Wednesday may 17 edition

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VOL.2 No. 21. N200

Zik forgotten! • 21 years of unfinished grave • FG promises – 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 ... • Associates can’t believe it From HENRY CHIGOZIE DURU, IBE NWACHUKWU (Onitsha), TITUS AGBO (Abuja) and CHUKS COLLINS (Awka).

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HE Federal Government has come under attacks for what pundits have described as its “unkindness to the memories of the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria and the Owelle of Onitsha.” Zik, the first President of the Senate of the Federal Republic and first Premier of the defunct Eastern Region, died on May 11, 1996 and was buried on November 16 of the same year. It will be 21 years on Thursday, May 11, this year, since his death. Some people who spoke with The Oracle Today on the anniversary of Zik’s memorial noted that

although some institutions and places had earlier been named after the late Nationalist and pan-Africanist by the Federal Government, not much has been done to preserve things that were personal to Zik. “Nowhere is the neglect of Zik’s memory so evident as in the federal government’s failure to complete the much-hyped Zik’s Mausoleum started by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, shortly after Zik’s burial in 1996,”

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Nnamdi Kanu to challenge his bail conditions •LNC to Ndigbo: Stay in Nigeria and perish or get out and live From COLLINS UGHALAA, Owerri, and CHUKS EZE, Enugu

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were on to secure release for his colleagues that are being held back in detention, insisting that they committed no crime. Kanu’s remarks came just as the Lower Niger Congress has challenged Ndigbo to either remain in Nigeria and perish or get out of it and live. The Lower Niger Congress, in a press release signed by its Secretary General, Mr. Tony Nnadi, said Ndigbo must decide whether “to

POB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed his resolve to challenge the bail conditions given to him by the Federal High Court, Abuja. The IPOB leader, who described the bail conditions as obnoxious and unconstitutional, made the disclosure when he visited the leader• Abandoned Zik’s Mausoleum at the Inosi Onira Retreat, Onitsha, Anambra State, where Nigeria’s fore- ship of the Igbo Youth Movement most nationalist, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, was buried in 1996. Repeated calls on the Federal Government (IYM) and Eastern Consultative As•Continued on Page 4 to complete the project and all promises to that effect have failed to yield any positive result. Photo by sembly (ECA) in Enugu. MODESTUS IGUDOBI. He also disclosed that efforts

Pastor Paul Igwe @ 50, Pastor (Mrs) Sandra Igwe @ 40

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