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Emotan Of Edo People
{By Edoworld) The statue of the stately woman, clad in the traditional wrapper and a head-gear associated with the Benin royalty stands opposite the Oba market in Benin City. It was erected in honour of Emotan a a patriotic woman who traded in foodstuffs at the very spot where her statue stands in the 15th century
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Emotan of Benin Kingdom {By Egharevba} The old Agbado Market was founded by one of the Ogisos. Both the Oba and Okpagha Markets were founded by Oba Ewedo, but it was Ewuare the Great who planted an Okpagha tree at Okpagha Market which bears its name “Eki-Okpagha” in the place of the Ogheghe or Okhikhan planted there by Ewedo.
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