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By Aham Njoku Recently,  Anthony Okoro Eze who retired from the Nigerian Army as a Colonel passed on at the age of 80 years.  He was born on  December 23, 1935.  He attended Government College Umuahia from 1949 to 1955

This piece is in commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the formal declaration of the sovereign state of Biafra on 30th May, 1967, by His Excellency , Gen . Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu , (Eze Igbo Gburugburu & Ikemba Nnewi). I was barely

The Voices of Promise King James Version (KJV): “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto

He Ran for His Country, But It Was His Country That Gunned Him Down.. Not in War, Not in Terror but in Envy.. The tragic story of Otenkwa Dele Ndubuisi Udoh.. a boy of two tribes, a dreamer of two worlds,

How many times do I have to warn wives to desist from going to the territory of their husband’s side chic or mistress to fight, physically fight? It is dangerous, demeaning, disgraceful. Babe, you can gossip about her, report her to

By Nnamdi Ojiego Only Shagari, Obasanjo, Jonathan meant well for Igbo’ Says May 30 can’t be wished away 58 years after the declaration of Biafra, a former President of Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Aka Ikenga, Chief Goddy Uwazurike, insists that the

Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe’s polemic against Peter Obi, which I read a while back, is less a critique than a primal scream from a faction of Nigeria’s Igbo elite threatened by Obi’s unscripted rise—a man who refuses to genuflect to their antiquated

America cheered when Baghdad burned. Not in silence. Not reluctantly. But with euphoria. Network anchors smiled against mushrooming fireballs. Politicians pounded podiums. Pundits called it “liberation.” They cheered when Gaddafi was sodomized on camera. Not with horror. With glee. Hillary Clinton

THE present clamour by the Ijaws for political supremacy in Warri North and South Local Government Areas and the Urhobos towards the same end in Warri South Local Government Area, demonstrates not just the oppressive and aggressive tendency of the

Rt. Hon. Chiedozie Alex Ogbonnia, Ph.D Recently I read a public letter titled “Too Little, Too Late” by General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (GCON), former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister. It was meant to be a warning; a lamentation