Emeka Esogbue

 Top 21 Moral Values Enuani Parents Inculcated in their Children Before the Dawn of Westernization and the Lessons - Emeka Esogbue Three distinct units make up the Anioma Region of today and they are Enuani Nation, Ika Nation, and Ndokwa Nation. The Enuani Nation, the topic of this discourse comprises the communities of Asaba, Ibusa, Ebu Ogwashi-Uku, Issele-Uku, Isheagu, Onicha-Olona, Ubulu-Uku, Obomkpa, Okpanam, Oko, Ewulu, Ejeme-Unor, Ugbodu, Idumuje-Unor, Ezi and others too numerous to mention here. These people in the unknowable era, adhered to common moral lessons in raising their children which instilled the consciousness of what is right and wrong in their society. These moral lessons were more commonly practised until Western civilization crept in with erosion Some of these lessons were also common with other climes though. The Moral Lessons 1. Early in life, the parents especially mothers kept screaming to the child, 'imakwa na nwanyi ka ibu?' This rhetorical question ...

 THE ANIOMA PICTURE OF THE MONTH ANIOMA MONARCHS ALSO RECEIVE FLOWERS: THE STORY OF THE HUMANITARIAN ISSELE-UKU OBI Several pictures have made the Pen Master's "Anioma Picture of the Month," but this one coming from Oligbo Issele-Uku is very unique. Just as we see in the character of global monarchs, the Anioma monarchs also complimentarily accept flowers. The Anioma monarchs are modern after all and Issele-Uku, the ancient Kingdom of Oligbo is proving it. As the picture here shows, on Thursday, HRM Agbogidi Obi Nduka JP (MNSE) is seen receiving a bouquet from an Akwa-Ocha-dressed young girl at St. Theresa's Maternity and Hospital. This is against the considered thoughts of many that the Anioma monarchs are all about the acceptance of kola nut and nmaya je akwa (hot drinks). The Obi of Issele-Uku has distinguished himself in many traditional fronts of the Anioma people. Just like the Omu of Anioma, the Obi is known to appear in the Akwa-Ocha of his Anioma people and n...

 Mgbotu-Ukpe Enclave (1967-1970): The Biafran State in a State in Ibusa - Emeka Esogbue  The Nigerian Civil War echoes several enclaves in the Midwestern Region of Nigeria now called "Anioma." The Midwestern Region fell to the defunct Biafra and their terrorists who operated from some camps located in some communities of the Enuani Nation. Although the Midwestern Region was rather an undeclared territory of independent Biafra before the war, the Biafran secessionists found a sly means of invading and occupying the region in 1967 with the aid of forces led by Col Banjo. One of the territories captured by them was the Ibusa community which forms this discussion.  Mgbotu-Ukpe played a huge role and scarcely would any illustrious son or daughter of Ibusa or Enuani Nation within the conscious age of the Nigerian Civil War claim ignorance of the existence of the Mgbotu-Ukpe forest in the Ibusa community. The enclave existed with many stories to the living whether one was a witn...

 The Enuani: Who Are They? - Emeka Esogbue The Enuani people are one of the Anioma subgroups located on the West Niger Bank, Delta State, South-South of Nigeria. The dialect of the people, which is basically Igbo, is indigenously referred to as Enuani. Thus, the people as well as their metamorphic version of language is known as "Enuani." Interestingly, the Igala language is also spoken by the Ebu people.  Although they are known as "Anioma" Today, together with Ika and Ndokwa/Ukwuani, all of who collectively occupy the Delta North District in Delta State, the people had known and identified themselves as "Enuani" long before the arrival of the European missionaries and the evolution of the Anioma name coinage or etymology given social impetus by Chief Denis Osadebay.  The word "Enu-Ani" exists as two words that denote "High" and "Low." It is derived from the topographical nature of the people. Hence, the Enuani are people who...