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A New Beginning for South East Zone – By Emeka Chiakwelu

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists, South-East Saturday, October 1st, 2011

By Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP, October 1, 2011 – Without doubt the formation and commencement of South- East EconomicSummit (SEES) in Enugu is among the best economic effort and decision made so far by South East zone. This is a beginning and nothing substantial has been done but this shows a radical departure from incoherency overview […]

Igbo Day celebration: Police arrest 100 MASSOB members

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Thursday, September 29th, 2011

No fewer than 100 MASSOB members were yesterday beaten up and arrested at the entrance gate of Abakaliki Township Stadium during the Igbo Day celebration by the police in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State Four of them who were wounded during the police action were later rushed to an undisclosed private hospital in Abakaliki for medical attention. […]

No plot to move against Anyim –S’East

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), South-East Monday, September 26th, 2011

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South-east zone has described as unfounded, allegations that chieftains of the party from the zone were hatching a plot to ensure the removal of the Secretary to the Federal Government and former Senate President, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim from office. National Vice Chairman of the party from the zone, Chief […]

FG committed to S’East roads –Minister

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Monday, September 19th, 2011

The Federal Government has said it is not happy with the state of federal roads in the South-east and will subsequently pay full attention to roads in the zone. This was revealed yesterday by the Federal Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, while inspecting the Onitsha-Enugu dual carriage way at Onitsha axis in the company […]

Ndigbo demand 2 more states

Posted by admin Latest Politics, South-East Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Ndigbo in Lagos have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to facilitate the correction of the imbalance in Nigeria by motivating the creation of the long awaited two states in the South-east geo-political zone. The call was made at the pre-Igbo Day press conference last Tuesday organised by the 2011 Igbo Day Organising Committee. According to […]

S’East plots to dump PDP

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), South-East Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

A group of political leaders have begun moves to convince their counterparts in the ruling Peoples Democracy Party (PDP) to dump the party ahead of its national convention in January next year. The group, which consists mainly of young political turks across the various political parties is led by one Chief Mathew Ezema and is […]

Enough of this provocation, Ndigbo warn police

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, South-East Thursday, August 25th, 2011

The Nigeria Police yesterday came under severe attack following the unprovoked clampdown on members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and their leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and the attempt to arrest Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s wife, Bianca, as cross-section of Ndigbo described it as an affront to Igbo race. […]

Anyim, Okonjo-Iweala, others for S’East Economic Summit

Posted by admin Latest Politics, South-East Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Former Senate President and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Anyim Pius Anyim and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala are among dignitaries billed to participate in the forthcoming South-east Economic Summit. While Anyim is the chairman of a panel to discuss the future of the political future of the zone and its […]

Shelve 6-year single tenure for president of Igbo origin in 2015 –Group

Posted by admin Latest Politics, South-East Thursday, August 18th, 2011

As the debate to adopt a single six-year single tenure option rages, a non governmental organisation, “Igbo for Presidency Organisation” (IFPC), has advised that its adoption should be shelved for now until it rotates round amongst the geo-political zones. The national co-ordinator of the socio-political organisation, John Mgbeahuruike, in an interview with Daily Sun argued […]

South-East govs seek action on insecurity in North

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, South-East Sunday, July 17th, 2011

THE South-East Governors Forum has called on stakeholders in northern parts of the country to tackle the high rate of insecurity in their region. Rising from their meeting in Enugu yesterday, the chairman of the forum and Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, urged the stakeholders to put in place a necessary machinery so as to ensure security […]