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Oron (Örö)
Ãkpákip Ōró
Abang Okpo
Total population
1.407 million (2015[1])
Regions with significant populations
Nigeria
800,000
Cameroon
600,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo
7,000
Languages
Oro, Ibibio, Efik, Ebughu, Ilue, Efai, Okobo, Enwang, Uda English
Religion
Christianity, Oro Religion
Related ethnic groups
Efik, Obolo, Ogoni, Ijaw, Ejagham, Igbo, Balondo.
The Oron people (or Örö people) are a multi-ethnic tribal grouping that make up the Akpakip Oro or Oron Nation. The Oron people (Örö) are located primarily in southern Nigeria in the riverine area of Akwa Ibom State and Cross River State and in Cameroon. Akpakip Oro are regarded as an ancient warrior people, speaking the Oron (Oro) language which is in the Cross River language family of the Benue–Congo languages. They are ancestrally related to the Efik people of the Cross River State, the Ibeno and Eastern Obolo (ie Adoni East) in Akwa Ibom, the Andoni people in Rivers State, Ohafia in Abia State and the Balondo-ba-Konja in the Congo.
The geopolitical restructuring of states and local government within Nigeria has seen the egalitarian society of the Oron Nation being fragmented politically in the Niger Delta. They have been divided across two separate Nigerian states, the Cross River State and Akwa Ibom state, and then into five local government areas (LGAs) within the Akwa Ibom state namely Oron LGA (Oron Central), Okobo,Udung Uko, Mbo and Urue Ofong Oruko Local Government Areas.
The Oron Nation is usually called by its members as Oro Ukpabang; Akpakip Oro; or Oro Ukpabang Okpo. These names are derived from their ancestral father Abang Okpo. The Akpakip Oro are made up of nine clans known as Afaha.
The Oronpeople (or Örö people) are a multi-ethnic tribal grouping that make up the Akpakip Oro or Oron Nation. The Oronpeople (Örö) are located primarily...
anything posible or impossible. Oronpeople a multi ethnic group of people living In the lower Cross River basin. Oron Nation, one of the major states...
The Oron Nation (Akpakip Oro) was a sovereign and egalitarian society from c. 1200 to its forced incorporation into Nigeria in 1914. The Oronpeople share...
The Oronpeople religio-cultural heritage was handed down from generation to generation through oral tradition and sacred institutions. The religion emphasized...
worship local god/gods.[citation needed] Obolo territory, which spans from the Oron territory in Akwa Ibom State to Bight of Bonny in Rivers State, has significant...
until ICJ judgement of 2002. Bakassi inhabitants are mainly the Oronpeople, the people of Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. Nigeria and...
hundreds of years, primarily the closely related Ibibio, Annang, and Oronpeoples in the North-East, North-West, and Southern zones of the state, respectively...
Arit Okpo is a Nigerian journalist and television host. Okpo is the host of CNN International's African Voices Changemakers and a former presenter/producer...
Nsibidi Oronpeople "Anaang". Ethnologue. Retrieved 14 February 2019. Aluwong, Jeremiah (2019-08-25). "Ethnic Groups in Nigeria: The Anaang People". Retrieved...
School, Uko-Akpan (1936 - 1937), Methodist School, Oron (1939 - 1940) and Oyubia Secondary School, Oron (1941 - 1945). Before he joined the police force...
ancestral father of the Oronpeople of the Akpakip Oro kingdom. The Earliest known ancient wooden carving images of the Oronpeople is dated to the 2370BC...
Oron Shaul (Hebrew: אורון שאול) and Hadar Goldin (Hebrew: הדר גולדין) were two Israeli soldiers killed in the 2014 Gaza War. Hamas initially said they...
popular known in Oron Nation is the grandson of Nyuserre Ini, he is also known as the Ancestral and putative father of the Oron Ukpabang people predominant...
Ibaka Town is a commercial town of the Oronpeople and located in Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria. Akwa Ibom Integrated Deep Sea...
Hon Justice Okon Efreti Abang (born 10 January 1961) He is of Oron extraction and a Judge in the Court of Appeal]. He was Born on 10 January 1961 in Oduo-Ebughu...
1974. In 1974 she enrolled into the Methodist Teacher’s Training College in Oron and graduated with Teachers Grade II Certificate in 1979. In 1983 Akon enrolled...
accommodate eight hundred known ancestral figures (Ekpu Oro) of the Oronpeople which are believed to be among the oldest and finest surviving wood carvings...
population of the Ibibio people, they hold political control over Akwa Ibom State, but the government is shared with the Annangs, Eket and Oron. The political system...
Officer of Order of the Niger (OON) was born December 11, 1938, in Oyubia Oron, Akwa Ibom State was educated at Methodist College, Uzuakoli and King's College...
annulled and the previous chairman, Humphrey Nwosu, dismissed. Uya was of Oron origins. He spent six years as a senior official in Nigeria's diplomatic...
Professor Oron Shagrir (born 1961) is an Israeli philosopher and cognitive scientist. Oron Shagrir is Schulman Chair of Philosophy and professor of Philosophy...
The soup is served with Ayan Ekpang, fufu, Eba and Pounded yam. Oronpeople Efik people Balondo Civilization "How To Make Otong Soup". The Guardian Nigeria...
practised in Ibeno. Ibeno people are ancestrally related to the Andoni people and Oronpeople in origin. The common dialect of Ibeno people is the Ibeno language...
Waddell Press OCLC 476222042 Uya, Okon Edet (1984), A history of Oronpeople, Oron: Manson Publishing Company, ISBN 9782451002 OCLC 16973863 The Story...
Global Information
Nigeria
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of the Congo