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	Ijaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the Ijaw are now primarily Christians, with Catholicism being the variety of Christianity most prevalent amongst them, the Ijaw have elaborate traditional religious practices of their own.
		Ijaw religious beliefs hold that water spirits are like humans in having personal strengths and shortcomings, and that humans dwell amongst the water spirits before being born.
		The role of prayer in the traditional Ijaw system of belief is to maintain the living in the good graces of the water spirits amongst whom they dwelt before being born into this world, and each year the Ijaw hold celebrations in honor the spirits lasting for several days.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ijaw (1307 words)

	IJAW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Ijaw are a collection of peoples residing mostly in the forest regions of the Niger River delta in Nigeria, and numbering several million individuals.
		The primary division between the Ijaw languages is that between Central Ijaw and Western Ijaw, the most important of the former group of languages being Izon, which is spoken by about 1 million people, while the most prominent member of the Western Ijaw group is Kalabari, which has about a quarter of a million speakers.
		Despite this new factor, rivalry between the Ijaw and the Itsekiri did not actually escalate to the level of violent conflict between the two groups until the late 1990s, when the death of General Sani Abacha in 1997 lead to a re-emergence of local politics.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ij/Ijaw.htm (778 words)

	INAA - Ijaw National Alliance of the Americas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Ijaw National Alliance of the Americas (INAA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1995 and formally inaugurated on September 5, 1998.
		Through the efforts of a collection of Greater Ijaw ethnic peoples resident in the northeast of the United States, INAA was founded with the primary aim of encouraging Ijaw welfare.
		Membership is open to all Ijaw sons and daughters by birth or marriage, residing in the United States.
	www.ijaw-naa.org (277 words)

	Ijaw Youths' Kaima Declaration
		That the quality of life of Ijaw people is deteriorating as a result of utter neglect, suppression and marginalisation visited on Ijaws by the alliance of the Nigerian state and transnational oil companies.
		Ijaw youths in all the communities in all Ijaw clans in the Niger Delta will take steps to implement these resolutions beginning from the 30th of December, 1998, as a step towards reclaiming the control of our lives.
		Ijaw youths and Peoples will promote the principle of peaceful coexistence between all Ijaw communities and with our immediate neighbours, despite the provocative and divisive actions of the Nigerian State, transnational oil companies and their contractors.
	www.waado.org /NigerDelta/RightsDeclaration/KaimaDeclaration.html (1065 words)

	Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force / Egbesu Boys / Ijaw National Congress
		The Ijaws are a nation of more than fourteen million people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the most populous indigenous inhabitants of the Niger Delta and constitute the fourth largest ethnicity within the borders of Nigeria.
		Ijaws are the dominant tribe in the southern delta region, which accounts for nearly all of Nigeria's daily oil exports.
		Ijaw youth groups are leading a struggle for the right to share their land's oil wealth.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/ijaw.htm (1017 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ijaws are a relatively large ethnic group (>5 million) in Nigeria, but they are spread out over six states and are not the majority in any of them.
		Ijaw derive most of their income from fishing and accuse other ethnic groups of treating them as second class citizens and depriving them of a share in local government positions.
		The Chikoko Movement is comprised of Ijaw, Itsekiri, Ogoni, Andoni and Ilaje activists.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/nigijawchro.htm (7715 words)

	Vanguard - Politics : 2005 Izon World Summit in Bayelsa:A new beginning in Ijaw land
		But one area where the Ijaw were very specific was that given the attitude of the Federal Government, the people cannot afford to leave their development in the hands of a central government and so all hands must be on deck to develop their land.
		Clearly, the Ijaw were not happy with the investigations so far by the authorities into the assassination of their two illustrious sons: the founder of the Campaign for South-South Presidency (CRESSOP) Dr. Marshal Harry and former National Vice Chairman of the PDP, Chief Aminosari Dikibo.
		Prof Okoko said that the Ijaw through the appropriate organs of the INC will launch an internal truth and reconciliation programme to unravel, settle, and officially account and record the incidents and circumstances leading to the murders, the ravaging and displacement, and the promotion of instability in Ijaw land.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/march05/04032005/p404032005.html (1757 words)

