saintkeppy:
. Wow! U knw a lot about ma pdople? U even knw Efut lol they are 1 of the cameroon immigrants just like the Qua Nation of the Ejagham stock. we have the larger Efut ethnic group in that country. ...Which of the town do u reside currently?

Please can you tell me more about Edit tribe? I'm interested.

saintkeppy:
. Cross River State is also an example. There's a village in the state that women speaks different from men. Over 5 languages spoken in 1 LGA. Lol very funny. In calabar, an Efik or Efut man finds it difficult to understand Abakpa(Qua) language, who are the landlords of calabar Municipal council. These three tribes are the occupants of the Greater Calabar. Infact the state is a mini Nigeria.

Raydos:
Do we even have parks?? And recreational centres to have fun at free time after a hectic day NO we don't!!


Everything is messed up here!!

sapphiere:


https://www.reubenabati.com.ng/index.php/component/k2/item/20814-law-students-drag-ASUU-to-court-over-strike-demand-n10bn-compensation/post

RichyBlacK:


Wrong!

Nna is "father" in Igbo (Ikwerre obviously included).

Ikena and Obina do not exist! It is Ikenna and Obinna in Igbo.

Afam4eva:

This same thing you said about Ikwere and Igbo, just replace it with Urhobo and Isoko or Efik and Ibibio so that you can understand where i'm coming. That's not to say that you don't have a point in your assessment of the situation. But like i said Ikwerre people do not see it with the same eyes that Igbos see it. Why you may think all "Bia" speaking people or people who call God all the variations of Chi/Chukwu should be Igbo, Ikwerres do not have that same school of thought. As far as they know, every village can be a tribe. Little wonder Rivers state has one of the largest concentration of ethnic groups even though most of those ethnic groups understand each other to some extent.

FaAbokiWithSuit:
but every other worker is on ippis. IPPIS will help expose financial irregularities and also create employment for other people who are qualified to be lecturers--- but these oldies are working in 2 to 3 institutions at the same time

properties4sale:
Hi all, please what's the full meaning of OG?

This is a constant word I keep hearing.

He is a real OG, respect him etc?

I have checked the dictionary but have seen nothing in relation to this.

What does it mean please.

Fatherofdragons:
What an ugly looking outfit, looks riverine to me.

PROUDIGBO:


And hydrocarbons. Egbema was sliced in two and the better endowed part was placed in Rivers.

Looking at the map of Rivers state, notice how it stretches up unaturally and grabs part of Imo.

BornRicch:


What year did the ijaw traded with the Europeans and what were they trading? Listen, the first Europeans to arrived Nigeria are the Portuguese and the kingdom they went to was the Benin Kingdom though they met other coastal tribes. Ijaw history is not known anywhere in Nigeria �� I have never watch an ijaw history on TV. You guys should be grateful of oil in your swampy wooden houses areas.

oneeast3:
Europeans came to Onitsha and settled down long before settling in the Niger Delta. Europeans established so many premier colleges in Onitsha like DMGS, CKC, QRC etc,, but it didn't make the Onitsha people that started having contacts with Europeans way back in 1500AD to threw away their origin.

Even the oldest missions in the old eastern region comprising of Rivers state were established by the British in Onitsha. It proves another point that they settled more in Onitsha than anywhere in the present day Niger delta, but still yet the people the British met in Onitsha never threw away their origin.

Rossinky:
No be una fault.

It is our federal govt that is even wasting time and stooping low to be exchanging letters with you.

By the time we sponsor rebel movements to destabilize your country and scatter that your ''peaceful society'', una eye go clear.

Tiny country feeling funky.

Notatribalist:
Shut up.Ghana is the worst in Africa.I spent 7 years in Ghana and the country is too under develope..in Lagos alone you can't see bush,but few kilometers away from Presidential house bushes everywhere. Ask the people that lives in Ghana.

seanfer:


Because that’s the only developed area in the state. Other areas are mere villages.

DonHummer:
very stupid news, waec that started just Monday, so within just few days the student has started showing symptoms, and who said they contacted it in the classroom? is that the only place one can contact it? nawa o

CuteVally:
Good evening Nairalanders.

Please i need an advice on the next step i should take in life. I am a guy, 25 years of age and still living with my parents, though i am not jobless but recently my bank account just hit one million and 200 thousand naira.

