- Joseph Karakitie Azigbo
Chief Joseph Karakitie Azigbo, the Okakuro of Okpe, was born in
Orereokpe onDecember 31 1918 . He worked with theUnited African Company inJos, Nigeria before establishing his mining business. He soon became very successful in the mining field and became one of the richest men in Nigeria in the 1950s.He married several wives and had 18 children. He died in July 1986 at the age of 68.References
"The Nigerian Standard Newspaper", 1963, Jos, Nigeria
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