By Izunna Okafor, Awka It was a historic moment of fulfilment and celebration on Thursday as Chief Emmanuel Chibuzor Nwachukwu (Onọdụgo) officially received his Certificate of Return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), confirming him as the duly-elected Senator for Anambra South Senatorial District. The brief but colourful event, which held at the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two suspects in separate cases of child def!lement, including one involving a 13-year-old girl allegedly ass@ulted by a security man inside an uncompleted building. According to a press release issued on Tuesday by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Special Adviser to Anambra State’s Governor Chukwuma Soludo on Community Security, Mr. Ken Emeakayi, has announced the handover of eight operatives of the Operation Udo Ga-Achị/Agụnechemba Security outfit to the police over the brutal assault and stripping of a female corps member serving in the state, Miss Jennifer Elobor….
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…