So my parents are advising to buy a landed property in my home town that will take about 900 to 1 million naira. But the thing is that i am 25 and i feel at my age i should no longer be staying with my parents, so i want to rent a flat and furniture it to my taste, i feel it is time to move on, i need my freedom to finally face life like a man.

So my question is, should i purchase a landed property at 25 and continue living with my parents or pack out and start my Adult life. Note: i am not jobless".

seanfer:
Fly over at Rumuola, GRA junction is about 500 meters distance and another one at Garrison. The Governor didn’t care about other 21 LGAs in the state. Only Obio-Akpor and Phalga are meant to be developed.

tungamaje:
Are we sure Abuja streets are even as beautiful as what I am seeing here? May be those streets were developed by white men

JidennaJason:
PSG almost made me lose my appetite last night...

The same Neymar Jr people criticised during the match at the football viewing center was the same Man they were praising after that glorious assist.

Still rooting for PSG vs FC Barcelona at the UCL Finals.

AfroBeatDiary:
This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria. All through the 19th century palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialized nation, so they needed resources such as oil to maintain their factories.

[img]http://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8eEgWyXYAAuBCA?format=jpg&name=900x900[/img]

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence. However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade.

In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference. When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs.

Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions. In 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted the charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed.

The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, like Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them.

So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Cameroon.

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners.

The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others by malaria. By April 1895, the business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners.

After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of the settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed suicide in exile in 1898. About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway.

The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Nigeria

https://africandiarytv..com/2020/08/meet-king-koko-man-who-sold-nigeria-to.html?m=1

DaniDani:
Did I read a different article from the one you guys read? How did a man that rejected trading pattern, and revolted against the whites sold Nigeria? I mean a man that rather committed suicide instead of being dictated by foreigners on how to do business in his own land sold Nigeria?

I am not understanding (in the voice of a Nigerian)!

dynicks:
LALA right now as he steps out and walks straight ahead towards the stage to receive his honorary award,..

he says...."with tears in my eyes, In my life, I have always been surrounded by lots of amazing people.... Sometimes I wonder, how my life would have been if I didn’t have a friend/friends like you guys. Thank you so much.

You guys made me realize the true meaning of life especially towards having(uses his handkerchief to wipe some tears off his eye) affection for snakes. Thanks for the friendship of you guys. I cannot repay what you have given(more tears rolls down..wipes them off again) me but I will always be by your sides whenever you need me. Thanks for having my back all the time.....One love nairalanders......uhmm plz when this show is over, everyone should make a rendevous at my place so to celebrate life in honour of this award as av contacted the services of MANNABRIGGS...#TEAMSNAKEYLALASKY#

Eastlink:
A lot of water has passed under the bridge. The Igbos lost out after the civil war, Ijaws now lay claim to the people of Bonny/Opobo

Monkeydeychop:
Please for the last time, esan people of edo state are not Igbo nor are they related to Igbo. Go and read their history, the Esans were chiefs of the Benin empire who fled due to the tyranny of the oba. Just like the Afemai, and etsako people. We were eventually reunited with the oba and he gave the Chiefs titles like onojie. Esan people are bini people but we're seen as a different tribe for some weird reason I don't know of.
Esan people answer names like omoye, oyegun, omosede, adesuwa etc. esan gods are osun(god of medicine), olokun(god of the sea), ayelala (wicked deity I believe) ogun(god of iron and war) and esu(trickster god)

There are people called aniomas who are Igbo settler tribes in edo state. They've adopted edo names and are trying to annex themselves into edo history. They are not descendants of the Benin empire or indigenous to the state.
Not all Esans are fair skinned, few are. Igbos think they're the only ones who are fair skinned which means Esans must have Igbo blood. This is a stupid lie I hear them say.
No offence to igbos but please just stop. We edo's are working towards uniting ourselves. If there's any tribe edo's can even be related to it's the Yoruba's. not igbos.
Esans don't answer names like chinyere or Nkechi. Any edo person you see answering Igbo names are Igbo people. Our Chiefs are called onojie infact in uromi our king is called "OJUROMI" not igwe. In owan their king is "ElaWure" not igwe.

Chikena!