Emeka Esogbue

Girl Child Education By ELIZABETH I. OLI N MAH Ph.D Girl Child Education in Anioma, Delta state, Nigeria. Preamble: Extreme poverty, mass illiteracy, large scale ignorance, high maternal mortality and fertility rates, child wastages and lack of access to health, education and social services may sound far and fictional, but to many indigenes and visitors to Anioma, they are part and parcel of everyday life. This statement may sound exaggerated, but on closer observation, it is the truth and very real to many listening to me right now. The world, realizing that these problems are not unique to met in September 2000, in a United Nations organized assembly and came up with Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which had an eight point agenda including eradication of worse kinds of poverty, universal mass education and gender equality. The realization of the objectives of these MDGs is hinged just on one thing – Girl Child Education . Over the years, the girl-child has...

The Anioma Search For A Leader   By Emeka Esogbue August 15, 2011 Although, the sub-groups that make up Anioma found social camaraderie before now, Anioma has not fused to the extent that a central leader would emerge for the region. Even then, the region is yet to produce a governor in the state it found itself since 1991. From the Anioma region that produced Chief Dennis Osadebe early enough to a region that championed the creation of Midwestern Region, Anioma has somewhat been relegated to the backyard of political theatre so that its leaders are now merely satisfied with playing rubber-stamp roles in the hands of other ethnic groups in the state. It is consequently necessary to ask why the Anioma leaders suddenly dropped from the ladder of political leadership. Chief Dennis Ifechukwude Osadebay can be regarded as one of the greatest leaders of Anioma extraction. He was the Premier of Mid-Western region of Nigeria who made quality contributions towards the emergence...

Culture is about where you are from-Prince Edward Okwuchukwu Ofulue November 1, 2011 Ubulu-Uku in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State is currently divided between two brothers over claims of who should rightly ascend the throne following the demise of Obi Edward Ofulue, the King of the community in 2008. Prince Edward Okwuchukwu Ofulue one of the two claimants is a Journalist and former BBC reporter whose mother, Florence is a Briton. He recently returned from Britain to lay claim to the kingship stool presently occupied by Obi Akaeze Ofulue as his birthright. After a long hunt and wait, accompanied with very severe persuasion, Prince Edward Okwuchukwu Ofulue in this rare interview, reveals to EMEKA ESOGBUE the actual situation in the once peaceful community and why he considers himself the legal inheritor to the monarch of the Ubulu-Uku Kingdom and the importance of culture to a people. Excerpts. Esogbue: We are so happy to finally catch up with you afte...