When I asked the rhetorical question: “Are Yoruba the ‘problem’ with Nigeria?”, more responders answered “No” than “Yes”. Many said Nigeria, indeed, was – and still is – the problem with the Yoruba – a cog in the wheel of its progress! I think it is necessary to locate (who are) the real problems with Nigeria because, as they say, …

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said many Nigerians are no longer proud to identify themselves as citizens of the West African nation. In a video seen online on Thursday, Igboho, who was spotted at an airport in the United Kingdom, said corruption, insecurity, and a bad economy are the reasons for the lack of …

The Igbo community in the midwestern state of Michigan will hold its Igbo Day and the first New Yam Festival in Detroit City on Saturday, 17 August. The festival will feature “authentic Igbo cuisines, masquerades, cultural music, and a cultural competition”, according to the president of the Igbo Cultural Festival of Michigan (ICAM), Gabriel Ugwu. Sponsored by Mabel Hotel in …

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abdulahi Ganduje, has said the party has initiated moves to de-marginalise Igbos to place them in the limelight of national politics. Ganduje asserted on Sunday during the APC South East zonal meeting in Abakaliki, noting that Igbos had shown massive support to the party and the President Bola Tinubu-led administration …

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), yesterday, called on the Igbo in the diaspora to bring their investments home. The group also condemned what it called the wicked destruction of Igbo property in Lagos and alleged criminal silence of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, South-East governors and National Assembly members from the zone. In a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary, Emma …

The senator representing Anambra south, Ifeanyi Ubah, has said about 80 per cent of Igbo people amass their wealth from President Bola Tinubu’s legacy in Lagos state. Ubah said this after he was officially received into the caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday in Abuja. Earlier, the Anambra senator dumped the Young Progressives Party (YPP) yesterday, citing …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has denounced what he called Igbophobia and urged Nigerians to fight evil with good. There were concerns about an ethnic revolt when Igbo voters in Lagos were singled out during the presidential and governorship elections. Obasanjo, who spoke in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on the occasion of the Governor Chukwuma Soludo administration’s one-year anniversary, advised …