Members of the Indigenous People of Biafra on Friday protested in Aba, Abia State over the non-release of their leader, Nnamdi Kanu by the Federal Government. The protesters vowed not to allow the 2023 election hold in the South East…
Fear of ethnic and religious prejudices, inadequate equipment to prosecute assignments and hoarding of vacancies have been blamed for the inability of the South-East geo-political zone to meet its quota in the ongoing recruitment exercise in the Nigerian Army. The…
By Ogaga Ariemu Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), tasked the five governors in the South-East geopolitical zone to join forces to find the right strategy to end the killings, increasing security challenges in the zone. HURIWA’s National Coordinator,…
By FEMI ADESINA Each time I read of killings by gunmen in the South East, I go into the doldrums. I get mortified by the sheer waste of precious lives, the wantonness, malevolence and viciousness of it all. And I…
The Women Centre for Self Empowerment and Development (WOCSED), an NGO, has called for peace in the South East to stem the tide of violence in the zone. The group’s Executive Director, Mrs Onyeka Obi, made the call in a…
Insecurity recently has left, in Nigeria, waving atmosphere of disturbances. Panic from fear of various security threats have continued to form sensations of absence of safety. While the North have been known in about a decade to be engrossed with…
Hon. Uchechukwu Cyprian Obasi is a former Deputy Governorship candidate of the Independent Democrats’ Party in the 2019 general elections in Ebonyi State, now chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with Barth Ndubuwah, he speaks on…
Nigeria’s South-East recently has become a seat of heat with forces of agitations taking toll of belligerent conflagration. The voice of agitations with socio-political undertones have continued to brew storms of disturbances which themselves have borne symbiotic forces, premising the…
The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has said the South-East has the right to produce Nigeria’s next president because the region has a better understanding of the country. Ikpeazu said this while addressing State House correspondents after a visit…
The Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG) has solicited Federal Government’s support in protecting oil and gas facilities from attack especially in the South-East. The group also congratulated the Government over the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law…
