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brain54:
"olu of ishekiri who identifies as olu of warri"...



Una go sabi find trouble Sha.

What was the reason he was denied entry though?

They say that part of Warri is not Itsekiri land.
It is ruled by Ovie of Okere Warri Kingdom.

Nigeria’s Tribe That Answers Other Tribes’ Names the Most

Among all Nigerian tribes, the Ijaw people stand out — not only for their unique culture and traditions but also for their unusual naming patterns. Apart from answering some of the weirdest, funniest, and most unusual names, the Ijaw are also known for adopting names from virtually every other tribe in Nigeria.

In just one Ijaw community, I personally came across people bearing names like Ademola, Tunde, Ada, Musa, Chinedu, and Abiola — all Ijaw by origin. Their parents named them after popular figures of their time, close friends, or even characters they admired from movies or public life.

In other Ijaw communities, names like Shehu, Shagari, and Buhari are also quite common. Not to mention the Apoi Kingdom in Ondo State, where Yoruba names dominate — and now, even Arogbo communities are following that same trend.

This trend, though seemingly harmless, is gradually eroding our cultural identity.
That’s why I say — I will personally see to correcting this soon.
It’s time to reclaim our true Ijaw identity.

– @Ditari of Ijaw

Breaking News: Olu of Warri Reportedly Denied Access in Warri Again!

Drama unfolded yesterday in Warri as reports surfaced that the Urhobo people allegedly stopped the Olu of Itsekiri—who identifies as the Olu of Warri—from attending the official opening of the NDDC Complex in Warri.

Indeed, things dey happen for this Warri oh!

“How can I call myself a landlord when a tenant stops me from entering my own house?” one observer joked, describing the incident as a symbolic moment that exposes the deep-rooted territorial and traditional disputes within the region.

According to reports, this is not the first time such tension has surfaced. Recently, the Governor of Delta State, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, requested the Olu of Itsekiri to provide land for the construction of a bigger stadium in Warri. To everyone’s surprise, the monarch allegedly responded that he had no land available. 🤣🤣🤣

Now, with the latest episode where the Olu was reportedly prevented from attending a key event in Warri, questions continue to arise about who truly holds authority and access within the city.

For context, the Itsekiris are a minority group in Warri Federal Constituency while the Ijaws constitute the far majority, with the Urhobos also wielding significant presence and influence in the area.

It is also noteworthy that Tompolo, a prominent Niger Delta figure, hails from Warri as his ancestral homeland—further highlighting the diverse and contested nature of the region’s identity.

As it stands, the power dynamics in Warri appear to be shifting.


@Ditari of Ijaw.

AlphaTaikun:
That must be in the Central Ijaw area that I've been reading about in the archives.

Yes, that's my place.
The exact place is my hometown.

3exe3:
i am kolokuma too

Binaowei nua.
Dingi ama?

Procashtips:
Clan?

If they're clans, then it's more of a tribe than an ethnic group.

An Ethnic group comprises of tribes and tribes comprises of clans.

Same with Ijaw na.
Kalabari is a tribe in Ijaw ethnic group, it has Kula as its own Clan, Kula have Adumu Community as one of its Communities.



It's normal na.

DeepSight:
Are you sure you are not just making claims based on what your people insist on? Because aside from the town/ village cited, certainly your claim of 10, 000 years ago is more than questionable.

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The question of a single "ancestral home" for all Ijaw people is complex, as their history involves deep antiquity and multiple migrations within the Niger Delta. However, historical and oral traditions point to a few significant centers:

The Central Niger Delta: The general area of the Central Niger Delta (including what is now Bayelsa State) is widely considered to be the most ancient place of Ijaw settlement and a key dispersal point. Linguistic studies and archaeology confirm a very long presence here, dating back to at least 800 BCE.

Agadagba-bou: Oral traditions often mention Agadagba-bou, an ancient city-state located in the Central Delta (specifically in the Igbedi Creek area of Wilberforce Island in present-day Bayelsa State). This is sometimes referred to as the first ancient Ijaw city-state and a major center from which the descendants of the legendary ancestor, Ijo, dispersed between about 700 AD and 1050 AD.

The Oru People: More broadly, the Oru or (H)Oru people are identified in some historical narratives as the most ancient ancestors of the Ijaw, believed to have been an aboriginal or autochthonous people of the West African region, with deeper ancestral origins possibly tracing back to the Nile Valley and Lake Chad region before they settled the Niger Delta.

While Agadagba-bou is perhaps the closest one can get to a singular early dispersal point in the Niger Delta, the ultimate ancestral origin is often discussed in terms of the older Oru people and a much earlier migration into the Delta region.

*Culled.

Scholars also say that the Ijaw people are the descendants of the ORU. The ORU migrated from the Nile River Valley and Lake Chad region in northeastern Nigeria to the delta region of the Niger River.

