The baby factories of the South-East

| credits: Bennett Omeke For the umpteenth time this year, police investigators raided another baby factory in Owerri, Imo State, freeing 16 pregnant teenagers whose babies were allegedly going to be sold. The Owerri bedlam, though shocking, is no longer news. There is a now familiar pattern that always ends the same way: the raid […]

Fashola’s apology, the media and South-East development

By Chris Okoye   The most celebrated news item published about the silver jubilee celebration of Aka Ikenga, the respected think tank of the Igbo community in Lagos, is the unreserved public apology to the Igbo people by Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola for the relocation of some people of Igbo origin from Lagos […]

Deportation: South East APC begs Ndigbo to forgive for his error in judgment

Deportation: S-East APC begs Ndigbo to forgive Fashola   By TONY EDIKE, Enugu Following the unqualified and unreserved apology tendered by Governor Babatunde Fashola for the controversial deportation of 14 Anambra indigenes from Lagos State to Onitsha, the All Progressives Congress (APC), South-East zone has appealed to Ndigbo and Anambrarians in particular to forgive and […]

Rebutting Fani-Kayode’s Anti-Igbo Slander (Parts 1 & 2) – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | September 5, 2013 – In his article: The bitter truth about the Igbo, Femi Fani-Kayode spectacularly exhibited his ignorance, narrow-mindedness, xenophobia and a penchant for lying. The three part article is a shameless convulsion of Nigerian history, brazenly, skewed against the Igbo. It is tendentious rubbish, just a […]

Igbos drag Boko Haram to UN

The World Igbo Congress, WIC, has dragged the leadership of Boko Haram to the United Nations. This was disclosed at the 19th World Igbo Congress, WIC, in Dallas, United States of America on friday. President of WIC, Nze Joe Eto told the convention that the step had to be taken to mitigate the killings and […]

Fani-Kayode and the Igbos – By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo

By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo | NNP | August 10, 2013 – I am not in any way attempting to hold brief for the Igbos as they are more than capable of doing so for themselves.  However, I wish to make a few comments about the unsavory article written by Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, titled “The Bitter Truth […]

New standards for Igbo leaders – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 28, 2013 – It is leadership that defines a nation. Essentially, it builds or destroys a nation. General Charles de Gaulle relevantly stated that “nothing great can be done without great (leaders)”. In other words, national greatness can only result from great leadership, and corollary, national decline […]

Ohanaeze kicks against planned trial of MASSOB leader for treason

By Tony Edike ENUGU — For the first time since its contentious election in January this year, the new executive of the apex Igbo socio –cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, weekend in Enugu, held its Imeobi meeting (highest decision making organ of the body) and kicked against trial for treason of leader of Movement for Actualisation […]

Ndi-Igbo backs amnesty for Boko Haram (After they have murdered your kinsmen)

By AbdulSalam Muhammad, Kano. KANO – The President- General Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo World Wide, Chief Gary Nnachi, has enjoined the Federal Government to hasten the Amnesty program to members of the dreaded Boko Haram, so long that will guarantee peace across the federation. The President General of the Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo who was in Kano in company […]

South East Govs, stakeholders agree on befitting burial for Achebe

Governors of the South East of Nigeria on Sunday in Enugu agreed to give the renowned author, late Prof. Chinua Achebe, a befitting burial. The Chairman of the forum, Mr Peter Obi, made this known to newsmen at the end of the governors’ meeting. He said the governors and some elder statesmen from the zone […]

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