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Moreso, Oduegwu the second son of Ezhie and Onumgbunum who was nicknamed "Unuami" in the remembrance of the river close to Siloko in Benin where their great grandfather lived, had two male children namely: Akpashi and Okolo. In the same vein, the second quarter in Ezhionum was named after the nickname of Oduegwu (Unuami) in Ogbe-nami. Also, two of the three families in the present day Ogbe-nami quarters bear the names of Oduegwu's sons namely: Umu-Akpashi and Umu-Okpalaokolo.

In another development, Anie the only daughter of Ezhie and Onumgbunum took care of their mother Ezhie until her death and after some time, Ossai also died. Both were buried, though at different periods, close to the god of Iyienwe. For the avoidance of doubts, their graves called "Isu Ezhie" and "Isu Ossai Uku" are served by the Okpala-Uku of Ezhionum every eight ( days (Oge-eto) till date undoubtedly in the remembrance of the founders and historical origin of Ezhionum.

However, for the fear of attack from neighboring village, Ossai and Oduegwu's children including Anie and led by Odumegwu, the eldest son of Ossai moved onward around the present Ogwa of Aweka and resettled. Hence the presence of Chukwu-Osa, Ifijioku-Osa and the age grade initiation centre around that place.

Within the periods of resettlement, Anie had four children. The include: Ozegbe, Opia, Ugbo and Imegwu. Anie's children started expanding so rapidly that a new quarter called Ogbe-Ofu had to be created and organized into four (4) distinct families which were named according to the names of Anie's children viz: Umu-Ozegbe-Anie, Umu-Opia-Anie, Umu-Ugbo and Umu-Imegwu.

Yet another account opined that Onuma, the founder of Ezhionum originally settled with his brothers Okpor and Ebu at a place near Okumeshi stream some kilometers away from present day Obiaruku under the leadership of their father, Akashiede, whose parents fled from Benin due to incessant wars. But after sometime, Onuma became bored living with his parents and brothers and had to move away with his wife, Ezhie and they finally settled at a place near the River Niger which is now known as Asaba.

But after many years, Onuma decided to flee Asaba and return to his kinsmen near Okumeshi stream because of a serious power take which did not favour him, as the great warriors from Benin empire who he sought for help in the hands of Eware the Great of the then Benin empire regrettably turned against him and his people.

Before the arrival of Onuma and his people, his parents had died and Okpor and Ebu had settled at the present settlements of Eziokpor and Umuebu respectively. However, Onuma and his family were asked to settle at the centre and they originally settled at Obiaka before moving to its (Ezhionum's) present location.

After they had settled in Ezhionum according to the first account, Ossai the first son of Ezhie and Onuma who was nicknamed "Eweka Onyeidu", in remembrance to the great warrior who ruled with the Oba of Benin, had there male children namely: Odumegwu, Osele, and Ine. And later, Ine also gave birth to Osumili, Ughomeh and Ezeogbu. It is interesting to note here that Ine gave his children these names in reflection to the stories he heard from his elder brother Ossai. For instance, Osumili reflected River Niger which they formerly lived close to while Ugbomeh and Ezeogbu reflected the names of some great warriors in Asaba.

Correspondingly, the first quarter in Ezhionum was named after the nickname of Ossai (Eweka Onyeidu) the first son of Ezhie and (also), the five families in Aweka are the true true reflection of Ossai's children and and grandchildren namely Umu-Okpala Odumegwu, Ogbe-Osele, Umu-Ugbome, and Umu-Nzeogbu.

Consequently, Ezhie and Onumgbunum had there (3) children namely: Ossai, Oduegwu and Anie the only female. All of them including Ebu and Okpor's children called themselves "UMU AKASHIEDE" and lived for many years in the vast land called Akashiede village which stretches from Umukwata through Aragba.

After the death of Akashiede, the children decided to share their father's land, hence Okpor's children chosed the original dwelling place and named it Eziokpor with Ezhie and Onumgbunum including their children choosing the middle part whole Ebu accepted the area close to Aragba and Abraka which is the present day Umuebu. But before their movement to different locations, Onumgbunum died and after some time, Onumgbunum's children led by Ossai took their mother (Ezhie) to Umunwali before relocation to the present day location and named it Ezhionum in about 1800 AD.

Another account according to Okolugbo (2004) has it that a man called Akashiede who married two wives migrated from Benin and settled in Umuoshi quarter of Eziokpor. The first wife gave birth to three (3) sons namely: Okpor, Ezhie and Ebu while the second wife had a son named Ovili.

As members of the various families increased rapidly after the death of Akashiede, the first settlement became too congested for the migrants, hence they agreed to separate their families from one another.

