Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the British Conservative Party was born to Nigerian parents with Yoruba ancestry. Her father, the now late Dr. Femi Adegoke was a Medical doctor and Yoruba Nationalist activist in Lagos, and her mother, Feyi Adegoke was a Professor of Physiology at the University of Lagos.  Kemi was born in […]

Every act enacted to contain the Igbo is an act against the progress of Nigeria

By every index, Nigeria as a nation, has very nearly, finally collapsed. It is held together now only by a very weak thread called fate. Basically, Nigeria has slipped to the symbolic phase of nationhood. It can only perform symbolic actions of nationness: convoke a parliament which only sits symbolically because it is actually not […]

I am Onye-Igbo. I Iunderstand the principles of sovereignty very clearly. I understand that all humans are born free and equal – irrespective of status, race, or ethnicity. For as long as they are human,theyembodythehighest attributes of creation, which is life, none of which can be measuredgreaterthantheother. As my Igbo ancestors always knew, and as those among […]

Twenty years ago, the alumni of the Government College Umuahia first met in the United States, and decided to take on the challenge of restoring their famous alma mater, the Government College Umuahia, and while at it, have some fun.  In that first convention that drew many of the “oldboys” of the Government College Umuahia […]