Emeka Esogbue

  CALABAR OR IKOT ABASI: WHERE WAS OBA OVONRAMWEN NOGBAISI OF BENIN EXILED? 124 YEARS AFTER HISTORIANS CANNOT TELL THE PLACE OF EXILE OF OBA OVONRAMWEN By Emeka Esogbue “Emeka Esogbue, of course, you are aware that majorly, Nigerian historians are theorists and not research-oriented.” -        Olaniyi Johnson Nigerian students of history are still debating the actual particular place of exile of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi. In the year 1897, His Royal Majesty Oba Ovonramwem Nogbaisi, the 38 th Oba of Benin was exiled to the defunct Eastern part of what later became Nigeria but 124 years after his death, arguments over the actual community is still hotly debated. Although the British had after the sad incident recorded that Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi was exiled to Calabar in present day Cross-River State, a historical information that has stuck in historical documents, indigenes of the area insist that he was rather exiled to Ikot Abasi which is found in Akwa Ibom State of today.

 7 PERSONAL HOMES AND PALACES IN ANIOMALAND THAT WILL INTEREST YOU - Emeka Esogbue (Pen Master) The Anioma people are known to be rich in human capital with their influence spread across the world. But beyond this, over time, some Anioma natives and monarchs have so influenced their communities with the geniuses of their feats, love for mankind, and exertion of power, to manipulate their homefronts, making it a beehive of activities. In the same vein, some are so influential that everything seems to positively happen in there. You cannot move into any of these communities without asking to see these places. This compendium brings you 7 homes and palaces you cannot take away your eyes once you are in that community.  Note that they do not appear in any particular order. 1. ASAGBA PALACE, ASABA: The Palace of the Asagba of Asaba is by itself, a monument of some sort. Favoured by natural geography, Asaba is beautifully located by the mouth of the majestic River Niger which gave her away t