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ritababe:
oduduwa was a banished prince from bini

The name "ODUDUWA" appears to have originated from Edo language. Here is the meaning of Oduduwa in Edoid languages: "ODUDU" [means "abundance", "plenty", "surplus"", "great"] "UWA" [means "riches", "fortunes", blessings, prosperity]. Joined together, "Odudu+uwa" therefore means "Abundant Blessings" or "Great Riches/ Fortune". The name Oduduwa in Edoid languages signifies someone that is very fortunate or has good luck following him. Proudly Urhobo!

Efewestern:
this bini people should leave warri out of there madness, why are they dragging warri into this ?, how dare them declare a single tribe as the original owner of warri? , they shouldn't think because people are quite they can tell who owns warri, Urhobo, itskiri and ijaw both control there part in warri and we are happy with that. they should face they land and lets others be.

for those of you calling ijaw land grabber you know nothing about ijaw, ijaw land extend to ondo and Edo, most oil producing communities in Edo are ijaw communities.

they think this is 300yrs ago, try ijaw people, them go show you pepper, overated edo people..

Are you Ijaw or Urhobo? If you are Urhobo then I'm surprised at your comments about the Ijaws! Do you realise that of recent the Ijaws are aggressively laying ownership claims to several Urhobo towns and villages [namely Aladja, Odorubu, Uduophori, Ofoni, Frukama, parts of Olomu Kingdom, etc], and have even forcefully invaded some? Guy, wise up. Ijaws are becoming land grabbers by the day. Waadoo!

xxgig:
I'm begining to think that the iJaws and Fulanis share ancestry because where ever they are welcomed and allowed to settle, they begin to claim ownership.

That's why sometimes we call the Ijaws the "Fulanis of the Niger-Delta". The Ijaws are very troublesome and aggressive people. Just by any mistake allow them establish fishing camps in your community, and I tell you, in a few years time their offspring will start claiming ownership of the land/ territory. Moreover, years of militancy and confrontations with the Federal Govt during which the Ijaws stockpiled weapons of war have further embolden them to now believe that they can forcefully seize the lands of their neighbors with ease. Could you believe that Ijaws site the secretariat of their Ijaw Youth Council [Western Ijaw Zone] headquarters in a completely owned Urhobo town [Ekpan in Uvwie LGA] when there are many Ijaw towns [Burutu, Patani, Bomadi, etc] in Delta State they can make their headquarters? Is that not an act of aggression and provocation against the Urhobos who are owners of the town? A visitor or stranger seeing the secretariat of IYC in Ekpan may erroneously think Ekpan belongs to Ijaw. Well I blame Uvwie-Urhobo youths for allowing the Ijaws to do that in the own land. Goodness.

Oreoluwa09:
Domt believe shes a kenyan.... looks more lyk an indian

There are many Kenya citizens who are descendants of Indians who migrated en-mass during British colonial rule and helped the British built the early railways networks in East Africa. They later settled as permanent citizens and integrated into the Kenyan society after the end of colonial rule in the 1960s.

selfmadeboss:
kenyan or indian?
why even allow a non black bittch to even buy ticket?
africa dey fall my hand

She is possibly a descendant of the Indians who migrated to East Africa during British colonial rule. Many of the Indians served the British in administration of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Nyasaland [present day Malawi] as civil servant, and also helped in laying of the railways for evacuation of farm produce from the hinterlands to the coastal sea ports. At independence, a vast number of the descedants of the Indians and Europeans who owned plantations and business chains preferred to stay and naturalized as citizens. If you will recall, Idi Amin drove out/ deported many Ugandan Asians and confiscated their possessions.

GiaGunn:
Lol....trust Edo girls

She's Urhobo!

yankeypha:
Simple ask your self, why my town end with Eri, aguleri, umueri, in biafria war, isreal sent some of there pilot to help igbos, we are children of gad, believed it or not, Isreal people knew about one river in my town called ovia mmiri in anambra east.

