Staff of Anambra State House of Assembly, under the backing of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) have commenced an indefinite strike. According to them, the strike is to press home their demand for financial autonomy of the legislative arm of government. Mr. Abraham Okoye, the Chairman of PASAN in Anambra state in an interview…
Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo has successfully carried out a rescue mission in a brothel in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of the State. About twenty girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five were rescued in the mission.The raid was done in alliance with the police…
The Anambra State Government has issued warnings against collecting money for the distribution of palliatives to residents in various communities in the state. The state government pointed out that palliative distribution, which will soon commence in the state, is not for sale and anybody seen collecting money should be reported. In a Press statement issued…
The President of the World Christian International Ecumenical Center Worldwide, Rt Rev. Ikechukwu Ekwemmuor has revealed that the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu will be released before this year’s Christmas, precisely before December 15, 2023. Ekwemmour gave the revelation during a four-day National Ecumenical Prayer Conference which took place…
Some communities, including Eziagulu Otu community in Anambra State have decried continued invasion of their land by neighbouring communities in Kogi and Enugu States. The communities, who appeared at the continued public hearing of the Anambra Truth, Justice and Peace Commission (ATJPC) on Sunday, blamed the interstate crisis on the scramble for land and natural…
A 65-year-old native doctor, Chijioke Okaa, was on Friday, arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court in Nnobi, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State for alleged fraudulently taking over possession of an orphan’s land. The victim, identified as Miss Nzube Mbachu, was said to have been induced by the native doctor to make a…
A member of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra State and a Grand Patron of the party, Chief Maja Umeh, has dismissed the recent defection of the senator representing Anambra South, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah from the Young Progressives Party, YPP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC,…
Anambra State Government has provided seed funds totalling two billion naira to empower five thousand beneficiaries in the pilot phase of the “One Youth, Two Skills” program. Governor Chukwuma Soludo presented the cheques to the beneficiaries during the graduation and business financing ceremony for the first batch of participants at the Anambra International Convention Centre…
Anambra State Police Command has arrested a notorious cultist Obioma Okafor-Ama, also referred to as Alagbon following a tip from locals in the area. Alagbon and his gang have terrorized residents of the Nise Community in the Awka South Local Government Area. The suspect who has been on the wanted list of the state police…
Former Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has expressed strong disapproval of the decision to name Anambra State International Airport after Prof. Chinua Achebe. Obiano shared his sentiments with a group of Anambra residents who visited him in the USA, led by Prof. Chinedu Onukwuru, an academic teaching in the United States. The purpose of their…
