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We can no longer guarantee peace in the East – Ohanaeze

Posted by admin 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, […]

Concede presidency to S-East – Ohanaeze

Posted by admin 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 […]

Ohanaeze Ndigbo: MASSOB spits fire…Warns S’East governors

Posted by admin 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 […]

Opinion: Igbos cannot produce president with five states

Posted by admin 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 […]

CD lauds S-East Govs, others on security

Posted by admin 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 […]

2015: S’East needs other zones to produce president – Mbadinuju

Posted by admin 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. […]

Ibos, Yorubas & The Rest of Us – By Prince Charles Dickson

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson, South-East, South-West Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 31, 2012 – We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain a dog, two fingers from a distance will not bring it to where it escaped from.) As a public commentator, I […]

2015: Why Nigeria needs an Igbo President -Kalu

Posted by admin National Politics, South-East, Top Stories Friday, October 26th, 2012

Former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has said that there is need to elect an Igbo man as president in 2015 if the country must make progress, just as he dispelled insinuation that he scuttled Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s presidential ambition in 1999. Kalu, who is the founder of Njiko Igbo, a socio-political […]

Have the Igbos been Reintegrated Back Into Nigeria? – By Max Siollun

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Max Siollun, NNP Columnists, South-East Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

By Max Siollun | NNP | Oct. 24, 2012 – In an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian newspaper last week, Nigeria’s acclaimed author Chinua Achebe said that after the Biafra-Nigeria civil war, “Igbos were not and continue not to be reintegrated into Nigeria, one of the main reasons for the country’s continued backwardness.” […]

Igbos celebrate Ekwueme at 80 with demand for new state

Posted by admin Latest Politics, South-East Sunday, October 21st, 2012

The demand for a new state in the South East yesterday dominated the grand carnival to mark the 80th birthday of the Second Republic Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, in Enugu. Speaker after speaker at the event where Dr. Ekwueme was elevated from his traditional chieftaincy status of Ide Aguata to Ide Ndigbo by Igbo […]