The conventional ruler of Obosi kingdom, HRM, Igwe Chidubem Iweka (Eze Iweka III), bestowed a particular and revered conventional chieftaincy title on Prof. Nnamdi Benson Onyire, a professor of drugs on the Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
Igwe Iweka, who can be the chairman of the Anambra State conventional rulers’ council, gave Prof. Onyire the standard chieftaincy title, Akadire Obosi, when he celebrated his fifteenth Iwaji/Obiora competition on the Obosi township stadium on October 24, 2026.
The revered title was given to him for his profitable medical profession, mentorship of youthful colleagues within the space of drugs, conduct of researches that produced options to medical challenges, unexampled philanthropic deeds, and quite a few management achievements.
For instance, it’s a identified proven fact that Prof. Onyire (Akadire Obosi) re-built the Obosi Development Union (ODU), Enugu department when he served as its first president. And, now, he’s serving because the chairman of the BOT of Obosi Village Square (OVS) Whatsapp group, an elite think-tank group that companions the political and conventional establishments in Obosi for management functions and developmental initiatives.
Besides, he has helped a large number of folks to realize their careers’ goals, purchase high quality schooling, and safe employments in authorities and personal organizations.
Not much less vital is the truth that his sob story of disadvantaged childhood, from which he was rescued, has continued to encourage folks not to surrender on their educational, enterprise, literary, and inventive pursuits. In truth, he’s the image of those philosophical sayings: “where there is the will, there is a way” and “God makes a way where there is no way”. And he has turn out to be a role-model to the youthful generations of Obosi folks, who’re working assiduously to achieve nice heights of their chosen fields of specialization.
And lengthy earlier than Igwe Chidubem Iweka gave him the standard title, Akadire Obosi, HRM, Eze John Nwosu of Isiokwu-Ihioma group in Imo State had given him the identical conventional chieftaincy title title, Akadire.
More so, true to his character, Akadire Obosi has remained grateful to Igwe Chidubem Iweka for that gesture of respect, which is in accordance him recognition within the historical city of Obosi.
Obosi is the house city of such nice personages as Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a former secretary normal of the Commonwealth of Nations; the late Chief Chimezie Ikeazor, a authorized luminary and founding father of the free authorized aids council; Chief Mike Ajegbo, a former Nigerian senator; Chief Osita Chidoka, former aviation minister, and others.
The three recipients of the standard chieftaincy titles share the widespread denominator of deploying their expertise, information, and monetary assets in working for the event of Obosi and the betterment of its folks.
Chiedu Uche Okoye, Obosi, Anambra State
