₦airaland Forum

ChiefAlex:
Ibadan has more research institutes, more social amenities, more economically viable than onitsha and Akwa combined. You and i know the amenities aren’t the same. It’s only Lagos and Ogun with more industries than Oyo State In Nigeria not anambra

well i prefer staying ibadan to anambra though

while ibadan is more productive, anambra is more commercial

ibadan has more funspots I know

but don't underrate anambra if uve not been there, it's not only pure water industries that are there o, there are many billion naira industries there, they ve very good roads n amenities, n d place is more bustling than ibadan

ChiefAlex:
Have you entered inside Ventura ? Or you just passed by?
Ibadan still get am pass south yeast
We still have light 18hrs in ikolaba, bodija 15-18hrs, oluyole 20hrs and so on
Buildings Ibadan has it more than south yeast with 12big gras
Industrialization, there is oluyole industrial estate and industrial estate at express

well in my opinion
der is no diff btw ventura n kada plaza in Benin, n if kada is nt called a mall, den ventura shouldn't

in industrialization, i think anambra is more industrialized

Ibadan is more fun

in amenities they r d same

Ibadan has higher population, but anambra has higher population density

to compare d southeast n southwest in general, southwest takes it, but remove Lagos n southeast beats southwest

ChiefAlex:
Oyo gdp is only behind Lagos
I hate ignorant fools like you
I know you’re from yeast lol becAuse if not your stupid fellow should know the difference between cocoa mall and cocoa house

Your stupid idiot say Ventura is Hall ? It has film house and supermarkets and that’s how they design hall in your south yeast village

Ventura near sango market? I wouldn't call dat a mall, if so then we can call kada plaza in Benin a mall

i still we sud judge based on industrialization power, infrastructure n amenities development(roads, light, buildings,e.t.c) , commerce, standard of living, aesthetics, entertainment

ChiefAlex:
So what should we use since no Nigeria state has drinking water from government, no 24hours light.

productivity, industrialization, power of local n international companies, no of world class building, roads, schools, hospitals, no of beta tourist centers

not malls n cinema. SMH

cänt believe we are using malls, cinemas, plazas even swimming pools as measures of development, so so very very SAD

Sinistami:
No not a dialect

Thats why i say that because isoko n urhobo sound lyk edo doesnt make dem same tribe, or will they say epie is edo too?

I normally say same 4 tsekiri, ika, ikwerre but i dont want somepeople to start war here

magicjack:
Billons of times we hear those from the southeast competing with those in the southwest about who has most great men, they dont realize that compared to the south they are playing championship while south is in champions league, so here are just few of south south greatest acheivers, mostly in sports n entertainment


Jay jay okocha(one of world's best ever)- Delta
Stephen keshi(only man 2 win afcon both as player n coach) - Delta
Ngozi okonjo-iweala(former president worldbank) - Delta
Sam loco efe(nollywood legend) - Edo
Richard mofe damijo(nollywood legend)- Delta
Agbani darego(only african to ever win Miss world) - Rivers
Samuel peters(world heavyweight champion) - Akwa ibom
Don jazzy(africa greatest music producer) - Delta
Blessing Okagbare(current no1 female athlete) - Delta
Vincent enyenma(best african goalkeeper) - Akwa ibom
Timi dakolo(winner of 1st west african idols) - Bayelsa
Omawumi(runner up to timi dakolo) - Delta
Iyanya(winner of first project fame) - Crossriver
Ali baba(father of comedy) - Delta
Murray bruce(owner silverbird) - Bayelsa
Tony elumelu( Ceo UBA) - Delta


now to just a few normal popular figures there so much so i'll break it down

EDO
samloco, charles inojie, ruth kadiri, mercy aigbe, cynthia morgan, djinee, victor uwaifo, raymond dokpesi, osaze, baba osho(lol),e.t.c
DELTA
jay jay okocha, sunday oliseh, stephen keshi, blessing okagbare, don jazzy, orezi, harrysong, omawumi, dr sid, daddy showkey, efe, uti nwachukwu, ebbe nwaogo, akpororo, bovi, i go dye, gordons, i go save, ali baba, kefee, sami okoso, richard mofe damijo, justus esiri, regina daniel, francis odega, omoni oboli, ufuoma preye, ada ameh, jim ovia, tony elumelu, jp clark, amanju pinnic, e.t.c
BAYElLSA
timi dakolo, dakore akande, timaya, samson siasia, murray bruce, asu ekiye, oga jonah(lol), e.t.c
RIVERS!
agbani darego, duncan mighty, mama G, tonto dikeh, monalisa chidi, saint obi, barsoge tariah, chidi odia, finidi george, joseph yobo, julius agu, ibinabo fiberesima, dan d humuorous, mr khay, lexy m, gentle jack, milicent jack, clint d drunk, ibiso, mercy chinwo, hilda dokubo, sam dede, queen nwokoye, douglas graham, e.t.c
AKWA IBOM
Ini edo, mc galaxy, bishop umeh, didi ekanem, samuel peters, frank edoho, nse ikpe, vincent enyenma, e.t.c
CROSS RIVER
Iyanya, Belinda efah, kate henshaw, shan george, isabelle ayuk, e.t.c

we may not have well known academians or noble laurels but no doubt were the most talented part of the country with the greatest acheivements

