Easily one of the most outstanding women in Nnewi and indeed Anambra State, both in learning and industry, Dr. Uju Ozoka left no stone unturned in pursuit of learning, career and business ventures. Born in the city of Portharcourt, Rivers State, to the family of Chief Isaac and Mrs. Agnes Uchendu of Umudim Nnewi in 1961, the Nigeria-Biafra civil war which erupted a few years down the line, forced her family back to Nnewi where...
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance – APGA, Barr. Sly Ezeokenwa, has said that his party keyed into the demand by young people to be mainstreamed in politics, and elected a youth as the National Chairman of APGA. Speaking to a cross-section of Anambra journalists who paid a courtesy call on the National Chairman, as part of the range of activities to mark the Anambra State NUJ Press Week, Barr. Ezeokenwa said...
The Nigeria Institute of Architects –NIA, Anambra State chapter, on Friday had its annual conference in Awka, the state capital. The conference held at the Oba Nwandu Resource Center in the Department of Architecture in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, was well attended by architects and engineers in the building and construction industry across Anambra State, as well as students. The conference which was supported and sponsored by Etex Group, owners of Kalsie Ceil ceilings and...
Sitting on an expansive landmass of 22 hectares, the new Anambra State Governor’s Lodge and Government House in Awka the state capital, promises to be one of a kind in Nigeria. With massive ongoing construction works across the huge expanse of land, upon completion, it might easily be the single biggest government project in the state capital. This important project is being handled by Iyke Jordan, an indigenous construction company with corporate head office in...
Anambra State House of Assembly during plenary on Tuesday, commended the governor of Anambra State, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, over road construction in the Fegge area of Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of the state. In a motion moved by Hon. Fred Ezenwa, honourable member of the Assembly representing Onitsha South constituency 1, and a member of the Labour Party, he extolled governor Soludo’s focused road construction project throughout Fegge, which is within his constituency. The...
“On the merit of Senator Ubah’s defection to APC, purely on the strength of prevailing reality in Nigeria’s politics today” —Ebuka Onyekwelu The move by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South senatorial zone, from Young Progressive Party- YPP, to the All Progressives Congress – APC, is a development that is of particular interest to many people, especially power brokers in Anambra State. At least in the last week, I have been confronted by no fewer...
The late Dame Dr. Uju Uchendu Ozoka, was a woman I was privileged to have a few conversations with, while she lived. “Ebuka my son”, she would normally call me and then, I respond, “momsy.” Just before the 2023 General Elections, we had a handful of conversations about possible outcome of the election. Sometimes, she interrogated my permutations, but being a very detailed person who is attentive to facts, she would admit that I was...
The Africa Illustrious Award on Friday conferred various categories of awards to deserving recipients in all works of life, across Africa. The award conferment, which was held at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, was attended by award recipients or their representatives and their well-wishers, many outstanding professionals, tech entrepreneurs, entertainment gurus, businessmen, and women, as well as many other exceptionally distinguished individuals. Convened only about five years ago with the sole aim of searching...
The senator representing Anambra South senatorial district, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has joined the All Progressives Congress – APC. This very move is considered in many quarters as a very strategic, though unexpected one, for some reasons, might change a lot of political permutations in Anambra and the Southeast in the coming weeks ahead. Only yesterday, the senator was seen in a photograph with some of his Anambra brothers in Abuja the nation’s capital, in what...
Chief Maja Umeh, former Commissioner for Information in Anambra State, and former Board of Trustee member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance – APGA, has been recognized as a life patron of APGA, Anambra State. This recognition was conveyed by the Anambra state chairman of APGA, Barr. Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, in company of the party’s state secretary, Sir Levi Obiadua and the State woman leader, Lady Esther Onyekesi, at the residence of Chief Umeh, who also...
