Urhobo

How crude oil theft ignited the current Ijaw/Urhobo crisis?

November 23, 2016November 23, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Deltans, indeed all Nigerians, should be worried, nay alarmed. The general perception is that the prevailing tension across Udu Local Government Area of Delta State is fast approaching the climax of an ethnic war involving the Urhobo and Ijaw. This has been brewing since November 17 when native youths gave Ijaws resident in the locality […]

Meet The Ofoni People Of Bayelsa, The Only Urhobo Tribe In Bayelsa by Efewestern

September 22, 2016 Amurun KelvinLeave a Comment

Ofoni is an Urhobo community in Sagbama Local Government Area in Bayelsa State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ofoni is about 40 kilometres by water to Sagbama (headquarters of Sagbama Local Government) 5 minutes by land to Odorubu and about 120 kilometres by road through Odorubu toYenagoa (Bayelsa State capital) respectively. The community which […]

Urhobo Politicians and Burden of Mediocre Advisers By Goodluck Edafe

April 25, 2016 adminLeave a Comment

SHORTLY after the March 28, 2015 Senatorial election, I wrote the title, “Omo-Agege: A taste of defeat”. In that particular outing, I pointed to Omo-Agege of the need to experience the pain – emotional trauma that injustice and election rigging could bring to the oppressed. I held in that piece that what happened to Omo-Agege […]

Rose Aziza, The Academic Matriarch @ 60 By Sunny Awhefeada

March 12, 2016 adminLeave a Comment

Nigeria remains a nation that is sorely betrayed by her people. For too long now, we have ascribed the blame of “the trouble with Nigeria” to bad leadership while we continue to exculpate the people, all of us, as victims of an ineluctable and cruel fate. An evaluation of the Nigerian condition easily yields conclusions […]

IS PDP TAKING DELTA STATE FOR GRANTED?

September 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Ena Ofugara: From how the primaries of elections were held in Bayelsa, with that of the PDP smooth as a powdered baby’s bottom and that of APC marred by stabbings, thugs and irregularities and the candidacy of a known thief Sylva, we who support PDP are proud of where we have thrown our hats. However, […]

TRACING THE ROOT OF GREED AND OPPRESSION IN AND AROUND WARRI, DELTA STATE

November 21, 2014 1 Comment

BY ENA OFUGARA. To begin, I must state that I am an unrepentant believer in RESIDENCE as opposed to ORIGIN. I believe that the Warri original story has been one of allowing immigrants join in and participate fully in the activities of any community they settle in. It is how the Osagie of Benin became […]