Francis Tayor
The 2025 edition of the popular ancient Ogbaurhie-Ughievwen festival of peace and friendship was celebrated in a grand style over the weekend with exposition of the unique culture of the Urhobo ethnic nationality in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
The event took place on Friday 22nd August, 2025 at Ughievwen Town playground, Jeremi in Ughelli South LGA, Delta State.
The 2025 edition was chaired by Olorogun Dr. Adogbeji Earnest ldeh.
The feast attracted great Ughievwen sons and daughters from all walks of life across the globe to observe and appreciate their powerful Oghievwen deity of wealth and riches. It is a celebration of reunion, traditional worship system of the Ughievwen people, display of virgin open breast parade, fashion parade, traditional dance display among others.
Worshipers of Oghievwen deity, especially the wives and concubines worshiped with exposed breast without hidden neither shame. They went with various items such as fishes, rams, yam, plantain, Tobacco, minerals, biscuits, dry gin, native chalks among others requested by the god to thank and appreciate its numerous blessings upon their lives and family. It is also an avenue to make fresh request for the deity to bless them in the coming year. Worshipers pray for good health, wealth, protection, long life and prosperity. The Ughievwen people believes that the deity answers their prayers and deliver them from trouble whenever they cry to him with pure heart.
All Indigenes of Udu and Ughievwen kingdom comes together to celebrate Ogbaurhie festival, the god of wealth and beauty. The festival is usually being celebrated yearly in the month of August by the Indigenes of Udu and Ughievwen who are by tradition aborigin of Ughievwen kingdom. The festival lasted for one week and today is specifically dedicated for women to seek the face of the deity which is claimed to be their husband.
Speaking to the press during the festival, the Chief Host, Olorogun Prof. G.G. Darah, said Ogbaurhie festival is the Jerusalem of Ughievwen children to gather for peaceful coexistence and seek the deity for protection and prosperity at Ughievwen Town. The festival had been in existence over the past five hundred years. It is a man deity that is refers to as the mighty man of the waterways. He said when you are ignorant of your culture, you are doomed for hell.
According to him, said:
" For Ughievwen cultural heritage to continue, our children must learn the language and traditional worship of their gods."
He further emphasized that Ughievwen cultural festival is the oldest and the origin of every other culture in Urhbobo land. He congratulated the people of Oghievwen for the successful feast and urged Ughievwen illustrious sons and daughters to sustain the festival by promoting its activities annually.
He sighted how the Yoruba's in the western part of Nigeria observed their culture annually with vigor, commitment and dedication to the amazement of the world, thereby attracting foreign investors to come and establish businesses in their lands, especially Lagos State, lbadan, Ogun among others to boost the economy in the West.
Also speaking, Mrs. Patience Biokor aka the latest jet of the sea, said Ogbaurhie is a man deity that has billions of wives all over the world, including both the white and black race, and that she was lucky to be one of them. She stated that if u accept Ogbaurhie as your husband, he will open his heart to love you and do whatever thing you want him to do for you in life. She called on those contracted by Oghievwen deity to surrender themselves to him in order to attract abundance wealth, good health and longevity from the deity.
While Mrs. Helen Tefike, another wife of Ogbaurhie deity said since she got married to the deity, she was blessed with riches, beautiful daughters and sons without regret.
However, this years event featured masquerade dance display, dance of the four virgins, Udje Edjohpe cultural dance troupe, Egbemete cultural dance troupe from Otutu-ama and Owha-Okwha.
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