Hence Okpor the eldest son became the direct heir of the original settlement at Umuoshi and his descendants named the settlement Eziokpor (after Okpor). Ezhie the second son moved southward with his family and founded a site which (his) descendants named Ezhionum after their ancestor. Ebu the youngest son migrated westward with his family and settled at the present site which his descendants called Umuebu meaning "the descendants of Ebu". Ovili the only son of the second wife moved farther and founded the village of Ovili (Abraka inland). This account, according to some Ezhionum elders has doubtful ingredients because Ezhie is believed to be a woman and not a man.

Compiled By: Comrade Timothy Chukwunwosa Umukoro and Comrade Stanley Chukwuka Oweniwe.

Ezhionum Kingdom is one of the communities that make up Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
The geographical location of Ezhionum can be explained throughthe physical boundaries it shares with other communities. In the north, Ezhionum is bounded by Amai; in the south by Abbi, In the east by Ogume and in the west by Aragba.

POPULATION DENSITY
According to the projected census figure of 1991, Ezhionum has a population density of about 15,240 people comprising of 8,000 females and 7,240 males.

TRADITIONAL SET UP
Ezhionum is traditionally made up of three (3) quarters namely: Aweka, Ogbe-Nami and Ogbe-Ofu. The three quarters consist of twelve (12) families with five (5) in Aweka, three (3) in Ogbe-Nami and four (4) in Ogbe-Ofu quarters.

OCCUPATION
The geographical location of Ezhionum places it in the tropical rain forest which makes the people completely agrarian by occupation. The crops cultivated for both subsistence and trading with neighboring communities include yams, cassava, maize, melon, pepper, groundnut, beans and plantain. The cash crops cultivated include rubber, palm-oil, kola-nuts, etc.

THE HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF EZHIONUM
Different historical sources and varying accounts of the elders were sought by the writers with a view of gathering some historical facts and finally presenting a summerized and streamlined historical origin of Ezhionum.

One of the accounts has it that the great grandfather of the founder of Ezhionum community and some other people originally settled in Benin. But due to incessant wars in the Benin empire, they left Benin and settled at Asaba near the western bank of the River Niger at about 1500 AD.

However, at the 1600 AD, war broke out in Asaba over who becomes the king of Asaba and the faction to which the grandfather of Ezhionum belonged ran to ask for the help of Benin w warriors who responded quickly but did not see their opponents who had hidden themselves inside an anthill. Most unfortunately, the invited Benin warriors started killing the faction that invited them based on the assumption that they lied to them.

This unquestionably led to the exodus of many people from Asaba amongst whom was a pregnant woman who according to one of the accounts finally settled at Ejeme and gave birth to a baby boy whom she named "Onumgbunum" which literally means "my mouth killed me."

Onumgbunum later became an adult and started an expedition further towards the west and after many years, he met a man called Akashiede who was living with his family at the present day Eziokpor and was accepted to live with them at about 1700 AD. The account further started that Akashiede has a daughter named Ezhie and a son named Ebu and the daughter was married to a man called Okpor with children. But Okpor later for sick and died and after some time, Onumgbunum, on the request of Akashiede took Ezhie as a wife in order to take care of Okpor's children and also have children through her.[url][/url]

gaius01:
Arrrrrrrh


In Nigeria, anything that spoil is spoiled, they don't think for repair that's generally our mentality.

Can you imagine the intending money to be wasted.



I remember vividly when my twinny wàs working in the barracks with Martin Luther teaching hospital, she said if those white oyibo travel back to thier country during those times if any machine spoil they will dump it and wait for the oyibo to come and rapair even it's 5 months.

Can you imagine? something they should repair and continue with.

Den full civil service.

Stingy, tight fisted, Olodo people with poverty mentality full there.

If ordinary bulb burn inside an office room, if the Oga does not buy new bulb for that room, even though its not the Oga that is using the office, nobody using the office room can buy new bulb.

ThatFairGuy1:
Should army be deployed or they should still be left alone?

Army will be overwhelmed. !!!

Na just cos army carry gun.

Pound for pound the military will be overwhelmed in one minute.

They can't deal with book in north east, its the whole Nigeria they will deal with?

chariisGRACE:
Gionee F103

My brother we dey the same pot o
The phone is not fake. It's just that it does not support Nigerian 3G and 4G network band.

The only 4G network it supports is Spectranet.

My own sef don scatter finish. If SARS collect am, dem go return am back to me because dem no go fit operate due to the shattered touch. (Na only me sabi press am)

The screen be like those transparent nylon they use to laminate.

Press am small, screen go tear.

Huawei

If you buy Nigerian/substandard version of gionee phone, you will regret the day you saw it.

I'm stuck with a gionee f something here.. Specs say it's 3g but only 2g network day d phone.

Gionee charges very slowly too.

Lemme judge the quarrel ...

weyreypey:
Mtcheeeew... he's gonna insert a tube. Blow bawo.... oga ade stay your lane

Lexusgs430 commented jeje ... You could simply say.. "Oh no, he's gonna insert a tube, the tire can't blow" ... But rather you hiss and tell him to stay his lane.

