By Ikeugonna Eleke A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra State, and a governorship hopeful, Mr Ike Oligbo, says that zoning the governorship position in the state will engender division and destroy the unity that exists among the people of the state. Oligbo spoke last Tuesday in Awka while addressing local government area executives of the party ...

. . . Takes Advocacy to Catholic Priests By Amaka Olua Ahead of 2021 gubernatorial election in Anambra State, the People Restoration Movement (PRM) has beckoned on Catholic priests to sensitize the faithful on the dangers of vote buying and selling. They made this call while addressing the priests at Arch-Bishop A.K. Obiefuna Retreat, Pastoral and Conference Centre, Okpuno, during ...

By Mercy Hill St. Theresa’s Parish Ichida, on 1st December, 2019, kickstarted the Catholic Men Organisation in their parish with a concelebrated Holy Mass. Present at the Holy Mass, was the president of the Catholic Men Organisation, Awka Diocese, Chief Ozor Vitus, the vice president, Mr Ofoedu Clement, the PRO, Sir Nnabuife Augustine, the chairman CMO, Neni Deanery, Sir Samuel ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Governor Willie Obiano has expressed worry over the negative effect of Social Media in the present society. Obiano who spoke during the state executive council meeting to unveil two books written separately by members of the executive council, said the effect of social media had negative effect on reading culture among youths. The books are: ”Dispossessed”, written ...

By Jude Atupulazi Former Anambra Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has advised the Church to be more critical in the fight against corruption. Obi, who spoke on the theme, “The Church and Good Governance” at All Souls Church, Lekki, as the Guest Lecturer at the Centenary Anniversary of the Diocese of Lagos Anglican Communion, traced the problem of Nigeria to cumulative ...

. . . Unveils book “From Certificate to Success” By Precious Anaekie Chinemerem Oguegbe, an entrepreneur has said that there is more to success than acquiring certificates from institutions. He made this statement during launching of his book titled, ‘From Certificate to Success on 22nd November, 2019 at Cosmila Hotel. Reviewing the book, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Umezinwa, gave a brief ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano plans to pay workers’ salaries on the 15th of December. Obiano made the announcement last Friday at an event to mark the 7th quadrennial state delegates’ conference of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE). Obiano who was represented by the Head of Service, Barr Harry Uduh, said he was worker-friendly ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The member representing Njikoka II in the Anambra State House of Asembly, Hon Dr Sir Pete Ibida, recently presented a cheque to the Good Samaritan Clinic located inside St. Michael’s Model Comprehensive Secondary School, Nimo, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, for the maintenance, management and operation of the clinic. Hon. Ibida was welcomed by ...

By Jerry Windley-Daoust The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, which means a coming, approach, or arrival. In the Church, it refers to the period encompassing the four Sundays prior to Christmas. It is a time of penance, of turning away from sin and hopeful, joyous preparation for the coming of the Saviour. This is what makes Advent special ...

Readings: Isaiah 11: 1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Rom 15: 4-9; Matt 3:12. (SECOND Sunday of Advent) Invitation Christmas is already in the media and the market. We are already preparing. In today’s reading, St. Paul assists us by saying, “welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God. For I tell you that ...

By Jude Atupulazi Last Thursday, the unthinkable happened in Nigeria. It was the jailing of a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia State governor and a serving senator. He is to spend the next 12 years behind bars for defrauding the people of Abia State a whopping sum of 7.6 billion Naira while ...

Recently, a Media Excellence Award organized by the Association of Digital Media Core Advocates of Nigeria (ADMCA), was held in Awka where some media practitioners in Anambra were recognized. According to the National President of ADMCA, Comrade Harris Chuma, the award recipients emerged after a rigorous selection process by the governing body of the organization. The awardees included some media ...

By Uche Amunike I came across an interesting piece that got me glued to my phone screen until I finished reading it through. It talked about the need for southeasterners to maximize the human resources that nature blessed us with as a region, in such a way that it will boost our economy well enough to transform our region to ...

By Pat Amobi Chukwuma Nothing happens for nothing. Few years ago when I was a young priest, I was at the pulpit delivering the Word of God during 6.00p.m Mass. It was getting dark gradually. Suddenly an unholy and stupid action took place inside the House of God. A young man of about 20 years of age stood up from ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The Catholic Diocese of Awka, last Tuesday, December 3, opened a state-of-the-art restaurant known as Rest Point, at Archbishop A.K. Obiefuna Retreat, Pastoral and Conference Centre, Okpuno (ABAKOPACO), Awka South L.G.A, Anambra State. The neatly built restaurant, situated on the ground floor of the hall of the conference centre, and managed by the management of the ABAKOPACO, ...

. . . IPOB, Police in Blame Game over Casualties By Ikeugonna Eleke Oraifite Community in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, was a theatre of war last Monday, with men of the Anambra State Police Command and men of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, challenging each other in a violent clash, reports Ikeugonna Eleke. Fides gathered that ...

. . . Rewards Student By Uchechukwu Enem The Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, has donated an 18-seater bus to the College of Nursing Sciences, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu, for emerging the overall best in the 2019 Nursing & Midwifery Council of Nigeria Professional Examination. This is even as he offered a certificate of recognition to Miss Mary Cynthia ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba Nine years after the last bishop’s pastoral visit to the parish, St Joseph’s Catholic Parish, Amesi, Aguata LGA, Anambra State, in a well-attended ceremony on Sunday, November 17, played host to the Auxiliary Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Jonas Benson Okoye, who was at the parish on a pastoral visit. The bishop at the pastoral visit, ...

By Amaka Olua The entire Ekwulobia Catholic Community on Sunday, 24 November, came out en mass to demonstrate their faith and love to God as the supreme king of the universe. The parishes, comprising St Anthony’s Parish, St Mary’s Parish, Immaculate Heart Parish and St Joseph’s Pro Cathedral, all gathered at St Joseph’s Pro Cathedral to commemorate the kingship of ...

. . . as St. Patrick’s Isuofia Plans to Host Celebration in 2020 By Chioma Ndife The Umuona Catholic Community in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday, November 24, hosted the Catholic faithful of Isuofia Deanery as they joined their counterparts across the world to commemorate the 2019 Christ the King feast. Overwhelmed with joy, the parishioners ...