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Crime & Security NewsAnti-Cult Police Squad Abduction: “Cultism is a Big Issue Now in Anambra State”, Anambra Residents React

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)July 27, 2020

The West African Pilot News story was to bring to light the arbitrary tactics of invading homes of suspects and arresting them by the police Ant-Cult Squad in Anambra. The residents of young men suspected to be members of cult groups are invaded in the dead of the night and arrested. Some of our readers and residents of Anambra state have reached out to complain about the activities of cult groups in parts of the...

Investigations Law & Justice NewsPolice Brutality: Abduction and Extortion by Anti Cult Police Squad in Anambra: it is “Hearsay”- Police

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)July 23, 2020

NNEWI — Lately, the anti-cult squad of the Nigeria Police Force Anambra State Command has been in the news over allegations of brutality, abduction and extortion. This is coming only a few weeks after the former Anambra SARS commander; CSP James Nwafor, came under intense public scrutiny on allegations of extrajudicial killings and his role as head of SARS at a time several young men were said to have been by rounded and killed by...

Local Government News NigeriaAnambra Assembly Confirms Appointment of Committee Chairmen to all Local Government Areas

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)July 21, 2020

The Anambra State House of Assembly today Tuesday 21st July, confirmed the appointment of twenty-one Transition Committee Chairmen and members to the twenty-one local governments of the state. Earlier in the plenary, the Speaker Rt. Hon. Uche Okafor read the letter from the State governor, Chief Willie Obiano requesting the House to look at the list of the Transition Committee and confirm them in accordance with the position of the law. In the letter, the...

News NigeriaOba Youths vs IPOB, as Kanu Orders Clampdown on Oba Youths

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)July 16, 2020

ONITSHA — Youths of Oba, a community in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Sunday 12th day of July, allegedly engaged in a fisticuff that led to the disruption of IPOB meetings in Oba as well as smashed windows of vehicles owned by IPOB members, parked outside the compound where the meeting was ongoing. On Wednesday the 15th of July 2020, in a broadcast, the leader of IPOB Nnamdi Kanu had ordered...

Local Government News NigeriaThe Brewing Rift Between Abba and Ukpo Communities in Anambra State Over Land Dispute

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)June 22, 2020

Abba and Ukpo are towns located in Njikoka Local Government and Dunukofia Local Government Areas, respectively, of Anambra state. Both are neighbouring towns and about five minutes’ drive from Awka, the Anambra state capital. Recently, they have been on the news over land dispute with each laying equal claim over the ownership of the land. The land in question was initially in dispute between Abba and Ukwulu community. Ukwulu is another neighbouring community to Abba...

Nigeria Politics Special ReportAn Assessment of Anambra 7th House of Assembly in its One Year in Office

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)June 13, 2020

The Anambra State House of Assembly today marks its one year in office. The 7th Anambra State House of Assembly was inaugurated on the 11th day of June 2019, with all the thirty members of the Assembly representing thirty state constituencies spread across the twenty-one Local Government Areas in the state and divided proportionally among the three senatorial zones of the state; which is to say that each senatorial zone has seven local governments. Significantly,...

News Nigeria PoliticsObiano Redeploys Some Commissioners

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)June 4, 2020

AWKA —The Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano on Thursday, June 4 made minor reshuffle in his cabinet. The reshuffle involving only four commissioners, have them switch Ministries. The affected Commissioners are Hon. Afam Mbanefo, who was former Commissioner for Youth Entrepreneurship and Creative Economy, before then, he was Commissioner for Agriculture. Today, he has been redeployed to the Ministry of Transportation as the new Anambra state Commissioner for Transport. Dr. Christian Madubuko the...

Nigeria Special Report WellnessCOVID-19, Malaria/Typhoid Outbreak or “Onitsha Flu”?

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)June 3, 2020

ONITSHA — Within the last three to four weeks, hundreds of people in Onitsha has been on self-medication for malaria and typhoid. Although before now, most Nigerians do not go to the hospital for a proper diagnosis before treatment, and this is a very common practice among most Nigerians. Instead, they often treat malaria and typhoid, and usually, that settles it for them. However, the situation in Onitsha in Anambra state, the commercial nerve centre...

Economy News PoliticsAnambra House of Assembly Passes Revised 2020 Budget

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)May 29, 2020

AWKA – The Anambra State House of Assembly on Friday May 29, 2020 passed the Anambra State revised 2020 budget. The revised budget tagged “Anambra State Revised 2020 COVID-19 Appropriation Bill”, is a revision of the Anambra state 2020 budget that was passed in October 2019, but no longer feasible as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which has altered all economic projections upon which the former budget was based. In 2019, Anambra Assembly was...

Local Government News NigeriaWhy There Has Not Been Local Government Election in Anambra State

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)March 15, 2020

Anambra State had its last Local Government Election in 2014, and it was conducted then by the outgoing government of Governor Peter Obi. Many people then, even now, query why Governor Obi, who in the waning days of his second term in office, suddenly organized Local Government Election. The Election result was something entirely different as the All Progressives Grand Alliance took all the seats except in Nnewi North where the people resisted ‘APGA’s imposition’,...

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