Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

All ethnic groups in Nigeria had some clans who were suspected of cannibalism. I have no first hand knowledge of this. But Enugu, Ngwo, Abakaliki, some parts of Abia near Umuahia, and near Obowu  in Imo State were similarly suspected. If it was so, it did not last long because the Criminal Investigation Division (CID), and the District Officers (DOs) and native administration soon put a stop to it, as they did among some Ijaws, like the Okrika, who were similarly suspected. The British Government had found that the “ Indirect Rule ” system did not work in the East, as it had done in the North and the West, mainly because the later had kingship institutions. Where these institutions existed, it was easy for the British to rule through the District Officer (DO) who passed on directives to the  Obas, Chiefs, Bales, Emirs ,...

The results of presidential and parliamentary elections have spurred the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party to go back to the drawing board ahead of Saturday’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections. National Chairman, APC, John Oyegun and National Chairman, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu There were strong indications on Saturday that the two political parties had been meeting stakeholders in states, where they were head-to-head in the March 28 presidential poll. THE house to house campaigns were being carried out in Lagos, Benue, Nasarawa and Adamawa states, where the differences between the two parties were not wide in the presidential election results. According to the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday, the APC got 792,460 votes in Lagos State, while the PDP had 632,327 votes. In Benue State, the APC polled 293,296, while the PDP had 253,134. In Nasarawa, the APC got 236,838 votes and the PDP had 27...