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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, South-East, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, June 29th, 2013
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 […]
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Headlines, South-East
Monday, May 27th, 2013
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 […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, South-East
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
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 […]
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Governors, Headlines, South-East
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
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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Headlines, South-East
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
The pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that it can no longer guarantee peace in the East in the face of the continued killing of the Igbo in some states in the North. The group said that stopping its youths from carrying out reprisal over the years, even in the face of extreme anger, […]
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Latest Politics, Raw Politics, South-East
Sunday, January 27th, 2013
By Vincent Ujumadu & Evelyn Usman LAGOS—Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo weekend, said the turn of the Igbo to occupy the Presidency had come, warning that any attempt to rip the South East of its due after President Jonathan’s tenure would be resisted. This came on a day former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka […]
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Governors, South-East
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha The new Igbo leader and leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has warned the Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, to desist from distracting Ndigbo trying to conduct another election in Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Uwazuruike said Ndigbo would no longer allow […]
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Headlines, South-East
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Igbo Vice Presidency 2015: The pathway to Igbo presidency By John Oshimiri (jackoshimiri@aol.com) I hold an alternative view to Senator Emmanuel Onwe’s elegant piece entitled: “Igbos Cannot Produce a President with Five States published on these pages on January 8, 2013. It is my considered verdict, not opinion that a president of Igbo extraction cannot […]
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Governors, South-East
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
By ANAYO OKOLI UMUAHIA—CAMPAIGN for Democracy, CD, has commended South East governors and security agencies in the zone for maintaining a crime free Christmas and New Year celebrations. CD, in a statement signed by the zonal chairman and secretary, Mr. Uzor A. Uzor and Dr. Jerry Chukwuokolo, said the governors in the zone did their […]
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Latest Politics, South-East
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Anambra owns the oil wells in the state It is God who owns the land and we are just enjoying the fruits that come from it. When I was governor, we began the oil exploration, I set up a committee and we travelled abroad in a bid to develop a petroleum industry for the state. […]
