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the ijaws. They can be found in Edo Delta Bayasa and RIVERS states.

Nigerians sef, simple question, 4th largest ethnic group in Nigeria. The answer is Kanuri, simple. Ive heard things like Ijaw exist in so so number of states. very laughable, they are not even the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th but 10th but you know we are all full of shit so we lie a lot without any evidence to back up. Here is the 1933 census results conducted by the colonialist, when ethnic politics was not involved when things are done in Nigeria.

http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Africana/Books2011-05/3064634/3064634_1933/3064634_1933_opt.pdf

After kanuri is the Ibibio which i believe contained ibibio, annang, efik , oron , etc. Make person no mention Ijaw here again ooo.

airsaylongcon:
I like you. Points without insults. Very rare on Nairaland. Actually only 2 south south states were parts of the Western region and they got "liberated" early. I am not in doubt that Akpata is Yorùbá, K or no k. My point is that if for political reasons a Yoruba can deny his heritage (Sàràkí) or can be denied his heritage (Akpata) then isn't that a huge problem? The Greeks of mainland Greece cannot understand the Greeks of Cyprus or worse still Pontian Greeks but they are never denied no matter the weather. The late great Dr Awojobi had a favourite saying "Yorùbá ronú". The descendants of Odùduwà need to take that advice seriously. Efo ríro still remains the best vegetable soup ever lol

You haven't tasted affang soup with goat meat, Bush Meat, periwinkle(without the shell)smoked Titus fish, stock fish, and kpomo cut in small pieces....
I am yoruba but I won't be biased when it comes to soups..... Na calabar get am..... We still dey learn

SpicyJosBabe:
Hausa fulani identity is not actually a myth. They have somehow become one in most parts of the north (northwest). Milliions of fulanis have been hausanized because they settled in hausa land. And both tribes have over intermarried and cannot be differentiated in many places.

Hausa and fulani have different origins.... Hausas are originally Nigerian per say, the fulanis settled in Nigeria from other regions in West Africa. That's why they are scattered in so many northern states. They are a minority but they cling on the hausa/fulani charactisation to appear well expensed. I am a student of history and I am telling you the fact. Just the way the Arabs who were minority in the middle east used conquest n domination to spread thier culture through Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, the whole of North Africa, and even Spain.
If not of the resistance they got from the great battle of oshogbo and the timely intervention of the British colonial masters. The whole of Nigeria would have been a caliphate by now.

SpicyJosBabe:
Urhobo people occupy the 8 LGAs of Delta central and i think parts of Warri south and those in Bayelsa are just in 1 LGA.
Gbagyi people on the other hand dominate the whole of FCT (6 LGAs). Gbagyi people dominate the 11 LGAs of Niger east senatorial district. The same Gbagyi are found in 3 LGAs in Nasarawa state, In Kaduna state they are the second largest tribe found in 4 LGAs and they are also found in 1 LGA in Kogi state. Now tell me how on earth Urhobos can challenge a tribe like this.
Gbagyis are the most widely spread tribe in the middlebelt but Tivs and Nupes can challenge them in the region.

What they classify LGAs in the North are just like some community down South. The fact that Gbagyi has more LGAs doesn't make them larger then Urhobo. One LGA down South could be up to three LGAs in the North.

riddler4real:
You haven't tasted affang soup with goat meat, Bush Meat, periwinkle(without the shell)smoked Titus fish, stock fish, and kpomo cut in small pieces....
I am yoruba but I won't be biased when it comes to soups..... Na calabar get am..... We still dey learn

Kai! U go wound person with this kind description! See as saliva just gather for my mouth. I know say if na soup Yoruba dey learn but I am deeply in love with Efo. Na to port go Cross River Akwa Ibom one time

iamhorny:
Even within the Niger delta, ijaw doesnt even come fourth

After the igboid groups(Anioma + Rivers igbos + igbanke in Ed0 state), the urhobos come second, then the edo peopel come third(though there may be differences among them, but the come as one) then the ijaw

see where the ijaws stand in the figure below

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4337252_img20161009235807_jpegff9ed0b269dc554fc0f91aedc797e4c6

If you can believe Yorubas are just 4.4 times the Edos in Population, then you can believe anything.
LOL

wiseoneking:
Thanks for pointing out kalabari ijaw been one but as i read in their wikipedia, some ijaws believed that kalabari is a different language. For ijaw been the dominant group is a great Fallacy. Thanks

Ijaw is the dominant group in Rivers state. But due to politics and port harcourt being in Ikwerre land all the population in port harcourt is given to Ikwerre. But even in port harcourt/Ikwerre villages around port harcourt the Ijaws are at least 30% of the population, then we have the igbos and other foreigners. And Kalabari is Ijaw no argument there. Ijaw has many sub-languages.

