The evolution of Nigeria as a country has been one of the most intriguing surprises of the last fifty years. Many scholars have examined the reason for the apparent inability of Nigeria to fulfill her potential and assume leadership roles in Africa and the world. There are different schools of thought on the origin and […]

Read More ETHNIC NATIONALISM – THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM (2014) By Eke O Eke.

“O Igbo arise! O Igbo arise! O Igbo arise! Let the chains of subjugation be broken, let the yoke of slavery be shattered and let the shackles of servitude fall. For the voices of your ancestors and your dead are calling. The voices of your slaughtered children wail, scream and screech through the night and […]

Read More 50 YEARS ON: AN ODE TO THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN AND NIGERIA’S INCONVENIENT TRUTH (PART 1)

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo will no longer sign the 2017 budget by 9am on Thursday. A source had told TheCable that the budget was due to be signed on Thursday and that the presiding officers of the national assembly had been invited to witness the exercise. But the presidency made a last-minute cancellation of the […]

Read More Budget signing cancelled last minute.

Being a Book Review on the Occasion of the Public Presentation of “The Vanity of ‘Change’ and the Audacity of Truth (A Collection of Uncompromising Essays)” authored by Mr Jude C. Ndukwe, on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at Merit House, Aguiyi Ironsi St, Maitama, Abuja. I feel deeply honoured and privileged to stand before this […]

Read More Audacity Of Truth’: A Review, By Aziza Uko

In Imo State, all markets in Owerri, filling stations, fast food outlets, schools and commercial banks remained under lock and key in compliance with the sit-at-home directive. Food vendors, sachet water hawkers, shoe shiners and even barrow pushers were equally off the streets. As a way of consolidating the order, IPOB loyalists mounted the Biafran […]

Read More 30/05/2017, Imo stands still.

Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has advised those campaigning for restructuring of the present federal structure to stop dissipating their energy as no amount of advocacy or agitation would lead to restructuring. The AGF, who admitted that reforms and modifications of institutional arrangements, systems and processes were normal in federations world over, […]

Read More AGF: No amount of agitation’ll lead to restructuring.

Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, has sacked the state executive council and 27 local government transition committees, with immediate effect. A statement by Pascal Obi, principal secretary to the governor, directed all former members of the executive to hand over to permanent secretaries or the most senior director in their ministries. Obi quoted the […]

Read More Shake-up in Imo as Okorocha fires all 27 Local Government transition commitee chairmen.

There is no doubt that one of the most interesting human endeavours is true, sincere and committed friendship . An enduring friendship availiable for each in every circumstance. Such frienship is scarce to find , but it has happened in a very strange circle- political circle , where it is acceptable that permanent frienship is […]

Read More How true friendship can develop our nation, the Tambawal, Ihedioha example ~ By Aic Akwarandu.

Just as christians celebrate all souls and all saints day. Tomorrow, regardless of what you believe in or who you pay obeisance to, we must as a people remember our fallen heroes and heroines, our parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, relatives and kinsmen who died during the biafran war while fighting for […]

Read More Biafra At 50: The Genocide Against The Igbos While The World Stood Aside And Look

The Month of May in 1967 witnessed two significant events that permanently redefined and truncated the manifest destiny the giant promise on the African Continent the World called “Nigeria”. The background to those two events was that following a botched Military Coup in January of 1966, led by middle rank officers which nevertheless led to […]

Read More 50 YEARS AFTER BIAFRA 1967, NIGERIA HAS LOST THE EASTERN HALF OF ITS SOUTH. – LNC May 30th, 2017.

 In the following address given eleven years before Nigerian independence, Nnamdi Azikiwe calls for self-determination for the Ibo as they along with other ethnic groups march toward an inevitably free Nigeria.  This address was delivered at  the Ibo State Assembly held at Aba, Nigeria, on Saturday, June 25, 1949. Harbingers of a new day […]

Read More (1949) Nnamdi Azikiwe, “Address to the Ibo People”  

“There are two basic questions that must be answered by all Nigerians. One, do we want to remain as one country? Two, if the answer is yes, under what conditions?” – Chief Bola Ige Introduction To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, Marxist, and progressive thinker, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks […]

Read More Death of a nation – Biafra and the Nigerian question.~ By Chido Onumah

And when the war ended, the victors sat down to share the spoils. One region got the oil wells and the other region got the foreign companies. The vanquished region got two sets of gifts. While some got £20 each, others got to keep the houses in their own part of the vanquished region belongings […]

Read More The Parable of the Country.

