Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

Chinua Achebe in 2008 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he was a professor at the time. Credit: Craig Ruttle/Associated Press

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. He was 82.

Ikemba: ‘On Aburi We Stand’

SIR: It is a significant and fitting metaphor that the death of Ikemba Odumegwu-Ojukwu has raised such a euphoria of National adoration.

Anxious Aba residents await Ojukwu’s body

The commercial hub of Abia State, Aba, is agog as residents await reception of the corpse of the late Eze Igbo Gburugburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, which arrives the city from Owerri, the Imo state capital, today on its final journey.

Ojukwu's body arrives to heroic welcome in Abuja

Former leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, on Monday received a heroic welcome in death, at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.

The many ills of our society

In a country where greed and quest for fame becloud godly virtues; where honesty is dethroned, bribery and corruption highly enthroned; where favouritism and nepotism have been institutionalised by corrupt leaders; where “chop I chop” has become a de rigueur; in such a darkly era; Nigeria, our father land, how farther we would go is what one has yet to decipher.

Otokoto bounces back in Imo State

Governor of Imo state

IN 1996, the word Otokoto made a spectacular entry into the lexicon of Nigeria’s public discourse. It emanated from the dark days of ritual killings by a section of the underworld in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. It took the murder of one Master Okonkwo by ritual killers for public attention to be forcibly drawn to the existence of such atrocious crime in the other wise sedate city of Owerri.

Uwazuruike, don’t keep Easterners in the North!

I don’t know how old Uwazuruike, the MASSOB leader was in 1966. If he were as old, he wouldn’t have advised Igbos living in the North to stay on amid death and its real threat. Let him also know that he’ll take responsibility for the fate of that call.

Plan to assassinate Jonathan, Mark, COAS; Disintegration of Nigeria imminent - Group allege

Ex-militans

A new twist was added to the fuel subsidy removal controversy as former leaders of Niger Delta agitators said they have uncovered a grand conspiracy by some unnamed powerful Nigerians to assassinate President Goodluck Jonathan and key security personnel from the region.

Nigerian heroes and anti-heroes of 2011

Gowon, Obasanjo rebuked over “insulting and unpardonable” comments on Ojukwu

Late General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu as President of Biafra (30th May 1967 – 8th January 1970)

World Igbo Youth Council Chairman and member of Ohanaeze, Mr. Chuks Ibegbu, has criticised two former Nigerian leaders, Gen. Yakubu Gowon and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for their comments on the late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

Principles of the Biafran Revolution (Ahiara Declaration)

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu

We have indeed come a long way. We were once Nigerians, today we are Biafrans. We are Biafrans because on May 30, 1967, we finally said ‘no’ to the evils and injustices in which Nigeria was steeped. Nigeria was made up of peoples and groups with very little in common.

Nigeria@51: There is still hope - Oshiomole

Governor Oshiomhole

This year’s independence anniversary provides another opportunity to reflect on the state of the Nigerian polity, economy and society.

Independence Reflections: 3 Ms that destroyed Nigeria’s development

As Nigeria celebrates 51 years of independence, former chairman, Senate Committee on National Planning and Osi Olubadan of Ibadan land, Senator Lekan Balogun, has said that today’s politicians do not seem to understand the meaning of democracy.

‘Any day Igbo go militant, Nigeria will cease to exist'

Uwazuruike, MASSOB leader

The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM), a group that has remained consistent in championing the cause of Igbo people in Nigeria, was at the thick of the recent and controversial arrest and detention of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and scores of his followers.

Let Nigerians discuss true federalism - Mimiko, Obi to Presidency

Fomer Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar (right); Mimiko; Obi and Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido at the book presentation... yesterday

Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko and his Anambra State counterpart Mr. Peter Obi, yesterday asked the Federal Government to allow Nigerians to discuss whether they want true federalism or not.

Ohanaeze leader seeks end to killings of Igbo

A leader of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Delta State, Eze Peter Chukwu, on Tuesday called for an end to the killings of Igbo people in the north.

‘Military used Adesanya, Ige, others to kill June 12’

Military used Adesanya, Ige, others to kill June 12

Former Chief Security Officer to the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, Major Hamza al-Mustapha, on Wednesday resumed his judicial testimony with damning ‘revelations’ of how the military used chieftains of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, to scuttle the agitation to deannul the June 12 1993 presidential election.

June 12: An indelible stain

Chief Moshood Abiola

As another June 12 anniversary is commemorated today, issues verging on the nation’s renascent democracy have resurrected again.

History Made and Remembered As Jonathan Is Sworn In

HISTORY is being made today, as President Goodluck Jonathan, the first elected Nigerian of Niger Delta extraction will take the Oath of Allegiance and Oath of Office, at a colourful ceremony at the Eagle Square, Abuja. Today, the tension that had built since independence, over access of minority ethnic tribes to political leadership of the country is being diffused gradually.

People: Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Dr Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

AT A GLANCE
First President of Nigeria
Father of modern Nigerian nationalism
Born: 16th November, 1904
Died: 11th May, 1996