Resident Doctors at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Awka, have called on governments at all levels to take deliberate steps to address the plague of brain drain in the medical service delivery. The doctors made the call at the first Annual General Meeting and Academic...
Anambra State
The Anambra Police Command, on Monday, confirmed the alleged killing of two vigilante operatives attached to Porsche nightclub at Oba in Idemili North Local Government Area. The State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), pointing out that...
The management of Chinua Achebe Airport, Umueri, near Onitsha in Anambra, on Thursday celebrated the second year of the commencement of commercial operations at the facility with notable passengers joining in the anniversary. Some of the passengers who ran into the brief ceremony were His Eminence, Peter Cardinal...
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) says there will be a five-day planned power outage in some parts of Anambra, beginning from December 2 to December 6. The Head, Corporate Communications of the company, Mr Emeka Ezeh, disclosed this in a statement issued in Enugu and made...
The Federal Government on Saturday inaugurated two hostels, worth N550 million, at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State. The construction of the male and female hostels were sponsored by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund), 2020 Special Intervention. Inaugurating the hostels, Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, member, Senate Committee on Education...
The Anambra State Aids Control Agency (ANSACA), has said no fewer than 98,960 people are living with HIV/AIDS in Anambra. Commissioner for Health in Anambra, Dr Afam Obidike, gave the statistics on Thursday in Awka during a media briefing ahead of 2023 World AIDS Day, observed every Dec....
The Civil Liberties Organization (CLO) has urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on failed Nkwelle-Nsugbe-Umueri-Aguleri federal road in Anambra. “CLO is making passionate and life- saving appeal to President Bola Tinubu; Minister of Work, Chief David Umahi and Federal Emergency Roads Maintenance...
The Anambra Police Command has confirmed the arrest of Chief Jeff Nweke, the Managing Director of Blue Shield Securities, a private security company in Awka. The Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Monday. NAN reports that...
Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo of Anambra on Tuesday presented N410 billion 2024 budget to the state House of Assembly for approval. Speaking at the ceremony, Soludo said the budget tagged- ‘Changing Gears: the transformation agenda begins’, was aimed at beginning the transformation agenda and implementing a new...
Police in Anambra have smashed a suspected gun-running syndicate and recovered arms and ammunition. DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, police spokesman in the state stated on Saturday that 23 automatic pump action guns and 625 live cartridges were recovered in the process. “Three suspected members of the syndicate were arrested...
Commissioner of Police in Anambra, CP Aderemi Adeoye, has cautioned residents against taking laws into their own hands in the event of crime. Adeoye said the command would no longer condone situations when people engage in jungle justice by lynching suspects to death without trial. DSP Toochukwu Ikenga,...
The Police Command in Anambra has debunked stories making the round that Umunze Community in Orumba South Local Government Area of the State was the operational headquarters of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the military wing of IPOB terrorists. The command made the clarification following a news report...
A grassroots politician and Ward Chairman of the Young Progressives Party( YPP) in Anambra State, Chief Joe Moghalu, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen. Mrs Chinwe Nnabuife, member (YPP) representing Orumba North and Orumba South Federal Constituency of Anambra in the National Assembly confirmed this to the...
The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare has intervened in the case of a widow whose Inlaw planned to bury her late husband inside a forest. This followed a report by the widow, Mrs Amarachi Anakor, to the Commissioner in the Ministry, Mrs Ify Obinabo. The...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has deployed additional personnel and dogs from its Anambra command to support its personnel in Imo during the Nov. 11 governorship election. Anambra Commandant of NSCDC, Mr Edwin Osuala, who addressed the team before their departure on Tuesday in...
Lightning strike has killed three Senior Secondary School (SS3) students in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra on Saturday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered on Sunday. An eye witness told NAN that the lightning struck nine male students who were playing football with their peers...
The children of late Prof. Dora Akunyili have said the family has still received justice over the gruesome murder of their father, Dr Chike Akunyili, two years ago. Mr Obum Akunyili, one of the children, said this when he appeared before the Anambra State Truth, Justice and Peace...
Troops of Joint Task Force South-East, code-named Operation UDO KA II, has neutralised four members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), during a gun duel. This is contained in a statement issued on Saturday by Lt.-Col. Jonah...
Anambra State Police Command has arrested and detained a catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Samuel Aniebonem, and five other persons for allegedly belonging to the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports from Awka on Friday that...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has announced free and compulsory education from nursery to Junior Secondary School (JSS 3) in public schools in the state. Soludo announced the policy at Premier Primary School, Obosi, Idemili North Council Area, on Thursday. He said that his administration was passionate...