The Igbo do not need or want the Presidency. Actually, they are the only Nigerian ethnicity that do not need the Presidency and its implied nepotistic powers, to succeed in the Nigerian conondurum. This is a fact that any honest person will confirm, even if grudgingly. The Igbo also hate symbolism, especially in very serious […]

Read More Re: Biafra is Not a Dirty Word ~ Comment by Jon West.

For as long as any Christian, liberal or humanitarian tradition survives, the year 1968 will be. remembered as the one in which a British government, for the first time in its history, was prepared to condone the mass starvation to death of innocent civilians as a means of implementing one aspect of its peacetime foreign […]

Read More Britain and Biafra The case for genocide examined: AUBERON WAUGH SPECTATOR MAGAZINE, LONDON 26 DECEMBER 1968, Page 10

The extraordinary contributions of Igbo women in the struggle to liberate Igboland, should never be underestimated or overlooked! As early as 1929, when colonial abuse was a fact of life to most Africans, Igbo women, with support from other women in the bight of Biafra, organised a revolt against British colonial rule & paid with […]

Read More A sincere appreciation & celebration of the greatest women on earth; Umu Nwanyi Igbo (Igbo women).

“IPOB have been very law-abiding. In fact, they say everybody should stay at home. They didn’t ask everybody to come and demonstrate on the road. They say stay at home to prayerfully and sorrowfully mourn the dead,” “In the Biafra war, People died on both sides… About 1.5 million people on the Biafran side died. […]

Read More CHIEF NNIA NWODO, PRESIDENT GENERAL, OHANEZE NDI IGBO SPEAKS ON THE SIT AT HOME ORDER BY IPOB:

May 29th, 2017 H.E Owelle Rochas Okorocha Government House Owerri, Imo State Your Excellency, ROTATION/ZONING OF IMO STATE GOVERNORSHIP – AN ADVISORY I bring you very warm compliments of this democracy day. It is my prayer that the good Lord continues to guide and protect you as you serve our dear state to the best […]

Read More IMO 2019: ROCHAS OKOROCHA, ROTATION OF IMO GOVERNORSHIP AND THE VERDICT OF HISTORY- AN ADVISORY FROM A FORMER OKOROCHA AIDE. A MUST READ.

Today May 29, 2017 marks the 2nd anniversary of the election of Gov. Okorocha as governor of Imo State for the 2nd term. We are supposed to be celebrating the dividends of democracy. Rather, the people of Imo State are saddled with tales of woes orchestrated by the misrule of Mr. Rochas Okorocha. Ndi Imo, […]

Read More MY PROFOUND LETTER OF APOLOGY TO THE PEOPLE OF IMO STATE FOR MY ROLES IN THE ELECTION OF GOVERNOR OKOROCHA.

Forty years ago, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka travelled to Nigeria’s secessionist Biafra region to try and calm growing tensions. The visit saw him thrown in jail, forced to spend 22 months in solitary confinement. Now he has returned to meet those who ordered his detention. The BBC’s Mark Rickards accompanied him: Soyinka was accused of […]

Read More Wole Soyinka’s return to Biafra.

A former Minister of Health, and political adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prof. A.B.C Nwosu, has again, joined numerous voices in the country calling for the restructuring of the political system. The professor, had earlier expressed surprise that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has rejected calls from various quarters for the nation’s restructuring. He […]

Read More Nigeria will die if not restructured – Prof. Nwosu.

A one time Minister of Health, Prof. Alphonsius Nwosu has said that he will not go out on 30th May, a day set aside by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to honour Ndigbo that were murdered during the Nigeria/Biafran civil war. But Prof. Nwosu explained that staying at home on that date was not […]

Read More IPOB sit-at-home-order: ‘Why I won’t go out on May 30′

Ahead of the sit-at-home declared tomorrow, Tuesday, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has vowed to hold acting President, Yemi Osinbajo responsible should anything happen to pro-Biafra agitators. This is coming amid fears over alleged plans by security operatives to open fire on the agitators who shall be observing a sit-at-home to mark the 50th […]

Read More Biafra: We Shall Hold Osinbajo Responsible If Any Igbo Man Is Killed – Ohanaeze.

