Two staff of the United States of America Embassy in Nigeria who were kidnapped in Anambra on Tuesday have been rescued by security forces. The rescued staff are part of a group attacked in Ogbaru Local Government Area on Tuesday. Two embassy staff were killed in the attack, including four policemen and a driver, making seven persons. Some of the those killed, were burnt in their vehicles, while two staff of the embassy were taken...
Chariman Nigerian Institute of Surveyors, Anambra State Chapter, Surv. Gabriel Okeke has received an award of Excellence from Youth Coalition for Education in Nigeria (YOCEN) as the “Vangaurd of Societal Transformation in Nigeria”. YOCEN is a non governmental organization established to deliver vibrant and effective educational programme designed to assist those who do not have access to basic and qualitative educational services The event which took place at Awka, the Anambra state capital had in...
Over 150 adhoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who worked in Anambra during the just concluded elections have protested non payment of their allowances. The visibly angry protesters who thronged the INEC Headquarters in Awka on Tuesday, carrying placards, called for the immediate release of their allowances. The protesters carried placards that inscriptions that depicted their disenchantment with the commission such as; ‘pay us our money’, ‘INEC you can not eat out...
The synod of the Diocese of Awka (Anglican Communion), yesterday, rated President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year rule very low, saying that he failed Nigerians. Bishop of the diocese, Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim, disclosed the position of the diocese while presenting the Archbishop’s Charge to the 1st Session of the 13th Synod at St. Peter’s Church, Agulu in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State. Ibezim, who doubles as the Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of the...
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in this year’s elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that he would be president of Nigeria if God has endorsed him to be. Obi, who spoke on Friday during a public presentation of a compendium on him entitled: Peter Obi: “Many Voices, One Perspective” at Finotel Hotel, Awka, Anambra State, said that he was not desperate to be president of the country. He said that he was confident that...
Contrary to what many Nigerians believe, the man known as Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not and was never a tribalist. He is something else. Just read along. I first knew this man in late 1998 through Okwadike Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, the former Governor of Anambra State, at the beginning of the transition to democracy from military rule. My associate (actually my brother) in Nigeria had not long before at my behest paid for and acquired...
The Anambra State Joint Security Operatives on Wednesday killed five armed gang suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Briefing newsmen yesterday at the Anambra state police headquarters, Awka, the Police Commissioner in the State, Echeng Echeng, said that the joint security forces recovered two rocket launchers, four Ak47 raffle, four magazines, one pump action, live ammunition, amongst others. Echeng told reporters that the briefing was to provide another update on...
The 35-member Labour Party caucus in the 10th Assembly of the House of Representatives has elected Hon. Afam Victor Ogene as its Leader. Hon. Ogene, a ranking member from the 7th Assembly, emerged as the Labour Party leader with 21 votes, after a keenly contested election yesterday in Abuja. Although 34 Members-Elect of the Party were present at the voting session, only 31 of them took part in the exercise, with the trio of Honourables...
A student of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS) Nnewi, Anambra state, Ejikeme Joy, has emerged as the overall best student in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) with an aggregate score of 362. Our correspondent noted the breakdown of Miss Ejikeme’s scores to include: English Language – 98% Physics – 89% Biology – 94% Chemistry – 81% Reacting, in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Charles Soludo, Christian Aburime, on Saturday,...
On Wednesday 3rd, May 2023, Police operatives in Anambra attached to Ogbunike division responding to a distress call along St Monica College Ogbunike road, has arrested one Mr Jamui Emiron ‘m’ aged 22 years. The Police also recovered one already damaged yellow Mitsubishi L300 bus with Anambra reg nos: UKP 729 A. According to the Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the suspect is among a gang of armed robbers that attacked...