	Bayelsa dep gov, Ijaw leaders beg Obasanjo - OnlineNigeria.com
		Blog It YENAGOAâ” IJAW leaders led by the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, have pleaded with President Olusegun Obasanjo to temper justice with mercy on Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha travails in London.
		Also, some Ijaw youths yesterday took to the streets of Yenagoa to protest the governorâs arrest in London, alleging that the Presidency and the British government were behind his ordeal.
		Jonathan wishes to assure Bayelsans, the Ijaw nation and the country at large that the present travails of the governor are normal challenges that leaders face and that this will soon be over.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=5311&z=17 (1263 words)

	Sam Onwuemeodo, Ijaws New Leader Speaks: Violence Is Part of Every Struggle
		The piper is the one dictating the tone.
		The feeling was that the IYC members supported you during the election because of your militant approach to the Ijaw struggle.
		Some of the communal clashes involving the Ijaws is because of the oil wealth.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/34a/084.html (3022 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Ijaw in Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Ijaw are the indigenous ethnic group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
		The Ijaw community feared that favoring the Itsekiri would undermine their position in the region, and further restrict access to government and development.
		The Ijaw are represented by a number of both conventional and militant organizations.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=47506 (1670 words)

	Interview 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) is a conglomeration of Ijaw Youth organizations cutting across the three geopolitical regions of Ijaw land - the Central zone, the Western zone and the Eastern zone.
		We the Ijaw youths have sworn that the gods of Ijaw land should descend on any Ijaw man that campaigns or votes for Obasanjo during the next presidential polls.
		In a state where the Ijaws are not the most populous group, yet we have the majority of the Commissioners, Permanent secretaries and other political appointees and somebody starts saying that the Ijaws are being marginalized.
	ijawnews.tripod.com /new_page_3.htm (3756 words)

	Western Ijaw Communities in Nigeria's Niger Delta React to Itsekiri Camapign Against Creation of Separate Local ...
		The Ijaw local councils and their warrant chiefs could and or could not be made subordinate to the prescribed authority exercised over Warri Division that was ruled indirectly by the British Colonial Masters.
		The Ijaw case from the original Warri Crisis has been that any post 1952 Olu such as the present Olu cannot go by the title, power and authority of the interregnum, un-crowned and colonial "gofune" Olus such as Diarre, Chanomi, Nanna Olomu and Dore Numa who un-doubtedly, were all Itsekiri agents of colonialism.
		The Ijaw fishermen, always more at home in their canoes than on land, fished up and down the stretch of the water which now forms the Warri anchorage and made use of the settlement to sell their catches.
	www.waado.org /UrhoboHistory/WesternNigerDelta/Ijaw/Itsekiri-FNDIC.html (3260 words)

	The Warri Crisis: Fueling Violence: III. Violence in 2003
		Ijaw militia reportedly attacked the Itsekiri village of Ugbuwangue near Warri, on April 14, but were prevented from entering Warri town by the army and navy.
		On May 2, Ijaw militia in speedboats approached the naval base in Warri, exchanging fire with the troops stationed there; several members of the militia and at least one sailor were killed.
		This coordination does not, however, reach to Ijaw militia operating in neighboring Bayelsa or Rivers States, though some individuals from those areas are reported to be fighting in Delta State—conflict among Ijaw communities is at least as likely as violence between Ijaw and other ethnic groups in other parts of the delta.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2003/nigeria1103/3.htm (4646 words)

