By Ikeugonna Eleke The traditional ruler of Ile–Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, has donated motorized fumigators to the Anambra State Government to support the state’s effort in combating Covid-19. Oba Ogunwusi who delivered the fumigators at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, through his emissaries, said the donation was because of his long standing friendship with the Governor of Anambra State, Chief ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has condoled the family of a 56 year-old woman who was electrocuted last week in Nnewi alongside her daughter while in their shop. Fides had reported that the woman and her daughter had been electrocuted after a high tension wire fell on the roof of her shop. EEDC in a press statement ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The Deputy Majority Leader of the Anambra State House of Assembly and member representing Orumba North State Constituency, Hon Emeka Aforka, has distributed food items and cash to his constituents in Orumba North. Hon. Aforka flagged off the distribution of items to his constituents in his country home, Umudiabor, Ndiowu. Some of the groups that received food ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, last Sunday, May 24, provided food and cash gifts to vulnerable people in Anambra State as part of efforts to ameliorate the hardship caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. Ngige, who presented cash and food items, totaling N15m to some vulnerable persons in his hometown, Alor, ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has been urged to declare free medical services in the state, as one of the measures to fight COVID-19 in the state. A philanthropist and governorship hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Johnbosco Onunkwo, who made the appeal to the state governor, stated that the gesture ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke A 12-year old boy, last Tuesday, reportedly escaped from the home of a family into which he was trafficked by unknown persons. The Anambra State Police spokesperson, SP Haruna Mohammed, who disclosed this to Fides on Tuesday, said the boy was trafficked into Anambra from Benue State, but escaped from the home he was taken, and later ...

By Mercy Hill, Alexander Johnson Adejoh and Precious Ukeje The Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial Zone, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, last Monday, lent a helping hand to the elderly woman in a viral video, published by Fides, Mrs. Maria Nwaobachili. The woman in the video published on Fides Facebook page and reposted on several platforms by other social media users, ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has been urged to declare free medical services in the state, as one of the measures to fight COVID-19 in the state. A philanthropist and governorship hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Johnbosco Onunkwo, who made the appeal to the state governor, stated that the gesture ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, last Sunday, May 24, provided food and cash gifts to vulnerable people in Anambra State as part of efforts to ameliorate the hardship caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease. Ngige, who presented cash and food items, totaling N15m to some vulnerable persons in his hometown, Alor, ...

Tony Okolo CSSp Coronavirus or COVID-19 is a virus of the century which has been described as an enemy that, unfortunately, is gradually eluding all known strategy and armament. This assertion is easily verifiable from the glaring NEGATIVE IMPACTS of this present global scourge. Medically, COVID-19 has been described as a virus which largely channels its damage well beyond the ...

By Michelle La Rosa After photos appearing to depict blessings or baptisms by water gun went viral online, several priests cautioned that Catholics should take care to treat sacred objects and rites with a proper sense of reverence. “Putting holy water into a squirt gun and treating it as if it were a comedy sketch on SNL is treating both ...

“That you may tell your children and grandchildren” (Ex 10:2): Life becomes history I would like to devote this year’s Message to the theme of storytelling, because I believe that, so as not to lose our bearings, we need to make our own the truth contained in good stories. Stories that build up, not tear down; stories that help us ...

By Fr Pat Amobi Chukwuma There is no smoke without fire. A frog does not run in the daylight for nothing. A law is made for order to reign. A lawless society is heading to ruin. Man is a free being. But his freedom is not boundless. There is a limit to everything. Restriction to human activities is geared toward ...

Pope John Paul II celebrates the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception in Rome, December 08, 2004. Credit: giulio napolitano/Shutterstock By Christine Rousselle The life of Pope Saint John Paul II is proof that religious belief and moral conviction can change the course of history, the pope’s biographer said on Monday, May 18. Author and papal biographer George Weigel held ...

Credit: drpnncpptak/Shutterstock. Future seminarians should receive an “absolutely solid formation” in hospital ministry, a priest working with coronavirus patients has said. Fr. Joe McNerney, a full-time hospital chaplain in the Diocese of Portsmouth, England, said that before the COVID-19 crisis, healthcare chaplaincy was a sometimes marginalized ministry. “I think now we are seeing the absolute importance of hospital chaplaincy and ...

Karol Wojtyla with his parents. Photo courtesy of the Dicoese of Krakow. By Courtney Mares One hundred years ago on May 18, Emilia Wojtyla gave birth to her second son, Karol, after a difficult and life-threatening pregnancy. The child would grow up to be St. John Paul II. In a new book published in Poland, Milena Kindziuk describes how St. ...

The tomb of St. Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) in Łagiewniki, Poland. Credit: Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk Pope Francis has decreed that St. Faustina Kowalska’s feast day be added to the Roman Calendar as an optional memorial to be celebrated by all on October 5. The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship issued the decree May 18, the 100th anniversary of the birth of St. John ...

…As Awka Youths set to Defy Order This year’s Imo Awka Festival will not hold. This follows the decision of the Anambra State Government and the Awka Development Union (ADUN) to have the festival suspended as part of measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, write Mercy Hill, Alexander Johnson Adejoh and Precious Ukeje, with additioal reports from ...

By Mercy Hill, Alexander Johnson Adejoh and Precious Ukeje The suspension of this year’s Imo Awka celebration by the Anambra State Government has got indigenes, as well as residents of Awka talking. Among them are the holder of the highest title in Awka land, Ozo Ejike Nwude; Chairman, Awka South Local Government Area, Mr. Leo Nwuba; as well as his ...