The succession crisis rocking the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo deepened on Friday as its youth wing barred the Secretary General, Ambassador Okey Emuchay, from the organisation’s national secretariat in Enugu. They also reaffirmed Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu as the acting National Youth leader pending the conduct of election next year. Rising from the National…

The demise of President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has sparked another leadership tussle, and a return to the tenure and zoning arguments among member-states. Central in the current row is the status of River State in the Igbo nation and its socio-cultural organisation, LAWRENCE NJOKU reports. A fresh leadership tussle may have…

Apex pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday thanked all Igbos at home and in the diaspora for their unwavering commitment to the decision to boycott the nationwide protests. Taking an inventory of its political stewardship, it further affirmed its support for the President Bola Tinubu administration. In a statement on Thursday by its Secretary-General, Mazi…

The Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, an apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, says it is skipping all activities in honor of the late President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. It would be recalled that the Igbo leader, Iwuanyanwu, died on Thursday, July 25, after a brief illness in Abuja. The National Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Okey…

President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council, Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu, said that Igbo youths would not participate in the protests

PAN-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation, Afenifere, on Friday, expressed its condolences over the demise of the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu.   The condolence was contained in a press statement issued by Afenifere National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi.Iwuanyanwu passed away on Thursday, July 24, 2024, after a brief illness. He was 82…

Igbo group Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Friday called the Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party in last general election to follow the footsteps of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who always demonstrate commitment to his party members. Secretary General of Chidi Ibeh led faction of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, in a statement said that…

The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide (OYC), yesterday,

Nigeria’s military high command has expressed anger over the ‘unwarranted’ killing of no fewer than five soldiers at a checkpoint by suspected Indigenous People of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN) members in Aba, Abia State.

The Chidi Ibeh faction of the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and the Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation, Dr. Orji Kalu, yesterday, pleaded with Nigerians to be patient with the administration of President Bola Tinubu

Ahead of the 2027 general elections, supporters of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 poll, have commenced harmonisation of structures across the country with the inauguration of the Obidient Harmonisation Committee (OHC).

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, is not new to crises. In fact, in its several years of existence, it has been moving from one internal wrangling to another.