Mein tribe

The '''Mein tribe'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tribe Definition & Meaning {{!}} Britannica Dictionary |url=https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/tribe |access-date=2022-03-05 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en-US}}</ref> of the Ijaw people lives along the Forcados River in Delta State,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Delta State Government- The BIG Heart |url=https://www.deltastate.gov.ng/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |language=en-US}}</ref> Nigeria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nigeria {{!}} History, Population, Flag, Map, Languages, Capital, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Nigeria |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> The Mein trace their origins to Benin City,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Benin City |url=https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/cdr56rxw299t |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=BBC News Pidgin}}</ref> via parts of the central Niger Delta.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-06-27 |title=Niger Delta Avengers threaten return, vow to crash economy |url=https://guardian.ng/news/niger-delta-avengers-threaten-return-vow-to-crash-economy/ |location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=2022-03-06 |newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-US}}</ref> Important Mein settlements include Ogobiri and Kiagbodo.<ref>Alagoa, Ebiegberi Joe (2005). ''A History of the Niger Delta'', Port Harcourt: Onyoma Research Publications. {{ISBN|978-37314-5-9}}</ref>

Most of the Mein live along the Forcados River in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nigeria: Administrative Division (States and Local Government Areas) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref> of Delta state, with Kiagbodo as the most conspicuous settlement. As indicated<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indicate - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms |url=https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/indicate |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=Vocabulary.com |language=en-US}}</ref> by Mein customs, the eponymous progenitor, Mein lived at Benin and moved to Aboh to keep away from wars. He then left Aboh because of contentions, and settled at Ogobiri in the Sagbama – Igbedi brook (present-day Bayelsa state<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bayelsa State Government – The Glory of all Lands |url=https://bayelsastate.gov.ng/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |language=en-US}}</ref>). It was from here that further developments happened for the most part because of questions and over-populace, prompting displacements toward the western Delta.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341294690 |title=Is Ozoro and Uzere clans' traditions of origin edoid or igboid? |date=2015 |first=Uwomano |last=Okpevra |journal=Nsukka Journal of the Humanities |volume=23 |issue=2 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Alagoa|first=E.J|title="Traditions of Origin" in E.J. Alagoa (Ed) The Land and People of Bayelsa: Central Niger Delta, Port Harcourt|publisher=Alagoa E.J|year=1999|location=Onyoma Research Publications|pages=4}}</ref>

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Category:Ijaw Category:Delta State