Ohaneze Cancels Igbo Day Celebration In Bayelsa

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The pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo has ordered the cancellation of the 2017 Igbo day celebration in Bayelsa state.

It cited the need to use the occasion to stay indoors and pray for peace and unity in Nigeria.

The cancellation of the in Bayelsa was to mourn those that were killed in Aba during the military and Indigenous People of Biafra’s clash.

President of the Bayelsa state chapter of the Ohaneze Ndigbo, Maurice Amaku, while briefing newsmen in Yenagoa, said the decision was borne out of a collective agreement reached by the leaders and members of the Igbo community in the state.


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