₦airaland Forum

ijawcitizen:
I stopped taking Barcanista seriously since his insanity became fullblown....imagine yourself conversing with a wild mad man on the streets.

Where is Barcanista ?

OboloMAN:
U don't have an origin...........if this is the history you were told

This is a piece of history of about 1/30 th constituents of the Kalabari Kingdom. It is part of the history of the AWOME group . There are numerous other groups like .. IGODO AME, AKIALA AME, BUKOYE AME, , KE, KULA, MINAMA, SOKU, IFOKO, EKULAMA, ANGULAMA, OPOROAMA, TOMBIA, and about 10 more others with each having their own distinct history.

OboloMAN:
the demand for
the creation of Oil Rivers State predates
the 2014 National Conference. It is
significant to note that the Ijaw people
through the Ijaw National Congress (INC)
demanded for three homogenous states
during the Babangida and Abacha eras to
wit: Bayelsa, Oil Rivers and Toru-Ebe
States. However, only Bayelsa State was
eventually created. And more recently,
when the National Assembly called for the
submission of memorandum for the
creation of states, the Ijaw people of Rivers
and Akwa Ibom states submitted a
memorandum for the creation of Oil Rivers
State which was signed by all the Local
Government Legislators, Houses of
Assemblies members and National
Assembly members of Ijaw extraction from
Rivers and Akwa Ibom states. This
requested was also presented before the
Senate Committee on the Review of the
1999 Constitution by the leaders of the
proposed Oil Rivers State in Calabar in
2012.
3. In any case Obong Victor Attah, Chief
Nduese Essien and others who signed the
petition against the creation of Oil Rivers
State lacks the locus to do so as the
proposed Oil Rivers State is only for the
Ijaw people and land inhabited by the Ijaw
people of Rivers and Akwa Ibom States.
The petitioners are not part of the
proposed state, hence they lack the locus
to opposed the creation of Oil Rivers State.
Therefore, we call on the relevant
authorities to disregard the protest as the
proposed Oil Rivers State deserved to be
created on merit.
4. The IYC wish to make it abundantly
clear that anybody or group of people
opposing the creation of homogenous Ijaw
states for the Ijaw people of Akwa Ibom
and Rivers State on one hand, and the Ijaw
people of Delta, Edo and Ondo States on
the other hand are threats to the existence
of Ijaw people and we are ready to take
any step to protect our existence. The IYC
would not sit back and allow Ijaw people
to be politically and economically
oppressed and suffocated in Akwa Ibom,

WELL SAID.

macof:
I still find it intriguing that these terms are synonymous in both Yoruba and Ijaw culture
"Adimu/Adumu" "Asain/Osain/Osayin" "otu-ife/ile-Ife"
All playing similar roles

I think if it's proven that there is such a connection and not just some group of mad men making jokes to bastardise history, Yoruba can learn from the Ijaw to understand more about our own history

Yeah. It's true...

Nigerdeltaboi:
chai ,you mean say this thread dey NL and i nor know ? my brodas and sisters i say NUA OOO
i rep Opkoama town in Brass LGA

Nua my brother.. Okpoama reminds me of a very interesting question... Why is Ebitimi Banigo the Amadabo of Okpoama with an Ibani name Banigo ? He is a Bonny man so how did it happen ?

macof:
yh
I first saw it on a thread and checked up...almost all articles show a link
How true is that?

Adumu might be the child of a prominent Ijaw man from the Agadagba bou which is now Kolokuma Opokuma area.. The ADUMU is actually the progenitor of many of the ancient Eastern Ijaw clans. He was a Priest of the ORU lodge . But Some historians link him to some Yoruba man that came to father the Ijaw race. An not sure about that and there is no evidence to that .

macof:
Pls why is it that almost all ijaw related online articles are linking them to Adimula- the 3rd king of Ile-Ife??

You mean Adumu ?

Bille has a strong history and very interesting one also .

engrsyer: Proudly Bille-Ijaw, Proudly Rivers-Ijaw. My Kingdom, Bille whom i luv and proud of coming from that Clan. God bless Bille Clan of Rivers Ijaws, God bless Ijaw land and Nigeria.

