By BARBARA KALU, Awka – No fewer than 80 shops have been destroyed in the chemical market fire explosion in Onitsha Head Bridge in Anambra State. The fire outbreak also destroyed goods and properties worth millions of naira. The Director/Fire Chief of Anambra Fire Services, Mr Martin Agbili, stated...
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DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, Police Public Relations Officer, Anambra Command says the police was yet to be furnished with the casualty rate at the fire explosion in the chemical market in Onitsha. Ikenga stated this on Tuesday in a telephone with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Onitsha while...
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has flagged off the construction of a 16.4 kilometres road from Nawfija to Ogbunka running through Akpu, Ufuma, Ajali in Orumba North Local Government Area of the state. Soludo, while performing the ceremony, said when the road was completed, it would take 15 minutes...
The Obi of Onitsha, Anambra state, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, on Saturday marked his 20th coronation, “Ofala”, as the traditional ruler of Onitsha ancient town with a call on Igbo people to uphold their culture. The ceremony was held at Imeobi, Onitsha Town, and attended by many dignitaries including the...
The Federal Government has released relief materials mainly food and non food items to flood victims in Anambra. Mr Walson Ibarakumo, an Assistant Director in charge of Response and Rehabilitation, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said this after a closed-door meeting with officials of Anambra Government in Awka on...
HRH, Igwe Alfred Achebe, the Obi of Onitsha, the commercial capital of Anambra has clocked 20 years on the throne and is set to celebrate with the Ofala Festival. Chief Mike Areh, Chairman of 2022 Onitsha Ofala Festival Steering Committee, disclosed this at a news conference at Ime-Obi palace,...
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra, Mr Basil Ejidike, said in Awka on Thursday that members have huge confidence to win the 2023 general elections. He told a news conference that the party in the state has full confidence in its presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and the Disaster Response Unit (DRU) of the Military has commenced aerial view operation to ascertain persons displaced or trapped by the rising floods in Anambra. Mr Thickman Tanimu, Zonal Coordinator of NEMA, South-East, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday...
The Anambra Government says the ongoing flooding in parts of the state has assumed a monumental dimension. Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim, Deputy Governor, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka, Anambra state, on Sunday. Ibezim said the deaths, destruction of property and livelihood...
Driver of the boat that capsized at Ogbaru in Anambra on Friday, Mr Desmond Amugo, says he had 48 passengers on board and not 85 passengers as was being reported. Amugo made the assertion on Sunday at Atani, headquarters of Ogbaru Local Government Area while briefing government officials on...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi has condoled with victims and communities affected by flood in Nigeria. Mr. Obi, whose condolence message was contained in tweet on Sunday, said that he received the reports with sadness. He said: “Earlier,...
The Chairman, Ogbaru Flood Committee in Anambra, Mr Ogochukwu Nwasike, has cried out for help as over 20 person were still in a boat mishap that occured at Umunankwo in Ogbaru Council Area of the state State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that about 85 passengers were...
The Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, has said that about 10 witnesses would testify in a suit filed against Prof. Obiajulu Obikeze and four others over allegations bordering on forgery of chieftaincy documents. Counsel for the AGF, Ewere Aliemeke, made this known on Friday before Justice Inyang...
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra Command, has arrested a yet-to-be-identified woman for beating her maid to death. In the video shared on social media, on Thursday, the suspect had taken NAPTIP officials to the bush were she dumped the already decomposing body...
Serious panic was recorded at Aroma junction Awka, Anambra capital on Wednesday when a tanker carrying substance suspected to be inflammable fell and began to spill its content. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident caused passengers, drivers, hawkers and others around the place to scamper...
Anambra State Government says the switch from diesel powered streetlights to solar powered alternative will soon be completed. Mr Julius Chukwuemeka, Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview In Awka that the disruption in the streetlights project was due to...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Anambra Government has announced the suspension of tricycle and shuttle bus unions as part of the measures to arrest the rising security breaches in the state. The Commissioner for Information, Chief Paul Nwosu, stated this in a statement issued to newsmen on Thursday...
Gunmen have killed no fewer than four soldiers and one civilian at Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State. A source told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka that the incident took place around Zenith Bank axis of Umunze at about 12.40 p.m on...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has described as “barbaric and condemnable,” the armed shooting in Anambra of the convoy of Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah, the Senator representing Anambra South District. The president made the condemnation in a statement by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, on Wednesday in...
The widow of late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, and Sen. Uche Ekwunife (PDP-Anambra Central), have joined other prominent Nigerians to condemn Sunday’s fatal attack on Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah’s motorcade. Rep. Chris Azubuogu (APGA-Nnewi North/Nnewi South/Ekwusigo Federal Constituency) also decried the attack on the lawmaker, representing Anambra South. In separate statements...