Read the amazing historical facts about the Four Warri Kingdoms in Delta State...by Ejiro Imuere

Fact: 1) The Olu of Iwerre was crowned in Ode Itsekiri and not in Warri city that is Popular to everyone.

2) The people of Enerhen Junction, OKERE Urhobo, Ekurede Urhobo, Igbudu, Agbassa, Ogunu, Edjeba, Okumagba avenue, McDermott, Deco road, Bazunu, did not take part in the celebration, there was nothing to show in these areas that a king was being Crowned for them.

And these areas constitute the heartbeat or live wire of Modern Warri metropolis.

3) This is because these people are not Itsekiris and have their own kings.

4) All Itsekiri kings from 1485 to 1952 are usually crowned and rule the Itsekiri people from ode Itsekiri. There was only one Palace for the Itsekiri people from 1485 to 1952.

5) That in the year 1952, the then Olu of Itsekiri Erejuwa II, decided to have another Palace, a Political Palace in WARRI CITY.

6) Consequently the Original Traditional Palace remained in Ode Itsekiri, but the new Political Palace was built in ugborin area of Warri.

7) But before he built this new Palace he squatted in a leased land given to him by the Awani family.

. Later on to entrench his hold on this Warri city he, and his Iyasere Chief Alfred Rewane, Leased lands from the Okumagba family of Okere Urhobo to build a Town Hall for the Itsekiri people. This was the Itsekiri sociocultural cooperative building . This happened in 1961

9) It was this Leasing of a land from a non Itsekiri an Urhobo family by a King that flawed his claims as having Overlordship title to all lands in Warri city. This was used as evidence against him in the Supreme Court in 1974 and he lost.

10) Now let us Understand one thing that WARRI CITY, did not exist before 1908.

11) Before 1908, the only Place known as Warri was Ode Itsekiri, or Iwerre land.

12) So any ancient document before 1908 referring to Warri is only and Only Ode Itsekiri... nothing more

13 ) But in 1908 the British wanted to build a new city for Colonial purposes and the lands of ode Itsekiri ( Original WARRI) was too small, so it deliberately extended the size to other adjoining towns and Villages.

14) Some of these Surrounding Towns and Villages are Agbassa, Okere, Igbudu, Alders Town, and Ogbe Ijoh.

15) But unfortunately the Itsekiris do not own many of these Towns and Villages as they belong to other Ethnic groups.

16) This is similar to Lagos Govt being extended to Ikeja, Oshodi, Ojota, Ajah, Epe, that have their own Obas yet they are now called Lagos.

17) Similar to Asaba capital of Delta state being extended to Okwe, Okpanam and Ibusa.

18) Similar to ABUJA being extended to Gwagwalada, Kuje, Zuba, Bwari, Asokoro, Maitama, e.t.c yet being called ABUJA.

18) Unfortunately these people that the name Warri became extended to do not Practice Monarchy from Ancient times, they were a Republican people, they had no King.

19) By imposing the name Warri on their settlements caused a lot of Problems for them.

20) So in 1908, 2 Warri came into existence, the Original or Traditional Warri called Ode Itsekiri in the Riverine and the Political Warri a modern city that has form a cornubation of other Towns today.

21) The Itsekiris themselves, coined a term after this event took place for ode Itsekiri and started calling it "Big Warri" to differentiate it from Modern Warri city.

22) So today Big Warri refers to Ode Itsekiri, a term which came into existence only after 1908.

23) In 1936 after 88 years of Interregnum the Itsekiris wanted to Crown an Olu again for themselves as the Olu of Warri.

24) But the Urhobos whose lands the Political Warri had been extended to protested claiming that the Word Warri now had a meaning beyond the Itsekiris as the identities of these Urhobos will be Subsumed as being subservient to the Olu if Warri is used that with the Present reality the most accurate Title ought to be Olu of Itsekiri.

25) The British accepted the Urhobo argument and Crowned Emiko as GINUWA II as the Olu of Itsekiri instead of the Olu of Warri.

