Igbide is an Isoko clan located in the

Isoko South Isoko South is a local government area (LGA) in the Isoko region of Delta State, Nigeria. With its headquarters at Oleh, Nigeria, it is one of the two local governments that make up the Isoko region. The other is Isoko North, which has its head ...

Local Government Area of Delta State,

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. The predominant occupation of the Igbide is fishing and farming especially of cassava and groundnuts. The fishing is done mainly in the Urie lake, Owodokpokpo. In the first week of February the clan holds a festival on the Urie marking the start of the fishing season. Cultivation, mainly of

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and groundnuts, is also undertaken by the Igbide. While popular folklore has it that the Igbide people originated from

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in the Eastern (

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) part of Nigeria, some more recent writers attribute their origins to Awka in present day Anambra state with a blend of later immigrants from Uvwie (Effurun) in Delta State . , and the salutation sequence and chants as well as the mercantile nature of a typical Igbide man. The Igbide people took early to Christianity. Owodokpokpo, a community in Igbide clan, is regarded as one of the main entry points of Christianity into Isoko land. Igbide is also an oil producing community and host to

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's Oroni oilfield.

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