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gidgiddy:
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has called on the Federal Government to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, describing his continued detention as unjust and unacceptable.

This resolution was part of a communique issued at the end of a two-day Ohanaeze Ndigbo Leadership Retreat held at the Landmark – Nike Lake Hotel, Enugu, from June 4 to 5, 2025.

The communique was jointly signed by the President General, Senator Azuta Mbata, his deputy and Chairman, Planning Committee, Prince Okey Nwadinobi, Secretary General, Emeka Sibeudu, and National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Ezechi Chukwu, on Tuesday.

The retreat, themed “Rebuilding Our Foundation,” brought together prominent Igbo leaders and stakeholders from diverse sectors, including academia, religious and traditional institutions, organised private sector, town unions, youth and women groups, and the diaspora.

The gathering, chaired by the Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Majesty, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, and declared open by the Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah of Enugu State, represented by his deputy, Barr. Ifeanyi Ossai.

In one of its resolutions, the retreat “unequivocally condemned in strong terms, the continuous detention of Nnamdi Kanu, whom before now has been acquitted by a court of competent jurisdiction.” The communique urged the federal government to “find an alternative solution to his matter and release him.”

The retreat emphasised unity, economic revitalisation through investments in Igbo land, and cultural rebirth rooted in traditional values such as “Igwebuike (strength in unity), Onye aghala nwanne ya (leave no one behind), and Ako bu ije (wisdom is key to progress).”

Also, participants resolved to support the Professorial Endowment Chair in seven universities across the Ohanaeze states, a project aimed at promoting research in Igbo language, culture, and history.

Ohanaeze also announced plans to present its programmes and a draft constitution to Imeobi, the organisation’s highest decision-making body, in due course.

https://punchng.com/release-nnamdi-kanu-ohanaeze-urges-fg/

Which Kanu? You mean Kanu Arinze or Kanu ipob designated as terrorist? By the time he becomes 65 or 70yrs, when he is old enough to be inactive enough to vomit more troubles, he will be released with house arrest and international ban so he can retire to his father's house and be eating Okpa with peace of mind

Racoon:
It is good for national structures or monuments to be named after leaders if they are deserving to immortalize their memories, but Tinubu's desperate self immortalization while enmeshing Nigeria into more problems is a sign of desperation.

Try to be great too so people can remember to name something after you. Enough of complaint. For how long will you keep dwelling in complaint? You complained like that for Buhari until he spent his 8yrs, 10yrs plus your age then when Buhari entered, you are still complaining and always sad at Tinubu. Will you still complain for more six years of Tinubu?

SpatialKing:
So because India 🇮🇳 has more population their literacy rate is better than Finland?

Is like that literacy starts from you. Did you understand my submission at all before you come with conflicting opinion your baseless argument? Finland literacy is determined by her own population and not by comparing with India population. India literacy population is also determined by her own population and not in comparison with Finland. Same thing I was trying to tutor you regarding the statistics you are carrying along and using it to compare and prove that you are more educated than Yorubas. That statistics was not generated to compare tribes, but to determine literacy level within the same tribe.

If it is by comparison with India, only 5% population of literates in India is enough to dwarf 90% literate population in Finland. It is the same analogy I was making for those biafrans deceiving themselves thinking it means their population of literates are more than that of Yorubas which is not. Yorubas get more quality and quantity schools in numbers and quality than Biafrans since Independence. Yoruba schools have always been rated highest in Nigeria and Africa since independence.

It is the same scenerio that always play out when some Biafrans begin to say Anambra has more beautiful structures than Oyo state not knowing it was because the entire Anambra state is small and all her fine buildings can not fill one or two local government in Ibadan. Ibadan has more beautiful structures that are scattered because of bigger land mass. It is a simple logic and mathematics for literate biafrans to understand but unfortunately only what they understand fast is to say Buhari is cloned

SpatialKing:
Dangote wasn't rich because he was educated

Most Yorubas are rich because of Lagos and federal government support

Do you know how many years you have been having drug and faking product support? True billionaires true hardworking are not many in that area, many supported themselves with illegal drugs, counterfeiting products and selling fake products in different markets. True billionaires true hardwork without dirty hands are not many in that zone

SpatialKing:
Dangote wasn't rich because he was educated

Most Yorubas are rich because of Lagos and federal government support

If Yorubas are rich because of Lagos, is there anything wrong with you having your own Lagos where you can be rich also or are you comfortable with being arrested by NDLEA on regular basis for same reason of wanting to be rich by force ?

