Peace at last between Okuama and Okoloba? – By Francis Ewherido …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
Until the killing of 17 officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army, many people never knew about the tensions and skirmishes between Okuama, an Urhobo community in Ewu Kingdom, Ughelli South Local Government Area and Okoloba, an Ijaw community in Bomadi Local Government Area, all in Delta State. Both communities have lived side by side for “over 300 hundred years,” according to the Pere of Akugbene-Mein Kingdom, HRM Pere Kalanama VIII, who is an Ijaw monarch with some Urhobo…
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