With noon temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, visitors to Habakkuk Nwafor’s family compound in Abuja seek shelter in a palm-fronds hut adjoining his private shrine. No grass grows through the sandy ...

The Abia State Deputy Governor, Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu has urged Igbo lawyers to uphold justice, integrity, and professionalism to protect the collective dignity of Ndi Igbo in all spheres of ...

PROVIDENCE — One evening in June, I phoned Elder Pinchas Ogbukaa, spokesman of Abuja’s Gihon Synagogue in Nigeria. It was evening in Rhode Island, but Nigeria is six hours ahead, and so even though ...

In Nigeria, there are mounting calls to oust the Igbo population from the north of the country — and threats of violence if they don’t comply. Now, a group of United Nations experts have “grave ...

Some Americans will say that what is good for America is good for the world; meaning, America is the world. No, it should be the reverse: What is good for the world is good for America. So, the world ...

Read the first part of this series on the pioneers of Igbo highlife music here. Igbo highlife provided comfort and hope for the Igbos, an ethnic group living mainly in southeastern Nigeria, after a ...

The origin of rotational leadership and management of political institutions predates democracy, as a social system for inclusion and stability in any heterogeneous political arrangement. In ...

This is a short narrative about the Igbo ethic group of Nigeria. The Igbo ethnic group speak the language also known as Igbo. Their ancestral home is in the southeast of Nigeria, West Africa. They are ...

Minister of Works, and former governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, has dismissed calls for a separate Biafran State, saying it is no longer warranted, due to what he described as the unprecedented ...