I always dey lyk to see this kind tins, makes me so thank God im from SS. Apart 4rm des, there also d fact dat

akwaibom, delta, rivers, bayelsa - provide over 90% of d money dat runs dis country
most beautiful states in nigeria - Akwa ibom, Crossriver
out of 4 ports, 3 r in SS
biggest carnival/party - calabar carnival(crossriver)
tourism center of naija - akwaibom/crossriver
oil headquarter - rivers/delta
best in sports - delta/edo/rivers
comedy center - delta
best trad food n cooks - ibibio/efik/tsekiri
best trad dressing - edo/tsekiri/efik
best trad music - isoko
best trad dance - every SS tribe
largest coastline - bayelsa
highest no of cities among d 6 zones
highest GDP
most industrialized and developed zone

infact there is no aspect of life that a SS state/tribe is not first in as far as africa is concerned

viscerion:
south south our things tire me sef, imagine edo n delta arguing, if SS can come together we will be better than hausa, yoruba n igbo combined but instead we are doing royal rumble bini vs ishan vs tsekri vs urhibo vs ijaw vs soko vs vs agbor vs ikwerre vs ogoni vs ibibio vs efik vs oron vs ogoja vs.........e.t.c we need epp

dis is a faceless forum na, we cant be sure the pepo arguing r urhobo n edo.
it is only in SS itself dat u wil even see isoko vs isoko, port harcourt ikwerre vs obiakpor ikwerre, e.t.c, SMH

but u can take solace in d fact that outside the south south, ijaws n urhobos r brodas, efiks n ogonis r sistas, binis n ikas r family, e.t.c smol smol d unity wil spread n d true power wil take over, like simba waiting to return to pridelands

i know bunkering is SUPPOSED to be a crime but until govt does d right thing n restructure this country i'll continue to support my niger deltans

Sinistami:
Delta don cool if not e for de No1

come o, delta don cool nor mean say e don cold finish o, even bini n ph boyz stil dey observe wel if dey enta ikoro, cuz place dem lyk epkan n odas still neva ge joy, n d delta blood neva leave their body o, e dey comeout if u threaten

wen delta be delta, even ph n edo of now join 2geda nor reach
warri den nai be head of militant zone, armed robbery for daytime na normal tin, kidnapping na hourly news, warri nai primary skuls start to ge cult dem go enta market jus dey troway kala dey kpes men dem troway, dey burn house based on say dem wan show say dey hol ground , warri den nai u go c inter (street, tribal, school, e.t.c) fight(war), any small argument was an excuse to shed blood, enerhen den dem fit thief ur leg make u nor know, shenkes dem dey do strip club for evri bar, police stations were burnt down, even government n military stronghouses cud be attacked
Same delta nai den asaba was baby factory headquarter, agbor was 2nd edo for italian movement,

Delta is not that rough anymore but its still a very rugged place, curretly warri is d headquarter of yahoo boys group n sars disturbance

see as i talk am like say na beta tin, LOL

Sinistami:
We already speak a Unifying language and that's Pidgin. it just needs refining and a standard written and spoken dialect that we could use. If only this Wazobia Government would understand and legalize it as a full fledged language of its own. And them we would know who is who here.

as in ehn, dey think we jus dey rake, they keep deceiving themselves cuz know deep down that on fair grounds no region can stand d SS in any aspect

ImperialYoruba:
If you are in the South, and you are not a member nation in the Yoruba League, also known as Yoruba Commonwealth, then you are Ibo.

If you are in the North, and you are not a member nation in the Yoruba League, popularly known as Yoruba Commonwealth, then you are Hausa.

The test to know who is Ibo or not is to first determine if they are a Yoruba or proto Yoruba people, nd if they are not....dump them to Ibo side abeg.

Yoruba is the most Superior race on earth, period!

Ehen? Ok Sir

ImperialYoruba:
If you are in the South, and you are not a member nation in the Yoruba League, also known as Yoruba Commonwealth, then you are Ibo.

If you are in the North, and you are not a member nation in the Yoruba League, popularly known as Yoruba Commonwealth, then you are Hausa.

