we should learn to see ourselves as ONE HUMAN RACE first all sharing the same blood from Adam and eve, see ourselves as Nigeria's second the highest potential in Africa, and see our tribes as tyres on a vehicle, every tyre is required to move forward, so every tribe must work together and move in unison and in unity, as an ijaw man the non violent Fulani man is my broda, as an Igbo woman, the efik woman sud be your sister, as a tiv man the esan man sud be ur broda, n so on

darfay:




That is how this iPod pigs act. They wait for minority tribes to create a thread before discussing ikwerre/ukwale/agbor vs igbo all the time.

A majority tribe that has no idea what to do with their huge number, you can't find hausas or yorubaz in such petty stupidity

What a shame

Cc lalasticlala please clean up the thread

Obobs! As much as I hate all this tribal disrespect some of this pepo display, I think its wrong to insult a whole tribe bcuz some stupid few.......Igbo people generally are lovely, the ones disgracing themselves on nairaland are doing deirsef.......let's not turn dis thread to Igbo vs Niger delta

This topic may sound strange to some of our hausa, igbo and yoruba brothas who are used to one tribe occupying a whole states or even a whole zone of 6-7 states, but those of us from the southsouth and northcentral will understand what it's like to drive through your state and enter a different tribe's land every 15 mins
So I wondered which of us these states even have the most tribes in them, my personal opinion is

1.) Rivers
Ikwerre, kalabari, ogoni, etche, okrika, ibani,etc.......the tribes of rivers are as many as the streets in rivers, port harcourt alone is made up of 3 different tribes, many oda towns exist like dis too in rivers

2.) Delta
igbo, Ijaw, uhrobo, isoko, kwale, tsekiri,etc.......in delta, every direction you look is a diff tribe's land, warri is a good example made of 3 diff tribes, and they re many oda places like dat too, it's rumored some igalas are der too

3.)Crossriver
Efik, ejagam, ukella, yala, bekwarra, etc...... like d name it's lyk every river u cross in the state u enta a new tribes place, some of us may think "there are all calabar pepo, der will understand demselves" believe me, i heard a friend of mine speak bekwarra once, it sounded nothing like the "mkpom mbong" efik dat we know, (no offense o)

4.)Kogi
Geographically being at a centre point in nigeria n sharing borders with bout 10 states, it's no surprise kogi is multi ethnic, the igalas, ebiras, d most popular I know, then some yoruba, igbo, idoma, gwari,etc towns also feature

5.)Benue
Home of Tivs, idomas, igedes, n so many more

6.)Bayelsa
One of the most confusing ethnic groupings to understand is that of bayelsa state, to so many(even those in neighbouring rivers and delta) bayelsa is a monoethnic state made up of only Ijaws, even I thought so until recently when I learned of the ogbias, epies, nembes......... also the uhrobos, isokos n some even say some igbo towns are there

7.)Edo
Bini, esan, etsako, igbanke, ivbe..........along with few ijaw, itsekiri n ika settlements

8.)Akwa-Ibom
Ibibios, annangs, orons, ekets, efiks.......few ijaw and igbo settlements as well

9.)Plateau
I know plateau sud b higher on this list but i don't know most of the tribes der, for those who didn't know plateau is not an Hausa state as you may have felt, there are numerous tribes here, the bassa, berom, goemai, gwara,etc..........few fulanis too

10.)Niger/Kwara/Kaduna/Adamawa/Kebbi

honorable mention
Lagos- despite being yoruba land all 300+ tribes in nigeria are well represented here

fero007:


to be honest, all I noticed is that they call all us southerners Igbos, whether for praise or insulting reasons

only few really informed ones(who probably have SS friends that have corrected them repeatedly) know the difference

to be fair, u can't say is a hausa and yoruba thing only

Just as hausa and yoruba see SS as igbo, also-

Igbos see SSners as either edo, ijaw or calabar, all other groups being under dis 3

we SSners along with yoruba n igbo see all northern minorities as hausa

most nigerians can't differentiate efik, Ibibio, oron, ogoja, e. t. c so they give dem one name "calabar people"

most nigerians can't differentiate bini, esan, afemai in edo state

most nigerians see all bayelsans as ijaw people unaware there are other non ijaw tribes in bayelsa

most nigerians can't differentiate urhobo, isoko, izon, itsekiri, dey call all of them "warri people" some even call them edo people

most nigerians ve no idea which tribes are here in port harcourt


So you see the mistake is relative depending on where uve stayed, I doubt ders anyone who hasn't made one or more of these mistakes b4

chiipink:


When they do something bad yorubas call them. Igbo just to insult IGBOS, but when it's something good they will say IGBOS are trying to grab them..