You have even further confirmed my assertion that "ERI" migrated from the ancient "AKA KINGDOM" [which was later renamed Benin Empire following the collapse of the Ogiso Dynasty and subsequent emergence of the Oba Dynasty] during the "Ogiso Dynasty" around 900AD and 1000AD. "Ovia" is an EDOID name for an ancient river deity. Today there is a river and Local Government Areas bearing the name "Ovia" in present day Edo State. ERI was a royal high priest to the Ogisos in the ancient time. But with the fall of the Ogiso Dynasty traiggered by succession disputes, ERI and his company migrated Eastward. After crossing the River Niger into Igala where they settled briefly, Eri finally moved into Igboland where his descendants established various settlements. Til date, ERI remained a deified and revered entity among the Edoid peoples, some of whom still bear names that begins with Eri [Urhobo-Isoko pronounce it "Eri" while Bini-Ishan pronounce it "Ehi", both meaning the same] in reverence of his supernatural exploits in the days of the Ogisos.

DocHMD:
So you want us to believe Igbos migrated from Bini. Laughable!

I'm not talking of the whole Igbo nation, my reference is to Eri in particular. Eri cannot be the single founder/ father of the entire great Igbo race. Or is he? Let me tell you guy, Eri and his bands were latecomers [later migrants] to Igboland. ERI met people already settled in the Aguleri/ Umueri axis and intermingled and intermarried with them. In other-words, there were already aboriginal Igbo tribes living in Igboland before the arrival of Eri and his group from Udo [near Benin City] the capital of ancient Aka Kingdom. What really made Eri popular and famous upon his arrival in Igboland from ancient Aka Kingdom was his vast knowledge of medicine, administrative skills, wisdom and supposed spiritual powers by virtue of him been a high priest to the Ogisos. The aboriginals Eri met saw in him a divine figure and therefore rallied around his leadership, and that accounts for his reverence among the Igbo even up til date.

AlPeter:
which Eri? Hope you know That Eri lived
more than 8000 years ago

My guy, I have tried to correct this set of deluded Igbos severally that the source or origin of their much talked about "ERI" lies in "Ancient AKA Kingdom" [from which Benin Empire emerged] during the OGISO Dynasty. ERI [meaning "supernatural" or "spirit"] was a powerful and influential high priest in the kingdom of the Ogisos. But following the collapse of the Ogiso dynasty around 900AD and 1000AD, there was widespread chaos, lawlessness and anarchy, and many people fled the kingdom and settled in far away regions. Among the people who migrated out of Ancient AKA KINGDOM along with their households during that era were Eri [a high priest of Aka Kingdom] and the ancestors of the Urhobo-Isoko, Epie-Attissa, Egenni and the Ikwerre peoples. Eri was a great and popular high priest believed to have strong spiritual powers. Eri was so revered that he was later deified. And even up til today among the Edoid race, people still bears names that begins with ERI also pronounced EHI [Urhobo-Isoko pronounce it "ERI", while Bini and Ishall call "EHI"], signifying divinity or reference to maker of destiny. The name Eri is also often exclaimed to express surprises, just as one calls JESUS. In summary, Eri was a royal high priest to the Ogisos who left Udo the capital [near Benin] in about 900AD [following the fall of ancient Aka kingdom], crossed the River Niger into Igala land, and finally possibly settled in Aguleri/ Umuleri region of present Anambra State.

oduastates:
How does it favour me or the SW ?
Mobil has had an head office selling their products in yorubaland before 1 drop of oil was exported from Nigeria .Engine oil , grease , petrol stations etc.
Every town had at least one of each of texaco , Agip, mobile , BP, Shell outlets. Many had multiples . In fact , there were no independent marketers.
Today, they still sell branded products across Africa beyond pumping oil from the Niger delta .
The total number of shell's full time employees ( expartriate and Nigerians) in Nigeria is less than 6000.
Most of them are in the Niger delta.
The businees will always make lbusiness decision about operations .
All it takes them to move their entire business out of Nigeria is a click of a mouse .

