•Armed Fulani herdsmen For the past few weeks, social media and conventional media have been awash with news of criminal activities including kidnapping, rape and even murder in some communities within Anambra State. Some of the communities mentioned in this new trend of crime are Ukwulu in the Dunukifia Council area of the state, Nando, [&hel...
Nigeria Police, Anambra State Command, alongside operatives of other security agencies have combed a forest in Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state, in an attempt to dislodge criminals locally referred to as gunmen. A press release by the State Police Command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, which revealed this, said the incident happe...
•Soludo Governor Chukwuma Soludo has banned the extension of classes in all schools in Anambra State and directed all schools to dismiss by 2:30 pm. Soludo in what looks like a swift response to the observation of the Catholic Bishop of Awka, Rev Dr Paulinus Ezeokafor said the state government has adopted the United Nations […]
No fewer than five persons were feared killed and others injured during a gun duel between security operatives and gunmen yesterday in Anambra. The incident took place when the Anambra Joint Security Force (JSF)stormed two camps of the gunmen in Aguluezechukwu, Aguata council area and Ogboji, Orumba South council area respectively, reports The...
•Scene of the building collapse Less than two weeks after a building collapse at the Oduigbo section of the Ochanja market, Onitsha, a five-storey building, this morning, collapsed at on Garden Street Fegge, Onitsha, Anambra State. Confirming the incident, the Chairman of the Anambra State Physical Planning Board, Chike Mmaduekwe, decried the ...
•Anambra protesters Some members of the Umuoji community in the Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, mainly youths, have protested the killing of the President-General of the community, Chief Sylvester Onyima. The National Youth Leader of Umuoji, Chudi Chikelu, who led the protest to the Government House in Awka today, express...
•Rev Fr. Aghaulor dancing with the masquerade in the church premises after Native Doctor Okwumuo’s conversion at Ozubulu A powerful herbalist and a native doctor in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Chukwuemeka Okwummo has repented and abandoned the trade, saying he has now embraced Christianity. At a special than...
•Scene of the accident A lone accident has claimed the lives of a truck driver and his conductor in Anambra State. The accident happened at Azia Junction along Owerri-Ihiala Expressway in Ihiala Local Government Area of the State. The State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Adeoye Irelewuyi, who confirmed the [&hell...
The Senate has thrown out a bill seeking to include Anambra State as one of the member states of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, saying that the state was not part of the Niger Delta region, which is the reason for the establishment of the interventionist agency. Speaking yesterday after the lead debate on […]
•Site of Anambra collapsed building The Anambra State Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of six people in the building collapse incident that occurred in the commercial city of Onitsha yesterday. According to the agency, about 20 other people were rescued from the rubbles of the collapsed building. Most of them sustained vario...
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