Zionmdde:
See this one talking about spirit of fairness
Is south a region?
SS SW SE. So excluding east is aligned to his own spirit of fairness
He should just come out clean on I support tinubu and stop blabbing

Hypocrites

East always excludes herself because she doesn't know how to play politics. East is expecting presidency to be brought to her in her dinning room. Nzogbu, nzogbu politics doesn't work in this dispensation. You better humble yourselves and learn politics from your south west counterparts that know how to play politics more than you.

East can choose to learn politics as they learn trade also. If East doesn't enroll in the school of politics now by paying south west with humility to learn from them, don't be surprised that next time presidency rotation reaches south again, south south that is getting ready may still become president before you.

Forkthiefnubu:
You got into corporate jobs because of the tribalism in your in DNA and that’s why the companies are dying or dead, you literally ate it to death, you can’t survive outside the government/corprate world , can’t ran a business without government support or a kind or pork barrel for boys

Even outside corporate world, Yorubas still dominate it except you want to keep dwelling in deceit. Aside Dangote, most viable industries in Nigeria are own by Yorubas and they have always been among 1st/2nd and 3rd richest men in Nigeria as well as shown up in africa. Tell me how many of your audio billionaires and illegal drug billionaires have ever made the list in Nigeria and africa? Viable leading tech industries in Nigeria and africa are pioneered by Yorubas. So, both corporate and outside corporate are dominated by them. Even entertainment, law, media, tech and many more are dominated by them in reality and not in audio. So, it is not about tribalism but about facts you can see everywhere closest to you.

arsenalgunners:
See how this one is just capping rubbish, what are the facts that Yorubas have more population than the Igbos.Igbos are 99 percent found in South East.Igbos are also one of the major tribes in Rivers and Delta States.Infact comparing individual tribes in South South Igbos are the highest.Igbos are also found in large numbers in any state in the North than the Yorubas.In South West Igbos are also found in large numbers,Yorubas have high population than Igbos only in South West their region.

Keep deceiving yourself in trial and error! Igbos are not 99% in south east. Igala population in the south east can never be ignored. How many indigenous population in rivers and delta truely identified themselves as Igbos aside playing political games like Amechi? Even the one that accept Ohanaeze leadership mandate, how are you sure is not for same political computation to put food on his table? How many of his kindreds have accepted to be Igbos?

If you remove igala from south east and replace with other that identified as Igbos in those states you mention, there are still empty vacuum of igala population they can't fill. That was how many of you were making false assumptions that Igbos travel to US, UK more than Yorubas, only for US verifiable statistics to show proof that Yorubas are number 1 in africa, and Igbos too far from them in population that they never even secured second position

Racoon:
...If you need to get your hands dirty, just to claw out of an unfavourable position, please do.Just make sure you succeed in the end...
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Never gets your hands dirty by going into illegal jobs like drug pushing or ipobism to get stipends. It is against morality,humanity and dignity. Ipob is a well known terrorist organization banned under the law of Nigeria and laws of many lands are against carrying drugs to survive because you like to get your hands dirty first. Even though, I knew that op has good intention in this context; I have to put that clearification because many of his followers are ipob and obidient members that can't think well on their own except with the aid of emphasis

themanderon:
How did they determine they are obedients?

Simple to know them because many of them are always think upside down. Even those who fake profiles of Yorubas and hausa, you will identify them through their too poor ways of thinking and imbecility. Too common with them. Maybe it is because many of them are ipob sympathizers and supporters that believed passionately in their kanu master that Buhari was cloned. The déterminant factor to identify obidient is very easy no matter how they fake profiles

OfoIgbo:
Forget all these concocted population figures. Igbos are more in population than Yorubas.
Igbos can influence the voting figures in non-Igbo areas like Abuja, Lagos. And of course influence the voting patterns in Delta and Rivers states.

Yorubas can only influence the voting patterns in Yoruba states.

Now coming back to education, Igbos are highest and male education has consistently improved starting from Peter Obi's regime that began to encourage increased male Involvement in education.

How many votes has Igbo well known parties influenced outside south east since era of democracy in Nigeria? Was there any impact of APGA or LP outside south east as a result of Igbo presence you assumed to have capability to influence votes? The 2023 narrow win of Obi in Lagos was never because of influence of Igbos. It was the fear of muslim-muslim ticket that made some Yorubas to vote for Obi. It was more on influence of religion for fear of m-m ticket. Same thing happen to Abuja, it was influence of Christians that feared m-m, it was never Igbo influence. Did you see Igbos repeating same influence at governorship level ? So, stop deceiving yourself

Tochi3:


..one of those that went to the best school & best Corporate enterprise below..leading who went to poor schools..