The Moshood Salvador faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos on Sunday commended the Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration for his achievements in infrastructure development in the last two years. The Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani, gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. He said that […]

Read More 2nd anniversary: PDP commends Ambode.

The South-East Governor’s Forum has advised the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and other groups agitating for the actualization of sovereign state of Biafra, to desist from embarking on the sit-at-home order planned for Tuesday May 30, so as not to plunge Igboland into irredeemable conflagration. The governors also stated that Igbos will not secede […]

Read More IGBOS WILL NOT SECEDE FROM NIGERIA …SOUTH EAST GOVERNORS.

Tension is building up in the southeast states following tomorrow’s sit-at-home order called by Biafra agitators to honour its members who lost their lives in the struggle for a sovereign state of Biafra. Since Saturday, the presence of security officials has increased in various parts of the region. Checks showed that armoured carrier tanks have […]

Read More Tension in South East as security agencies plot to abort Biafra sit-at-home protest.

I cannot cry more than the affected Igbos, and to be honest, try as hard as I might, I know I will never be able to reach the uttermost depths of the Biafra angst. My people did not suffer a genocide at the hands of their own supposed compatriots or fellow nationals. It doesn’t bear […]

Read More 30th May: A NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING

I will never forget. No. I will never forget. The images are seared in my memory of childhood. I want to also remember that Igbos owned a large portion of the Nigerian economy before the war, and despite all effort to keep them down, they are back in that position. I want to vividly remind […]

Read More My Views on Biafra: REMEMBER THE FUTURE ~ By Chizzy Nnamchi

May 29, 2017 marks another ‘Democracy Day’ and two years that our great Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) bequeathed democratic governance to the Current Administration of the All Progressive Congress (APC); which it has already squandered given its intolerance and highhandedness to any form of opposition, as well as crass ineptitude in governance. We […]

Read More The BUHARI APC GOVERNMENT @2: JUST CRASS GOVERNANCE: NOTHING TO CELEBRATE.

The third edition of The Nigeria Symposium for Young and Emerging Leaders hosted by The Future Project, in partnership with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Y!/YNaija.com, is set to feature policy shapers in Nigeria such as Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Donald Duke, Femi Fani-Kayode, among others. The event will hold on 30 May, […]

Read More PETER OBI, FEMI FANI-KAYODE, ROTIMI AMAECHI, OTHERS TO SPEAK ON GOVERNANCE AT THE NIGERIAN SYMPOSIUM FOR YOUNG AND EMERGING LEADERS.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s two years in office are, perhaps, the most difficult in the country’s economic history. It was the period the country’s economy slumped into recession for the first time in more than a decade. After two quarters of consecutive negative growth, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, confirmed in March 2016 that the […]

Read More Mid-term Assessment: How the Buhari (APC) administration (mis)handled the Nigerian economy.

His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, CON, led by the Executive Governor of Sokoto State, His Excellency, Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and other top functionaries of Sokoto State Goverment, commissioning the Western Bye Pass-Keystone Road located in Sokoto North Local Government Area of Sokoto State, as part of the activities marking Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambawal’s […]

Read More Happened 29/05/2017

To the Heads of State and Government of African Countries Please accept my sincere congratulations on the occasion of Africa Day. This important date commemorates the victory of the peoples of your continent in struggle for freedom and independence and symbolizes their wish for unity for the sake of peace, stability, and sustainable development. African […]

Read More PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADIMIR PUTIN’S CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE ON AFRICA DAY

Mr Suleiman Idris, sir! It is with a heart burdened with grave pain that I write you this letter. And make no mistake, Mr police I.G, this is not a friendly letter because the truth is, you are not my friend but my employee. From your conduct since assumption of duty as Nigeria’s no1 police […]

Read More MAY 30TH BIAFRA DAY SIT -AT – HOME, POLICE THREAT; AN OPEN LETTER TO THE I.G OF POLICE ~ By Charles Ogbu. 

Dear Nigerians, I bring you good wishes from President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, who as we all know is away from the country on medical vacation. 1. Today marks the second anniversary of our assumption of office. We must thank the Almighty God not only for preserving our lives to celebrate this second anniversary, but for […]

Read More DEMOCRACY DAY SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF. YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, COMMEMORATING THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION, MAY 29, 2017.

