Anambra Police Arrests 7 Suspected Cultists, Declares Baby Wanted

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested no fewer than seven persons for suspected cultism and armed robbery in the State. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikenga Tochukwu disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen. According to him, the gang members were arrested at about 10.pm on Friday when the officers swooped on them. He said a cut-size double barrel gun, one tricycle without a reg number, and some hard drugs...

Synod: Anglican Church knocks Tinubu over hardship

…Urges President to release Kanu, IPOB leader The Archbishop, Province of the Niger and Bishop, Diocese of Awka, Anglican Communion, Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim has described the economic policies of the President Bola Tinubu-led administration as one bereft of the necessary values for the economy. Archbishop Ibezim who spoke in Awka yesterday while reading the Archbishop’s Charge during the 2nd Session of the 13th Synod of the Diocese called on Tinubu to overhaul his economic...

Umahi’s Costal Line, Soludo’s 10-Storey Hotel and Public Review of Govt’s Project

“Every government project embarked upon and completed is an addition to public infrastructure.” —Ebuka Onyekwelu A few months ago, Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo was the subject of negative reviews because his administration decided to build a 10-storey hotel in Awka, the state capital. The basic argument was that government has no business with building hotels and that the focus must be on the government channelling lean resources to where they are most needed and not...

75Yr – Old Barber Arrested In Awka For Defiling 8yr Old Girl

A seventy-five-year-old barber who gave his name as Nwankwo Nweke has been arrested for defiling an eight-year-old girl in Awka. The suspect, who hails from Isiagu; in Awka South Local Government Area of the state, after his arrest, confessed that it was temptation that made him have carnal knowledge of the underage girl. The suspect, who pleaded for mercy, promised to be of good behavior if the state government pardons him. Anambra State Commissioner for...

Resident Doctors Commend Oyebanji Over Payment Of Allowances

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has commended Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State for being the first Governor in the country to pay the new hazard allowance and the newly adjusted Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) to resident doctors. NARD, in a letter co-signed by its President, Dr Dele Olaitan and Dr. Anaduaka Obinna, and dated June 1, 2024, the association noted that the payment of the hazard allowance and adjusted CONMESS would...

Anambra police nabs 16 cultists, declares 21 wanted

The Anambra State Police Command said it has arrested 16 cultists engaging in cult-related killings in Awka, the state capital. This was made known in a statement issued by the spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Saturday. According to him, about 21 others on the run, have been declared Ikenga said the arrested cultists, who were nabbed during series of intelligence-led manhunt, have been detained on the orders of the Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Aderemi...

Anambra 2025 Governorship Election Might Be an Open Contest

“How has the current administration utilized Anambra’s comparative advantage in commerce and industry?” —Ebuka Onyekwelu In a few months, the 2025 Anambra State governorship election would take full shape. Only two days ago, there were reports that the senator representing Anambra South senatorial zone, Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has expressed an interest to contest the number one political office in Anambra State. Sen. Ubah is expected to mount his bid on the stables of the All...

Anambra Assembly Passes Bill To Prohibit Secret Cults

Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to prohibit secret cultism and similar activites, and to provide for related matters. The executive bill was read for the third time and was passed during today’s plenary session after it underwent thorough consideration in the Committee of the whole. The bill provides for the  imprisonment upon conviction of any person who is a member of a  secret cult, commit an offense; whether...

2024 Aguata NBA Law Week: AG, Prof. Ifemeje Touts Landmarks and Expectations

The Anambra State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, has announced that the end-to-end full automation of the 31 High Courts in Anambra and the Ministry of Justice, when completed by the end of the year, would make the state the first to achieve such feat in the Nigeria justice sector. Speaking after she received the “Amazon of the Frontline Bar” award from the Aguata branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,...

Africa Illustrious Award congratulates Chess Master Tunde Onakoya on a new Record

The Africa Illustrious Award has congratulated Tunde Onakoya, the Founder of Chess in Slums Initiative Lagos, who has set a record of 43 straight hours playing chess at Times Square in New York. In December 2023, Onakoya was honoured by the Africa Illustrious Award with an award of excellent community service, as a Distinguished Personality of the Year 2023, for his work in the slums of Lagos with his Chess in Slums Initiative. Earlier this...

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