₦airaland Forum

OGHENAOGIE:
where is Afemai edo.... and those saying Al tribes flow from three should stop spiting rubbish abeg

Sadly, Afemai is not really considered a tribe anywhere in Nigeria. You guys are readily divided into Etsako, Owan and the dozens of Akoko-Edo dialects.

uniqueflash:
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I'm 120 Your neighbour with whom u share same LGA.

eddieguru:
It seems cross River has the highest tribe

It's actually Taraba, followed by Bauchi, then Adamawa before Cross River.

DeOTR:
I wonder o. I even saw Tula from Bauchi. To the best of my knowledge, Tula is a town in Gombe state and are Tangale people

You and Ceaser500 need to know that Gombe was formerly part of Bauchi and this list was created before the 1996 state creation.

HoseaYohanma:
Gavva not Gavako

Hello, are you from Gwoza LGA?

Deadlytruth:
So it takes a mod to say something for that thing to be true. The said mod once erroneously claimed in another thread that no part of Edo State is a hilly terrain and hence exposed his ignorance about the state he so speaks of with authority.
Unfortunately you have not given any specific citation or instance of the similarities you allege between Edo and Yorubas, yet you claim eyes can see them.

I have rather pointed specific examples of similarities between Yorubas and you Igbos.
In all his Yoruba irredentism Awolowo the most knowledgeable Yoruba man to ever walk on earth surface, never targeted anywhere in the present Edo State because his personal reserch visits made it clear to him that there is really no cultural or linguistic affinity between Edo and Yorubas. The only place he targeted is the Itsekiri enclave whom he helped install/impose their Olu as the Paramount ruler of Warri hence the intractible Warri crisis. But it continues to beat common sense why you Igbos focus on Edo in your search for Yorubaness but abandon Delta with the obviously Yoruboid Itsekiris and Olukunmis. How doesn't this prove clearly that it is all aimed at political blackmail?

The bearing of Yoruba names in Edo doesn't make them Yorubas any more than their bearing of Nupe names like Damisa, Daniyan, Attah, Dirisu, Daudu, Mayaki, etc. make them Nupes. All these are just due to cross-cultural interferences through trade or war and conquests.
Yorubas too do bear such Nupe names, and it doesn't make them Nupes.
Igbos never really had interactions with many other tribes prior to colonization hence the less frequency of adoption of names of other tribes.

Many Edos are actually of Nupe origin, especially from the Afemai axis. Nupes were the ones who brought islam to Edo state by conquering the Etsakos. They were defeated by Bini/Esan combination, hence the spread of islam ended at Agbede. Many were captured as slaves. This was the way nupe names came to Edo.

Revolva:
Hahaha you see ur life where bigotry have pushed you to together with illitracy

Who told you igalas have any connections or roots with hausas or is it because some igalas were invaded n introduce to Islam

It means noting it's d same way Christianity came to some part of igala and any other part of naija

Yeye thing so for your mind all igbos came from one origin if you think so you are a big daft

Present day igbos came from many origin

Just for records sake. There are many Igalas of Hausa origin. E.g Angwa town in Ankpa LGA are descended from Hausa settlers. You can even see that the name is a hausa name.

babyfaceafrica:
which language do you guys speak?..Hausa or fulbe. or do you guys have ur own language

Lol, he told you his tribe is Chawai and you are still asking him if he speaks Hausa or Fulbe as his native language.
I am Pyem by tribe from Plateau state, so ask me my own question

I wonder why the fact that 'there are hundreds of distinct ethnic groups all over the north' cannot just get into the heads of most southernerns.

Sagay212:
Lol...give us few instances with facts...Lol...you wish you could stand up to Yoruba. Not in your dreams. Today you claim you burnt a tout who tried to disrupt voting but when it happened then ,y'all said it was bike that was burnt and claimed it was even iPods that took the tout to hospital for treatment. Of course you cowards are always scared to death . The Agberos don pity una now and you have come online as usual to brag. I hope you know African China's song that year,
Abi you self go claim say na poem

I am neither yoruba nor Igbo so I'm not interested in this argument. But as for African chyna's song about dead bodies landing in Igbo land, it was actually from Kaduna and not yoruba land. Remember he sang about the guy who went to Kaduna to serve his oga in the song.
I think during the Kaduna 2001 sharia/miss world riots... And when that thing happened, so many northerners were killed in Onitsha in retaliation.