Just the they call nzeogwu(from delta) coup "igbo coup" and killed IGBOS for it..
But when IGBOS includ delta in biafra , the same people will say "delta are not igbos"

Don't pretend like u don't know all these things..

why will they call SS Igbos wen dey do bad n den deny dey r igbos wen dey do something good? no offense ma'am but I think you're just trying to play the victim card, n i doubt you truly live in the southwest, I live in ph but the few times Ive visited lagos I noticed that even after correcting them 1000 times that I'm ijaw 4rm niger delta, they will see me the next day and call me "omo igbo", wen my aunt prepared odu fulo for them they we're like "omo igbo una sabi cook iyo"

u can't say they are uneducated street people for making that mistake cuz if you do it means you also are an uneducated street person cuz I bet you yourself don't know the difference between hausa and the berom tribe of plateau state or the chamba of adamawa

IkpuMmadu:
The list isn't even upto 200k seff ; why you dey make noise

Go to Urhobo and know WhatsApp

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Urhobo will put brideprice 100naira on the list, but the cost of other items on the list can kill you(robo pepo na joke o) urhobo even gud sef, check okrika list u go jus die(ijaw pepo seisei, na joke too o)

fero007:
ure making a big mistake if ure using asaba to judge delta state as a whole, the fact that it's the capital doesn't mean it's the best city(see anambra, abia n even Nigeria as examples)

Last time I checked there are flyovers at Effurun roundabout, Refinery area, Ajamimogha area, then i think one in ughelli, so ure wrong to say delta has 3 flyovers, we don't even see flyovers or skyscrapers as achievements anymore, don't make others look down on us, we are not exactly the best but we're far better than alot of others

I still maintain that someone should mention the state they feel is better than delta let's do one on one comparism if they are sure

Rivers state

pazienza:


Your head is touching.
What does IGBO has to do with it?

Incase you don't know, Asaba is an Igbo city, and it's people and King identify as proudly Igbos.

Take your Igbo hate elsewhere.

This argument on this thread again? Biko not here nw

While I agree that this is far too poor an achievement, u ve to admit that though delta cud do a lot better they actually doing well compared to most other states, it may not seem so bcuz in delta development is not concentrated on one city like other states but spread across Warri, asaba, sapele, e. t. c. How many states can claim to ve any development outside their capital?


Again Op, I think ure wrong to say they are only 3 flyover bridges in delta, cuz as far back as 2015 I saw at least 3 flyovers in warri alone(not overwater bridges o)flyover bridges

Op you 4get ogoni of port harcourt o, see ex-bbn star marvis nkpornwi, there's names like keniabarido nwinuamene, zina baridakara, des are easy ones sef, d long ones i can't spell, ogoni r the Chinese of the world sef, not only nigeria

even tsekiri n the tribes of northern crossriver ve dangerous names too

Onogiede:
am so shocked seeing this unguided comments,.. how on earth can one just sit down & say such idiotic kind of words,. wherever u are from always God an appreciate the entire southerns for always allowing monthly allocation to all federation which other have the opportunity will never allow such..mind u if u are that bold enough then let split the country.

or let each state manage itself, we'll know whose making mouth

Is der particular tin unique to epie that can differentiate them from ijaw? food, tradition, anything?

since Israelites ve not come to claim Igbos as one of them, Igbos sud stop claiming pepo dat don't want 2 join them, lol

but seriously its easy, let's say igboland is lagos mainland n edoland is island, d "delta pepos" r d pepo on the bridge, dey will b a blend of island n mainland, d ones closest to island wil be more edo n d ones closest mainland will be more igbo, but for any of them on mainland or island to claim der were d ones that came to the bridge first is just wrong

blessed is he dat wil read n understand, n not come n start long stori of argument n insult

among popular tribes, i give it to d Ijaws, Ibibios n Igbos for their unique culture but then there are over 300 tribes in dis country so we cant be sure, d tribes of delta n benue r very colorful too

highcollide:
I have stayed in the south-south for 5 years and I can boldly tell you that your people are very lazy. Your youths don't work. I mean, why work when they can just take weapons and Rob people on the streets? If your youths are not lazy, them no go carry cultism and militancy for head like ringworm. I remember in 2015, some delta youths blocked a federal Highway because they didn't get the monthly stipend Jonathan was giving them. I stayed on the bridge linking bayelsa and delta for 4 hours because of your lazy youths. You cannot lie to everyone.

technically only strongmen will have d liver to go into cultism,, militancy n bunkering, lol

nw on a more serious note, I'm 4rm rivers state n i know many of my pepo r guilty of this, i won't go into d issue of why it's that way cuz if we're all asked to give excuses for bad habits am sure we'd all have excuses to give, but there is anoda side to this.

