Emeka Esogbue

 My Father Did His Best to Document Onicha-Olona History and I Have Taken Over, Felix Nwabuokei, Historical Researcher and SWADAA Regional Commander – Part One Rev Felix Ifeanyi Nwabuokei is a historical researcher, clergy and Regional Commander of the Social Watch Anti-Drug Abuse Advocacy (SWADAA). Nwabuokei has remained in the forefront of the documentation of his people’s history and has been heavily relied on by other researchers. Recently, he authored the book, “A Historical Account on Onicha-Olona Kingdom,” now one of the widely sought-after books in the community. In this interview with media personality, EMEKA ESOGBUE (PEN MASTER), Rev Felix Nwabuokei tells readers the history and origin of Onicha-Olona settlement with names of the founders, why the community is of Ezechime Clan even though it did not originate from the Ezechime ancestry, and why the people of the community have hardly documented the community’s history in books. Nwabuokei further explains the reasons behin...

Obomkpa-Ugboba Crisis: Historic Claims, Counter-claims and Government Recognition of Ugboba as an Anioma Autonomous Community in Delta State By Emeka Esogbue INTRODUCTION The above topic, an investigation of this author who is a fervent and wholehearted writer on the people of Anioma, geographically located in the Northern part of Delta State of Nigeria into the shared legal, historical, and colonial claims; offensive and defensive assertion of the people's communal right and geography, makes scholarly interest for several reasons, part of which is captured in the conclusion of this piece. One of the reasons is that the controversy bedeviling Obomkpa and Ugboba, two sisterly communities with common boundaries and a common claim of homestead source of migration, is nearly a hundred years old, and even with various interventions by the local organs of both communities with strong affirmation and the intercession by the nation's highest court with final appellate jurisdict...