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I am not the only one who had thought the whole idea was crazy, even though I had overlooked it as a rhetorical garbage, hearing about it as a speculation and what the news outlets had gathered.I am not the only one who felt the pain that a brother in a new line of attack wants his own brother permanently out of his face.And I am not the only one who had seen the order from Theodore Ahamefula

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By Pini Jason, VanguardLAST 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. In a directive dated August 25, 2011 entitled: “Backloading on Transfer of non-indigene in Abia State Public service to their state of origin,” the Governor directed that all non-indigenes working in the public service

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By Orji Kalu, Sun News OnlineI read two articles last week, which I found very unsettling, unnecessary and unwarranted. One was an attack on President Goodluck Jonathan for the recent detention and release of some members of the Movement for Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).The other was an acerbic attack on the Minister for Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, whose second coming is attracting

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By Chris Aniedobe, Business DayMany have billed the lack of a transcendent Igbo political leader as the Igbo albatross. Those who say that do not understand the Igbos. The Igbos are economically efficient, individualistic, non-ideological, rational, resourceful, and always have been and always will be politically risk averse. The average Igbo man feels that he has the skill, dexterity,

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By CHIDI NNADI, SUN NEWS ONLINE Former Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, Dr. Ifeanyi Chukwuka has picked holes on the power rotation principle of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), saying it was designed to keep the Igbo out of power. Chukwuka, a medical doctor and politician of note, who is now based in the United States of America, also spoke on his political

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FROM SAFER AFRICA GROUP On 24 August, police arrested the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, along with over 250 members of the organization, in Enugu, capital of Enugu State. Arrest of MASSOB members Uwazulike’s arrest followed the earlier arrest of about 200 MASSOB members by the police. The members were arrested

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By Ikechukwu Eyiagu, Modern Ghana It's unfair, and the UN knows this well enough. It's gross injustice yet the UN remains silent. The many atrocious and terror acts carried out against MASSOB and its leadership by the Nigerian government is not only highly condemnable, it's a direct affront to the United Nations and everything it stands for. The constant harassing, killing, torturing and

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By Petrus Obi, Sun News Online A court in Texas, United States has settled the three-year-old rift in the World Igbo Congress and thus paved the way for 2011 Congress coming up in Toronto, Canada, from September 2 to 5. In a unanimous decision on July 19, from the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals, a three Justices Panel, consisting of Chief Justice Hedges, Justice Seymore and Justice Boyce,

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By Chukwuemeka Umunnakwe, 234 NextThe amalgam of tribes which make up Nigeria are locked in a fierce contest to best one another when it comes to grabbing juicy political offices. Needless to say, these ethnic rivalries are more focused on the offices occupied by the members of these ethnic groups than what the occupants actually do in these offices to better the life of the ordinary Nigerian.The

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weight:bold;">A VANGUARD NEWSPAPERS INTERVIEWDr Emmanuel Igbo, a Professor of criminology at the University of Nigeria and a major stakeholder in Imo State in this interview with Godwin Oritse said that the expectations of the people of the state are very high and called on the new Governor of the state to ensure that the grass people are carried along in the process of governance. Excerpts:We

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By Kelechi Eme, The GuardianThe title of this piece is an adaptation of an article I read over fifteen years ago. The article was written by the erudite Adebayo Williams in one of the national news magazines. It was captioned “The Road to Kigali” and illustrated succinctly, the consequence of inactions on the part of policy makers and individuals. He aptly drew a parallel on the activities of two

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By Enyeribe Ejiogu, Sun News Sixteen years ago the government of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida annulled the June 12 Election of 1993, which was won by late Bashorun Moshood K. O. Abiola, in the country’s first free and fair polls. That decision set off crisis that forced Igbo people in Lagos to flee en masse to the South East as the Yoruba people embarked reprisal attacks

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Hafsat Abiola-CostelloBy Ademola Adesola, The NationHafsat Abiola-Costello, the eldest daughter of the late martyr of democracy, Chief MKO Abiola, in this online interview with Ademola Adesola, reflects on the issues confronting Nigeria 13 years after the death of her fatherAnother anniversary of June 12 is here, has the country been fair to your father? MKO Abiola was a man that united the whole

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By Ajibola Abayomi, Daily IndependentNational Vice Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South East, Olisa Metuh, believes the realisation of Igbo presidency is not far-fetched. In this interview with Acting News Editor , Saturday, Ajibola Abayomi, he speaks on issues affecting the growth of PDP in the region. He also speaks on other salient issues. nite With the indifferences within the

