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…
Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has sworn-in a new commissioner. He is Mrs. Beverly Ikpeazu-Nkemdiche. Mrs Nkemdiche was sworn in yesterday as Commissioner for Special Duties at the Anambra State Government House, Awka. The position was initially occupied by Hon Sly Ezeokenwa, who is now the National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)….
Two persons, a driver and his conductor narrowly escaped death after their bus fell into a pit close to a waterway in Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra state According to reports, the bus driver lost control of the vehicle and while trying to avoid crashing into other road users summersaulted before ending up inside the pit. Reinvestigate Obiano,…
Barely twenty four hours, after Governor Charles Soludo launched the Anambra State Anti-Touting Squad (SASA) at Onitsha, the squad has swung into action and arrested 64 suspected touts and a one-chance suspected robber in various parts of Onitsha. Parading the suspects in Onitsha, on Tuesday, the SASA Director of Operations, Mr. Solomon Onwuemene said that…
Some retirees in Anambra State have protested the nonpayment of their gratuities by the state government for four years. They, therefore, asked Governor Chukwuma Soludo to pay the backlog of their gratuities which had accrued since 2019. The angry retirees said it was the Administration of the former governor of the state that owed them…
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has been told to beam its searchlight on the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano’s eight years reign. Executive Director, Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation and Chairman, Campaign for Democracy, South East, Uzor, A Uzor, in a statement in Awka said the former…
Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has threatened to sack market and park leaders in the state following the activities of touts and miscreants, known as Agberos. This is coming a few days after commercial drivers in Onitsha protested against the activities of touts in the Anambra commercial capital and called the governor unprintable names….
