Just Before We Forget
Opinion February 23, 2017
By Charles Ogbu On the 31st day of December, 1983, a young over-ambitious but poorly trained Katsina state-born soldier called Muhammadu Buhari overthrew the democratically elected government of Shehu Shagari and Alex Ekwueme and ruled the West African country called Nigeria with iron fist for 20 months before being... Read more
• Condemns continued killing of harmless agitators • Says OPC members move unmolested in South West The worsening plight of Ndigbo under the President Muhammadu Buhari’s ad-ministration on Tuesday night dominated talks between the new President-General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Nnia Nwodo and Igbo leaders in Lagos. Nwodo... Read more
Food for thought on Nigeria
Opinion February 19, 2017
By Nnadi Noracynthia In Nigeria, lazy Men who could not compete in life started blaming Igbo domination for their failures. It may interest you to know that during and immediately after the civil war, Saro Wiwa & family, and then young captain Sani Abacha and family lived in and... Read more
From Dianabasi Effiong,Calabar Foremost Nigerian environmentalist, Mr Nnimmo Bassey, has called for the revocation of permits granted by the Federal Government to Monsantho, a multi-national company, to bring genetically- modified crops into Nigeria. He made the call in an interview in Calabar on the side line of the 18th... Read more
Nigeria and Prodigal Environmental Stewards
Opinion February 12, 2017
Guest lecture by Nnimmo Bassey at the 18th Bassey Andah Memorial Lecture hosted by the Bassey Andah Foundation at Transcorp Hotel, Calabar, Nigeria on Saturday 21st January 2017. —————————————————————————————————————- Let me begin by thanking the Board of Bassey Andah Foundation for giving me the opportunity to share my... Read more
Biafra is the Nemesis of Nigeria – Lower Niger Congress
Press Releases February 12, 2017
Biafra is the nemesis of Nigeria. Both are now mutually exclusive. For one to live, the other must die. In 1970, Nigeria got a Pyrrhic Victory over Biafra. The then French President, Charles De Gaulle, whose Country played more than a casual role in the entire imbroglio and who... Read more
Governor David Umahi (6th right) with his deputy, Kelechi Igwe (5th right) and team leader, Zero Hunger Forum, Dr. Kenton Dashiel after the team made a presentation on how to end hunger by the year 2030 at the Government House, Abakaliki on Friday. With them are SSA to... Read more
By Nnia Nwodo Some days ago in the most peaceful and celebrated contest for the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo, I was elected as President General of Ohaneze along with sixteen other members of the National Executive Committee to lead our organization for the next four years. Our mandate was... Read more
Eleven people were killed by Nigerian security operatives when over 1,000 southern Nigerian secessionists took to the streets on Friday to express the hope that newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump might help counter Muslim influence in their country. Shouting “Biafra for Trump”, protesters held up U.S. flags and... Read more
The President of the Igbo umbrella group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo on Thursday criticized President Muhammadu Buhari over what he termed the abysmal representation of Ndigbo in the current Federal Government. His words: “Under the current Federal Government, Igbo representation is abysmal and fall extremely short of the... Read more
