₦airaland Forum

Ekealterego:
Can you imagine this statement?

Minorities are really suffering.
Following the recognition as a district, a colonial customary court was set up at Onopa to stop the people from pulling canoes to litigate cases at Brass Island Province and Sagbagreai, where they lost cases because of wrong interpretation of Epie by Izons trained as interpreters.

Igboid:
4 LGAs in Bayelsa state.

Let's show respect to other minority tribes in Bayelsa state.

DitariDisciple2:
Only Egbema clan have over 350 villages and settlements under it and Ijaw have 86 clans that were unjustly Balkanized into more than six States, when all Ijaw areas share perfect boundaries with each other.
And are fully together.

God bless the Ijaw Republic.
Ijaw Republic our home.

Ekealterego:
That's an Ijaw drawn Map. A son of Epie Ethnic nationality and by extension, Ogua Ethnic Nationality have spoken.

DitariDisciple2:
That's INC Map concerning INC Central Zone. the Ijaw National Congress.
The highest Ijaw socia-cultural organizations worldwide.
Your frustrations and lies no reach Ijaw land.

Ekealterego:
That's an Ijaw drawn Map. A son of Epie Ethnic nationality and by extension, Ogua Ethnic Nationality have spoken.

DitariDisciple2:
We Bayelsans know the true history of our state creation.
We hear from our fathers and elders.
Not lie write ups and pictures created by ibos.

Igboid:
They are not wise, an Epie-Attisa son wrote an article we are helping to spread to ensure Ijaws don't commit cultural genocide by assimilating smaller ethnic groups in Bayelsa, and they are here running helter skelter

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/rebisi-in-history/amp/

This is the history of Bayelsa creation.

Ekealterego:
Ijoh have beautiful dialects but Epie (Edo) and Ogbia and the rest are independent languages.

May God bless Bayelsa state and their rich cultural diversity and different ethnic nationalities.

Kinematics:
Abeg make I take chair laugh small. Ipig miscreants are having sleepless night...

Ekealterego:
Do you know that Bayelsa is a very diverse state?

Bayelsa is a state in southern part of Nigeria, located in the core of the Niger Delta region.

Bayelsa has a population of 1.7 million according to the 2006 National population census in the 8 LGAS.

In Bayelsa, there are 3 main language groups/people or 4 depending on the classification. There are other minority groups in Bayelsa.

The 3 MAJOR languages are classified under:

1. The ijoids (South Izon/southern Ijaw, Izon etc.)

2. The Edoids (e.g Epie, Attisa, Engenni [Known as the Oguan), Urhobo, Isoko).

3. The Cross-River people (Ogbia, Abureni etc. )

4. Minorities

These are the people in Bayelsa and here is their classification and LGAs

Brass
Abureni; Cross-River language/people
Southeast Ijo; IJo
Ogbia; Cross-River language/people
Kugbo; Cross-River language/people

Ekeremor
Izon; Ijo

Kolokuma/Opokuma

Izon; Ijo

Nembe
Abureni; Cross-River people/language
Southeast Ijo; Ijo
Izon (Ijaw)

Ogbia
Abureni; Cross-River language.
Southeast Ijo;
Odual; Cross-River language
Ogbia; Cross-River language
Oruma; Ijo

Sagbama
Biseni; Ijo
Isoko; Edoid/Edo
Izon; Ijo
Ogbah; Igbo/Igboid
Okodia; inland Ijo/Ijo
Urhobo; Urhobo/Edoid/Edo

Southern Ijaw

Southeast Ijo; Ijo
Izon; Ijo

Yenagoa
Engenni; Edo/Edoid
Epie; Edo/Edoid
Izon; Ijo
Ekpeye; Igboid

Reference.
Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

Bayelsa – History & Culture – Bayelsa State Government". Retrieved on 2021-29-11 from https://bayelsastate.gov.ng/our-history/

Pass11:
You forget that bayelsa state was created the same day with ebonyi state you ijaw lack intelligent reasoning and you're showing

emperorshaokahn:
lol,ijaw sewage rat,by the time igbos are done with you creek rats,you guys will have no place to call home.

Kinematics:
Ipig miscreants keep failing in their attempt to Scatter the ijaws.


Ipigs are now the mouthpiece of ijoid people. Wonders shall never end ...

DitariDisciple2:
If he is Igbo man he could not have been the one to bring Bayelsa.
Abacha loot Abacha loot dem dey shout every time it was he and his close friend Dan Etete his petroleum minister that were doing all the dirties.
Dan Etete created Bayelsa with d help of others but he was d only Ijaw in d deep room with Abacha.
This is why it favoured his Kolokuma my Kolokuma so much better in number of areas for each ward than other LGA in Bayelsa.

