Economic and business activities operated by Ndigbo are expected to shut down for three hours on Saturday, January 30, ...

Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has urged Ndigbo to move beyond the Nigerian Civil War and redirect their energy towards national participation and development, saying the war ended 56 ...

Fifty-Six years after the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War that claimed an estimated three million lives on both sides, the Igbo Nation will begin an annual adoration and thanksgiving to God for surviving the ...

Who were Nigeria’s Five Majors — the title of a book, by Ben Gbulie — that originally hatched the 15 January 1966 coup?

As the Recording Academy honors Fela Kuti posthumously, it reminds us that culture doesn’t wait for institutions to catch up.

Nestled in the heartland of the Igbo people, Imo has evolved from ancient settlements to a modern state brimming with ...

Rituals have a way of degrading and over shadowing the substance and raisin d’etre of almost every memorial. That much can be said for January 15 every year in Nigeria. That day was symbolically and ...

ALHAJI (Dr) Sikiru Ayinde Balogun, popularly called Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, is widely credited with creating and popularising the Fuji genre in the late 1960s and 1970s. It was believed that ...

National symbols and commemorations are never neutral. They are not merely dates on a calendar; they signal what a nation ...

A Biography of Innocent Chukwuma emerges not simply as a chronicle of one man’s defiance against the vicissitudes of life, ...

BY IBRAHIM EL-TAFSEER At independence in 1960, Nigeria stood tall with confidence and promise. The country inherited ...

Nneoma Regina Ekeodu Okeke (née Chukwu), a veteran nurse who served during the Nigerian Civil War and later rose to senior management level in the pharmaceutical industry, has died at the age of 88, ...