This is one of the reasons tribalism is meaningless. Human migration and inter-mixture is too deep.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/ijaw-history-culture-facts-oldest-tribe-nigeria.html

The first Ijaw migrated from a city known as Horus in Egypt and by then the people were blacks.
Not these Europeans there today.



Horus was his tribe and he was a fisherman.
He settled at Agadagba Igbedi and formed his own tribe.

DeepSight:
Are you sure you are not just making claims based on what your people insist on? Because aside from the town/ village cited, certainly your claim of 10, 000 years ago is more than questionable.

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The question of a single "ancestral home" for all Ijaw people is complex, as their history involves deep antiquity and multiple migrations within the Niger Delta. However, historical and oral traditions point to a few significant centers:

The Central Niger Delta: The general area of the Central Niger Delta (including what is now Bayelsa State) is widely considered to be the most ancient place of Ijaw settlement and a key dispersal point. Linguistic studies and archaeology confirm a very long presence here, dating back to at least 800 BCE.

Agadagba-bou: Oral traditions often mention Agadagba-bou, an ancient city-state located in the Central Delta (specifically in the Igbedi Creek area of Wilberforce Island in present-day Bayelsa State). This is sometimes referred to as the first ancient Ijaw city-state and a major center from which the descendants of the legendary ancestor, Ijo, dispersed between about 700 AD and 1050 AD.

The Oru People: More broadly, the Oru or (H)Oru people are identified in some historical narratives as the most ancient ancestors of the Ijaw, believed to have been an aboriginal or autochthonous people of the West African region, with deeper ancestral origins possibly tracing back to the Nile Valley and Lake Chad region before they settled the Niger Delta.

While Agadagba-bou is perhaps the closest one can get to a singular early dispersal point in the Niger Delta, the ultimate ancestral origin is often discussed in terms of the older Oru people and a much earlier migration into the Delta region.

*Culled.

Agadagba Igbedi is the ancestral home.
The community seats on the Agadagba Bou and many clans even as far as Ondo and Akwa-Ibom trace their roots to either Agadagba or to other clans that traces to Agadagba.
It's either they left there directly or left other clans that left there directly.

TLAX:
... and who beget that Ijaw man over 10,000 years ago. Any verifiable written records or just the usual African romanticization of their past.

People just wake up and start manufcturing history because you guys didn't have enough brain power to write things down. Oral tradition has failed african people and they now fantasize about their history which in real sense would have been primitive, backward and dark.

Ijaw left the city of Horus in Egypt, he was of the Horus tribe and by then the people were blacks, not these Europeans that fill there today.
He was a fisherman and he finally settled at Agadagba Igbedi

slimfit1:
Poor set of imagination only Nigerians think like this. God created the language we speak, terrorist are taking over your land you are talking about funny names try to buy sense if you are not gifted with one pls.

Speak for your land and not my place.
My place is save from terrorists.
Nevertheless thats the work of the ones we elected.

Procashtips:
Is Ijaw an Ethnic group or just a tribe?

Ijaw is same thing Yoruba and Igbo is.
Each one having different clans and kingdoms in them.

GodPunishOsu:
Sorry what does the bold mean in ijaw?

Olaere mean woman of honour.

brain54:
So it's like the ife of Yorubas...


Nice. No wonder Ijaw ginger full your blood!

This our discussion made me create another thread concerning the ancestral home of the Ijaws.

brain54:
So it's like the ife of Yorubas...


Nice. No wonder Ijaw ginger full your blood!

Haha.

brain54:
So it's like the ife of Yorubas...


Nice. No wonder Ijaw ginger full your blood!

Not it's like but it is.

That’s my community — Agadagba Igbedi, in Kolokuma Kingdom, Bayelsa State.

I am from the ancestral home of the Kolokuma Kingdom, which also serves as the ancestral home of all Ijaws. Our heritage runs deep, tracing back over 10,000 years to the very origins of the Ijaw people.

I come from the same clan as the Governor of Bayelsa State and the same family as the First Lady of Bayelsa State, Mrs. Gloria Diri.

My late father, who passed on September 5, was laid to rest on the same sacred land where the first Ijaw man once lived — because our family lands form part of that ancient island, the cradle of Ijaw civilization.

@Ditari of Ijaw

brain54:
Kolokuma...?

Yes Kolokuma.
I'm from the ancestral home of Kolokuma Kingdom that doubles as the ancestral home of all Ijaws.



Agadagba Igbedi.

My father that died last month September 5 was buried on the same land the first Ijaw man lived over 10,000 years ago because our family lands are part of the island .

brain54:
Nice...

What dialect is that pls?

Same dialect with the Governor of Bayelsa.

brain54:
I can't argue with you and the op...