Igbo people should not be responded to again on Ijaw issues.

christopher123: before nko, na ijaw get opobo, abi them wan move enter there even bonny...i laugh in egbesu voice

macof: complete bull. This is a known fact am telling you

In all history no one knows anything good from ijaw, it has always been Itsekiri, Urhobo with the civilization of d area

Just to take you to few sites to read about the NIGER DELTA....

http://images.library.wisc.edu/AfricanStudies/EFacs/Lovejoy/reference/africanstudies.lovejoy.ejalagoa.pdf

http://books.google.ca/books?id=MJ7KylvsgYEC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=trading+states+of+niger+delta&source=bl&ots=dUxTQkp8hM&sig=BuRC2PUAGMOSItj_bc-4h_TCTAc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z2IkVP_tB9CgyATdwoK4DQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=trading%20states%20of%20niger%20delta&f=false

macof: Ijaw people pls chk this out

www.kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane..com.es/2013/02/ijaw-people-nigerias-aboriginal-water.html?m=1

was Oru or Kumoni ever used to describe the any group in d ijaw area?

Ignoramus.. google towns like Oru Abalama, Oru Sangama, Oru ama, Oruma.. Those are the ancestral settlements of the Kalabari Ijaws.Ijaws were also Known as ORU... And it means gods or Godly people..

Henryjr: Haa Ijaw! am proud of my tribe. those who know us cnt deny d fact that we are interesting......

That is just what it is.

macof: Wat is backwardness?? good History of a people is backwardness?
You are mad am sure you don't know your family house.

Current day Nigeria?? Wat is Nigeria? Did my ancestors choose to be Nigerians? To hell with Nigeria.

Because I take pride in my history it means my actions divide Nigeria? Was Nigeria ever united? No
If it was ever united, the pride of itsekiri won't bother you, instead you would be proud too

Rubbish!

Itshekiris of today can not even cough where Ijaws of Okrika , Kalabari, Ibani are talking . Your problem is ignorance.

macof: Complete rubbish. Itsekiri are the singular most civilized tribe in Niger-delta.
They have a rich history if u want to know go and research
Itsekiri were explorers who settled in their current location, the entire Benin naval force was made up of Itsekiri men

the Portuguese even knew Bini through Itsekiri

Google Niger Delta trading states and cry cos Itshekiri was never mentioned. It's all IJAW affair.. Read it and discuss it with us and know that your Itshekiri were timber loggers right from time till this moment.

Abagworo: Amaechi has tried in the Bodo-Opobo road. Opobo people will drive home this Xmass.

There is nothing like bodo Opobo road ? I think its Kono Opobo Andoni road..

Proudly Ijaw

DeCleff: Can u also tell us the true owners of waterfront been occupied by criminals in ph and why u guys want to crucify Ameachi for trying to demolish and reconstruct d place?

All the water fronts are Ijaw settlements... No Ikwere town extends to any of the water fronts and these water fronts are even older than Port Harcourt city itself. They were where Ijaw people lived while they traded withn the Ikweres long long ago and no Ikwere even at that time dared to question them. The Ikwere people brought their goods from their villages to the water front to sell to the Ijaws. That was why Rumuolumeni is also called IWOFE.. Rumuolumeni was far inside up land while IWOFE was by the water front where not too far from COE ( college of Education. And this settlements have been there even before Port Harcourt was founded. The Ijaws never really had anything to do with land so they never bothered trying to grab farm land from the hinter land. They only stayed by the water front as spot cos their activities were in the river catching fish.

onyeokwu: the dearth that want to kill a bog does not allow the dog to smell shit
continue claiming other peoples territory till the day of reckoning
see your mouth ijaws are reday to defend ijaw lnad which land? the one in bayelsa or where? even bayelsa is not even entirely ijawland
since anyland that has oil is synonimous to ijaw na greediness go kill you people
just wait for the day of reckoning is fast approaching
we will know the owners of the land and the fisher men that came to settle
whats the different between Ibeno in ebonyi and the ibeno found in ibom? i will not be supprise if oil is found in ibeno land in ebonyi tomorrow you guys will start claiming them been ijaw
whats the different between obollo and obulu that are found in all igbo areas even in anioma
but we are not dragging this people with ibom because we consider ibom people as a branch of ibo people and they are good neighbor and best ally to ibos
but you ijaw people trying to claim what does not belong to you, you will meet the mighty wrath of ibos and ibom people this time around