That is why poorly educated Tinubu according to you is more brighter and smarter than Obi that many of you rated as well educated because for many years since independence, best university rated are always from south west.

Tell me how many years since independence that any university from the east has been rated 1st/2nd in Nigeria and africa; you will be scratching your head for nothing, but it has always been from south west since independence among federal, privates and state. So, poorly educated Tinubu is brighter than your highly rated 2023 defeated presidential candidate

rinzaugustine:
The first day my aunt saw me eating amala and ewedu she screamed and ran away and said they use same dirty sweeping broom used for sweeping the floor in turning the ewedu during cooking but I told her No that’s it’s a clean broom but wasn’t convinced Lol

I will advise you to continue to eat that food, especially if you are one of the ipobs, ESN and even many obidient supporters. That food can cure brain inversion observed in many ways biafrans think upside down. You can imagine this kind of food that Yorubas eat that make them sharper than their Biafran counterparts to the extent they lead in education, sport, entertainment, law, technology, media and even in politics.

No one will eat that kind of food and believe Kanu that Buhari was cloned. If you can be allowed to give that food to Kanu in the cell, I am sure after one week of constantly eating that food, he will come down to his original senses. No matter the broom they use, the soup gets resistant to foreign germs, it will not cause any problem for you. It is far better than Abacha (African salad) or different types of grasses ate in the forest during Biafra war due to hunger that now became most of your vegetables today.

arsenalgunners:
Education

The percentages here is compared to individual population to determine the percentage and not with other tribe or ethnicity. Yorubas percentage is found within your a population while Igbo percentage is computed within Igbo population.

If it is by population considered, Yorubas has more population than igbos, and you can see how many plenty schools they have far more than that of Igbos from primary, secondary to universities. Every serious corporate organization is full of Yorubas because they are more educated at home and abroad

Continue to deceive yourself since you like it. Yoruba population are more than Igbo population and they also have more quality schools from secondary to universities. You yourself should look at corporate world and even most corporate companies in the east and banks are full of Yorubas, that shows you they are every where because they are more educated and have more quality schools.

Many Igbos that go to school stopped at secondary schools to focus on business or learning trades especially men. Women are more educated in Igbo land than men because many men end up in businesses and illegal "something". If it is by numbers, Yorubas has more population that are educated in Nigeria and will take more time for any other tribe to beat their records because Yorubas are more populous than igbos and occupy more states than igbos.

If it is by percentage, then it is determined within individual tribe population which does not translate to most educated by population which Yorubas dominate. You yourself should count the numbers of schools in yoruba land and compare to the ones in Igbo land, except you like to deceive yourself; Yorubas are more educated by population in Nigeria while percentage by population within individual tribe (not compare to other), yes you can say Igbo percentage rate is high when compare the percentage within Igbo population by counting those that went to secondary schools before venturing into trading and businesses

gidgiddy:
So where in this report was Biafra mentioned?

Report does not need to mention ipob, ipob handiwork as recognized banned terrorist is well known. Tell ipob to come to police headquarters to clear themselves or call press conference inviting armies and press men to deny involvement if you are so much pained. Ipob that killed able men to the extent there is shortages of able men in alaigbo that can join Nigeria army and police because ipob has wasted many Igbo youths gathered in bushes as ESN that were later bombed and killed in their bush camps. See this blé man that you suppose to beg to join army, you want to kill him again, ipob?

Although, there is no much problem since she can afford it, but such reason shouldn't have been raised in the public because it will be viewed differently. How many top doctors in the same USA ran to her country for medical attentions for same reason she gave? I am sure she will say none. So, average or poor doctors that can't afford such service from USA should kill themselves, right? So, if per adventure it is time for God for her to die, will those same doctors not going to see her unclothedness when embalmed in mortuary? May God help her with longevity, but she should have given another valid reason instead of this

The woman should please tell us where else did her husband kept Nigeria money because those ones that were repatriated were discovered by tracking and searching any element of deposit from Nigerians and by luck discovered some. The woman should tell us more where else the money was kept for Nigerians. Mama wants to clear her family name for sake of her children before she leaves this world

If you have Google AI (Gemini); ask it first to help you resolve it since it must have been trained to do such.

