Tag: Ohanaeze
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Insecurity: Arrest Sheikh Gumi now, Ohanaeze urges security operatives
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council, OYC, has called for the immediate arrest of Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, the cleric currently negotiating with bandits in the Northern part of the country. Gumi drew the ire of the apex Igbo group following his interview with BBC Pidgin, where he was reported to have compared late Igbo leader, Dim…
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Obiozor and the challenge of diplomacy in the Igbo wars 4 – Chido Nwakanma
By Chido Nwakanma Diplomacy is the foremost challenge before the diplomat who assumed office on 9 January as helmsman of the Igbo ship called Ohanaeze. It is fortuitous that Prof George Obiozor is a diplomat by training, vocation, and experience. He would need all the skills of that profession to navigate the many fights and…
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BREAKING: Ex-ambassador, Obiozor elected President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo
Former Nigerian ambassador to the United States, Israel, and Cyprus, Prof. George Obiozor, has emerged President General of the Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Polling a total 304 votes, Obiozor emerged in an election held at Dan Anyim stadium in Owerri, the Imo state capital, on Sunday. He’s to replace Chief Nnia Nwodo. George Obiozor,…
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Ohanaeze condemns attempt to pit Yoruba against Igbo in Lagos
The apex Igbo socio-cultural and political body, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has dissociated itself from inciting comments made by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, over the ongoing carnage in Lagos State. President General, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, said this on Thursday in a statement titled, ‘#EndSARS: Alleged destruction of Yoruba…
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2023: Ohanaeze tackles Mamman Daura, insists on zoning
Ohanaeze Ndigbo has insisted that it is the turn of the South, particularly Ndigbo to produce the president in 2023. The organization warned that equity should not be sacrificed on the altar of parochialism since it was the rotation sentiment that produced the present incumbent. Ohanaeze was reacting to Mamman Daura”s assertion that 2023 presidency…
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Finally, Ohanaeze, IPOB sheathe swords, agree to work together
Pan Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the separatist Igbo group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have mended fence with a promise to work together for the common good of the Igbo people. Both groups met yesterday at the home of the first Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazuluike Amechi, in Ukpor, Nnewi South Local Government…
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Amnesty for terrorists, call for breakup- MASSOB urges Ohanaeze
The Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Ohanaeze Ndigbo have warned the Federal Government that creating an agency for ex-terrorists as proposed by some lawmakers is an attempt to disintegrate Nigeria. The groups said incentivising terrorists through an agency would mean an approval of the killings, maiming and kidnapping of…
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Nigeria failing, we need new constitution – Nwodo
President General of the pan-Igbo sociocultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, yesterday raised the alarm over the state of affairs in Nigeria. He declared that except President Muhammadu Buhari convokes a national conference of ethnic nationalities to fashion out a new constitution, the nation will become a failed state. Nwodo, who made the…
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FG frustrating Igbo industrialists – Ohanaeze
Ohaneze Ndigbo, Anambra state chapter, has expressed displeasure over the ongoing travail being experienced by Igbo industrialists in the country. The pan-Igbo social-cultural organization called on the federal government to stop policies targeted at frustrating industrialists from the region. President of the body, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, spoke at his Etti-Nanka country home in Orumba South…
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Visa on arrival ploy by FG to bring back RUGA – Ohanaeze
…Condemns IPOB’s attack on Amaechi in Spain Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation Ohanaeze Ndigbo has faulted Federal Government’s plan to grant visas to foreigners on arrival into Nigeria. It said the move which “amounts to throwing the nation’s borders open to “foreigners with questionable characters” showed that the Federal Government was “still bent on implementing Rural…