Emeka Esogbue

 2020 WONDER: 7 LAUDABLE EVENTS THAT THE IBUSA COMMUNITY LOST TO 2020 - Emeka Esogbue The year 2020 has come and passed for Ibusa. Hopes of natives were high with some promises made but as it turned out, they were not fulfilled. COVID-19 did not also help matters as it ravaged and reneged hopes and promises owed the people. Happily, some organizers held on tenaciously to their projects, making sure they came the way of our Ibusa people. One notable event the Ibusa community never missed was the Ibusa Football Tournament courtesy of Emmanuel Kwasa Amatokwu, the Iwu festivals of Ogbeowele and Umuodafe and Mgba. Still, many cookies crumbled in 2020. A lot of people took Alor than what has been the case in recent times. This list is about the expectations of the Ibusa people that were never met in spite of high hopes.  1. The first of Ibusa abortion was the traditional crash of hope in the Odogwu of Ibusa. Although all hopes were high that the Odogwu of the community had emerged i...

I have only Ibusa Community to Call my Own   -        PoON Award Winner, Douglas Ibekeme   Shortly after he was announced the winner of People of Oshimili North Man of the Year for the year 2021, which members call “PoON Ambassador”, Pen Master followed him up for an interview to bring to bear his experiences, reactions and future plans for the Organization and Oshimili North as a whole. In this interview with PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE), People of Oshimili North award winner, Douglas Ibekeme speaks on his years of growing up in Ibusa, charity to the Ibusa community, political views of the government, his recent recognition as the Ambassador of the People of Oshimili North in Delta State and generously offers valuable advice to the youths of the Ibusa community. These and more are brought to you in this interview. Excerpts:       Pen Master: Congratulations Douglas Nosike Ibekeme, you just won the People of Oshimili North...

  I Invested to Develop the Ibusa Community   -        Asaba Reading Club Initiator, Maxwell Chiejina Ajufo   He is an entrepreneur and politician, the CEO of Maxwell Breads and more recently, Oshimili North Local Government Area Chairmansh ip aspirant. In this interview, the Initiator of Asaba Reading Club tells PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE) his investment experience in Ibusa, his hometown, his race to occupy the Oshimili North Local Government and reasons illegal sales of land will persist among the youths of Ibusa and many more.       Pen Master: Mr. Maxwell Ajufo, let us start this interview like this. I admit that you are well-known in Ibusa but it will just be nice for our general readers to know you.   Ajufo: Pen Master, I thank you very much sir for the opportunity to sell my mind to the people. Well, Ajufo Maxwell Chiejina is an entrepreneur and community development minded young man born into th...

My People Are Behind My Omu Ibusa Ambition And My Age Is My Advantage   -        Josephine Nwannabuogwu   PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE) went in search of Josephine Nwannabuogwu, the Mazone Foundation and much publicized or reported hopeful of the revered Omuship of the Ibusa people to hear from the Umuodafe-born former music performer. In this interview, the music producer, philanthropist and Head of Mazone Stitches speaks about her career in the entertainment industry, the intention and interest in the Omuship of the Ibusa people, foundation, welfare of the youths of the community and the Igbuzo Singles Meet experience. Excerpts:      Pen Master: Who's Josephine Nwannabuogwu? Please permit our readers to meet you.   Nwannabuogwu: Thank you very much sir, Pen Master. I am Josephine Isioma Nwannabuogwu and I hail from the quarter of Umuodafe in Ibusa, Delta State. Happily, I am a product of Enugu State University of...

 POON Award: Douglas Ibekeme, Fumnanya Agbugah Emerge Winners - Emeka Esogbue  In a rare show of popularity and general acceptability, German-based Mr. Douglas Ibekeme and Mrs. Fumnanya Agbuga-Ezeana were elected PoON Man and Woman of the Year respectively for 2020. In the election held on the night of Friday December 18, 2020, Douglas Nosike Ibekeme,considered a philanthropist by many smashed through notable agriculturalist, Mr. Joseph Adim Ilechie, his only opponent while Fumnanya Agbuga-Ezeana was elected unopposed, without any opponent. According to the statistics of the result released by Ikenna Okonji-led Electoral Committee, total number of votes cast was 82 out of which Ibekeme amassed 46 votes representing 66.7% of the total votes cast while Ilechie polled 23 (33.3%). A total of 5 votes were reportedly voided.  Earlier today, expectations were high over the election with manifestoes of the contestants previously declared on Thursday night in what was considered t...

 OZORO IS AN ANIOMA COMMUNITY - Emeka Esogbue Did you know that Ozoro presently located in Delta State Nigeria is an Anioma community? Well, read this. According to oral tradition of the Anioma people, Ozoro is ancestrally related to Aboh, another Anioma community. Aboh, in turn is related to Ezechime community of Anioma that left Benin and split in Agbor where they later encamped. But the Ezechime moved to Obior while Aboh moved to the Southwards towards today's region of Ukwuani to settle with their scattered Ukwuani neighbouring communities. It was here according to history that Aboh, led by Esume, a warrior, defeated the Ewelle people, marking in history, the rise of Aboh, one of the best or maybe too the only known Anioma empire to exist in history.  In what later followed, one Esume follower founded Ashaka while Oputa (now known as Opute in Isoko) founded Ozoro. Etim was to found another settlement called Afor being Obetim Afor. All of these communities including Ozoro c...

  24 IGBUZO PERSONALITIES THAT AMAZED PEN MASTER IN 2020 - PART 1 Pen Master is here with the annual compendium of amazing Ibusa men and women of the year. Although COVID-19, lockdown and protests appeared to have consumed the greater part of the year, the year did not end in barrenness or blankness for the Ibusa community in Oshimili North Local Government area Delta State, one of the fastest growing communities in the state economically and also blessed with abundant human capital.   In spite of the vacuum created by distracting activities in the year, a good number of personalities astonished Pen Master with their defined contributions thus, the need to put them on record as ritually documented. However, it must be noted that this compendium does not serve the communal interest of the Ibusa community or anyone else but Pen Master. To this end, it is strictly my choice and not yours, the readers. It is also my idea and conviction and not yours. The criterion is that they a...