Extractions: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 Is it the Itsekiris who lied about their history or the Encyclopedia? MR. J. A. Olodeâs article in the Vanguard on the above subject matter on page 41 of November 13, 2003 inflamed my curiosity. I did not read the first publication said to have been written by Messrs Eni Afolabi Jologbo and Alex Eyengho of the Itsekiri sub-tribe. However, I do know Eni Afolabi Jologho. We have had a live debate on LTV 8 (Craig and Oyetoro Live) on October 17, 23 and 24, 2003, all in respect of the Warri crisis. During the October 23 debate, Afolabi did read a portion of the said Encyclopedia Britannica, and what it states of Warri, and according to him, he was quoting the Encyclopedia verbatim. I have since discovered that he lied. Nevertheless, time was far spent on the programme, therefore my partner, Rev. Ken was only able to educate Afolabi that Encyclopedias are in editions, as such, when new evidences arise, they are updated. I could not respond then owing to time factor. It is, however, interesting that the same Afolabi had gone to the print media to publish that Encyclopedia story.
AUTHORIZATION CHECK in the Niger Delta are the urhobo s, Itsekiri, and the The people of Egi protested the siting of the excluding other oil companies both foreign and indigenous. http://ambio.allenpress.com/ambioonline/?request=get-document&issn=0044-7447&vol
Women for by people who were not indigenous to the area The oil industry at Warri swallowed the people s land, and Through urhobo land pipelines carry up to a million http://www.uoguelph.ca/~terisatu/Counterplanning/c9.htm
Extractions: Women's uprisings against the Nigerian oil industry in the 1980s* and M.O. Oshare, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Warri, Delta State, Nigeria June 1993 *This is a revised version of a paper which Terisa E. Turner presented at the annual conference of the Canadian African Studies Association in Montreal in May 1992. Thanks are due to H. Rouse-Amadi, J. Ihonvbere, H. Veltmeyer and J. Fiske for comments on an earlier draft, and to this Journal's anonymous referees for their critical insights. Research for this article was done in Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s, supported in part by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. ABSTRACT In the 1980s women attacked oil industry installations and personnel throughout Nigeria. This article considers two revolts: the 1984 Ogharefe women's uprising and the 1986 Ekpan women's uprising. In the oil centre of Warri where both took place, women do most of the peasant farming but land is controlled by men. The study argues that oil-based industrialization superimposed on this local political economy a new regime which dispossessed women of access to farm land. Women responded by attacking the oil industry with varying degrees of success. In the 1984 uprising women seized control of a US oil corporation's production site, threw off their clothes and with this curse won their demands. These had to do with financial compensation for pollution and alienation of land. In the 1986 uprising women shut down the core of the whole region's oil industry. They were less successful in winning their demands for land compensation and oil industry jobs.
Untitled Document indigenous insurrection in the Niger Delta has been the Resolutions of the First urhobo Economic Summit National Youth Council of Ogoni People, an organization http://www.uoguelph.ca/~lbrownhi/
Extractions: International Co-ordinator, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Much has been written about the terrible human and environmental disasters surrounding the production of crude oil and natural gas in Nigeria. This study is one of the few to focus on the gendered aspects of the petroleum political economy in Africa. As such, it examines the transformation of social relations between rich and poor women and men and the distinctively gendered features of new kinds of solidarity and fightback. Over the past four decades of oil exploitation, a kind of communal symbiosis of gender was broken down by deals through which certain men appropriated communal land, the fundamental basis of indigenous people=s livelihood and community. These men illegitimately sold common property rights to foreign and state corporations. Through such 'male deals', defined below, the state and corporations have divided communities and devastated the ecosystem. Starting in 1980, and continuing through today, the dispossessed women and men of the Nigerian oilbelt have formed new social relationships that reach across gender lines to oppose oil corporations' exploitation. These 'gendered class alliances' have contributed to the success of community campaigns against corporate oil extraction and have resulted in the construction of inter-ethnic alliances.
