Ogbaru(Official
name) Native names (Ogbahu / Ogbesi) is a Local Government Area
in Anambra State, south-central Nigeria, an Igbo land subgroup. Towns that make up the local
government are Atani, Akili-Ogidi, Akili-Ozizor, Amiyi, Mputu, Obeagwe, Ohita,
Odekpe, Ogbakugba, Ochuche Umuodu, Ossomala, Ogwu-aniocha, Umunankwo, Umuzu,
Okpoko, Ogwu Ikpele. Ogbaru has its local government headquarters in Atani.
Ogbaru People are traditional fisher-people, farmers as well as known warriors
from its history. The Ogbaru people also share clan linage and boundaries with
its people in delta state and rivers state such as Asaba in delta state and
Ndoni in rivers state. The Ogbaru people consider River Niger waters that runs
through its lands as their territorial lands. Ogbaruland is neighbored by
Onitsha, a major commercial city in south eastern Nigeria located in Anambra
State in Nigeria. Ogbaru people and clan are stretched into three Nigerian
states, namely Anambra State, Delta State and Rivers State in Nigeria.Ogbaru
has notable people such as Prof.Ben Nwabueze (SAN), a professor of law, the
Late Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, a world-renowned and acclaimed high life
musician AND so many others. Ogbaru today has a Nigerian Naval Base, an
Industrial river harbor, a refinery, a federal road under-construction leading
to Rivers State in Nigeria. Ogbaru is also a projected link road to other parts
of the south east / south south zones of Nigeria with construction of a more
inland link roads and a proposed 2nd Niger Bridge. Ogbaruland is very strategic
to its surrounding region of Nigeria and West Africa (Africa) as a whole.
