Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Bianca Ojukwu, has revealed that Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has banned the coronation of “Eze Ndigbo” in foreign countries following rising diplomatic tensions and violent incidents linked to the practice. Ojukwu disclosed this in a post on X after presenting a briefing at...
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By EZEKIEL OBi, Abuja Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has extended heartfelt congratulations to Mrs. Margaret Obi following her historic appointment as the first African-born High Court Judge in England and Wales. In a statement released on Saturday in Enugu, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Senator John Azuta-Mbata, and the National...
Lagos chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has declared its full support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid in 2027, expressing confidence in his ability to secure another term. Speaking during a reconciliation gathering in Lagos on Monday, Chief Sunday Udeh, President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the state, described President...
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Forum of State Presidents has voiced strong criticism against the Federal Government for leaving out the Southeast from the country’s major gas pipeline projects. At a press conference in Awka on Saturday, the forum, through its Rivers State President, Mr. Livingstone Wechie, demanded immediate federal investment...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has strongly criticized a Senate bill proposing to permanently designate the Ooni of Ife and the Sultan of Sokoto as the exclusive Co-Chairmen of the Traditional Rulers Council, arguing it marginalizes other ethnic groups and regions. In a statement issued on...
The former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief John-Nnia Nwodo, has expressed serious concern over what he described as “a drastic decline” in the quality of education in the country. He said, “It pains me that children of our contemporaries in the university cannot get the quality education that...
An Ebonyi Magistrate’s court sitting in Abakaliki on Thursday adjourned hearing on a bail application for the release of the detained national president of the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), Mr Igboayaka Igboayaka until March 12. Igboayaka was arrested in Owerri on Feb. 8 by operatives of Anti-Kidnapping Unit, Ebonyi...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated Sen. John Azuta-Mbata on his election as the 13th President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation. APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Felix Morka, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja also congratulated the outgoing President-General of the organisation, Chief...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara has hailed the emergence of Sen. John Mbata as the President -General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), recalls that Mbata, who represented Rivers East zone from 1999 to 2007, emerged via consensus at the election.Mbata was elected at the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Sen. John Azuta-Mbata on his election as the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. Azuta-Mbata, who was a former senator, representing Rivers East in the Senate from 1999 to 2007, was elected as president of the preeminent Pan-Igbo socio-cultural...
Senator John Azuta-Mbata has been elected as the President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. Azuta-Mbata, a former Senator representing Rivers East at the National Assembly, was elected at the stakeholders meeting of the Igbo Socio-Cultural organization at the old government lodge Enugu, the Enugu State capital on Friday. The...
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has advised the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, to engage in ventures that protect the interest of the Igbo nation. He gave the advice in Umuahia on Wednesday during the inauguration of the new executive of the state chapter of the...
Nze Fidelis Chukwu from Imo has emerged as the new President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide. This is contained in a communique issued at the end of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Imeobi and General Assembly meeting held on Saturday in Enugu and signed by the Secretary-General Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Amb....
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – Founder and former President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Spain,Chief John Ugochukwu Nduwuisi, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to direct the Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN), to immediately halt the current scarcity of cash across bank counters and Automated Teller Machines(ATMs). The call, according...
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has reaffirmed its commitment to the turn of Rivers State producing the next President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo by 2025. The National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr Alex Ogbonnia, disclosed this at the end of the NEC Meeting of...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- A chiefiain of the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Ugochukwu Nduwuisi has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governors of Rivers State and their deputies to quickly mediate in the current political impasse in the state in order to find an enduring solution....
President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, led other prominent Nigerians to pay tribute to the late President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, at a funeral service in his honour. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that dignitaries from different walks of life converged on the Cathedral Church...
Some notable Nigerians have described the late President General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, as a “quintessential statesman” who committed and devoted his life to the pursuit of peace and progress in Nigeria. They paid their tributes during the Service of Songs held in honor of the...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The demand for the immortalization of late Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, and the release of the incarcerated leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, took centre stage in Enugu on Saturday as prominent Igbos filed out to pay tributes to the...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has paid a heartfelt tribute to the late President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, at a service of songs in Abuja. Jonathan recounted how Iwuanyanwu took him under his wing, even before he became Bayelsa Deputy Governor, and mentored him throughout his presidency....