It favours SW because employment decisions today are made and implemented from their Lagos headquarters [Yorubaland]. And the provocative aspect is that before our people get aware of such recruitment and travel to or reach Lagos all the way from the Niger-Delta, the Yorubas have hijacked much of the job slots, thereby leaving Niger-Deltans whose oil the multi-nationals exploit with next to nothing. Is that fair? You stated that Shell has about 6000 full time employees in Nigeria, but you did not specify if most of these employees are from [native of] the Niger-Delta, rather you craftily said "most of them are in the Niger-Delta"! There is big difference between the statements: "most [Shell employees] are in the Niger-Delta" and "most [Shell employees] are from the Niger-Delta". My question for you is how many out of the about 6000 Shell Staff are [natives] from the Niger-Delta? Gone are the days when their commonest excuse to justify their injustice was "Niger-Deltans are not educated enough to be engaged in the industry" because as at today there are a lot of brilliant highly educated HND, B.SC, M.SC and P.HD holders with additional qualifications and the required expertise/ training the in oil and gas industry still roaming the streets of the region and doing menial jobs because outsiders have hijacked the industry. Niger-Deltans deserve better benefits and shares in the resources of their land than they are presently getting. GOD bless us.

oduastates:
What were they thinking?
Factors important to businessee

1 Security
2 Transportation infrastructure
3 Human resources and professional services
4 Schools for staff children
5 Leisure and entertainment
6 Housing and Hotels
7 Consulars services
8 commercial Hubs


It is for these reason and many more that investment banks and the media are based in New York and not Alabama or Kentucky.

How many oil firms in texas is HQed in New York.

Austin ,Houston and Dallas are world class cities and they are easily accessible. Lagos is the closest to that level and with Ghana,Benin ,Togo, and ivory coast within 500 miles , they can easily access more opportunities and control assets from one central position . They can use the Accra airport ,they can chill on the beach in Lome etc .Oil companies in Texas do not have to site corporate headquarters in New york for the reasons I have listed. The same reason silicon valley is on the outskirts of San Francisco (another world class city)

You are just been sentimental because the present settings favour you Yoruba people. Thank GOD you mentioned that most of the oil companies in the USA have their headquarters in Texas [an oil producing state] and not New York [a non-oil producing state]. aren't you contradicting yourself? Texas is the most important oil producing region in the United States just as the Niger-Delta is the most important oil bearing region in Nigeria, and it's therefore economically and socially wise to located their headquarters in Texas rather than New York which is a non oil producing region. New York is a non-oil producing state just like Lagos, and it's therefore not economically and morally justifiable for the American oil multinationals to take their headquarters to New York when the oil fields are in Texas. Furthermore you listed some factors important for their business/ operations to thrive, i.e. security, transportation, housing, leisure, e.t.c., which according to your insinuation are absent in the Niger-Delta, yet the oil multi-nationals have refused to close down production and quit the Niger-Delta region and move their drilling tools to Yorubaland which you claim is more business friendly. In summary, if they say the Niger Delta region is not conducive for siting their headquarters then the region is not also conducive for their extraction of our oil wealth. Period!

Cire80:
What's the meaning of Obi in Igbo then. I'm sure you know quite well that every word must not be translated word for word. OK, assuming Obi is an Igbo word, translate it let's see. The Last time I checked, I didn't see any reasonable meaning of Obi in Igbo that relates it to kingship. No non Anioma king uses the Obi title. Only recently I started seeing some writing something like Eze of so so and so, then something like Igwe then Obi on bracket before the name and this is because of the prestige attached to the Obi title. Then you And are you going to ignore the Ovie title which was also corrupted from Ovbie?