The FG’s handling of Kanu’s case and its general management of the pro-Biafra movement in the South-East have proven to be strategic blunders which ended up raising the profile of both the man and his cause. Just two years ago, Nnamdi Kanu was unknown to most Nigerians. Even within South East Nigeria, some saw him […]

Read More OPINION: THE PROSPECTS OF BIAFRA ~ by SBM Intelligence

After 1979 presidential elections which shagari won, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe complained that he was rigged out…and Dr Chuba Okadigbo as Political Adviser to Shagari said Zik’s complaint was a ranting of an ant….in 1981, Okadigbo and others announced that Zik was dead. DR. NNAMDI AZIKIWE response TO DR. CHUBA OKADIGBO… And it came to pass…. […]

Read More THE REAL WORLD.

Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Mr Balarabe Musa, speaks on the state of the nation. It is May 29, another Democracy Day? What is your take on the state of the nation? May 29 has nothing to do with democracy, it is just a day in Nigeria’s history when the military handed over power […]

Read More We are celebrating two years of civilian dictatorship.

So Obasanjo is asking us to come and share national cake? Wonders shall never end. But wait o, where is he getting the cake from? Is he not a criminal who stole our bread and butter and then invites us to come and share as if he is being benevolent? Doesn’t Obasanjo know that we […]

Read More AFTER SAYING THAT “BIAFRA IS DEAD AND BURIED “, YOU NOW WANT TO BEG AND DIALOGUE WITH THE DEAD, YOU BE WINCH❓TOO LATE OBASANJO, TOO LATE SIR.

Bruce Mayrock (a Jewish-American) who set himself on fire in front of the United Nations building, New York City, USA in 1969. He died from his burn-wounds. He did this as a protest after seeing videos of millions of Biafran children dying from starvation. Bruce Mayrock was a medical student, aged just 20 years old […]

Read More BRUCE MAYROCK:

My late mother of blessed memory used to say in Igbo: “Offor adighi ire esuo ya oku”, meaning; if the deity as represented by the piece of offor wood seizes to be active, then it might as well be burnt or use as fire wood, because without that active relevance, it is nothing short of […]

Read More Sen, Chris Ngige/Joe Igbokwe Vs Gov. Ayo Fayose/Femi Fani Kayode.

Went the day well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, Freedom, we died for you. John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet, and dramatist who is notable as the author of celebrated epitaphs. It was he who wrote the above epitaph and this one […]

Read More BIAFRA REMEMBRANCE DAY AS A PASSOVER By Law Mefor.

Excerpts from the confessions of the PERPETRATORS: “I want to see no Red Cross, no Caritas, no World Council of Churches, no Pope, no missionary, no UN delegation. I want to prevent even one Ibo from having even one piece to eat before their capitulation. We shoot at everything that moves and when our troops […]

Read More Shocking revelations of the hatred for Igbos and how the north used the Nigerian Federal troops and locals in the South-West and North to commit genocide with the help of Great Britain and America during the civil war.

Nigerians must rise and challenge President Muhammadu Buhari from further terrorising of Igbo leaders, Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, has said. Fayose, who regretted the raw deal being handed down to the people, said the onslaught had increased in recent times with the harassment of prominent Igbo, especially those in opposition political parties. The governor, […]

Read More Nigerians must stop Buhari’s terror against Igbo leaders.

(Being A Presentation by the Lower Niger Congress to the Igbo Summit at Enugu, with the Theme: “Navigating the Future”, Convened by the World Igbo Congress, 27th May 2017 at Enugu). PROTOCOLS. It gives me great pleasure to welcome us all to the Great Coal City, Enugu. I must commend the Conveners, World Igbo Congress […]

Read More THE TRINITY OF THE IGBO QUESTION, THE EASTERN NIGERIA QUESTION AND THE “BIAFRA” QUESTION IN NIGERIA: A CASE FOR A SELF-DETERMINATION REFERENDUM.

I’m heading to Uzoakoli to do battle I’m heading to Uzoakoli, but My lover cries out, she didn’t want me dead. My lover begs me to flee, But who will defend the land When I flee? My sweet heart begs me to Flee, But who will do battle when the Hausas come# With this song […]

Read More Remembering Biafra.

