Tag: Biafra

Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels, feminism or hair. ...

Much is often made of the hundreds of billions of dollars that Nigeria has frittered away since huge deposits of ...

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I ...

Mr. Onwuka, a lawyer, had last year declared a Biafra Republic led by himself. At least one police officer and ...

The former minister has denied that his reference to “intimate relationship” implied “sexual relations”. Controversial ex-minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, whose series ...

Those that call me a tribalist are simply misguided. Perhaps they do not know the meaning of the word or ...

The men were denied bail by the Abakaliki court. Nine members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign ...

The leader of MASSOB, Ralph Uwazurike, is being charged for treason. A pro-democracy campaigner, Ayodele Akele, has called for the ...

Nigeria, an amalgam of several hundreds ethnic nationalities with diverse cultural, religious and cultural affinities is indeed an interesting irony. ...

The former president appealed to Nigerians to move beyond the civil war. Nigeria's former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that ...

“And I have wondered if it ever occurred to Chief Babatope that he also, by implication, answered his interviewer’s question ...

“Obasanjo was the first ruler in Nigerian history to borrow money when Nigeria did not need it from the IMF.”

“Whether Achebe and his Biafran cohorts will escape justice for their crimes against the Igbo people or not, TIME WILL ...

“Wild Spirits is sumptuously well-written, and it deservedly won the 2012 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction.”

The late Nkemba of Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, willed his estate and monies to his widow, Bianca. This was disclosed at ...

It appears at times Achebe wants to make a point and looks for evidence to go with it.

When Plato, one of the primary sources of human thought was delineating roles in his hypothetical Republic, he set the ...

On August 30, when President Goodluck Jonathan visits Anambra state, various economic activities will be shut down.