When Onitsha Said No IN 1991, a proposal linked to Nigeria’s military administration under General Ibrahim Babangida triggered one of the most decisive civic resistances in South-East history. The plan sought to excise Onitsha from Anambra State and merge it with Delta North to form an Anioma State. For the Igbo of Onitsha and surrounding […]
THE campaign for Adada State—an old but resurging agitation in the South-East—is no longer just a constitutional argument about equal state distribution. It has evolved into a deeper cultural and political question: What happens to the Igbo communities stranded outside Igboland by colonial-era boundaries? Across Kogi and Benue States, several indigenous Igbo […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE THE debate over creating Anioma State or Adada State has stirred strong emotions across the South-East, yet the core issues remain straightforward. Both proposals aim to address long-standing regional concerns, but their impacts are not equal. Anioma State, carved from Delta North, would bring culturally Igbo-speaking communities formally into the South-East. For […]