Author: anaedo (Anthony-Claret Onwutalobi)

AT about 3.15pm yesterday, the brown casket bearing the remains of the former Biafran leader and Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was lowered into the specially built resting place in his Nnewi home. The earthly journey of the man his admirers called ‘General of the Peoples Army’ had finally come to an end.  ...

  Yesterday, a swashbuckling odyssey came to a final end at Nnewi, in Anambra State, when the remains of Dim Emeka Ojukwu, ex leader of defunct Republic of Biafra and erstwhile iconic leader of Ndigbo was in his final resting place – a marbled mausoleum – in a national ceremony with full military honours. LOUIS...

President Goodluck Jonathan has again described the late ex-Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Ojukwu as a selfless leader who fought against injustice while alive, just as the South East Governors said that Ikemba’s burial had brought to an end the wounds and pains of the Nigeria Civil War.   Jonathn, who poured encomium on the late Ikemba...

FORTY-TWO years after the Nigerian civil war ended, the Igbo nation declared yesterday that the impressive manner in which the Federal Government and the entire Nigerian nation accorded the leader of the defunct Biafran Republic, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu a befitting burial has confirmed that the war has actually ended. Chairman of the South East...

  Thousands, dignitaries bid ex-warlord bye in Nnewi Bianca breaks down in tears I’ve never seen burial like this – Jonathan   The remains of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu were yesterday interred in the marble mausoleum at his ancestral Umudim Nnewi home, in Anambra State at exactly 2:18 p.m, which overwhelmed his widow, Bianca and...

President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that the late Ikemba of Nnewi and former Biafran warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, was sent by God to lead the Igbo. Jonathan noted that in the history of mankind, God always raised men like Ojukwu to lead their people. The President made the statement during a funeral service for...

SINCE Thursday evening when the remains of Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was brought into his Umudim, Nnewi country home, crowd control became a major issue as almost everybody in Anambra State wanted to a glance former Igbo leader before his committal to mother earth.   However, from Nnokwa, which is a neighbouring community...

  Makurdi – Igbo people  resident in Makurdi have appealed to the governors of the South-East zone to immortalise the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu by establishing a university in his honour.   Chief Augustine Ezekwesili, Chairman of the burial ceremony of Odumegwu-Ojukwu in Makurdi, made the suggestion on Friday during an event in honour of...

He was formerly the rebel leader  of the defunct Republic of Biafra whose attempt to break away from the country led to a 30-month civil war.   But yesterday, he received the highest military honours and encomiums from the country as his remains were buried.   The commercial town of Nnewi, Anambra State, stood still...

It is with great pleasure and a sense of awesome humility that I come before this history making gathering to air my views on a subject that resides at the very heart of this great nation.   The Ahiara Declaration as an event stands alone as a thing that if remembered, pondered about and ruminated...