- Chief Diare Uwangue: The first Governor during the Interregnum.
- Chief Nana Olomu: The Merchant Prince of the Delta and a WARRIOR; the last Governor during the Interregnum.
- Chief Dore Numa: The first Paramount Chief and British Political Agent for the Delta Province. Great Administrator and Trustee during the Interregnum.
- Chief George Eyube: The first Political Agent of the British in Warri Area.
- Asifo Egbe Esq.: The first Itsekiri Legal Practitioner.
- Rev. A. Omatsola: The first Itsekiri Missionary, writer and publisher.
- Mr. A. B. Oritsegbemi: The Greatest of all Itsekiri Dancers.
- Chief A O. Pessu: The first Itsekiri translator of English Hymns and Common Prayer into Itsekiri.
- Chief Festus Sam. Okotie-Eboh: The first Itsekiri Chiropodist and Federal Minister of Finance.
- Chief Edukugho Degbeyin: The first Itsekiri businessman to establish a School.
- Mr. Edema Arubi: The first Itsekiri Newspaper Publisher and a Great petition writer.
- Madam Igba: Merchant Princess of Warri fame.
- Prince Eri Ikengbuwa: The first Olotu during the Interregnum.
- Prince Omagbemi Ewolofun: The last Olotu during the Interregnum.
SOME IMPORTANT DATES AND FACTS WORTH KNOWING
1651 “King of Warri wrote to Pope Innocent X asking him to send him missionaries for his own good and that of the subjects and a capuchin mission with a prefect and three priests was accordingly established in his town”.
1682 “Two Capuchin missionaries, the Vice-Superior Father Angelo Maria Acaaio of the province of Corsica together with Father Bonrcatera da Firense set foot in the Kingdom of Warri, they were cordially received. This Prince was better bred than ordinary having been brought up among the Portuguese whose language he was an absolute master of, and could besides write and read a Qualification unusual among these Ethiopian Princes”.
1686 Brasillian missionaries erected a cross centre of a large square at Big Warri from which hung about 50 church lamps.
1795 Akengbuwa I, whose demise took place in June 1848, was crowned.
1848 The beginning of the long interregnum in Itsekiri History.
1867 War between Olomu and Diare in which the former was victorious
1875 Dibofun senior brother of Governor Diare died.
1884 16th July – Itsekiri Protection Treaty was signed by Governor Nana and eleven other Itsekiri prominent Chiefs which placed Itsekiri land under the protection of the British. The Treaty was also signed by Consul Edward Hyde Hewett who appointed Nana as the Governor, and Theo Hilliard as the Chairman of the Court of Equity.
1886 Itsekiri Kingdom was proclaimed part of Lagos Protectorate.
1890 War between Itsekiris and Ogbe-Sobo (Aladja) in which the Itsekiris avenged the murder of Atunu Numa, junior brother of late Chief Dore Numa.
1891 Chief Numa, grandson of Erejuwa I, died in February.
1892 Chief Ogiri of Dalekata died.
1896 Chief Dore Numa was appointed British Political Agent for the Benin River District.
1904 A prison and a pier were constructed in Warri; Government School was established and a start was made on the Warri-Sapele Road.
1905 Telegraph line to Lagos from Warri via Sapele was completed and post offices were opened at Warri, Sapele, Benin City, Ifon and Owo.
1906 6th November: Chief Awala Dibofun died.
1908 Chief Golley, senior son of Prince Chanomi, died.
1916 8th November: Chief Tonwe Ogiri died.
1917 Chief Dore Numa was appointed Paramount Chief of the Warri District
1923 December 9th: Chief Denedo Etuwewe died.
1941 19th July: Chief Ebido Diare died.
