Emeka Esogbue

 Ibusa Community Set to Install Chief Charles Okonkwo as Odogwu of Ibusa By Emeka Esogbue All is now set in the ancient Ibusa community, Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, as it prepares for the momentous final conferment rites of one of its highest traditional honors on Chief Charles Ositadinma Okonkwo. The noted industrialist and philanthropist will receive the prestigious title of Odogwu of Ibusa. According to a statement signed by Onowu (Sir) Ossy Nwadei, Chairman of the Odogwu Conferment Committee, the installation rites will be conducted by the community's traditional ruler, HRM Obi Prof. Louis Nwoboshi, the Obuzo of Ibusa. The event is scheduled for February 7, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. inside the Obuzo's palace, followed by a reception at Ibusa Girls Grammar School, Umueze Farm Road, Umueze, Ibusa. The Odogwu title—one of the community's three traditional warlord honors—recognizes exceptional courage, leadership, and service. The ceremony will unite sons...

 Our Festivals Can Exist Side By Side Christianity, Ikwele Celestine Okafor Speaks Ahead of Ibusa People's Ine Festival His Royal Eminence, Chief Engr. Celestine Okafor is the Ikwele of Ibusa and also the Ibusa community's Chief Priest. The Ikwele, by his traditional office, is the custodian of the Ine Festival which the community is preparing to celebrate. In this interview with Ibusa Community Advocate, PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE), His Eminence shares his experience of the festival with other forms of culture with readers. He also speaks on the expected role of the government toward social-cultural growth and development of the community, using the instrument festivals and offers historical opinion on the cultural relationships shared by Umejei and Ikenga. More interestingly, he also renders an oral historical narrative on the role of the Ikwele in Ibusa wars with other communities and how he also prepares the warlords to defend the community. Excerpts: Pen Master: You have be...

 ALLOW ME TO PRESIDE OVER A UNITED UMUODAFE VILLAGE - Onowu Joseph Adinlofu Begs Umuodafe People of Ibusa - Constitutes Peace Panel to United the Families By Emeka Esogbue In a manner precedented by peace-loving traditional leaders and people vested with custodianship of the people's heritage, the Diokpa of Umuodafe, one of the quarters that make up the Ibusa community in Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State, has appealed to the indigenes of Umuodafe to give peace a chance. The 95-year old Diokpa, in a 16-clause communique, published on Thursday in the Vanguard Newspaper of August 18, 2022, revealed that the bone of contention was issues regarding ownership and administration of land in his Umuodafe domain. He, therefore, constituted a peace panel to look into the particular areas of trouble as it affects the people and make reconciliation subsequently. Also asked with a fact-finding mission, the publication noted legal luminary and Ochikoba of Ibusa, Dr. Nosike Agok...