Arewa-online Tiv, Ibiobio, Ijaw, Edo, Efik, urhobo, Edoma, Itsekiri Major religions Islam, Christianity, indigenous beliefs. By origin mankind were a single people or nation http://www.arewa-online.com/nigeria.html
Extractions: INVESTMENT NIGERIA GOVERNMENT STATES ... ATIKU ABUBAKAR Arewa-online Golden Award 2003/04 POLITICAL PARTIES (ND) (AD) (NDP) (NCP) ... Political parties around the World, interest groups, and other movements around the world POLITICAL LINKS [MBuhari.com] [Site 2] [Site 3] Olusegun Obasanjo ... Dr. Mohammed Abubakar Rimi NIGERIA Nigeria, the former British colony is the world's 10th largest oil producer. Presidency Time Zone: ISO Code: Dialling Code: Continent: Official Language: GMT+1h00 NG Africa English NIGERIA FACTS Population: 115 million Area: 923,768 Km² Capital: Abuja Major Ethnic Groups: Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Ibo, Igala, Kanuri, Tiv, Ibiobio, Ijaw, Edo, Efik, Urhobo, Edoma, Itsekiri. Major religions: Islam, Christianity, indigenous beliefs Life expectancy: 54 years (men), 56 years (women) Monetary unit: 1 Nigerian naira = 100 kobo Main exports: Petroleum, petroleum products, cocoa, rubber Average annual income: US $260 Internet domain: .ng Ethnic Groups: More than 250, 4000 dialects NIGERIA TODAY Nigeria became an Independent nation on Oct. 1, 1960, and a republic in 1963, with a federal structure and three regional governments based on the compass points of north, east, and west. A fourth region the Midwest, was later added. The country's political structure was increased to 12 states in 1967, to 19 states in 1976, with Abuja as the new federal capital. Between 1987 and 1991, a total of 11 states were created, and in 1996, 6 additional states were added, bringing the administrative structure of the federation to 36 states.
Riikka Korpela's Categorized And Commented Nigeria Links A lullaby both in urhobo and in English indigenous African Resource Management of a Tropical Rain Forest Yoruba People Information and Links by Art and Life in http://media.urova.fi/~rkorpela/niglink.html
Extractions: This list includes links to websites made by Nigerians, on Nigeria and on Nigerians. I'm collecting this link list mainly because of my own interest. Still I hope it finds some other users too. One target group I hope find this list useful are people like me: those who want to know the country, maybe visit it. Also I hope the Nigerian children and other Nigerians in diaspora could use this to stay in contact with their homeland. As I am studying media studies, I have included some links to pages that have material I don't quite agree with. This is for the purpose to not only know about Nigeria but also to study the image Nigeria has in the net. So please bear in mind that some pages tell more about their author than about their topic. Note that I use the Finnish system in dates: dd.mm.yy. For example 1.3.99 means first of march. Send your suggestions and comments to rkorpela@levi.urova.fi . Thank you for visiting. See also Riikka's home
N.I.A. :: Http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com were being opened, that more people were collecting which are made from nonindigenous beads as he had incorporated elements from his urhobo ethnic background http://www.nigeriansinamerica.com/articles.php?articleId=342
Extractions: Courtesy World Bank (Josef Hadad) In general, the southern groups of peoples have a fragmented quality. In 1990 the two most important groupings were the Igbo and the Yorubaboth linguistic communities rather than single ethnic units. History, language, and membership in the modern nation-state, however, had led to their identity as ethnic groups. In addition, although not as clearly differentiated, two subunits had strong traditions of ethnic separateness. These were the peoples of the Niger River delta area and those on the border between the Igbo and Yoruba. The Yoruba kingdoms were essentially unstable, even when defended by Portuguese guns and later by cavalry (in Ilorin and Kabba), because the central government had insufficient power constitutionally or militarily to stabilize the subordinate chiefs in the outlying centers. This fissiparous tendency has governed Yoruba contemporary history and has weakened traditional rulers and strengthened the hands of local chiefs and elected councils. Ilorin, like Nupe to the north, was an exception, an extension of Fulani imperial expansion; in 1990 it was ethnically Yoruba, yet more closely allied through its traditional rulers to the Islamic societies to the north. It thus formed a bridge between north and south. Migration of Fulani people in northern Nigeria
Afropop Worldwide the music, while the previously animated urhobo parents sat of a religious nature, and indigenous musical instruments If people in Ethiopia could not hear this http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/115/Musical Tales from the Peace Corps
Extractions: Home Radio Explore Archives ... Return to Previous Page Musical Tales from the Peace Corps Musical Tales from the Peace Corps, as heard on Afropop Worldwide Opening Collage: "The very first night in Lagos, a group of us went out to a local highlife dancing club, and I had no idea what highlife was And in addition to the highlife band they had an ensemble of dundun drummers, and when I heard that music, the polyrhythms, I nearly fell off my chair. I couldn't believe the music I was listening to!" Max Brandt, Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria, 1963-65 The Most memorable musical moment? "I think for me, after we would learn a song, and then we'd be in a situation where we could sing that song in their language and connect, we'd have this wonderful connection, they were so pleased. It immediately created a wonderful bond." Anne Moore, Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, 1962-64 "It was a dream come true and I learned much more than I ever gave."
