EMMANUEL OBE writes that only time will tell whether the Igbo will, once again, have a common leader like the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu The death of Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu closed a chapter in the history of the Igbo, one of the three major ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. Despite failing to actualise their desire […]
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FOR the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the death of former Biafran leader Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has united the whole country . She told The Guardian shortly after the internment of Odumegwu-Ojukwu at the weekend at Umudim community in Nnewi, Anambra State that the Ikemba Nnewi was a man who in death united the whole […]
By Femi Fani-Kayode A great and proud warrior. A true son of Africa. The strength and pride of the Igbo race. Tell it not in the north, the south, the east or the west….for how are the mighty fallen. You stood firm and fought hard for your people when it mattered the most. Nothing else […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has again described the late ex-Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Ojukwu as a selfless leader who fought against injustice while alive, just as the South East Governors said that Ikemba’s burial had brought to an end the wounds and pains of the Nigeria Civil War. Jonathn, who poured encomium on the late […]
The remains of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu were yesterday interred in the marble mausoleum at his ancestral Umudim Nnewi home, in Anambra State at exactly 2:18 p.m, which overwhelmed his widow, Bianca and she broke down in tears. The burial ceremony witnessed an unprecedented turn- out of people from all walks of life, with many […]
Former leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Monday received a heroic welcome in death, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The remains of the late presidential candidate and National Leader of the All Peoples Grand Alliance, which arrived the Abuja airport in the […]
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha Monday February 27, 2012 Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Over 200 members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) yesterday took over major roads and streets of the commercial city of Onitsha in a roadshow as part of the burial rites […]
Monday February 27, 2012 Ojukwu Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section The challenging security situation in Kano State notwithstanding, Igbo residents modestly came out at the weekend to bid their leader, Dim Chukwuemeka-Odumegwu Ojukwu, a deserving farewell. While Ohaneze Ndigbo, Kano State chapter, marked their mourning rites with traditional search of the […]
Monday February 27, 2012 Ojukwu Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section On Thursday, the Pan-Nigerian spirit was displayed as the people of Lagos State and, indeed, other Nigerians gathered at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos, to pay their last respect to the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The grand occasion […]
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