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...
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,...
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...
Having specialized courts or specific days for criminal and civil matters will ensure speedy trial and determination of criminal cases, thereby helping to decongest Correctional Centres in the state, as well as upholding rights of inmates. Anambra State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, announced this as the view and unanimous decision of members of the Anambra State Steering Committee on Implementation of International Idea/ROLAC 11 Programme during its meeting in Awka;...
Just a few hours after one person was gunned down at Aroma junction on Wednesday evening, another person, has again been felled on Thursday morning. A source said the incident happened close to a motor park, where commuters ferry passengers from Awka to Nnewi. The source said the victim is an official of the Anambra Road Traffic Management Agency (ARTMA). “I think the man who was killed is an ARTMA official. He stopped some people...
“We created the same portrait of the protagonist in the film Columbiana.” _________________________ Let us make man in our Image. And hence, Nikki came to be. The words of God made. Not begotten. Nikki Ariyo, at twenty, was a virgin…a rare form of holiness in modern-day Nigeria, or for that matter, anywhere else in the world. That alone was a miracle and not a happenstance. She chose chastity, even as she was not obligated to...
Students of Federal Polytechnic, Oko have staged a protest against incessant imposition of fees on them by the school management. The protest was provoked by a recent imposition of a compulsory N5000 examination fees on the and the insistence of the school management to deny those who have not paid the alleged fees from writing their exams. The students carried different placards with inscriptions such as “reduce the cost of texts books”; “allow us to...
An 11-year-old girl who identified herself as Chimuanya (surname withheld) has narrated her ordeal in the hands of her predator, one Odinaka, aged 30, from Awba-Ofemili in Awka-North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The girl said she was mercilessly defiled by her captor until her vagina bled profusely as the rapist beat her and warned her not to shout but to enjoy it as he exploited her sexually. The 30-year-old Odinaka had spotted the...
The Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) said 21 of the released 276 abducted girls from Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State came back with 34 children ten years after the abduction. The foundation released a report to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the abduction, that the devastating of sexual violence and coerced marriages the girls were subjected to in captivity. Similarly, the report said that 48 parents of the abducted victims died since the girls...
Marine Police of Anambra State Command has recovered bodies of the three remaining victims of the unfortunate boat accident involving a movie cast. Two of the bodies were recovered yesterday 11th April, 2024 while the last was washed in by the tide this morning. All the bodies have been deposited in hospital mortuary in Asaba while the President of the Guild of Actors and Actresses has been notified of the recovery. The Commissioner of Police,...