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I had bumped into Ikedi Ohakim, former Governor of Imo State, at Facebook and we became friends based on the network’s prescription of connection. Not only were we just Facebook friends, Ohakim was the governor of my home state, Imo, one of the 36 states in Nigeria, lying to the South of Nigeria with Owerri as its capital. It’s known to be the heart of Igbo land. Browsing through his (Ohakim’s)

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By Chuks Ilogbunam, The Nation.Ohanaeze Ndigbo did not support Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential bid in order that the Igbo would be rewarded with the position of Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives. All those commentators claiming that both Ohanaeze and President Jonathan have betrayed Ndigbo will do well to get their bearing right. It is often said that those who miss a burial

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A COMPASS INTERVIEWFranklin Ogbuewu is a governorship aspirant in Ebonyi State. Recently, he defected from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) to enable him contest the 2011 election. Ogbuewu, a former Minister of Culture and Tourism and ex- Ambassador to Republic of Greece said he decided to dump PDP because it lacks internal democracy. He had

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Abdulo O. Saba/VanguardIGBO PHILOSOPHY BY PROFESSOR T. UZODINMA NWALAA specter is haunting Africa-the specter of identity-crisis. The sons and daughters of the Mother Continent have over the centuries been brutally severed from their roots through a series of Western-oriented programmes and a history of a systematic agenda of cultural genocide that has plunged the mass of African humanity into a

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By Prof. Isidore Diala, VanguardLast week at the prestigious Eko Hotel and Suit, Lagos, where the Management of Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas, NLNG in collaboration with the National Gallery of Arts, NGA inducted about 21 Nigerians including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, Ladi Kwale, Fela Ransome Kuti into the National Hall of Fame, late brilliant theatre scholar, poet and playwright,

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By PERCY ZVOMUYA, Mail & GuardianA debut novelist forges dialogue that compares with the best Percy Zvomuya reviews I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (Phoenix)Anyone with an email address has, at one point or the other, received a mail that promises instant riches -- you know the communication that exclaims: "Congratulations!! We are happy to announce that you have won an

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By Godson Offoaro/Sun News PublishingThe gold-rimmed invitation card said it all. It is the announcement of the traditional marriage taking place somewhere in Isiala-Mbano. It read in part. “The families of Chikezie Okonkwo of Umukalla in Isiala-Mbano LGA Imo State and Chief Olabode Ibironke of Surulere in the Akoko South LGA, Ondo State, cordially invite you to the traditional wedding of their

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By Stefanie Loh, The Patriot News/Penn LiveDoctors Bennet Omalu and Julian Bailes are now looking into ways to help further concussion researchIfeakandu.That’s Dr. Bennet Omalu’s middle name.In the Igbo language of his native, Nigeria, it means “life is the greatest gift of all.”So it’s somewhat ironic that a man who’s named for the miracle of life has dedicated his life to studying the secrets

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By Okenwa Nwosu, MD, Igbo Forum “It was the city that drew the great generation of Igbo, and indeed Southern Nigerian modernists. The city of the great Zik, whose statue still adorns an important historical site of the city; the city of Denis Osadebe, Mbonu Ojike, Nwafor Orizu, Ikejiani, Raymond Amanze Njoku, Pius Okigbo, Chike Obi, Sylvanus Cookey, Birabi, Ben Enwonwu, Cyprian Ekwensi, and

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Written by Chris Ajaero, Demola Abimboye & Dike Onwuamaeze, Newswatch Monday, 16 August 2010 Odia Ofeimun, poet, social critic and political activist, speaks to Chris Ajaero, assistant general editor, Demola Abimboye, principal associate editor, and Dike Onwuamaeze, principal staff writer, on the absence of credible opposition parties in Nigeria and what they should do to give the ruling

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This Day InterviewChief (Hon.) Gabriel Pidomson, is a former member of the Rivers State House of Assembly and Secretary to the Government of Rivers State (SSG) during the administration of Mr. Celestine Omehia. In this interview with Chuks Okocha, he speaks on zoning and its implications for future generationsWhat do you make out of the last meeting of Northern governors as regards the zoning

