APRIL 2023
RECOGNITION FOR AFRICAN PIONEER CHIEF I MICHAEL IBRU
t’s September 2016, and family and friends are gathered to remember the amazing life of Chief Michael Christopher Onajirhevbe Ibru. A family member reads aloud a self-penned poem which went: You lived a vibrant and full life, You were a man ahead of your time,
A leader with matchless generosity While Chief Ibru was all those things, Modestly he was much more. It’s hard for people outside West Africa to understand the impact Chief Michael Ibru had on Nigeria. To the Urhobo people, the most populous group in Delta State, he was like a messiah.
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