Point of correction! The title "OVIE" did not originate from '"OVBIE", rather it came from the Edo word "OGIE" meaning "KING".

Cire80:
well, I'm from Agbor and I don't understand what you mean by a priest in Ikwerre or Enugu being respected and feared in Agbor.

Every communal spiritual stuffs done in Agbor and all Ika is towards Edo especially the Esan area. If someone dies mysteriously, the family or community go for divination to know the cause of death. And many occasions too. Some Ika communities like Owa and others are good at necromancy as well. Even when someone is intimidated or offended and they want to report in a shrine, it's usually within Ika or Edo and nobody ever goes to the East for this.

All our major deities are originated from Edo. From Ogun(Idigun) to Olokun and several others. The Olokun priestesses are called Ohenre or Ihenre for plural Edo is Ohen. The major festivals are Edo. Where do you guys get your fables from?

In Urhobo-Isoko, such is called "Orhenre".

amiablesystems:
i thot i was only the one thinking along this line o... Ethiope.

For your information "ETHIOPE" means "blackish waters", so named after the brownish colour of the great river.

HumanistMike:
Is there a desert in the Niger Delta?

Is there a desert in Delta state?

Something is not right about this story.

Its not actually desert but Savannah grassland. There are several pockets of such natural grasslands with stunted/ short and widely dispersed trees existing in different parts of Central District of Delta State which marveled even earlier European explorers to the region.

ojun50:
Fashola should make use of d Sapele water nd generate more light for them

The painful aspect of it is that Sapele has Thermal Power Station [Ogorode Power Plant] which generates electricity for other parts of Nigeria, but residents of the town have not benefited because there is no functional step down to bring them the light.

ThinkSmarter:
k,dunno before.
What of Ogbia?,are they truly ijaw? Or ethnic group of their own like Epie and Atissa ? One ogbia woman once told me that they re different.

Ogbia is entirely different language from Ijaw. Both are not even related. In language classification' Ogbia is not even classified as Ijoid language, rather it's classified as Central Delta group of languages which also include the Abua, Odual, Kugbo, etc. The Central Delta group are placed under Cross River language category. What this means is that Ogbia as a language is more related to Efik-Ibibio and Ogoni languages than Ijaw language. In the same way Epie-Atissa are classified as an Edoid languages, and are more closely related to Bini, Ishan and Urhobo-Isoko languages than to Ijaw languages. It might also interest you to know that today, the umbrella name "Ijaw" is more a socio-political and geographical grouping than a language grouping. That is why in many Ijaw organisations meetings English is popularly used as medium of conversation because of language differences among themselves. Ijaw today can be regarded as people of different languages united by the same environment and culture, and agreed to work together for common destiny and goals. However there is a language called Ijaw and it's mostly spoken in parts of Delta State and Bayelsa State.

ThinkSmarter:
Bayelsa is exclusively Ijaw majority with minority Epie in Yenegoa.
[Itsekiri,ijaw, urhobo n igbo =Delta]

Apart from Epie-Atissa, there are several indigenous Urhobo-Isoko communities/ villages [e.g. Ofoni, Canaan, Anibeze, etc] located in Sagbama LGA of Bayelsa State. Even the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Works Mr Eghrujakpor, and former Commissioner for Education and who was also former Member representing Sagbama State Constituency in the State House of Assembly Mr Osusu, are from Urhobo-Isoko axis of Bayelsa State.

tripoli007:
hope itsekiri ,urhobo will also get there own academy or academia as the case may be ..if not wahaala u dey find wahalaaa u go get ohhh

Urhobo Nation already have, i.e. Urhobo College located in Effurun, which was established by the Urhobo people even before Nigeria got her independence.

owobokiri:
Sorry, i have to do this again;