A SOBER REFLECTION. By PROF. T. UZODIMA NWALA President Alaigbo Development Foundation (ADF). Introduction. Before I thank the organisers of this Conference and pay my tribute to the Memory of my friend, late Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, in whose Foundation Center this historic event is being organised, let me quickly dismiss certain lingering pernicious fallacies […]

Read More Reconciliation: What have we learned? Paper presented at the Conference – MEMORY AND NATION BUILDING: BIAFRA 50 YEARS AFTER:

The Federal Government has released the results for the just-concluded 2017 National Common Entrance Examination into 104 Federal unity schools and disclosed that two candidates from Anambra State scored the highest marks. According to a statement by the Acting Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, Dr Husseini Adamu, a total of 80,421 candidates […]

Read More Anambra Leads In Common Entrance Exam.

Not once and not twice, Chris Ngige has made public statements that is, for all intents and purposes anti Igbo and most of the statements appeared to rationalize the predicament of our people. The very fame Chris Ngige is enjoying in our Anambra state is based on his performance as the governor at one point. […]

Read More CHRIS NGIGE, THE NEED TO THINK BEFORE TALKING..

At about 8am on Friday, May 26, 2017, men of the Nigeria Police Force from the Inspector General of Police Special Squad raided the official guest house of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, located at No. 10 Ganges Street, Maitama, Abuja. The police, however, stated at the end of the search […]

Read More Press Statement: POLICE RAID EKWEREMADU’S ABUJA HOUSE, FIND NOTHING.

I just finished speaking to the Deputy Senate President and he confirmed to me that his home was raided by security forces today. This is shameful and shocking. Raiding the homes of our friends and leaders like Ekweremadu and harrasing their children will not deter, stop or silence those of us that are in the […]

Read More STATEMENT ON THE RAIDING OF THE HOME OF DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT EKWEREMADU.

As the Governor of Imo state, His Excellecy Owelle Rochas Okorocha clocks Six years in office on May 29th, 2017, Independent Newspaper Publishers Association (INPA), as good partners in progress and major stakeholders in the State, carried out a study on Governor Rochas Okorocha’s regime and uncovered some agitations from Imo masses regarding the achievements […]

Read More INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION (INPA) IMO STATE CHAPTER AT SIXTH YEAR ANNIVERSARY INDICT ROCHAS.

I think the rest of Nigeria has really suffered to say only Igbos have been marginalised. The marginalisation has gone all round. However we need to categorise the various acts of marginalisation to make sense of it all; 1. There is CYCLICAL marginalisation (experienced by those out of the power equation at any time). Every […]

Read More Are Igbos marginalised?

The Senate, in a historic move, has passed the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), which is the first part of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). The upper legislative chamber passed the bill after the senators considered clauses in the bill. The bill, which has not been passed since 2008, was broken into four parts to […]

Read More Years after it was first presented, the Nigerian Senate passes the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill.

Please let it be known from today that South -east is not landlocked. It is only our economy that is locked. One quick way of unlocking the economy of South-east is through marine business. Contrary to the impression that the South-east is landlocked, the truth is that it has one of the potentially deepest seaports […]

Read More DR IKEDI OHAKIM PROPOSES NEW ECONOMIC PATHWAY FOR SOUTHEAST ….Says South East Is NOT Landlocked.

1996: Dr. Ibrahim Tahir; Talban Bauchi and second Republic Minister declared in a public lecture at Ibrahim Abacha Youth Center Lafia, that Nasarawa State was created for the Hausa Fulani in the Diaspora not for the indigenous tribes who constitute 95% of the State’s population. 2017: Twenty Years later: 1. Tanko Almakura – Governor of […]

Read More NASARAWA STATE: A CONQUERED TERRITORY?? ~ By Dann Sharing 

I am shocked that the Igbos are not speaking up at the apparent siege laid on their land by uniformed person of different categories. They range from Army, Navy, Police, Civil Defence, Customs, FRSC, etc. My journey had taken me by road from Isele-Mkpitime, where I had gone to pay tribute to a Nigerian icon, […]

Read More The Igbos are under siege in their country.

His Excellency Owelle Rochas Okorocha (OON) Executive Governor Of Imo State Government House Complex Owerri. LETTER OF RESIGNATION AS STATE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL (SDC) MEMBER PURPORTEDLY REPRESENTING OBINZE WARD, OWERRI WEST I hereby write to resign my membership of the State Development Council (SDC) which appointment I was not offered to accept or reject from the […]

Read More OPEN LETTER TO GOV. ROCHAS OKOROCHA.

