By Izunna Okafor, Awka The family of young Anambra entrepreneur and fish dealer, Late Master Ifesinachi Martin Onyekesi (popularly known as Fish Magnet) has announced the burial arrangements for the only son, who was gruesomely assassinated by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in the state. According to a burial poster released by the family and currently trending…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has joined the voices of condemnation against the brutalization and humiliation of a female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, by members of a local vigilante group known…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka An Anambra-based human rights activist, Comrade Osita Obi, has launched a blistering criticism on the Catholic Diocese of Awka, accusing it of masterminding and lying about the unlawful invasion and destruction of his wife’s shop, alongside several others, on July 31, 2025. Comrade Obi spoke on Tuesday in Awka, the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has condemned in strong terms the alleged assault on a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area, while also cautioning vigilante groups against acts of brutality and abuse of authority. This is coming in reaction to…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka It was an entirely dramatic election day at Osumenyi and part of Ezinifite in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State over the weekend during the long long-awaited by-election for the Anambra South District, culminating in arrays of confrontations, climaxed by a specially invoked heavy downpour that forced a…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka In what many have described as a long-overdue step towards addressing decades of infrastructural neglect, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has received hearty commendations from the Igbo Community Association (ICA), Abuja, for his recent approval to kick-start the construction of lite railway lines across Nigeria’s geopolitical zones. The Association, in a…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have achieved another feat in the fight against cr!me in the state, following the arrest of another suspected s3xual abuser and the rescue of a 6-year-old child from traffickers. The feats were disclosed in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday by…
The police in Enugu have detained six male suspects over alleged robbery, motorcycle snatching and cult-related activities in multiple operations in the state. Police operatives also recovered two firearms, seven live rounds of ammunition, a stolen motorcycle and other incriminating items. This is contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the command, SP Daniel…
Governor Hope Uzodimma has told the Local Government officials in Imo State, particularly the elected ones, to use their offices to serve the people who elected them into office and not to punish them. The Governor who spoke on Thursday at the Rockview Hotel Owerri while declaring open the three day retreat for Imo State…
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has commended President Bola Tinubu for what it described as unprecedented infrastructural interventions in the South-East, stating that no Nigerian president since the end of the civil war in 1970 has done more for Ndigbo. In a press statement issued on Sunday by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, Deputy President…