OPC's issue was with Ajegunle boys and people from that axis are mostly Deltans (Ijaws, Urhobos and few Delta Igbos) not actually Igbos, but I guess most of u yorubas cannot easily differentiate Igbos from Niger-deltans.

tbibuzz:
no vex o shey all these tribes dey this country sef?

Most Southernerns do not know that the North-east of Nigeria is actually the most ethnically diversed. Over 150 distinct ethnic groups. These tribes are mostly from Southern Borno & Adamawa state.

RoyalBlu:
This is so strange
Even in death, still gon be stressed into a final resting place.

Things are happening in this life o.


"Mandara Mountain and valley, Gwoza, Marghi, Pabbir/Bura, Höna, Higgi, Wagga, Wula, Vengo, Sukur, etc.

Where are these places located BTW?

Northern Adamawa & Southern Borno states.

IamCharles123:
Why will headquarter be in ugheli, everyone knows warri produce the money delta own. So why not make warri center the head quarter.

Ughelli is like the most centralized area in the geography of the state, that's why it was suggested. Although, even I wouldn't have supported that. Warri is multi-ethnic unlike Ughelli that is pure Urhobo.

fr3do:
You don't know what you are saying, Warri is more developed than Asaba

Warri is more developed than Asaba, yes, but had all the money invested in creating Asaba been channelled into Warri, then Warri would have been in the same rank with the likes of Port Harcourt or the 2nd most developed city in the entire south after Lagos. This is what they are saying.

Asaba has no single oil, all the oil comes from Warri region, but was used in developing Asaba.

sexiestharam:
I read through this thread and I was so pissed! Firstly, why are people adding Isoko LGAs to the urhobo population? It is a very silly thing to do. The isokos are a completely different ethnic group. Fine, urhobo and Isoko share a lot of similarities in dressing, culture and language structure but they are different! Why don't people add Esan's 5 LGAs to Bini's LGAs when counting as well?

Secondly, Google is our friend. No need to argue. There are official statistics of our number in Delta state. Urhobo largest, Anioma second, Isoko third, Ijaw fourth and Itsekiri comes last. Forget about the noise our itsekiri brothers make. They are the least tribe in population numbers but the noisiest.

The difference between Urhobos & Isokos is very similar to the difference between Ikas, Ukwuanis & Enuanis, yet the latter 3 are mostly grouped together under one umbrella during classifications.

And FYI, Esans, Binis, Etsakos, Owans & Akoko edos are sometimes all classified together as the Edo nation and regarded as one people. In Edo state, they are differentiated because there is no other large non-Edoid ethnic groups present.
This is unlike Delta state where there are Edoids (Urhobos & Isokos), Igboids (Aniomas), Yoruboids (Itsekiris) and Ijaws with completely different origins and unrelated languages and cultures.

DonJossydirich:
When did Urhobo became the major ethnic group in Delta State. Anioma is a major factor in everything in Delta State...It's just that both the Urhobos,the Itsekiris,the Isokos and the Ijaws, always gang-up against the people of Anioma,in everything in Delta State.

No pls Urhobos are the majority in Delta state. I am originally from the middlebelt but I was born and bred in Delta state. Aniomas are the 2nd largest. It is not a matter of gang up. Delta state uses a senatorial rotation system for governorship. So, nothing like conspiracies among tribes.

fratermathy:
Totally wrong. One, you don't measure population by the number of local government areas. Two, Urhobos are established well in Warri South LGA as a majority and in Patani as a minority. Three, Isoko has two LGAs. If you count the LGAs where Urhobos can be found ONLY in Delta State, you have a total of 10! If you add Isoko, then you have 12!

Apart from the LGAs, Urhobos have been authenticated by both the national census and voting strength as the most populous ethnic group in the state.


