Germany’s foreign minister will personally take 20 artifacts looted by Europeans during colonial times back to Nigeria when she visits to Africa’s most populous country next week, her spokesman said Friday. The symbolic gesture follows an agreement earlier this year Read more…
A Lagos based lawyer and rights-activist, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has responded to the petition by Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) seeking that he should be punished by the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) of the Body of Benchers for alleged violation Read more…
Residents of Anambra State have defied a five-day sit-at-home order called by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra, as normal commercial and economic activities took place across the major cities of the state. A faction of the IPOB Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Women Wing of Nzuko-Ora Nnewi has expressed her preparedness to promote Igbo cultural values. The President General of Nzuko-Ora Nnewi Women Wing, Mrs Peace Ifeoma Udeogu stated this during a visit of the women group to Read more…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged Nigerians particularly those resident in the Southeast to ignore the five-day sit-at-home order issued by a group. IPOB also called on Nigerians to exercise their civic responsibility by collecting their permanent voter Read more…
he Kogi State Association of Igbo community in Ebira land has said it has not endorsed any senatorial candidate from any political party or any other candidate of any other party whatsoever ahead of the 2023 general election. In a Read more…
Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has commiserated with Northern Elders Forum (NEF) over the death of elder statesman, Paul Unongo. Ohanaeze described Unongo as a detribalised Nigerian who championed the course of restructuring Nigeria for effective service delivery. In a Read more…
By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo (PhD) The various online publications with regard to the Nkwo Nnewi Triangle and the issue of disrespect to HRH Igwe KON Orizu III have generated so much controversy. Hence, the need to clarify the position concerning Read more…
An ardent loyalist of the Labour Party, Barr. Oraye St. Franklyn described the support of Afenifere, a social-cultural group for Peter Obi, the party’s presidential candidate, as an indication that Nigerians are dissatisfied with the status quo in the country. Read more…
A UK museum’s signing over of its collection of objects looted from the Kingdom of Benin is “a really great day”, the head of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments has told the BBC. The Horniman Museum in south-east Read more…
As a historian and director of the Lynching in Texas project, which has documented more than 600 racial terror lynchings, I receive regular emails from journalists, scholars and activists who want to discuss the history of racial violence. My conversations Read more…
The Lagos branch of the Nnewi Youth League (NYL) and Nnewi Improvement Union (NIU) have joined forces to ensure comradeship and unity return to the two associations. The powerful delegation addressed the members of NYL on their mission of cementing Read more…