From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Azia community in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State on Saturday elected their new Igwe after waiting for nine solid years. The newly elected monarch, Chief Francis Chikezie who got a total number of three hundred and Read more…
Category: Culture
The President-General of the apex-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, said on Tuesday that the organisation had not received a formal notice of the Biafra Heroes Day being planned by the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra. IPOB had Read more…
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered the Police to evict the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, from the Emir’s Palace in Kofar Kudu area of Kano metropolis of Kano State. Ruling on an ex-parte motion Read more…
Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu of Kano High Court sitting on Miller Road has restrained the police, the State Security Service (SSS) and Nigerian military from evicting the reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. The case was filed by the emir alongside the Read more…
A Kano State High Court presided over on Monday has issued an interim injunction restraining Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and four other dethroned emirs of Bichi, Rano, Gaya and Karaye from parading themselves as emirs, pending the hearing and determination Read more…
Aggrieved loyalists of the dethroned Emir Aminu Ado Bayero on Sunday, staged a protest against the reinstated of Emir Sanusi Lamido. This was just as the social-cultural group, Arewa Social Contract Initiatives, on Sunday warned the deposed Emir, Aminu Ado Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor A Lagos-based businessman who is also the current Ezedioramma Eze Ndigbo in the Yaba/MainLand axis of Lagos State, Chief Godwin Njubigbo Amb, JP, has been nominated by the people of Aboji Akanano in Oba town of Idemili Read more…
Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, has ordered the immediate arrest of the 15th Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero, for creating tension in the state. Spokesperson to the governor, Sanusi Bature, in a statement early Saturday morning, noted that the Read more…
Reinstated Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has dismissed discussion around those responsible for his deposition in 2020, saying they were not worth discussing. Sanusi II was deposed in 2020 by the then Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, over certain allegations. Four Read more…
It seems to be a game of musical chairs in Kano Emirate as 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II was on Thursday reinstated to the throne four years after former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje deposed and banished him from the Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Ugochukwu Achebe, the Agbogidi, has appointed a celebrated Nigerian diplomat, a finance professional -Ojinnaka Azikiwe into the cabinet of the popular commercial city. Azikiwe, from the Nigeria’s late former President Read more…
The Governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo through the Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Hon Patrick Agha Mba commissioned the pitch for the tournament open and ready for the competition. The Pitch was built single-handedly by Prof Victor Read more…