Editorial

Gradually, kidnapping has gone up a notch in various parts of Anambra State after a slight lull. In what is seemingly becoming a weekly affair, incidences of kidnapping occur everywhere and at any time. This has again thrown the people of the state into panic and understandably so. Kidnapping people is one of the lowest things any human being can ...

For a long time now, the Immigration Junction in Awka has remained a slaughter house where many human lives have been lost in circumstances that would have been avoided by the government doing simple things. There is indeed no week that one or more accidents are not recorded at that place that has become a cauldron of death. The Immigration ...

Any time from now, the Federal Government of Nigeria will commission a private Petroleum Refinery built by a Nigerian citizen, Aliko Dangote. It has been described as the biggest refinery in Africa, with the capacity to produce 99 million litres of petrol daily, which is enough to meet the country’s demand for petrol. But anyone thinking that the building of ...

The Anambra State Government was recently credited with a report about its plan to use a portion of land at Awka Township Stadium for the building of an amusement park. According to the Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Chris Aburime, who confirmed the report in a telephone chat with Fides, the idea of the amusement park is to avail ...

Nigeria’s outgoing President, Muhammadu Buhari, was recently in the news when he sought the forgiveness of his compatriots on areas he had not done well or had hurt them. As Nigerians were trying to make up their minds whether his plea was genuine or not, Buhari helped them make up their minds by adding that one of his best legacies ...

On Thursday, April 13, a serious accident occurred at Unizik Junction, Awka which involved a trailer and other vehicles which were hit. It was a miracle that no lives were lost. But the accident triggered a massive gridlock on the lane of the Enugu /Onitsha Expressway where it happened, as the vehicles, especially the trailer, literally blocked the way. But ...

For a while, it seemed as though incidences of kidnappings had abated in Anambra State as all of a sudden, news of such disappeared. This was attributed to implementation of the  cashless Policy of the Federal Government by many which meant that very few people, if any, had access to physical cash. Others believed the state government was winning the ...

Since after the controversial Presidential Election in Nigeria which held on February 25, there appears to be a sinister plot by the ruling party in the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC, to exacerbate the existing tension in the nation, which they created in the first place, and cause an anarchic situation. The Presidential Election is widely believed to have ...

The rate of indiscriminate urinating, refuse dumping and indifference towards environmental sanitation in Anambra State can easily make a newcomer to the state question whether the state knows the meaning of sanitation, least of all, observing it. Last Saturdays of every month have been mapped out as the General Environmental Sanitation Days in Anambra State, with the exercise lasting for ...

There have been rigged elections in Nigeria but the 2023 Elections have taken the Oscar by the brazen manner the electoral umpire conducted it. In past elections where results were manufactured, there were attempts to hide the manipulation, even though people knew the results were contrived. But the 2023, General Elections in Nigeria have been rigged in such an open ...