By Uche Amunike Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency (ANCSDA) is an Agency set up to promote and implement development activities at the grassroot level. The Agency is currently implementing World Bank Assisted Community and Social Development Project- Additional Financing (CSDP-AF) in the state which aims at poverty reduction in rural communities using Community Driven Development (CDD) approach. According ...

By Chiamaka Egbunem and Nkiruka Okonkwo The Director of Fides Media, Rev. Fr Martin Anusi, has addressed his members of staff on precautionary measures against the deadly coronavirus disease. Addressing the workers last Tuesday at Fidesplex, Fr Anusi urged them to adopt proper personal hygiene in order not to contract the virus, noting that the disease could be prevented if ...

By Chioma Ndife :  …Says Pandemic Exposed Massive Inadequacies in Nigeria Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus in Wuhan, China, and its devastating effects threating the safety of humans across different countries of the world, the Auxiliary Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev. Jonas Benson Okoye, has called for standard equipment at centres mapped out by the Federal ...

As the coronavirus pandemic ravages Planet Earth, the Anambra State Government last Monday joined the rest of the world in attempts to limit the spread of the virus also known as Covid-19. To this end, the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has instituted lockdown measures which took effect from last Monday, March, 23, until further notice, writes Jude ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Environment has charged the contractor rehabilitating the Uruagu Nnewi Erosion Site to expedite action on the project. The Committee made the call when they visited the Erosion Site as part of their oversight responsibility Fides reports that when the Committee visited the site, men of the firm handling the ...

By Chimezie Ibedu Joy bells rang merrily for the family of Catechist Charles Nwuba of Okpuno town as one of their twin daughters Mary tied the nuptial knots with her heartthrob, Godwin Okoye of Enugwu-Ukwu on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at St Gabriel’s Catholic Church Okpuno. In the presence of a huge gathering of priests; religious women; current and former ...

By Uche Nworah My brother and colleague Emeka Ozumba, the Deputy Chief Press Secretary to The Governor of Anambra State, visited me in the office recently. As we were getting on with our usual banter on work, family, life, the 2020 Police Games holding in Anambra State then and other stuff, a relative of mine was ushered in. His visit ...

By Paschal Chisom Obi What is that which your soul is longing for? Psalm 130:6 says, “My soul is longing for the Lord more than watchman waits for day break.” St. Augustine posits that true happiness is found in the Lord and our souls are restless until they rest in God. Beloved, what does it profits a man if he ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The Anambra State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says Anambra has been listed among 20 states that will experience heavy flood this year. Already, the group has begun sensitization of indigenes of some of the areas listed by the Nigeria Meteorological Agency to ensure they are fully equipped, and ready to evacuate at a short notice. The Executive ...

By Precious Ukeje The National Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers, NAPPMED, Njikoka Unit, has held its first ever self-organized workshop for its members at Enugwu Ukwu Civic Hall, last Wednesday. This is even as the body decried the treatment meted to its members by members of other professions, especially those in the medical, health and environmental fields. The ...

By Chinecherem Efobi The school manager of Immaculate Heart Secondary School Uga, Rev. Fr. Bartholomew Okeke has explained the need to participate actively in Lenten activities. Fr. Bartholomew who spoke to Fides School Run on March 10, at the school premises Uga, said that Lent which leads Christians to the experience of Easter is devoted to fasting, prayer, almsgiving which ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The Group Managing Director of Oliswarren Group, Chief Hon. Olisa Aniunoh, 2nd from right, with some members of Anambra Mandate for Good Governance (AMFGG). Members of Anambra Mandate for Good Governance (AMFGG), have joined well-meaning Nigerians to felicitate with Gov Willie Obiano as he marked his six years in office as the Governor of Anambra State. In ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The leaders and traders at Onitsha Drug Market Bridgehead (Ogbogwu), Anambra State, have denied allegations that they were back into the sale of fake drugs after the Prof Dora Akunyili-led National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, closed the market in 2007. The traders debunked the claims by a group known as Concerned Committee of ...

By Chinecherem Efobi Lenten reflection of Rev. Fr. Peter-Paul Anyiam, the Parish Priest of St. Mary’s Catholic Church Amaokpala and the Manager of St. Maria Goretti Nursery and Primary School, Amaokpala under St. Mary’s parish, Amaokpala, Given on Tuesday 10th March 2020. Lent is a time of reconciliation and also a period of prayers. It is also known as a ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The Awka Zone I Chapter of Excellent Ladies of Valour and Steel (ELOVAS) Foundation, has given scholarship to six indigent students of Nneoma Secondary School, Nibo, Awka South LGA, Anambra State. Speaking when she led some members of the chapter to the school on Monday, March 9, the Founder/President of ELOVAS Foundation International, QueenLady Ngozi Ekwunife, said ...

. . . As House Passes Bill for Law to Establish State Leisure Parks, Street Beautification Agency By Abuchi Onwumelu The Chairman House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals, Economic Planning and Foreign Donors and member representing Anaocha I State Constituency, Honourable Ebele Leonard Ejiofor, has given a 2week ultimatum to the construction firm saddled with the responsibility of constructing classroom ...

By Jude Atupulazi Renowned philanthropist and President of Transcorp, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, has expressed his deepest sympathies with the victims of last Sunday’s pipeline explosion in Abule Ado, Lagos State. Ozigbo described the incident as most unfortunate, especially when such could have been avoided by better planning by concerned authorities. He also condoled with the staff and management of Bethlehem ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah Our Lady’s Special Science Secondary School Nnobi is sixty two years as the school recently rolled out their drums to celebrate Diamond Jubilee which coincides with​ the pastoral visit of Most Reverend Valerian Okeke, the Archbishop of Onitsha and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province. Our correspondent was there and reports that the presence of Archbishop Valerian ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah Anambra State Ministry of Transport has commenced the enforcement of Anambra colour on commercial buses. The exercise which kicked off in Onitsha will be a continuous process. Speaking during the exercise, the Commissioner for Transport, Dr. Christian Mmadubuko said that the enforcement of Anambra colour is only for Intra States commercial buses plying various routes across ...

Last Sunday, what can be termed a national tragedy occurred in Abule Ado, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos. As at press time, official sources put the number of the dead at 17; while unofficial ones put it at 25. The explosion which occurred in the morning hours, also destroyed many buildings and vehicles. Most saddening was the scenario ...