Emeka Esogbue

 A CALL FOR THE HONOUR OF IBUSA HEROES AND HEROINES * NAME A MONUMENT AFTER IKPO -        Emeka Esogbue Although Ibusa, a community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State is rich in human resources, the same community suffers languorous attempts to initiate honours or immortalize her heroes and heroines. For this reason, the greatness of notable men and women of Ibusa extraction are known to have lived and died unrecognized. As the Ibusa people say it, “Agwu bulu onye obulu onyuyue na anaa”. In Ibusa, the almighty death has a serious way of ending the life of man and obliterating permanently his deeds. Since existence, the Government whether colonial or indigenous; Federal or State has never named any monument after any son or daughter of the community. This is strange but true but admittedly, it is consistent with reality. It is undesirable to believe that until March 2021, the Ibusa people have never made any formal attempt or pre...

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...