The city of Warri is an oil hub within South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House. Warri City is one of the major hubs of the petroleum industry in Nigeria. Warri and her twin city, Uvwie are the commercial capital of Delta State with a population of over 311,970 people in 2006. The city is the indigenous territory of Urhobo, itsekiri and Ijaw people.
Warri shares boundaries with Uvwie to the east, Udu to the south east, Ogbe-ijoh to the south, and other communities in Warri South LGA to the west. Due to its rapid population growth and linked roads, the city and its border towns e.g. Uvwie, Udu merged into a conurbation collectively referred as "Warri"
Warri sits on the bank of Warri River which joined Forcados River and Escravos River through Jones Creek in the lower Niger Delta Region. The city has a modern seaport which serves as the cargo transit point between the Niger River and the Atlantic Ocean for import and export.
Warri served as the capital of the colonial Warri Province during the early 1900s when this part of Delta State was under the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
Warri City is native to three monarchs, namely;
• The Olu of Warri (itsekiri)
• The Ovie of Agbarha-Ame (Urhobo)
• The Orosuen of Okere-Urhobo (Urhobo)
The name 'WARRI' was first associated with the Itsekiri ancestral capital town of Ode Itsekiri which the locals also refer to as 'Iwerre'. A mispronunciation of Iwerre by several European explorers probably resulted in various names like AWERRI, OUWERI, WARRE, WARREE, etc. The British eventually anglancised it as WARRI
British colonialism effectively took off in the Western Niger Delta with the proclamation of the Oil Coast Protectorate by Great Britain in June 1885. British colonial administration was carried out through local chiefs like Nana Olomu of Ebrohimi in Benin River.
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thumb|Rond-point Asaba à Asaba, État du Delta. vignette|droite|250px|Carte administrative du Delta du Niger. Le Delta est un État au sud du Nigeria situé sur le delta du Niger. L'État du Delta a été créé le sous l'administration du président Ibrahim Babangida. Il est issu de la partie sud de l'ancien État de Bendel qui a fait partie du protectorat du sud Nigeria de 1900 à 1954 et des régions de l'ouest de 1955 à 1963. L'État s'est aussi appelé Mid western region (région du centre-ouest) en 1963 et Mid western state (État du centre-ouest) en 1967.
Uvwie (/hu-we-ɛ/), is a principal Urban Local Government Area in Delta State. It lies along the Warri River and it is one of the twenty-four Urhobo Kingdoms. The entirety of the LGA is conurbated with the city of Warri, making it a greater part of Warri metropolitan area The term Uvwie primarily refers to the indigenous people of the geographic region, Uvwie also doubles as the name of the language and the Kingdom of Uvwie.
Les Urhobo sont une population d'Afrique de l'Ouest vivant dans le sud du Nigeria, dans l'État du Delta. Souvent cultivateurs ou pêcheurs, ils sont liés aux Edo, leurs voisins. Selon les sources et le contexte, on observe différentes formes : Biotu, Sobo, Urhobos, Uzobo. Sobo est considéré comme péjoratif. Leur langue est l'urhobo, une langue bénoué-congolaise, dont le nombre de locuteurs était estimé à en 1993. UrhoboMask.jpg|Masque[[National Museum of African Art]] Raccolte Extraeuropee - Passaré 00062 - Maschera Urhobo - Nigeria.