Natives
Orumba Local Government Area is home to some of Nigeria's distinguished personalities spanning the academia, politics, and corporate world. These include some of the following underlisted people.
- Dr. Raymond Obieri, the famous Nigerian banker who founded Summit Finance group and Chairman of Intercontinental Bank PLC who hails from Ufumaland (Ana uvume).
- Professor Vincent Chukwuemeka Ike the famous educationist and author who hails from Ndikelionwu where he is now a traditional King. He is renowned for novels like The Bottled Leopard and Toads for Supper amongst others.
- Professor Humphrey Nwosu who organised the best election in Nigerian history to date which would have ushered Moshood Abiola to power, but was scuttled by the regime of erstwhile despot Ibrahim Babangida.He hails from Ajali town.
- Dr. Alex Ekwueme, who hails from Okoh town is a scion of the Royal House of Okoh, frontline politician, architect and former Vice-president of Nigeria.
Ufuma is particularly popular in the South Eastern part of Nigeria because it had offered sanctuary to fleeing Biafran warlords during the final days of the Nigerian-Biafran conflict.
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“I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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