By Izunna Okafor, Awka In furtherance to the move to strengthen the bond and relationship between residents of Anambra State and the recently launched Agụnechemba Security Outfit (popularly known as Operation Udo Ga-Achị), veteran Anambra journalist, Comrade Nweke Nweke has been appointed as the new spokesperson for the grassroots security outfit. Nweke’s appointment was…
Traders at the Naze Cluster Market in Owerri North council Area of Imo State have appealed to Governor Hope Uzodimma to come to their rescue over incessant police harassment and arrest of traders at the market on the orders of a caretaker chairman of the market. The distraught traders alleged that the caretaker chairman of…
Following inkling that the federal government is still bent on acquiring lands for ranching, the governors of the South-east states have, again, been asked not to get involved in the agenda of “federal land grabbing” for disguised Ruga project. The latest warning was handed down by three South-east Diaspora groups based in the United States…
Even before the formal commissioning of the newly reconstructed Port Harcourt Road in Aba, Abia State, excited traders and residents have begun relocating to the area, drawn by the transformation of the once-dilapidated route. Along the newly completed stretch, especially near the Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway, petty traders in their shops expressed renewed enthusiasm for the…
The Enugu State Police Command has narrated how a 22-year-old woman, Deborah Sam-Praise Ememem, was allegedly murdered in a hotel room in Nsukka by a second-year student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). The suspect, identified as Emmanuel Gambo from Kogi State, is a student of the Department of Material and Metallurgical Engineering at…
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has praised President Bola Tinubu for achievements so far, saying the South East Geo-political Zone is fully in support of him and will work for his re-election. Umahi spoke to journalists on Friday night in Lagos, where he dismissed claims that the South East was giving conditions, such…
Anambra State Governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo has challenged the prevailing narrative that Fulani herdsmen are responsible for the rising wave of kidnappings and violent crime in the Southeast. Speaking to Anambra indigenes at a town hall meeting in Maryland over the weekend, Soludo asserted that nearly all the criminals apprehended in his state are, in…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Chapter of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has moved to sanitize and reposition the state as the country’s true cradle of Nollywood by launching a crackdown on unauthorized movie production camps, unveiling a taskforce for enforcement, and rolling out an ambitious entrepreneurship scheme for actors, among…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Grief has enveloped the university community of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, following the sudden death of a promising young student who reportedly slumped and died while playing football in the school. The deceased, identified as Tochi Martins Attah, popularly known as “T-funds,” was a 300-level student of the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has arrested one of the notorious suspects linked to the gruesome attack at Total and Tipper Junctions in Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area, which resulted in multiple deaths and abductions. The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Chukwujekwu Micheal Okoye, popularly known as Bus-Stop, was apprehended…
