By Sunny A. Ijomah The Federal Government on Tuesday assured Nigerians that the 2023 general elections will hold as planned. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the assurance in Abuja at the 17th edition of the “President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) Administration Scorecard Series (2015-2023).” Alhaji Mohammed was reacting to a widely-circulated report, credited to an INEC ...

By Sunny A Ijomah The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi put his records on the ground on Sunday with a direct challenge to Ahmed Bola Tinubu, his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, to do the same, while both of them were Governors, for Nigerians to assess who did better. For instance, though Tinubu, elected in ...

By Jude Atupulazi The above title could have been any other one. For instance, it could easily have been ”Man of the year”, ”Nigerian of the Year”, among others. But I decided after much thought to use the above title, ”My Igbo Man of the Year”. It may seem as though I have succeeded in narrowing it down to an ...

…Bishop Ezeokafor Mourns According to a nurse who was near him before he breathed his last, the late Pope Benedict XVI, mustering his last strength, had muttered in his death bed, ‘Lord, I Love You.’ That was around 3am on December 31, 2022. Fides reports that the pope emeritus spoke those last words in Italian in a barely audible whisper. ...

The year 2023 is here. As usual many people will be making New Year resolutions in a bid to do things better and be better than they were the previous year. But whether they will be able to keep to their resolutions is another matter entirely. But one thing that is clear is that as a nation, we must strive ...

The Speaker, Anambra State House of Assembly, Right Honourable Uche Okafor, has assured Ndi Anambra of the state legislature’s readiness to continue to enact laws and resolutions aimed at uplifting the living standard of the citizenry, as well as the total development of the state. In his New Year message, signed and made available to newsmen in Awka by his ...

…Speaks On 2023 General Elections By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Reverend Paulinus Ezeokafor, has exhorted Nigerians to avoid being influenced by money during next month’s general elections in the country. Bishop Ezeokafor who made the appeal in his New Year message, said it was time for the electorate to declare their stand on ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, says the state is now about the safest in Nigeria, and has vowed to continue to ensure that criminal elements in the state are taken out. Soludo who briefed journalists in his country home in Isuofia, Aguata Local Government Area, commended the efforts of security operatives in the state, saying that ...

By MmadubuchI Onwumelu The Managing Director, Operation Clean And Healthy Anambra (OCHA Brigade), Sir Celestine Anere, 3rd January 2023, during the morning parade of the outfit, reeled out plans for 2023, speaking on office reformation, work ethics, as well as recruitment. Addressing officers and men of OCHA Brigade, Sir Celestine Anere dwelt on pre and pro disciplinary functions of the ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke A national planning committee for the funeral of the late Chief Mbazulike Amechi, Minister of Aviation in the First Republic in Nigeria has been announced. In a press release signed by Tagbo I. Amechi for the family, it was revealed that Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, would head the committee for the planning of the funeral, with popular Nigerian ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke An Anglican priest, Rev Barr Ogbuchukwu Makuo Lotanna, who resigned from the Anglican Church to open a ministry to propagate polygamy, has apologized. The priest had upon his resignation in September insisted that he received a revelation to propagate polygamy as a way to stem immorality. But the priest, in a press release made available to Fides, ...

By Jude Atupulazi The governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has vowed to bring to justice, those behind the recent wave of cult related killings in parts of the state, especially in Obosi and Awka. In Obosi, the President General of the Community, Hon. Ike Okolo, was reportedly shot dead in a petrol station on Monday, 2nd January, 2022, ...

By Ikeugonna Eleke Men wielding guns, who were suspected to be cultists, on Tuesday shot and killed a tricycle operator close to the back gate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The incident was said to have happened in the evening, while the victim was left lying in a pool of his blood. There have been incidences of killings which have ...

…As School Sends-off Graduating Students, Holds Christmas Party  …Blue House Wins Overall Trophy, Yellow, Orange Houses follow Suit  By Chioma Ndife and Marcellinus Uzuanwa The Management of St. Anthony’s Catholic Comprehensive Institute, Agulu, has organized inter-house sports competition for her students, saying that such was in line with her commitment of discovering and grooming potentials in the field of sports ...

By Chioma Ndife To actualize their dreams of raising greater number of indigent women to becoming financially independent, the women’s wing of Urunnebo Improvement Union, Enugwu-Ukwu, Njikoka LGA, Anambra State, has organized her 2022 convention in order to deliberate on measures to adopt in providing  revolving interest free loans to those in need of them. The UIU Women’s Wing during ...

By Chioma Ndife The atmosphere at the Priests’ Welfare Home was filled with love, joy and happiness as people from all walks of life joined the elderly priests of Awka and Ekwulobia Dioceses in a bountiful Christmas Dinner Get-together organized by Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Uduh led- management. The third edition of the Christmas get-together which commenced with a concelebrated Eucharistic ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah  For the LP, PDP, and APC standard bearers, 2023 is a defining moment for Nigeria and there is a need for National unity. The Presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar; and Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi have called on Nigerians to shun their ethnic, tribal and ...

By Sunny A Ijomah The embattled Caretaker Committee chairman of Onitsha Bridgehead Market, Anambra State, Hon. Chinedu Ezekweike Akweke, has allegedly been suspended by 11 out of 13- man Committee and subsequently replaced on acting capacity by Hon. Pascal Chinedu Ezekwere. In the petition signed by the 11 member committee and sent to Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo, and made available ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta  State and Vice Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday, said God would decide Nigeria’s next President and not the action of G-5 Governors. Dr. Okowa made the statement in Aboh, when he led Delta PDP Campaign Train to Ndokwa East and Ndokwa West Local Government Areas of the ...

By Alexander Johnson Adejoh He was born Edson Arantes dos Nascimento in the tiny Brazilian village of Três Corações, where he played soccer barefoot, using rolled-up rags for a ball. How a young man from such humble beginnings became Pelé, widely considered the greatest soccer player ever, is a story written on the hearts of generations of his compatriots and ...