{"id":65786,"date":"2025-05-15T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65786"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:56:43","slug":"ohanaeze-calls-for-peaceful-igbo-heroes-day-warns-against-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/15\/ohanaeze-calls-for-peaceful-igbo-heroes-day-warns-against-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohanaeze Calls for Peaceful Igbo Heroes Day, Warns Against Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As May 30 approaches, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged Ndigbo across Nigeria and beyond to mark Igbo Heroes Day with reflection and respect, not force or disruption.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Thursday, the Deputy President General of a faction of the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, called for voluntary, peaceful remembrance of those who died during the Biafran conflict.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of avoiding any action that could disturb public life or provoke conflict, especially as students are currently writing their WAEC examinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us honor our heroes without hurting our future,\u201d Isiguzoro said. \u201cThis is not a time for enforced sit-at-home orders or civil unrest. Our children are in examination halls, our markets are open, and our churches must worship freely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ohanaeze said the rebranding of Biafra Remembrance Day as Igbo Heroes Day was aimed at creating a more inclusive, dignified, and nonviolent tradition of remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>The group encouraged Southeast governors and lawmakers to recognize May 30 officially, in the spirit of national unity as seen with June 12, now marked as Democracy Day.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also warned pro-Biafra groups against turning the day into an excuse for confrontation with security forces or disruption of civil life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us show that the blood of our heroes waters the path to peace, not violence. Their dream was a free, educated, and prosperous people. We must not betray that vision,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Ohanaeze concluded by encouraging reflection, education, and civic responsibility as the best ways to preserve Igbo identity and honor the past without endangering the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal As May 30 approaches, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged Ndigbo across Nigeria and beyond to mark Igbo Heroes Day with reflection and respect, not force or disruption. In a statement released Thursday, the Deputy President General of a faction of the apex Igbo socio-cultural body, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, called for voluntary, peaceful remembrance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65789,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65786\/revisions\/65789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}