Pope Francis was pictured kneeling down to kiss the feet of South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit (C) and South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar (R) at the Pope’s Santa Marta residence in the Vatican on April 11, 2019, begging them to give peace a chance.

By Michelle La Rosa Bethesda, Md., Apr 2, 2019 / 08:58 am (CNA).- When Fr. Matthew Schneider was asked to move on after just one year of a three-year assignment as school chaplain and youth ministry leader, he was shocked. “I wasn’t expecting it,” he said. “I knew it was a new role and I had made some mistakes, but ...

By Chioma Nnagbo It’s a new month and this month I’m going to teach you how to save cost and eat good food. Do you know that with #1500 you can make a delicious pot of rice for three people? Now lets go to the market Estimate 3 cups of rice – 300 Beef – 300 Tomato and fresh pepper ...

By Rosanna Emenusiobi (continued from the last edition) The Distortion of Feminine Beauty: Photoshopping (contd) One of the main strategies used to reinforce and normalize a distorted idea of “average” is media’s representation of women as extremely thin (meaning much thinner than the actual population or what is physically possible for the vast majority of women) – either by consistent ...

By Chioma Nnagbo The Fides Google Personnel and Nigeria Representative of Google Crowdsource, Miss Uchechukwu Enem has organized the first Nigeria Crowdsource Meet up on Saturday, 23 March 2019 at Fides Communication Complex, Nodu, Okpuno. The Nigeria Google Crowdsource Representative, during the meetup, explained how Google Crowdsource platform could be used to improve our cultural values and heritage. She explained ...

After nearly 30 years in power, Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir has been ousted and arrested, the defence minister says. Speaking on state TV, Awad Ibn Ouf said the army had decided to oversee a two-year transitional period followed by elections. He also said a three-month state of emergency was being put in place. Protests against Mr Bashir, who has governed ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu  Concerned by the disaster waiting to happen in Okpoko, the Ogbaru Local Government, has begun desilting of parts of the Sakamori drainage to avert the looming disaster pending the implementation of the state government lasting solution to the problem of Sakamori. Addressing newsmen in Okpoko, the transition committee chairman of Ogbaru local government Area of Anambra State, ...

By Uche Amunike The paramount ruler of Umumbo community in Ayamelum LGA HRM Igwe Barr. Simeon Chidube (Aboh of Umumbo) has commended the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA) for its various developmental interventions in poor communities that are geared towards poverty reduction and thereby touching lives positively in the rural communities. Speaking at the project launch event ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, on Friday, April 5th, 2019 appointed Barr.  Philomena Iwara Okoye as the 6th substantive Registrar and Secretary to the Governing Council of the University. In a release signed by the Director, Information and Public Relations Officer, Dr. Emma Ojukwu and made available to newsmen in Awka, said that prior to Barr. ...

By Courtney Grogan Reflecting upon his recent apostolic journey to Morocco, Pope Francis said Wednesday that God desires a greater sense of fraternity among Catholics and Muslims as “brother children of Abraham.” “Some may ask, ‘But why does the pope visit the Muslims and not only the Catholics?’” Pope Francis said in St. Peter’s Square April 3. “With Muslims, we ...

By Mercy Hill Fidelity Bank of Nigeria PLC during the week, presented cheques of five hundred thousand Naira and one hundred and fifty thousand Naira each to thirty of their customers in Awka Region. The presentation of cheques took place at the Eke-Awka Round About as well as other regions in the South east, drawing the attention of both old ...

. . Targets Staff Welfare, Quality Delivery; Seeks Assistance for Funding, Access Road By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The provost of Federal College of Education (Technical) (FCE(T)), Umunze, South East Nigeria, Dr. Tessy Okoli, has said that the management team under her watch is committed to its goal of making the College a Centre of Excellence and an institution of first choice ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba Five months after its maiden health walk exercise, the Knights of St Mulumba (KSM) Nigeria, Awka Sub-Council alongside their ladies, on Saturday, March 30, 2019, held her 2nd ‘Walk For Life’ Activity. The health exercise tagged, “2019 Pro-Life Activity”, which was held at St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Awka, Anambra State, saw the knights and the ladies engage ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah It was celebration galore on 22nd March, 2019 at Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe in affiliation with the University of Nigeria Nsukka when the institution organized her 22nd Matriculation ceremony of Bachelor’s of Education Degree students of University of Nigeria. The event which was held at the college Arena commenced about 11.am and was witnessed ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has commissioned the Grand Cereals fish feed plant at Harbour Industrial Layout Atani Road, Okpoko. Commissioning the facility, Governor Obiano said the plant will boost fish farming and help in growing the economy. Commissioning, the two thousand, five hundred capacity facility initiated in 2015, the Governor observed that the sighting ...

By Chinaecherem Efobi A Catholic priest and staff of Rosa Mystica High School Agulu Anambra State, Rev Fr Casmir Osigwe, has charged new functionaries of the school, to discharge their duties without fear or favour. The priest said this on the occasion of the investiture of the student functionaries during their investiture Mass at the school chapel on February 14, ...

By Chinaecherem Efobi It was as if all the staff and management of St Anthony’s Catholic Comprehensive Institute (SACCI) Agulu were at the burial of the Vice Principal, Mr Edwin Okoye Ikenga (Agubanze), at his compound at Agulu February 14, 2019. In his homily, during the Requiem Mass in his honour, a former Manager of the school, Rev Fr Colman ...

By Ozo Ray Hon. Anthony Chukwudi Orekyeh, Anambra State chairman of National Action Council (NAC) in Anambra has stressed the need for the Speaker of the 7th legislature to emerge from Anambra-South Senatorial District for reasons of equity and good conscience. Orekyeh who functions also as the Deputy State Secretary of the Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria (IPAC) Anambra Chapter ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Oye, says the party has concluded arrangements to send some of its members abroad for leadership training. Oye disclosed this on Tuesday in Amawbia, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. Oye who reviewed his four years as national chairman of the party, said ...

By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu As people hail Igini and Ezeonu, curses and criticisms have been heaped on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. In fact the People’s Democratic Party’s Lagos Central Senatorial candidate, Sunbo Onitiri among others called on Yakubu to resign for giving Nigeria the most “fraudulent, compromised and scandalous” elections Nigeria ever ...