09/29/2003
Awka - AN Awka High Court presided over by Justice M.A. Onyiuke has granted bail to 33 members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) who were arrested and have been in prison custody since March 27, 2003, on a two count charge of "conspiracy and formation of intention to remove the president unconstitutionally." the bail was however granted according to the judge "on stringent conditions." The stringent conditions, according to the judge, were among other things that each four of the 33 accused persons would provide eight substantial sureties to take them on bail in the sum of N30,000.09/27/2003
Lagos - THIS year's edition of the annual ritual of Ndigbo, the people and culture located in South-Eastern Nigeria, tagged "Igbo Day" comes up today, September 27. Essentially, all roads will lead to Enugu, the coal-city which coincidentally was the capital of the former Eastern region as well as defunct Republic of Biafra. Although Igbo Day celebrations will take place simultaneously in Umuahia, Awka, Abakaliki, and Owerri, capitals of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi and Imo States respectively, the main event will be performed at Enugu, Enugu State capital.09/24/2003
Lagos - APEX Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze, will meet this week to take a position on the controversial apology over the Civil War (1967-70) said to have been tendered on behalf of Ndigbo by Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State.09/11/2003
Lagos - WITHIN the last couple of days, a number of people from the South-East geo-political zone have had cause to speak on the chances of the zone in 2007. Whereas some of those who spoke could rightly be categorised as campaign managers desirous of laundering the image of either General Ibrahim Babangida or Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, others wittingly or unwittingly spoke in a manner that does no good to the desire of the zone to produce a president in 2007.
