BY: GODKNOWS BOLADEI IGALI The date, May 27th, 1967 will always remain a landmark in the annals of Nigeria’s history for a number of reasons. First, on that date, the country’s third Head of State and second military ruler, then Col. Yakubu Gowon took the courage to create 12 States out of the 4 regions…
Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), M.S. in Educ. 1943, M.A. 1944, was born in Africa’s Gold Coast (now Ghana). As a young man, he was a school teacher before leaving his homeland to further his education in American universities. He later traveled to England where he worked for the decolonization of Africa and in the Pan-African movement…
Barely more than two weeks after Nigeria’s President and ECOWAS chairperson, Bola Tinubu, thundered against coup plotting in the sub-region, one is simmering in his backyard–Niger Republic. Tinubu had said to heads of ECOWAS member states: “We will not allow coup after coup in the West African sub-region. We will take this up seriously with…
The economy of the former Eastern Region was planned from ground up by the US consulting firm Arthur D. Little Dr. Azikiwe brought them and they worked with M I Okpara at first, then with Sam Otti and later Eluwa who headed the Civil Service and later with Sir Louis Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu who at…
@global square, 18th June 2023. The Electoral Act 2022 introduced some novel inventions. Principal amongst them is the electronic transfer of election results from the polling units in real time on election day to the INEC database or back end server or National Electronic Register of Election Results, and the uploading of the scanned hardcopies…
THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LEADERSHIP OF ENUGU WEST GENERAL ASSEMBLY (EWGA) GREATER AWGU CHAPTER LED BY HON. PRINCE HUMPHREY ONYIMA (EBUBE MGBOWO), FORMER SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT ON MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TO THE EX-GOVERNOR OF ENUGU STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, RT. HON. IFEANYI UGWUANYI, CON.
Chinua Achebe was a novelist. Wole Soyinka is a playwright. I know most of you didn’t know this, but there is really no basis for comparison between the two. It’s like comparing Sunny Ade and Oliver De Coque because they are both singers. Chinua Achebe also deserved the Nobel Prize no doubt, but he never…
The attached Lamborghini Used To Belong To A Very Young Igbo Billionaire”: A Look At Victor Okafor AKA Ezego’s Vintage Lamborghini Victor Nnamdi Okafor, AKA Ezego, was a chieftaincy title holder, and an affluent Igbo billionaire businessman born in Ihiala, Anambra, on the 25th of December 1964. Sadly, the billionaire died on the 25 of…
By Biodun Busari Former Chief of Staff, Gen Oladipo Diya, who served as de facto Vice President to the late Gen Sani Abacha, died Sunday. His death was confirmed by his son, Prince Oyesinmilola Diya. Diya would go down in the history of Nigeria as one of the famous military generals and vice presidents. Related…
Happy 90th Birthday Anniversary to H.E Chief Emeka Anyaoku, CFR, a distinguished Nigerian, diplomat per excellence, a rare gem, colossus of high repute and indeed one of Africa’s and Commonwealth’s finest. Congratulations to you Sir and wishing you more years of happy celebrations.
