ITESEKIRI'S CRY FOR HELP

Submit before the national assembly a bill for ethnic minority right and protection in Nigeria. a case for Itsekiri ethnic nationality.

The blowing of oil facilities and economic means in Itsekiri areas by Ijaw militants groups is a continuation of Ijaw militant attack on the Itsekiri ethnic nationality in Nigeria, a continuation of Ijaw claim on the Niger Delta, a covet to wipe out peace loving and law abiding Itsekiri people.

The gospel have been preach to heart of the young in Ujons that they own Warri and that Itsekiri forefathers took all their lands, in their heart is a quiet but great will that Warri the center of Itsekiri should be Ujon, in that will they came for Warri in 1997, Itsekiris were burnt alive, bowel of Itsekiris were ripped out and burst then thrown into the river, finger and arms of Itsekiris torn from their sockets, bullets left on the lifeless bodies of Itsekiris, women and children were not spared, houses and properties burnt and our dead smell around town and in the creeks. It was repeated in 2003, they often came with the rain and under 2weeks the whole of Itsekiri landscape was touch with death, in our own lands given by our forefathers we count our dead by the hands of strangers on our lands. Warri and the 3 Warri LGAs is own by Itsekiris recorded history, treaties and establish by judgment of competent courts of law.

Kings of the Delta (The Itsekiri's)

The Itsekiri (also called the, Isekiri, Itsekri or Ishekiri or Itsekhiri) are a peculiar and unique riverine people who were traditionally fishermen and skillful traders living in the Nigerian Niger delta. They have inhabited their homeland, which now constitutes the three Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State, Nigeria, for centuries. The Itsekiri make up an appreciable proportion of the modern towns of Sapele, Warri, Burutu, and Forcados. The Itsekiris traditionally refer to their land as the Kingdom of Warri or 'Iwere' as its proper name.
Historically Itsekiri are said to have migrated from Egypt to their present day location in Nigeria. According to Jackson Omasanjuwa Ireyefoju and Florence Ejuogharanmakelesan Ireyefoju in their seminal work "Ife Oracle in Itsekiri Social System of Nigeria," Itsekiri people came from Egypt after the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. They arrived and settled in the present Warri Kingdom in about 28 B.C in Gborodo, Ureju and Ode Itsekiri. The leaders of the teams were Iset, Iweret and Ipi. Gborodo is very far from Ode-Itsekiri but they speak the same language without dialectal differences. The people of Gborodo have no quarter in Ode-Itsekiri like other ltsekiri settlements of the era of Olu Atogbuwa, Erejuwa I and Akengbuwu I. The people of Inorin, Omadino and Ureju are pre-Ginuwa, the first Olu in 1480 but the Olu and his people were quickly absorbed into Itsekiri language like the Romans who conquered the Greeks but were civilized by the Greeks.

Does Itsekiri still have a future?

Daniel Reyenieju and others.

We have won courts cases about Warri and Itsekiri, We have written good books about Itsekiri past but all that are not enough for the future of Itsekiri. we have not show much concern about the future of Itsekiri. We are so deep in concern about now that we forget tomorrow. where is Itsekiri going? Where is the road map to the future or our place and people. It seem there are few or no people to discuss criticaly with and to draw out a political road way for Itsekiri. The last 16yrs has seen Itsekiri loss.

Every event that is happening presently is shapening the kind of future for Itsekiri but it seem we are not in control of the events, everything is showing we are on the negative as an ethnic group. aside the fact that our people eat off development funds, we have sat down and allow ujon to tell Itsekiri what to do. Itsekiri is now follow follow to the point that Itsekiri that are no militants are begging for amnesty, our areas are bombed everyday and we sit and just look without any control. Companies are leaving our places and Warri have ultimately turn the city of pot holes, there is still no road to Ode Itsekiri etc

OGIAME IKENWOLI THE OLU OF WARRI has passed his judgement on the recent youth election crisis in ORUGBO

VICTORY AT LAST

Finally OGIAME IKENWOLI THE OLU OF WARRI has passed his judgement on the recent youth election crisis in ORUGBO. He took his decision on a fair ground that everybody should go for election and the electorate to decide their leader. Finally CONGRATULATING MY SELF AS THE NEW FINANCIAL SECRETARY ELECT OF ORUGBO COMMUNITY. GOD BLESS THE OLU AND GOD BLESS ORUGBO COMMUNITY.

1894 EBROHIMI EXPEDITION: Itsekiri leaders eulogise Nana Olomu

ITSEKIRI Leaders, under the auspices of the Itsekiri Leaders of Thoughts, ILoT, yesterday, showered encomium on Nana Olomu, the last Governor of the Benin River (Itsekiri Country), describing him as a true symbol of African resistance against domination. They formally handed over some historical artefacts and books relating to Nana Olomu to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, NCMM, for conservation and promotion of the country’s heritage. The artefacts, procured from London Museum and donated by ILoT Chairman, Mr Johnson Ayomike, related to the Famous Nana Olomu, the great merchant of the Niger Delta, the last Governor of the Benin River (Itsekiri Country). Nana vehemently resisted British Imperialism, and the military expedition carried out by the British on Ebrohimi,

THE LEGEND OF CHIEF LORI AND IGBA (1900 )

Chief Lori and his mother Igba (the founder of Ajigba and great grandmother to Rita Lori the Igba of Warri Kingdom), in Warri, Southern Nigeria 1900's or earlier.

AJIGBA
Aja-Igba (otherwise known as Ajigba meaning, Igba's town) was one of the few settlements founded by women in Itsekiri social history.
Igba was a very wealthy and prosperous woman and was a native of Orugbo. She was married to a man called Eyekuonogba at Okere, Warri. The marriage was quite healthy and happy until an unfortunate incident happened between her and the husband who was a dignified polygamist.
On one occasion the husband bought and distributed cloth to all his wives but gave none to Igba whom he thought was too highly placed to wear that type of print material which was of comparatively low quality. He thought that he was acting in good faith but Igba felt slighted and cheated, in that if her husband could think of his other wives and bought cloth for all of them, she too, deserved to be recognised and given one. She would not accept the explanation and apology by her husband.
As she did pot want to move back to Orugbo to meet her parents she decided to establish her own village. She sailed along Orugbo creek, facing Ode-Itsekiri, and after some distance, she found a smaller creek on the right hand side, went into it and a little further down, she saw a much smaller creek. She went inside and at the end of that creek was dry forest land where she decided to establish her settlement.
At that time Prince Ogbobine was the head of Usele Village and as the whole of that area was the property of Prince Oritsemone Family of Usele, Igba went to Prince Ogbobine for approval and blessing to live there. Prince Ogbobine readily consented and went to the place to plant the town's Ikimi tree for Igba to establish the settlement where she and her children and other relations lived until she died. She had two sons for Eyekuonogban, i.e: Otuedon and Lori.

Culled from R.A.I. Ogbobine's book.

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