The six days long 2017 edition of Ofala Festival took off with a flying start on Wednesday with the Oraeze International Arts Exhibition at the Ime Obi, Onitsha, Anambra State. Fathers and Elders of the land acknowledged the youths by devoting Thursday (yesterday) to the young souls to exercise their strength in a colourful day-long […]
A member of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Jude Idimogu, on Saturday, said it was too late for the Igbo nation to pull out of Nigeria. Idimogu, representing Oshodi/Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos Assembly, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that secession would be injurious to the Igbo. He said, “As […]
An ethnic clash between the Hausa and Igbo communities in Jos, the Plateau State capital has started. Sources say that several people have been injured along Rwang Pam street, an area said to be dominated by Igbos, after some Hausas tried to avenge the “killings” in SE around Chobe/Atili and Rwang Pam streets, and Ahmadu […]
Two UN bodies, the UN Office of Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), have denounced an ultimatum issued by members of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum for demanding that Igbo resident in all parts of northern Nigeria vacate the area by October 1, 2017. The two UN bodies […]
The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum has urged Igbo people in the North to ignore the directive of the Indigenous People of Biafra that they should leave the region, and called on the Federal Government to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu. The youths stated that having withdrawn their notice to quit issued to the Igbo living in the […]
The apex Igbo socio-political group, Ohaneze Ndigbo, has condemned the Federal Government’s call for the re-arrest and bail revocation of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. President General of Ohaneze, Chief Nnia Nwodo, also accused the Federal Government of bias, double standards and violation of Kanu’s fundamental human rights especially […]
An attempt by #ResumeorResign protesters to take their message to Wuse Market in Abuja ended with an inter-tribal clash. The movement, led by Charles Oputa, better known as Charly Boy, were attacked at the market by supporters of President Buhari. The attack, and a resulting retaliation, forced the police to close the market. Traders were […]
As the October deadline by a group of Northern youths to people of Igbo extraction living in Northern Nigeria to quit the region looms, a peace meeting between the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) and Igbo leaders in the North, convened to find a solution to the problem has ended in a deadlock. The ten-man […]
Former vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned a song wishing members of the Igbo ethnic group dead. The song, which has been circulating on social media, was published by online news medium, Sahara Reporters, over the weekend. In a statement issued by Atiku’s media office Monday, the former vice-president urged the security services to “apprehend, try, […]
President of Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo in Anambra State, Elder Chris Eluemuno, has warned that if Ndigbo is marginalised or intimidated in any way in Nigeria, they have no other option than self-determination. He further stated that if the President-elect, Gen. Muhammed Buhari (retd) failed to implement the report of the National Constitutional Conference, […]
The All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders in the Southeast caucus has asked the President-elect Muhammadu Buhari to give the Igbo the position of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). The caucus is also requesting for the position of the speaker of the House of Representatives or its deputy. The Igbo leaders […]
The Eze Igbo, in Plateau State, Chief Prof J.E.C Obilom, has expressed confidence the in- coming administration of the Governor-Elect, Mr. Simon Lalong, stating that one of the cardinal manifestoes of the Governor-elect was to protect every tribe state. Obilom made his position known, when Lalong was on a courtesy visit to his palace […]
A visit to Anambra State reveals why it is known and called the home of hospitality. Bounded by Imo and Abia State in the south, Benue and Kogi State in the north; Delta State in the west and Enugu State in the east, Anambra State could best be described as the home of entrepreneurs in […]
The story, which very quickly attained folklore status, is often told of an African American resident of the Big Apple who owns a club in New York. One day, he placed big television screens in strategic corners of the club and as long as the leisure facility remained opened, he played only Nollywood movies on […]
The director of media and publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has disparaged the Oba of Lagos saying that the threat of Oba of Lagos against Ndigbo is unacceptable. It would be recalled that the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, threatened that any Igbo in Lagos who […]