05/28/2003
opinion About a fortnight ago, I received a phone call from my mother in-law in Aba. After asking after the family, the next question she put to me led to a surprising disclosure. She wanted to know how Lagos was. Taking it for one of those usual perfunctory statements you make while on this kind of interaction, I simply told her that Lagos was fine. She told me that the atmosphere in Aba and major urban centres in Abia in particular and most parts of the East in general was tense. There were military and mobile police personnel everywhere. Government had flooded the streets with them in response to an alleged statement credited to Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) that President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, would not be allowed to "ascend the throne" for a second term of office. It was also said that some Ngwa political activists had threatened to let the heavens loose to ensure that Governor Kalu was never sworn-in on May 29, 2003 (today).05/22/2003
editorial The press reported this week that an Abuja High Court had granted bail to Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and 43 other members of his Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) who had been in detention since their arrest on January 26, 2003. The group had spent their days in detention in Abuja.05/20/2003
An Abuja High Court yesterday granted bail to Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and 43 others who had been detained since January 26, 2003 after their arrest in Aba, Abia State.05/19/2003
The News (Lagos) Biafran War Lord, Dim Emeka Ojukwu rallies Igbo leaders against President Olusegun Obasanjo. After the 19 April presidential election in which he, alongside other candidates, lost to the incumbent President Olusegun Obasanjo of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the Ikemba Nnewi and Presidential candidate of All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA, has been seething with anger. Ojukwu's rage is targeted at President Obasanjo in particular, who he believes, sponsored the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to allegedly rig the previous elections, especially, in the South East believed to be the stronghold of his party, APGA.05/05/2003
Enugu And Chuks Akunna in Abuja - The leadership of the Movement for Democracy and Justice (MDJ), said yesterdayit filed a petition before the Court of Appeal to challenge the validity of the April 19 presidential polls because it has sufficient evidence to get the elections cancelled.
