By Joe Bukuras Providential is the word that Bishop Andrew Cozzens of Crookston used to describe the April 25 release of “ALIVE: Who is there?”, a movie highlighting the transformative power of the Eucharist. He said the movie is timed perfectly for this summer’s kick off to the U.S. Bishops’ Eucharistic Revival, which Cozzens is leading in his capacity as ...

By Jonah McKeown April 2022 would have marked Dani Laurion’s thirteenth year confined to a wheelchair. But instead, for the past month or so, Dani has been strolling around Lansing as if those dozen infirm years had never happened. At a Catholic healing service held at St. Mary Cathedral in March, she felt moved to stand up and walk on ...

By Livinus Nnebedum The two main political parties in America are Democratic and Republican. Other parties include Federalist, National Republican and Whig. These last 3 parties existed at the early history of American Politics and Government between 1789 and 1845. Presently the dominant parties still remain Democratic and Republican parties. George Washington was the 1st President of America from 1789 ...

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu South-East Governors have been urged to key into Governor Soludo’s truth, peace and reconciliation initiative to restore stability in the region. Speaking in Awka, the Convener Anambra Demand for Soludo (ADS) Chief Jude Emecheta said the zone needs such proactive measures to reclaim its socioeconomic and political space. Fides reports that Chief Emecheta said the initiative will ...

By Isdore Ndubuisi The activities of the National Inland Water Authority (NIWA) using contractors or agents to collect revenue in Onitsha River have generated tension between NIWA and Sand-miners. The move by NIWA to use its agents to collect revenue in Onitsha River Niger waterways is being contested by the Sand Miners Association of Anambra State. The sand miners have ...

By Jude Atupulazi A senatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central, Mr Uzuegbunam Okagbue, has described his relationship with the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, as nothing to do with finances. Okagbue who spoke with Fides in Awka, and who was perceived to have wielded enormous powers in ...

…Demands More Protection from Govt. By Jude Atupulazi The chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Southeast Zone, Alhaji Siddiki Gidado, has confirmed the rescue of ten of the eleven cattle herders kidnapped recently along with 300 cows in Obene, a rural community in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. It will be recalled that MACBAN ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Chief Joe Igbokwe, has alleged that the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, sponsored the pro-Biafra group, Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, in 2015 after losing the election just to spite President Muhammadu Buhari. Igbokwe in a post on Facebook said the solution to the insecurity in the ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The Anambra State Commissioner for Women’s and Children’s Affairs, Mrs Ify Obinabo, has called for the full prosecution of a 60-year old man, Mr Boniface Onyekwere, who raped a 12-year old girl. Onyekwere, a pastor with Deeper Life Bible Church, and a lecturer with Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, had last month allegedly raped his house help on ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, cuddling a child belonging to a mentally challenged woman. A mentally challenged woman, whose name was not immediately ascertained, has fought officials of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare over an attempt to separate her from her newborn baby. The incident happened in Awka, ...