By Aherhoke Okioma The Bayelsa State Government has implemented the recommendation of the reconciliation committee set up to resolve the election conflict among Igbos in the state by declaring Dr Frank Odunukwe as a validly elected President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Bayelsa. The Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the declaration at a meeting […]
The new President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has promised to serve the Igbos diligently and defend their cause. Iwuanyanwu made the promise at his inauguration as the new president-general of the apex Igbo body held at the old Government Lodge in Enugu on Sunday during the Imeobi meeting (inner caucus) of the group. […]
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has cautioned the Peoples Democratic Party against shopping for and fielding a northerner in 2023 as a presidential candidate. READ ALSO: Ndigbo has the highest stake in Nigeria, report of disunity untrue — Uzodimma Daily Times understands, in a statement signed by the President-General, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, and the […]
Leader of the women’s wing of the Lagos State chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo has told the Federal Government to castrate rape offenders to check the rising trend. Mrs. Violet Obiora made the call in an interview in Lagos on Sunday. She said that increasing incidences of rape in the country had become a menace that […]
The apex socio cultural organization in Igboland, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Imo state Chapter has thrown its weight behind Senator Hope Uzodinma over his declaration as the governor of the state by the Supreme Court arguing that he (Uzodinma) duly contested the election in accordance with the electoral Act. The group at a press conference in Owerri, […]
The Youth Wing of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, on Sunday, decried systematic kidnap of luxury buses-load of Igbo traders in the northern part of the country. The National Youth Leader of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Arthur Obiora, said this while speaking with newsmen in Enugu on the security challenge being faced by Nigerians […]
Igbo residents have decried the alarming rate of kidnapping in the state, saying that they are always targets of kidnappers in Benue State. Speaking under the umbrella of Igbo Union in Benue State, the Igbo residents raised the alarm that they were still being kidnapped for ransom in the state. They lamented that despite security […]
Wale Fatade As Nigerians voted on March 28, 2015, my father called asking me to speak with my mother, his wife. He pleaded with me mildly to persuade Iya Wale to vote for his preferred presidential candidate, and thereafter passed the phone to her. My mother bluntly refused telling me that she cannot trade her […]
* Says it’s best option for sustaining Nigeria’s existence * Wants adoption of 6-year single tenure for president, govs, 5 vice presidents * Wants implementation of 2014 Confab report, emergence of new constitution The national body of Ohaneze Ndigbo has called for immediate implementation of the report of the 2014 National Conference and the restructuring […]
Elder statesmen from across four geopolitical zones of the southern and middle belt regions, stormed the Senate on Thursday and declared that the nation is on the edge of precipice, requiring state of national emergency. According to the elder statesmen, restructuring remains the only way to resolve national crises. The elders, drawn from the socio-cultural […]
The Police Command in Enugu State has confirmed minor explosion at the Ukehe country home of Chief Nnia Nwodo, the President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo at early hours of Sunday. A statement issued in Enugu yesterday by the police spokesperson, DSP Ebere Amaraizu, said the Commissioner of Police in the state had already visited Ukehe in […]
The Vice-president of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex socio-cultural organisation of Ndigbo, Chief Charles Odunukwe, has said that Chief John Nnia Nwodo remains the President-General of the apex socio-cultural organisation world-wide. Odunukwe who fielded questions from newsmen Wednesday after receiving an award from the Human Right Defenders of Nigeria at the Niger Bar Association (NBA), Onitsha […]
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday lamented that the only notable presence of the Federal Government in Igbo land was prisons. Ohanaeze lamented poor industrial presence in Igbo land. Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday lamented that the only notable presence of the Federal Government in Igbo land was prisons. Ohanaeze lamented poor […]
The President, Ohaneze-Ndigbo, Delta State, Mr. Uche Henry Nwokobia has decried the absence of “ethnic politics” in the present day Nigeria’s Democratic System as set back to nascent democracy alleging that the Igbos have been marginalized in the scheme of things. Saying that the Igbos deserve “first class” treatment in all political arrangements, the Ohaneze-Ndigbo […]
…Says erosion enough menace to land in the region The Igbo Leaders of Thought also known as Umeobi Ohaneze which is the apex think tank of Ohaneze Ndigbo has rejected the recent plans from the federal government to establish cattle colonies in the region. The group also condemned the lack of empathy from federal government […]
*If you reject restructuring then you will create Biafra, Oduduwa -Amadi *No, only self determination will develop the Southeast -Mefor Myke Uzendu, Abuja The Ohaneze Ndigbo which is the apex decision making body in the Southeast has reaffirmed its support for a united but restructured Nigeria, maintaining that restructuring is no longer an option for […]
The umbrella body of Ndigbo, the Ohanaeze has called on the federal government to direct the military to call off its military operations in the South-East styled Python Dance II, calling it an invasion of the region aimed at intimidating the people. Ohanaeze said in a tense seven point statement issued on Tuesday and signed […]
It was history in the making on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, as various ethnic groups in Southern Nigeria including Yoruba, Igbo and Niger Delta people joined forces together in Ibadan to say that the only way to avoid disintegration of the country was for the Federal Government to heed the calls for […]
The Enugu state chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo at the weekend elected new executive members as part of build up to the Ohaneze Ndigbo National Elections scheduled to hold on Tuesday, January 10, 2016 at the organization’s national secretariat in Enugu. The election, which was conducted by the outgoing state president, Chief Eric Ebe, was monitored by members […]
Given the pedigree of most of the political and socio-political leaders in Igbo land, it may not be correct to classify them as naïve. These men and women who have occupied and still occupy sensitive and important positions ordinarily possess what it takes to make sound judgment but they carry on as if there is […]