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Ghostwon82:
Actually cultism was invented by the Yoruba, not by us.
And cultists are actually a very few people in our society whom we are dealing with by helping law enforcement, on the other hand you ijo are all pirates, it is your ancestral tradition. Your mindset is wired like that. Criminality is your religion.

no self defence is the Ijaw religion..

but did you just said you people are dealin with cultism in benin? Can cultist stopped cultist from cultist activities? What an hilarious joke!

Ghostwon82:
There have been "Fulani herdsmen" attacks in our lands, and there have been ijo attacks in our lands that includes Gele Gele. The f"ulanis herdsmen" have been removed , the ijo are still on our lands. I guess you think you are in competition with each other and I am supposed to speak kindly of you because you kill less according to you.
Why am I even talking to you uneducated criminal minded people ?

gelegelegbene is an Ijaw community, stopped typin rubbishes your ignorant elders tell you

AdakaBoro8:
gelegelegbene is an Ijaw community, stopped typin rubbishes your ignorant elders tell you

Everybody in Nigeria and outside Nigeria knows Gele Gele is part of Benin. Even Europeans have records of Benin ownership of Gele Gele. It is only ijo and their "we have our own rules"/"we have our own reality" which claim Gele Gele is "ijo land".
A court of law has already settled the matter, but guess what so long it doesn't say what ijo want, ijo don't care...
Like I said, criminality is your ijo religion.

Captain8:
what did you smoke?

That is the truth.Ijaw start and end in Bayelsa state just as Igbo start and end in Southeast abi no be so?

RestructureNig5:
Zombie, there are Ijaw in Ondo, Edo, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa and AkwaIbom States.

Olukwu na truth I dey tell you so stop the land grab.
Ijaw start and end in Bayelsa state just as Igbo start and end in Southeast abi no be so?

Ghostwon82:
Everybody in Nigeria and outside Nigeria knows Gele Gele is part of Benin. Even Europeans have records of Benin ownership of Gele Gele. It is only ijo and their "we have our own rules"/"we gave our own reality" which claim Gele Gele is "ijo land".
A court of law has already settled the matter, but guess what si long it doesn't say what ijo want, ijo don't care...
Like I said, criminality is your ijo religion.

how on earth one have to say ,gelegelegbene, an Ijaw community belong to someone else? Are you ok, this guy?

besides, which mumu court declared it? see reason why we dont recognised court.

Ojiofor:
Olukwu na truth I dey tell you so stop the land grab.
Ijaw start and end in Bayelsa state just as Igbo start and end in Southeast abi no be so?

Stupid Muhammedian
This is the map of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria

Igbo land and Ijaw land is beyond the political creation of States. I'm not Ijaw, I'm from Imo State.

AdakaBoro8:
how on earth one have to say ,gelegelegbene, an Ijaw community belong to someone else? Are you ok, this guy?

besides, which mumu court declared it? see reason why we dont recognised court.

Are you this daft ?
Is China town part of China or part of the USA ?
You do understand that if you own a house in the UK, that house wouldn't be considered as a part of Nigeria, do you ? It is still a part of the UK !
You know Igbos have communities in Kano, right ? Is the land on which they established themselves part of igboland ? The answer is no !
I don't blame you, most ijo are ill educated and your tradition is basic criminality, so you reason like this: "you let me stay in a room of your house, therefore I own your house and now you pay me rent"

RestructureNig5:
Stupid Muhammedian
This is the map of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria

Igbo land and Ijaw land is beyond the political creation of States. I'm not Ijaw, I'm from Imo State.

And you brought a map made by a computer to prove your precolonial claims ?
And what does Igbo have to do with ijo ? Why the linkage ?

Ojiofor:
That is the truth.Ijaw start and end in Bayelsa state just as Igbo start and end in Southeast abi no be so?

You this Fulani man bearing Igbo name and always attack Igbo people here.

Igbo land is beyond south east.

RestructureNig5:
Stupid Muhammedian
This is the map of ethnic nationalities in Nigeria

Igbo land and Ijaw land is beyond the political creation of States. I'm not Ijaw, I'm from Imo State.

You have no business responding to my comment if you are not one those that claim Igboland start and end in 5 SE states but you are too dull to understand..

