Warri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Etymology=== The name 'WARRI' was first associated with the [[Itsekiri]] [[ancestral]] capital town of [[Ode-Itsekiri|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 Empire|British]] eventually anglancised it as WARRI<ref>Ryder, A. F. C. "MISSIONARY ACTIVITY IN THE KINGDOM OF WARRI TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY." Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, vol. 2, no. 1, 1960, pp. 1–26. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41970817. Accessed 13 Jan. 2023. </ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page