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By Obi Nwakanma, The Orbit/VanguardFor most Nigerians from the South, anybody above ridge of the Benue is a “northerner” – Ndi-Hausa – as the Igbo used to say. They were lazy cattle-rearers, and illiterate.They were generally all religious fanatics. In more recent times, they are the trouble with Nigeria, since “they” have “ruled” Nigeria for much of its postcolonial years. This means, only the

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By Ocherome Nnanna, VanguardTHE issue of zoning: to be or not to be, is now being taken away from the discussion or debate level. The two sides to the dispute: the South-South and the conservative section of the Northern political class, are now sabre-rattling. They are mobilising their instruments of intimidation with a view to coercing the nation to succumb to their respective demands.In the

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THIS DAY NEWSPAPERSRecently, Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim was hosted in Lagos by two Igbo groups. Charles Ajunwa who attended the events reports that the governor seized the opportunity to give account of his stewardship to Imo indigenes resident in LagosTwo different Igbo organisations in Lagos, The Ndigbo Lagos and Imo State Towns Development Association (ISTDAL), recently hosted Imo

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A VANGUARD GROUP OF NEWSPAPERS INTERVIEWBy McPhillips Nwachukwu, VanguardMyne Whitman is a Nigerian born and United States based writer, poet and blogger. Recently, she came out with her first novel, A Heart To Mend, a fictional narrative, which seeks to revive the fading romance form in nation’s narrative oeuvre. In this e-mail interview, the novelist, Nkem Okotcha, who prefers to write with

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By Obi Nwakanma, The Orbit/VanguardA reader of this column sent me a note last week thanking me for bringing the situation in Imo state to light, and for being in what he calls “informed opposition.” I did thank him, but I made it clear that I’m not in opposition to Ohakim. I am a critic of the government that he leads.An opposition is an organized platform – a sort of government in waiting –

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Uchenna delivers Springs' first Ethiopian eatery and divine flavors, at its own paceBy Mathew Scniper, Colorado Springs IndependentNo more Denver drives, or, for the uninitiated, no more wondering about those meals minus utensils. Uchenna has arrived in Old Colorado City, and the Nigerian Igbo translation, "God's will," speaks to more than just owner Maya Hetman's answered prayer for a place to

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DAILY INDEPENDENTJust how acute and unbearable the deficits in our national circumstances have become was driven home recently when Ben Nwabueze, erudite scholar and professor of constitutional law, called for a bloody revolution in Nigeria. It was on Wednesday July 7 on the occasion of the public presentation of his book, Colonialism in Africa: Ancient and Modern, published in two volumes. But

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By Olisa Agbakoba, Sahara ReportersThe Summit was attended by hundreds of human rights and prodemocracy activists from all across Nigerian and representatives of the faith-based organizations. The Summit held at the Ofuobi African Center, Enugu, Southeast Nigeria. The Summit deliberated on the state of affairs in the Igbo Nation of Nigeria, particularly on the issue of governance and the

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By Joseph Okonkwor, Sahara ReportersThe article to which this is a rejoinder should not have been thought of in the first place. But the fact that it was thought of is enough reason for it to be written and published so that we ‘Nigerians’ understand how we see each other. I was expecting that the mistakes of our forefathers would have been a deterrent for us in making certain insinuations that

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By Olaitan Ladipo, Sahara ReportersIt is refreshing to read a couple of Nigerian writers castigate their own ethnic—as Okey Ndibe and Jideofor Adibe did in ‘the war in Igboland’ and ‘when did things really begin to fall apart’ respectively—when tribal journalism and sectional commentary have become the norm. It is refreshing because both writers are Igbo, a people not entirely famous for their

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Leadership Nigeria/All AfricaAs the pioneer National Secretary of the defunct Alliance for Democracy, AD, Udenta O. Udenta is an intellectual power house, whose disposition to national issues has won him recognition. He recently had a chat with journalists and joined in the raging debate over zoning, as he calls on President Goodluck Jonathan to respect the zoning principle of the Peoples

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By Okey Ndibe, Sahara ReportersThe June 15, 2010 edition of NEXT reported that a coalition of groups in Abia State had asked Governor Theodore Orji to resign on account of the level of insecurity in the state. It was not the usual partisan fare, with a number of opposition parties banding together to hound a state governor. Instead, the call for Orji’s resignation came from seven human rights and

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By Dr. Chuks Osuji, Daily IndependentIn February 13, 1976, in Dallas Texas, a group of Igbo ethnic stock gathered in my room for a kind of get-together when a telephone call came from Nigeria. It was indeed a bad call, as the caller told me that our Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed, had been assassinated. What was more intriguing was the other aspect of the message; that he had already