Igboid:
Lol!
Ebitu Ukiwe was an Igbo Military officer from Abia State who Zik sent Obi Wali and his other Igboid Rivers delegation to, when they came to meet Zik in Onitsha about their domination in Old Rivers State and the way forward to free them from Ijaw domination.

It was Ebitu Ukiwe who suggested creation of Bayelsa for Ijaws to depopulate Rivers State of Ijaws and allow Igboids dominate, while making sure Ijaws don't shortchange other minorities in Bayelsa by siting the state capital in a land we know the natives are not ethnically Ijaws, but Edoid speakers.

Go figure.

Pass11:
You be mumu so you don't know that Ebitu Ukiwe is an igbo man

BKayy:
Interesting


Sorry my dear drunkard.

Ijaw land starts and end in the 4 LGAs they exist in Bayelsa.

DitariDisciple2:
You just shot yourself on the leg by mentioning EBI-TU
I'm EBI also.

Igboid:
Those who were responsible for Bayelsa creation.
The likes of Ebitu Ukiwe who had the ears of Abacha specifically wanted the capital in Yenegoa for a reason.
They knew that Epie-Attisa people were not Ijaws.
They played a fast one on you Ijaws.

You thought you were wise, now have they not left you?

Ekealterego:
THE PEOPLE, ANCESTRY, ORGANIZATION AND CIVILIZATION

Epie-Atissa people are the original inhabitants of 30 communities in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, with Yenebebeli Two as the newly recognised community.

The ancestral and migratory root of Epie-Atissa is traced to Akoko Edo Local Government Area in Edo State, from where groups moved to various places, untill Prince Zue, one of the sons of Oguan, the ancestor, founded Yenizue-Epie as the first place of settlement. A group of elites from Epie/Atissa, recently visited Akoko Edo and reaffirmed this claim.

Aside the Akoko Edo and Oguan origin, a few communities in Epie-Atissa, have their own migration narratives, few of which also finally tend to link the Edo origin, as first place of migration.

The language spoken by the people of Epie-Atissa ethnic nationality is known as Epie, under Delta-Edoid classification, and very similar to the language of Ukoroho group of people in Akoko Edo.

All of them are autonomous but contiguous communities, subject to the kingship of their Kingdoms. Thus, communities in Epie owe allegiance to the authority of the Obenibe of Epie Kingdom, while their brother communities in Atissa owe allegiance to the Ebenibe of Atissa Kingdom.

The people of Epie-Atissa, share common ancestral and migratory links with their brothers: Zarama in Yenagoa Local Government Area; Engenni and Degema of Rivers State, and by extension, Urhobo and Isoko, with similar origin, language and culture.

Subsistence farming, fishing, hunting, canoe carving, oil palm harvesting and processing of palm oil, inter-community and inter-ethnic trade in farm produce and food stuff and its other natural resources, served as means of livelihood.

They initially lived in bamboo-mud-thatch-roofed houses, changed to zinc-roofed-mud houses and later full-block-zinc-roofed houses before becoming Bayelsa State Capital. A business magnet, Late Chief Omeleh Tologere was the first to build block house, while Late Chief G. F. Omeleh, first owned a storey building.

Life was anchored on a communitarian philosophy of love and brotherhood, Ubuntu. Ancestral guiding spirits and ‘Inibru’ supplemented man-made laws, and slammed nemesis on offenders.

Writing Credit.
ETETE ENIDENEZE

DitariDisciple2:
Mr man. If they are not Ijaw we wouldnt have sent state capital there during the creation of Bayelsa.
By 1996 that Bayelsa was created the whole Yenagoa had 1 secondary school and two primary schools.
See how far we've come.
It's because they were Ijaws.
That's y we wrote state capital Yenagoa to what we gave Abacha.

Igboid:
Eleme people bear Kamalu, Okochi, Dike, Dimkpa and other Igbo names.
But we know they don't speak an Igboid language,they speak an Ogoniod language, and for this reason can't be said to be Igbo.
Look at Eleme VIP with Igbo surnames, does that make them Igbo?
People borrow names for reasons best known to them, but mother tongue is what defines a people.
Epie-Atissa are Edoid speakers and can't be Ijaw.

Igboid:
No it's not.
Ijaw is a political franchise not an ethnic group.

Epie-Attisa people are Edoid speakers. They speak like Isoko people.
And they have a history of migration from Edo state.
They are the owners of Yenegoa.

They claim Ijaw when necessary for Political advantages,as per Nigerian crude oil politics and pipeline protection deal.

DitariDisciple2:
All una frustrations end on Nairaland.
If u think the Ijaw socia-cultural organizations are just for any group why don't u go nd join already
If u think we accept just any group.
Epie are not even from one Ancestor.
There was no time Amarata and Agudama Epie had one Ancestor.
Same with Edepie and Ekeki
Akenfa and Biogbolo