NDIGBO yesterday marked the 2007 Igbo Day in Lagos with a call on the federal government to release the MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.
Chairman of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Lagos State, Chief John Nzewi, in an address to newsmen said the "entire Ndigbo support the measures and policies so far implemented by the Federal Government to solve the socio economic and political problems of the nation," adding that "we use this opportunity to call for the release of our son, Chief Uwazuruike from detention so that dialogue can take place to enhance government's policy of rule of law."
opinion
IN response to the traditional anniversary inquiries from some newspapers, my progress report on 47 years of Nigeria's growth is the political message of the fate of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and other MASSOB leaders incarcerated. The continued detention of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and some of his comrades is an arrow at the conscience of this nation. A nation destined to endure (as I believe Nigeria is) must invite all its citizens to a level playing ground. They must all be equal players. A nation in which a component is treated as war-vanquished pariah - who must endure a penance of the status of glorified indentured labour for an indefinite time before re-admission into full citizenship - faces the prospects of self-dehydration.
interview
Lagos - Dr. Samfo Nwankwo is the President Orlu Political Consultative Assembly, (OPOCA). In this interview with SYLVA EMEKA-OKEREKE shortly after his arrival from the World Igbo Congress held in the United States of America, he bares his mind on some burning issues, including call for immediate and unconditional release of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, the incarcerated leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign States of Biafra (MASSOB). Excerpts
Leadership (Abuja)
Abuja - The Igbo Community Association (ICA) in Kano has lamented the continued detention of MASSOB leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, and demanded that President Umar Musa Yar'Adua should order his immediate release in line with the spirit that saw him set free the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo.
Leadership (Abuja)
Abuja - As the crackdown on members of the Movement for the Acqualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) continues unabated by security operatives throughout Nigeria, an activist and one of the arrow heads of the movement, Mr Amando John, 28, is reported to have fled his country home, Owerri, in Imo State, for fear of arrest.
Lagos - Prominent Nigerians, including Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, Dr Amos Akingba of the Movement for Yoruba Autonomy and Alhaji Yerima Shettima, President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, stormed the federal high court, Maitama, Abuja, yesterday, to demonstrate their solidarity to the suit filed against the Federal Government by Chief Anthony Enahoro, Chief Christian Chuckwuma Onoh, Bishop Bolanle Gbonigi, Mujaheed Asari Dokubo and Alhaji Yerima Shettima, over the legitimacy and continued operation of the 1999 Constitution against the popular demand that it be replaced by the new peoples constitution of Pro National Coference (PRONACO).
Owerri - MOVEMENT for Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) charged yesterday that its long incarcerated leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, was being denied deserved freedom because his Igbo origin was "repulsive" to Nigerian government.
Leadership (Abuja)
The Anambra State police commissioner, Mr. Oliver Osuchukwu has declared that the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) is dead and no longer exists in Anambra.
Lagos - CAMPAIGN for the release of Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, detained leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) heightened yesterday with a group calling on the Federal Government to grant amnesty to him and Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force (NDPVF).
Leadership (Abuja)
opinion
The observance of the first 100 days of a government in office is an American invention, but it has caught on, because over time, the practice has come in handy to help locate early indications of the mindset and direction of any given government. So, let's play it.
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