Determined to ensure that a harmonious relationship exists between ethnic nationalities wherever they reside in the country, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has initiated a peace accord meeting between Christians and Muslims, particularly farmers and herdsmen in the South East zone. He has therefore convened an interactive meeting for the purpose of fostering harmonious
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A Civil Rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari made changes to the offices of Service Chiefs without accommodating the interest of the South East “even after five years of his systematic marginalization of the zone in the scheme of top security architectures.” In a statement
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The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has knocked governors in the South-East over their rejection of a newly formed Eastern Security Network. IPOB had recently launched the security outfit to address the security problem in the region and check the activities of killer herdsmen in the zone. But the
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Leaders from ethnic groups in the South-East, South-South, South-West and Middle Belt regions have issued the Nigerian government a 90-day ultimatum to raise a panel on sovereign national conference to decide on the revocation of the 1999 Constitution or to dissolve the 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria. The leaders called the 1999 Constitution a fraud put
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The Nigerian government on Friday pledged and guaranteed the host communities in South-East over the N220bn Second Niger Bridge, that it will successful complete the construction on or before the scheduled February 2022 deadline despite challenges. The Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola stated this at a town hall meeting with the host communities in Anambra
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Senator Emmanuel Onwe, a former commissioner of Information and State Orientation in Ebonyi State, said that Governor David Umahi’s statement that “I offered this movement (from PDP to APC) as a protest against the injustice being done to the southeast by PDP,” is without foundation. Onwe, who represented Ebonyi Central Senatorial District in the 7th
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A group, Igbos For A Progressive Nigeria, IPAN, has called for a comprehensive investigation into the activities of those tasked with handling of various programmes of the federal government targeted at improving the lives of Nigerians, particularly those in the South East. The group also urged the federal government to prosecute those found guilty of
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The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, on Monday, said that the Nigeria’s 2023 President should rotate to the South East geo-political zone and not to any other Igbo speaking geo-political zone. The Chairman of the South-East Governors’ Forum, further said that the South-East presidency come 2023, was currently the greatest desire of youths of
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The National Leadership of People’s Democratic Party PDP has be given 7 days ultimatum by the Ebonyi State House of Assembly to zone the Presidential position of the party to South East. According to the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Francis Nwifuru while talking to journalists in Abakaliki, said that It is
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The Assistant Inspector General of Police In Charge of Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra state, Mr Danmallam Mohammed has commended the love, patrotism and peaceful coexistence existing among the people of the South East. He described the region as the most peaceful part of the country, challenging people from other parts of the country to emulate
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved deployment of hybrid spectrum monitoring system to detect illegal frequencies in the South East. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, disclosed this to State House Correspondents at the end of the week’s virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso
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The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, says that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will most likely zone the presidential position of the party to the South-East zone in 2023. Okechukwu disclosed this at the APC expanded caucus meeting at the party’s secretariat in Enugu, ahead of the Isi-Uzo State Constituency bye-election
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The hitherto whispered plots about Dr. Goodluck Jonathan contesting the 2023 presidential election are being revived by political strategists from Northern Nigeria who see him as a unifying force to keep the country one. The northern political operatives see President Jonathan as a unifying force around whom a government of national unity could be built
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Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, has backed a candidate from the South-East extraction to become the country’s next president. This was contained in a statement by the Governor on Saturday, noting that there was no point stoping zoning at this critical time when it had been applied in the past. The governor maintained that the
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Imo State, Professor Vitalis Orikaeze Ajumbe stressed that the South-East region was not ripe to produce Nigeria’s President in 2023. Ajumbe, a former commissioner of Information, Tourism and Public Utilities in Imo State, made this remark to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. He said that South-east
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