There is nothing like southern Nigeria... You ijiots in eastern state houses should reason and stop being fooled. Osibanjo is about to mount the saddle and this "southern nonsense" has reared its ugly head again. They are now looking for a "collabo" to give him enough base support. These treacherous bunch shouldnt be spared. . When they get what they want, they will disappear.. This is exactly how Tinubu started a "southern governors" forum to promote Obasanjos government while the later was in power. They use to wear striking southern costumes at each meeting then. Phony! Immediately Obasanjo finished his term, that nonsense died down. If there is/was any southern unity, the SW wouldn't have been voting CONSISTENTLY in manners that went/goes against the interests of the rest of the south. At Independence, what we had was the East, the West and the North..., then later we had the mid west! Azikiwe, Sardunana and Awolowo.... There is nothing like southern Nigeria! Any chance of having that has been blown to smithereens by those who see their salvation at the feet of the fulani.

If there is nothing called Southern Nigeria, then which geographical components did Lord Lugard amalgamated to form a united Nigeria in 1914? May I remind you that there was nothing called "Eastern Nigeria" as at 1914, rather what existed was "Southern Nigeria" and "Northern Nigeria"? The concept "Eastern Nigeria" was a later creation during colonial era when Nigeria was further splinted into 3 political regions.

basty:
Oil from the Niger Delta is a curse.

Before the discovery of crude oil, Other regions were feeding the Niger Delta and now they want to die.

Thank God oil is no longer selling, we will see what will befall them later.

You are ignorant of history. Do you know that the Niger-Delta region was formerly known as "Oil River Protectorate", so named by the Europeans due to the large volume of oil palm commodities [palm oil and palm kernels] produced and exported from the region before the creation of Nigeria? The Niger-Delta had always been the back bone of the economy of Nigeria even during colonial era before the discovery of crude oil in the region. Virtually all the rubber and timbers, and much of oil palm produces exported by Nigeria between 1914 and 1970 were sourced from the Niger-Delta region. The largest timber processing and exporting factory in Africa then was located in Sapele. The Niger-Delta have always been richly blessed from the beginning.

nairaman66:
The British gave their lives for this! Not knowing the real oil is on the way!!

By the way.., it's called oil palm and not palm oil!! Thanks

You are wrong! It's the tree producing the oil that is called "oil palm" [i.e. Oil palm is the tree's name], while the extracted oil itself is referred to as "palm oil".

EdoNation:
ALL EDOID PPL ARE VERY HILARIOUS

Are you in anyway insulting us?

starz100:
Is it not obvious to all now that these so called fulani herdsmen cum terrorists hv been handled with kid gloves ever since? If care is not taken these blood suckers will begin to seize land down south for their cattle. How many more lives would be taken before we know there is a grand invasion going on. State police is the way out since govt itself appear relunctant in curbing the menace by calling them what they are-terrorists.

I have raised this alarm before but southern our people are just too gullible and disunited to uncover the grand plan of these Islamic people. If you observe very well, the plan has been on for some years now and they [the Hausa-Fulanis] are earnestly implementing it awaiting a D-Day. They have sent/ released their scouts/ spies in the name of herdsmen on reconnaissance mission to master the bushes and forests surrounding our towns and villages more than the real indigenes, thereby taking control of defensive and offensive positions. These tactics make it easy for them to attack and over run communities and weaken the resistance of the land owners. As it is now these Islamic people are already every where in the forests of the south well positioned because southern youths no longer venture into the bushes to exploit forest resources but running to the cities leaving control of their ancestral homeland in the hands of aggressive Fulanis. If care is not taken, in an event of war with Islamic north which we don't pray for, the south may easily be conquered because these people have almost taken over southern strategic defensive positions; the forests and bushes. Southerners wake up! Be wise, vigilant, united, brave and security conscious. PEACE.

Ebubeslym:
I have told my younger bro over and over.

'Run for your life whenever a fulani man is around.