Leaders of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, otherwise known as Shiites, have cried out to Southern leaders not to abandon them as they create and strengthen alliances in agitating for a better deal for their people in the country. Speaking at the public presentation of the book, “The Vanity of ‘Change’ and the Audacity […]

Read More Don’t abandon us or they’ll finish us, Shiite Muslims cry out to southern leaders.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo says citizens have a right to discuss their continued existence in Nigeria. ‎Speaking at a conference organised by the Shehu Musa Yar Adua Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war in Abuja on Thursday, the acting president, however, said that Nigerians were greater together than […]

Read More Osinbajo: Citizens have a right to discuss their continued existence in Nigeria.

Below is the speech of the President of Ohanaze Ndigbo Chief Nnia Nwodo Jnr at the Yar Adua Center lecture  on 50 years of Biafra. The Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo were guests. 50 YEARS AFTER BIAFRA: REFLECTIONS AND HOPES PROTOCOLS: 1. I am grateful to Shehu Musa Yar Adua Foundation, […]

Read More 50 YEARS AFTER BIAFRA: REFLECTIONS AND HOPES ~ speech of the President of Ohanaze Ndigbo Chief Nnia Nwodo Jnr at the Yar Adua center lecture on 50 years of Biafra

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says engaging in dialogue with those agitating for an independent state of Biafra is a sure way to resolving the issue. Speaking at the Biafra conference in Abuja on Thursday, the former president said Nigerians must treat the country with care. ‎He said the country’s fundamental problem was that it had […]

Read More Obasanjo: We should beg those agitating for Biafra that there is enough cake to share.

As the first two years of the President Muhammadu Buhari-administration winds down this month, only four per cent of the 171 promises made to Nigerians in the build-up to the 2015 elections have been fulfilled, a new report by SBM Intelligence has revealed. The report, which is to be released this week, said the Buhari […]

Read More SURVEY: BUHARI’S PERFORMANCE IN TWO YEARS VERY POOR.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, says growth and development cannot be achieved when a country has distortions in its foreign exchange rates. Speaking at the launch of ‘Beating the Odds: Jumpstarting Developing Countries’, a book written by Justin Yifu Lin and Celestin Monga in Ahmedabad, India, Okonjo-Iweala said there is no one way to […]

Read More Okonjo-Iweala: You Can’t Achieve Growth If You Have Forex Distortions.

A Chatham House report launched yesterday in Abuja has estimated that at least $480 billion was stolen by corrupt officials between 1960 and 2004.Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London. The report, titled “Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria, a Social Norms Approach to Connecting Societies […]

Read More $480b stolen from Nigeria in 54 years – Chatham House reports.

The Devil is most successful amongst people who believe he does not exist. That is the situation around this debate of whether or not there are Masters and Slaves in the Nigeria of now. Those who reduce everything to spurious academic arguments and vacuous postulations are at liberty to amuse themselves but there are some […]

Read More THE STRATIFICATION OF ONE-NIGERIA, ACCORDING TO THE 1960 MISSION STATEMENT AND BATTLE-SCRIPT OF AHMADU BELLO.

Afenifere is a self-determination platform for the Yoruba. Yinka Odumakin, an Afenifere Leader, was a delegate at the 2014 National Conference A freelance American journalist, Brian Hall, was one of the last outsiders permitted to freely take a tour of Yugoslavia during the final days of its existence. From early May to mid-September 1991, he […]

Read More Can Restructuring Still Save Nigeria? ~ by Yinka Odumakin.

After earning more than $300m over his legendary career, the former heavyweight champion filed for bankruptcy in 2003, and later went to jail for cocaine problems. It would take more than a decade, and a trip through rehab, before Iron Mike (Tyson) would escape bankruptcy. “I didn’t think I’d make it through my thirties,” Tyson […]

Read More I Squandered Over $300m On Jewellery, Prostitutes –Mike Tyson.

May 24, 2017 The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC PMB 0184 Garki FCT, Abuja Nigeria REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF THE INEC PVC REGISTRATION PROCESS We refer to our petition dated May 15, 2017 in which we complained about ‘Worrisome Lapses In The On-Going INEC PVC Registration Process Which May Lead To Mass Disenfranchisement Of […]

Read More REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF THE INEC PVC REGISTRATION PROCESS.

Aba is a town of settlers – most of whom have been attracted by the lure of doing business in an energised community. The people care about production, distribution and revenue generation. There are so many success stories in Aba. The bare-chested millionaires are one. They are the extremely wealthy producers who care so much […]

Read More A Land of Bare-Chested Millionaires.