Ghostwon82:
Are you this daft ?
Is China town part of China or part of the USA ?
You do understand that if you own a house in the UK, that house wouldn't be considered as a part of Nigeria, do you ? It is still a part of the UK !
You know Igbos have communities in Kano, right ? Is the land on which they established themselves part of igboland ? The answer is no !
I don't blame you, most ijo are ill educated and your tradition is basic criminality, so you reason like this: "you let me stay in a room of your house, therefore I own your house and now you pay me rent"

guy, i dont what Ijo did to you....
but as for gele gelegbene, keep off.. Ijaw nation has lost enough lands, so we will no longer lost land again to any body, not even international court can do it.

you this cultist, please have some respect for the Ijaw nation.

Ghostwon82:
And you brought a map made by a computer to prove your precolonial claims ?
And what does Igbo have to do with ijo ? Why the linkage ?

I was replying ojiọfọ

Ojiofor:
That is the truth.Ijaw start and end in Bayelsa state just as Igbo start and end in Southeast abi no be so?

mumu..
Izon nation spread the entire south, from akwa ibom in eastern to ondo western...

as for ibo. igbo nation only in the south east.

AdakaBoro8:
mumu..
Izon nation spread the entire south, from akwa ibom in eastern to ondo western...

as for ibo. igbo nation only in the south east.

This troll I doubt your ethnicity however Ijaw land is just few local governments in Bayelsa state thats all.

Ojiofor:
This troll I doubt your ethnicity however Ijaw land is just few local governments in Bayelsa state thats all.

but, i am not from bayelsa na.

tell me one ibo community outside south east?
is okowa, an ibo man?
is wike, an ibo man?

Igbos are not larger than Ijaws in population

AdakaBoro8:
but, i am not from bayelsa na.

tell me one ibo community outside south east?
is okowa, an ibo man?
is wike, an ibo man?

I am not going into any stupid argument with you.
Ifeanyichukwu Okowa from Owa is a Fulani man.

Hatred everywhere in Nigeria e no go better for lugard.

Goodmarlian:
Hatred everywhere in Nigeria e no go better for lugard.

Stating facts is not an act of hatred. So on my part, I have done no act of hatred.

Ojiofor:
I am not going into any stupid argument with you.
Ifeanyichukwu Okowa from Owa is a Fulani man.

okowa, atiku runnin mate never said he was or been runnin mate with an ibo slot...

Goodmarlian:
Hatred everywhere in Nigeria e no go better for lugard.

amen

Captain8:
**EGBEMA THE SINGLE LARGEST IJAW CLAN OUT OF THE 86*
*



*HISTORY OF EGBEMA KINGDOM*



The ancient Kingdom of Egbema is politically split into Edo and Delta States of Nigeria. Egbema Kingdom is bounded on the north by the Olodiama of Edo State and the Itsekiri of Delta State, west by the Arogbo Kingdom of Ondo State, east by Gbaramatu Kingdom and the Itsekiri of Delta State and South by the Ilaje of Ondo State and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Egbema people are the most likely Ijo sub-group to which the allegation of Ijo piracy on the Benin River could have been made. The only other sub-group with access to the Benin River are the Gbaramatu.

Egbema traditions, in fact, give indirect evidence of their predatory activities in the region of the Benin River. While they refer to the Oba of Benin as Ugbo Pere (lord of the hinter lands), the priest king of Egbema was Bini Pere (lord of Waters). Apart from cultural and other relations with other Ijo groups, therefore, Egbema history was affected by relations with the Benin Empire to the North, and with the Itsekiri to the south and with white traders in slaves on Benin river and its estuaries.

The dual relationship with the Edo and the Itsekiri is now reflected in the demarcation of the Egbema into the administrative areas of the Benin Division and Warri Division.

Origin and Settlement:
According to Pere G.O.E Tiemo, The AGADAGBA OF EGBEMA KINGDOM BINI PERE III (2006), there are nine traditional towns in Egbema known as Egbema Isenabiri, namely – Ofiniama, Ajakurama, Abere, Gbeuba, Bolou Jamagie/Abadigbene, Opuama/Polobubo, Ogbinbiri, Ogbudugbudu and Tu-Jamagie. In addition there are over Three hundred and fifty villages and hamlets. The people are fishermen, hunters, canoe builders, distillers of local gin and farmers.

