₦airaland Forum

Nowenuse:
Wow, very enlightening. Thanks.

It was very obvious that during the old regional govts, minority groups were treated as 'pieces of trash'. You can imagine a yoruba man faraway in yoruba land dividing people's history, origins and destinies just because of politics and all in the name of a united western region. .... This is why as much as I hate Yakubu Gowon for not standing for the middlebelt people, I guess I and most of we Nigerian minorities still owe him that gratitude for creating states. Although midwestern minorities already got their own region before that time, so, Eastern & northern minorities were the ones who really benefited.

Northern minority groups experienced worse under regional govts, apart from being cut to bits, the British connived with the Sokoto sultanate to plant in Emirs and Hausa settlements all over the northern region, even in areas that were never conquered by fulani jihad and had no businesses with an Emir. A lot of towns that never belonged to Hausa people were renamed into Hausa language.
In 1964, the Sardauna ordered soldiers to descend on Tiv people and massacre those who were protesting against northern inclusion and Hausa/fulani domination.


Yeah, I remember the stories I heard of Sapele and how influential it was in those days. It is sad that the town is now a shadow of it's past glory.

Nice submission. This is one of the reason the southern minority are scared of forming any alliance with these major ethnic group. We all know what the minorities suffered in Western, eastern and Northern region.

I feel more for the northern minorities, and I really wish you guys should stand up and fight for your right .

Muafrika2:
That wife is annoying.

This explains why the older generation of men did not ask their wives opinion when doing things

They are the real men, not the Weaklings of these days, imagine letting your sister in-law telling you wat to do.

Heck, You can't try this with men from my side, we don't take nonsense.

nams77:
I want to ask a question not related to this.
Do you know egbo? After otokutu? One of my boy has been disturbing me to get a plot there. May likely go and see things for myself

Am not too familiar with that area.

trinity11:
Orimiré réré? wewo ómò r'uvwie?

E'guo or', ome' okwo'Agbon.

mathy001:
The guy has an issue with Urhobos, especially Uvwie, so don't try to appeal to his higher faculty. He has none! Leave him to relish in his idiocy. What is in Uvwie that cannot be found in Warri South, Warri North or even Asaba? Mtcheww!

All his comment from page one was just anti-urhobo. obviously jealous that Uvwie is more developed than his outdated town/kingdom.

Nowenuse:
Ok, great answer.
I hope Okpe leaders never pull out of the union, they would be making a very big mistake by doing that. I wonder why people like to unnecessarily divide themselves into smaller bits, instead of uniting with each other to form a greater force.

As for Isoko, I have met many of them who are so proud of their oneness with urhobo and are very much okay if you call them Urhobo. But it seems like they are in the minority.
Do you really have an idea why Isokos pulled out of the union?

Bad politics by Awolowo, this is one area I detest him, he created the bad blood by giving isoko a unique identity.

Till date I see no reason why isoko shouldnt part of urhobo land, well they made their decision, and we can't force our identity on any body, with the political strength of the urhobos in Nigeria any subgroup that decides to leave does that at their own detriment.

Don't mind my too many questions. I love history a lot. I was also born in Uvwie land, so I find it quite bad that I do not know much of Urhobo history.

Also, why is Sapele so big and developed compared to Orerokpe which is the headquarters of Okpe kingdom? It is ironic.

Orerokpe case is quite different, during the 18th century an Orodje was brutally murdered in his palace, he placed a curse on the land. reason the level of development is slow but steady.

cc: fratermathy

Nowenuse:
Damn. That means Okpe is very huge. But how come with the very large Okpe population and landmass, yet most of them now seem to be switching to Ughelli urhobo dialect or general urhobo?

I had a very close friend in Uniben from Sapele and he told me this. I also ask other Okpe people this, it seems like it's mostly only the elderly people who speak the original okpe dialect, or not?

Okpe and Uvwie dialect are fast loosing it, Only few can speak the original language, they are now speaking general urhobo language and answering general urhobo names.

