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Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 10:32am On Jul 14, 2024
biaframaster200:
IpOB is also an ethnic group
Same as Amotekun, ACF, Afenifere and OPC.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tellmeastory(op): 10:33am On Jul 14, 2024
These lesser known ethnic groups are so overlooked by the rest of us.

They each have their own unique cultural attire, cuisine, and ancient history often dating back to thousands of years.

Tiv traditional wear is always the black and white stripes.

Once you see that, you know it is Tiv people.

https://cdn.legit.ng/images/1120/vllkyt3c4aa9avk5f.jpeg

https://fab.ng/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tiv-people.jpg
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by DarkLover: 10:35am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
Ekiti people don't speak Yoruba language, they have a different dialect which makes other Yoruba's avoid them.

They can be considered an ethnic group on their own to avoid the insults.
You know very little of what you're speaking of.

Op asked us to name other ethnic groups aside from the ‘big 3’ and you're here naming Ekiti😃

Each Yoruba state has its local dialect, a slight variation of the general Yoruba language, go to Akure, they speak what you’ll call Ekiti, the same as Ilesha in Osun state, and even in the Ekiti, many towns have their local dialect that easily tells off where such a person comes from in the state once they speak.

Ekiti is a dialect of Yoruba language and not a tribe. We are all Yoruba.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by HilcomTech(m): 10:42am On Jul 14, 2024
Tellmeastory:
A casual visitor to this forum will easily assume that there are only 3 ethnic groups in Nigeria -Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.

Nobody ever talks about the other 297 ethnic groups in the country, many of whom number millions of people.

The ones I can name without Google are:

Itsekiri
Urhobo
Efik
Annang
Ogoni
Berom
Mwaghavul
Shanga
Kanuri
Tiv
Edo

Just 11 out of 297!

Quite poor, I must say!

Please name the ones you know. Without Google please!
Igbos are a minority
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by DarkLover: 10:43am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
Its a fact. Ekiti people have severally asked for a separate ethnic group because other Yoruba's are embarrassing them. Ekiti should be a tribe on its own.
I thought your submissions were genuine.

But now I see that they were borne of tribalism & hatred, you're a troll looking for cheap attention, going forward I’ll avoid you.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 10:47am On Jul 14, 2024
DarkLover:
I thought your submissions were genuine.

But now I see that they were borne of tribalism & hatred, you're a troll looking for cheap attention, going forward I’ll avoid you.
grin grin

Your brothers started this mud slinging, now you're crying about my response grin

If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 10:49am On Jul 14, 2024
DarkLover:
You know very little of what you're speaking of.

Op asked us to name other ethnic groups aside from the ‘big 3’ and you're here naming Ekiti😃

Each Yoruba state has its local dialect, a slight variation of the general Yoruba language, go to Akure, they speak what you’ll call Ekiti, the same as Ilesha in Osun state, and even in the Ekiti, many towns have their local dialect that easily tells off where such a person comes from in the state once they speak.

Ekiti is a dialect of Yoruba language and not a tribe. We are all Yoruba.
It's a lie.

Ekiti is a tribe on its own. They don't have any relationship with the great Yoruba tribe, Ekiti people came from Dahomey while Ife people came from Abakaliki. grin

That's final.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Paraman: 10:52am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
I know about the Aworis, they have warned Yoruba people to stop doing attachee by force on them. Do you know that the rest of Yoruba states invaded and conquered the awori in their own Lagos?
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Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tellmeastory(op): 10:54am On Jul 14, 2024
Paraman:
I don't know about the Aworis.

But you see the Ikwerres, Ikas, Igbankes Ukwanis and Olukunmis are the ethnic group I know in Nigeria apart from Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa
Only 5 you know?

That’s shameful, Mr Man.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Paraman: 10:56am On Jul 14, 2024
DevilsEqual:
I saw what u did there

U no dey amalgamate any group with another

You respect and recognize independent ethnic groups

God bless u my bro cheesy cheesy cheesy
Amen my bro cheesy

Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by nairalanda1(m): 10:57am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
Its a fact. Ekiti people have severally asked for a separate ethnic group because other Yoruba's are embarrassing them. Ekiti should be a tribe on its own.
Part of the problem is in my opinion the whole language vs dialect issue.

Like now, there are many small tribes in the North who are considered Hausa, and yet some of them are really not Hausa.

Ditto Efik, ibibio and annang and eket. Are they separate or one tribal group?

It even extends beyond Nigeria. The UK speaks English which is not a native tongue of those islands,but a dialect of what is now German that has gotten so corrupted it is a different language. If one went to the UK in the time of Christ, the number of languages and dialects from the south to the Scottish border would shock you. Even now, a Welsh guy cannot understand a Scottish and or Irish guy in their native tongues and they all speak Celtic languages self.

Mainland Europe is even worse. The Americas before the whites came self...
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tellmeastory(op): 10:58am On Jul 14, 2024
Tranquillity360:
1.Ife

2. Ijebus

3. Aworis

4. Ilajes

5. Ijaws

6. Binis

7.Ibolo

8. Eguns

9. Isale Ekos

10. Egbas


11.oyos

12.Isale-Ekos



I think I tried
Mr Man, apart from 1 or 2 groups, everyone you mentioned there is Yoruba people!