Some APC governors and APC major stakeholders led by Maman Daura are meeting today to see how they will help Sheriff at the Supreme Court. We can now confirm clearly that it is a battle between the PDP as represented by the Markafi group and the ruling APC. Nigerians and all lovers of democracy should […]

Read More NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY UNDER SURGICAL ATTACK.

Instead of responding to the words of Eric Joyce, the former British MP who told the world via his twitter handle on 19th May that President Muhammadu Buhari had died in a London hospital, Deacon Femi Adesina, the special advisor to the president on Media, in an essay titled “They Learnt Nothing and They Forgot […]

Read More Buhari Illness: The Sons Of Perdition And The Lamentations Of The Blind ~ By Femi Fani-Kayode [A MUST READ]

Many here may not have known that PRONACO was basically an initiative by the arrowheads of the then defunct NADECO, led by Chief Enahoro, to get the ethnic Nationalities of Nigeria, to revalidate the Aburi Consensus as basis of the Constitutional Framework and Architecture of Nigeria. Ojukwu, Soyinka, Beko, Onoh, were some of the other […]

Read More THE JURY IS OUT NOW FOR WHO STANDS WITH THE IGBO PEOPLE AND WHO STANDS WITH THE ENEMY.

The Senate caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted a statement credited to the Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, that the South East zone was not omitted in the development of some rail lines for which the sum of $5.8 billion loan was taken from China Exim Bank. Spokesman of the Senate PDP caucus, […]

Read More STILL ON WHY ROTIMI AMAECHI EXCLUDED THE SOUTH EAST FROM THE $5.8 BILLION RAIL DEVELOPMENT PLAN.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the body empowered to meet the yearnings of Nigerians for stable, adequate and safe electricity supply, has taken the bulll by the horn by releasing to the public, the rights of every electricity consumer. Read the rights below: 1. All new electricity connections must be done strictly on the […]

Read More Nigerian electricity regulatory Commision (NERC) Public announcement.

…As Aguleri youths berate Ezeonwuka over comments About 3,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ugbene community, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The defectors, led by the National Chairman of Ugbene Great Ambassadors Club, Chief […]

Read More 3000 APC, PDP Members Defect To APGA In Anambra State.

As Biafrans are getting ready to immortalized those who gave their lives to Biafra struggle and to those that gave up everything they have amidst social criticism just to be ” Biafran” on the May 30th sit in, we must remember one man that took our fight globally, Middle weight and Light Heavy Weight Boxing […]

Read More Remembering Dick Tiger Ihetu.

Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as Head of State. He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was then […]

Read More SPECIAL BRANCH REPORT: HOW IRONSI WAS KILLED. ~ BY HIS ADC CAPTAIN ANDREW NWANKWO.

• Agenda is to hurt our region, Yakassai insists. • It’s the way out, say Onadipe, Akande, The controversy over whether or not to restructure the country continued at the weekend with two elder statesmen, Malam Tanko Yakassai and Chief Bisi Akande as well as former Nigerian Ambassador to China, Olusola Onadipe expressing divergent positions […]

Read More ‘Why the north is uncomfortable with restructuring.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by a factional leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Ali-Modu Sheriff, asking the court not to hear a motion by his challenger, Ahmed Makarfi. Mr. Sheriff had asked the court to refuse to hear the application filed by Mr. Makarfi, challenging the February 17 judgement of the […]

Read More UPDATED: Supreme Court strikes out Ali Modu Sheriff’s application..

An Enugu High Court has given an order of MANDAMUS compelling INEC to abide by the decision of party in recognizing Chief Martin Agbaso as the National Chairman of APGA. And also an order restraining INEC from recognizing any other person as National Chairman of APGA except Chief Martin Agbaso. The court went further to […]

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Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and seven other leaders will on Thursday speak at a conference on the Memory and Nation Building – Biafra: 50 Years After. At the one-day conference, which will hold at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja by 9am, Osinbajo is expected to deliver a keynote address. […]

Read More Obasanjo and Osinbajo to speak on 50 years after Biafra.

The governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom, has signed the bill prohibiting Open Rearing and Grazing into law in the state. The development is coming few days after the Benue State House of Assembly passed the bill prohibiting Open Rearing and Grazing into law. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital […]

Read More Gov. Ortom Signs Anti-Open Rearing, Grazing Bill Into Law In Benue.

