The Chief Medical Director(CMD) of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Prof. Ikpeme Ikpeme, has dismissed as false and misleading allegations of ethnic discrimination in the ...

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 ...

Perception matters in politics. Sadly, Peter Obi has acquired the untoward reputation as a perfidious and nomadic politician. He's viewed as a politician who hates the rough and tumble of party ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest ethnic groupings in Africa is the Igbo, often known as the Ibo. The majority of Igbo speakers reside in southeast Nigeria, where they account for over 17% of the population. They ...

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 ...

Every day, the front pages of Nigeria’s newspapers are filled with reports of abductions, kidnappings for ransom, political assassinations, etc. Rather than design and promulgate policies to arrest ...

Nigeria is arguably one of the many countries in the world with more than a hundred different languages and ethnicities. Nigeria is home to many cultures, with diversity in food, language, customs, ...

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 ...