₦airaland Forum

ijaw citizen: FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE WHO DIDN't READ THEIR ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS & GOVERNMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL (AT LEAST), LET ME POINT OUT THAT IN PREVIOUS CENSUSES CONDUCTED SOMETIMES IN THE 70'S, ETHNIC GROUPS WERE INDICATED AND 10 MILLION IJAWS WERE RECORDED NOT ONLY IN OLD RIVERS STATE, BUT NATIONWIDE NOT EVEN ACCOUNTING FOR THOSE OVERSEES, AND THOSE THAT WEREN'T COUNTED DUE TO THE DIFFICULT TERRAIN OF OUR ENVIRONMENT.

FOR MORE INFOMATION, STUDY THE PREVIOUS CENSUS FIGURES OF NIGERIA. THANK YOU

ijaw citizen: Having read through all the comments posted since my last visit, I don't know why certain people still want me to comment on this unintellectual discussion.

@Ngodigha &co.
I've some more important business to take care of rather that coming down here every minute to engage in some silly beer parlour talk with people who know nothing about Ijaws.

SOME HEADS UP ON WHY BAYELSA STATE & OTHER IJAW AREA ARE SPARSELY POPULATED- Of all the notable Ijaw people you know today, how many of them grew up and schooled in ijawland.

How many good schools were built in Ijawland since oil expoitation started in our lands not to talk of other infrastructures. Do all these factors encourage population growth?

For your Information, 90% of Bayelsans live outside Bayelsa state, not to mention Ijaws in other parts of Ijawland.

ak47mann: some parts of edo state belong to ijaws,i think they should allow them to form their own state from that side too...

Abagworo: The Igbos in Rivers State are Egbema and Obigbo. Maybe you mean Igbo speaking. Ikwerre is the majority ethnic group in Rivers followed by Ogoni. Rivers is a highly multi-ethnic State but seem to have a sense of nationhood irrespective of the multi-ethnicity.

re@lchange:
you mean 3 ethic groups
there is nothing major about ijaw

aribisala0: This is exactly the kind of Achebe logic we have to contend with. It goes something like this.

All is not well with Nigeria
Igbos are the brightest Nigerians
Igbos should be at the top because based on merit they are the best
Igbos are not at the top
Mediocrity reigns in Nigeria
Because Igbos are not at the top.

In a nutshell this is ACHEBEISM

Prof Corruption: laughable. They have no presence in Apapa but own better part of Rivers. Rivers is an Ijaw state.

Dudu_Negro: shut your trap. who opened your cage?

Prof Corruption: The former Eastern Region has been balkanised to nine states: Abia, Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Cross Rivers and Bayelsa.
The then Western Region including federal capital territory is divided into eight states: Edo, Delta, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo .
Justice demands a state be created from the Western Front to balance the equation. There is nothing wrong in having an Itsekri State carve out of present day Delta State. Or we go back to regionalism with six geo-political zones running as federating units.

ijaw citizen: @MR ABAGWORO & AFAM FOREVER

AFTER A LONG REST FROM HOSTILITIES AGAINST IJAWS, HERE THEY RESURFACE AGAIN!

YOU GUYS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IJAWS AND IJAWLAND SO PLEASE MIND YOUR BUSINESS. YOU HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH IJAW WHATSOEVER & I'M VERY SURE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO IJAWLAND EXCEPT THE IJAW PARTS OF PORT HARCOURT PERHAPS. PLS DON'T LET IJAW BUSINESS OR ISSUES CONCERN YOU, THIS IS A NEW YEAR SO PLEASE FOCUS ON YOUR IGBO PEOPLE AND THEIR NUMEROUS PROBLEMS.

STAY CLEAR OF IJAW BUSINESS, YOU GUYS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT US!

Isiterere: There are over 250 ethnic group in Nigeria, the 3 most popular of them being Hausa,Ibo & Yoruba. Nigeria has 6 geopolitical zone namely southeast,southwest,southsouth,northeast,northwest and north central. Ibos are predominantly in south east. While in school; I missed freely with different tribe cos I makes friend easily but something that always puzzle me the most is about my friends from the southsouth and southeast region. Whenever there is any short break or long vacation, if you ask them where they will spend their holiday? The answer will be a joyous "in my village" Very recently a good friend of mine serving in the same school with me , I ask her where she will spend her brake and she said she will first spent a little time with an uncle in Abuja before going to her Village in Enugu for xmas and new year. Another friend of mine from Delta state presently residing in Kaduna said she will be in her village for the xmas and new year. Meanwhile my southwestern. Friend will proudly say the name of their town where they will observe their break. Hardly will anybody from southwestern part of the country call their town,city a village. My question is "do we have more villages in southsouth and southeast part of the country compare to other region".....Your comment and experience is highly welcome....

musiwa10: ijaws dont even own warri.. how could they own a place that is nearly over 100 kilometer far from ijawland..

musiwa10: now ask your self question. now delta state can see, I was only trying to save them.. they would have been poor like ijaw people.. if they join niger delta.. international law, does not give them what they have been illegally receiving

musiwa10: You go and ask the old people there, if they know my name. they will tell you, we own alot of the land..

there was aiyetoro in that area.. which use to be communism society. And because of this, some ijaw came to get food,clothe etc for their family. since nigeria govt does not offer that.

We employ most of those ijaw.. you can go and find out if i am telling you the truth..

Obinoscopy: How about this: Is the Federal Civil Service OverPopulated? Should they be downsized?

musiwa10: that land alot of it belong to my family.. I hope you know..

musiwa10: how can the oil in ondo state belong to ijaw.. ijaw are immigrate in ondo state.. you see that portion of ondo state.. Guess who own alot of the land.... that the ijaw who live there now.. Guess who own alot of that land..

the ijaw in ondo state are from bayelsa state.. there state of origin is bayelsa state..