UBULU-UKU - MY HOME

Ubulu-uku my village my home. Ubulu-uku is situated some thirty kilometres (30kms) west of the River Niger in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State. Eastwards it shares a boundary with Ogwashi-Uku, westwards with Obior; northwards with Issele-Uku and southwards with Ubulu-Unor.

Ubulu Uku is sited in an undulating environment with its Enugu-Iyi and Abuedo end at the top of a long stretch of hills, while its centre, fanning out from the Ubulu tree, to Isho, Akwu, Ogbeofu, Idumu-Osume etc are located in a valley.Rolling down these hills are rivers which run through the entire clan to the sea through other neighbouring clans. Iyi Agor ( River Agor) stands out prominently among these.

Ubulu-Uku is the largest and most populated town in Aniocha Local Government Area. Topograhically it is a hilly town that could be easily compared to Agbor in Delta State, Auchi in Edo State and Ibadan in Oyo State. This hilly nature of the town accounts for the serious problem of erosion which it faces. The Problem has made some of the streets impassable especially the street leading from the major road to Ogbeofu.

On the other hand when one looks at the town from any of the hilly spots especially at night, one sees beautiful scenery that could be said to be one of the best that nature has bestowed on this part of the earth. The town has one major stream called Iyi-Agor which was the main source of water supply before the advent of pipe-borne water. A few other minor streams like and Iyi- Nkpitime-Isho, Iyi-Nta, Iyi-Eko Ozala also

serve people in various parts of the town.

Three major roads run through the town . One runs from Asaba via Ibusa to ogwashi-uku then through Ubulu-uku to Obior and Umunede. The second road branches out from Ubulu-uku to umunede road at Idumu-Osume village via Akwu village and then to Issele-Uku. The third road branches out from Ubulu-Uku to Umunede road at the post office junction and runs through Akpama, Agbonta-Udogwu and Isho village to Ubulu-Unor.

Occupationally Ubulu-Uku men are farmers, weavers, hunters, and palm wine tappers. 

As for Ubulu-uku women they are expert weavers. With their hand looms they produce materials that are highly treasured by both foreign and Nigerian visitors to the town. These beautiful clothing materials are won by men and women even children but mostly won during occasions like festive periods, wedding and burial ceremonies. It has a blend of brand indication of name of families, places etc. the women are highly skilful dancers, the men are not left out too and d children hmm! Beautiful houses made from mud which makes the houses feel cool even when it’s dry season.

 Ubulu_uku is blessed with palm trees which palm oil, palm wine which the men enjoy so much, there is also what we call ude-aku which is also gotten from palm nuts when processed it is used as a body cream and bathing soap for newly born babies it can also be used as an healing agent from fire burn or bite it has it unique smell. Ubulu-uku is also blessed with cassava which the local flakes are gotten from also known as garri.

They are specialised in garri making in different varieties which are the red and the normal white garri.

    In ubulu-uku,there are three groups who assist the king who is known as OBI. these groups are called OKWA IYESE, OKWA ONISHE and OKWA OJIBA.THE OKWA ONISHE is made of administrative chiefs, who assit the obi in the day to day running of affairs of town , the OKWA IYESE is made of war chiefs who responsible for the defence for the town against any external aggression. The OKWA OJIBA is made up of palace chiefs who are responsible for the internal welfare of the OBI. They all have their greetings the OKWA ONISHE is OGENE, EDE ,OJUNWA, OJIGWU. The OKWA IYESE have greetings like ONUNWU which is for the men and AJEE for the women etc.

      Finally we have our right and beliefs in the case of a marriage for bride pride price its just 1000 (one thousand naira) very cheap so if you are looking for a wife or a husband remember the women are pretty, hospitable and caring while the men are hardworking, lucrative and modest.