nmayi Nne na Nna Ibu nmayi obi ukwu Marriage payments Aku ishi nwanya Ego nde okei Ego Umu Ada Ego Umuokorobia na Umu agbo Brides Parents Responsibility Nri oyinwanya Ihu onu aku Idu nwanyi Funeral Festivals New Yam Festival (Ogene) Ogene nkirika Ogene oma Owu (Okoroshi) Festival: This festival marks the beginning of planting season and the end of harvest season, using Yam as the major crop of significance. Eziorsu Political System Eziorsu has a hierarchical or pyramidal socio-cultural system in which the king is the apex of the polity and is selected from the maximal lineage of UMUDEI-EBO-ITO, comprising Umudanike, Umuaranze and Umuezeocha villages. Kingship rotates among the aforementioned lineages. In other words, Eziorsu autonomous community is a centralized state with an ancient political set up. It is not an acephalous socio-political system, where authority is not confined to a particular head rather a group of people with recognized right and obligations. As a centralized political organization, authority is concentrated on a single head and this arrangement is likened to a "Presidential Monarchy", found in those communities who came in touch with Nri people The act of identifying and selecting the Eze Igwe of Eziorsu Whenever the kingship stool of the community becomes vacant, owing to death, deposition or other inevitable causes, the maximal lineage of Umudei-ebo-ito comprising Umundanike, Umuaranze and Umuezeocha will normally assemble in order to make arrangements for the filling of the vacancy. This is done because the rotation of kingship among them is a hereditary possession. Depending on the lineage or village of reference, an ORACLE is consulted so as to identify a candidate whose reign will bring about a longer life span, peace and prosperity to the community and the would-be king in particular. The person named by the oracle will be consulted for necessary preparations. The Ikwe Omu ceremony This is the preliminary investigation, involving the reckoning of the descent or genealogy of the would-be king. The ceremony take place at the house of the traditional Prime Minister, the Iyasara (Nnowu or Onowu) from Umudarakerekpo village. During this colourful ceremony, all the representatives of the lineages/villages in the community must form a panel, with the objective of tracing the patrilateral filiation with matrilateral complementary filiation of the candidate, his would-be Odabu (first wife of the king) and Alashi (second wife of the king). if there is no social stigma attached to their descent,