Nigerian physicist Francisca Okeke wins UNESCO science award

A Nigerian physicist Professor Francisca Okeke is one of the four winners of the 2013 L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

Okeke won the award for her contributions "to the understanding of daily variations of the ion currents in the upper atmosphere which may further our understanding of climate change."

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.

Ojukwu: Rawlings, Soyinka, Anyaoku, 1000s others grace funeral

Widow and first son, Bianca and Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Jnr at Late Ojukwu's lying-in-state in Aba on 28/02/2012

Thousands of Nigerians travelled to the South-eastern city of Enugu yesterday for the funeral of Biafran independence leader, General Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Nigerian national television, NTA, reported.

Ojukwu’s body arrives Enugu, Gov declares public holiday

L-R: Wife of Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Lady Bianca Ojukwu, wife of Anambra state Governor, Mrs. Margaret Obi, South-East President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rt. Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuma, Arch. Bishop Obi Onubogu of the Rock Family Church and Arch. Bishop of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Enugu Diocese, Rt. Rev. Dr. S.K.C. Uche, shortly after a requiem mass in honour of the Late Dim Ojukwu, at the Holy Ghost Cathedral, Ogui, Enugu

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.

Nelson Mandela hospitalised

Former South African President Nelson Madela has been admitted to hospital, suffering from “abdominal pains,” presidential spokesman, Mac Maharaj, has said.

Ojukwu: Imo declares Monday work-free day

The Imo State government has said that it would not declare Monday, the day the body of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Dim Chukwuemeka Odemegwu Ojukwu,

Odumegwu-Ojukwu to get military burial

General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as President of Biafra (30/05/67 - 08/01/70)

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has directed that full military burial be held for the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu.

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.

Goodluck Jonathan: Nigeria’s embattled president

He is the son of a canoe-carver, a mild-mannered academic who wears a fedora but eschews the flowing robes and bombastic brashness that often characterize Africa’s “Big Man” leaders.

Courageous in the face of adversities

Enenche Akogwu

On October 3, 2011, Enenche Akogwu on his facebook wall wrote, “I still cannot stand Boko Haram onslaught.”

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

Why I may run for Imo governor in 2015 - Iheanacho

Emmanuel Iheanacho

Former Minister of Interior, Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho, speaks on the political permutations in Imo State ahead of 2015, his political ambition and sundry issues. Excerpts:

Nigerians comb US over missing Tosin Oyelowo

Tosin Oyelowo

The Nigerian USA community has started their biggest manhunt for missing Tosin Oyelowo. Oyelowo, a graduate of University of Charleston West Virginia School of Pharmacy was said to have got missing on December 9th, 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.

Book: Late Nigeria president wilted away in office

President Umaru Yar'Adua addresses the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly at the UN Headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's late President Umaru Yar'Adua grew so weak while in office he needed once to be carried by a soldier off a runway during a state visit to Togo, ultimately becoming unable to speak in the last weeks of his life, according to a new book by his former spokesman.

Nigerian who dreams of becoming first black British Prime Minister

Chuka Umunna

His name is Chuka Umunna. His father is Nigerian. His mother is Briton. This gives him the right to claim both countries. Umunna, who is a key player in the Labour Party, is called Britain’s Obama and is quoted to have said the first black British Prime Minister may be in the making.