The Nigerian Army says its troops of 302 Regiment and security agencies have dislodged camps belonging to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Anambra and Enugu State. Army spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Sunday, said the raids were carried out in...
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A 30-year old man, Ebube Oba was on Sunday arrested by the police over alleged murder of his neighbour, Mrs Uzomaka Ekpe. This is coming less than 24 hours after the arrest of 30 years old man for raping a septuagenarian. A statement by DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public...
Gov Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra said the delay in commencement of road construction and repairs in the state was due to the delay in the passage of its revised budget by the State House of Assembly. Soludo said this at a news conference on the occasion of his 100...
Some traders at the Relief Market in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra are counting their losses as flood occasioned by heavy rainfall, washed away shops, electric poles and cables in the market. The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the market, Mr David Obidike, disclosed this during a tour of...
Mrs Eriken Uzoamaka, the Programme Manager, Homegrown School Feeding Scheme, Anambra State, has said the death of 10 cooks of the scheme hampered the running of the programme in the state. Uzoama disclosed this while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a two-day capacity building workshop organised by the...
Anambra Police Command, has reiterated its commitment to secure the lives and property of Anambra residents, and urged the public to make maximum use of the “NPF rescue me app”. The state command’s Public Relation Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, made the disclosure in an interview with The News Agency...
Sen. Stella Oduah (PDP-Anambra) says incursion of the Labour Party into Anambra through former governor Peter Obi as its Presidential Candidate, is not a threat to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Oduah said this at a news conference during the presentation of certificates of return to 30 PDP candidates...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Anambra State Police Command has rescued 35 teenagers aged between 14 years and 17 years who were allegedly being used as sex slaves. The command’s spokesman, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, who said this in a statement issued in Awka on Wednesday, said four of...
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra said that no fewer than 1,000 teachers in the state were relieved of their appointments with the state government because they were employed in a hazy manner. The governor stated that the affected persons thereby remained unqualified for the job. Soludo, who made the...
Gov Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has approved the repeat of the online recruitment test for applicants for civil service job which was conducted on June 4. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recruitment test was marred by technical challenges such that just about 6,000 scripts were...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Pope Francis over the appointment of Bishop Peter Okpaleke of Ekwulobia Diocese, Anambra State, as a Cardinal in the Catholic Church. Bishop Okpaleke becomes the fifth Cardinal from Nigeria. Others before him are Dominic Ekandem, Francis Arinze, Anthony Okogie...
A sleeping driver has killed his conductor in an accident on Ihiala-Owerri Road, Anambra, on Tuesday. Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in Anambra, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka. Irelewuyi said the accident which occurred at...
Miss Oluebebe Ogbonna, a 14-year-old student of Divine Rays British School Obosi, Idemili North of Anambra, on Sunday emerged winner of the first Igbo Spelling Bee competition. Ogbonna came tops in the competition in which 356 public and private secondary school students in Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha educational zones...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the gruesome murder of Madam Harira and her four innocent children by some “unknown gunmen” and demanded for justice . The President of CAN, His Eminence, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, who condemned the act in a statement...
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra on Wednesday imposed an indefinite dusk-to-dawn ban on the movement of motorcycles, tricycles and shuttle buses in eight local government areas of the state. In effect, those vehicles are not to operate in the local government areas between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. Seven...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi has dumped the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Mr. Obi announced his resignation in a letter dated Friday, 20th May, 2022, and addressed to the National Chairman of the party. In the letter, Mr. Obi gave reasons for...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has given a marching order to security agencies to apprehend those who are responsible for the killing of innocent people in the South-Eastern part of the country. President Buhari also condemned the viral videos circulation of innocent people being killed, describing...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has described the May 20 killing of a woman and her four children by yet to be identified assailants as “barbaric and unacceptable”. Soludo, in a Statement signed by Mr Christian Aburime, his Chief Press Secretary on Tuesday vowed...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has condemned the killing and beheading of Mr Okechukwu Okoye, a member of the state House of Assembly and Director of his campaign organisation, Mr Cyril Chiegboka. The heads without (trunks) of Okoye and Chiegboka were discovered around Chisco park junction in Amichi, Nnewi...
Ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary election, Prophet Godfrey Gbujie, on Wednesday predicted that former Anambra Governor, Mr Peter Obi, will emerge presidential candidate of the party. Gbujie, Ministerial Leader of World Zionist Union in the South-East, made the revelation in a media conference on Wednesday...