Ojukwu

The presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has said that the late Biafran warlord, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, lived and died for his people. Obi said this while paying tribute to the former Military Governor of the old…

The owner of the apartment where Mr. Usifo Ataga, Super TV Chief Executive Officer, was allegedly murdered, on Monday said that she neither met Ataga nor his alleged murderers before the incident. Nkechi Mogbo testified before a Lagos…

Chidinma Ojukwu, the 21-year-old University of Lagos (UNILAG) student that initially confessed to killing Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga, has reversed course. Ojukwu, who was paraded by the Lagos State Police Command in June, had confessed to…

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, has called for enforcement of recommended punishment for kidnappers according to extant laws, in order to nip the ugly trend of abductions in the bud.…

Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anthony Ojukwu has suggested that security agents continue to torture suspects in spite of existing anti-torture legislation. He lamented that more than 80 percent of…

First Republic Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has revealed what he described as Emeka Ojukwu's greatest political mistake. Ojukwu was Military Governor of Eastern Region who later became leader of the breakaway Republic of…

Nigeria's former Ambassador to Spain, Mrs Bianca Ojukwu has declined to confirm the rumoured death of Debe Sylvester Ojukwu, the first son of her late husband. Debe Ojukwu reportedly died in a Lagos hospital on Friday at the age of 62.…

The Southern Leaders Forum (SLF) have made it clear to President Muhammad Buhari that his conversations with Ojukwu in 2004 concerning the unity of Nigeria is of no consequence to the present call for the restructuring of Nigeria. The…

The founder of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Ralph Uwazurike, has lamented that the Igbos do not appreciate the efforts he has made for the Biafran  struggle. He was speaking with…

On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1…

Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has been advised to exercise caution in his agitations for Biafra, or he would end up in regret like Emeka Ojukwu. A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress…

The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Wednesday said the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would have waged another war against the country should he be alive over the continued detention of the leader of…

Governor of Imo State and leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu would have joined the APC if he was still alive. Okorocha made the comment on Friday while speaking in Awka, at…

A sprawling view of Abeokuta lay prostrate from his hilltop mansion, a metaphor for the clout of its owner, a man whose sheer strength of character held an impossible Nigeria in the palm of his hand for eight long years. It is not for…

When details of Ojukwu's will emerged, even his favourite wife, Bianca, was shocked to learn that the late Ikemba had a secret love child identified by him as Tenny. According to investigations by Sunday Trust, "Tenny Hamman, as Ojukwu…