By Izunna Okafor, Awka Ndị Igbo across the world have been urged to take deliberate and collective steps to rescue their mother tongue from steady decline. The call is coming as prominent women leaders, monarchs, scholars and community stakeholders advocate for urgent and enforceable legislation to protect and promote the Igbo language. The advocacy…
By Kenechukwu Ofomah, Awka Despite the life imprisonment sentence slammed on the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu on Thursday by the Federal High Court, Abuja, Igbo Youth Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly has described the judgement as a welcome development. The trial judge, Justice James Omotosho had sentenced Nnamdi…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Nigeria’s long-running legal saga involving the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, reached a dramatic climax on Thursday, as the Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced him to life imprisonment after convicting him on all seven terrorism-related counts. The courtroom proceedings, marked by tense exchanges, multiple…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Culture took centre stage in Ebenator, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, over the weekend, as Chief Chigozie Ofordumogu was formally initiated into the revered Ọzọ title society of the community. The new title holder, who was decorated as Nze Dim Ebekuodike n’Ebenator, joined the rank of illustrious…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka In what many have described as a long-overdue step towards addressing decades of infrastructural neglect, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received hearty commendations from the Igbo Community Association (ICA), Abuja, for his recent approval to kick-start the construction of lite railway lines across Nigeria’s geopolitical zones. The Association, in a…
Izunna Okafor dere akụkọ a Ụgwọ onye ụwa ji chi ya bụ ịza ya òkù mgbe ọ kpọrọ ya, maka na ọ na-abụ ụkwa ruo oge ya, ọ dàá. N’ịgbaso nke a, otu onye egwu ekpiri a ma ama n’ala Nigeria nà mba ụwa gbaa, bụ Maazị Mike Ejeagha, anwụọla. Mike Ejeagha, onye a…