	IJAW PEOPLES ASSOCIATION WRITES NIGERIAS OBASANJO IJAW PEOPLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ijaw land is the least developed geopolitical entity within the Nigerian Federation.
		Clearly, it is an irrefutable fact of abject poverty that the River Niger, simultaneously serves the Ijaws both as a source of drinking water and toilet.
		The collusion of the military authorities with the Itsekiris in waging state terrorism against the Ijaws of Warri region; the military blockading of the seaways and waterways inhabited by the Ijaws.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /iarticles/ijaw_peoples_association_writes.htm (2021 words)

	58 Ijaw Killed, Seven Towns Razed By Soldiers, Group Alleges - OnlineNigeria.com
		Blog It THE Ijaw of Delta state alleged yesterday that 58 (fifty eight) of their kinsmen had been killed by security personnel deployed to the troubled spots as at Monday night.
		The alleged killing and attack on Ijaw of the troubled Warri Escravos waterways may be a reprisal move against the Ijaw who had launched a ceaseless attack on their Itsekiri neighbours as well as security agents in the past 10 days.
		However, the Ijaws in a statement issued under the aegies of Concerned Gbaramatu Kingdom Indigenes (CGKI) lamented that "the Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West local government area are under serious attack.
	nm.onlinenigeria.com /templates?a=3&z= (538 words)

	Ijaw_National_Congress : The Ijaws are a nation of more than twelve million people in the Niger
		The Ijaws are the most populous indigenous inhabitants of the Niger Delta and constitute the fourth largest ethnicity within the borders of Nigeria.
		The Ijaw National Congress is involved in the struggle to achieve structural change and free the people of the Niger Delta, particularly the Ijaws, from decades of environmental pollution, corporate violence, unjust socio-economic structure and political oppression.
		The Ijaw National Congress USA (INCUSA) is a grassroots organization whose membership includes persons and socio-cultural groups of Ijaw descent and is currently resident in the United States of America.
	www.onelist.com /community/Ijaw_National_Congress (269 words)

	Text of a press conference delivered by the Itsekiri National Youths Council on the recent murder of 7 oil workers at ...
		On the same day, however, not less than 15 Ijaw youths were arrested by soldiers on peacekeeping operations in Warri, as troops commenced a crack down on armed youths who had killed no fewer than six soldiers and wounded several others in the last one week of communal unrest.
		On the persistent clashes between Navy personnel of NNS Umalokun and Ijaw youths, Bob-Manuel recalled the attack on the joint task force of the Nigerian Army and Navy on patrol of Escravos river at Oprosa on the 21st of March 2003.
		Only yesterday (27th April 2004) again, Ijaw militia within the same area as the one in which the said Americans and naval personnel were gruesomely murdered again attacked men of the operation restore hope who were on a routine patrol.
	nigerdeltacongress.com /tarticles/text_of_a_press_conference_deliv.htm (2328 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Turmoil in Nigeria's oil town
		Ijaw youth leader Behbehnimibor Job told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that soldiers had burned down four ethnic Ijaw villages, in unprovoked attacks.
		An Ijaw militant activist leader is reported to have repeated threats on Monday to blow up oil facilities unless the Nigerian military ends its incursions into Ijaw villages.
		The Ijaw say that as the majority ethnic group in the area they are entitled to greater political representation ahead of next month's elections.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2886241.stm (394 words)

	Adefarati and the Ijaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first unfair treatment meted out to these law abiding citizens by the Chief Adefarati led administration, was the total exclusion of the Ijaws in his cabinet, in flagrant violation of the constitutional provisions of the rights of the minority as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
		The Agadagba of Arogbo-Ijaw Ibe who represents the minority Ijaw race in Ondo State, was demoted from a first class to a second class king, and his permanent membership position in the Obas’ Council revoked.
		To compound the problems of the Ijaw man in Ondo State, all his waterways are neglected by the government, with water hyacinth everywhere and thereby making life unbearable for these tax payers who form part of the Niger-Delta where money daily accrue to both state and Federal Governments.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /articles/adefarati_and_the_ijaw.htm (516 words)

