By Adejumoke Alebiosu NYSC on Tuesday in Bauchi warned Batch C Stream 1, corps members against participating in the local politics of their host communities. Bauchi State Coordinator of the scheme, Alhaji Namadi Abubakar, gave the warning on behalf of the Director-General, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, at the close of the batch’s orientation course. He also advised the corps members to ...

By Uche Amunike The Anambra election has come and gone and I can proudly say that it was the most interesting poll I ever witnessed in the state. It kicked off with 18 candidates. At the end of the day, four contenders caught the interest of the Anambra people. They are Prof, Charles Chukwuma Soludo of  APGA, Valentine Ozigbo of ...

By Jude Atupulazi In the seventies, playing against North African sides was always hell. And among the top North African sides then was Egypt. They had a famous club side known as Mehalla. At that time too, our own Rangers International Football Club of Enugu was an all-conquering side; at least in the local league. In 1975, Rangers, as champions ...

 …Calls for Unity in Building a Better Anambra By Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The apex humanitarian Igbo women’s group in Nigeria and diaspora known as Okpotokpo Adaigbo Niile Worldwide (OANW), has congratulated the Anambra State Governor-Elect, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, on his victory in the governorship election held on November 6 and 9, 2021. In a press statement issued by the Acting ...

By Daruwana Daku The people of Eziowelle Community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Thursday, November 11, received free rural medical outreach organized in honour of the late Mrs. Gloria Okafor. The event which was held at the community’s Civic Centre Hall saw an estimated beneficiaries of 150 from the 5 villages that make up the community. ...

By Sunny A Ijomah The Nigerian Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has described the winner of Anambra State Governorship election, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), as an excellent choice. In a congratulatory message from his Media Office on thursday in Abuja and made available to the press in Onitsha, the Minister said ...

By Jude Atupulazi, Uchay Amunike and Ifeoma Ezenyilimba The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the Nov 6 guber election, Mr Valentine Ozigbo, says he’s still in the race to win. Ozigbo, who stated this at a press conference in Awka today, said as far as the votes left were greater than results declared, he still had chances ...

  …As Bishop Ezeokafor Confirms Over 100 Students By Chioma Ndife To actualize its intention of erecting a chapel to aid its students build a closer relationship with God and an auditorium for multipurpose activities within the College, the Management of Rosary College, Nise, Awka South LGA, Anambra State, has organized a fundraising to enable it to provide the needed ...

… Fr Okafor is a Humble Priest – Governor Obiano By Mercy Hill and Alexander Johnson Adejoh A priest of the Catholic Diocese of Awka, Chaplain to the Government Lodge Chaplaincy, and Public Relations Officer of the Diocese, Rev Fr Dr Patrick Chinenye Okafor, has described Priestly Silver Jubilee Anniversary as a journey of no regrets, adding that he will ...

  … Awgbu Community, Children, others Eulogize Deceased’s Prayerful Life By Chioma Ndife It was indeed a celebration of an impactful and fulfilled life lived by the late Christopher Okeke Mbala by the children, relatives and entire Awgbu Community, as the remains of the late Patriarch were laid to rest in his country home at Abor-Ani Village, Awgu, Orumba North ...

…. Bishop Jonas Benson Exalts Catholic Schools; Blesses Music Studio By Daruwana Daku The newly admitted students of St. Patrick’s College, Awka in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, were last Sunday formally vested in the college through her investiture ceremony ritual. The investiture ceremony which was accompanied by academic prize awards to best students, witnessed an episcopal ...

… Seeks N250m for Completion of Stella Maris Skill Acquisition Centre By Ifeoma Ezeyilimba Amawbia, Awka South LGA, Anambra State, was last Saturday, October 30, agog with human and Igbo royal cultural displays, as the Catholic Women’s Organisation (CWO), Amawbia Deanery, held her 2021 Triennial Convention. The event which was held at the deanery headquarters, St Matthew’s Catholic Church, Amawbia, ...

The cause of the ravaging activities of cultists in Anambra State may just have been uncovered, following the arrest, last Monday, by the Anambra State Police Command, of a police sergeant (name withheld), suspected to not just belonging to a cult group, but supplying arms to them, reports Ikeugonna Eleke. Rumours on social media had it that the policeman who ...

By Daruwana Daku The announcement made by the Anambra State Government to approve Saturdays as school day has been eliciting mixed reactions from citizens and stakeholders in the state. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, had on 25 October 2021, announced Mondays as sit-at-home days in solidarity with its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu. But even after the same body announced ...

These days it is a nightmarish experience to drive around Awka, the Anambra State capital – no thanks to the traffic gridlock experienced at major areas of the city. Before now, the closure of the road between the office of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) and the Nigeria Correctional Centre, had been shut by the police due to the ...

…NCAA Fails to Approve Maiden Commercial Flight By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano, Saturday, October 30, commissioned the Anambra International Passenger and Cargo Airport, Umueri, for commercial use, amidst fanfare by indigenes of the state. This came as the aviation regulatory authority, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), failed to approve the take-off of two commercial flights that ...

..Urges Electorate to Vote According Their Conscience By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu The Director of Justice, Development and Peace Caritas (JDPC) Awka Diocese, Rev. Fr. Levi Ndubisi Ukor, has called on electorate to shun violence, vote buying and as vote according to their conscience, noting that accepting money to vote in the wrong person would be tantamount to anarchy and doom.. Rev ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Chukwuma Soludo and his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterparts, Senator Andy Uba and People’s Democratic Party’s Val Ozigbo, last Monday engaged each other over their plans for Anambra people. Soludo, Ozigbo and Uba, met at the Anambra gubernatorial debate, 2021, hosted by Arise TV and anchored ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Police detectives in Anambra State have recovered a locally made RPG bomb and a hand grenade from the site of the shootout between gunmen and security operatives last recently. It will be recall that suspected ESN militants had attacked a Joint Security convoy led by the Commissioner of Police, CP Echeng Echeng last weekend. A police source ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Valentine Ozigbo has said that he does not have a godfather in the Anambra governorship race. Ozigbo said the only godfather he would have had were the same ones he fought and defeated in the court to retrieve his governorship ticket, after they tried to take it away ...