Late last year, the South-east and South-south traditional rulers organised a retreat at the prestigious Nike Lake Resorts and Hotels, Enugu, which opening ceremony had President Goodluck Jonathan represented, and the Sultan of Sokoto and Co-Chairman, National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, NCTRN, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III, as special guest of honour. Publisher of Champion Newspapers and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and Minister of Special Duties in the Presidency, Alhaji Tanimu Turaki, were also on ground.

‘’Hey, stop there, you don’t look like one of us. I saw you as soon as you alighted from the motorcycle near the Baale’s house and I have been following your movement. Can you explain your mission to this community…?’’—resident

Though successive administrations in the state had spent huge sums of money on the plantation with a view to making it a profitable enterprise, it is still lying comatose.

“The Epha (celebration of bare breast maidens), which is Urhobo’s appreciation of the purity in women, is gradually going into extinction on the notion that it is fetish and obscene.”—Dr. Emmanuel Biri,

A rupture in a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC, at Otughievwen, Ughelli South Local Government Area, has contaminated the community’s Gbogidi River.