Okpe Union, a foremost socio-cultural and political organization in Africa, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 celebrated its 93 years of existence with a call for the Okpe Nation to be accorded recognition as a distinct ethnic nationality in Nigerian federation. The dignitaries who congregated to celebrate the Okpe Union Day fumed at various attempts by some uninformed and mischievous elements within and outside the group classifying Okpe as a sub-group or clan of any other ethnic nationality in Niger