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By Fr Constantine Echichechi Okoli ComWEEK, the one week long programme of events leading up to this year’s celebration of the World Day of Communications came to an end on Sunday, 21st May, 2023. Speaking during the Mass marking the event, at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Awka, the Catholic Bishop of Awka, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, represented by the Director of ...

A new book from Pope Francis, ”Hands off Africa”, condemning the continuing exploitation of Africa by Western powers, has been released with a preface by the Nigerian feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Pope Francis on his first day in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year, had said, ‘Hands off Africa! Stop choking Africa: it is not a mine ...

By Michael Nnebife  Barr Chinedu Lawrence Chukwuma has emerged as the chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, of Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State, during the party’s local government congress held on Saturday, 20th May, 2023, at the LGA’s secretariat, Amawbia. Barr Chukwuma polled a total of 115 votes to defeat his co-contestant, Mr Emmanuel Ikechukwu Agu, ...

By Ifeanyi Ndukwe and Marcellinus Uzuanwu The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Anambra State Chapter, on Friday, May 19, marked its 50th Anniversary of its existence with fanfare. The celebration which took place at Archbishop A.K. Obiefuna Retreat, pastoral  and Conference Centre, Awka, was followed by the symbolic cutting of the NYSC cake by some serving corps members, officials and ...

By Ogochukwu Nwaokafor The Minister for Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has urged his Igbo kinsmen against what he describes as Playing Bad Politics by putting their eggs in one basket in every political dispensation. Speaking on Tuesday, May 23, at the commissioning of the Second Niger Bridge and the construction of capital projects by the regime of President ...

By Jude Atupulazi A total of 13 lecturers of Ambrose Ali University (AAU), Ekpoma, have been dismissed by the state over alleged offences ranging from falsification of age, fraud, misconduct, extortion and sexual harassment, among others. The institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Asomwan Sunny Adagbonyin, disclosed this on Monday at the presentation of the disciplinary committee report which investigated the sacked ...

By Sunny A. Ijomah The Anambra State Head of Service, Barrister Theodora Igwegbe, has charged the leadership of Labour Unions to support government’s agenda to enhance rapid actualization of planned workers’ welfare packages. Barrister Igwegbe made the call during the State Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (SJPSNC) Meeting held at the Committee Hall of the Office of the Head of ...

By Michael Nnebife The President General of the Amansea Development Union, in Awka North Local Government Area, Anambra State, Chief Chris Ughanze, has pledged his community’s gratitude to the governor of the state, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, for embarking on the reconstruction of the very strategic 29 km Amansea-Oba-Ofemili Road, after a long period of neglect by successive administrations in the ...

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu A Non-Governmental Organisation, Center for Peace and Self-value Reorientation (CPSR), last Tuesday at the ASHIA Headquarters in Awka, honoured the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Anambra State Health Insurance Agency, Dr. Simeon Onyemaechi, with Integrity in Stewardship Award. Presenting the plaque, the leader and Executive Director of the group, Mr. Oyibo Abraham, said, ‘Our ...