One reason why Nigeria is not making progress and lacks national consciousness is that majority of us, especially the political class have refused to move on. In particular, the three ethnic groups, ...

The Igbo-Etiti Local Government in Enugu State has vowed to arrest and prosecute any masquerade caught flogging or molesting women and girls in the area. The council chairman, Dr Eric Odo ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Ayo Adeyinka, founder and ...

Masquerade culture, royal festivals ... New Yam Festivals across Igbo land, the Durbar, and Calabar Carnival—serve as ...

Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has dismissed claims that the 1966 military takeover was an “Igbo coup”. Babangida said the leader of the 1966 coup, Kaduna ...

Fani-Kayode insisted that those claiming it was not an Igbo coup are wrong, stating that they are either misguided and misinformed or being mischievous. The ex-Minister stated in a post on his X ...

Sir: If a 20-year-old student researcher had found, after methodical research, that the 1966 so-called Igbo coup was not an Igbo coup after all, that 20-year-old researcher would have been ...

ENUGU – The Association of Igbo Town Unions (ASITU) has strongly rejected the Federal Government’s plan to acquire land in Imo State and other South East states for the establishment of cattle ...