Eyo Ita

Rayuwar farko da ilimi 
An haifi Eyo Ita ne a Garin Creek a karamar hukumar Odukpani ta Jihar Kuros Riba, a cikin gidan sarautar Sarki Eyo Honesty II, mai mulkin garin Creek. Iyayensa su ne Yarima Eyo Nsa Eyo Ita da Gimbiya Ako Eyo Ita na dangin Adak-uko.Kalu Ezera. Constitutional Developments in Nigeria: An Analytical Study of Nigeria's Constitution-Making Developments and the Historical and Political Factors That Affected Constitutional Change, 1960, p. 46.

Ita dai ta halarci makarantar horaswa ta Presbyterian Hope Waddell da ke Calabar kafin ya ci gaba da karatunsa na gaba a Jami’ar London da Jami’ar Columbia da ke New York. Ya zauna a Amurka tsawon shekaru 8.

Yayin da yake Calabar, an fallasa shi ga koyarwar James Aggrey, wanda ya bi diddigin damar karatu ga ɗaliban Afirka a Kwalejin Baƙaƙen Tarihi da Jami'o'i a Amurka. Calabar ta zama filin horas da wasu ‘yan siyasa masu kishin kasa saboda farkon wuraren da aka bude makarantun sakandare a birnin da kuma tasirin mutane irinsu James Agrrey.Philip Serge Zachernuk, Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas, University of Virginia Press, 2000, pp 107-108. ISBN 0-8139-1908-8.

 Kishin kasa Najeriya 
Ita dai Jarumi ne mai kishin kasa a Najeriya a lokacin mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya. Bayan ya dawo daga kasar Amurka, ya kafa kungiyar matasan Najeriya (NYM) a shekarar 1934, ya kuma yi wa matasan Najeriya zagon kasa don nuna kishin kasa. Cannon Yarjejeniya ta Matasa da aka amince da ita a shekarar 1937 ta ta'allaka ne kan kishin kasa, jituwa tsakanin kabilu da kuma babban gobe. Kungiyar Matasa ta zama silar fafutukar ganin Najeriya ta samu 'yancin kai daga Biritaniya. Dawowar Nnamdi Azikiwe daga Amurka a 1937 ya kara wa wasu fitattun 'yan Najeriya shiga harkar.Toyin Falola, Adebayo Oyebade. The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, Africa World Press, 2002, pp. 96-97. ISBN 0865439982Rosalynde Ainslie, Catherine Hoskyns, Ronald Segal, Political Africa: A Who's Who of Personalities and Parties, Frederick A. Praeger, 1961, pp. 21-22.

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