President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo’s speech at Chatham House, Wednesday September 27, 2017. Restructuring Nigeria: Decentralisation For National Cohesion.

Protocols. Let me begin by extending my deep sense of gratitude to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, for inviting me to participate in this current series of discussions on, Next Generation Nigeria: Accountability and National Cohesion. The involvement of this reputable British Institute in discussing and proffering suggestions for extant Nigeria’s problems is not […]

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SPEECH DELIVERED BY PROF. ILOCHI A. OKAFOR (SAN), FCI. ARB., AT THE NEW LEGAL YEAR CEREMONY HELD ON THE 25TH OF SEPTEMBER, 2017.

1.1. There is nothing like military democracy. It is democracy, pure and simple – government of the people, by the people and for the people – practicing rule of law, where the security and welfare of citizens are paramount, without discrimination of tribe religion, sex, ethnic origin etc administering justice equally between the rich and […]

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Operation Python Dance II: A Tale of Terror, Blood and Tears. A Press Release by Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, Catholic Bishop of Umuahia, on 26th September, 2017..

1. Our country is passing through turbulent times. This seems to be as a result of the growing culture of impunity, greed and graft among the political elite, as well as the injustice and inequity in political appointments and the distribution of social amenities. While public officers and their cronies obscenely amass ill-gotten gains at […]

Read More Operation Python Dance II: A Tale of Terror, Blood and Tears. A Press Release by Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, Catholic Bishop of Umuahia, on 26th September, 2017..

Watch Ohanaeze PG LIVE at Chatham House.

https://www.chathamhouse.org/livestream Use this link tomorrow to watch live from Chatham House: Next Generation Nigeria: Participation, Accountability and National Cohesion Chief John Nnia Nwodo, President-General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, will examine Nigeria’s efforts at nation-building, the reality of citizenship, as well as power-sharing and devolution as strategies for strengthening democracy and accountability. Event time: 27 September 2017 […]

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Restructuring: PRONACO set to reconvene its peoples confab for Nigeria.

Pro National Conference Organization (PRONACO), a Pan Nigerian Movement initiated under the leadership of late Chief Anthony Enahoro and Prof Wole Soyinka to resolve Nigeria’s perennial Constitutional challenges, has announced plans to reconvene its adjourned National Confab following persistence of the logjam over the restructuring of Nigeria According to the group’s spokesperson, Olawale Okunniyi, who […]

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Max Gbanite: Exit of an icon.

Nigeria’s foremost strategic security consultant, Max Gbanite will be buried on the 6th of October, Oblong Media can report. The Harvard trained security expert died on Monday, August 14 in New Jersey, northeastern United States. Gbanite who until his death, was the President/CEO of Milliken-Hill Group, Ltd., a United States, registered company with Offices in […]

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Food for thought.

For 35 years, Anthony Enahoro, Afenifere, Ben Nwabueze, OPC, ọhaneze, MEND, MASSOB, Awolowo, and other reputable Nigerians tried and begged for restructuring, the north rebuffed them. No body even took them serious. Nobody listened. Then a little known rabble-rouser ran a pirate radio station from his matchbox room in Peckham. In three years he made […]

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PRODUCE NNAMDI KANU NOW OR BE SUED IN A SEPARATE SUIT – IPOB TELLS NIGERIAN GOVT.

Nigeria government extra-judicial move by invading the residence of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu with military armoured tanks and whisking him away on September 14, 2017 is the height of court contempt by the executive arm of the government in a democratic Nigeria. Let not the world forget in a hurry that Nigeria Federal High Court presided […]

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WHY IGBOS ARE ANGRY WITH NIGERIA

First, for those who think this is all about Jonathan and Buhari. It is not. Igbos were disappointed that Jonathan did not win. But those whose candidates lose elections lick their wounds. It is allowed. It happens when your candidate loses election. Why did the Igbos invest so much emotions in Jonathan, a non-Igbo Ijaw? […]

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IPOB press release.

We the family of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to urgently draw the attention of the civilised world to the dastardly plot being perfected by the APC Hausa Fulani led Islamic government of Nigeria against peaceful unarmed members of IPOB residing in Biafra land […]

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Nnamdi Kanu Is 50 Today!

Today September 25th in the year 1967, this brave and fearless young man was born into the family of HRH (Sir) (JP) Israel Okwu-Kanu in Isiama Afaraukwu, Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State. Hate him or love him, in just about 2 years, he was able to ignite a serious debate about the wholesome restructuring of our […]

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Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s honest advice to the IGBOS on legal and other issues involved BIAFRA agitation and realization.

Beyond sentiments, it needs to be emphasised that Nigeria is a sovereign state, with a defined territory recognised by the international community. She is a member of the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), among others. This territory includes the South-east region. While the right to […]

Read More Senator Ike Ekweremadu’s honest advice to the IGBOS on legal and other issues involved BIAFRA agitation and realization.