Alagoa (1972) states that the earliest settlement of Ofiniama was founded by two traders Alopomini and Opiti from the Mein town of Gbekebo (patrilineal) in the Western Delta. They used to stop at the site to shoot birds (ofini) for food on their way to Ukuroama, Iko, Eko or Lagos.

The founders of Ajakurama, Gbeoba, Abere and Opuama/Polobubo first lived at Ofiniama for some time before they settled in their present site. The fifth settlement, Gbolukangan, was founded by settlers from Gbeoba. A new group of immigrants came from Operemo in the Western Delta and founded the settlement of Jamagie. The founders of Opuama, Ogbudugbudu and Ogbinbiri were also migrants from the Western Delta – apparently from Amatu in Iduwini ibe. The only unifying force in Egbema tradition was the common worship of Egbesu (Alagoa 1972:42-46).

Egbesu was the symbol of the unity of all Egbema and the Pere served as the human embodiment of that unity. But the very importance of Egbesu resulted in disputes over the control of the shrine and over the priesthood. Such disputes were avoided among sub-groups with traditions of common origin, where there was a recognised seniority among the towns, and within the town founded by the common ancestor, the lineage of that ancestor would be accorded right to the priesthood.

In Egbema, Ofiniama acquired de facto primacy as the most ancient settlement. But the founders of Ofiniama (Alopomini and Opiti) were never priests of Egbesu. Even the shrine, said to have been originally sited at Ofiniama is now at Ajakoroama.

According to the Pere Obula, the original location of Egbesu in Egbema was Bolou-Jamagie from where it was removed, first to Ogun-Ode at Ofiniama and finally to Ajakuroma. It was never “stolen” but carried to these places by agreement of all Egbema because of threats by first Olomu of the Itsekiri and later of his son Nana, to steal Egbesu and wage war against the Egbema.

The Egbema people collaborated in the installation of a Pere. Ofiniama put the sacred chalk on the new Pere (tori pu), the chief of Ogboinbiri served the wine (wuru tua) and the closest to the Pere. This need for a wide consensus must have helped to produce long periods without a Pere. It may be noted that the national god of the Mein (from whose territory Ofiniama was founded) is Mein Dirimegbeya, and not Egbesu, and that it is at Ekeremo of the Operemo from where Jamagie migrated that an Egbesu is to be found. These facts suggest that the Egbema may represent a case where political power and ritual authority were separated. That is, that although the temporal rulers of Ofiniama and its related settlements held political power, the source of spiritual authority appears to have come originally from elsewhere; although the ritual centre was eventually moved to Ajakoroama, an offshoot of Ofiniama (Alagoa 1972).

Trade and External Relations:
Egbema traditions give prominence to trade and contact with neighbouring groups and even the traditions of origin characterise the founders of Ofiniama as traders to Ukuroama or Iko. Ofiniama, like Arogbo, is situated on the modern route from the Western and Eastern Delta to Lagos. The traditions names two commodities used by the Ofiniama in this trade, namely camwood (Isele) and big canoes. Egbema traditions recorded at Ofiniama speak of early contact with Benin. Inabiri, son of Opiti, one of the founding fathers, was already a rich slave, owner when contact was establish with Benin. It was slaves of Inabiri called Okitia, who met some men from Udo.
According to Chief Pius Ikpi, the people of Ofunama through Inabiri made a live covenant with the people of Udo under a tree along the road at present day Arakhuan near UDO as confirmed by the Iyase of Udo in recent times.
That forms the basis for which Inabiri’s men made friends with the men of Udo, and soon Inabiri himself went by way of Udo to Benin where the reigning Oba gave him medicine that helped him get his first child. The road through Udo was closed, for some unknown reason, but a second route to Benin was opened in the life time of Inabiri. A third road through Ikusanghan in Olodiama became the normal route until the colonial period. This third route is to be identified with the road referred to by the records of European visitors.

The people of Egbema claim to have dealt directly with the White traders on the coast and to have supplied Edo traders with foreign goods (cannons, guns, matchets, coral beads). Egbema traditions refer to sailing ships bringing goods to them on the coast, but refer the crew men as dark white men (Dirimo Bekewei), thus implying mulattoes or people of mixed white and black ancestry, but apparently Sierra Leonians or Liberians.

Egbema claims to pre-eminence on the coast and on the Benin River support Itsekiri (and European) reference to Ijo interference with their trade in this area. Traditions of the Egbema in the Benin River area do, in fact, contain accounts of wars and treaties with Itsekiri settlements such as Jakpa, Itebu and others.

