The South East Muslim Organisation of Nigeria (SEMON) and the Igbo Muslim Forum have decried the treatment being meted on Igbo Muslims in the region. The group accused Ohanaeze Ndigbo and south-eastern governors of being silent on the alleged killing of Igbo Muslims. As gathered by Eko Hot Blog, the group levelled the accusation in … Read more
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has described as ‘work of coward mind’ a viral video asking Igbo indigenes to leave Yorubaland. In a video circulating on social media, Grandson Adeyinka, a UK-based Nigerian, called on Nigerians of eastern extraction to leave south-west states or suffer consequences that are synonymous to that of the devastating In August … Read more
foremost Igbo socio-cultural group, Association of Southeast Town Union (ASETU), has described the End SARS A foremost Igbo socio-cultural group, Association of Southeast Town Union (ASETU), has described the End SARS protests by Nigerian youths and its attendant loss of lives as akin to the 30-month Nigeria/Biafran civil war. The group, in a press release … Read more
Igbo Tradition Is Sick- Lady Narrates How Her Late Father Kinsmen Hijacked His Corpse (Video) Ekohotblog, October 24, 2020 An igbo lady identified as @ijayy_ has condemned Igbo Tradition, after her late fathers Kinsmen hijacked his corpse, and interrupted the burial arrangement. The lady in a series of tweet on the micro blogging site stated … Read more
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, apex Igbo socio-cultural group, has admonished the federal government to refrain from marginalisation of the tribe and should instead harness its potentials Nnia Nwodo, the president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, gave the admonition in a congratulatory message to Nigerian-born Kelechi Madu, the newly appointed minister of justice and solicitor general in Alberta, Canada. He … Read more
A former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okwesilieze Nwodo, says the elite in the south-east will join Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in the agitation for Biafra Republic if the region does not get the presidency in 2023. Kanu has been in the forefront of the clamour for … Read more
By Fredrick Nwabufo Nigeria is the collective heritage of about 200 million people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and tongues. There are over 250 ethnic nationalities spread across the country. Nigeria does not belong only to the Igbo, the Hausa and the Yoruba. Unfortunately, these three so-called ‘’major ethnic groups’’ have defined the political and economic … Read more
BBC World Service partners with MTN Nigeria to deliver BBC News Minute bulletins which will be free of charge to subscribers of the myMTN App in English, Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin, and Yoruba. BBC News Minute is the BBC’s 60-second news round-up that keeps audiences up to date with what is happening locally and globally. Audiences … Read more
Conflicts sometimes could be positive. It could be the magic wand that businesses, jobs, or romantic relationships require for a total turnaround. When a family welcomes a newborn baby, that momentary cry is what gives such family assurance that their baby is normal. Where this does not happen, it creates room for fear, apprehension, and … Read more
“The people of South-East (Igbo) are exceptional, but they have brought unspeakable pain to the rest of Nigeria. They are the image of Nigeria the world sees and it is a bad image’ a former presidential aspirant of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prof. Iyorwuese Hagher, has said. He also said that the Igbo problem … Read more
– Igbos have been urged to work hard towards promoting the unity and indivisibility of Nigeria – Former Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida made this charge – Babangida also urged them to use their spirit of enterprise to promote peaceful co-existence among Nigerians Former Military Head of State, General … Read more
– Senator Chris Ngige has spoken about Ignoring presidency in 2023 – Ngige said the Igbo must negotiate with other zones to get their support for the presidency – According to him, APC has no arrangement for zoning in its constitution and none of the parties have Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, … Read more
Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) has condemned the clampdown on demonstrators across the country, saying that the action was portraying the government in bad light. The group also accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of turning Mr Omoyele Sowore and other members of the RevolutionNow group as heroes through their illegal detention and intimidation by security agencies. … Read more