26) But the Itsekiris never wanted that title from day one, they preferred the Title Olu of Warri because according to them the word Warri is a corruption of the word Iwerre.

27) The British tired of the numerous Petitions from the Olu gave a final solution..."we will crown you as the Olu of Iwerre, since Iwerre is your original rendering" Warri is our own creation. Warri means a different thing to us. It means a Province, a District and a city composing of many tribes and to you it is a corruption of the word Iwerre , we will not give you a corrupted version, we will give you the real version.

28) But the Itsekiris also refused that offer.

29) I align with the British hence in all my writings I refer to him as the Olu of Iwerre.

30) But in 1952, the British handed the regions to the locals Awolowo was Premier of Western region and for Political reasons, he changed the title from Olu of Itsekiri to Olu of Warri.

31) With this a second Palace was built in Warri city.

32) Following this a deliberate policy was put in place to Subsume the identies of the other ABORIGINAL tribes of Warri city, and this led to a lot of riots and Ethnic based Wars.

33) Various Commission of inquiries were set up to address these crisis.

34 ) To finally solve this Problem edict no 1 of 1997 was set up to create 3 additional kings for the Other tribes that constitute modern Warri city. This was done by Wing commander Walter Feghabo.

35) This Edict Gazetted 3 more kings for Warri city.

Urhobos were give 2 of this kings and Ijaw one. The Urhobo kings are 1) Ovie of Agbarha Kingdom in Warri city. 2) Ovie of OKERE Urhobo kingdom in WARRI CITY.

36) These kings had since be crowned and they now rule over their lands and People in Warri city.

37) Infact their territory constitute over 70% of the total land mass of Warri city.

38). But because their Kingdoms are of a recent origin they are still not known to many in the outside world. It is left to the Urhobo people to market their own kings in Warri city, because the Urhobos form the bulk of People marketing and advertising Warri to the outside World.

39) But alternatively since the Itsekiris have rejected the Title Olu of Itsekiri in other to claim Warri city, the Urhobos of Modern WARRI CITY and Cornubation, can change the name of their Areas to another name entirely instead of trying to identify with Warri or Iwerre. If We add Agbassa, OKERE Urhobo, Ekurede Urhobo, Igbudu, Edjeba Okumagba avenue, Enerhen Junction, McDermott, Deco road, Bazunu, Ogunu to Udu road, Ovwian, Orhuwhorun, Effurun, Ekpan, Jeddo and Osubi to form a new city a mega city called for Example MOWOE CITY in honor of that founding Urhobo hero, the word Warri would go into oblivion 50 years from now on

Get out with your bias history.
We now know better! Illiteracy kill all you haters of peace. You claim to have history and no document or proof to back it up. How foolish you sound.
Answer these few questions
How old is the oldest kingdom Warri that is not the Itsekiris?
When was the first king aside the Itsekiris crowned?
If the history of the Urhobos of Warri is not to cause chaos in the ever booming warri then why are there three kingdoms from the Urhobo extraction of Warri?
Can you see how stupid you guys are?
Finally please, which of your so called Orosuen or Ovie of Warri extraction can boldly claim to be the king of Warri?
I am not Itsekiri neither am I Urhobo but I do documentaries and if you make me angry I will saturate this thread of yours that will make you abandon it.
The new Warri King has been putting every thing in place to ensure that all the tribes of Warri and it's environs are in peaceful accord but some few haters of peace don't want to rest.
There is no part of Warri that is developing as it ought to, like seriously, if you are not a Keke rider you are a Yahoo boy to survive the harsh economy of Warri yet some of you don't want to rest.