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By Nnedi Ogaziechi, Daily Independent“Coming together is a beginningkeeping together is progressworking together is success”- Henry FordFor once in a very long time, the South East Governors of Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Imo and Ebonyi put behind them the negative politicking that has kept the zone down for a while now as they collectively gathered in the ancient city of Enugu for the reception of the

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By Ochereome Nnanna, Vanguard NewspapersTHE present crop of governors in charge of the affairs of states of the South East zone has represented the Igbo heartland extremely well. They have demonstrated an admirable degree of collective purpose, which was not there between 1999 and 2007, when each of the previous governors behaved like crazy political buccaneers.They were never able to speak with

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By Jideofor Adibe, Daily IndependentThat the level of insecurity in Igboland has reached unacceptable level is no longer news. In virtually all parts of South East, daily reports of kidnapping, armed robberies and ritual murders have morphed from the gory to the macabre. The Daily Independent (online) of July 1, 2010 reported that commercial and industrial activities in the entire South East

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By Goke Alamu, Sahara ReportersI read, with considerable interest, Okey Ndibe’s discourse on Two Nigeria’s, Separate and Unequal and came to the conclusion that he has truly described Nigeria’s pitiable situation where two different worlds, those of the super-rich and the wretchedly poor really exist. What I intend doing in this piece therefore is to make a humble contribution to this incisive

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BY IYOBOSA UWUGIAREN, LEADERSHIP NIGERIA/ALL AFRICAAbuja — Historians and archaeologists have it that the Igbo culture - their way of life was in the beginning a culture of life (ndu bu isi) instead of death. According to them, "Life was celebrated while death was despised and feared. The only death celebrated was someone who lived long (usually above 60 years) and had grown up children."Today,

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By Wendy Plump, Times of Trenton/New JerseyMartin Griff / The Times of TrentonProfessor Emmanuel Ahia photographed in his Rider University office in Lawrence Township on Wednesday, June 2, 2010.LAWRENCE -- It's funny how many life-altering coincidences seem to take place in the humble taxi. You climb in the back and some unexpected frisson with the person driving changes everything in a heartbeat

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A PUNCH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW -- BY NONYE BEN-NWANKWO AND ADEOLA BALOGUNCaptain August Okpe (rtd) was the Chief Pilot of Biafra during the civil war. He tells ‘NONYE BEN-NWANKWO and ADEOLA BALOGUN about his childhood days and his experience during the war.Why did you decide to write the book, Last Flight, almost 40 years after the war?I was taking my time. The Igbo say that whenever a man wakes up

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By E.C. Ejiogu, Sahara ReportersThe first time I visited London, some of the several aspects of the city that caught my attention were the statutes of mostly those historical personalities who were involved in empire-building adventures abroad placed in the public squares. I even noticed that virtually all of them showed gaunt-looking individuals. This is particularly true about those of them

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By Osadolo Franics, Nigerian ObserverUnexpressly by the real political leaders of the imaginative one gargantuan north, ‘the people’ in this part of Nigeria believed they are BORN to RULE.If this idea has being working for them, it is because they see themselves as a monolithic entity.This is irrespective of their religious leaning or political divide. That is the reason why Arewa Consultative

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By Ebenezer Edohasim, Daily Champion/All AfricaSOME years back, this writer, who is Igbo, visited a fellow Igbo family based in Lagos and was discussing in Igbo language with the head of the family.Interestingly, the man's six-year old daughter called Nkonye, who was in primary two then, clung to her father, obviously listening to our discussion.Suddenly, the little girl burst into laughter,

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By Onukwube Ofoelue/Sun News PublishingIn the past and present, Arochukwu is a town synonymous with civilization, prosperity and valour. In the Igbo heartland where it is located ,the town prospered by ruling the market of the entire Igboland .The influence of the place stretched to the present Niger-Delta and Southern Cameroon. But Arochukwu was also identified with pain and sorrow- the pain of

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By Nonye Ben-Nwankwo/PunchHighlife musician Bright Chimezie, a.k.a. Okoro Junior, who used to be quite visible on the Nigerian entertainment scene, speaks with NONYE BEN-NWANKWO about his career and private life. Where have you been all this while? I have been out of Lagos for about seven years. I have been in Abia State; Umuahia to be precise. I lived in Lagos in the 1980s. I even got married