Which one you dey?
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tellmeastory(op): 11:01am On Jul 14, 2024
HilcomTech:
Igbos are a minority
Will you stop that nonsense, my friend.

This is not an ethnic bashing thread.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 11:01am On Jul 14, 2024
Tellmeastory:
Mr Man, apart from 1 or 2 groups, everyone you mentioned there is Yoruba people!

Which one you dey?
All he said is true. They are all tribes on their own.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tellmeastory(op): 11:23am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
All he said is true. They are all tribes on their own.
How can that be, if they all speak Yoruba?
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Verbtips(m): 11:29am On Jul 14, 2024
Birom mwaghavul tiv idoma ibibio efik ikwere ogoni fulanigrin MY HEAD WAN BURST
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tranquillity360: 11:33am On Jul 14, 2024
Tellmeastory:
Mr Man, apart from 1 or 2 groups, everyone you mentioned there is Yoruba people!

Which one you dey?
Those tribes are not Yorubas.



Stop attach by force.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tranquillity360: 11:41am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
grin grin

Your brothers started this mud slinging, now you're crying about my response grin

If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.
Those things can't take what they give others.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tranquillity360: 11:44am On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
All he said is true. They are all tribes on their own.
A man from Ijebus tribe won't understand a man from Aworis tribe when he speaks.



Respect other tribes in south west and give them their own credit.



Everyone in south west is not Yoruba.

There are more than 30 tribes in south west and over 200 in the whole Nigeria.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 11:47am On Jul 14, 2024
Tranquillity360:
A man from Ijebus tribe won't understand a man from Aworis tribe when he speaks.



Respect other tribes in south west and give them their own credit.



Everyone in south west is not Yoruba.
Its insulting, to lump everyone together just because they were in the old Western region. They were even claiming Edo before Edo people struggled free in 19 sixty something grin
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by Tranquillity360: 12:08pm On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
Its insulting, to lump everyone together just because they were in the old Western region. They were even claiming Edo before Edo people struggled free in 19 sixty something grin
That have been their way, forcing all tribes in south west as Yorubas.



If Nigeria have more than 200 tribes, where can see them,if south west are all Yorubas.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by ariesbull: 12:47pm On Jul 14, 2024
DarkLover:
Fulani, Ijaw, Jukun, Gwari, Langtang, Kwale, Ikwerre, Bini, Tiv, Igede, Igwarra, Egbira, Nupe, Bariba, Urhobo, Esan, Basa, Idoma, Gbagi, Efik

I don try😃
Ikwerre , Kwale are Igbo
Bini/Ishan are one
Igede/ Idoma are same
Urhobo/ Isoko are one
Igwarra/Ebira are one
Efik/Ibibio are one
Ijebu/Okun/Yoruba are one
Itshekiri/Benin are one
Ilaje/Ijaw are one


Stop mistaking tribes and clans for ethnic group...clans makes tribes and tribes make ethnic group
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by ariesbull: 12:49pm On Jul 14, 2024
nairalanda1:
Jukun,kuteb,ijaw, kataf, tiv, idoma, igala, Edo, urhobo, itsekiri, ibibio, Efik, annang, ekoi-yakurr, kanuri, shuwa Arab, ogorri, bassa, bariba, koma, mambilla,angas, birom, gwari/gbagyi, igbirra/ebira, ogoni, eket, nupe, ekiti, Fulani, ikwerre, bura,
All you mentioned are tribes and clans not ethnic group
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by ariesbull: 12:51pm On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
I know about the Aworis, they have warned Yoruba people to stop doing attachee by force on them. Do you know that the rest of Yoruba states invaded and conquered the awori in their own Lagos?
they even said they will not join SW in regional government
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by HilcomTech(m): 12:53pm On Jul 14, 2024
Tellmeastory:
Will you stop that nonsense, my friend.

This is not an ethnic bashing thread.
How is telling you the truth ethnic bashing.

Igbos are a minority in Nigeria and they are not even the 3rd largest tribe in Nigeria.

Go and educate yourself so that stop disgracing yourself on social media
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by nairalanda1(m): 1:02pm On Jul 14, 2024
ariesbull:
All you mentioned are tribes and clans not ethnic group
Tiv is a clan?

Urhobo na clan?

Okey dokey
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 1:08pm On Jul 14, 2024
ariesbull:
they even said they will not join SW in regional government
That will be a disaster for those who have disowned their state just to claim Lagos.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 1:09pm On Jul 14, 2024
HilcomTech:
How is telling you the truth ethnic bashing.

Igbos are a minority in Nigeria and they are not even the 3rd largest tribe in Nigeria.

Go and educate yourself so that stop disgracing yourself on social media
Okay child, find your mates outside and swing in the playground with them.
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by HilcomTech(m): 1:13pm On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
Okay child, find your mates outside and swing in the playground with them.
D U M B IP0B everywhere
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by vanbonattel: 1:17pm On Jul 14, 2024
HilcomTech:
D U M B IP0B everywhere
Herdsman, bye
Re: How Many Ethnic Groups Can You Name Outside The ‘Big 3’? by HilcomTech(m): 1:28pm On Jul 14, 2024
vanbonattel:
Herdsman, bye
If you want to hide something from an IP0B, put in a book. Why is it difficult for IP0B to read instead of disgracing themselves on social media
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