By Abuchi Onwumelu The Catholic bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has described all those Christians who prefer to assume a holy state during the Easter period and immediately return to their old sinful ways once the celebration is over as hypocrites Bishop Ezeokafor, who stated this at St. Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Awka, in a pre- Easter interview ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ozonkpu Dr. Victor Ike Oye, has described the season of Easter as a period for penance, forgiveness and reconciliation. In his Easter message signed and made available to newsmen, Dr. Oye stated unequivocally that peace could only be achieved when we learned to tolerate, forgive and reconcile with ...

. . . Donates Six Borehole to Six Communities By Abuchi Onwumelu The need to provide clean water in the rural communities is one of the cardinal points of this years commemoration of World Water Day. As a follow up to this exercise, the Transition Committee chairman of Ogbaru Local Government, Comrade Arinzechukwu Awogu in his unflinching desire to make ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu Feeder roads in Ogbaru are receiving palliatives as efforts are geared towards making them passable before the rains set in. Obi Street (C Line), East Niger in Okpoko is currently being laterited by the Council with the view to easing off the sufferings people in that area go through. The Chairman of Committee on Works and the ...

. . Defeats CMO in Friendly Match By Chioma Ndife It was indeed a celebration of a women’s uniqueness by the Catholic Women Organization of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, GRA, Awka, Anambra State as they joined their counterparts in other dioceses in Nigeria to celebrate the 2019 Annual Mothering Sunday Celebration. Fides gathered that the activities lined up to mark ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba As part of the activities to mark the 2019 Mothers’ Day Celebration, the Grand Ladies Auxiliary of Ancient and Noble Order of Knights of Saint John International (KSJI), Awka Grand Commandery, on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, made a charity visit to the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor and his Episcopal household. Speaking when ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah said men in “my culture and in the Middle East” need to treat women with more respect as he was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. The Egypt striker, 26, a practising Muslim, was also one of the US magazine’s six cover stars and used his interview to discuss women’s ...

By Chioma Nnagbo Lovely friends, what plans do you have for this Easter? Is it the normal jollof rice and chicken story again? Can we change recipe this year? Lets do something traditional. Remember we are still in our “meals on a budget month”. For this week, I will teach you how to make Egusi soups which happens to be ...

Fides Family joyfully goes for thanksgiving with 6 cows, Fides Fish and Fides Cucumbers, during the 2019 Cathedraticum held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Awka on April 17, 2019. More details later

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has convicted the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen and has banned him from holding any public office for the next 10 years. He was convicted on a six-count charge of false declaration of assets. Chairman of the CCT, Danladi Umar, while delivering the judgment on Thursday, read that Onnoghen will be ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba As eulogies continue to roll on in honour of the late blind Catholic Teacher, Sister Bernadette Ofordum of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Igboukwu, an Igboukwu indigenous female religious, Sr. Dr. Maureen Okeke, MSHR, has celebrated the deceased, who she said inculcated the spirit of good works, prayer lives and humility in them. Sr. Dr. Okeke, MSHR, ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu No fewer than fifty winners have emerged and rewarded with the sum of N500, 000 and N150,000 respectively in Anambra state at the on-going Fidelity Bank Plc “Get-Alert-In-Millions” (GAIM) promotion across the state as the Season Three of the programme kicks off nationwide. Among the beneficiaries were eight customers of the bank rewarded with cheques at public ...

By Uche Amunike It was celebration galore as Ugbenu Community rolled out their drums to welcome the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA) to their community for the Project Launch event. The Ugbenu Community project launch involved the signing and exchange of the CSDP-AF Financing Agreement between the Ugbenu community represented by the Ugbenu Community Project Management Committee ...

By Uche Enem The Anambra State Commissioner for Environment, Arch Michael Okonkwo has recently commended the Anambra State TrashTag team led by Chibuzo Nwabue on their voluntarily service in keeping the environment clean and safe. The team engaged in their voluntarily service on 30th March, 2019, to clean Anambra State with the plans of extending to other areas in Awka. ...

. . . Concludes Inter House Sports By Chinaecherem Efobi AUSTICA Memorial College Nanka Anambra state has shown appreciation to their immediate past Vice Principal, Rev Fr Jeremiah Ikezue. The school also welcomed her new Assistant Manager, Rev Fr Bonaventure Ofolete in the event which was held on March 16, 2019 at the school premises. Fr Jeremiah in his homily ...

. . . Undertake Fencing Project, Inaugurate Members of Various Committees By Chioma Ndife As part of the activities to commemorate the 2019 Annual Mothering Sunday Celebration, members of the Catholic Women Organization (CWO) of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, GRA, Awka, Awka South LGA, Anambra State, have re-dedicated themselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of ...

By Chisom Ugwu We had been going about our daily activities as always; Pa Dooga chewing his stick and complaining about his misfortunes to whoever cared to listen, Mali and Tema the two newly married women cooking and exchanging new gossip like teenage girls, Ma Dooga casting her nagging husband evil looks every five minutes from her weeding of her ...

#PopeFrancis visits #BenedictXVI for his birthday as he clocks 92 today. Let’s wish him a happy birthday

. . . Threatens Mass Action By Abuchi Onwumelu Following the withholding of the Certification of Return of Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a group under the aegis of the Southeast APC Young Progressives Forum (SEAYPF), has thrown its weight behind the embattled governor. In a release signed by the convener of ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Three years to the end of the second tenure of the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, there seems to have been an agreement within the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, as to who will succeed him in 2022. The National chairman of the party, Chief Victor Oye, in an interview with journalists, said that equity ...