SpicyJosBabe:
It is extremely embarrasing that someone can say Urhobo or Ijaw are the 4th largest tribe in Nigeria.
Where did the person put Kanuris, Tivs and Nupes?
Urhobos are found in only Delta central.

Nupes are the only minority group who have produced governors of 3 different states (Kwara, Niger and Kano).
And the same Nupes are also all over Kogi state and Federal capital territory.

Kanuri people are the only ones who produce governors in Borno and Yobe states. They are the largest tribe in the north-east. They are also found in Jigawa, Bauchi and Gombe states.

Tiv people are all over Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba and even Cross river state where they are among the majority groups. They are also in Cameroon in large numbers.

Gwari people have produced 2 head of state in Nigeria (Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar). Gbagyi (Gwari) people are among the largest tribes in Kaduna, Niger and Nasarawa states, they own majority of FCT and they are also found in Kogi.

The problem is that most southernerns think the whole north and middlebelt is Hausa-fulani which is very very wrong and ignorant!

Madam go to Wikipedia and check their populations. Ijaw is second to Tiv but the Tiv population is not only in Nigeria. I think Tiv is 13mill while Ijaw is 10mill. They could still be made up since someone wrote Wikipedia. And what is making people confused about the Ijaw population is because they have so many sub-languages and clan. But if we bring all of them together . They are indisputably the 4th largest, trust me! And just so you know I am partly Tiv.

topsyking:
1. yoruba
2.hausa
3.niger delta
4.IBO

Niger Delta is not an ethnic group. It is a region made up of Ijaws, Urhobos, Igbos, Edos/Esans, Ibibios, Anangs, Efiks, Itshekiris, Ogonis, Kalabaris etc. I hope you will pay me for educating you. Thanks.

mulattoclaroo:
Op for your info they're no igbos in SS. The fourth largest ethnic group should be either Ijaw, Kanuri, Fulani or Bini.

You are wrong sir. There are indigenous Igbos in Delta State (Anioma which means good land in Igbo) and Rivers(Ikwerres, Etches and others). Ask Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, Godwin Emefiele, Ibe Kachukwu, Peter Odili, Celestine Omehia, Chibuike Amaechi etc. Late Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu who led the first(Igbo) coup is also from Delta State. I think the Igbo South southerners who deny their Igboness are doing so to avoid being discriminated against as is being done to Igbos after the civil war. Thanks.

Armaggedon:
the person i quoted implied that istshekiris are infact yorubas and not just related as you said. Until you share his opinion, quote me.

Btw efik /ibibio/annag were so related to Igbos they were called "kwa-Ibo" by the whites meaning semi-Igbo but Igbos dont make noise.

Itsekiri language is basically Yoruba in everything. Infact, Itsekiris are jus wrapper tying Yorubas.
How were Efik-Ibibio 'so related" to Igbos apart from proximity which led to diffusion of some ideas?

The relation between Igbos and Ibibios is akin to that between Yorubas and Nupes.

YourNemesis:
Itsekiri language is basically Yoruba in everything. Infact, Itsekiris are jus wrapper tying Yorubas.
How were Efik-Ibibio 'so related" to Igbos apart from proximity which led to diffusion of some ideas?

The relation between Igbos and Ibibios is akin to that between Yorubas and Nupes.

you called it 'itshekiri language' and then says its 'yoruba language'

the case settles itself.

Armaggedon:
you called it 'itshekiri language' and then says its 'yoruba language'

the case settles itself.

How does that change anything?
Egyptian Arabic is a language and yet it is a dialect of modern standard Arabic. Urdu and Hindi are basically standard dialects of the same language (Hindi-Urdu). Yet each are languages in their own right.
Yoruba Language is a dialect continuum, and itsekiri is the South-Eastern end of that continuum. The other (Western) end is in faraway Togo.

Reading...

According to my GST textbook (Citizenship Education) the fourth most populated ethnic group in Nigeria is Efik/Abibio (CrossRiver and Akwa-Ibom) then Tiv (Benue,Taraba and Nasarawa) is fifth