I wish the urhobo community can do something to help protect the dying language. and by the way where are u from?

clefstone:
I grew up in Uvwie but I'm surprised that the Uvwie and indeed the Urhobo people do not talk about their history to as far back as 200yrs ago. Since u r a proud Urhobo son, my question to u is, do the Urhobo people have a long history, why don't we have an urhobo kingdom(exception is Okpe kingdom) with up to 10 kings in their history

@Bolded, let me help you out. there is no Urhobo kingdom that Is not at least 600-400years old , agbon Kingdom for example has produced up to 7-10 kings and I can get the names for you if you so wish.

coputa:
Uvwie is synonymous with civil disturbances.The indigenous youths are epitome of trouble and intimidation,this attitude lead to the avalanche of oil firms from uvwie to port Harcourt.This level of roguery,and youths restiveness has lead to a high decline in development and economic activities.
Uvwie is reputed as the most dirtiest local government in the state considering its huge internally generated revenue which goes into private pockets.

Dude everywhere is dirty in Nigeria, have u been to Lagos of recent?, so I don't understand your point, the only place that is even very dirty is effurun, alaka axis. Some places like Ubrumede, jakpa road, etc are very neat and okay.

Burgerlomo:
So are you trying to say that forcefully closing peeps shops because of celebration doesn't infringe on their rights

No it doesn't, when government declares public holidays does it infringe on you right?

Akpowene:
Orimire rere not mavo

thanks for the correction, atleast am trying na.. am learning the dialect so most times I do inter switch urhobo words for uvwie. all the same

Urhobo! Ovou'vo

Nowenuse:
@the bolded. There are some communities along Effurun-Sapele road before you get to the boundary between Uvwie and Okpe if you are going from Effurun R/about to Sapele ...Those communities are not urbanized... Are they not Uvwie communities?
Cc Efewestern

yes they are okpe land. only few belongs to uvwie. okpe and uvwie were having a land dispute during the last UPU meeting regarding most land in that axis, especially the army Barack.

Nowenuse:
I thougt Ughelli is bigger than Okpe? Is Ughelli kingdom not Ughelli north and south combined?

Also, Ughelli seems to have a larger population than Okpe. Ughelli natives are extremely many.

I disagree with you on this, Okpe is by far the biggest kingdom in Urhobo land, and the current orodje is a former military general.

obaataaokpaewu:
The new palace is directly opposite my former parish.

My question for the Urhobos here: Among all the Urhobo kings: Ovie of Uvwie, Ovie of Ughelli, Oroseun of Okumagba, Orodje of Okpe, King of Agbon clan etc, which of them is the most popular or should I say commands the most respect?
Frathermathy, Efewestern

* Orodje of okpe ( Since okpe is the biggest kingdom in Urhoboland)

coputa:
Point of correction,warri is not under the jurisdiction of the ovie of Uvwie,Uvwie land terminates at Enerhen junction,where the boundaries between Uvwie and warri south stands.

Uvwie land is sometimes referred to as warri, Eg effurun, enereh e. tc, those places are also called warri hence the statement.

Not to mention other Urhobo kingdoms in the main warri. So chilax

Vetzy12:
Uvwie me boma ru'fe . Emo ru uvwie wadoo.

Orimi're mavor, wo mor'uvwie?

fratermathy:
Efewestern please try and get more photos. I'll check for more too and attach them to this post if I find.

I will do just that, they also opened a new palace for the king.. I think the palace is one of the most beautiful palace in southern Nigeria.

otokx:
I was in Warri that weekend, all the shops were forcefully closed, even the vulcanizer that opened in the early morning was chased away, i was like in this 21st century, truly Donald Trump was not so far from the truth, we went everywhere looking for where to print a report no way.

We shouldn't copy the white always, even the Nigeria constitution recognizes customary law provided it doesn't infringe on anyone's right.

So nothing backward about the celebration.

Pere of Gbaramatu greets the Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom

Some Chiefs greeting to the King.

Uvwie is one of the major kingdom in Urhoboland, It is bounded by Okpe Kingdom (Urhobo) in the North and Udu and Ughiẹvwen in the North-West, Agbarho kingdom in the North East, Agbarho-Ame in the East, Okere kingdom in the South and Itsekiri in the South West.

