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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 […]

‘Kwankwaso’s comment on extra state in S’East laughable’

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, South-East, State News Monday, October 8th, 2012

The World Igbo Youth Council on Sunday berated the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, over his comment that the South-East zone does not deserve an extra state. The WIYC said Kwankwaso’s comment was against the principles of the 2005 National Confab where Nigerians agreed to the creation of an additional state for the South-East. The […]

Igbo presidential dream, and the search for platform

Posted by admin Latest Politics, South-East Monday, September 24th, 2012

By NKIRU EVONGWA Dialogues and presentations made by Igbo leaders at different fora on the nation’s solemn desire to ensure that a president of Igbo extraction emerges in 2015 could be counted as a demonstration of seriousness on their part. Comforting as this might be, political analysts cannot stop at imagining the realization of such […]

S-East govs set up joint security c’ttee

Posted by admin Governors, South-East Sunday, September 9th, 2012

BY Tony Edike ENUGU—GOVERNORS of the South-East states, yesterday, set up a joint security committee headed by the General Officer Commanding 82 Division of Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major-General Olayinka Oshinowo, to recommend ways of tackling the rising problem of insecurity in the zone. The committee, which membership was drawn from various security agencies, including the […]

‘Nnaji’s successor must come from S’East’

Posted by admin Latest Politics, South-East Sunday, September 2nd, 2012

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to replace ex-Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, with another competent person from the South-East geopolitical zone. The group said Jonathan should abide by the Federal Character principle, which guides political appointments, to ensure that the number of the ministers from the […]

PDP Tasks FG on S’East Roads

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), South-East Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

-tehrThe leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the South-east zone yesterday asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on the Enugu-Okigwe-Port-Harcourt Expressway in order to justify the huge support the people of the zone gave President Goodluck Jonathan during the election. In a statement issued by the Zonal Publicity Secretary […]