Sunday, 24 November, 2024

Category: Culture


Multi-award-winning Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie says, becoming the first woman in her hometown to be conferred a chieftaincy title will be a source of inspiration for other young girls and women to follow suit. The renowned writer also urged culture Read more…


The Obi of Onitsha, His Majesty Nnaemeka Achebe, has denied ever engaging in any altercation with former President Olusegun Obasanjo when the latter was in office over the Second Niger Bridge project. The prominent monarch was reacting to a statement Read more…


Concerned by what it described as life of hell on earth by  people living and travelling in the South-east in the last three years, a group Anya-Ndi-Igbo has demanded that the governors of this geo-political zone must do all that Read more…


Award winning writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has been conferred with a chieftaincy title in Abba Anambra State. Abba is her hometown. She was on Friday honoured with the title of Odeluwa Abba. The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo and other Read more…


The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has expressed shock over the death of its President-General, Prof George Obiozor. Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State had on Wednesday, in a statement, announced the demise of Obiozor at the age Read more…


By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo Umuenem Otolo Nnewi (Obodo Ukpaka), a strategic community within Nnewi, this year, on December 27th, 2022, commemorated the annual event tagged “Enem Hall Day” with a sense of purpose and history. It was a day marked Read more…


The Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has confirmed the death of Professor George Obiozor, the President General of the apex Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo. He made this known in a statement on his Instagram page on Wednesday night. Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The traditional ruler of Nnewi, Igwe Dr Kenneth Orizu 111 has expressed worry over the spate of insecurity and high cost of living in Nigeria. The royal father who was speaking during his 97th birthday and 59th Read more…


The traditional ruler of Nawfia community, Njikoka local government area of Anambra State, Igwe Chijioke Nwankwo has raised the alarm over alleged harassment and intimidation by the state police command. He told LEADERSHIP that he was driving out from his Read more…


Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris. Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a Read more…


The leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State Of Biafra has lambasted the Federal Government for its resolution to cancel the reconstruction of the eastern railway project. MASSOB in a statement in Owerri, the Imo State Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Ahead the Christmas and new year celebrations, Nnewi indigenes in Atlanta, Georgia, USA has offset the hospital bills of thirteen indigent patients at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital(NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State. In her introductory remarks, the representative Read more…