Vindictive proscription of indigenous people of Biafra as a terror race: Buhari/Osinbajo administration has crossed the red-lines of nation building with generational enmity and unhealable wounds —- Intersociety & SBCHROs

The recent vindictive proscription and designation by way of blue-law presidential proclamation (done on a Sunday)and court ex-parte order; of the Indigenous People of Biafra (dominated by the Igbo Race) as a terror race or “terrorist organization” by the central Government of Retired Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari and Prof Yemi Osinbajo is shockingly riddled with […]

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Text of the full speech by Senator Bola Tinubu on Restructuring… Imperatives of restructuring.

In one way or another, we all have felt the sting of man’s capacity to wrong his fellow man. But we are also endowed with the God-given spirit to overcome adversity and to make of old enemies, new allies and even brothers. We must clearly articulate our objectives. That which we cannot think clearly, will […]

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Press Statement on HOW THE INVASION OF ALAIGBO BY THE NIGERIAN ARMY ABORTED THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE IPOB WITHDRAWAL OF ITS CAMPAIGN AGAINST ELECTION IN ANAMBRA STATE.

Ladies and Gentlemen,This is to inform you that the Invasion of Alaigbo by the Nigerian Army which began on the 8th of September, 2017 aborted the formal announcement of the withdrawal of the campaign of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) against the holding of November 18th Election in Anambra State. To appreciate what had […]

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Nigeria needs restructuring to create balance — Senator Bola Tinubu.

A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said restructuring will bring much needed balance to the country. The former Lagos State governor, however, said he was against the split-up of the country. Tinubu’s assertion followed repeated pronouncements by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo that Nigeria’s unity is […]

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How Ndi-Igbo can move on with Zik’s doctrine of indivisibility of Nigeria.

“Nnamdi Azikiwe was not only the most powerful, and most emblematic figure of Nigerian nationalism, but that Nigeria’s failure stems largely from its promotion of the alternative politics of his political opponents, over Zik’s nationalist ideology.” Obi Nwakanma. – One Nigeria is not Northern, but Zikist Igbo ideology. – Igbo greatest gift for the preservation […]

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Food for thought.

The biggest crime committed against the Ogoni people was the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa and his eight colleagues. Their crime was that they mobilized their people against the exploitation of their land. The tribunal was headed by Justice Ibrahim Auta. Other members of the tribunal were Justice Etowa Eyo Arikpo, Lt Col. Hameed Ibrahim […]

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Somebody tell Lai Mohammed that Nollywood, not oil is our biggest export – Reno Omokri.

For the past four days, I have been holidaying in The Seychelles, a beautiful Island with beautiful people on the Indian Ocean. Before I came here, I knew I would find unparalleled natural beauty. My friend, Michael Moszynski, the founder CEO of the drum award winning LONDON Advertising, had sold me on The Seychelles as […]

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We must guard against separating Nigeria into small pieces, Tinubu warns.

AMID IPOB CRISIS… ‘It is better to restructure and correct imbalance’ “Being more pragmatic, separating the nation into small pieces resolves nothing and creates additional problems”. With these words, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Saturday, warned against any attempt to spilt Nigeria. Tinubu noted that gargantuan challenges were […]

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PYTHON’S PYRRIC PRANCE.

It’s again looking like a very odious trance Upon Southeast turf now reigns operation python dance The unfolding military actions is reeking with ominous nuance You wonder the wisdom in subjecting the entire region to snake romance On unarmed civil dissenters they have chosen to pounce Only the unwary doubts it’s a decoy beyond mere […]

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PDP, HURIWA Condemn Growing Attacks on Journalists in Imo, Kaduna.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State Chapter and a Pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) have raised the alarm at the growing suppression of media rights in Imo and Kaduna states. The two bodies condemned the recent banning of the THISDAY and Vanguard Newspaper reporters, Messers Amby Uneze and […]

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Quote Me Anywhere, Operation Python Dance Will Not End IPOB – Peter Obi.

Former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, has said the recent military clampdown on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its subsequent proscription are not the solutions to the Biafra agitation. According to him, so long as Nigerian youths remain unengaged in meaningful employment, they would be disposed to joining forces with individuals or […]

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Bob Marley – Redemption Song.

Old pirates, yes, they rob I, Sold I to the merchant ships, Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit. But my hand was made strong By the hand of the Almighty. We forward in this generation Triumphantly. Won’t you help to sing These songs of freedom? ‘Cause all I ever have, Redemption songs, […]

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IPOB TERRORIST LABEL; WHEN THE PRESIDENCY BECOMES A TOOL FOR PERSONAL VENDETTA. By Charles Ogbu.

Buhari just signed the order designating IPOB as a terrorist group while his Attorney General has already initiated the process of legalizing it ~~News. Boko haram is an Islamic terror group fighting to enthrone Sharia law throughout Nigeria and beyond. In pursuit of this goal, the terror group has killed thousands, displaced millions, bombed numberless […]

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Exposed! Imo State debt stock hit unsustainable N112bn in six years By Kelechi Mgboji

Barely two years to the end of Governor Rochas Okorocha’s second term in office, Imo State government’s loan portfolio has hit an unsustainable level, comprising N93.27billion domestic loan and $60.22million foreign debts. At a conservative exchange rate of N305 per dollar, both the domestic and foreign debt stock amount to N112.4billion as at December 30, […]

Read More Exposed! Imo State debt stock hit unsustainable N112bn in six years By Kelechi Mgboji