The just concluded examinations (UTME) conducted by JAMB on prospective candidates into universities has unfortunately become another tool in the hands of federal institutions under the APC administration to continue to attempt to humiliate Ndigbo in every area of their success in order to futilely make them appear as villains rather than as the victims […]

Read More Exam malpractice and JAMB’s futile attempt to tarnish Igbo image ~ By Jude Ndukwe.

 The Chairman of the South-East Caucus in the Senate, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has challenged the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to explain why the eastern corridor was allegedly excluded in the rail line projects of the Federal Government. Abaribe, on Sunday in Abuja, asked Amaechi to explain why rail lines in the South-East corridor […]

Read More Abaribe tackles Amaechi over S’East exclusion from $5.9bn rail projects.

1. It is said that the voluntary surrender of power in 1979 to Alhaji Shehu Shagari gave the military, as then represented by Olusegun Obasanjo, a sanctimonious self-righteous air of being Nigeria’s custodian of democracy and moral conscience. However, the National Christian Elders’ Forum (NCEF) sees things differently to wit: that the handing over of […]

Read More THE CORRECT APPRECIATION OF NIGERIA’S POLITICAL SITUATION.

In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969, to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger describes the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa-gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation”(foreign relations document, volume E-5, documents on Africa 1969-1972). Kissinger’s description […]

Read More White House Memo Of 1969 Under Nixon Called The Igbo Jews Of West Africa

Foreign exchange shortages have forced Nigerians to buy more locally produced products, an official has said. Joseph Nnanna, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, said this in an interview with Bloomberg. Mr. Nnanna said that one advantage of the foreign-exchange shortage is that they forced Nigerians to buy more local products, including […]

Read More ‘Forex shortages forced Nigerians to consume local products’

” A Tesla Model S, which has 18 moving parts, one hundred times fewer than a combustion engine car. “Maintenance is essentially zero,” says Stanford University economist Tony Seba. “That is why Tesla is offering infinite-mile warranties. You can drive it to the moon and back and they will still warranty it.” No more petrol […]

Read More Petrol cars will vanish in 8 years, says US report from Stanford economist.

The 2015 general elections have come and gone, but the echoes are getting louder by the day, with parties celebrating, taunting, warning, or even blaming one another, depending on the side of the divide one belongs to. This trend has not been limited to the principal actors of the elections; it has also taken the […]

Read More Ndigbo and 2015 Elections: The Correctness of a Mistake.

In 2003 I was elected to the House of Representatives to serve the Abeokuta South constituency, in Ogun state. My eight years in elected office made me less optimistic about change in Nigeria, but more realistic. The political system was not designed to allow people like me – a 37 year old from the private […]

Read More Negotiating the system ~ By Rt Hon. Dimeji Bankole

Backs Biafra agitation Spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi has declared that the North is fully prepared for Nigeria’s break up if that will make component parts agitating for separate countries or restructuring happy. He explains his position in details in this interview with ABDULLAHI HASSAN in Zaria, Kaduna state. Some South […]

Read More North ready for restructuring –Ango Abdullahi.

There are elders and there are elders. Prof. Ango Abdullahi is not an elder. A real elder does not pursue a rat while his house is on fire. I needed to get that out of the way before those who excuse bad behaviors accuse me of abusing an elder. In Nigeria, an elder is a […]

Read More Why Prof. Ango Abdullahi Flunked His Test ~ By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo.

I have observed this interesting and fierce competition between the “yuppie” churches, especially along the Lekki axis; it simply is amazing the quantum of advertising that is going on, especially on the out-of-home medium. From the Law School all the way to Ajah, its an amazing media assault. Wow. I am not sure a week […]

Read More CHURCHES PLEASE MAKE UP YOUR MINDS… by Lolu Akinwunmi.

“I witnessed it first-hand last week. I went to the Aguata registration centre at a remote location at Ekwuluobia to register. I saw a lot of young people hanging around, I asked if they were not registering, and I was informed that INEC said they can’t register because they were 18 at the point of […]

Read More THIS IS SOMEONE’S ACCOUNT OF TRYING TO REGISTER FOR A VOTERS CARD IN THE SOUTH EAST LAST WEEK. DO WE HAVE SIMILAR OCCURRENCES? CAN SOMEONE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ASKED PLEASE.