I CAN imagine that the question on everybody's lips now is: is this the beginning of the end prophesied for Nigeria? Can Nigeria make it to 2015? If Boko Haram has infiltrated the government and the nation's security agencies, as President Jonathan admitted, can the nation hold together?
Owerri - A pressure group, Biafra Liberation Council, has called the Chairman of Southeast Governors Forum and Luxurious Bus Owners Association of Nigeria (LUBOAN) to provide vehicles for the evacuation of Igbos stranded in the northern part of the country, in order to eschew more damages to lives and property.
"This is what I referred to as Doctrine of Nigeria's Settled Issues. Number one, I don't want every one of us to tamper with anything to do with Nigerian unity. Number two, republican constitution is also a settled issue, more or less. Number three, the states are the federating units of this country and number four, we are a capitalist country."-General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
Onitsha - THE former Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and a veteran of Nigerian- Biafra civil war, Chief Joe Achuzia, has said the burial of Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu cannot be complete without the ceremonial salute by the veterans of Biafran soldiers.
The Moment (London)THE gruesome pictures of dead Nigerians killed for protesting the hike in fuel price will haunt us forever.
Nigeria's problem is not oil subsidy, subsidy is the symptom of a greater evil that ails Nigerians working hard, ready to go anywhere to make a living. Those losing their lives protesting on the streets have had it: enough is enough.
Enugu - AFTER four hours of deliberation, Igbo leaders, elected public officers, political appointees, traditional rulers and religious leaders from the South East zone, Saturday, declared their anger over the continued killing of Ndigbo residing in the northern states by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
Leadership (Abuja)Last week, Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State warned that Nigeria could disintegrate by 2015 if a superior counter terrorism strategy is not evolved and deployed to contain the current, treasonable security challenges. LOUIS ACHI examines the substance of the governor's alert and tracks similar recent predictions on the same subject.
The Moment (London)THE growing insecurity in Nigeria is alarming. The Christmas bombing of a church near Abuja killed 43 people. The August 26 suicide bombing of the United Nations building in Abuja killed 24 people.
The multiple explosions that rocked Kano on Friday, January 20, claimed over 150 lives. I sympathise with many who lost loved ones in these merciless coordinated killings. May the souls of the deceased, including Channels TV reporter, Enenche Akogwu, rest in peace.
Leadership (Abuja)Four years after her only son, Charles, disappeared from home, Madam Sabina Okoro, 70, has been agonising over his whereabouts. She wants to see her son's corpse even if he's dead. NNAMDI MBAWIKE , reports.
When Charles Okoro escaped from his father's imposing residential building in Dina-Nume Community, Nwangele local Government Area of Imo state in 2008, her mother never bothered to look for him. If at all she was worried, she was consoled by the fact that the young man merely left home to avoid arrest by the police, who were looking for him in connection with his alleged involvement with the activities of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.
Leadership (Abuja)As the dreaded Islamic Sect, Boko Haram continues to destroy the lives and properties of innocent Nigerians especially in the Northern part of the country, the Igbo Elders Forum has urged Igbo women and their children living in the North to return home immediately.
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