The test to know who is Ibo or not is to first determine if they are a Yoruba or proto Yoruba people, qnd if they are not....dump them to Ibo side abeg.

Yoruba is the most Superior race on earth, period!

Ehen? Ok Sir

FisifunKododada:
Adam and Eve where not Israelites, they were Africans.

lol, but the whole world dont all call ourselves africans, u get my point

FisifunKododada:
If they are angry, they should go back to their red mud regions.

Our region is white sand not red mud, lol

bigfrancis21:
You have a point but in terms of ancestry, Ikwerres have never held the Bini folklore until made up in the early 2000s. On the other hand, the Urhobos have stories of migrating from Bini and their language is Edoid. The Isokos are similar to the Urhobos but some Isokos have substantial Igbo ancestry as well as Bini.

The stories imply an area in edo, not necessarily bini, anyway its not even all d urhobo clans dat ve dat ve does beliefs

den again, i think origin sud nt be used to group pepo as a tribe after all we dont call ourselves israelites though we all came from adam n eve

Toluobaeko11:
It's because South south & South east have some similarities. Let me start from language, in SS/SE, pidgin is the everyday language, but it'll be very difficult to see an average Yoruba man living in Yoruba land speaking pidgin. because of this if a Yoruba man see a non Yoruba man speaking pidgin fluently, he'll be quick to jump to conclusion that he's an Ibo.
But I can see you're just trying to point the blame finger to Yoruba alone, where as it's general to every tribe in Nigeria. If a typical man from SS or SE see a man from Bida town in Niger state, he won't think twice before calling him an Hausa man which is very wrong because he's a Nupe by tribe.
I'm presently serving in Kebbi state, around a town called Zuru, the people there will always correct us (Corpers from SW, SS & SE) that we should not called them Hausa, that they are Dakaranchi, but we can't differentiate because they have many things in common.

CONCLUSION:
It's not a tribe thing to do that mistake, we all have our share in it not only Yoruba. To an IBO man, everybody from Borno state is an Hausa man, which is wrong, the majority are Kanuri tribe.

Pidgin language of the SE??

viscerion:
Im aware its not just a yoruba tin

n apart from confusing ss as igbo pepo also confuse all bayelsans aa ijaw all edo pepo as bini confuse ibibio as efik,e.t.c

jafol:
South South n south east what's the difference between yall

its obvious, but if u dont know we have google

jafol:
So what points should he give about Lagos? U IGBOS don't have any thing in Lagos just ur pseudo properties...We shall let u know that anambra is not lagos

this is going to kead to an endkess argument of lies so i avoid it, for ur info im not igbo am from south south

Thiugh i think anambra sud be on that list, onitsha sef rugged o

Greyworld:
Uncle sorry to say but You dont av a point. In your mind you see Edo as "street wiser" than Lagos?

D pepo who think lagos is street wiser than edo or niger delta are pepo who have never lived in the south south, ask ur friends in uniben or ekpoma, delsu or uniport, ndu or unical, let dem tell u bout the south south, i dont mean cultism o, normal street dagboing, lagos na just hype jare

Sinistami:
There are Isoko and Urhobo indigenous to Bayelsa in Sagbama L.G.A there's is also a place called Isoko Bayelsa where a lot of Isoko and Urhobo people both from Delta and Bayelsa stay. As for the Igbo I don't know much about that though I hear there is an Igbo Subgroup indigenous to Ogbia local Government Area called Ekpeye. But I haven't really seen them.

mehn, dis south south we have to make ourselves known in this country o, all this major tribe mumu politics is too much, many people dont even know that south south we even exist

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Drchristian:
Hello dear Nairalanders have noticed the new trends amongst we the non Yorubas especially in Lagos, we get very angry when Yoruba people walk up to us and speaking their dialet.

This shouldn't come as a surprise to us because of the following :

1.Lagos is hardcore yorubaland

2. YORUBA are the most accommodating tribe in Nigeria

3. If you hate the Yoruba people, know it at the back of your mind that the Yoruba nation has done more than your region can reciprocate.

the idea of ur post is good, but those points uve given has spoilt it

the 3 major tribes(hausa, yoruba, igbo) are deceiving themselves if they think they can drag SS like property, we wont be used by anyone, we may not have the population and political influence of the major tribes, but we make up for it by being the most viable zone in this country

there are igbos in SS and they are also edos in SS, but neither igbos nor edos can clain to be leaders of SS, so anyone saying edos leads the SS is lying, anyone saying all SS is biafra is also lying. No SS tribe is going to be bend to whimps of any of the major tribes, neither do the SS tribes bicker with one anoda, the mutual coexistence of all the tribes in SS is part of the uniqueness of the zone, and if all the tribes in nigeria could learn to cohabit like the SS tribes, nigeria wouldnt be the mess it is

i know this comment wont win me any friends, but ive said the truth n i know fellow SSners(not the liars claiming SS on this faceless forum) will agree with me

ma pepo nor be so?