This both kingdom are Edoid we shouldn’t fight each other all we should try to do now is to unites as one like it was before and bring back the Benin empire

Felimax:
Get out with your bias history.
We now know better! Illiteracy kill all you haters of peace. You claim to have history and no document or proof to back it up. How foolish you sound.
Answer these few questions
How old is the oldest kingdom Warri that is not the Itsekiris?
When was the first king aside the Itsekiris crowned?
If the history of the Urhobos of Warri is not to cause chaos in the ever booming warri then why are there three kingdoms from the Urhobo extraction of Warri?
Can you see how stupid you guys are?
Finally please, which of your so called Orosuen or Ovie of Warri extraction can boldly claim to be the king of Warri?
I am not Itsekiri neither am I Urhobo but I do documentaries and if you make me angry I will saturate this thread of yours that will make you abandon it.
The new Warri King has been putting every thing in place to ensure that all the tribes of Warri and it's environs are in peaceful accord but some few haters of peace don't want to rest.
There is no part of Warri that is developing as it ought to, like seriously, if you are not a Keke rider you are a Yahoo boy to survive the harsh economy of Warri yet some of you don't want to rest.

You demonic jakri man!!......you can never be urhobo.
If y'all want peace, y'all would have to leave our warri and go back to your benin river outpost.
You think we've forgotten your alliance with the Portuguese to enslave us... bloody bastards!!.

Jameseddi1:
This both kingdom are Edoid we shouldn’t fight each other all we should try to do now is to unites as one like it was before and bring back the Benin empire

Urhobo people are not edoid.... we descend from the exiles of the kingdom of oghene raided by your cursed oba with the aid of the Portuguese. Be warned!!

Naphtali44:

You demonic jakri man!!......you can never be urhobo.
If y'all want peace, y'all would have to leave our warri and go back to your benin river outpost.
You think we've forgotten your alliance with the Portuguese to enslave us... bloody bastards!!.

In your dreams! You think everyone is at the same level with your thinking ability?
Can't you use your brain for once?
You claim to own Warri and non of your so called king could claim to be the Ovie of Warri.
If Warri is your own why then do you want to change your enclave to Wado city?
Oh I forgot your history started from 1908! Very funny people!
Go to Agbassa the real families that makes up the community has Itsekiri family name not even the Okumagba enclave is left out from this fact. I can start naming the ones I know who are typical indigenes of the Otowvodo community.
Oga, don't be a scum tell us the real history of your tribe in Warri, you cannot twist history to salvage your level of illiteracy.
Take note again I am both a great friend of the Urhobos and Itsekiri at Lagos my friends of Warri will not sleep in anywhere else except my house. Then we live together as wafarians. I am neither an Urhobo or Itsekiri.
We must have peace in Warri.

Naphtali44:

Urhobo people are not edoid.... we descend from the exiles of the kingdom of oghene raided by your cursed oba with the aid of the Portuguese. Be warned!!

And Oghene is old Benin word it originated from Edo

Benin are also decend from Oghene bro.

Ughobo are classified under Edoid language.

Beni understand Uhobo language more than some esan language.

Oghene is God in both language bro.

You deny Benin root because of British division you denying your king because all your kings are Benin royal house decend.

Felimax:

In your dreams! You think everyone is at the same level with your thinking ability?
Can't you use your brain for once?
You claim to own Warri and non of your so called king could claim to be the Ovie of Warri.
If Warri is your own why then do you want to change your enclave to Wado city?
Oh I forgot your history started from 1908! Very funny people!
Go to Agbassa the real families that makes up the community has Itsekiri family name not even the Okumagba enclave is left out from this fact. I can start naming the ones I know who are typical indigenes of the Otowvodo community.
Oga, don't be a scum tell us the real history of your tribe in Warri, you cannot twist history to salvage your level of illiteracy.
Take note again I am both a great friend of the Urhobos and Itsekiri at Lagos my friends of Warri will not sleep in anywhere else except my house. Then we live together as wafarians. I am neither an Urhobo or Itsekiri.
We must have peace in Warri.

You rabid jakri irritants will never have peace in warri until you return to your benin river outpost. As hybrid a nation as yourselves claiming a city that predates your cursed gay ancestors, the wandering benin wizard iginuwa lived and died on the banks of benin river. You own warri but you signed treaties with the British at benin river, we don't own warri but we signed treaties with the British in warri...potokri like you....noisome used pad.

