Kingsley Epelle wrote: Lagos is originally an IJAW LAND On the issue of Ijaw in Lagos state. People should go back in history. In no Yoruba history there is a mention of Coastal area. The ancien Oyo empire does not extend to the coast. The coast of todays Lagos state has always been settled by a fishing people. The MAHINS. Ilajes and AWORIS. who are these people. These people were Ijaws who over many many years due to many different reasons ( arrival of Igbiras through the creeks from Igbira land ) and other mixes resulted in to the Ijaw minorities there being influenced to change their culture, a big example of such changes is in to todays town of ekiadolor where the natives speak uhrobo but the town is an IJAW TOWN. CHIEF EDWIN CLARK is from EKIADOLOR. almost every body in Ekiadolor speak uhrobo. I dont want to talk about Aladja which is also the same with Ekiadolo. In ONDO state the people of AROGBO were able to maintaion their Ijawness although a good number f them speak yoruba and have yoruba names. The APOIS of Ondo and parts of Edo are another Ijaw groups that have half of them speaking Yoruba and having yoruba names. along the same coast from ONDO through Ogun to lagos are the same Ijaw people that got to the Ibeju leki area of LAGOS and eventaully setled at the coastal LAGOS , Till tomorrow Ijaw people sell land in TARKWA, The word APAPA IN Lagos is an Ijaw word meaning groundnut, It was named after the minority natives who were fishing there when the seaport was built to export ground nut from KANO . The sea port became known as groundnut port which is apapa port, Apapa is ground nut in Ijaw. Today we know that there are mixes in ILORIN AND the pepople there have a lot of fulanis but that does not mean Fulanis own Ilorin. It is just unfortunate that the Ijaw man has a very good hospitality that other people take advantage of, Its the same hospitality the Ijaw people have in the eastern side where they had a lot of Igbos in to their fold and even made an Igbo freed slave their king. In KALABARI there is a tradition call KINI-IYA, it means to adopt some one or to marry some one, At that time wealth in KALABARI LAND WAS MEASured BASED ON THE NUMBER OF OTHER PEOPLE you bought or adopted. This led to a rush to acquire as many Igbos as possible. Some KALABARI CHIEFS HAD as many Igbo adopted people like more than 200 and all these people were given equal right. a CEREMONY was always made where all the adopted people would be shaven in the public and given KALABARI-IJAW names. It was the same practice in Bonny , Okrika and Nembe, You people should know that no one from Opobo, Bonny, KALABARI and Okrika would say they are Igbos. Pretty much like no naturalized american would claim that he is from a foreign country. The natives of those places are IJAWS but no doubt Igbos came to play some good parts in their midst. Coastal Lagos was owned by IJAW people. the AWORIS are va mixture of IJAWS AND Eguns, The Ijaw in Olodi APAPA is too strong all the way to Ijaw ra ( Ijo-ra ). KIRI-KIRI was an aijaw settlement it means LAND or mainly land in Ijaw and every one knows Ijaw people were the ones that lived there before this time, Yoruba people of Ijebu and Egba have just migrated to the area hence the awori egba wars and trouble. Most of the traditional stools now in LAGOS were recently created, I was in laggos when they created the Onikoyi stool in Ikoyi. a stool that never existed. In victoria island the APESE community has always been there and they owned it the Oniru is the stool but that was it cos maroko through ajah to ibeju were settled by Ijaws, The lagos state government does not just recognize this and unfortunately the Ijaws do not have serious plans for all that since their main occupation isnot threatened- anonymous # I just reposted as is! Forgive the typos and errors
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:02:10 +0000
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