Go to places like port harcourt, warri d pepo der r hustlers, most of d ogogoro drinking men r in d small communities and villages, but port harcourt, warri, Benin, calabar boys dey can hustle more than lagos hustle

anoda correction is if u must call us lazy don't say many niger delta pepo r lazy, say many niger delta MEN r lazy cuz the women r one of the most hardworking in the world they r even more business minded dan eastern women

Go to places like port harcourt, warri d pepo der r hustlers, most of d ogogoro drinking men r in d small communities and villages, but port harcourt, warri, Benin, calabar boys dey can hustle more than lagos hustle

we talk of cultism, armed robbery in SS as if these things don't happen everywhere

well in summary if u want to know how well SS contributes in human resources check out this

https://www.nairaland.com/4926187/great-acheivers-south-south

Pls i really think we sud focus on moving forward as a country instead of bashing each other, NW, NC, SW, NE, SE, SS we all have our strengths n flaws, no one is better than the other, but together all of us are better than one of us

thanks 4 listening 2 my boring preaching n even if it flys out of your ear make sure its flying into anoda ear

Eberejesus111:

You know what I feel dear beloved brother. You don't force people to accept your culture or the way you live. If they say they are not igbo, let's accept their decisions and mind our business. I don't see what they or the Igbos would gain by claiming them, fighting over people that does not want to accept you is ridiculous.
The Igbos have tried for decades to bring back their brethren from other regions to unity, but they've all been adamant, even Akwa ibom and I guess cross-river are more closer to their Igbo neighbours than some neighbour who answer Igbo names and their culture.

I believe the people in the south-south that bear Igbo names should learn to live in unity with their neighbors. Love and unity between all of us in our country Nigeria, would foster great achievements for us in this country.

God bless y'all. Please I'm sorry If anyone had taken offence in what I posted. Thank you.

Ehen! so we ve wise pepo lyk dis on nairaland, keep it up dear, me am ijaw n ikwere, but am also from Zion so we r bro n sis

i wish i cud throw more light on the subject but the question on whether ikwerres, ndokwa n odas are really Igbos is one that cannot be answered with a simple yes or no n it's not something u can really explain well in writing

I nor know of state but na niger delta people drink pass follow by edo or igbo

nah Warri n Port harcourt ge slangs, Benin na normal pidgin or dey thief some warri slangs, evribody 4 nigeria dey thief warri slangs sha

RedboneSmith:
Queen Nwokoye and Saint Obi are not from Rivers. They are from somewhere in the Southeast. Anambra, I think.


Are you sure Ada Ameh is from Delta? I thought she was from Benue.

Chidi Odiah sounds like an Anioma (Delta) name, even though he was born in PH, Rivers.

not 100% sure of queen, but in an interview Obi once said "I'm an igweocha boy, from rivers", well maybe he was just born here

Hybridz:

Now,you're talking about ruggedness in people and not in places.if it's that,then the Igbos get the nod over others.

To your point,well,I've not really mingled with ample south southerners to buttress your point. Majority of the few ones I've encountered or befriended were "bread and buttered" outside their region of origin. Aldou,d few minority showed tenacity and lots of instincts to survive but it's a small sample size if you ask me.

it's likely uve meet many SSners but couldn't different them from igbo, some the rugged igbo people you think uve seen could actually be warri boys or calabar girls, I understand I know that confusion is very common in the west

if i nor rep ya state well ni vex, jus epp me fill d missin names

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

thinkafricanet:


i don't think yoruba people have meetings with northerners or each other to decide if you are ibo or south south . It depends on cultural education. How many of them in ibadan or us have even been to the Niger delta or been taught at school about the history of the ibiobio, nupe, ijaw, itsekiri, nri (igbo) or bini?

