COVID-19 Will Not Affect the Nation’s Democracy and Electoral Process – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has assured Nigerians that the country’s democracy and electoral processes will not be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The commission made it known that election will still go on as schedule irrespective of the fact that there is coronavirus pandemic in the country. It added that “while the Commission takes the COVID-19 pandemic seriously, our democracy and electoral process cannot be truncated for this reason, particularly because health authorities...

Northern Governors Mourn Former NNPC Boss

The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has expressed sadness over the death of the former Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru. The Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Plateau, Simon Lalong, in a condolence message described his death as a big loss to the nation. Director of Press and Public Affairs to the governor, Dr. Makut Macham, issued the condolence message on Saturday in Jos. “The late Maikanti Baru...

The Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child

Yet, here I am still standing, pledging allegiance to NIGERIA with all sense of patriotism—a nation still being governed by some of the leaders that masterminded the devastating genocide I survived 53 years ago. Evacuating a large family from the village, Achala, to remote farmland called Eziobibi, almost twenty miles away on foot, and through near inaccessible road-paths, and under severe weather conditions was not a joke. I was seven at the time, and I...

Project Mayrock –Fulfilling the Dreams of My Hero Husband, One Step at a Time By Bianca Ojukwu

In the days following the stroke which would eventually take his life, one issue weighed heavily on Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s mind. That ‘issue’ was the immortalization of Bruce Mayrock, the 20 year old who set himself ablaze in front of the UN Building in New York on this day (29th Of May) in 1969 to draw attention to the plight of the Biafran people (a people whom he had never met, and whom he believed...

Poem: War Notes On A Biafran Night

The night was dark-blue in the face with a pale-yellow eye; an occasional passing glow filters through a black smoke blanket covering like dusk light through the windowpanes of a dark room,— The curtains are drawn. Not a good day to have conversations with the night: it can barely see us; not even a good month to listen to its stories— A voice unsure about the sounds it speaks; not even a fond season for...

The Current Igbo Are “Inferior Igbo”

Many years ago, the General, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu spoke about the “Biafra of the mind.” Only a few, I think, understood him. Well, they say, only the deep speak to the deep. But let me attempt here to tease out Dim Ojukwu’s prescription: the greatest proof of Igbo survival and aspiration must be to model, wherever Onye-Igbo stands, the ethos of innovation, excellence, ingenuity, and ability that marked the Igbo endeavor in Biafra. We must...

Igbos and Folly of Biafra–a Documentary by  By HR Udunna Ukegbu

WAP brings under one domain, a four-part documentary of the very hostile Nigeria’s Civil War by Hector-Roosevelt Udunna Ukegbu, PhD. Ukegbu, is a graduate of the University of Lagos, where he was a student leader; he also graduated from the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; St. Gregory’s College, Ikoyi, Lagos, and the Owerri Grammar School, Imerienwe. He is also a columnist with the WAP.   Igbos and Folly of Biafra (Part I)  Pilotnews May...

Igbos and Folly of Biafra (Part 4)

Fruitless Peace Negotiations. The End of Biafra. Today—Which Way Forward? Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war — Ernest Hemingway On September 7, 1968, as renowned Biafran diplomat Raph Uwechue recounts, some anxious senior Igbos held a meeting in the Algerian capital Algiers where an OAU summit which would tackle the imbroglio of...

Anambra House of Assembly Passes Revised 2020 Budget

AWKA – The Anambra State House of Assembly on Friday May 29, 2020 passed the Anambra State revised 2020 budget. The revised budget tagged “Anambra State Revised 2020 COVID-19 Appropriation Bill”, is a revision of the Anambra state 2020 budget that was passed in October 2019, but no longer feasible as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which has altered all economic projections upon which the former budget was based. In 2019, Anambra Assembly was...

We’re Still focused on Delivering Mandate for Change – Buhari

Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s mandate for change remains relevant and will be steadily followed to improve livelihoods. Shehu gave the assurance in a statement in Abuja on Friday as the Buhari administration marks the first year anniversary of his second term in office. He said: “The campaign had been hard fought; yet the mandate the people of this country gave him was...

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