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By Akintayo Abodurin/234 NextThe debate about the place of history in literature was rekindled at the 28th play reading session of the National Troupe of Nigeria (NTN) held inside Cinema Hall II, National Theatre, Lagos, on April 22.How much of historical facts can a writer include in a work? Is a writer free to adapt history? If yes, to what extent? These were some of the issues generated from

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Couples should be sexually compatible –Dr. Ikechukwu, psychologist By Chris Agadibe/Sun News PublishingAffable and easygoing, Dr Ikechukwu P. Nwadinigwu is a psychologist with a special interest in marriage counseling. He sees his profession as a calling to help sanitize the society by stabilizing and strengthening marriages. Nwadinigwu, a lecturer at the Department of Education Foundations,

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By Valentine Obienyem/Sun News PublishingNigeria as a country can be said to be fast degenerating. Today, we see the encouragement of vices, of despicable behaviour, of mad rush for materialism and the general degeneration of our pristine values. I have deliberately decided to start thus to let you know that it is not restricted to the Igbos. Restricting it to the Igbos in this write up is simply

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By Yemisi Adeniran/Compass NewspaperFor Professor Joe Irukwu, age is neither a barrier. Rather, it is a gracious blessing. Apart from the wear and tear of his physical being, he remains admirable in his indebtedness to intellectualmeaningful and beneficial. While he admits the speedy tickling of the clock of life, especially where he is concerned, he gets more relentless at leaving a worthwhile

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By Max Amuchie/Business DayOn Tuesday, May 11 Nigeria was in a mourning mood. Many official activities had been either suspended or scaled down to observe the one week of national mourned declared by the government for the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, who died five days earlier in Aso Rock. May 11 every year is set aside by Ohanaeze Ndigbo to remember the father of modern Nigeria, Nnamdi

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By Tosin Sulaiman/234 NextThree politicians of Nigerian descent will take their seats in the British House of Commons tomorrow, following hard-fought campaigns in the recent general election.Helen Grant of the Conservative Party was elected in Maidstone & The Weald in the south east of England; Chi Onwurah of the Labour Party becomes the new MP for Newcastle Central in the north east; and Chuka

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CLASSIC INTERVIEWBy Nnorom Azuonye/Sentinel PoetryDr. Esiaba Irobi (left) with Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka (Center) at Wshington University, St. Louis in 2002Nnorom: Somebody stands next to you in a bookshop, by a shelf, he is reading aloud from a play 'Hangmen Also Die' written by Esiaba Irobi "...and we do what we do because we know we have no future, because we know, no matter what we do

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The Independent/Uganda TeamChristopher Ifekandu Okigbo’s poetry must, of course, pose particular problems for readers who are not familiar with the sources and allusions and are unwilling to take them into account, and is, indeed, difficult when the sources are known and understood. Yet it is accessible to the reader who is open to its distinctive mode. This is true even with other scholars such

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By Nnorom Azuonye/234 NextI don’t really feel qualified to write about Esiaba Irobi. I have not met anyone quite qualified enough to write about Esiaba Irobi, The Minstrel. He represented something different to everyone he met. To many, he was the consummate artist and academic. To others, he was a benchmark for hard work and diligence. There were some who saw him as a spirit of anarchy. He was

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By Anthony Akaeze/NewswatchFrom its modest beginning as a university campus 30 years ago, the Nnamdi Azikiwe University has progressively become a flourishing centre of academic excellenceFew things have helped in enhancing the present cosmopolitan status of Awka, capital of Anambra State. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, which started in 1980 as a campus of the then Anambra State University of

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A NEWSWATCH INTERVIEWBoniface Egboka, professor of environmental hydrogeology and vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, spoke to Anthony Akaeze, principal staff writer, about the vision and achievements of the university 30 years after it was established. Excerpts: Newswatch: Nnamdi Azikiwe University will be 30 years this year. How much progress has been made since then?Egboka:

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By Obi Nwakanma/The Orbit/VanguardIn the pit of Nigerian politics lies the soul of philistines. A nation cursed with a political leadership without the subtle refinements of culture is doomed to crassness. We see this truth as a matter of fact, reflected in the utter disregard to which the political establishment places culture and matters of cultural policy.For example, this federal