Naphtali44:


You rabid jakri irritants will never have peace in warri until you return to your benin river outpost. As hybrid a nation as yourselves claiming a city that predates your cursed gay ancestors, the wandering benin wizard iginuwa lived and died on the banks of benin river. You own warri but you signed treaties with the British at benin river, we don't own warri but we signed treaties with the British in warri...potokri like you....noisome used pad.

Guy I beg take am easy nor be me give you tramadol. This thing you are smoking is affecting you.
I won't be so surprise that you are not even an indigen or occupant of Warri.
Real Wafarians love themselves beyond tribe. Somebody meeting an Urhobo through you for the first time will think that is how all of them reason but it's not true, some few ones are just so backward but the most lovely, lively people you will meet in Warri are the Urhobos.

Jameseddi1:
You deny Benin root because of British division you denying your king because all your kings are Benin royal house decend.

See mumu ....you think we are alike, but sadly we are not....benin borne of the union of ishans and yoruba invaders cannot be progenitor of a race that predates the arrival of the yoruba and ishan in the lower Niger region. You Benins destroyed our land and civilisation and then turned around to claim we descend from you. You renamed our land from the actual OBENU( meaning upland)that our ancestors called it, you stole ekor'ame( water camp) aka lagos island from us, you sacrificed our sons and daughters to the numerous demons you worship, calling us izobo(meaning sacrifice), you used a derogatory byword on us, renamed our prospering kingdom from Asa-Oghene with capital in mordern lokoja to igabo (meaning shoulder aka manservant), when you invaded it by the hand of the Portuguese.

Here this, you pigs are beyond retribution.....we must have our pound of flesh in due season.

Felimax:

Guy I beg take am easy nor be me give you tramadol. This thing you are smoking is affecting you.
I won't be so surprise that you are not even an indigen or occupant of Warri.
Real Wafarians love themselves beyond tribe. Somebody meeting an Urhobo through you for the first time will think that is how all of them reason but it's not true, some few ones are just so backward but the most lovely, lively people you will meet in Warri are the Urhobos.

Believe me....when we seize our mantle.....jakri heads like yours will roll.....we will put out your light forever. Fool!!

Jameseddi1:


And Oghene is old Benin word it originated from Edo

Benin are also decend from Oghene bro.

Ughobo are classified under Edoid language.

Beni understand Uhobo language more than some esan language.

Oghene is God in both language bro.

Not surprised.....hiding true history by flatteries.
Binis have nothing to do with oghene, the true God, you worship olokun.

The etymology of oghene goes thus...
Oghene is actually a combination of two words.....oga and ene
O(ga)-meaning strength or power(lord)
Ene-meaning four, for the four realms of existence (otor-earth, ame-water, erivwin-underworld, ojuvwu-heaven)
Our God has power/strength(oga) over the four(ene) hence "Oghene"

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Jameseddi1:
This both kingdom are Edoid we shouldn’t fight each other all we should try to do now is to unites as one like it was before and bring back the Benin empire

When did Itsekiri become Edo? Be warned!

Lmaoooooo

Funny thread responses

We (niger delta) expecially western niger delta will never unite. We keep fighting ourselves.

Naphtali44:


Not surprised.....hiding true history by flatteries.
Binis have nothing to do with oghene, the true God, you worship olokun.

The etymology of oghene goes thus...
Oghene is actually a combination of two words.....oga and ene
O(ga)-meaning strength or power(lord)
Ene-meaning four, for the four realms of existence (otor-earth, ame-water, erivwin-underworld, ojuvwu-heaven)
Our God has power/strength(oga) over the four(ene) hence "Oghene"

Benin is not what you box to a corner, everything you said here makes sense to me. Edo or Benin is actually the root of many cultures you have in your tribe. There is nothing in Urhobo culture and tradition, that is strange to me as an Edo man

You can check my previous thread, I have interpreted these things before, and those things means exact the same thing in Benin. I have suggested too that that must have been the etymology of the word Oghene. Are you aware in Benin until recently, we call God Oghene-Osa, as Edoids group, Etsako still use Oghena to this day.

We are brothers, my brother you cannot wish it away.

