ThinkSmarter:
www-nairaland-.com/ekealterego?iorg_service_id_internal=1646953538912597">https://https-www-nairaland-.com/ekealterego?iorg_service_id_internal=1646953538912597%3BAfoK5jMsomMhKR3B Please ekealterego come and settle this fight.
Is Ijaw and Epie same ethnic group?

DitariDisciple2:


Settle what
Your iliteracy didn't show u that this guy is a frustrated person because Ijaw rejected Biafra.
Epie is Ijaw and stop being stupid.
We are not like Ibo that claim people online nd not physical as u are a dead body, u didn't see those maps posted shey?
I hate to talk to fools.

aperture11:
Ogun State

Since you want to break it down like that using dialect. Ogun State is probably more diverse. These main divisions also have subdivisions and a lot of towns:

Egba
Yewa
Ijebu
Remo
Awori

ThinkSmarter:
U obviously don't know what you are saying.
Epie and Attisa, the major ethnic group inhabiting Yenegoa, the state capital are not Ijaws.
Epie Towns include Igbogene, Yenezue-gene, Yenezue-Epie, Akenfa, Agudama, Opolo, Kpansia-Epie, Amarata, Azikoro Village Etc.
Ogbia, the ethnic group of Goodluck Jonathan is more related to Kalabari.
The towns of Ogbia are imiringi, otuosega, otuoke, otuabaga, Emegha1 and 2, Amakalakala, etc
Ijaws are mostly Kolokuma-Opokuma, Southern Ijaw, Brass, Sagbama, Ekeremor and maybe Nembe
Note, I have lived in Bayelsa state, I have first hand information.
Though this my information is subject to correction from an Indigent Bayelsan

DitariDisciple2:


All are dialects of Ijaw.
Bayelsa state is 873 km² bigger than Imo Nd Anambra state put together.
2006 is 15 years ago.
That's never Bayelsa population figure.
There are no Ekpeye in Bayelsa.
Bayelsa is an Homogenous Ijaw State.

Bayelsa is an Homogenous Ijaw state, they didn't travel everywhere nd count Ijaw. Only Southern Ijaw LGA have 180 towns.
Koluama district 105 Oporoma district 75.
Making 180 in Southern Ijaw.

Kinematics:
Abeg make I take chair laugh small. Ipig miscreants are having sleepless night...

DitariDisciple2:


I just disproved it.
All those are different dialects of Ijaw.

Ekealterego:
You are 100% correct!

DitariDisciple2:


Settle what
Your iliteracy didn't show u that this guy is a frustrated person because Ijaw rejected Biafra.
Epie is Ijaw and stop being stupid.
We are not like Ibo that claim people online nd not physical as u are a dead body, u didn't see those maps posted shey?
I hate to talk to fools.

ThinkSmarter:
Thank you for comig to validate my claims.

Ekealterego:
Do you know that Bayelsa is a very diverse state?

Bayelsa is a state in southern part of Nigeria, located in the core of the Niger Delta region.

Bayelsa has a population of 1.7 million according to the 2006 National population census in the 8 LGAS.

In Bayelsa, there are 3 main language groups/people or 4 depending on the classification. There are other minority groups in Bayelsa.

The 3 MAJOR languages are classified under:

1. The ijoids (South Izon/southern Ijaw, Izon etc.)

2. The Edoids (e.g Epie, Attisa, Engenni [Known as the Oguan), Urhobo, Isoko).

3. The Cross-River people (Ogbia, Abureni etc. )

4. Minorities

These are the people in Bayelsa and here is their classification and LGAs

Brass
Abureni; Cross-River language/people
Southeast Ijo; IJo
Ogbia; Cross-River language/people
Kugbo; Cross-River language/people

Ekeremor
Izon; Ijo

Kolokuma/Opokuma

Izon; Ijo

Nembe
Abureni; Cross-River people/language
Southeast Ijo; Ijo
Izon (Ijaw)

Ogbia
Abureni; Cross-River language.
Southeast Ijo;
Odual; Cross-River language
Ogbia; Cross-River language
Oruma; Ijo

Sagbama
Biseni; Ijo
Isoko; Edoid/Edo
Izon; Ijo
Ogbah; Igbo/Igboid
Okodia; inland Ijo/Ijo
Urhobo; Urhobo/Edoid/Edo

Southern Ijaw

Southeast Ijo; Ijo
Izon; Ijo

Yenagoa
Engenni; Edo/Edoid
Epie; Edo/Edoid
Izon; Ijo
Ekpeye; Igboid

Reference.
Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

Bayelsa – History & Culture – Bayelsa State Government". Retrieved on 2021-29-11 from https://bayelsastate.gov.ng/our-history/

JaroMan:

Bayelsa remains a tiny state with 8 LGA and have produced the president and vice President, yet is as good as one LGA in Kogi state.
I suggest the state be merged with Rivers since they can't offset their overhead.
Even their son that was president went there and removed clock and calendar in Aso Rock, that make him to forget how time flies and the urgency in lifting his state.
That's all I remember about Bayelsa.

DitariDisciple2:


Igbo man just go and commit suicide.
It will end your miserable life fastest.

