Category: Ojukwu chronicle

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...

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...

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...

  Johannesburg – Ohaneze Ndi Igbo in South Africa has described late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as a courageous and detribalised Nigerian.   Chima Umealo, Deputy President of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, South Africa said at an event in honour of Ojukwu in Johannesburg on Friday that his leadership quality endeared him to the Igbos.   “In line...

  President Goodluck Jonathan’s Five-Star treatment of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu even in death earned him an equally grand salute from former Abia state governor Dr.Orji Uzor Kalu.   Kalu liked President Jonathan’s position that Ojukwu deserved national burial as a soothing balm from a man who had steadily risen from peace maker to a statesman....

Even after burial,tributes have continued to pour in for the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State said, at the weekend, that the large hearted leadership of the Ikemba Nnewi, whose remains we buried on Friday, guaranteed the unity of Nigeria. The burial of the deceased Igbo leader marked...

The fear of death drives all man – -Alexander The Great (356 –323 BC) The inevitability of death, as the ultimate end of a man, defines human life and achievements. The mere mention of the word “death” brings great fear and unpleasant memory to many a people. To conquer the fear associated with death, a...