NJournalist and critical researcher, Adagbo Onoja, has lost his mother, Mrs Ikponya Abba, aka “Ojongo”.
Ojongo passed on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at the estimated age of 90 years.
She hailed from Ogene in Amejo Ward of Edumoga District of Okpokwu Local Government Area of Benue State, North Central Nigeria.
Family members said the deceased died in age-related illness.
She was widowed in 2014 when her life-long husband, Elder Ogbu Onoja, passed in Opialu, also in Edumoga District of Okpokwu LGA.
Popularly known and called Enem Ikponya (Our Mother/Mama Ikponya in Idoma language), she is a devout Christian and member of the Catholic Women Organisation (CWO) otherwise called Christian Mothers.
She was most known for promoting educational causes.
A mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, Ojongo is survived by three children: Adagbo, the journalist; Sunday, an academic and Ithe, a federal worker.
Her burial is underway.
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