It's like how we call Japanese or Korean people chinko, or pakistani, sri lankan and bangladeshi people indian. What you are complaining about is informal / erroneous education/socialisation.

i neva implied dat n derz notin wrong in being igbo, it can just get annoying wen pepo dismiss u culture like its insignificant n give u anoda one by force

fero007:


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

i remember wen i first go warri, abobi if nor b say i b ph son den 4 weyley me o, i rememba one time secondary skuls dey fight, 3 smallie come our nxt compound root barb wire comot fence use am dey wipe men neck, ojo wan seperate fight, d boys baff dem acid, for my mind i say yes de na second rivers, niger delta na same crase evriwhere for d region if u b jonki u go turn smoked fish

But Ph sef don calm small o, d "who goes u derin" din calm 4 place lyk rumuokoro n rumuola, if na b4 ehn

my own list currently now eh na
1. Obiakpor(na still part of ph one kind sha)
2. Port harcourt
3. Ugheli(i hear say e don rugged pass warri)
4. Ekpoma(i hear say e don rugged pass benin)
5. Warri
6. Benin
7. Amassoma(den say yenagoa dey learn 4 weir dem dey)
8. Yenogoa
9. Onitsha
10. Calabar
11. Asaba
12. Auchi
13. Uyo
14. Aba
15. Lagos

for streetwise
1. Warri
2. Benin
3. Portharcourt
4. Onitsha
5. Aba
6. lagos

IamAtikulate:

You are quoting wiki? Edo doesn't have more GDP than Anambra.

Name all the universities in Edo. Anambra still has more nationally renowned Professors than Edo.

Anambra has more indigenous oil company than Edo. All the oil companies in Anambra are owned by Anambra men.

oboy, edo has more national n internat oil companies, infact generally more nat n internat companies than anambra, most of the companies in anambra are indigenious

as for gdp, ive neva rely on google for info, though it says edo is higher

In edo, i know uniben, aau, biu, ebenedion, n osho new uni

IamAtikulate:

You must be an indomie generation then. Igbo's like money, but when compared with other regions on the looters list, they will always come last.

na south south dey thief pass

SS is also the only zone that fights among themselves, i dunno our problem

viscerion:


well ur right, but on the other hand

Edo has higher GDP than Anambra

Edo has more universities than Anambra

Edo has more oil companies than Anambra

Oba of Benin is more respected than any Igbo monarch

There are more baby factories in Onitsha than Edo

There are more money ritualists in Anambra than Edo




My point actually is, every part of this country is messed up, so no part has a right to beef the other

Edo has more ritualists o, nor talk am

though i agree edo is more fun

IamAtikulate:

Edo has more GDP than Anambra? Lol

Anambra has more Universities than Edo when you add all the private universities. Be guided.

There are over 10 indigenous oil companies owned by Anambra people and the state has the largest onshore gas reserve in the country. Be guided.

They should chop their Oba nah.

Yahoo boys are not ritualists abi?

according to wiki, edo has the higher GDP, though dat was 2010 so not reliable
Anambra has 5 universities, edo has more
Edo has more oil companies o

Though
Anambra is more industrilized and safer

so epie is ijaw too, so apart from ijaw which groups are in bayelsa, is it true there are also igbo and isoko there?

kotv:


This was a tribal baiting topic
https://www.nairaland.com/4867657/why-yorubas-n-north-group

So was this
https://www.nairaland.com/4867657/why-yorubas-n-north-group

So was when you pretended to be Ikwerre to address Igbos.

So was when you wrote about Ikwerre names on town shared by other groups in attempt to get others to insult Ikwerre.

Pretending you don't know what you're doing isn't anything. You know exactly what you're doing. Tribal baiting isn't you insulting people, it is you opening or saying useless controversial topics or statements that Ignites ignorant fools into attacking and insulting eachother, just like the OP did. The only difference between you and OP is that he's good at it and noone pays mind to yours. I'm done with this argument, just stop mentioning Ijaw.

well fyi, im not "tribal baiting" does threads i open for educative purposes.

anyone can enter any topic n drop a useless comment, those that mean anyone who opens a topic in nairaland is automatically tribal baiting?

check my posts on "the unity thread" i ve neva supported tribal insults one day, im even sick of it cuz these no one talks of anything else on nairaland

IloveToMess:

Lol mugu you have resorted to insult because you are too bitter to face reality. Edo is not part of SS and definitely not part of Biafra. Rivers is fully Biafra let it soak.. Ashawo Edo.

i leave edo pepo to deal with you, i'm true talking to a mannerless bushpig lyk u, u lyk insult my mum i nor answer u again

for does dat want to learn, see d pic

IloveToMess:

Lol mugu you have resorted to insult because you are too bitter to face reality. Edo is not part of SS and definitely not part of Biafra. Rivers is fully Biafra let it soak.. Ashawo Edo.

im edo n ure fulani, no wonda u mumu, go give d phone to one of ur cows, im sure they will say more intelligent things than what the rubbish writing here

edo is SS, if e pain u go mop river niger, saying edo is not SS is like saying nigeria is not in africa