Olokun, Ogun, etc and others are just channels through which we can reach the true God

Naphtali44:

Urhobo people are not edoid.... we descend from the exiles of the kingdom of oghene raided by your cursed oba with the aid of the Portuguese. Be warned!!

Lol, am a bini I fin this offensive


Insulting our oba

Are you high or demented, we needed not the help of the Portuguese to put you all in your lane

The Portuguese only assisted in one of the Benin war which was with idah apart from that
The Portuguese never had any other war along with the binis they refused to sell us guns because we were pagans and feared we will use it for our pagan advantage....as a result they had to join in the Benin idah war in other not to hand 9ver their guns to the binis directly


Get your fact right you fool insulting our glorious king shows how cowardly you look, if it was in the past your full lineage and family will be wiped off by the oba of bini for such disrespect and disregard

Naphtali44:


See mumu ....you think we are alike, but sadly we are not....benin borne of the union of ishans and yoruba invaders cannot be progenitor of a race that predates the arrival of the yoruba and ishan in the lower Niger region. You Benins destroyed our land and civilisation and then turned around to claim we descend from you. You renamed our land from the actual OBENU( meaning upland)that our ancestors called it, you stole ekor'ame( water camp) aka lagos island from us, you sacrificed our sons and daughters to the numerous demons you worship, calling us izobo(meaning sacrifice), you used a derogatory byword on us, renamed our prospering kingdom from Asa-Oghene with capital in mordern lokoja to igabo (meaning shoulder aka manservant), when you invaded it by the hand of the Portuguese.

Here this, you pigs are beyond retribution.....we must have our pound of flesh in due season.

If izobo sacrifice were still allowed we benin would have had your head for it,


How you trace your origin to lokoja amazes me, I think you're on some expired shit...


Now the benins never any connection with the ife people those were false history made in the early stage of amalgamation of the new country to prosper edo and yoruba political strength

So please get your fact rights

Naphtali44:


Not surprised.....hiding true history by flatteries.
Binis have nothing to do with oghene, the true God, you worship olokun.

The etymology of oghene goes thus...
Oghene is actually a combination of two words.....oga and ene
O(ga)-meaning strength or power(lord)
Ene-meaning four, for the four realms of existence (otor-earth, ame-water, erivwin-underworld, ojuvwu-heaven)
Our God has power/strength(oga) over the four(ene) hence "Oghene"

You just spoke bini in the full etymology you gave


Every word there is a bini word

The Benin migrant population in urhobo land can never be over estimated

UGBE634:
Benin is not what you box to a corner, everything you said here makes sense to me. Edo or Benin is actually the root of many cultures you have in your tribe. There is nothing in Urhobo culture and tradition, that is strange to me as an Edo man

You can check my previous thread, I have interpreted these things before, and those things means exact the same thing in Benin. I have suggested too that that must have been the etymology of the word Oghene. Are you aware in Benin until recently, we call God Oghene-Osa, as Edoids group, Etsako still use Oghena to this day.

We are brothers, my brother you cannot wish it away.

Olokun, Ogun, etc and others are just channels through which we can reach the true God

Oghene was a powerful priest or a bini king that was very powerful at a time in benin kingdom

We are yet to conclude or know if he was a bini king but from what is written in history Oghene was a strong priest

Just like the word ohen

Like places in benin called oreghene, the spot of Oghene

Thebadpolitican:



You just spoke bini in the full etymology you gave


Every word there is a bini word

The Benin migrant population in urhobo land can never be over estimated

You're very unstable, "you just spoke benin"......is benin even a language....'benin' is a crazy combination of igala, idoma(where you guys originate from), and the indigenous efa(urhobo) language.

Thebadpolitican:



Oghene was a powerful priest or a bini king that was very powerful at a time in benin kingdom

We are yet to conclude or know if he was a bini king but from what is written in history Oghene was a strong priest

Just like the word ohen

Like places in benin called oreghene, the spot of Oghene

In as much as he was the name of a powerful king or priest according to you, which I am not so interested in, my point or what I seem to be bothered about is that, Oghene was once the name of almighty God in Benin strongly, just as it is still there there in Etsako and Urhobo today, and it was called Oghene-Osa by the Binis. It just goes to show that we are brothers

This Bini or Edo dictionary was written in the 1930s, just 90 years ago and Oghene-Osa appeared as the name of God there

Naphtali44:


You're very unstable, "you just spoke benin"......is benin even a language....'benin' is a crazy combination of igala, idoma(where you guys originate from), and the indigenous efa(urhobo) language.

