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...
Police detectives of Anambra State Command working with Umuoji vigilante in Idemili North Local Government Area, have apprehended four suspected killers of the town’s President-General, who was murdered in his home at the weekend. DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the State Police Public Relations Officer, who disclosed this in a statement in Awka, today, ...
A part of the building housing the Dunukofia Local Government Area secretariat in Ukpo, Dunukofia, Anambra State, has been gutted by fire. It was gathered that the fire outbreak, which occurred late yesterday, was a result of bush burning close to the local government secretariat, reports The PUNCH. It was earlier reported that two separate [&...
The Anambra State governor, Chukwuma Soludo, has called for total compliance with the “Anambra Burial Law,” stating that the law is a very progressive law. He said the law will remove the burden and pressure on the poor as well as liberate women from oppressive practices during burials, reports The Guardian. Soludo, in a short […]
Two secondary schools in Nawfia, located in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State were ravaged by fire at the weekend. The affected institutions were Community Secondary School and Comprehensive Secondary School, both situated in Nawfia, reports The Nation. Reports indicate that the fires, which broke out yesterday evening, origin...
Electronics and documents worth millions have been lost to a fire incident in a two-storey building in Kwata junction in Awka, Anambra State capital. The incident, which occurred yesterday, affected the roof of the structure housing several offices, reports The Nation. Eyewitnesses said the entire building could have been razed but for the qui...
•The suspects The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested seven persons for allegedly providing illegal security services in Anambra State. Deputy Commandant, Francis Nnadi, Head, Private Guards Company (PGC) Department who led other operatives in the operation said the arrest of the guards were in two categories, reports...
•Soludo Traditional rulers in Anambra State have accused Anambra State Government, led by Governor Chukwuma Soludo, of mistreating and disrespecting them. The traditional rulers, in a letter signed by the Chairman of Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council (ASTRC), Igwe Alfred Achebe, said the way the government maltreated and suspended membe...
•Gunmen The palace of the traditional ruler of the Isseke community in the Ihiala local government area of Anambra State, Igwe Emmanuel Nnabuife has been razed by suspected gunmen. This is coming barely one week after the reported kidnapping of the former convoy driver to the late Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju by unidentified gunmen, reports The...
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