The police have confirmed that 22 people died in the Okija Christmas rice stampede which happened on Saturday, December 21The figure was made known by the state command public relations officer, SP ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday urged Igbo philanthropists to stop distributing palliatives to people in the Southeast. Rather, IPOB urged philanthropists to share seedlings with ...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), through its Directorate of State (DOS), has expressed deep sympathy to the people of Okija community in Anambra State and the entire Igbo nation over the tragic ...

A businessman, Mr. Obele Ugo, has said he lost three persons during the stampede that claimed many lives at the Okija headquarters of the Obijackson Foundation, when people from many communities in ...

A legal practitioner, Akachukwu Maduakolam believes last Saturday’s stampede tragedy in Okija in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State was due to the system's failure and over-population of ...

Some 22 people were killed at an event held in a community center in Okija in the southeastern state of Anambra, state police said on Sunday. The event was held to distribute bags of rice to women in ...

Femi Falana (SAN) criticized the Nigerian Police for failing to prevent food stampedes in Ibadan, Abuja, and Okija, which ...

The dead included 22 people in southeastern Anambra state’s Okija town, where a philanthropist organized a food distribution, local police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga said. Ten others were also ...

Rotimi said the speaker of the House of Reps,Tajudeen Abbas described the incidents as unfortunate and called for a thorough investigation to prevent recurrence.

The spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, was reacting to the stampede that killed several people in the Okija area of Anambra State last week. In a statement he signed, Powerful said the organizer of ...