Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, has eulogized Ojukwu, saying “Ojukwu was a forthright and honourable player.” In a statement signed by the residential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April, 2011 election, Buhari said: “It is with great shock that I received the news of the passing away of […]
A source closed to Army Generals of the Northern extraction has attributed the silence of the officers from the region on the menace of the Boko Haram sect on the fear of being misquoted by the public. According to the source would not like to make public comment on the issue to avoid being misquoted […]
THE people of Kogi will today receive President Goodluck Jonathan as he pays a one-day official visit to the state. While in the state, President Jonathan is expected to commission various projects put in place by the administration of Governor Ibrahim Idris. Among them are the newly constructed office of the state governor, office of the […]
THE fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, again struck on Saturday evening, killing four policemen, wounding about 20 others and burning some churches as they attacked the police head-quaters in Geidam, Yobe State. The attack on the police headquarters, according to Agency report, set the small North-East ablaze, in a wave of night-time gun and bomb attacks by […]
GOVERNOR Peter Obi of Anambra State has appealed to those seeking to know the details of ex-Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s burial to be patient as, according to him, “it will be a collective decision in consultation with various stakeholders, with his immediate family taking the lead.” He said this in reaction to numerous calls […]
The Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) a non-government organization (NGO) has advised the Federal Government to immortalize the late Biafran warlord and national leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Odumegwu Ojukwu by renaming the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as Odumegwu Ojukwu University (OON). The group said renaming a university of the UNN’s […]
By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye, London, UK, – Nov. 27, 2011 – Earlier on today, the sun set on one of the most enduring personalities that has ever come out of the nation now known as Nigeria, as I received with sadness the news of the transition of Chief Odimegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu to eternity. Here is […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Nov. 27, 2011 – There are several things I feel the federal government is getting wrong. The list is long: its decision to push for a single term tenure despite massive public opposition, plans to remove so-called subsidies on petroleum products on spurious arguments that do not convince […]
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, London, UK – Nov . 27, 2011 – Prior to the 1966 coup which ushered in General JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, very few people in Nigeria had ever seen soldiers before. They were mostly confined to the barracks. Most of us in those days did not even know that Nigerians soldiers were sent […]
By Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP – Nov. 27, 2011 – It is usually a thing of shock to come into consciousness that the phenomenon called death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain every mortal. The nature of death has been for millennial a central concern of the world’s religious traditions and of […]
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