The two are doing competition.

Op what does olaere mean? It doesn't sound like an Ijaw name. It even sounds Yoruba. Also ayakpo!

Olaere in my dialect mean woman of honour.


Ayakpo mean new world.

If there’s any tribe in Nigeria that takes the crown for having the most unusual, funny, and downright strange names, it has to be the Ijaw people — whether from Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers, Ondo, Edo, or Akwa Ibom. Especially those from the first three!

I’m from Bayelsa, and honestly, the kind of names you hear among our people will leave you laughing or wondering how they came about. You’ll meet people bearing names like Lifeboat, Emergency, Air, Zinc, and even Table. Believe it or not, I even know someone whose real name is Kitchen!

Now, if you move over to the Rivers Ijaw, especially the Bonny people, their style is purely English — names like Green, Brown, Jumbo, Hart and Fyneface. Then you have the famous surnames from Kalabari like West, Briggs, and Bob-Manuel.

Even among Ijaw politicians, the trend continues — check out names like Heneiken Lokpobiri, James Manager, and Government Ekpemupolo. Tell me which other tribe can compete with that!

But honestly, I’ve told my people before — one day, if you don’t have at least one name that shows the Ijaw in you, people might start questioning if you’re truly Ijaw.

As for me, I’m keeping the culture alive. My two children have proper Ijaw names before their “organized” English names.

My daughter: Olaere Sonia

My son: Ayakpo Richard


@Ditari of Ijaw

Elzazzi:
What nonsense is this one saying ? Who even knows you in the scheming of things in the Niger delta ? You Dey overrate yourself. How does this story even relate with your age and B Lord ? Lol


Who even told you B Lord was born 98? BLord wey Dey lie pass anything. Lol

Guy, if nobody knows you, don't expect me to be you.


Me and you no be set.
General Ditari or Ditari Ijaw is a big name.

yarimo:
Yes Vip in his village.

VIP worldwide as former President.
Better grow up.
You that nobody knows.

yarimo:
Mteeeew see as Jonathan feeling like vip

Guy? Jonathan is VIP.

I am an Ijaw leader despite being a Gen-Z born 1998.
Same year with B-Lord but i can tell you that this election belong to Gen -Z. Obi we know.


He is trying to beg GEJ not to contest, nothing Dem want tell me.
The two of them know me.
Tompolo say I wasn't on his side when he got the job back then because I say he should do the job but not remove food from mouth of thousands of Ijaw and their families without thinking of alternative for them.


PO took second in Bayelsa last time and we know that Diri performed wonders for Atiku hence Obi couldn't see first.



@Ditari of Ijaw.

Why Governor Douye Diri Defected to the APC

In a surprising political twist, Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, now serving his second term, has reportedly defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).


Sources close to the development reveal that the move is part of a larger political strategy involving key figures from Bayelsa Central Senatorial District. The Senator representing Bayelsa Central, who hails from Southern Ijaw LGA, is said to be eyeing the Deputy Governorship position. In exchange, he plans to cede his Senate ticket to Governor Diri.



However, this realignment has not come without resistance. Former Governor Seriake Dickson reportedly opposed Diri’s defection, fearing that if Diri successfully crosses over to the APC, Dickson’s own Senatorial ambition could be jeopardized — particularly because Ekeremor LGA, may not support his return to the Senate under those circumstances.



The unfolding drama underscores the intricate power play and shifting alliances within Bayelsa’s political landscape.



@Ditari of Ijaw.

Omo this is the Senator representing my Senatorial District.

Bayelsa Central.
He is from Southern Ijaw LGA.


He wants to be Deputy Governor and hand over Senate Ticket to Diri.


Seriake Dickson tried stop Diri because he knows that if Diri cross,he can't go Senate because Ekeremor LGA people will not agree.



@Ditari of Ijaw.

Price of broom will now skyrocket of the endless decamping to APC.

PBAT should just continue from where his tenure ends.
No need for fresh election because it's of no use.


@Ditari of Ijaw.

No election should be done, Tinubu should just continue from where this tenure stops.



@Ditari of Ijaw.

The link

https://www.facebook.com/reel/511728175369127/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Reason Tompolo visited the Delta State Governor.
He also came because these secret weapons intercepted by DSS being shipped to a yet unknown buyer that have already paid on full in Warri.
Itsekiri bought it to fight Ijaw and Urhobo.


@Ditari of Ijaw.

Douye Diri wants to go back to Senate.
Representing my Constituency.
Bayelsa Central.
And life is if you can't beat them you join them.


I don't think Batista will loose in this wrestling ring of 2027 Presidential election, he knows how to knock his opponents out.
He has never lost any election since entering politics 35 years ago.


@Ditari of Ijaw.