Prominent Towns in Delta

Ozoro
Latitude:   5.5469         Lat (DMS)                 5° 32' 49N
Longitude: 6.2265        Long (DMS)              6° 13' 35E
Elevation (Feet): 223
Population Est.(2006):  57095
Zipcode:  334111
History:
    Oral tradition has it that our great ancestor and founding father, Opute whose mythology depicts that of a great warrior and his wife Ozoro, migrated from Ancient Benin. Mythology woven into our oral tradition has it that Opute the son of Ethi, had the same grandfather, Oba Ozolua with Ogwaran. Opute and Ogwaran were of the same father but different mother.Their mothers had a quarrel in the market place that resulted into a fight. Opute mistakenly shot an arrow which blinded Ogwaran’s mother. Opute feared the wrath and anger of Ogwaran; a giant with a legendry strength. Before Ogwaran returned from his war campaign, Opute fled Benin kingdom with his wife Ozoro, his brothers from the same mother namely: Esume Osumiri, Ozormo and Etimi, and a retinue of followers.
  Opute left the shores of Benin around the 11th century  armed with a plethora of magical power for victory in warfare and success in life endeavors.
    He carried a magical staff (“Usu”) the seed of a possession tree and the artifacts of his father’s deity. In Opute’s flight from Benin his magical “Usu” was used for his testing for a favorable place of settlement. If he successfully pulled it out, such place had failed the test. After so many suns and moons in his journey of destiny, after crossing so many rivers and streams, subduing both attacking beast and men, and after “testing” many other places which he rejected, he arrived in an upland in the heart of Niger Delta. Here he thrust his Usu into the ground at the exact location where Eri Okpe the community deity is housed today. At this fortuitous spot, he could not pull the Usu off the ground as was the case in previous “unwanted” settlements. The powers that followed, made  him to know that he had chosen and approved his divine settlement! He planted the procession tree at this place and built an alter to posses the place and named it after his wife “Ozoro” and set up a shrine for the ancestral deity in same place. His eldest son, Okpe was choosen by the ancestral deity as its high priest. This accounts for why the deity became known by the name Eriokpe, i.e Okpe deity, and as at today, the age-long family that produces the deity’s high priest is known and called the Okpe family or “Olua Okpe.
     Opute gave birth to five sons, who settled in Uruto, Erovie, Etevie, Urude, and Uruamudhu in seniority order, and who fanned out and settled in star fashion in five (5) roads leading to their sub-settlement in five (5) direction of space, in a manner very reminiscent of the present ring road in Benin City. The brother who left Benin Kingdom with Opute founded their own settlements, Opute founded Ozoro,lsume (Esume) founded Aboh; Ossumiri founded Ossisa; Ozormo founded Ashaka and Etimi founded Afor clan.
    Ozoro is the headquarters of the Isoko North Local Government Area, one of the two administrative units in the Isoko region of Delta State, southern Nigeria. Ozoro Clan is made up of Ozoro community, Okpaile Village, Ugbotiti Village.