Lexusgs430:
Is it poverty/negative economical conditions that warped our mindset like this.......

"Our mindset" ... Is a general, society term, not directed at anyone in particular. weyreypey shouldn't have picked offence at that to allude that lexusgs430 is poor because he uses Umidigi phones.

Even if he's using Itel, did you give him money to buy it?

Lexusgs430 deserves an apology for the tirade directed at his person

Let us learn to stay on topic, please. Thanks

Madibahisback:
This place looks like alaba side
Is it??

Somewhere in Delta State

What are the implications of the below pictures, please?

And the shoemaker got paid just N50 for all the work

OP lemme help you crop it

Cheers

1st choice 8
2nd choice 5

9 is for old papas

Miniso:
somebody one year rent , dis life no balance

It's my 2 years rent sef

Double post

mrfm1:
Lovely morning guys. I need a very good hp laptop (preferably hp probook 640 g1 or elitebook 820 g1). 4gb ram, 500gb hdd, intel core i5. Budget is 60k max. Thanks.

To be fair .. to avoid being scammed.. to avoid buying laptop with hidden problems...

60k can only get you core i3 ... If you see core i5 for 60k, check it very well for hidden faults.

You can get Dell or Lenovo core i5 from 65k

Elitebook core i5 is about 90k

OruExpress:
your post is wrong

Parisian:
Babasolution I'm here to tell you that you are mad, dumb, daft, stupid and idiotic.

You're a disgrace to humanity.

How is he wrong?

Prove him wrong.

Don't just say he is wrong and walk away

Gurus in the house, help me scruntize and trim the game

52,000 odds

Bet9ja

ZDPZ2VQ

ImaIma1:
There are many factors involved in a lady not wanting to marry or date down. It is very easy to bruise a guy's ego when you are higher than him. And that might make the lady constantly walking on egg shells.

I once shared here how I had a date with a guy that I had been talking to. I drove to meet him while he took a taxi or public transport because he didn't have a car. We wanted to move from our meeting point to where we were going to hang out. Do you know that this guy refused to enter the car? We had to walk down there in the hot sun.

It was sooo obvious that he was uncomfortable with the fact that I drove and he couldn't just let me drive him. We didn't see after that.

Some guys cannot handle it. Who wants to keep apologising for being up if you are with a guy that has a big ego.

Where is ladies dey see all those useless guys sef?

There are many humble, nice and hardworking guys out there... Why is it only egoistic, womanising, gold diggers una dey see?

Dinho

It's a cool vehicle.. balanced at high speed

But aluminium full the engine. If uneven road or speed bump break the engine bottom, you will have to drop the engine.

On smooth roads, you can speed as much as you like. But don't speed over gallop/speed bump, approach bumps with extreme caution and avoid bad road that can scrap the bottom of your engine as much as possible.

You're good to go

Canada, straight without looking back

thesicilian:
It's a simple decision: if he wants fame, playing time, respect but mixed with insults from time to time, and to avoid racism, doesn't care about trophies he should play for Nigeria.

If he wants prompt payment of wages and allowances, higher chance of trophies, doesn't care about racism or being on the bench most of the time, he should play for England.

Which trophy has England won since 15 years ago?

And how many trophies has Nigeria won?

B3ACHSIDE:
More images

Where fish go come see food again?

It's beautiful to humans but to nature, is disaster to aquatic life...


It'll be be like turning a rain forest to sahara desert to marine life

[quote author=Yankee101 ArticleBeast post=92074375]You were employed and told you will exit in 24months.

1. What did you do with your money and time?
2. A good number had other jobs while others had spare time to do other things
3. Let's stop depending on the government for everything[/quote]You are ignorant.

Government parastals don't have quality manpower... What they have is old, mediocre civil servants everywhere.

Some public primary/schools have only 5 permanent staff (Principal/HM vice principal, 3 teachers) for a while school.

Some state governments have not recruit teachers as far back as 2005.... Their rural schools are relying on semi-literate community teachers to function.

The government is supposed to consolidate and build on Existing Npower beneficiaries... I mean, add more, not disengage.

Nigeria Army/Navy/Airforce recruit every year ... Npower can accommodate Batch A-Z if the government can think of of the box but they're just lazy.

Osinbajo/Afolabi/Maryam Uwais successfully managed Npower for three and half years without much issues.

But Sadiya Umar farouk, within few months, she wants to destroy everything because she can't think/innovate or she has personal sentiments.

So it's not really that Npower batch A, B,C,D is not feasible together... It's just that Sadiya Umar farouk is hell bent of sending them away.

ProfAmaben:
Any programmer that doesn't practice for a minimum of 4hrs daily, should kindly reevaluate his career path.

Light o.


This is Nigeria. If you're not based in state capital or major town, no light at all