By Jude Atupulazi The Anambra State Ministry of Women’s and Children’s Affairs is planning to take custody of the three children rescued from a prophetess in Onitsha recently where they were held captive and believed to be awaiting their turn to be killed before being pounded in a mortar for ritual purposes. It will be recalled that three kids, two ...

The people of ANAMBRA State were left stupefied last Wednesday after news filtered in about the gruesome killing of two police men attached to two patrol teams at Nkpologwu and Omogho in Aguata and Orumba North LGAs of the state, reports Jude Atupulazi. According to reports, gunmen who drove in both a saloon car and a black Mercedes Benz 4Matic ...

…Flags off Construction of Access Road, Landscaping at JIMATECH Neni By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The Auxiliary Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev Jonas Benson Okoye, has described vocational education as what enhances and enriches human persons the most. Bishop Okoye stated this in his remarks when he flagged off the construction of access road and main avenue, as well as landscaping ...

By Jude Atupulazi The Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, has frowned at what he described as an unprofitable lifestyle of wasting huge amounts of resources in celebrating the dead, as against giving the living a befitting life. Addressing journalists recently, Obi said if all the financial resources spent ...

Last Monday, Gov David Umahi, the chairman of the Southeast Governors Forum, which is the umbrella body of the governors of the Southeast Zone, made haste to intervene on the face-off between the immediate past Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha; now a senator, and his successor, Hope Uzodimma, both of same party. Umahi, who intervened on behalf of the Southeast ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) says the current increase in the pump price of petrol in the Southeastern part of Nigeria was because of shortage in the supply of the product. Chairman of IPMAN, Enugu Depot in charge of Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi States, Mr Chinedu Anyaso, while speaking with journalists in Awka, Friday, ...

By Cynthia Igbokwe Rotary Club of Awka GRA Spouses night celebration has ended in a glowing note with honour to two distinguished women, Prof. Mrs Bekky Ngozi Adirika, and Dr Mrs Chioma Ajator. Briefing Fides, the President of the Rotary Club of Awka GRA, Rotarian Somadina Okweluogu, said the event was scheduled for last year but the coronavirus pandemic outbreak ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Members of the National Assembly from Anambra State on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have resolved to support former Central Bank Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, to clinch the ticket of the party for the November governorship poll. This was revealed during a meeting of the caucus with the state executive committee of the party, ...

By Jude Atupulazi Aspirants in the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State have been warned against taking the people for a ride by gunning for the guber election while still serving elective positions. A political pressure group, Equity Movement, Turn by Turn, who disclosed in a press statement made available to Fides through its chairman, Hon Gaius Ezeh, in ...

By Cynthia Igbokwe People living within Awka and environs have cried out about the hike in the fare charged by keke or tricycle riders. Fides gathered that the tricycle operators though banned from operating on the highways by the Anambra State Government, are heavily patronized by members of the public who see their services as offering one of the easiest ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The Speaker, Anambra State House of Assembly, Right Honorable Uche Okafor, says the International Conference Centre, Awka on completion, will create massive employment for the youths and boost the internally generated revenue of the state. The Speaker disclosed this when he embarked on the inspection of the ongoing project alongside members of the House as part of ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The new Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, CP Monday Kuryas, has identified some causes of insecurity in the state, with a pledge to tackle them all. Kuryas who was recently posted to the state, at a maiden press conference to announce his assumption of duty, said cultism, land dispute, kingship tussle, kidnapping, one-chance robbery and others, ...

By Abuchi Onwumelu The representatives of the Ime Obi Idemili North/South have paid a courtesy visit to the President of Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Anambra State Chapter, Chief Emeka Udodeme at the State Secretariat of the Apex Igbo Socio-Cultural Organization. Speaking shortly after arriving the Ohaneze Ndi Igbo, Anambra State office, last Wednesday, the leader of the delegation, Chief Edwin Ekwuno, ...

…As Fides Director, journalist lend voice As the United Nations marked the International Mother Language Day, Sunday, February 21, 2021, with the theme, “Fostering Multilingualism for Inclusion in Education and Society”, the Commissioner for Education in Anambra State, Professor Kate Azuka Omenugha, has taken sides in support of mother language and multilingualism, report Precious Ukeje and Adejumoke Alebiosu. Prof. Omenugha ...

By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba High Chief Engr JohnBosco Onunkwo, the Founder of JohnBosco Onunkwo Foundation, has called for the immortalisation of two former seminary formators of the Catholic Diocese of Awka, the late Rev Fr Paul Belonwu Akpu and the late Rev Fr Raphael Ikem Oliobi. High Chief Onunkwo, who made the call in his remarks at the funeral ceremony organized ...

By Jude Atupulazi A lawyer,  Mr Gozie Okafor, has described the recent protest by some women from Nkerehi Community against a prominent son of Umuchukwu, Dr Godwin Maduka, as a breach of the law. Umuchukwu is in Orumba South LGA of Amanbra State. Speaking with Fides in Awka, Okafor, while conceding that the country’s constitution recognized people’s freedom to protest, ...

Archbishop Ignatius kaigama of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has described Lent as a period of spiritual warfare against the devil or his agents who cause multidimensional evils in our world. The Prelate noted that in Nigeria today some of the evils confronting our country include kidnapping, banditry, murderous activities of armed gunmen who kill people and rape women; immorality ...

By Christine Rousselle The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) on Tuesday announced its annual “Dirty Dozen” ranking of the top mainstream contributors to sexual exploitation. Some entities on the list profited off the coronavirus pandemic in the last year while contributing to sexual exploitation, the center said. As the pandemic resulted in the closure of schools and cancellation of ...