Ekpeye people

Ekpeye is an ethnic group predominantly found in Ahoada East and parts of Ahoada West Local Government Areas of Rivers State, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.The Ahoada metropolis serves as the administrative headquarters of the Ekpeye ethnic nation.The Ekpeye people are an Igboid-speaking group who are descendants of Akalaka.There are some who claim to have migrated from Benin[1] however linguistically and culturally the Ekpeye are more similar to other Igbo groups.The traditional stool that would unite the whole of Ekpeye people was created in 1977, with Eze Edmund Unoshi Ashirim of Ihuaba in Upata kingdom serving as the Eze Ekpeye Logbo I.
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