southeast
27 Sep 2023
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has expressed worry over the prevailing lawlessness and general state of insecurity in the country, especially the Southeast.
14 Aug 2023
The Southeast must embrace other geopolitical zones in politics to get its fair share of Nigeria, Sen. Onyekachi Nwebonyi (APC- Ebonyi North) said in Abakaliki on Monday. Nwebonyi, vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation and Water Resources told a news conference that the zone must play politics that would accommodate it fairly in the…
14 Aug 2023
President Bola Tinubu had on assumption to office on May 29 offered a glimpse of hope of one who is likely to do things differently when he appointed fresh service chiefs with good national spread.
2 Aug 2023
Two divisions of the Nigerian Army have partnered to fight against the operations of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the Southeast. Army spokesperson, Iweha Ikedichi, in a statement on Wednesday, announced that the General Officers Commanding (GOC) 82 and 6 Divisions have committed to cooperate and work even more closely. This commitment was…
26 Jul 2023
The Senate has called on the Federal Government (FG) to extradite the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa from Finland. The red chamber also condemned the Monday sit-at-home being observed across all the states in the South-Eastern region of Nigeria. The Senators reached the resolution during a plenary session at…
13 Jul 2023
The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, said the sit-at-home by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a criminal activity causing innocent people to suffer. Obi, a former Anambra State governor in a series of tweets, called for a more strategic approach to stop the killings…
11 Jul 2023
A former minister of State for Labour and Productivity, Festus Keyamo, has claimed that elites in the southeast are afraid of speaking up against the insecurity in the region for fear of reprisal attack. Keyamo said this on Tuesday while speaking about the fresh two-week sit-at-home/lockdown in the South East which was earlier announced by…