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• The Ijaw, Efik, Ibibio, Annang, Ogoni, Tiv, Urhobo-Isoko, Edo and Itsekiri are some of the other sizeable ethnic groups.
• Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.
• These oil spills made the land uninhabitable in some areas, and unable to be farmed, a common livelihood of the Ogoni people.
• In 1996 the team withdrew from that year's African Cup of Nations under pressure from the country's military dictator Sani Abacha due to the criticism received from the tournament hosts South Africa and especially its president Nelson Mandela, for the execution of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.
• The majority of the people were those from the colonial Calabar, Itsekiri and Ogoja divisions, the present-day Ogoja, Itsekiri, Annang, Ibibio, Oron, Efik, Ijaw and Ogoni people.
• The state is particularly noted for its linguistic diversity, with 30 indigenous languages and dialects being said to be spoken in Rivers State, these include Ekpeye, Ikwerre, Ijaw (Okrika, Ibani, Kalabari) and Ogoni.
• Present neighbours of the Defaka, apart from the Nkoroo people, are: at Iwoma, the Ogoni people (speakers of Ogoni/Kana/Khana), and to the east, the Obolo.
• According to oral tradition, the Ogoni people migrated from ancient Ghana down to the Atlantic coast eventually making their way over to the eastern Niger Delta region and getting absorbed into the already existing Ibibio, Annang, Igbo, and Ijaw population.
• For instance, Nigeria's High Commissioner to South Africa was recalled when Sani Abacha was the Head of State following the controversy between Abacha and Nelson Mandela after the killing of the 9 Ogoni Activists in 1995 (Ken Saro Wiwa and others).
• Yobo's birthplace and origin is Kono, an Ogoni community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
• Marriages are traditionally polygamous and commonly exogamous with both other Ogoni and non-Ogoni groups across the Niger Delta.
• Some of the more relevant ethnic groups in the western part of the Niger Delta region include the Ijaw, Itsekiri, and Ogoni.
• This is in addition to the fact that Ake was a mentor to the slain author, Ken Saro-Wiwa and a brain behind the Ogoni agitations against exploitation.
• The current conflict in the Niger Delta first arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta's minority ethnic groups who feel they are being exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw.
• A mural of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed after leading a campaign to reduce Shell's influence in Ogoniland, has been painted on a gable in Rossport and a memorial to the Ogoni Nine erected.
• The party was formed by Harold Biriye and some southern minority leaders, principally from Degema, Ogoni, Brass and Western Ijaw divisions.
• While some movements such as the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) relayed demands through non-violent protest, other organizations have responded to repeated degradative practices and governmentally unenforced industry regulations through violence.
• Abak/Midim is bordered by Ibesit/Nung Ikot Clan of Oruk Anam in the north, Edemaya Clan of Ikot Abasi in the south, Ikpa Nung Asang (Essene) Clan of Ikot Abasi in the east, and the Imoh River in the west, which separates Akwa Ibom State from the Ogoni Nation of Rivers State.
• The distribution of seats as at 1959, for each of the Colonial Division were as follows: Abak 1 seat, Aba 3 seats, Afikpo 2,Abakiliki 4,Awgu 1,Ahoda2,Awka2, Brass 1, Bende 3, Calabar 1, Degema 1, Enyong 1, Eket 1, IkotEkpene2, Ikom 1, Nsukka4, Ogoja 1, Obubra 1, Obudu 1, Ogoni 1, Onitsha 4, Okigwe 3, Opobo 1, Oweni 4, Orlu 3, Port Harcourt 1, Uyo 2, Udi 3 seats.

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