Emeka Esogbue

  HRM Obi Martha Dunkwu and the Global African Icon Award: Everything you need to Know about the Ceremony - Emeka Esogbue Although the award has come and gone, PEN MASTER, in this story, brings you the details of everything you need to know about the rich and colourful ceremony which held in ancient Okpanam community with niceties inside the Obi Martha Dunkwu Palace, Delta State, Nigeria. Incidentally, not everyone knows that it was a two-packed event being the Global Icon of African Cultural Heritage Award and Niger Delta Peace Ambassador Award with both as UN-related. The "African Diaspora Living Legend Award" especially, is an international honour inspired by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution. The ceremony was to have held in Germany but shifted to the Anioma community of Okpanam to enable the Omu observe her yearly New Yam Festival celebration. Notable guests and dignitaries from Anioma and beyond started to arrive the venue as early as possible to pa...

 ANIOMA DAUGHTER, VERONICA UFOEGBUNE LAUNCHES ENUANI LANGUAGE ACADEMY WEBSITE - Dr. Emeka Esogbue Ace Enuani Linguist and Anioma daughter from the Issele-Uku community, Dr. Veronica Ufoegbune will be unveiling the Enuani Language Academy Website today, in partnership with Ndienuani TV.  The cultural website of the Enuani people will come alive today, Sept 16, 2023, at 7.00 a.m., PDT according to the information personally made available to PEN MASTER by the Founder, Dr. Veronica Ufoegbune.  The founder, Ufoegbune thanked Madam Rahanatu Talatu Abubakar and Mr Philip Olisemeke Nwabueze for bringing the project to fruition.  The page as viewed by PEN MASTER shows it to be enriched with Ndienuani Academy, PodCast, and Marketsquare.  Further information reveals students' registration comes with free tuition with courses also free online modules. The website beautifully displays the pictures of Agbogidi HRM Obi Nduka, the Obi of Issele-Uku, HRM Obi Dr Martha Dunkwu, t...

 ENUANI ACADEMY: OMU ANIOMA HAILS VERONICA UFOEGBUNE  - Dr Emeka Esogbue The Omu of Okpanam/Anioma and Nneoha, HRM Obi Dr Martha Dunkwu, has hailed Dr Veronica Ufoegbune who on Saturday unveiled the Enuani Language Academy to the world.  Speaking on the development, HRM Obi Dr Martha Dunkwu said, "We have to thank God that we are alive to witness this measure of advancement of our people's linguistics." "We have to preserve our dialect and not allow it to die," the Omu declared.  "I wholeheartedly appreciate Dr. Veronica Ufoegbune for her quantum of contribution to advancing our people. Knowledge hoarded is Knowledge wasted." "A million thanks are not enough to appreciate you, Dr. Ufoegbune. You have seen good days. My prayer is that you will see brighter days in good health, peace, and more progress." On Saturday, PEN MASTER reported Anioma Daughter, Veronica Ufoegbune's project of the launching of the Enuani Language Academy website by ...

 Newly Promoted Major Gen Ochei Pays Omu Anioma a Surprise Visit, Receives Royal Blessings from the Queen Mother - Emeka Esogbue  The love and unity now culturally sweeping through the region of Anioma in Delta State, continued unabated as newly promoted Major General Raymond Nkemakonam Ochei paid HRM Obi Dr. Matha Dunkwu, the Omu of Anioma, a surprise visit in her Okpanam Palace on Tuesday.   The Onicha-Olona illustrious son from Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State who was recently decorated in Abuja, was in the palace of the Omu in a surprise visit to brief the Omu of his promotion by the Nigerian Army and to also thank her for her prayers for progressive Anioma sons and daughters.  One of the domestic staff of the Queen Mother who spoke to PEN MASTER after the General's visit said, "imagine the surprise of the Omu of Anioma on learning of the visit of the General who was on a friendly visit with his aides to pay homage to the Omu as we, the Ani...