No one is claiming Efik Ibibio land.. THE OBOLO natives said they are not EFIK/ IBIBIO so There is nothing you Ibibio / Efik people can do about that... If People from Uyo say they are not Efik, It would be their right to say so. If Bakassi people say they are Cameroonians and not Nigerians, it would be their right to say so. If Obudu or Ugep people say they want to join Benue or Taraba it woudl be their right to say so.. What is wrong with you people ?? THE OBOLO PEOPLE SAY they dont want to be in AKWA IBOM state and so it shall be.

ujoinme: If you were on ground you would have known that the so called ijaws in Eastern obolo are a minority in that LGA just as we have minority ijaw settlers from the Atlantic coast of Akwa ibom to the cross river banks of the state. settling in Akwa Ibom territory does not make any of that land to be ijawland and the majority of the people of eastern obolo are not of ijaw ethnic group. Even among the obolos only few families will agree that they are of ijaw ancestry especially the Obolos of Akwa Ibom.

When people like you speak of a place that they lack knowledge of, your naivety oozes.

Its no longer the military era where people were partitioned into states without their consent by military fiat, Now there is a constitutional provision on how states can be created in Nigeria, go read the constitution and familiarize your self with it especially the aspects of state creation and not be carried away by the recommendation of a conference which is nothing but a recommendation! which if it ever were to be implemented will still be subject to the constitutional legislative provisions.

Because the president is Ijaw, Whom we Akwa Ibomites love and support anyways does not give the ijaw expansionist the right to arbitrarily arrogate undue powers to themselves, especially that of state creation which is a pure legislative affair in this democratic dispensation.

Even states where a majority of people(aborigines) are asking for will never see the light of the day not to talk of the so called oil rivers which is just a figment of imagination of ijaw expansionist that lacks the backing of the majority aborigines of the area.
an oil rivers state that include any parts of present day Akwa Ibom state will remain a wet dream of fringe groups like the one whose propaganda you espouse.

We were minorities when we were all in EASTERN region. The Igbo people did not say over their dead body for us to have our state. Rivers state was created and some Igbos were added to us. We are not holding them or forcing them to stay with us. The Ikweres and Umumas are Igbos and we respect that. The same way in Akwa Ibom. The Obolo Ijaws were added to Akwa Ibom and it was fine. So not matter how minor they are, they want to join their brothers and there is nothing you Efik Ibibio animals can do about that.. Touch any more Obolo blood and see what happens to you murderous cows . Bunch of useless oppressive people.

ujoinme: okay we will shall see. four years is not long a long time, president jonathan if elected will have 4 years to implement the recommendations of the conference, there is no need shouting i can bet you that not even one village from Akwa Ibom will be part of any new state.
in your ignorance you keep referring Akwa Ibom as efik, thats why fools like you probably think you can steal Akwa Ibom land as they did bakassi. Akwa ibom will resist any attempt to annex any part of its land.

From your ignorant rant i have concluded that you do not know what you are talking about, and you are not ijaw, but just a trouble maker. we aint going anywhere and ranting in nairaland can no state create. watch the next four years and see the ijaw expansionist wet dream remain exactly what it is.

We need more house helps in Rivers State so please apply for job there, you efik / Ibibio Niger Delta wannabe Mboko swine.

cupid4ig: that rumuokoro road nko?

That one too. But that road is more of an LGA road than state govt road. It is an Internal road and not inter city road or inter LGA road.

barcanista: Senibo, may God bless you!!!
Proudly Okrika
Proudly Ijaw

#Representing from the city of Lagos

God bless you Minabo.

asamaigho: anoda ijaw E rat spewing trash.... hahahaha did u just say an itsekiri man felling timber in river state?...no wonder d ijaws are synonimous wit CLUELESSNESS..

They are still there floating about on their timber selling timber to Ijaw people. Go to Rivers State right now and find out you Itshekiri lowlife. . No Itshekiri can cough where Kalabari Ijaws are doing their thing so hang yourself and die.

The problem with the tiny Itshekiri people is their ignorance. They are not even as big as Okrika Ijaws and not even as developed and civilized as any Ijaw group in Rivers state so why do they always want to bash Ijaw people ? Little about them was known even in the colonial days. They made no history and were not even mentioned in the history of the NIGER DELTA trading states. They were naked when Ijaws wore cloths and were already carving canoes. Are the Itshekiris comparable to the KALABARI Ijaws or Ibani Ijaws ? They speak Ijaw formed Pidgin English and imbibe Ijaw culture yet they think big of themselves. Silly.

Henryjr: Haa Ijaw! am proud of my tribe. those who know us cnt deny d fact that we are interesting......