Mabuggi88:
Dispute his write up, not the writer.
Meanwhile the write-up was edited by two edutors according to newsprint guidelines. So you won't tell me none of them will say the writer is wrong

Which guidelines are you talking about? Is it the one they last used before social media and AI emergence? No standard anywhere, most of them are just direct copy of blogger opinion or just they just pushed their distorted opinions as news to us without proper investigative journalism. This one has carried his personal opinion and hatred as news for people to buy

I celebrate with you. So, nah job search remain now mama. Thank you for giving hope to our lazy youths to encourage them they can still go to school at any age to fulfil their ambitions and always reenergize their commitment to functional learning for more contributions to society. Well, done. You can submit your CV to N-Power for job

gidgiddy:
Well I'm glad that you people know that your so called democracy is one where people are "deliberately allowed" to have votes

The way criminality is celebrated in this country is shocking

Is there any other well known even to the law of the country aside IPOB? I don't know of any except ipob that all her top leaders are in prison yards where criminals are kept

Penguin2:
Torr!

All these ones are geared towards trying to make Obidients to give up already.

To make us think that we are fighting a losing battle.

But news flash, the only person important in the movement is Peter Obi.

We did it in 2023 without a single Assembly, House of Rep or Senatorial Member, without a governor too.

In 2027, we will do it even more.

So, good riddance to bad rubbish!

Sipping my Elxir and Sensation as I laugh at y’all.

Keep deceiving yourself! All the people you did together with without any assembly member have decamped while the remaining ones are still looking for ways to jump out. Is it Lagos or Abuja or Akwa Ibom or delta you want to win now in 2027? Keep consoling yourself till then, people that matters in the politics already knew the implications so they are scampering back to APC. You will only make noise and shout on top of futility in 2027 with no one to help.

Few members you suppose to use good governance to tie down while you gain more, you allow them to go till the party becomes empty and you are still talking about you did it in 2023. Where are those you did it together with? They are gone back to APC. You better don't waste your effort campaigning for a party you knew will definitely loose. Better to reserve your energy for better things

Emeskhalifa:
Abeg rest Grandpa.

Till date, we still know the most hated and marginalized region in this country

Nobody hates you, but ou hated yourselves. When you lead and paint everywhere with crime, faking product, illegal drugs and arrogance unrelenting worldwide, do you expect to be loved?

Brendaniel:
What kind of love kills over 3 million of a people because you want to force them to stay with you?

When you hear any politician shouting that the unity of Nigeria is non negotiable, what about the love Nigeria, why don't they also shout that the love of Nigeria is also non negotiable?

That is because such politicians don't do anything out of the love for Nigeria, so to them the unity is more important than the love because of their greed, so they can kill just to keep the unity instead of showing love...

Have you ever heard Gowon say he fought the war because of love, no, he talks only about unity and unity without love is what? "chaos" That's the situation of Nigeria today

What was ojukwu looking at when he marched 3millions to the slaughter ground? If Ojukwu did not start what he couldn't finish, will Nigeria millitary come and kill 3 millions in their houses unprovoked? Don't blame Gowon, blame stubborn ojukwu for that

malali:
In a country ravaged by unsolved gun violence, brazen extortion, and untraceable homicides, the last thing Nigeria needs is a spiritual leader mocking the rule of law.

Pastor Paul Adefarasin, a man whose words fill cathedrals and whose influence stretches far beyond the pulpit, was recently caught on camera allegedly brandishing a firearm in broad daylight traffic. A digital witness captured him clearly gripping what numerous firearm experts have reviewed to be most likely a Beretta 92X RDO Compact - a military-grade pistol.

Rather than own up to it or clarify with dignity, the Pastor responded by gaslighting 250 million Nigerians - insisting the object in his hand was not a gun.
Yes, you read that correctly! A gun… in traffic… pointed in the direction of civilians. In a nation where even possession of a toy gun in public is legally prohibited without just cause, this is an insult not just to our laws, but to our collective intelligence.

This is not the Wild Wild West.

Nigeria is not some lawless frontier where influence gives immunity. Lagos is a city of over 20 million lives, crammed into chaotic roads and high tensions. The safety of its citizens must be non-negotiable, and the Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who swore to protect this state, must lead from the front.

He must demand that Pastor Adefarasin submit himself to police authorities and present the item he was caught wielding. If it's truly a toy, then let the public see it. If it's not - let the law take its course.

The Laws Are Clear:
• You cannot brandish a real or replica firearm in public.
• You cannot threaten or intimidate civilians - especially media creators - for simply filming in public.
• You cannot dismiss public concern with sarcasm and gaslighting.

What Happens Next Sets Precedent:

If nothing is done, then every frustrated elite will soon begin brandishing weapons - real or fake - in traffic, in malls, at airports, and on our streets.
Silence now means anarchy tomorrow.