Violence will surely be lurking around that environment'

Ah! Ah!! Even in your own community you will run from a migrant Fulani? Why? That is cowardice! Come to think of it, can you go to the north and intimidate an average Hausa-Fulani man in their own homeland and he will run from you? If no is the answer why will you then run from a Fulani [who came all the way from the north] or allow him intimidate you in your own land? I tell you, if every southerner reason like you did here by fleeing from the Fulanis in their own ancestral land handed over to them by their ancestors, then it's finished! The herdsmen will simply invade and take over your community without resistance and drive you far away into exile. Supposing your ancestors were cowards who run from invaders would they have been able to secure their homelands for their descendants among whom you are one? Be brave man! The Fulanis are not super human. PEACE.

samdavjustin:
Guy relax u don't speak for the whole Edo people

He can't actually speak for all, because when we say Edoid we mean not only Bini people but also Ishan, Etsako, Owan, Urhobo-Isoko, etc.

todayboy:
fulani in delta
God help us

The entire South-South, South-East and South-West need to wake up in the face of this Fulani herdsmen aggression in order not to be taken unaware. From what we are seeing this people may have a grand plan to overrun and conquer the Southern region, taking advantage of our disunity, simplicity, gullibility, ignorance and "security illiteracy". What they are doing of recent is testing our capacity, strength, united front or ability to withstand and defend ourselves in our lands. If you are security conscious carefully, you will notice that these people are already mounting their strike forces [herdsmen] in strategic points to gain mastery and knowledge of our forests, bushes and swamps even more than the native owners of the forests. They understand that our present youths no longer venture into community forests as it was in those days, and these herdsmen are taking advantage of that weak point. A situation where strangers in the name of herdsmen now have perfect knowledge of our forests and bushes more than the owners of the land is too dangerous to overlook or ignore. Once the control of the bushes and forests surrounding your towns and villages are taken over by strangers/ outsiders know that there is problem, because they are the defensive and offensive positions and also escape routes in times of conflicts. I tell you, the big fear is that if there is war today [God forbid] the South may easily be conquered because the intruders [Fulani herdsmen] have already taken control of the territory. As it is now do you know that the present generation of our southern people [mostly the youths] no longer have strong knowledge of their community forests and bushes as it before. Everybody has ran to the cities, leaving control of their forests and lands they inherited from their ancestors in the hands of dangerous and aggressive strangers [Fulani herdsmen], thereby posing great threats to the safety of their homelands. Please, my Southern people I want you to be aware of this dangerous plots. Wake up and don't allow this people take control of your homelands. The tactics of infiltration into others bushes and forests was what they [Fulanis] used to easily conquered and rule Hausaland even up to present time. Please, that should not be allowed to occur in the south. A stitch in time saves nine!

zendy:
Okpara Inland? Where is this?

Ethiope East LGA of Delta State. Okpara is a town founded by the first son of a legendary Urhobo man called Agbon who migrated from Aka [Bini land] in ancient time. Okpara was given birth to during his father's sojourn in Igbo country; hence the name "OKPARA.", meaning first son.

PapaBaby:
And El Rufai who was paying these murders would walk free abi?

Don't mind him. He thought we Southerners and Christians still fear their threats as in the past. Not again! We are not cowards! Ready to crush any threat from any angle! Christians are the majority in this country.

tjark1:
DSS, are you there?

Why calling on DSS? Is it DSS dat will fight for u? U think when it starts now there will still be DSS to defend u? I don't blame the idiotic Fulani man but rather I blame the cowardice been continually displayed by Christians. That explain why he has the confidence to wrote that rubbish. If not not for cowardice, can Muslims really withstand in any fight against Christians when Christians are majority in Nigeria?

adadike281:
Yoruba boys using women as play thing since 1500.

Dafe sounds more of Urhobo name.

Ajehswag:
so why do they call it a deep sea port

Whoever calls it a deep seaport clearly lacks good knowledge of geography. Gelegele only has a deep river with access to the sea [Atlantic] where you can build a functional river port.