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Former Chairman, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), and current President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, has asked all lovers of equity and justice to rally round the Igbo to ensure that they produce the next president after Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. He described those opposed to a president of Igbo […]

Speech delivered at the ADF Akuruo Ulo Business Development and Investment Forum held at the Colonades Hotel, 8th September, 2019 INTRODUCTION I thank God for this opportunity to be here. And I thank God for the Business Development and Investment Committee of ADF for putting together this forum, in support of previous efforts. Ndigbo“si mgbe

It is great to live in these times in Aro. To travel to Aro in two hours or less from Umuahia from either of three directions is exciting. With the work going on by the Federal Government on the Ohafia-Arochukwu highway, travelling to Aro on this main thoroughfare has become less strenuous and given the

In the year 2001 or thereabout, I was a member of a delegation of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) that visited President Olusegun Obasanjo at Aso Rock. The delegation was led by the President of the chamber at that time, Chief (Mrs) Priscillia Kuye SAN. When Mrs Kuye finished addressing the President, she

IN THE BEGINNING The people of Okoni Ibom allocated a large parcel of land to Nzuko ndi Ikom na Inyom( as Nzuko Aro was then called) on August, 7, 1975. Work on the site commenced subsequently. A foundation for the hall was laid and work on channelization of rain water, given the topography of the

The 11th Ikeji Aro annual lecture and Aro thanksgiving took place recently on the 26th and 27th August 2016 at the Civic centre. Despite the challenges of this season- economic recession, bad roads and plenty of rainfall, the program was most successful in terms of quality of presentations, speeches, participation and impact. Mazi Iheanyi Elekwa,

It is good news that Arochukwu was not denied the opportunity to have one of its own sons in high political office this season. Of the three elective positions we were competing for, we lost two and it is only comforting that God granted us the grace not to go empty handed. Glory be to

With all that has happened in Arochukwu, over many years, it may be instructive to rethink the development paradigm for Arochukwu. From available evidence, after the British- Arochukwu war of 1901/1902, the colonial administration showed so much interest in Arochukwu. The pull of the long juju phenomenon and the very successful trading system of the

Often when people discuss Arochukwu, it is about its past, how the people ruled Igbo land, before the arrival of the white man, how they sold Nigerians and Africans into slavery and how they controlled much territory between the hinterland and the eastern coastline in the trade with the Portuguese and latter, the  English explorers,

Arochukwu went into the 2015 elections with very high hopes. A recent article I wrote in this medium opined that this was Arochukwu’s political season. Actually, no time in history was Arochukwu so poised to snatch major political offices as we were at the elections. We had two of our sons who had won primaries