Kalabari, Okrika, Ibani are 100% Ijaw and perhaps even more Ijaw than many parts of Bayelsa. They are mostly ORU Ijaws . I am a proud Ijaw from Kalabari kingdom .

macof: Ijaw people pls chk this out

www.kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane..com.es/2013/02/ijaw-people-nigerias-aboriginal-water.html?m=1

was Oru or Kumoni ever used to describe the any group in d ijaw area?

All the Kalabari Ijaws are Oru Ijaw.. We are the Oru kuro Apu which means people of Oru . All our ancient towns start with Oru such as Oru abalama, Oru Sangama , Orupiri and we have names like Oruwari, Orubibi ( Orubebe ) and so on.

asamaigho: an ITSEKIRI MAN will not stoop so low to hav an ijaw man as friend....nobles dont mix with laymen...the relationship of a master and servant is known to all.

Bros, The Itshekiris we knew when we were kids in Rivers State were Timber log dwellers. Those people who live on floating timber that our parents bought timber from.. We used to think they were sub humans. If you don't know ask every Rivers person. We Ijaws used to buy timber from them bro so I wonder which Itshekiri you are on about ? Apart from those Timber Itshekiris I 've not even seen any Itshekiri before or heard of any before so shut up.

Jummeee: That monorail is a complete waste of taxpayers money. Those pillars can build flyovers in Garrison, G.R.A junction, Artillery etc. That train you see is just fancy. It has not moved and will not move till I don't know when. Its not hating on Amaechi its being realistic.

Money he should have used to construct Trans Kalabari road or even complete Bonny Bodo road.

This must be another Igbo man dreams about Rivers State. These Igbo people think of Rivers State more than the Rivers people think of their state.. Why ?

onyeokwu: those few immigrant in ibenoland that claimed to migrated from ijawland shall be repatriated with fishing canoe back to bayelsa from whens the came from
get it into your tick skull ok

hahahaha . Now I see why you Efiks lose Bakassi to no tribe in Cameroon. Cos of your foolishness..You people should stop killing any more Obolo Ijaw in Akwa Ibom. The world should first know about your aggression on the Obolo Ijaw people before we start our counter action. .

relchange: as far as ijaw in this thread are concerned, only ijaw are aboriginal land owners; all others are settlers who settled on ijaw lands
how a sea faring itinerant group became aboriginal land owners baffles me.
it seems that anywhere ijaw boats berthed along the coasts, they claim as theirs today
ijaw should always be thankful for the peaceful nature of peoples of eastern nigeria who allowed them to berth.
they shouldn't push their luck though.
and they should stop accumulating political bad blood for jonathan.

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Sea faring itinerant people like us the KALABARI are on KALABARI land and we are not Igbo or EFIK.. BUT IJAWS Does that make sense ? Sea faring itinerant group like the Ibani are on IBANI land and they not EFIK or Igbo. Does that also make sense ? Sea faring group like the Okrika are also in their Okrika land and they are not EFIK or Igbo but Ijaws . Does that also make sense ? Sea faring group like the OBOLO are in OBOLO land and they are not Efik or Igbo but Ijaws. Why does that not make sense ? EXPLAIN TO THE WORLD ? Why do you think the OBOLO people do not know what they are and do not belong to the land where they are settled ? Answer the questions before you continue to accuse Ijaws of claiming other people's land.

relchange: as far as ijaw in this thread are concerned, only ijaw are aboriginal land owners; all others are settlers who settled on ijaw lands
how a sea faring itinerant group became aboriginal land owners baffles me.
it seems that anywhere ijaw boats berthed along the coasts, they claim as theirs today
ijaw should always be thankful for the peaceful nature of peoples of eastern nigeria who allowed them to berth.
they shouldn't push their luck though.
and they should stop accumulating political bad blood for jonathan.

Why are you people stupid ? Which land is Ijaw claiming ? If I am KALABARI and I say we KALABARI people are Ijaw people, does that mean Ijaw is claiming any person's land ? If the Opobo people say they are Ijaws, does that mean the Ijaws are claiming any people's land ? If the Obolo people say they are Ijaws, How does that mean Ijaw is claiming another people's land ? What land are Ijaws claiming in the Niger Delta ? It has rather been a case of you people claiming a people who are not part of you. You can not force a people to be part of you if they are not part of you. The natives of OBOLO who are the Obolo are Ijaws and so they have said PERIOD.