@Op: Population alone doesn't determine influence. In terms of influence, Urhobos are not resolute enough to have ample influence. Urhobos lack unity and that is their greatest undoing. Fortunately, nobody can ignore the population of the Urhobos.

Most importantly, I don't see any good that can come out of this post.

Yes Urhobos are the majority in Delta state followed by Anioma. Infact, I think Urhobos & Isokos combined are like 50% of Delta state indigenously or slightly more. But I think if you use based on citizenship (indigenes + settlers) in Delta state, Igbo would be quite much due to the large number of South-eastern Igbos added to Aniomas.

My main question for you is on Warri south please. Apparently Warri south (the main Warri) is dominated by Itsekiris. I thought Urhobos were only found in Okere-Urhobo, Edjeba & Agbassa in Warri south, so how could they be the majority?

Iriruaga100:
This map is not accurate... Urhobos are the majority owners of warri south, ijaws have some communities in warri south west while itsekiri's owns warri north..

Are you sure Urhobos are the majority in Warri south? I thought they have only 3 wards in Warri south LGA? Which are Okere-Urhobo, Agbassa & Edjeba? Itsekiris should be the majority in Warri south from what I see.

Both Warri south-west and Warri north have Itsekiri & Ijaw communities side by side, but I think Itsekiris are the majority in both with like 65% of the population.

Meti99:
Any northern state you see in numbers 1-20, go and check the results, it is aided by Southerners that live in those states

I disagree with you. Most middlebelt states fall in the middle of this ranking. There is no middlebelt state in the bottom 10, it's all core-northern states.
Besides, you cannot expect Kano & Kaduna to be in the same league with Zamfara & Sokoto.

Kano & Kaduna are the 2 most urbanized states with many Hausa fulanis. So it is not the presence of Southernerns that make these states rank higher, it is more or less the better urbanization which leads to higher education there.

lucianohase:
Zee world? I hate that channel but my two married sister's love zee world, especially the last one. Whenever I visit them on weekends and they are back from work. They will start zeeing that world. Even when they come to my house, they flip to the channel and start zeeing the world with their kids. I usually don't have option but to look at that channel like a fool. Nawa oh, women dey worry because that nonsense Channel. Zee shit world.......

My brother, I am in the same problem oo, whenever I am around my female relatives and friends. It becomes so bad that I begin to enjoy the crazy show after being forced to watch it by them

sonnyokpe:
Kogi and Benue are the best from the entire north. What appears to be good performance from Kaduna state is sheer number of Benue and Kogi indigenes that in large numbers there. The north need to wake up from deep sleep.

I sympathize with Osun state alot for where they have found themselves because all along Aregbe paid lip service to education there

The number of Kogi/Benue people staying in Kaduna is not enough for that. There are also many Kogi/Benue people in Jos-Plateau and Kano as well.

Kaduna state has always supported learning seriously. Southern Kaduna people are very educated, likewise Zaria too, known as a center for education for many centuries.

koyyess:
That mumu programme. �

So unrealistic and slow.

Fast thinkers would run mad watching it.

My brother, I swear! I get irritated at my female relatives on how they enjoy this slow and fake unrealistic zee world ! No person with a high IQ can enjoy this Zee world. This shows how dumb and dull most Nigerian women are.

seunH:
Okay sir, first of all flagy and tetra can "work" for the following reasons
1) Some metronidazole are compounded with anti motility agents which not only destroys microbes but inhibit gut motility
2) In some cases, it may be a case of placebo effect. The person would simply excrete all the fluid content till balance returns since it is uncomplicated but since the person took the flagyl, he would assume the flagy is working
3) It may also be a latent case which was aggravated by the high sugar intake leading to a complicated diarrhea which the person may not be aware of, hence taking the flagy may work

Thanks. I'm sure you are a medical doctor or pharmacist by profession?

delpee:
I'm wondering if the whole area mentioned is truly dominated by Christians. I know that Chibok is largely occupied by Christians. Most unfair if so.

Gwoza & Askira/Uba LGAs are also christian dominated, but I don't think Bama, Konduga & Damboa are.

xaggar:
Those are all Christian dominated areas if the states (konduga, bama, damboa, chibok etc)... The agenda to wipe off the Christian population and their localities continue. Gif help the indigenous people of these unfortunate zones.

