Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu Gambari has said the planned Isese festival was cancelled to prevent a crisis in Ilorin, Kwara State. This is in response to the criticism by Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka who took a swipe at Read more…
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The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, CFR, has endorsed the judgement of an Edo State High court which ordered Madam Enoghayin and Miss Otasowie Ogiemwonyi to take legal and physical possession of late Mr Washington Osaretin Ogiemwonyi’s property known Read more…
Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, is set to return back to the country, his lawyer, Mr. Pelumi Olajengbesi, has revealed. Igboho escaped from the country in 2021 after operatives of the Department of State Services, Read more…
The Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has asked governors of South-Eastern states to take measures to protect the lives and properties of Northerners living in South-Eastern communities as the IPOB Sit-at-home violence escalates. This was contained in a statement by Read more…
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Tuesday, appealed to the British government for leniency for convicted former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The Igbo group made this known when the leadership of Ohanaeze Ndigbo received the British High Commissioner Read more…
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has, again, appealed to the Federal Government to release the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The IPOB leader was arrested in Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria by the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari for Read more…
‘I planned to flee palace to escape cult initiation’ Sheds light on his ties to Obasanjo ‘Dad nearly scuttled my education in Form 3’ Speaks on why he wanted Obaship institution scrappedBy James Ogunnaike Olubara of Ibara Kingdom, Abeokuta, Oba Read more…
The President General of Uruagu Nnewi, Chief Innocent Okoli (Makuo), popularly known as Organizer, took exception to the story credited to Barrister Nwaogwugwu regarding the state of Uruagu administration. Chief Okoli (Organizer) felt that Barrister Nwaogwugwu was being petty and Read more…
A renowned lawyer and an ardent son of the Uruagu Nnewi, Barrister Chikodili Nwogwugwu decried, in the strongest term, the lack of accountability to the people by the community’s executive.As the Secretary General of the community, he had volunteered to Read more…
The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has described former militant leader, Asari Dokubo as a criminal and an economic saboteur. MASSOB wishes to remind Asari Dokubo how himself and his militant criminal boys destroyed Read more…
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-cultural organization has urged President Bola Tinubu to wade into the demolition of the Alaba International Market in Lagos State. Ohanaeze urged Tinubu to prevail on Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State to temper justice with mercy on Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The President of the Nnewi branch of the Imo General Assembly(IGA), Hon Chinedu Igwe, on Sunday, said nothing good could come out of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. Hon Igwe, during an interactive session with journalists, said, Read more…