Igbo people

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Nigeria’s Igbo Leaders Reject Call For Biafra State

Powerful Igbo leaders in Nigeria have rejected calls for the breakaway state of Biafra to be created for their ethnic...

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Trailer For Akosua Adoma Owusu’s ‘On Monday of Last Week’ Released

Award-winning producer Akosua Adoma Owusu’s latest film On Monday of Last Week is one of eight nominated for Best...

News

Facts Behind Turkish Diplomats Visit To Biafra

Facts have emerged on the real reason the Turkish government have met with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People...

Headlines

In Africa’s Fashion Capital, Lagos, ‘trad Is Swag’

Leggy dancers in tight shorts, bottles of Moet champagne and flashy cars feature in Nigerian pop icon Wizkid's...

International

Economic Activities Shutdown In Onitsha For Biafra

Economic activities in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, south-east Nigeria were shut down Tuesday May...

Headlines

Shutdown For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of...

Headlines

Shut-Down For 50th Anniversary of Biafra Declaration

Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent...

Headlines

Biafra’s Military Veterans

Gabriel Ukuwagi was only 14 when he joined the Biafran army in 1967 to fight against Nigeria in a combat that was a...

Headlines

The New Voice of Pro-Biafra Independence

Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of...

Headlines

Frustration and Hope

Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a...

Headlines

A Painful Chapter In Nigeria’s History

Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking...

News

Don’t Let African Literature Die; Samira Bawumia Charges Youth

The Second Lady Samira Bawumia has called on the youth to make reading and writing an enviable attribute of their...

International

We Failed To Learn From Biafran War — Ekweremadu

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has traced the humanitarian crisis in the North-East to the...

International

We Can’t Trace Our Families – Nigerians Deported From United Kingdom

41 Nigerians, deported from the United Kingdom (UK), arrived Lagos on Wednesday. The chartered Airbus 330 aircraft that...

Entertainment

Watch Out For My New French Movie – John Dumelo

Ghanaian movie celebrity John Dumelo has disclosed that very soon he will be acting in some French speaking countries...

Opinion

The Fulani Republic Of Nigeria (Part 1)

The Sultan of Sokoto is the father of the Fulani people, the foremost traditional ruler in northern Nigeria and the...

Opinion

What If We All Have It?

Every 15th of January in Nigeria is celebrated as Armed Forces and Remembrance Day. That date is unique because of two...

Opinion

Tribute To Major Kaduna Nzeogwu

"In the early hours of January 15 1966, 51 years ago today, the man in this picture, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, led a coup...

Opinion

Day President Buhari Could Not Visit Igboland

That day was Thursday, January 22nd, 2016. The occasion was the Economic and Security Summit of South East Nigeria....