Tag: Igbos
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My Igbos brothers,sisters are not happy with me- Charly Boy
Nigerian entertainer and activist, Charly Boy in a new letter tagged Letter to my people has declared that his Igbo brothers and sisters are not happy with him. He added that those who truly know and have followed him, will easily deduce that he follows the path least traveled. Read his letter below …
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‘Igbos who choose to live in North, chose to be sacrificial lambs,’ Says Kanu
Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu yesterday said Igbos vacating the North was not a condition for the actualisation of Biafra. Kanu spoke in an interview with journalists in Enugu, where he received awards from a number of pan-Igbo groups, including the Igbo Women Assembly, the Eastern Consultative Assembly and the…
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Quit notice: MASSOB declares August for ‘repatriation’ of Igbos
In compliance with October 1 Arewa youth quit notice deadline, the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State Biafra (MASSOB) has declared August a month of mass return for Igbo living in the northern parts of the country. The group said the choice of August was informed by its significance in Igbo calendar as the…
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Quit Notice on Igbos: I’ll turn myself in when declared wanted – Yerima
Sequel to the quit notice issued to Igbos in the north and the subsequent controversies this has generated, the leader of the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Shettima Yerima, who was among those that issued the threat said he would submit himself for questioning if declared wanted. According to him, he was not on the run…
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Buhari’s Finance Minister, Adeosun denies passing derogatory remarks on Igbos
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun has denied passing insulting statements on Igbos. TheNewsGuru.com reports that one Twitter user @RealMicahDavid had retwitted a statement alleged twitted by the minister suggesting her hatred for the igbos David twitted: I will keep poping up this hate speech by @HMKemiAdeosun the Nigeria minister until she defends herself.…
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Not only Igbos, other tribes are also disgusted with Nigeria – Cardinal Onaiyekan
…Backs calls for restructuring The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan has urged the Federal Government to change the way of doing things in addition to yielding to call by Nigerians to restructure the country. Onaiyekan gave this advise at a news conference on the Centenary of the Late Ignatius Cardinal Ekandem, the first…
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Northern quit notice: We did not massacre Igbos leaving North – DSS
The Department of State Services, DSS, has debunked the news making the rounds that some Igbos fleeing the northern part of the country following the quit notice given to them by the Arewa groups were massacred while on their way to the east. The DSS however warned Nigerians against hate speech or threatening members of…
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Pyrates condemn Northern quit notice on Igbos
The National Association of Seadogs a.k.a Pyrates Confraternity, on Monday urged the Federal Government to avert impending disaster following the threat of expulsion of the Igbo people from the northern region by a Coalition of Northern Youths. Just as it had treated other cases with dispatch by arresting and questioning those behind the threat, the…
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Igbo quit notice a joke taken too far – South-East APC
The All Progressives Congress, APC, South-East zone, on Sunday strongly condemned the ultimatum given Ndigbo in the North, describing it as a joke pushed too far. The party in a statement by the zone national vice chairman Hon. Emma Eneukwu, and made available to DAILY POST by the publicity secretary, Hon. Hycienth Ngwu said it…
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Northern quit notice to Igbos, an act of treason — Uranta
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian National Summit Group, NNSG, Mr. Tony Uranta has said the recent threat from the coalition of Northern groups ordering Igbos out of the region is an act of treason and should not be handled flimsily by the Federal Government and relevant security agencies. Uranta argued that since Nnamdi Kanu was also…