 YOUR BOOK, "A SHORT HISTORY OF OMU," NOW A REFERENCE ON ANIOMA OMUSHIP - OMU MARTHA DUNKWU TELLS EMEKA ESOGBUE The Omu of Anioma, HRM Obi Dr. Martha Dunkwu has disclosed that the book, "A Short History of Omu," authored by Emeka Esogbue has become a reference point on Omuship of the Anioma people. The Omu of Anioma who has emerged a leading cultural figure in Anioma in the 21st century made this disclosure on Tuesday in Okpanam, her hometown.  The Omu has also taken the female traditional institution of her Anioma people to the global world where the institution has gained appreciation. Erudite scholars from various prestigious institutions of the world have visited Anioma to pay homage to region's Omus.  The Omu Anioma saluted Emeka Esogbue who a few months ago was appointed the Media Consultant to Anioma Council of Omus. Emeka Esogbue's work is the only book on Omuship and also one of his most circulated books round the world. The author has also stated h...

 The Anioma Picture of the Month The Omu of Anioma, HRM Obi Dr. Martha Dunkwu presenting the book, "A Short History of Omu," authored by Pen Master - Emeka Esogbue to Chisom Ifeakandu, Lead Interviewer of Aljazeera Media.  The Aljazeera media team was in Okpanam to run a documentary on Anioma Omuship. 

 OMU MAGIC: GOV OKOWA EMERGED ATIKU'S RUNNING MATE 72 HOURS AFTER THE ANIOMA COUNCIL OF OMUS DECLARED THEIR DUTY TO PRAY FOR THEIR ANIOMA CHILDREN IN POLITICS - Emeka Esogbue As they say, "there is power in the tongue." However, for the Omus in Anioma Nation, occupants of the ancient female traditional institution, it is beyond the mere tongue. The Omus are powerful and their words are not known to fall on rocky grounds. Surely, they survive to germinate.  The Council of Omus had in a communique signed on their behalf by HRH Obi Josephine Nwannabuogwu, the Omu of Ibusa who also doubles as the Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Council with HRM Obi Dr. Martha Dunkwu, the Omu of Anioma as the Chairman, stated that it was the declaration of the Anioma Council of Omus to pray for the sons and daughters of Anioma Nation, emphasizing their desire for them as progress in politics and not disintegration along the line of hate and acrimony.  "Praying for Anioma children in ...

 OMU CORONATION: IBUSA AGOG FOR OBI JOSEPHINE NWANNABUOGWU  By Emeka Esogbue Like what looked like a newer form of unity, the people of Ibusa, a hilly, agrarian community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, stood still for Josephine Nwannabuogwu who was on Monday, coronated as the Omu of Ibusa. Indigenes of the community, as well as sisterly Anioma towns, started to arrive at  Kefas Amusement Park,  the venue of the ceremony inside Ibusa as early as 11.00 am but it was also the time, Josephine Isioma Nwannabuogwu the Omu Designate was seen in the train of Imanokwa group that moved in a stately and solemn order to the community's sacred ground for performance of some rites and rituals.  What followed was a grandeur reception ceremony that unveiled the beautiful and now powerful new Omu in splendour to the Ibusa and Anioma public. With the opening prayer said by Rev Fr. Hilary Nwadei from the community, and the breaking of the kola nut traditio...

 THE ANIOMA PICTURE OF THE MONTH OMU OF ANIOMA PRESENTS THE OMU BOOK TO HON GBANDI The Omu of Okpanam/Anioma is pictured here presenting the book, "A Short History of Omu," authored by Pen Master to Hon Kenneth Chibuogwu Gbandi, the MD/CEO of African German Information Centre and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of African Heritage Magazine, recently, in Okpanam, Delta State. The Omu who recently celebrated her 20th year in traditional office as the Omu has presented a good number of the same books to other personalities within and outside the state.