More than six hundred suspected touts have been arrested by the Anambra State Anti-Touting Squad, SASA in various parts of the State after one week of its inauguration. The Director of Operations of the Squad, Mr. Solomon Onwuemene disclosed this while speaking to newsmen. He said that the suspected touts were arrested in Onitsha North…
A total of 5000 youths from the 21 local government areas of Anambra State have been empowered with N2 billion start-up capital released by Governor Chukwuma Soludo after the training of the “1 youth, 2 skills” program initiated by the state government. The number constitutes the first batch of beneficiaries of the program who have…
The Anambra State Government will soon domesticate the Correctional Service bill, the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof Sylvia Chika Ifemeje, has said. Ifemeje disclosed this when the Anambra State Controller of Correctional Services, Usifo Joseph paid her a courtesy visit in her office at Jerome Udoji Secretariat Complex, Awka. Recall that former President…
Senator Dr Tony Nwoye of the Labour Party (LP) was affirmed on Thursday as the duly elected Senator for Anambra North Senatorial District, by the court of appeal sitting in Lagos. The three-member panel held that the appeals against the lawmakers lacked merit and unmeritorious. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had, on Feb. 25,…
An Anambra High Court sitting in Awka has restrained the embattled Uchenna Nwoye from parading himself as the President General of Ifitedunu Community in Dunukofia local government area. The court presided over by Justice Tagbo Anieto granted an order of interlocutory injunction brought by Evang. Azodo Jasper, Samuel Nweke, Arinze Azodo, Onyebuchi Anene, Bethrand Nwankwo,…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration expressed due displeasure on the illegal conversion of the Cyprian Ekwensi Centre for Arts and Culture complex in Garki, Abuja, into a drinking joint by shop owners. The Mandate Secretary, Social Development Secretariat, FCTA, Mr Ibrahim Masari, expressed their displeasure and gave a stern warning during an emergency meeting with…
Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo has rescued about twenty girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five at a brothel in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of the State. The raid was done in collaboration with the police following a tip-off from a whistleblower. Two among the…
Barely two years and six months to the conduct of the gubernatorial election in Anambra State, there are strong indications that a plot to stop the second-term ambition of Governor Charles Soludo is said to have been uncovered. This is the climax of the internal cold war within the ranks of one of the shadowing…
The Opposition party in Anambra state the People’s Democratic Party has expressed its disappointment at the performance of Governor Charles Soludo The party’s Publicity Secretary, Uloka Chibuike in a statement said Governor Soludo has failed to complete any significant projects aimed at alleviating the suffering of the people of Anambra. He remarked, “It’s been almost…
Mo Zhotian Construction Company, a Chinese engineering firm has offered 600 students from Igwebuike Grammar School Awka, scholarship. According to the Managing Director, Tu Makuan, the scholarship which is for students from SS1 to SS3 would run for one academic year. She stated that the gesture was part of the firm’s corporate social responsibility in…
