Delta Community Mourns As Obi Okonjo, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala Lose Mother

A matriarch, Prof Kamene Okonjo, mother of the Director General of World Trade Organisation, (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has passed on.

Also, the mother of the traditional ruler of Ogwashi Uku kingdom, Obi (Dr) Ifechukwude Anishi Okonjo 11 and matriarch of Umu Obi Obahai Royal family of the  kingdom, died on Friday aged 96 years.

She was the wife of the late His Royal Majesty, Obi (Professor) Chukwuka Okonjo, the immediate past Obi of Ogwashi-Uku Kingdom, with whom she shared 66 remarkable years of marriage.

A statement issued by Prince Ifeakanachukwu Emordi, Palace Secretary of the kingdom on behalf the royal family on Sunday, described the late queen mother as  an extraor...