The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Dr. Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu, has asserted that Igbo students must meet tougher entrance standards for law or medical school. In addition to stressing the underrepresented Igbo community in the president’s ministry appointments, he made this claim in an interview with Arise TV. Iwuanyanwu contended that the Southeast should have been granted eight ministerial positions, as per the federal character principle, but only five of the 48 ministerial positions were given to the region. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
In his words: “If a child born by Igbo parents wants to study medicine or law he has to score more. But you see the problem that we have is that when it comes to a thing that will favour Igbos, they don’t bother about it. Like when the president appointed ministers, he appointed only 5 ministers from southeast out of 48 ministers. By law of federal character, we should get 8. The other point is we need additional state to make our own (southeast zone) 6 like others”. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
