Tag: South-East

Ohanaeze Youths condemn £747m Lagos Ports deal

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Ohanaeze Youths condemn

…Allege S’East marginalisation The Ohanaeze Youth Council has criticised the Nigerian government’s £747million port rehabilitation deal with the United Kingdom, describing it as further marginalisation of the South-East. In a statement, its President, Igboayaka Igboayaka, said the agreement—covering upgrades to Apapa Port and Tin-Can Island Port—ignores viable seaport locations in the South-East region. The deal, signed at Lancaster House and witnessed by Bola Tinubu, was executed by Finance Minister Wale Edun and UK representative Blair McDougall. The Ohanaeze youths argued that neglecting ports in the region—such as Ose-Akwa/Ose-Moto, Azumini Blue…

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“Igbo criminals, not Fulani herdsmen, behind S’East killings” – Soludo

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Soludo

The Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has said the majority of kidnappings and killings in Anambra and other South-East states are perpetrated by Igbos criminals and not “Fulani herdsmen as widely believed”. Soludo stated this during an interactive town hall meeting with Anambra indigenes in the Diaspora, held at the Metro Points Hotel in New Carrollton, Maryland, United States, adding that: “99.99% of kidnappers and other criminals arrested in the state since I assumed office three years ago have been Igbos”. The Governor has been in the US engaging…

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Despite Ekpas arrest in Finland, loyalist insists on ‘sit-at-home in S’East

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A loyalist of the self-confessed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa, has insisted that the weekly sit-at-home in the South-East would continue despite their principals arrest by security agents in Finland. A member of the group, Ngozi Orabueze, announced this in a statement posted on the X platform on Sunday night. Orabueze, who described herself as the Chief of Staff to Ekpa and the acting Prime Minister of the Biafran Republic Government in Exile, (BRGIE), said the sit-at-home order still exists with or without the former.…

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“?May30 Biafra Day celebration sacrosanct; must hold” MASSOB

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MASSOB

The South-East group, Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, (MASSOB), has insisted that the May 30 Biafra Day celebration must hold, despite threats by Nigeria security agents. MASSOB said there will be a sit-at-home exercise in commemoration of the 57th anniversary of the declaration of Biafra Republic by General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. According to an issued statement signed by the group’s leader, Uchenna Madu, all schools, banks, markets, public offices, motor/ Keke parks, air/seaports and other corporate bodies shall be closed to commemorate the event. The…

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“North has oil in Nasarawa; more than in South, S’East” – Sani Zangon-Daura

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Sani Zango Daura

Co-founder of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), Alhaji Sani Zangon Daura, hasreacted to the claims that other regions in Nigeria are better endowed in terms of natural resources than the North. The elder statesman stated that the North has more oil in Nasarawa than the entire South and South-East has, and that the North also has gas in Bauchi. He acknowledged that Allah has blessed the North with numerous natural resources, like gold, coal, and the rest. Speaking in an interview during a television programme, he stated that the…

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Senate Screening: S/E nominee rejects Tinubus nomination to CBN Board

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The South-East nominee for membership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Board of Directors, Urum Kalu Eke, has rejected his appointment. Eke declined his nomination by shunning the Senate Committees scheduled screening exercise, which was attended by other four nominees. This was disclosed at Senate plenary yesterday, by the chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Adetokunbo Abiru, while presenting his Committees report on the screening of the CBN Board of Director-nominees. Following the presentation and adoption of the report, the Senate, however,…

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IPOB: Nnamdi Kanu replaces Mondays sit-at-home with Economic Empowerment Day

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The detained leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has replaced Mondays cancelled sit-at-home directive in the South-East region with a new programme he called the Economic Empowerment Day (EED). This was made known yesterday, in a statement issued by the IPOB Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful. Powerful said that the new directive by Kanu was a further confirmation of the total cancellation of all forms of sit-at-home in the entire South-East by the IPOB leader. He explained that during the economic empowerment exercise, people…

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South-East: IPOB accuses Simon Ekpa of working for DSS

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The banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), has accused its factional leader, Simon Ekpa, of conspiring with the Department of State Services (DSS) to bring the group down. The groups Publicity Secretary, Emma Powerful, stated this in a statement issued yesterday and made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital. According to the statement, Ekpa was trained by the DSS and sent into IPOB as a mole in 2016. Since the arrest of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in 2021, the Finland-based separatist leader has assumed leadership of IPOB but later declared…

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Mass protest looms in S/East over hike in fuel price

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As Transporters set to down tools There is growing tension in the South East region following the hike in the price of petrol across the country and to this end, the youths in the area and transporters are set to commence mass protests in the area. In an issued statement signed by its President, Comrade Goodluck Ibem and Publicly Secretary, Comrade Okey Nwaoru, the body said the development has shown the plot by the Federal Government to send the Nigerian masses into extinction. According to the leaders of South-East Transporters…

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Sit-at-Home: ‘Protect Northerners’, Arewa group tells South-East Govs.

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As the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) sit-at-home violence escalates, the Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (AYCF) has asked governors of South-Eastern states to take measures to protect the lives and property of Northerners living in South-Eastern communities. This was contained in a statement issued by the AYCFs President, Yarima Shettima, and made available to newsmen in Kaduna, on Thursday. The statement condemned the mindless, unrelenting violent disturbances caused by certain South-East interest groups in the form of the agitation for a separate state of Biafra. Aware that the perpetrators…

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