Are you from Borno pls? Are u sure these areas are christian dominated areas? The last time I checked, only Chibok, Gwoza, Askira/Uba, Shani & Hawul LGAs are christian dominated.
Are Konduga & Damboa christian dominated too?

seunH:
Okay, first of all, sweet things intake have little relationship with microbes attacking the gut leading to runny stomach. For us to understand the relationship between excessive sweet things intake and running stomach we must first understand the principle of osmosis, which is movement of water from a region of higher quantity (hypotonic) to a region of lower quantity (hypertonic). Sweet things as we know contains high amount of sugar. When we ingest high quantity of these sweet things, the quantity of sugar in the gut increases and the gut content becomes (hypertonic). This sets up an osmotic gradient and water would be drawn from surrounding cells and tissues which are (hypotonic) into the gut. This in turn excessively increases the volume of fluid in the gut thereby overwhelming the ability of the villi to absorb the fluid, leading to excretion of excessive watery faeces(diarrhea).

Wow, thank you very very much! I never had an idea of these things.

So how come Flagyl & Tetra works as a cure for running stomach caused by intake of excessive sweet things and not by microbes?

seunH:
You are right sir to an extent but I kind of disagree with the last part when you said "due to the constipation-inducing side-effect of the drug which most mistake as the main therapeutic effect". Metronidazole is an antibiotic that has affinity for gut microbes. When these microbes attack the gut, they elicit inflammatory reactions which damage the gut mucosa especially the villi which is responsible for absorbing fluid and nutrients from food, hence the gut would lose capacity to hold food for long, leading to diarrhea. When metronidazole is administered, these gut microbes are destroyed and this leads to cessation of inflammatory reaction thereby allowing for regeneration of the gut mucosa and villi.

Wow, thank u for this.

But please I have a question. A lot of us get running stomachs from too much taking of sweet things. How does this relate to microbes attacking the guts?

Kagarko:
Major Towns in kaduna south are controlled by the Hausa Fulani Muslims eg
Kagarko,
Kafanchan,
Kachia,
Kajuru,
Jere,
Zango,
Lere,
Etc

They all have Emir's.

God Bless Nigeria and Nigerians.

This is absolute rubbish. Neither Kachia nor Kafanchan are controlled by Emirs, nor Zangon Kataf where there are no muslims anymore.
Jere and Lere are the only towns with Emirs who have any power and neither of them are major towns. Saminaka is the major town in Lere LGA.

Kagarko:
Kagarko People Love and Voted Elrufai and PMB massively. They're Hausa Fulani Muslims.

Stop saying nonsense all over here. Only Jere town in Kagarko LGA is predominantly Hausa fulani muslims. There are other muslims in Kagarko LGA, but most of them are Adara & Koro by tribe and not Hausas.
Kagarko as a LGA is still like 70% christian.

Cajal:
Southern Kaduna consist of not only Christian but also Hausa Fulani as indigenes
The deputy governor a Muslim is an indigene of southern kad
I have friends Muslim and Christians who are indigenes of that place

The deputy governor is a muslim but she is not a Hausa fulani. She is Gwantu by tribe.
There are Koro, gwantu muslims in Southern Kaduna and other muslims from different tribes.

7lives:
@ Bolded is why you are still afraid, seize power from who exactly?, are they not your fellow Nigerians?, this state of mind was exactly how the poo hit the fan in 1966, and you know the subsequent events.
The only way to get power is through votes any other way is a road to perdition.
Has the middle belt ever tell you that are not North?.
Gowon, Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Danjuma, Dogonyaro, Jerry Useni, Jerry Gana, Domkat Bali and so on, these are the powers behind the northern hegemony, they are a mixture of Christians and Muslims.
Non of these people are Fulani, oh Because Danjuma is now wailing and forming Christian?.
You better start fighting your battles and stop waiting for help from the middle belt, when the chips are down, you will be on your own.
You better go and learn a thing or two from Zamani Lekwot, did the middle belt rise in his defense?.

