Emeka Esogbue

·          Advance yourself in technology – Joseph Dele Ezeoba ·          Non-indigenes aided by Ibusa natives to commit crimes in Ibusa – Emeka Esogbue ·          Love Ibusa – Emmanuel Kwasa Amatokwu Youths of Ibusa in Oshimili North Local government Area of Delta State, October 8, 2016 gathered at NPA Sports Ground, Surulere, Lagos in an event tagged ‘Ibusa Youth Forum’ under the auspices of Centre for Building the Youths for Positive Life (CEYBOL) to encourage and motivate the youths of the area towards addressing their needs and familiarizing them with the community’s customs and traditions. The event, the third in series, organizers say is a healthy platform for social, entrepreneurial and professional networking amongst Ibusa youths and also a platform for bringing the youths of the community together to educate them on the affairs of the community and as leaders of tomorrow, prepare them to contribute to the community’s future. This year’s edition had four Guest Spe

By Emeka Esogbue It would seem that the life and times of Jonniewood Olimmah was entirely with music, yet he was unsung even in death. Born to Onowu Richard Ebonye Olimmah and Christiana Kanyisiyochukwundu Olimmah in Ibusa, an Anioma community of Delta State. Jonniewood Olimmah in his lifetime was the best known Ibusa instrumentalist; one of the most popular instrumentalists of Nigerian extraction also adjudged one of the best three African organists of his time. He was also one of the best travelled African instrumentalists around the world. Like many of his contemporaries, Olimmah was denied of early years of schooling by the demise of his father. Having started his primary schooling at the then famous Sacred Heart Elementary School, Ibusa, his custody then passed to three of his uncles who nurtured him, Onowu Bernard Olimmah, Onowu Thamos Ilomechina and finally, Lawrence Ashikodi (the Ibusa Historian). It was from this Historian that his cultural foundation was

The much talked about Anioma National Convention, themed ‘Preserving Anioma Heritage through Education” has come and gone but the euphoric atmosphere it created will remain for a long time to come. Perhaps, what is now news is that Anioma Association USA Inc, Georgia Chapter, organizers of the event is gradually emerging as the most vocal assembly of Anioma people in Diaspora. Where some Anioma groups have been troubled with disunity, this particular organization has stood firmly and by gathering Anioma people at home and abroad and bringing them under the Anioma canopy of love and unity, the organization, not only demonstrated the possibility of easily uniting a people but challenged other Anioma organizations to create public facilities to meet for public discussions for the good of our people. Any assembly of Anioma people in Diaspora capable of inviting Anioma monarchs and other important figures within the Anioma nation as we just witnessed in Anioma Association USA Inc, Georg

ICDU initiates Ibusa development By Emeka Esogbue News Published August 17, 2016 In what has been described as a new dawn for Ibusa, a community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, indigenes of the community on Sunday, August 14, 2016, gathered at the National Arts Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos under the auspices of the Ibusa community Development Union (ICDU) to plan in details areas by which the community can be resituated to meet the demands in modern Nigeria. Speaking at the occasion in which over one hundred sons and daughters of the community were present, the President-General of Ibusa Community Development Union (ICDU), Dr. Austin Izagbo who reiterated the loyalty, commitment and drive of the development union towards the advancement of his community said among other things that the development union would not in any way take the honour and privilege already allowed her for granted. The President-General who went down the memory lane, recalled that