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As a full-blooded Igboman it is always emotionally difficult to write about one’s ethnic group or people especially when such write-up is deemed to portray them in bad light. Not …

The arrest and subsequent incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu – founder of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – by state security operatives some months ago …

I am sure that when his aides bring to his attention the monthly performance survey carried out by Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria (GAIN), which showed that his job approval …

During his recent visit to Qatar, President Muhammadu Buhari sat for an interview with Martine Dennis of Al Jazeera. Last weekend, close to two weeks after the trip, I finally …

2015 is on its way out, but not without the lingering issue of Biafra’s secession that resonated this year, pushed by those who felt marginalized and alienated in this present …

I believe that a nation need not be a fixed, immutable entity, but a living organism, susceptible (in keeping with laid out procedures and according to the wish of its …

When memory sails across history, to reclaim landscapes of her birth, or recover epistemic citadels hijacked by imperialisms of conquering narratives; custodians of stolen legacies, and other fences in crime, …

I have been distressed beyond words by what has crystallized as an agitation for Biafra’s divorce from Nigeria. I am disturbed that this agitation has become another occasion for the …

Those who easily discard the spirit of Biafra are wrong and they need to be corrected. A closer look at their position and action will easily reveal that their swiftness …

In one of his recent articles, my brother and colleague, Oguwike Nwachuku, posited that based on the rabid anti-Igbo sentiment that seems to have become the all-consuming pastime of some …

Prelude to the recent bitter exchanges between the Nigerian government and groups agitating for the establishment of a “Sovereign State of Biafra”, this column joined other close security watchers in …

Let me begin this intervention by making a solemn confession: by the time the great idea of Biafra was mooted and its attempted actualisation militarily aborted I was not yet …

There are times in the life of a people when the gloves come off and frank talk must take the space in national discourse. If my memory serves me well, …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s call to Nigeria’s Defence Ministry to outline a plan for the development of an arms industry for the country is thought-provoking. Many people have taken sides on …

The agitation for the state of Biafra has been a struggle that is not alien to Nigeria. Many of us that were not born when the Nigerian civil war was …