Emeka Esogbue

 BETWEEN AWASIA AND NWANZE VERSIONS: A CRITICAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF OKO CLAN OF DELTA STATE By Emeka Esogbue (Pen Master) The Oko clan of today, geographically situated in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State, is one of the Anioma communities with its history rarely in print or in public assessment for researchers interested in the history of the clan to take scholarly advantage of, amounting to controversies, one of which is that which raged between both analysts of clan as discoursed in this piece. The people are located close to Asaba and Ibusa that are neighbouring communities but Odifulu shares boundary with Abala-Oshimili in Ndokwa East. The Oko people are riverine, lying exactly on the mouth of  the River Niger and they speak Enuani version of Igbo being a dialectic categorization of Asaba, Ibusa and Akwukwu-Igbo communities in near exactness. All the Oko communities are ancestrally related and also share homogeneous culture in every respect.  Alth...

  My Igala People Migrated from Egypt   -        Ayegba Abdullahi   Since his royal commissioning by HRM Agabaidu Idakwo Ameh Oboni II, the Atta of Igala, he has engaged in series of Igala advocacy or what is simply known as “Igala Reconnection”. Ambassador Ayegba Abdulahi, a former Lecturer with the Kogi State College of Health, Science and Technology and Igala Crusa der speaks to PEN MASTER (EMEKA ESOGBUE) on his beginning, origin of the Igala people of Nigeria, the Igala Reconnection Project and the Igala-Egyptian relations. These and other weighty issues he shares with Pen Master in this interview. Excerpts.         Pen Master: (Smiling) Ambassador Ayegba Abdulahi, after several pursuits, I finally caught up with you. Abdulahi, how nice to meet you.   Abdullahi: I am also glad to meet you, sir and you are welcome.    Pen Master: Hmm! Thank you very much. Now, you are regarded by your ...