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Sit-at-Home Tensions: Ohanaeze Endorses Soludo’s Closure of Onitsha Main Market

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Sit-at-Home Tensions: Ohanaeze Endorses Soludo’s Closure of Onitsha Main Market

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has thrown its weight behind Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, over his decision to temporarily shut the Onitsha Main Market as part of efforts to end the lingering sit-at-home practice in the South-East. The closure followed Governor Soludo’s unscheduled visit to the market, where he observed widespread…

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Afenifere, Ohaneze, ACF Advocates Regional System, Re-naming Nigeria

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Afenifere, Ohaneze, ACF Advocates Regional System, Re-naming Nigeria

Ohaneze Ndigbo, Afenifere, Arewa Youths Consultative Forum (ACF) and other socio-cultural ethnic groups have advocated regionalism and parliamentary system as the only way to tackle various challenges plaguing the country. All the major ethnic groups under the aegis of the Rebirth Group,TRG, jointly canvassed that the country should be renamed United Regions of Nigeria, URN….

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Advocates Scrapping SIECs Following LGs Autonomy

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo Advocates Scrapping SIECs Following LGs Autonomy

The South East Nigeria apex socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called for the abolition of State Independent Electoral Commissions (SIECs) charged with conducting local government elections. This is coming as the organization described the ruling of the Supreme Court on local government autonomy, on Thursday, as victory for democracy. In a statement signed by the…

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Ignore calls for Kanu’s release – Northern group tells Buhari

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Ignore calls for Kanu’s release – Northern group tells Buhari

A group under the auspices of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore the fresh “unpatriotic” agitations and renewed call for the release of leader of outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The group’s spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman in a statement, said the calls for Kanu’s release without…

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