Stop it Mr Man. I am from the middlebelt. Babangida & Abdulsalami are both Hausa people by blood from Sokoto state, they are settlers in Niger state and are by no way middlebelt indigenes.
Yakubu Gowon who was a true middlebelt indigene was born and bred in Zaria, infact I heard that his own father was born in Zaria and they are mixed with Hausa fulanis.

The other people u mentioned are the true middlebelters by blood and upbringing and I don't see any way in which any of them have ever promoted fulani hegemony in Nigeria, rather they have been fighting against it. Don't forget about the Suka Dimka's coup which was spearheaded against Murtala's fulani regime was a middlebelt coup.
Don't forget Gideon Orkar's (middlebelt) failed coup against Babangida's fulani regime, which was meant to unite the south and middlebelt in order to cut off the core-north from Nigeria. .... Before Gideon Orkar, has any Southerner ever called for the unity of the South & middlebelt?

Stop misinforming people here like Bede2u about the middlebelt pls.

Naajjii:
Lol look at this liar saying nobody is crying of Islamisation agenda, maybe Osu caste sitiation is disturbing you at this moment so you cant think properly.Just today this morning alone I have heard one of you crying Islamisation. The fear of Islam is overwhelming you people and will keep overwhelming you people. The fulanisation you people link it with spread of Islam. Bunch of confused people, we Muslims don't think about you people we do our thing but you people focus on Muslims everyday. It's a case of insecurity or inferiority complex here.

See who is saying that they do not think of christians, please can you tell that to the birds of the air? You think I am a southerner who has not lived with hausa fulanis and do not how you guys plan day and night in your mosques and islamic gathering against christians?

We northern christians are the biggest threats to your evils in case u don't know. The moment we begin to work with the southernerns in unity against u guys, Nigeria will be finished because a lot of us are indistinguishable from u guys and we can blend in amongst muslims into mosques and islamic gatherings without u guys knowing.

I told u before that my tribe in Plateau state is 50/50. I have muslim cousins who we occasionally live under 1 roof. Whenever I want to know some evil things about islam, I know exactly how to get the information from them

Blue3k:
You're logically consistent that's good. If you're agsinst titles of nobility (monarchy) in general that makes sense. Telling me non muslim can be emir doesn't both me because non catholic cant be pope. Non Igbo and male cant be igwe. All these institutions are the same at their core just traditional institutions the state government taxes people to uphold.

Your example about Zuba/Bura doesn't mean anything to me. If they're majority and dislike institution they should petition state to stop taxing them to uphold it. Second if they haven't revolted over it in past 30 doubt much will happen now.

You agree didn't Sanusi political power. He can lobby but not much else. Kano does have power to regulate and end it. Enforce child abondonment laws to stop new ones. Have current kids put in orphanages to be adopted. The can do talks and all that other stuff.

Ps: you dont want traditional institutions to exist so its just state.

Your analogy of the Igbo Igwe and Catholic pope does does not correlate with mine. The Igwe title is traditional and an Igbo man even though he becomes a muslim, a hindu or a buddhist, he still remains Igwe and rules over the 99% Christian Igbo masses. A northern muslim man who becomes a christian cannot become an Emir of a place that is even predominantly christian! If u fail to get this comparison and gross anomaly, then I think I give up !

Zuru or Bura people may not be able to change their religious traditional institutions because they live in states where the population is predominantly muslim and in support of this injustice. Southern Kaduna and Sayawa people of southern Bauchi were only able to break out of emirates and get their chiefdoms because they had very bloody riots and crisis with the Hausa muslims, otherwise, nothing would have happened about it till now.

If Kano state govt alone fights almajiranci, all the almajiris will simply relocate to the neighbouring states. Watch how opposition politicians in the state will start using support of almajiranci to gain massive votes and political support till the incumbency out of fear gives in.
Watch how religious leaders brainwash the masses in labelling the governor an infidel for fighting an islamic practice. See pls, have u ever lived in the north? Let me know who I'm talking with about this issue pls.
It will take a strong coalition of all political, traditional & religious leaders and many others before certain practices can be abolished in the core-north, one man cannot do it, no matter who he is, not even the Sultan alone!