President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the South East Investment Company Limited, the Vice President Kashim Shettima has said. Shettima made the disclosure while speaking at the launch of the Vision 2050 Blueprint for South East’s Economic Development in Enugu on Wednesday. According to Shettima, the 25-year development blueprint for the South-East will…
Popular celebrity, Cubana Chief Priest, has issued a strong warning to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over sentencing of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu. The celebrity promoter said the 2027 election will be a tough battle for the president in the South-East if Kanu is not released. He made the remarks shortly after…
Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has officially declared his intention to contest for the position of National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The former Foreign Affairs minister is expected to pick his nomination form today (Monday) at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Lamido’s entry into the race comes amid controversy…
Dan Iwuanyanwu The National Chairman of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Dan Iwuanyanwu, has accused some influential politicians and businessmen from the South-East of secretly working against the release of the detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. According to Iwuanyanwu, these individuals fear that Kanu’s freedom could threaten their political ambitions and influence in the region….
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has commended President Bola Tinubu for what it described as unprecedented infrastructural interventions in the South-East, stating that no Nigerian president since the end of the civil war in 1970 has done more for Ndigbo. In a press statement issued on Sunday by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Deputy President…
A political support group, South East Renewed Hope Agenda (SERHA), has raised the sum of N200 million towards the purchase of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination form and other campaign logistics for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027. Belusochukwu Enwere, the national coordinator of SERHA, said the group is committed to…
Apex Igbo social-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has expressed dismay over discriminatory considerations during the recent reconstitution of the Chairmen and Directors-General of key strategic federal institutions, including Bank of Industry (BoI) and other national agencies. The Igbo apex organisation noted that the lopsided considerations are reflective of gross compromise of national equity and principle of…
Oganihū is a non-partisan Igbo interest group dedicated to the safety of all citizens/humanity and the development of Ala Igbo. We are witnesses to the violence that has crippled the South-East for sometime now, particularly in the last couple of years, much of it by nefarious actors and orchestrated by government ineptitude or passive indulgences….
“A protest in Jos against truck drivers in S’East The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on Tuesday expressed concern over the attacks on drivers of trucks conveying goods from the North to the South-East by suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The ACF warned that the killings of the drivers and the destruction…
By Nnadi Christopher Ikechukwu *Nigeria Police, Army turn security check points to cash points in the South East zone *Fetch ₦21.8bn within two months Rights groups condemn the act, call for immediate action as police, Army keep mum on the ugly trend Motorists and indeed passengers plying Federal highways in the South East geopolitical zone…