Chronology:
Egbema king lists and genealogies do not take their traditions beyond the early eighteen century, but elements in their traditions refer to earlier times.
The official accounts recorded by Alagoa (1972), for example, gave the name of the Oba who administered medicine to Inabiri as EKaladeran, the son of Ogiso. Benin tradition gives the name of the son of the last Ogiso ruler Benin variously as Ekaladerhan and Kaladerhan. These Benin traditions say Ekeladerhan never became Oba, but was exiled South to found the town of Ughoton or Gwato. In any case, the date of about 1170 at which the Ogiso dynasty gave place to the current dynasty is rather thesame period for the Ijo migrations to this corner of the Niger Delta. Other Egbema privately give the amen of the Oba who made medicine for Inabiri as Eware. If this name is identified as Oba Ewuare the Great, who was also a maker of charms and magic according to Benin tradition, it would give us a date for Egbema migrations in the late fifteenth century. It may be noted in addition, that the route to Benin through Ughoton (Kadaderhan’s town) was the last known of the Egbema, and since the Egbema claim to have supplied European goods to the Edo, this must refer to a period after the European factories at Ughoton were removed to locations in the Delta in the mid-seventeenth century. Accordingly, we may date Egebma settlement of the Western Delta limit between the end of the fifteenth and middle of the seventeenth century (Alagoa 1972).

Accounts of early European (Portuguese) trade with some Egbema villages like Arbo, Uloli and Boededoe (Benidodogha or Beninidodoa) provide a basis for claims to Egbema settlement prior to the seventeenth century. Contemporary historians have noted that there were several pirates attacks on Europeans in the course of their expeditions obviously owing to their relationship with the Itsekiris. One of such cases was exemplified in show of solidarity during the capture of Nana to the Gold coast immediately after the deportation of Oba Ovoranmwen from Benin through Gelegele waterside to Calabar. It is on records that the British colonialists took permission by way of right of passage on the water ways so as to avoid confrontations along the Benin river. The port at Binidodogha corrupted to read Binidodoe was under the command of Toni of Binidodo.

Extract from the book: “The Izon of the Niger Delta” Chapter 18 – by E.J Alagoa, E.A Kowei, B.J Owei, J.B Dunu and Chief Pius Ikpi.

Until very recently we Yorubas know the existence of a sub ethnic group called Ijaw, or Ijo. They've always been known in Yorubaland as depe.

AdakaBoro8:
okowa, atiku runnin mate never said he was or been runnin mate with an ibo slot...

You are not making any sense.

Captain8:
Egbema is a father Kingdom that even gave birth to the Egbema in imo and rivers state.

do you think Egbema is a today kingdom?

The Egbema kingdom predate the entire Igbo ethnicity..
Egbema kingdom predate the benin kingdom.

Egbema kingdom has gave birth many kingdoms, such as the Egbema of river and imo state.

Egbema kingdom population is more than the population of the benin kingdom.

Ask itshekiri people, the will tell you about Egbema...

I stopped being angry at such absurd claims long ago when I realize how misformed and unintelligent the minds of a large section of nairaland’s population is.
Seun and his mods are doing a good job of producing a large population of biased ,tribalistic and mentally handicapped individuals for their paymaster’s to ensure the continued bondage of this nation

Ojiofor:
You are not making any sense.

oya go tell dem say dem bet ibo na,,weda dem nor go kil u..

ImperialYoruba:
Until very recently we Yorubas know the existence of a sub ethnic group called Ijaw, or Ijo. They've always been known in Yorubaland as depe.

you must be dumb to say that,.. Yoruba came from IJAW.
Why will a son forgot his father.
all yorubas are Ijaw

AdakaBoro8:
oya go tell dem say dem bet ibo na,,weda dem nor go kil u..

You rather tell Ifeanyi Okowa and Atiku that his VP candidate is not Igbo as he often claims.
I have no argument with you rather argue with Okwa and Atiku who said he is Igbo.

Ojiofor:
You rather tell Ifeanyi Okowa and Atiku that his VP candidate is not Igbo as he often claims.
I have no argument with you rather argue with Okwa and Atiku who said he is Igbo.

You let the uneducated ijo distract you from the topic.
Controle your emotions and always be on topic.
When people know they are losing the argument, they start trying to go off topic and change the debate.