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It’ll be unfair to deny Ndigbo the presidency in 2023
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 ... -
Akuruo Ulo: Foundation For Sustainable Development
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 ... -
How do we sustain the recent development strides in Arochukwu?
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 ... -
Need to halt drug misuse and abuse in nigeria before it gets out of hand
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 ... -
Historical Perspectives on the Arochukwu Civic Centre (1975-2017)
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 ... -
Ikeji Aro As Communal Harvest: Origins and Traditions.
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 ... -
Mao’s senatorial re-run victory – Matters arising
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 ... -
Rethinking the development paradigm for Arochukwu
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. ... -
Improving on the performance of our ancestors
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 ... -
Positioning Arochukwu to optimize the current political arrangement
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 ...
Author: Sam Ohuabunwa
