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.

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.

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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.

Tufiakwa! Indigene, non-indigene in Igbo land?

Gov. Theodore Ahamefula Orji

By Pini Jason - LAST August the Governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Ahamefula Orji issued an order sacking so-called non-indigenes from the public service of Abia State.

Lamentations, Criticisms as Abia compiles list to Sack Non-indigenes

Abia Gov Orji and Imo Gov Okorocha

ON AUGUST 25, 2011, Abia State Government issued a circular which directed non-indigenes on its employment to disengage and return to their various states by October 1, 2011. The only exceptions were those engaged in the tertiary institutions.

Abia gang rape: Police bar women from protest

Hundreds of women from the five South-East states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, were yesterday stopped by the Abia State police command from protesting in Umuahia, the state capital, against the controversial gang-rape alleged to have taken place at the Abia state university, ABSU Uturu.

‘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.

ABSU Gang Rape Scandal: Abia Government Lies Exposed; As Crime Scene Is Identified

Theodore Ahamefule Orji, governor of Abia State was photographed in a shrine prior to his election in 2007

Contrary to Abia State government’s denial that five male students of the state university gang raped a young woman, a popular news site, the Sahara Reporters has identified the crime scene as well the names of two of the perpetrators.

Arrested ABSU gang rape suspects freed, foreign gender-based NGOs agitate for action

Abia State Governor Theodore Orji

THERE was jubilation across the world following the news that three of the five students whose video of their shocking rape of a hapless female student sparked outrage across the globe.

Abia state govt changes position on the ABSU gang rape

Governor Theodore Orji

ABIA State Government has said its statement on the gang rape video clip was based on claims by the Vice-Chancellor of the state University, the institution’s student union government and the state police commissioner.

2 Arrested Over ABSU Gang Rape, 1 more suspect named

Abia Police, ABSU students differ on Gang Rape video

THE Abia State Police Command and some students of Abia State University have disagreed over the gang rape of a student by five suspected cult members.

Reverberations of the ABSU gang-rape as Nigerians remain horrified

The video of five unidentified men assaulting a female has continued to mystify and outrage Nigerians.
Experts and civil rights activists have demanded that the relevant authorities unravel the alleged gang-rape of a female student of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu.

Gang rape: 5 male students of Abia state university gang rape fellow female student

As if gang-raping her wasn't enough, they had their wicked deeds recorded on video and shared via mobile phones on campus.
Students of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, on Sunday, vowed to unravel the identities of five male students who gang-raped a female undergraduate of the institution on August 16.

Minimum wage: Strikes loom nationwide as more states join industrial action

Courtesy: Vanguard Newspapers

S-East APGA leaders back Umeh

ENUGU - Leaders of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in South-East zone, Thursday, reaffirmed their support for the national leadership of the party under Chief Victor Umeh, stressing that those calling for his removal were disgruntled former members who no longer had any stake in the party

Arresting MASSOB leaders is a wrong signal

MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike

Maybe the Federal Government has other reasons for arresting the leaders of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). But if it is for gathering to honour their heroes, then something is wrong.