Tag: Nana Itsekiri
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Nana Olomu, born 1852 in Jakpa, was the Itsekiri chief and merchant in Palm Oil who occupied the position of the comey collector, essentially the chief tax officer, hence, Governor of the Benin River area between 1886 and 1894, the fourth Itsekiri to so occupy the position. Nana was during this revolutionary phase of Benin…