By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Anambra Labour Party Stakeholders have declared Senator Tony Nwoye as the only leader capable of salvaging Anambra State from its current state of maladministration. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, the Convener of the Anambra Labour Party Stakeholders, Ozo Nkem...
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By BARBARA KALU, Awka– Anamba State Police Command has denied any complicity in the escape of two suspects allegedly linked to the murder of Hon. Justice Azuka, lawmaker at the State Assembly. Hon. Azuka, was a Labour Party (LP) lawmaker representing Onitsha-1 Constituency before his life was cut short...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has scheduled its governorship primary ahead of the Nov. 8 general elections in Anambra for April 5. Chairman of party in the state, Mr Chidi Chidebe, disclosed this in a timetable made available to newsmen in Awka on Tuesday. The timetable said congress to...
Anambra security outfit has declared its intention to arrest women seen in public without bras or panties. The announcement, made via a public address system, was captured in a viral video shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday. In the footage, an official of the security outfit, speaking in...
Anambra State Police Command has detained one Christian Ndubuisi, who allegedly murdered his elder brother over a minor disagreement. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday in Onitsha, Anambra. According to him, the police operatives attached to 3-3 Division acted...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has evacuated 140 tonnes of expired and unregistered drugs from Aba to its office in Anambra. The Deputy Director in charge of Investigation and Enforcement, NAFDAC Federal Taskforce, South South and South East states, Mr Omoyeni Babatunji, disclosed...
Police have vowed to fish out the suspected killer(s) of three siblings in Nnewichi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of the Anambra State. The new Commissioner of Police (CP) in the state, Mr Ikioye Orutugu, made the vow, when he paid a condolence visit to the bereaved family and...
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Anambra, Mr Chinedu Klinsmann, has dismissed the zoning arrangement being championed by the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), as hypocritical and self-serving. In a statement on Sunday in Abuja, Klinsmann said that no single political party had the right to...
The Anambra State Police Command has said its operatives alongside the state vigilante operatives on Thursday arrested nine suspects “actively involved” in the murder of a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, Justice Azuka. The arrest of the suspects was confirmed by the Commissioner of Police in...
The decomposing body of Hon. Justice Azuka, a member of the Anambra State House of Assembly, has been found by a combined security team at the 2nd Niger Bridge. Azuka was reportedly abducted by gunmen on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, while traveling home on Ugwunaobankpa Road in Inland Town,...
Anambra State Police Command has detained one Obinna Anene, the alleged principal suspect in the reported killing of a 74-year-old woman in Abagana Community in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued in Awka and made...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The National Executive Committee (NEC) of Labour Party (LP) has approved April 5 for its governorship primary in Anambra. LP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Obiora Ifoh, announced this in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr. Ifoh said that the National Secretary of...
Anambra Police Command has arrested a suspect, Joshua Simeon at Nkpor Central Motor Park in Idemili Local Government Area of the State over alleged child trafficking. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday and made available to...
Chairman of United Nigeria Air, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, has declared his intention to contest the Nov. 8 governorship election in Anambra. Okonkwo declared his intention on Friday at a brief ceremony in his country home in Ire village in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area. The business mogul, who...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has cautioned developers against using substandard materials in the construction of buildings. Governor Soludo, who was represented by his Deputy, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, gave the warning on Thursday, when he visited the site of a collapsed three-storey building under construction in Awka,...
The Police operatives at Abagana Divisional Police Headquarters, Anambra, has arrested four suspects from Ifitedunu area of the state for allegedly burning a 74-year old woman to death. The four suspects included a 21 year old lady, Chinyere Ekwenugo who allegedly conspired with others to kill the woman in...
Anambra State Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment and Tourism, Mr Don Onyenji, has said it is not true that the state government threatened to ban traditional worship. Onyenji made the statement at a stakeholders meeting organised in partnership with ASHOKA Africa, a non-profit organsation and social change agent, in Awka...
Wife of the Anambra State Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, has vowed to ensure the prosecution of the man who allegedly set his wife ablaze in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state. Soludo, the founder of Healthy Living Initiative, told journalists on Thursday in Awka, that she would...
The Police Command in Anambra has confirmed the kidnap of Dr Cornelius Onuigbo, an urologist with Department of Surgery, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, while confirming the incident to newsmen in Onitsha on Wednesday, said that Onuigbo was kidnapped...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has expressed grief on the loss of one of its officers, Assistant Superintendent of the EFCC, ASE II Aminu Sahabi Salisu who was killed in cold blood while on a legitimate duty on January 17, 2025 by a suspected internet...