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The Igbo are speaking The 40 million Igbo people resident in  Nigeria  and elsewhere, represented by Ohanaeze Ndigbo and the South East Governors Forum, will on Monday, May 21, command global attention as they take a stand on how Nigeria can achieve a more perfect union and consequently regain its manifest destiny. It promises a galaxy of Igbo stars in politics and leadership. The promise of the gathering has been accentuated by the fact that it is hosted by Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State whom former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, rightly described as the Star of the East. one doubts that Nigeria, as currently configured, needs a better design. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) set up a powerful committee headed by Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, to look at demands for restructuring. President Muhammadu Buhari had stated categorically that he was not opposed to rearranging the country’s administrative structure. Ex-Vice President Atiku Abubak...

Cardinal Onaiyekan Speaks On Islamisation Of Nigeria Cardinal John Onaiyekan/File Christians  should stop lamenting about alleged Islamization of the country but rather stand up to their faith, says the Metropolitan See of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja John Cardinal Onaiyekan. Cardinal Onaiyekan said this on Sunday while delivering the homily at a solemn mass celebrated during the Feast of the Pentecost in Abuja. He urged Christians to, “Stand up to your faith and stop complaining about islamisation of  Nigeria . Take that little girl (Leah Sharibu), still in the hands of terrorists in Yobe or wherever they may have taken her to, as an example. “We should learn to stand up to our faith by telling whoever wants us to change ‘Whatever you want to do; go ahead and do. But, I am not going to change’. “Very rarely will terrorists put guns to our heads and ask us to change. Most of the time, we may be tempted to compromise our faith in the midst of our normal working...

World War 3: Turkish President Erdogan declares Jerusalem a ‘RED LINE’ for Muslim world express.co.uk President Erdogan expressed his anger at the violence which occurred following the state of Israel’s 70th anniversary and Donald Trump’s controversial decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Speaking after an emergency summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in the  Turkish  capital, President Erdogan said: "Today we held a highly important meeting in terms of supporting the Palestinians and sending a signal to Israel. “In our resolution, we emphasised that Jerusalem is our 'red line'. “We do not recognise the US decision to transfer the embassy there; American policy encourages Israel even more. “The US leadership has punished the Palestinians, whereas Israel, which violates international law, has been rewarded.”60 Palestinians have been killed in recent violence in the Gaza Strip President Erdogan also drew a sharp contrast between Preside...

Another pledge by Trump to do what nobody else can Donald Trump.  (Win McNamee/Getty Images) “Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years” and had been made to look like “fools,” he scoffed, and then rattled his saber. “Sorry, but only one thing will work!” Five months later, Trump cast aside his skepticism and agreed to talk to North Korea with no more promise of success at negotiating an end to its nuclear and missile programs than his predecessors had. The main difference this time around is who will do the talking for the United States: Donald Trump. Shocking and yet somehow not surprising, Trump’s decision to do what no other sitting president has done and meet in person with a North Korean leader reflects an audacious and supremely self-confident approach to international affairs. Whether it is Middle East peace or trade agreements, Trump has repeatedly claimed that he can achieve what has eluded every other occupant of his office thr...

1. Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide. 2. People are not what they say but what they do; so judge them not from their words but from their actions. 3. When someone hurts you, don't feel bad because it's a law of nature that the tree that bears the sweetest fruits gets maximum number of stones. 4. Take whatever you can from your life because when life starts taking from you, it takes even your last breath. 5. In this world, people will always throw stones on the path of your success. It depends on what you make from them - a wall or a bridge. 6. Challenges make life interesting; overcoming them make life meaningful. 7. There is no joy in victory without running the risk of defeat. 8. A path without obstacles leads nowhere. 9. Past is a nice place to visit but certainly not a good place to stay. 10. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. 11. If what you did yesterday s...

BREAKING: Chime, Nnamani, Others Escape Attack As Violence Mars APC Congress In Enugu. Prominent chieftains of the All Progressive Congress in Enugu state including, Chief Ken Nnamani, Sullivan Chime, ran for their lives as violence mars the state’s party congress this afternoon. Party stakeholders and delegates escaped attack on Saturday as the Enugu State Congress of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ended in a fiasco. According to DailyPost, acreditation of delegates were midway when some thugs stormed the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, venue of the congress and chased party members away. It was gathered that members of the congress committee and INEC officials would have been mobbed by the suspected thugs. It took the prompt intervention of security agencies before they were rescued and taken out of the chaotic venue. Prominent members of the party, including, former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani, ex Governor of Enugu State, Barr. Sullivan Chime, national vi...

There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra. Their young arms and legs were like twigs, not much more than bone and skin and whatever little life still flowed in choked veins. Their skin dug deep between their ribs. Incongruously, their stomachs were pregnant with hunger. Their hair, originally full and black, had thinned and turned brown, red, blonde, or gray. This is kwashiorkor, a form of malnutrition brought on by extreme protein deficiency. It afflicted many of the children of eastern Nigeria a little over forty years ago. The word originates in the Ga language of Ghana, and it means, tellingly, “the influence a child is said to be under when his mother becomes pregnant with her next child.” From 1967 to 1970, the young state of Nigeria (which had just achieved its independence from England in 1960) fought a civil war against the separatist nation, the Republic of Biafra. The near total decimation – genocide by means of various and effective blockades - of Biafran citizens...