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GUARDIAN INTERVIEWFormer Finance Minister and joint presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All Peoples Party (APP) in 1998 Chief Olu Falae, 72, says he is no longer interested in elective office. Going round the country to consult widely on a mega platform that could raise the flag of strong opposition to the dominance of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) spoke with

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BY TOM BURGIS/FINANCIAL TIMES Nneka was about to launch into the final chorus of “Vagabond in Power (VIP)” when the secret service arrived.She had already stirred up the crowd in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s oil city, with a few barbs aimed at the political class and Royal Dutch Shell – both frequent targets for animosity in the Niger Delta, where most people have little but violence and despoiled

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BY NKARENYI UKONU/PUNCHYOU write poems and that is one aspect of you most people don‘t know about. How did it all start?I have been writing poems from a young age and it is one of the ways I express my thoughts most. The first time I was aware of what was mostly going on around me was through literature, which was what my dad introduced me to as regards reading. He would always lay emphasis on it

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By Okey C. Iheduru/Business DayWashington, D.C., the United States capital, hosted a number of events and activities about Nigeria over the past week. Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan met with President Obama in his first official outing as head of state, and later participated in the nuclear weapons summit, interacted with heavy weights at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, and had an

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By Obi Nwakanma/Vanguard/All AfricaLast week, the International Igbo Studies Association held its annual conference at the Howard University Law School in Washington DC. Igbo Studies has indeed come a long way.The quest for a comprehensive understanding and preservation of the arts, culture, scholarship and other forms of knowledge production by and around the Igbo world has engaged scholars,

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Peter Agba Kalu/The Sun PublishingThere is an atmosphere of peace written all over the way to Ibusa that will tempt any writer to toy with the idea of spending few weeks in the town in order to write a book. The billboard of Fred Ajuda’s late mother welcomes you to the town as you begin to wonder where on earth is this once upon a time news making socialite shortly after that you will be Welcome

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Taxi advert in Enugu urging parents to send their kids to schoolBy Ian Attfield/Ethiopian ReviewMy last post focused on the vagaries of travels in Nigeria. I’m pleased to report that since then I did manage to make it all the way to Enugu and back safely, even if a little ‘shaken’ (‘but not stirred’ as James Bond would say)!We travelled by road south from Abuja, along half built highways that

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By Luke Onyekakeyah/GuardianWhen recently the Libyan strongman, Mu'ammar al-Gadaffi prescribed that Nigeria should divide into pieces along ethnic lines like former Yugoslavia, as panacea to frequent ethnic bloodletting in Jos and other parts of the country, he was certainly convinced that there are fundamental issues that are threatening the unity of the country, which could provide the

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By Clement Muozoba/Daily Champion/All AfricaLagos — That the Nigerian politics has since gone the religious lines is what nobody needs to be told. No matter how the events are veiled in a verisimilitude, the effects are there and the innumerable lives lost especially during the religious cum political crises, coupled with some incendiary statements from some quarters bear eloquent testimony. In

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Photo by Michael Prince/NY TimesInterview by Deborah Solomon/New York TimesSince its publication in 1958, “Things Fall Apart,” the story of a Nigerian yam farmer who is unable to accept the changes wrought by British colonialism, has become the best-selling novel ever written by an African. Well, I hear such exaggerated comments. I just leave them alone. It’s a staple of American high-school

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Onyeka Onwenu, one of Nigeria’s most accomplished entertainment personalities. She speaks with CHUX OHAI about her new music album, her family, and her early beginning as a singer.A Punch InterviewYou have just recorded a new music album. Was it meant to announce to your fans that you are back to singing?It was not really meant for anything, except that it was time for me to record again. I had

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Lagos — Dr. Anuma Kalu Ulu is a Nigerian born medical doctor based in New York, USA in this Interview with UDO ONYEKA, Ulu speaks on issues bordering on health care and why he set up a clinic in his community, where patients are treated free.A DAILY CHAMPION INTERVIEWLet us know about your Foundation?I set up the Kalu Ulu Memorial Foundation in honor of my late father Mazi Kalu Ulu who was a

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By Emeka Nwosu/This Day/All AfricaLagos — My recent trip to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), the great citadel of learning located within the ambience of a conclave of seven rolling hills was a good home coming of a sort, being the second time I was visiting the institution 26 years after graduation.The previous trip was in 1996 during the funeral ceremonies of the founder of the

