According to Tribes of the Lower Niger by Major Arthur Glyn Leonard page 22, Alagbariye came from the Azumini axis of present day Ngwa in Abia State , and named Bonny Okolo-Ama , by the presence of Curlew birds their. Remember, Curlew birds in Ijaw dictionary is not Okolo but Okalai and Okoloba.
But Igbos says that Okolo Ama means Creek Town or Young Town. And of a truth there's a place called CreekTown in Bonny till tomorrow.
4 of the major houses of Bonny are all Igbo by ancestry , except one who are from Brass in Bayelsa .
The word Ebanne/Ubani/Ibani / Bonny is an Igbo word of the Ndoki Igbo dialect who's root is in Abia State.
The word Ubani/Ibani means PROSPEROUS LAND or WEALTHY LAND. And till date , the Ndoki people of Abia, Etche in Rivers, Omumma Etche in Rivers , Obigbo Ndoki Asa people in Rivers , Ohaobu Ndoki people of Akwa Ibom , still bears the name Ubani/Ibani till tomorrow.
Thus Ubani / Ibani is an Igbo dialect of the Ndoki Stock. The Igbo dialect of Ubani is very close to Imo and Abia dialects.
The descendants of Alagbariye is still in Bony till tomorrow. They're the Grand Masters of Bonny and no body challenges the BRISTOL ALAGBARIYE IGBO FAMILY OF BONNY forever.
King Jaja left Bonny with Fubara's Pepple's son to Found Opobo. That's why Fubara the Governor is from Opobo not Bonny. But his relations are still Bonny till date. Fubara was an Igbo man.
The word Pepple is the corruption of the word Pepper that the Pepple family chiefly traded on.
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