Geometric Power Ltd, Nigeria’s leading electric power integrated group, has described the death yesterday in Abuja of a foremost elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, as unexpected and shocking. “He was one of our staunchest supporters”, the company said today in a statement quoting its Founder/Chairman, Prof. Bart Nnaji, as saying. “Iwuanyanwu, 82, and a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of …

The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu is dead. It was  learnt that he passed on in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, on Thursday. He is the second President General of Ohanaeze to die in quick succession. This was confirmed in a statement on Thursday by Jide Iwuanyanwu, the son of the late Chief Emmanuel. According to …

Nigerian politician and entrepreneur, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has been confirmed as the President-General of the Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo. In his inaugural speech, Iwuanyanwu pledged to secure the release of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafrra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who is being prosecuted for treason by the Federal Government. Iwuanyanwu was unanimously endorsed as the group’s …

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 …