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By Chiedu Uche/Daily Independent/All AfricaOur freedom fighters envisaged and dreamed of a country that would be the bastion of democracy in Africa, an ocean of peace and unity, and a land filled with economic prosperity. Sadly, almost fifty years after we became a sovereign and independent state, Nigeria is like a toddling baby in diapers. I know for sure that Awolowo, Azikiwe, Tafewa Balewa and

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By Innocent Kalu/Sun News OnlineFor a man who has broken loose from the shadow of his legendary father, the late Dr K.O. Mbadiwe, to stamp his own authority and set a self agenda for progressive engagement in a society where many are deficit in honour, Greg could be said to have done well for himself as he attains the age of 55. There was a mild controversy in 2004 when he was nominated to the

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By Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu/Daily Champion/All AfricaLagos — I am very happy today to be amongst you my brethren, my people, at this historic meeting. I am always happy to be with you but today I am very excited by the presence of our traditional rulers and governors - the custodians of cultural cum traditional power and custodians of political power in Igboland. May I commend the Chairman of the

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By Ikedi Ohakim/Daily Champion/All AfricaLagos — It is 40 years since the end of the civil war. By October this year, Nigeria will be 50 years as an independent nation. Our people say agbacha oso, aguo mile. I believe, therefore, that this is the moment in our lives as a major nationality in this country when we must sit back, take stock and chart a new course for ourselves and a clear vision of

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By Obi Nwakanma/The Orbit/VanguardReflect on this irony: a young army captain helps to organize a military coup and supervises the liquidation of his commander-in-chief and the host governor, another senior military officer, of a region to which he was paying a state visit. The facts are bare: even in a military situation under a properly trained and disciplined military officer, a General must

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Interview/Sun News PublishingAs the president of Ohaneze Ndigbo what efforts are you making to unite Igbo in Rivers and Delta States some of who have openly denied their Igbo origin?First of all it should be understood that these fractions who now deny the fact that they are Igbo did so only after the Civil War; take for instance the Ikwerre people and others fully identified with us during the

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By Obi Nwakanma, The Orbit/VanguardThe news out of Imo State is not good. There is a sense of failure and a general feeling of siege; a situation that calls us all to rise and confront two important questions: first, how is it that a state so endowed with some of Africa’s best educated people can sit and allow the use of primitive and unregulated power to undermine its civic authority? Second,

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Interview/Daily Independent/All AfricaKALU ONUMA, political historian, is the Secretary General of Ndigbo, Lagos. He champions the cause of justice in the country, but more importantly the cause of Igbo people. In this interview with Senior Correspondent, DANIEL KANU, the scribe of the Igbo socio-political organisation speaks on the state of health of President Umaru Yar'Adua, the Igbo nation and

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By Yemi Adebisi, Daily Independent/All AfricaLagos — Most foremost African writers fight injustice, preach liberty, moral, through their pens while some prefer to confront their 'opponents' to iron out their differences physically. Though there are a number of these literary evangelists that never started as a writer, but as fate would have it, ended up being a voice to reckon with in the

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Photo by: Abayomi Adeshida/AFP/Getty ImagesChinua Achebe reminds us that his continent’s problems are as old as colonialism. By G Pascal Zachary, In These TimesNigeria is no longer the butt of jokes, known only for spam mail importuning readers to assist in the recovery of an ill-gotten fortune. Home to one in every six black Africans, Africa’s most populous country is now a trendsetter worthy of

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By Chuks Nwanne, GuardianGOOD product sells itself. This could be the best way to describe what transpired at the special presentation of the Nigeria: The Series, where two Nigeria's former leaders; General Yakubu Gowon and Chief Alex Ekwueme, publicly threw their weights behind the TV drama series aimed at telling the true Nigerian story to the rest of the world. After listening to a detailed

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By Anthony Akaeze, NewswatchAll is now set for the gubernatorial election in Anambra State taking place February 6They spent the last moments of the event smiling and exchanging banters as if they are the best of friends. They are not. They are but rivals in search of a diadem. And each one of them had, in the last few months, traversed the state to canvass for votes as the Febuary 6, 2010

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By Vincent Ukpong Kalu, Sun News OnlineThe assassination of Mr. Dipo Dina, the Action Congress (AC) Ogun State standard bearer in the 2007 governorship election, last Monday, has once again brought to the fore the bloodletting in the country’s politics. At the last count, there are about 53 cases, with many of them unresolved by security agencies.Politically motivated killings started during the

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"Being a Nigerian is absymally and unbelievably exciting," Chinua Achebe in 1967. Photo: Michael NealChinua Achebe The Guardian BooksNigerian nationality was for me and my generation an acquired taste – like cheese. Or better still, like ballroom dancing. Not dancing per se, for that came naturally; but this titillating version of slow-slow-quick-quick-slow performed in close body contact with a

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Photo: AP/CRAIG RUTTLEBy Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, SalonThis article also appears as the introduction to Chinua Achebe’s "The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God" now available through Everyman’s Library.When, in 1958, the London publishers William Heinemann received a manuscript of Chinua Achebe’s "Things Fall Apart," they were unsure whether to publish it.