Bini or the Edo language is a language my brother, the root of many Edoid language in southern Nigeria. I don't know where you get your education from but it it so strange

Thebadpolitican:



If izobo sacrifice were still allowed we benin would have had your head for it,


How you trace your origin to lokoja amazes me, I think you're on some expired shit...


Now the benins never any connection with the ife people those were false history made in the early stage of amalgamation of the new country to prosper edo and yoruba political strength

So please get your fact rights

You and your oba are a disgrace to humanity. You're bragging with mass murder and genocide. Get ready, soonest it'd be our turn to ravage y'all. Let's see how we'll you'd survive.

Thebadpolitican:



Lol, am a bini I fin this offensive


Insulting our oba

Are you high or demented, we needed not the help of the Portuguese to put you all in your lane

The Portuguese only assisted in one of the Benin war which was with idah apart from that
The Portuguese never had any other war along with the binis they refused to sell us guns because we were pagans and feared we will use it for our pagan advantage....as a result they had to join in the Benin idah war in other not to hand 9ver their guns to the binis directly


Get your fact right you fool insulting our glorious king shows how cowardly you look, if it was in the past your full lineage and family will be wiped off by the oba of bini for such disrespect and disregard

Your oba is a putrid noisome pig. Off with his head already.

Naphtali44:


Your oba is a putrid noisome pig. Off with his head already.

You need your head offered to ogun just the way we did to your useless ancestors ....

Naphtali44:


You and your oba are a disgrace to humanity. You're bragging with mass murder and genocide. Get ready, soonest it'd be our turn to ravage y'all. Let's see how we'll you'd survive.

You call it mass murder, that is a foreign term we were simplying practicing our culture

Your fathers just like you lacked respect that's
Why we used them as livestock to our God's

Go and learn how to speak to your king oba of Benin correctly Good day

Thebadpolitican:



You need your head offered to ogun just the way we did to your useless ancestors ....

Soon it will be our turn to repay u, and believe me, we'd kill every useless benin invader. Starting with your wizard oba. The urhobo will once again occupy our homeland. All our coast will be restored, from cape St Paul to bonny. Believe that.

Thebadpolitican:



You call it mass murder, that is a foreign term we were simplying practicing our culture

Your fathers just like you lacked respect that's
Why we used them as livestock to our God's

Go and learn how to speak to your king oba of Benin correctly Good day

We also will practice our culture of vengeance soonest. Just mark today, body go tell all of una. Anybody when use us serve juju, we go destroy una totally. For your info, these are tribes involved in the genocide of urhobo people and they all are marked for extermination. Benin(expecially), yoruba, ogu, ijebu, fon, aja, ewe, igala, ishan, western igbo etc.
Just watch how Jesus go fight for us.

Naphtali44:


Soon it will be our turn to repay u, and believe me, we'd kill every useless benin invader. Starting with your wizard oba. The urhobo will once again occupy our homeland. All our coast will be restored, from cape St Paul to bonny. Believe that.

You are full of dump shit


Even the mighty British couldn't end the bini people even with their maxim weapon

Then a tribe full of drunkard is who we will fear edo spring up admist of a torn kingdom ravaged by war caused by the British and here we are still waxing strong, something should tell you we edos can't be overrun


Go and drink your ogogoro and wash your teeth with a chewing stick an a wrapper on your waist that's all you people know how to do best sit and allow your women work themselves out

Presently is yahoo and ritualism....



Don't forget majority of deltans are in edo especially urhobos compare to the population of edo in delta state



Your tribe is for ever cursed, when you are done fighting the ownership of Warri then you can think of coming down to benin to resettle and bow to a king....