran Navy:
Captain. W. A. Anuku

Director of Military Intelligence:
Mr. Bernard Odogwu

Military Assistant to the C-in-C:
Colonel David Ogunewe

Principal Officer to the C-in-C:
Colonel Patrick Anwuna

Prominent Division GOCs:
Brigadier Tony Eze, Brigadier Pat Amadi, Colonel Joe ('Air Raid') Achizie,
Colonel Nsudo, Colonel Iheanacho, Colonel Archibong, etc.

GOC, 101 (ROB Liberation Army): Brigadier Victor Banjo [later executed for
sabotage]

Inspector-General of Police:
Mr. P. I. Okeke

Chief Justice:
Sir Louis Mbanefo

Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice:
Mr. J. I. Emembolu

Special Advisers to the Head of State:
Dr. Akanu Ibiam & Dr. M. I. Okpara [respectively former Governor and Premier
of defunct Eastern Nigeria]

Biafra’s Roving Ambassadors: Dr. Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe (ex-President of
Nigeria, later left the breakaway republic); Dr. Kingsley Ozumba (K. O.)
Mbadiwe, Dr. Okechukwu. Ikejiani, Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike, Mr. Chukwuma
Azikiwe, etc.

Chairman , Consultative Assembly:
Dr. Alvan Ikoku

Chairman, Atrocities Commission:
Mr. G. C. M. Onyiuke

Chairman, Rehabilitation Commission:
Dr. S. E. Imoke

Chairman, Development Commission:
Professor A. Modebe

Chairman, Marketing Board:
Mr. C. C. Mordi

Relief Coordinator:
Dr. S. E. Cookey

Chairman, Food Directorate:
Mr. Bob Ogbuagu

Chairman, Housing Directorate:
Mr. P. O. Nwakoby

Commissioner of Home Affairs:
Mr. C. C. Mojekwu

Commissioner for Information:
Dr. Ifeagwu Eke

Commissioner for Health:
Mr. James Udo-Affiah

Commissioner for Transport & Communication:
Mr. Felix Iheanacho

Commissioner for Education:
Mr. M. T. Mbu.

Commissioner for Labor:
Mr. Emmanuel Aguma

Commissioner for Rural Development:
Chief Frank Opigo

Commissioner for Agriculture:
Professor Eyo Bassey Ndem

Commissioner for Forestry & Animal Husbandry:
Mr. U. O. Imo

Biafra Representative in London:
Mr. I. S. Kogbara

Biafra Representative in France:
Mr. Ralph Uwechue

Vice-Chancellor, University of Biafra:
Professor Eni Njoku
[ex-VC, University of Lagos]

Director, War Information Bureau
Dr. Michael C. J. Echeruo

Direct Military Aid:
Count Carl Gustav von Rosen (a Swede) of the "Biafran Babies" [Minicon
fighter planes] fame.

Relief Organizations:
Caritas International
World Council of Churches (WCC), International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC)

Nigeria Declaration of War:
July 6, 1967

Military Administrator of Republic of Benin (ROB):
Major (Dr.) Albert Okonkwo

jblinks2222:
Nigerian army burn

if this is true, what happen to rule of engagement?

latugbene is on fire as I'm talking to you now..

This has becoming a culture for the nigeria army,, always acting cowardice against militants Ijaw land... after they lost to militants, the next for them is to go to innocent community and burn it down for revenge..
This thing has happened to more thousands of Ijaw communities..

Why is the nigeria army acting like sisi in fight with Ijaw militants?

Nigeria army should fight like a man and not woman... You lost a fight with your opponent and you go behind and born innocent community...

This is Latugbene community in ekeremor LGA Bayelsa state..
Just because Gen Amagbein and his boys defeated the nigeria army in an open battle, they vented the anger on his community and razed it down like soddom and gomorrah..

Now, we don't know who is the terrorist between the militants and the military again..

Military men who are supposed to saved citizens from militants are now the ones attacking citizens for militants to saved..

Bravetunde:
You have been insulting the three feared tribes in. Nigeria.which are igbos,fulanis and ijaws.which tribe are you now.
You said ijaws are been marginalized,yes I agree but almost all tribes are been marginalized to utilize their full potentials except maybe fulanis.
I hope you are not afonja, because we know they are the weakest,most fearful nigerian tribe.
So tell me your tribe.

patriotsleague please note, this guy is not Ijaw..
He has no single relative in Ijaw..
He know nobody in Ijaw..
Nobody in Ijaw know him..
He has no root in Ijaw...

He is igbo..

Tunjibalogun:
Meaning Imo State is not igbo since Uzodimma the supreme Court man is APC and pro Tinubu

Abia state and Enugu aren't igbo since both govs are Wike men


Only Anambra State is Igbo and how can one state (Anambra) win Asiwaju Jagaban of Africa whose yoruba tribe has 6 states

Obi is a failure

read the text very well.... Besides, ebonyi people always declared they are not igbos..

Tunjibalogun:
Obi doesn't need Uzodimma's vote too
Obi doesn't need Abia and Enugu state votes


Abia, Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi are for Tinubu

Maybe obi can get 75k votes of Anambra, exactly what Soludo won with

obi will get their votes because they are igbos...only ebonyi people are not igbos, so they will vote against obi

Officialgarri:
So with your because of your beef with Umahi, this is the way to convince Ebonyi people to vote for Obi.

Later, your lot will come here to tell us voting Obi is not about Tribe.
Confused people

obi don't need osusu ebonyi people votes...

Osu people are osu people

mrvitalis:
Does that answer my questions ? I dare you to name the oil well in Kalabari and okrika that ijaws won't allow us hear word on our oil our oil

Oil revenue should go to the community that produce the oil not to state let them pay tax to government

Ndoni , egebema ,obigbo and ogoni that produce 85% of rivers oil never talk na ijaws go carry everything for head like they have oil more than every other person

you are a fool.. oils in Kalabari and Okrika are more than what is in imo and abia together...

Besides, there is no place in nigeria called obigbo..

Mrvitalis this is the reason biafra failed, because igbos were trying to force many ethnicities to it...so ebonyi ethnicity,, anioma ethnicity, ikwere ethnicity fought against it...