ademijuwonlo:
Should looks really be used to judge where someone comes from in Nigeria? I'm a yoruba lady who is always mistaken for Deltan/Ibo by people even by my fellow Yorubas.How are Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa and other ethnics ought to look like? What are those features that distinguished them 'cos I am not understanding.Not being able to correctly place my tribe from my looks is one example that looks is a weak judge of one's tribe. I'm proud of my culture and heritage but I believe in project Nigeria and I don't like people asking which tribe someone comes from 'cos it is divisive and doesn't encourage unity in Nigeria. I have lost so much to tribalism and I hate tribalism in all its forms. As Nigerians, we should be able to enjoy all the benefits in one's area of residency without being reminded that one doesn't belong there or being told to go back to one's ancestral states to be relevant. Living like a second class citizen in one's country is a painful one.
I believe our treatment of each other should not be based on Tribe or where someone comes from.We are people before tribe and religion set in. #Saynototribalism

Anoda trait more common( but not only)among the yorubas, it was in ibadan i started hearing things like "u r nt igbo? but u dont look like yoruba" i didnt know that each tribe has a standard look o

on d issue of tribalism, it has eaten deep to every corner of d country, i dont know why we will see other people as different human beings from us just bcuz their ancestors preferred wearing agbada, iro n buba to etibor, blouse n george wrapper

prolog2:
As shown in precolonial maps, they are all Edo, citizens of Benin Kingdom. Subject of the Oba. Either you like it or not, fact is fact.

Ok o

but my question is, old benin kingdom had onitsha, parts of rivers, and even to lagos, are u saying they r all under the oba of benin?

prolog2:
It seems you fools still don't understand that Benin City is not equal to Benin Kingdom. Benin City is only the capital of the kingdom.
The Oba of Benin is the king of the entire kingdom, not just Benin City.
ANd these informations are not "according to Bini folks" they are written down in documents made by european explorers who visited the region several hundred years ago ! You can't explain facts away by claiming them to be mere opinions !
Either you are being stupid on purpose, either you are just an other ignorant blackman who can't take 2 minutes to do research on a topic before commenting on it !

maybe i miss understood u, r u trying to say the urhobos, isokos, ikas are under oba of benin? cuz datz a lie o

IloveToMess:
My friend stop using different monikers to write sane shiit. The map never had SS, that is the thing i want you to see and you gave seen it.. We were all EASTERN REGION in peace and harmony before this south south north north rubbish was created. Edo was not is not and will never be part of us.. Now you understand!

and now we are SS region living in more peace and harmony, bcuz dat old eastern region was igbo oppressive

igbo talk of fulani stealing niger delta oil, as if many igbo cities were not developed with oil money from ibibio and ijaw lands

lawani:
Bini had a lingua Franca which is the kind of Yoruba spoken in owo today still spoken in ugbodumila Delta State and was the language of onitsha. So will you say all those Yoruba language speakers in ancient bini we're Edo?. However linguists use Edo to mean bini and edoid to include urhobo, isoko, afemai and etc . Igala has been described by linguists as a Yoruba dialect.

hope u know that d fact that isoko ve some edo similarities doesnt automatically show their history, same way for ndokwa

both may ve been diff people who were strongly influenced by edo n igbo

IloveToMess:
So you are bring the present map and have thrown away the one that had your "MidWestern" state.. Mugu it will clear for your eyes when Biafra comes. Wait its just for a little while. We know how many we are boy and you are not part of us.

this map u r bringing, do u see SS on it? then der was no SS now, der is SS dat edo is inside, even dat ur biafra later lost support of minority tribes, so no way they want to support you

u r talking as if evribodi in a region of old nigeria had same culture, how did the igbos in midwest relate to owans of same midwest

by the way how the you know so much that the people saying edo is not SS are truly SSners, no SSner in real life says that

infact they are too many reasons why u are wrong, so im ignoring u

viscerion:
u ve problem o, u said SS pepo ve rejected edo but ure d only one im seeing shouting "edo is not SS"

hope u know they are igbos in igbanke in edo state, also ijaws n urhobos in edo

or if u mean d edoid tribes that means urhobo, isoko, ika in delta, epie in bayelsa, ahoada in rivers are not SS

bikho urhobo, isoko, epie are not edo o

though i agree that edo is SS

lets avoid d biafra topic, its becoming too much on this site