Uvwie Kingdom just like most Urhobo kingdoms in Warri, Udu, okpe etc is 100% urban and a centre of civilization for the Urhobo people.

The kingdom is home to Nigeria's major Companies and facilities, such as Federal University of Petroleum Resource Effurun (Best petroleum University in West Africa), Petroleum Training Institute Effurun (Best Petroleum institute in West Africa), Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (Warri Refinery).

Emmanuel Ekemejewan Sideso (JP), Abe 1, the Ovie of
Uvwie Kingdom last month celebrated his 10th year anniversary as the ovie of Uvwie, below are some photos from the event.

https://www.waado.org/cgi-bin/uvwie/emo_ru_uvwie/ovie_uvwie.jpg

Umogu! Umogu!
Wo su tor!

Uvwie' wa boma ru'fe
Good bless Uvwie Kingdom
God bless Urhobo land
God bless Nigeria

Sinistami:
ah ah, na evri na I go get? the slang "men don Chokin" is a little bit difficult. I thought it meant the men had ran away but I am not quite sure.
As for 2 noh bi disame tin I tok na still nature.

lol.. you tried.. reason I scored you 95/100

"Men don chokin" means "the guys took to their heels" or "The guys hid before d police arrived".

Sanchez01:
English teams are no teams. They don't even come close!

Lol.. see them.. be making mouth here, We will see next season.

LaudableXX:
I thought Ondo State was an oil producing state, entitled to 13% derivation. What happened to that money and what has Akeredolu done with it?

Like you don't know how Nigeria is or are you a foreigner?, The oil money is being looted by these blood sucking demons, I feel for Ondo indegenes, they are in for a big shit.

Sinistami:
LoL oh You try Sha
But this is it.
1. Man today they was trouble every where as boys started arming themselves with guns before the police showed up.
1. Man the hooker I met today was sexy as hell. and I went totally Hot. based on the fact that you can't stop nature. I immediately took her to bed.

Lol. you tried.. I will score you 95/10.

No 1 was not complete, You didn't interpret the slangs "Men don Chokin".

No 2 was a bit okay, but you did get the slangs "I no feet shoot bird mama fly" correctly, in this context it means "I can't just observe that sexy girl without having a taste of her".

Cc: seun, lalasticlala and mynd44 fp material.

sonsomegrigbo:
[s] what!

Igbo kilode?
another bad news from you people..

I'm warning you oooooo... [/s]

These are urhobo people and they are not in any way related to igbo.

Don't bring your tribalism nonsense here.

UNIQUEISRAEL:
Bravo!!!

An average Nigerian is naturally GREEDY, we always on the receiving end(we call on the government to build roads, clear gutters and sweep the dirty streets and house corners, RUBBISH!!!), and that's why Nigeria is still underdeveloped!
Go to other develop countries, you pay charges on each car, house you have! That's why an average citizen of those countries, have only one house or car, not that they lack money in acquiring more, but the advances in charge which is tantamount to liability cost!!

We Must Grow!

Ambode, fire on, do your best!

all the money the state have been generating what have they done with it?, does it not end in tinubu pocket?, the state is fast loosing it.

Nigerians don't mind paying tax, but the issue is that some of these corrupt leaders keep looting our scarce resources, my sympathy to logosians, they are in for a big ride.

hammer6U:
fratermathy, efewestern
wat do u have to say about these beautiful Urhobo and Igbo women?
Go on say something nice for once.
One love, one biafra...

All good bro.
Happy international women's day to our beautiful ladies.

I really can't fault his policy, the last time I did his people came for my head.

Welcome to Nigeria.
Eko barje

AreaFada2:
Lol.

Urhobo is really going places in comedy and music.

I think more people should discover Benin & Urhobo movies. Really improving fast.

I liked watching Enaiso, Chuvwako & Eya Egagan, Akponaguma dance film, Urueme Esiri, etc.

We need to do more on our movies, the movies are all about "oba", just one story line (Bini movies), urhobo are slacking behind when it comes to that.