By Sunny A. Ijomah An Anambra State Magistrate Court sitting in Ogidi Idemili North Council Area, presided over by Magistrate O.M Kanu has adjourned till the sixteenth day of May, 2019, a case of conspiracy, felony and assault, among others, brought before it against some immediate pastleaders of the Peoples Club of Nigeria, Onitsha branch. The State Commissioner of Police ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah The Anambra State government will by end of June, this year, develop Anambra state Agro-farm market in major cities across the country, starting with the State. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and Export, Mr. Afam Mbanefo announced this during stakeholder’s workshop on knowledge sharing organised by the State Coordination Office of FGN/IFAD VCDP for their ...

By Mercy Hill The Catholic Diocese of Awka on Saturday, April 13, 2019, organized a liturgical seminar for Catholic faithful with the aim of evangelization and proper understanding of the Catholic faith and doctrines. The seminar which was held at St. Mathew’s parish, Amawbia had in attendance, over thirty participants who were drawn from various parishes in Awka region. The ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday blasted the federal government over proposed plan to establish a private university to be named after President Muhammadu Buhari. The Union described the proposed university by the wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari as a disaster. ASUU further said the plan of the wife of the President to establish a ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah The Anambra State government will on Monday fifteenth April 2019 take delivery of farm inputs from National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA to cushion the effect of last year’s flood on farmers. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and Export, Mr. Afam Mbanefo announced this during stakeholder’s workshop on knowledge sharing, organised by the state coordination office ...

. . Says Christ’s Resurrection Brings New Hope for Nigerian By Chioma Ndife The Auxiliary Bishop of Awka Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Jonas Benson Okoye, has called on Nigerians to be patient in the face of difficulties which they often encounter in their day to day activities, noting that Christ’s resurrection will bring new hope to all those in distress ...

By Jude Atupulazi A Nimo based industrialist and MD/CEO of Safanaco Technical Industries Ltd, Chief Francis Nwabachili, has expressed fears that the recent Bill by the Anambra State House of Assembly, seeking for a law to control burial ceremonies/activities in the state may end up as a revenue generating window by the government against the people, reports Jude Atupulazi. Nwabachili ...

By Jude Atupulazi If achievements were to be determined by size, Agbogidi Chuba Anadi, provides a ready example. After 35 years of bestriding the local government system of Anambra State like a colossus, which he indeed is, Agbogidi finally called time on a job he knew like the back of his hands, leaving many legacies that many players in the ...

. . Ooni invites Olugbo for clarification, insists Ndigbo’re not Jews . . . Igbo, original owners of Ile-Ife — Ohanaeze . . . Says Oduduwa means ‘last born’ (Odudunwa) in Igboland Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has reaffirmed his position on the family ties between Yoruba and Igbo nations, that the Igbos are from Ile-Ife, saying the ...

. . . Offers Scholarship to 100 Students By Abuchi Onwumelu Justice, Development and Peace Caritas (JDPC) Awka Diocese, has concluded her Community Empowerment and Development Initiative (CEDI) Project In Awka, with the empowerment of forty beneficiaries. The beneficiaries who came from various Communities in Awka Diocese were those who successfully completed their one year skill acquisition training in sewing ...

The death toll in the Easter Sunday suicide attacks on churches and hotels has risen to 321. ISIS has claimed responsibility, but Sri Lankan officials have blamed two local Islamic extremist groups for the bombings, possible with outside help. A senior Sri Lankan officials says the preliminary investigation shows the attack was “retaliation” for the March 15 massacre of Muslims ...

By Uche Amunike Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA) is an Agency of Anambra State Govt. set up to carry out Community and Social Development Project (CSDP). CSDP is a World Bank assisted project which aims at poverty reduction in rural communities through Community Driven Development (CDD) approach. ANCSDA have successfully undertaken its first community entrance project activities ...

. . . As St Joseph’s Pro-Cathedral Parish, Ekwulobia leads in 2019 Cathedraticum with 51 Cows; Our Lady of Fatima Igboukwu, 43 Cows By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The auxiliary bishop of Awka Catholic Diocese, Most Rev Jonas Benson Okoye, has commended the priests, religious and lay faithful of Ekwulobia Catholic Region of the diocese for what he described as their outstanding ...

Pope Francis gave the speech to up to 80,000 people in St Peter’s Basilica  He said: ‘Sin promises things easily but leaves behind only solitude and death’ ‘Why not prefer Jesus, the true light, to the glitter of wealth, career, pride and pleasure?’   Pope Francis, speaking to around 80,000 people at the end of his traditional Easter Sunday blessing, addressed ...

Pope Francis said Monday that the resurrection of Christ is the most shocking event in human history. “What was humanly unthinkable happened,” Pope Francis said April 22. “’Christ, my hope, is risen!’ And in Him we too are resurrected, passing from death to life, from the slavery of sin to the freedom of love.” The pope spoke from the window ...

The high cost of burial ceremonies has been the bane of our society for some years now. Attempts by some communities in the past to curb it had only recorded partial success. But a light appears to have been seen at the end of the tunnel with the recent passing of a Bill by the Anambra State House of Assembly ...

By Pat Amobi Chukwuma As we were saying the Lord’s Prayer in the church, I overheard a wretched man among the congregation exclaiming, “Give us these days our daily bread!” I encountered him outside after the church prayer and asked him, “Why did you say emphatically: Give us these days?” He looked into my eyes pitifully and replied, “Father, if ...

Easter is the celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead. It is celebrated on Sunday, and marks the end of Holy Week, the end of Lent, the last day of the Easter Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday), and is the beginning of the Easter season of the liturgical year. As we know from the Gospels, Jesus Christ ...

By Uche Amunike I was at Nnewi last year with other journalists as guests of the Chief Shepherd of Nnewi Diocese, Most Reverend Hilary Odili Okeke, as he gave his Easter message. It was a most enriching encounter for me and I was so bowled over by the content of that message that I think I captioned it, ‘The Gospel ...

By Jude Atupulazi All societies respect the dead. That is why in our clime, it is said that one does not speak ill of the dead, no matter what transpired between the person and the dead. It is also the reason a dead person’s wish is always respected. Thus, if a dead person wished while he lived, that he should ...