Below are pictures of:
* The Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Akenzua II (reign 1933–78), the Oba [king] of Benin, three years after assuming the throne.

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* Queen Ohan Akenzua, royal wife of Oba Akenzua II (Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo).

Short Information

Omo n'Oba n'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Akenzua II (1899-1978) was the Oba of Benin (traditional leader of the Edo people, in Nigeria) from 1933 until his death, in 1978.

Akenzua II ascended to the position upon the death of his father, Oba Eweka II, who reigned from 1914 and died in 1933.
In 1936, Oba Akenzua II began the movement to return to Nigeria the Benin Bronzes stolen in the punitive Benin Expedition of 1897. During his reign, only two of the 3,000 royal court bronzes were returned. Oba Akenzua II died in 1978, when he was succeeded by his son, then Prince Solomon, who took on the title of Oba Erediauwa[1] and carries on to this day his father's crown and duties as the traditional leader of the Edo people in Benin City, Nigeria.

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By the way, please outsiders and bad belle people, KEEP OFF!
Don't say I didn't warn you.

Throughout my time lurking around on Nairaland observing, I notice that it has become quite "fashionable" for our people to post post pictures of one percenters and GRA's, estates and other people and locations from within the opportuned minority class of our capitals and make it look like that is how most of our people live in the East.
Please, I have nothing against these projections however, I know as well as you all do that this does not represent even 10% of our people, but I would also like us to be true to ourselves, and show how the majority of people in the villages live. How do people keep doing these things without batting an eyelid? Instead of addressing the problems we face, we are too busy covering up essential truths, all in the name of looking good on the surface, or tackling other groups in a fantasy tribal E war.
Why do 98% of our elite sojourn or settle in other parts of Nigeria building property and sometimes providing employment, when we have our own issues here at home to deal with? Thereby feeding a continuous trend of mass emigration of Igbo youth that should be busy at home - maka why? It has now become a trendy thing to leave igboland. Villages are becoming hollow and spiritless, while our large cities have simply become large open air markets surrounded by squalor sections on all sides and lacking sustainable development.
Please, biko unu umu nnem, What can be done to reverse this plaguing trend of Igbo youth not wanting to stay at home?
This is a desperate cry, Al'Igbo is all We've got!!!! And if we don't stay in it and develop it, nobody will !!!