	INAA - Ijaw National Alliance of the Americas
		The Ijaw and the Niger Delta have been a significant part of the Nigerian region and are not amenable to silence, because of their significant contributions from antiquity to modern times.
		The perceived indifference of the federal government to local complaints on this issue was one obvious reason why the massive returns of votes in the region to the present rulers at the center from the region is a valid cause to doubt the electoral results.
		Indeed, the Ijaw and other peoples of the Niger Delta region use support or lack of support for the cause of resource control as a litmus test for the acceptability of its local leaders and of the Nigerian political class as a whole.
	www.ijaw-naa.org /boroday/keynote.htm (2959 words)

	Ijaw Youths Council Asks Oil Companies to Vacate Ijawland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Central Leadership Council of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) today called on all oil companies operating in the Ijaw areas of the Niger Delta to cease oil exploration and exploitation activities and vacate the area.
		The call is a reaction to the killings of innocent Ijaws and the destruction of Odi community by Nigerian soldiers deployed to the area on the orders of the Nigerian government.
		In a message to Ijaw Youths in all communities in Ijawland, the IYC President called on all Ijaws to act to stop the humiliating conditions of environmental degradation and impoverishment.
	www.waado.org /Environment/FedGovt_NigerDelta/BayelsaInvasion/IjawsReactToInvasion/IYCWantsOilCompaniesToLeave.html (410 words)

	Nigerian Tribes Fight for Oil Jobs
		The Ijaws' resentment toward the Itsekiris dates to the 19th century, when the Ijaws accused Nigeria's former British rulers of giving the Itsekiris preferential treatment.
		They are demanding that half of all workers at Escravos' new gas plant be Ijaws, that tribe members be given management jobs in human resources and public affairs departments, and that the company appoint an Ijaw director.
		Ijaws accuse Itsekiris of winning favor because their culture is more open to outsiders, explained Esther Tolar, a playwright who is part of the Ijaw occupation.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0724-03.htm (909 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Nigerian Ijaw demand $ 1.5 bn compensation from Shell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The consequences of Shell's activities over the years, he added, resulted in epidemics -- cholera and diarrhoea -- which led to the death of thousands of the Ijaw Aborigines as a result of drinking polluted crude oil water and the devastation of their environment.
		Other petitions from the Ijaw Aborigines aim: "To cause Shell to construct the Yenegoa-Nembe-Brass road, Yenegoa-Ukubie-Koluam Road, Sagbama-Ekeremo-Agoro Road as part of the means of redressing the injustice meted to the Ijaw people.
		Also, they are requesting Shell to sink clean water borehole in all their areas of operation including Oloibiri which is the first zone of their operation in 1956.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cna11203.htm (328 words)

	Communique of Ijaw youths on the 20th day of March 1999
		The council said what the Ijaws want is a control of their natural resources with which we as a people can carry out programmes and projects which suit our culture, our custom and our aspirations as human beings.
		We Ijaws are fishermen and women in the main.
		Council noted that such hostilities were rife between the Ogoni and the Andoni and between the Ogoni and the Okrika in the heat of the Ken Saro Wiwa led popular struggle of the Movement of the Survival of the Ogoni people.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/34a/064.html (1162 words)

	Drillbits & Tailings: November 7, 1998: Page One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Nigerian troops have been airlifted to the southern delta town of Warri to protect the oil industry as local Ijaw peoples continue to protest the impact of the oil drilling in the region.
		For example in September 1997, Gidikumo Sule was killed on orders of Halliburton of Houston (a Chevron contractor) while in August 1998 Andrew Ofoni was killed on orders of Dietsmann Nigeria Limited, a Texaco contractor (See also Drillbits and Tailings, October 21, 1998: Chevron May Be Sued In US For Abuses In Nigeria).
		The protests have been excerbated by a dispute between the Ijaws and the Itsekiris, another ethnic minority in the region who are also vying for a stake in the oil profits.
	www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/drillbits/981107/98110701.html (633 words)

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