Emeka Esogbue

 Towns and Communities that Make up Anioma. Compiled by Emeka Esogbue Abah, Abala  Anikoko, Abala Oshimili, Abala Obodo, Abala Oshimili, Abala Unor, Abi, Abodei, Aboh, Aboh Ogwashi, Adai, Adonte, Afiankwo, Afor, Agbor, Aika Ezeolu, Akakpan-Isumpe, Akarai-Obodo, Akarai Etiti, Ankara, Akoku, Akumazi-Umuocha, Akwuku-Igbo, Alisimie, Alidinma, Alifekede, Alihagu, Amai, Anakwa, Aninwalo, Aninwama-Jeta,  Aniofu, Aniogo, Anioma, Anuregu, Anwai, Asaba, Ase,  Asaba-Ubulu, Ashaka,  Ashama, Atuma, Atuma-Iga, Anyama,  Azagba-Ogwashi,  Ebedei, Ebu, Edo-Ogwashi, Egbudu-Akah, Egbudu-Ogwashi, Ejeme-Agbor, Ejeme-Aniogo, Ejeme-Unor, Ekpecho, Ekpon, Ekwuemusana, Ekwuoma, Emu, Emu Obiogor, Emu Obodeti, Emuhu, Emu Obendo, Etua Etiti, Etua Ukpo, Ewulu, Ezi, Eziokpor, Ezionum,  Ibodoni, Ibrede, Ibrode, Ibusa, Idumuesah, Idumuje-Ugboko, Idumuje-Unor, Idumu-Ogo, Igbodo, Igbuku, Illah, Isa-Ogwashi, Iselegu, Isheagu, Isikiti-Ishiagu, Issele-Azagba, Issele-Mkpitime, Issele-Uk...

 Ladder of Local Music Patronage: The Other Side of Nosike Ikpo Nobody Talks About - Emeka Esogbue Tributes have overwhelmingly poured in for the late Obi Senator Nosike Ikpo but rarely did these eulogies recall the local musical patronage of the departed Nigerian Elder Statesman and Father of the Anioma nation.  Understandably, the contributions of the first Senator from the region of Anioma is not belittling but elevating. Music is food to the soul and also passes some messages to the mind and the Ibusa-born politician from Umuodafe, one of the pioneering founders of today's Delta State realised this a means of endearing himself to his constituents.  Till date, Obi Senator Nosike Ikpo remains the only Anioma senator that utilized the Anioma local music to complementarily support his political mandate especially the pursuit of the creation of Anioma State unlike many in later years that would have lavished funds on the instruments of the personal media.  With the Ib...

 Civil War Experience: How Police Boss, Ngadiolu Obiekea Assisted Ibusa Compatriots Out of Danger By Emeka Esogbue It was Sophocles who said "it is the task of a good man to help those who are in misfortune".  The good man in the instance is Obi Vincent 'Ngadiolu' Obiekea, wartime Assistant Commissioner of Police with the Nigerian Police who is today remembered for helping Luke Ashinze, a young boy trapped in dangerous Midwest Region of Nigeria in 1968.  Twenty-two years after the war ended, Pastor Luke Ashinze narrated the monumental assistance that helped to preserve his life. Narrating the story in Umejei Descendants forum, Ashinze explained:  "During the Biafran war, Papa Obieke was a :Commissioner of Police', charged by the Federal Government of Nigeria with the responsibility to woo Igbuzo and other communities out of the bush during the Federal troop invasion of the area".  "After staying for about 6-7 months in the bush, my senior cousin and...

 FROM THE IGBUZO HALL OF FAME: J. C. K. ODIAH, THE ICDU LEGENDARY LEADER - Emeka Esogbue "There cannot be our today without our yesterday because our people of today will eventually become our people of yesterday". - Emeka Esogbue The people of a society seek to remember and honour those before them and in accomplishing this, they inspire those of tomorrow to prepare to contribute their own quota as did those of yesterday. It would seem that the history of the Ibusa community, an aspect of the Ibusa Union, an organization formed in 1942 to bring together the people of community with an object to speak with one voice which later transformed to Ibusa Community Development Union of today remains incomplete without the mention of legendary Mr. J. C. K. Odiah.  It would seem that not much of this Ibusa Statesman is known to today's generation of Ibusa and indeed the teeming members of ICDU though he was one of the yesterdays of organization. For instance, this author (Emeka Es...

 Ibusa Community Development Union Website: The Izagbo Technological Gift to Ibusa "In 1942, a group of Ibusa sons and daughters came together with a common vision to foster development in Ibusa and unity among all Ibusa indigenes in general, project their aspirations, defend their interests nationally and Internationally and speak in one voice towards any goal mutually pursued". "To actualize this vision, this group of Ibusa sons and daughters resolved to form an organization, which shall be registered under the laws of Federal Republic of Nigeria for the purpose of the promotion of development, education, culture, mental empowerment, mind-building, intellectual awareness and the empowerment of humanity and dedicated to the maintenance of peace, solidarity, co-operation and understanding aimed at improving development in our community literarily, economically, educationally, mentally, psychologically, socially and culturally".  Above quote excerpted from "The ...

 Memoir: The Ibusa Community Development Union, the Izagbo Entrant and the 2017 National Conference Emeka Esogbue Yesterday, The Pen Master chronologically and historically penned down the technological gift of website from Izagbo to Ibusa through the ICDU service. However, due to the enormousness of yearns, and feedbacks received from our Ibusa readers especially our people in the Diaspora, I am moving an inch closer to supplying a more adequate historic background of the change in an era informed by the Izagbo era-defining birth especially with his phenomenal 2017 ICDU National Conference being one of the most memorable to many, in the entire history of ICDU.  The birth of Izagbo presidency, committee reports, caliber of planners, careful planning, financial input and additionally, oneness, all contributed in the success of this Conference under discussion. For the first time in decades, the Ibusa people jettisoned their artificial and traditional divides to come together. I...

  Ubulu-Uku is Blessed and I Cherish our Inheritance from Ezemu -        Anthony Awunor, Journalist and Ubulu Ezemu Founder   Ubulu-Uku-born Anthony Awunor, a Journalist, Linguist and founder of Ubulu Ezemu speaks to PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE) on a number of issues pertaining to his beginning, lifetime successes in journalism, sole foundation of Ubulu Ezemu, the platform with which Ubulu-Uku and other sons and daughters of Anioma are now honoured, loss of Omuship in the community and perceived identity crisis of the Anioma people. The brilliant and intellectual Deputy Business Editor of Leadership Newspaper speaks on these and more in this ‘hot’ interview. Excerpts:       Pen Master: Anthony Awunor, after the long chase, you have found time for this scheduled interview. Before anything, our teeming readers will like to meet you.   Awunor: (Smiling) Thank you my brother. I am Anthony Awunor, the publisher of Ubulu ...

Mentor of Ibusa and Anioma Nation: A Biography of Obi (Senator) Nosike Ikpo (1929-2021), Distinguished Senator of Federal Republic of N igeria By Emeka Esogbue In 1979, Ibusa had just made a landmark entry into the Senate representation of Bendel East Senatorial District of the defunct Bendel State through Nosike Ikpo, an illustrious son of the soil who had just been elected under the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), one of Nigeria’s leading political parties of the time as the Distinguished Senator representing the people of this District. The Ibusa community, though rich in human capital as she sustainably remains today, did not join the Nigerian politics early enough especially in the First Republic as did other Nigerian communities but the personality of Ikpo was to launch the community to attention with the 1979 legislative position held by him so that from 1979-1984, Ibusa bore the senatorial mandate of their group. The area of political picture itself, that he...