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The Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare has intervened in the case of a widow whose In-law planned to bury her late husband inside a forest. This followed a report by the widow, Mrs Amarachi Anakor, to the Commissioner in the Ministry, Mrs Ify Obinabo. The Widow alleged that her late husband’s father […]

The much awaited Gospel Musical Concert organised by the Catholic Church of Divine Mercy,Lagos,which is popularly referred to as “Unusual Praise”is set to take the commercial city of Onitsha by storm. Already top Gospel artistes have landed in Onitsha and bracing up for the Gospel music carnival which is expected to change many lives for […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday distributed electoral materials to all 27 Local Government Areas of the Imo State ahead of the governorship election holding on Saturday. At the Central Bank of Nigeria’s branch in Owerri, the state capital, the electoral body distributed the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machines, ballot papers and result sheets […]

Anambra State Government said 2.3 million children under the age of 0-5 months have received the polio vaccine in the first phase of the Outbreak Response Exercise in September. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr Afam Obidike, disclosed this on Thursday during a press conference to flag off the second phase of the polio immunisation […]

Anambra State government has initiated a renewed crackdown on illegal structures along the Chinua Achebe International Airport Road, Umueri, Anambra East Council Area. The joint government special task force established to identify and demolish such structures embarked on the exercise. The task force composed of government officials and security officers, demolished the illegal structures mainly […]

Wife of the late Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and secretary of the Anambra State Truth, Justice and Peace Commission, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has alleged there was a mass grave in Anambra State. Bianca stated this in a statement she posted on her verified Facebook page on Tuesday, titled: ‘A mass grave site discovered in Anambra […]

Anambra State Government is to launch a coding skill training tagged “Code Anambra” programme in two weeks’ time. Governor Chukwuma Soludo who disclosed this at NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp at Umuawulu/Mgbakwu while declaring open 2023 Batch ‘C’ Stream One Orientation Course for corps members posted to Anambra State, urged corps members who are not good […]

Governor Chukwuma Soludo has expressed sadness over the death of some students of Tansi International College Okpuno Awka. Governor Soludo is also mourning the death of his own father at the age of 92, extends condolences to the Tansi International College community, their grieving students, as well as the bereaved families who lost their three […]

The Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, on Tuesday, said his administration has zero tolerance for louts who disturb the peace of the state. This was as Soludo argued that Anambra is among the top three safest states nationwide. “Anambra is calm, very calm Security, law and order is our priority. We don’t condone louting,” […]

The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has lost his father, Pa Simeon Nwankwo Soludo.  According to release by his Press Secretary Mr Christian Aburime, he died in the early hours of yesterday ; Monday 6, November, 2023. Pa Soludo is survived by seven sons, eight daughters-in-law, twenty-two grand-children and six great-grand children. Governor […]