History

BRIEF HISTORY OF ORIGIN/SETLLEMENT

Sandy Onor, in his book, “Ejagham Nation in the Cross River Region of Nigeria” has argued that Ejagham nation is the progenitor of the Bantur people, now constituting most of sub Saharan Africa. Ejagham people originated from the lower Nile of the western Sudan Region thousand of years ago. According to Ikime, the Oyo and Yoruba people were probably another group of forest people who may have entered Southern Nigeria from Western Sudan. The Efik and Ibibio are also said to have followed a similar migratory movement into their present settlement in the Cross River region. Ejagham people may have arrived and occupied for a time south eastern Nigeria at the Northern Cameroon border before Christian era. Around the 1800s Ejagham people entered and permanently settled in present day forest region of Cross River State.