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By Dan Onwukwe, NBF NewsIn two different locations in the South-East last week – Owerri and elsewhere in Anambra state, a distance of about 40 kilometres – two major events took place almost contemporaneously. It is doubtful if the architects of the happening in Anambra were aware of what was happening in Owerri, the Imo State Capital. Or, it didn’t matter to them. But it brings to the fore the

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New market research report from Common Sense Advisory details third-party language services spending over the past two decadesBy Melissa C. Gillepsie, PR - Common Sense AdvisoryBoston, MA, January 19, 2010 --(PR.com)-- As the Obama administration turns its focus to counter-terrorism activities in places like Nigeria and Yemen, who will translate the intelligence-related intercepts, including

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By Amanze Akpuda, VanguardIn his book, Cyprian Ekwensi, Ernest Emenyonu captures aspects of Ekwensi’s disposition to film in the 1950s. For instance, beyond revealing how Ekwensi “wrote and broadcast plays and stories for the BBC Overseas Service” , Emenyonu demonstrates how “once in 1954 his voice was ‘dubbed’ on to the sound track of the film Man of Africa, which was shown at the Venice Film

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Prof. Wole Soyinka at a press briefing in Lagos on the Niger Delta crisis. Photo: Sylva Eleanya.By Emma Okocha, Vanguard”A dying man needs to die, as a sleeping man needs to sleep , and there comes a time when it is wrong , as well as useless to resist.” – Stewart Alsop; Stay of Execution.”Even in totalitarian states, the time comes when past errors are admitted. In Nigeria , we fail to

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By Kodilinye Obiagwu, GuardianNEAR a major roundabout leading to the Imo State Government House, Owerri, a billboard displays in very bold and unmistakeable features, the picture of the state governor, Ikedi Ohakim: A pair of cupped palms cradles the governor's smiling bust. Inscribed on the billboard are these words: "Imo is in the hands of God." Those words were taken from an address, "A

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BY CHRIS AJAERO, NEWSWATCHTravelling by road in Nigeria is still a nightmare as the roads are in terrible condition despite the huge expenditure on their reconstruction and maintenance.The condition of our roads, both the major arteries of this country and the roads in most of our major cities beggars imagination. And here I must ask the question do our government, ministers and leaders who

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Emeka Umeagbasi is the Chairman, Board of Trustees, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (INTER-SOCIETY). He spoke with TONY OKAFOR and a few other journalists on the state of the nation. Nigerian CompassExcerpts:What is your take on Nigeria’s budget since 1999?It was Edwin H. Sutherland, a famous American criminologist, who in his 1940 book, “White Collar Criminality,”

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By Mazi Ebuzeme, Sun News OnlineOne Dr. Charles Ujah granted an interview on 19th August 2009 to the sun newspaper making claims on Ibo Jewish origin and that the Yoruba was founded by the Ibo with Oduduwa as Oduduwa (meaning last born in Ibo) e.t.c. His claims are based on the bible and probably linguistic and cultural similarities.In a rejoinder of September 18th , 2009 published by the sun

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Flavor Wire ExclusiveAt Coachella a few years back, the ever-feisty M.I.A. asked a packed house of sweat-soaked admirers, “Where my leaders at?!” Good question. Surprisingly few artists today have stepped up with the decisive political or spiritual message that M.I.A. was asking for.Recently, 27-year-old Nigerian tour de force Nneka — who already has a loyal following in Africa and Europe — made

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A Vanguard InterviewThe plan to demolish water-fronts in Port Harcourt is not new. It first gained currency under the tenure of deposed governor Celestine Omehia. The government gave security reasons as one of the major factors behind the plan. The issue seemingly overheated the state. While this was on, the Supreme Court sacked the government and installed Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi as governor.One

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