Fejoku:

Why are you lying? How can you call entirely different languages as dialects of Ijaw? Wasn't here on nl about last week that the abual/odual people officially pulled out the IYC citing that they are a different group of people? Your IYC stated clearly in their constitution that any group doesn't need to be indigenously Ijaw before they can join them. This effectively makes IYC a franchise and not a group meant for only indigenously Ijaws.
You must stop lying before the internet is there for all to us and see the fact for what it is.
Only 4 lgas are wholly Ijaws in Bayelsa. The rest they share with other language groups namely the Cross River languages (Ogbia is the largest of them), the edoid, the Igboid and entirely different ones.
If you quote me, endeavour to present a published work from non-Ijaws to back your claims. I'll provide my own proofs from published works for all to see.
Sometimes I see you all calling Obolo people of Andoni as Ijaws. The effontery is sickening.
Obolo people share nothing with Ijaws. There origin has been traced to East of Akwa Ibom state and it reflects in the language. I have proofs to my claims and will post it if you argue my claims. The lies you guys have been feeding others over the years have come to an end.

Fejoku:

Why are you lying? How can you call entirely different languages as dialects of Ijaw? Wasn't here on nl about last week that the abual/odual people officially pulled out the IYC citing that they are a different group of people? Your IYC stated clearly in their constitution that any group doesn't need to be indigenously Ijaw before they can join them. This effectively makes IYC a franchise and not a group meant for only indigenously Ijaws.
You must stop lying before the internet is there for all to us and see the fact for what it is.
Only 4 lgas are wholly Ijaws in Bayelsa. The rest they share with other language groups namely the Cross River languages (Ogbia is the largest of them), the edoid, the Igboid and entirely different ones.
If you quote me, endeavour to present a published work from non-Ijaws to back your claims. I'll provide my own proofs from published works for all to see.
Sometimes I see you all calling Obolo people of Andoni as Ijaws. The effontery is sickening.
Obolo people share nothing with Ijaws. There origin has been traced to East of Akwa Ibom state and it reflects in the language. I have proofs to my claims and will post it if you argue my claims. The lies you guys have been feeding others over the years have come to an end.

JaroMan:

Bayelsa remains a tiny state with 8 LGA and have produced the president and vice President, yet is as good as one LGA in Kogi state.
I suggest the state be merged with Rivers since they can't offset their overhead.
Even their son that was president went there and removed clock and calendar in Aso Rock, that make him to forget how time flies and the urgency in lifting his state.
That's all I remember about Bayelsa.

OfficialAPCNig:

Why are you lying?

Epie is not Ijaw

Fejoku:

Is this map wrong on language classification?

DitariDisciple2:


Oya go and remove them from all Ijaw socia-cultural organizations they belong and force them to where u want, since Na u wan tell them their Ancestors.

OfficialAPCNig:

Epies have their own socio-cultural organization. IYC is a political youth association.

DitariDisciple2:


My Kolokuma have our own socia-cultural organizations too.
So tell me why all the Epie leaders name una mention in this post why all of them have same name with all other Ijaw areas and they named them in their Epie-Ijaw dialect.
U liar.

DitariDisciple2:


My Kolokuma have our own socia-cultural organizations too.
So tell me why all the Epie leaders name una mention why all of them have same name with all other Ijaw areas and they named them in their Epie-Ijaw dialect.
U liar.

Ekealterego:


See the answers we got O, later you will say someone is bad.

DitariDisciple2:


Created by ibos.
We Ijaws believe in physical doings not online lies write ups and pictures created by ibos.

DitariDisciple2:


My Kolokuma have our own socia-cultural organizations too.
So tell me why all the Epie leaders name una mention why all of them have same name with all other Ijaw areas and they named them in their Epie-Ijaw dialect.
U liar.

OfficialAPCNig:

You dey argue like pikin. Village association is not the same like ethnic socio-cultural group.

Most Fulanis answer Hausa or Arabic names. Are they Hausa or Arabs?

The koko is Epie is not Ijaw. I am sure of this.



The only reason you guys are dragging Epie is because of Yenagoa. It's the only inter-state road link with Bayelsa.

Again you guys need Yenagoa for una Ijaw Republic Capital.

You guys started with Port Harcourt as the capital of Niger Delta Republic, but no way.

The only hope is now Yenagoa.

DitariDisciple2:


When we made Yenagoa Bayelsa state capital it had only one secondary school nd two primary schools.
See how far we've come.
If they are not Ijaw ETETE for no put am there.

So go and die.
Nevertheless all Epie are not from one Ancestor.
They came from different Ijaw villages.

DitariDisciple2:


When we made Yenagoa Bayelsa state capital it had one secondary school nd two primary schools.
If they are not Ijaw ETETE for no put am there.

So go and die.
Nevertheless all Epie are not from one Ancestor.
They came from different Ijaw villages.

DitariDisciple2:


When we made Yenagoa Bayelsa state capital it had one secondary school nd two primary schools.
If they are not Ijaw ETETE for no put am there.

So go and die.
Nevertheless all Epie are not from one Ancestor.
They came from different Ijaw villages.

OfficialAPCNig:

Yenagoa is the mainland. So you can't possibly make creek a state capital.

Again, we knew who made Yenagoa the capital of Bayelsa.





Epies are not IJAW

Nembe are not IJAW

Ogbia are not IJAW