It is time to sanitize Nigeria's relationship with firearms - not deepen its rot. Pastor or not, no one is above the law.

Even wickedness starts from you! See how you painted the scenerio just because you want to pull someone down.Are pastors not human beings that you always like to pull them down. Even if it is true, the gun must be a registered one for self defense. Why will someone jobless blogger approach him because he believes he is driving expensive car? Did he wants to rob him? So, if he did not show him gun, he wants to rub him, right? Stop being lazy and wasting your time online on frivolous matters, go and work hard and get your own money to get a registered gun.

DeepSight:
Regardless of the party, it is wrong in principle.

It is only wrong based on your distorted mindset and not on principle. Life is flexible and not rigid. People that voted once and find out it was wrongly choice should not wait for another four years to readjust their decisions. All parties involved have opportunity to enjoy both its good and bad features. Laws are made for men, it is only when it is against the law of the land that it is against principle. If same defection favours your party tomorrow now, you will be jumping over.

All these lazy guys that call themselves content creator looking for traffic illegally for Google money should be forced to work in farms.

All content creators should be registered by government agency, anyone that spoils someone or men of God wrongly for illegal content creation purposes, his/her license should be seized, deregistered and forced to work in government controlled farms.

Some youths are becoming more lazier after graduation without white collar jobs. Next thing is to become blogger, tarnishing people images to get traffic especially men of God. Government should do something on time

What step did MURIC take to remind federal government and NRC when the festivity was getting closer in case they forget? Or did MURIC purposely didn't want to remind federal government or NRC so that they can hang on it to pretend they were marginalized for eye service purposes.

If it were Hajj, you always remember to remind government because it is usually expensive, but because you likely wants to reserve train issue for eye service purposes, you never reminded federal government or NRC despite many Muslims are there working with NRC and government. To me, this is just an eye service allegation just to make your BaD mind known about other issues bothering you. Christians are more far educated than Muslims because they have many more quality private schools and have specialists in almost every areas of human life that government always need to work with for good governance purposes. Christians have more human resources than other religions that government will always seek their expatriate.

Muslims should spend more on western eduction, set up more universities and get adequate funding for their existing universities that are always below standard so they can have more human resources in future that government can always work with. There is a limit, government can talk about equality when there are no adequate human resources to tap from among Muslims as compared to their christian counterparts

donleo92:
This man has lost his relevance in the south.

Akwa ibom people go too hate am now

Is it like Ebonyi hated Umahi after defecting to APC? Continue dreaming!

Mj4199:
Russia launched an intense missile and drone barrage at Kyiv overnight after Vladimir Putin vowed to respond to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb attack on some of the Kremlin’s nuclear-capable bombers.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched more than 400 drones and more than 40 missiles at Ukraine, as he cried to allies to build pressure on the Kremlin to end its war. Four people were killed, including three emergency workers in Kyiv.
The Ukrainian president wrote in a social media post: “If someone does not put pressure and gives the war more time to take lives, they are complicit and responsible. We need to act decisively.”

Missiles and drones hammered the Ukrainian capital leading fires to rage through residential buildings and forcing the local metro system to close after a train was hit.

It was part of a nationwide assault that ranks among the largest coordinated attacks in the three years of full-scale war, with 44 ballistic and cruise missiles and 407 drones launched. About 50 people were injured across the country.

Russia had previously vowed to take revenge on Ukraine after Monday’s audacious drone attack, known as Operation Spiderweb, on its bomber fleet.

Initially, two TU-95MC and two TU-160MC bombers were deployed by Russia on Thursday night. This was a lower number than had been feared and may have been the result of the Kremlin’s resources being reduced by the events of 1 June. Kalibr missiles were also fired from Russian warships stationed in the Black Sea.

Putin informed the US president, Donald Trump, in a call on Wednesday that Russia would respond to the operation that Ukraine has claimed damaged or destroyed 41 aircraft. “They went deep into Russia and [Putin] actually told me we have no choice but to attack based on that, and it’s probably not going to be pretty,” Trump had told reporters.

Trump said it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” rather than pursue peace immediately. Ukraine and Russia met for talks in Istanbul on Monday with no headway to a truce, but the two sides signalled progress on other issues, including the transfer of captives and bodies.

The barrage on Kyiv had begun with the buzz of Russian kamikaze drones followed by Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire. Through the night the city was shaken by large explosions.

Fake news with no source just to defend Russia. Even today , Ukraine still attacked Russia . Keep deceiving yourself with long story that has no source, you are the one wasting your time