By Rev Fr Amobi Chukwuma As a young man bubbling with vitality, I used to run while exercising my body in order to maintain healthy equilibrium. When I grew older, I started to joggle. But when age started telling on me, I embarked on quick-walk. I do this on weekly basis. However, a stubborn bodily ailment incapacitated me since the ...

By Jude Atupulazi Often people have encountered some touts masquerading as enforcers of union levies for such unions as motor parks, Okada, keke and shuttle buses. These touts have made life difficult for both commercial vehicle operators and their passengers. In Onitsha, for instance, many passengers have had occasion to experience frustration in the hands of such touts who will ...

Peter Cardinal Okpaleke has been appointed by Pope Francis as a member of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life. He is among some recently created Cardinals to be members of different dicasteries of the Roman Curia as announced by the Vatican, October 7. Peter Cardinal Okpaleke is the Bishop of Ekwulobia Catholic Diocese, reports Jude Atupulazi. ‘The Dicastery ...

… Victims Count Losses A substantial part of six local government areas of Anambra State are currently under water. The local governments are Ogbaru, Onitsha North, Onitsha South, Anambra East, Anambra West, and Ayamelum Local Government Areas. The flood has cost indigenes of the area their crops, homes, livelihood and even lives, and is regarded as the worst in many ...

By Chioma Ndife The Management of the National Inland Waterways Authority has commiserated with the people and Government of Anambra State over the boat mishap that claimed the lives of ten persons in Umunankwo, Ogbaru Local Government Area of the State. In a statement signed by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs of the Agency, Jibril Darda’u, NIWA expressed shock that ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Details have emerged as to why the Bishop of the Nnewi Catholic Diocese in Anambra State, Bishop Jonas Benson Okoye, withdrew the faculty of five Spiritan priests, otherwise called Holy Ghost priests. Rev Fr Hyginus Aghaulor, former Director of Communications of the diocese who spoke to journalists, Tuesday, on behalf of Bishop Okoye, said the Spiritans had ...

Last Monday, the Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, led a team of his appointees, including the Commissioner for Works, to inspect some roads in the Okpuno/Nodu axis in Awka South Local Government Area of the state. Those roads are among the worst to be seen anywhere in the capital city and environs despite having some of the biggest human ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Two operatives of the Anambra Vigilante Service have been arrested while trying to defile a 12-year-old girl at the Nkutaku Area of Okpoko in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. The suspects were said to have accosted the victim who was passing around the area with her younger brother and arrested them, while sending the ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in Anambra Central Senatorial District, Senator Uche Ekwunife, has denied throwing jabs at Mr Peter Obi. Ekwunife who was at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for the official flag off of the presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had said Nigeria did not need a kindergarten president. Ekwunife ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke A family of six persons have been drowned by flood in Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State. It was gathered that the incident happened in Nzam Community, and that the family was drowned in their house after it was submerged by flood on Tuesday. In a trending video, youths of the community were seen bringing ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke A woman identified as Chinelo Udogu has flogged her three-year old child to death. Sources said Udogu carried out the action in a feat of anger and that when she discovered that the baby had died, she allegedly put her in a bag and dumped her in a bush. A video circulating online showed the woman being ...

By Jude Atupulazi In its continued drive to increase the internally generated revenue profile of the state, the Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has come out with a new regime of taxes for mourners in the state. According to a memo addressed to the National Peresident of Anambra State Association of Town Unions (ASATU) which was signed by the ...

By Sunny A Ijomah Accord Party Presidential flagbearer, Prof. Chris Imulomen has stated that the challenges facing the country are not that which a 70-year-old President can tackle. The Presidential aspirant stated this during a meeting with stakeholders of the party in Kano. According to him, Nigeria needs a youthful mind that is at the peak of their career to ...

By Sunny A Ijomah Vigilante operatives attached to Osuma Street, Inland town, Onitsha in Onitsha North Local Government Area Anambra State on Monday saved a plasma television thief from being lynched or set ablaze by an irate mob who had already inflicted injuries on his face and head. The incident occurred in the afternoon when the suspect broke into a ...

By Sunny A Ijomah ROTARY Club of Onitsha Royal in District 9142, Rotary International, led by the Synergiser President, Rotarian Floral Mbaeli, in collaboration with Rotaract Club of Federal Polytenic Oko, Atani Campus, have recently visited indegent pupils of Central  School, Atani, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State to carryout literacy and basic education projects in the school. ...

By Linda Bordoni October 12, 1962: John XXIII’s appeal to States to heed “anguished cry for peace” On 12 October 1962, day two of the Second Vatican Council and amid the unfolding Cuban Missile Crisis, Pope John XXIII addresses diplomats accredited to the Holy See, noting that Heads of State bear responsibility for the fate of nations and urging them ...

By Hannah Brockhaus On the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to leave behind criticism and anger and to live the faith with joy. “May the Church be overcome with joy. If she should fail to rejoice, she would deny her very self, for she would forget the love that begot her,” ...

By Livinus Nnebedum Across the over 200 countries in the world including 55 countries in Africa Nigeria inclusive, there had been struggle in the past for independence. Many countries in Africa had witnessed Military Regimes; interventions in politics. Call it military junta or coups.  Egypt experienced the first military coup in 1952 when Colonel Abdel Nasser took over power. Togo ...

By Rev Fr Gerald Nwafor The Industrial Court has said the university lecturers would go back to the classroom. I did listen to the Minister of Labor talking on one of the popular TV stations in the country. I spent one hour listening to him. In the middle of the interview, I wanted to switch off the television and go ...

…212 Candidates Confirmed By Zita Chidera Ezeno St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Adazi-Nnukwu, last Sunday, received the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, who administered the Sacrament of Confirmation on 212 candidates. The Bishop, speaking during the homily, x-rayed the significance of gratitude which was well captured in the Gospel of the day. ‘The biggest form of gratitude ...