Nigeria

OHANAEZE NDIGBO PRESS RELEASE: 5th April 2026 The apex Igbo sociocultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has issued its Easter celebration message to all Christians, with a particular focus on Ndigbo. In this message, the organization urges all Christian faithful to continue exercising patience with the Federal Government. The current hardships faced by Nigerians, resulting from the sudden hike in petroleum products, are directly attributed to the US-Israeli war against Iran, which commenced in March 2026. The consequences of the US-Israeli military actions against Iran have triggered a global crisis, and the hike in petroleum products is a clear manifestation of…

Independence Newspaper Saturday April 4, 2026 There is a point where tragedy outpaces grief and settles into a cold, hollow amnesia. Nigeria has passed that point years ago. We are no longer a nation in mourning; we are a nation in a trance, watching a slow-motion demolition of the human soul. The slaughterings and displacements across our landscape have transcended madness, they have become a mundane backdrop to our daily existence. What is perhaps more heinous than the blade of the terrorist or the bullet of the “government-aided” bandit is the clinical, soulless way we now discuss the carnage. Open…

NDI-ABAT PRESS RELEASE: April 4th, 2026 The NDIGBO FOR TINUBU 2027 FORUM (NDI-ABAT), a prominent coalition of Igbo sociopolitical organisations, feels a profound urgency to inform His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) regarding critical developments with major implications for the 2027 Presidential elections. Credible sources indicate that former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has secured a new political party platform, apparently as a contingency amid the ongoing leadership crisis within the African Democratic Congress (ADC). NDI-ABAT alerts that Mr Obi is expected to resign from the ADC by the…

OHANAEZE NDIGBO PRESS RELEASE: 31st March 2026 The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, as the apex Igbo sociocultural organization, is duty-bound to present a forthright appeal and an unadulterated truth to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, regarding the matter of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and the much-publicized Biafra agitations. It is essential to set the record straight for the sake of posterity. Nnamdi Kanu's journey into Biafra activism began in 2001. He was a non-violent member of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and was appointed by the then MASSOB National Leader, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, as…