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Anambra State Government is to revoke plots allocated to developers who failed to develop them after the stipulated time frame. The Managing Director of Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, Chief Chike Anyaonu disclosed this when Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Housing and Urban Development visited the corporation at its corporate headquarters in Awka. […]

The Anambra State government has commenced works on the Awka erosion control project. Speaking to newsmen at Ekwueme Square behind the new Government House, Awka, Engineer Ifeanyi Okoma, the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure stated that the visit was to officially handover the project documents to the contractor IDC Construction Ltd. According to him, Anambra […]

Governor Chukwuma Soludo has promised to pay the 2022/2023 academic session third term school fees for two thousand, three hundred and fifty students of Urban Girls Secondary School, Fegge, Onitsha. Governor Soludo, who announced that he will offset the school fees from his personal money, made the promise when he visited the school while on […]

A group of women in Anambra State on Thursday staged a peaceful protest against the “barbaric” and “unwholesome” practice of forcing widows to drink the water used in washing the corpse of their late husbands. The protesters made reference to incidents in Atani community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state. The women […]

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad, Akwuzu, invaded a bush at Ifite Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, and found a mini-factory, where gunmen produce clothes, especially Police and Army uniforms. The place was also the hoodlums’ home, from where they launched attacks wearing the security agents’ uniforms. Items discovered at the site included […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has dismissed a suit filed by the Anambra State Government challenging the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s power to investigate its finances, describing it as factually and forensically lacking in merit. In a statement by the EFCC on Wednesday, the court held that the Commission is […]

Anambra state government cannot allow anybody take laws into their hands in the state or allow the state become a haven where women will be molested and subjected to indecent treatment says the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo. Mrs Obinabo said this at her office in Awka while fielding questions […]

The Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, says there is no hiding place for child traffickers in Anambra State. The Commissioner said this while receiving in audience the State Director, National Orientation Agency, NOA, Sir Joseph Uchendu and his Management team who paid her an advocacy visit in her office […]

Security agencies have killed seven gunmen in Anambra State, south-east Nigeria, during separate operations on Wednesday. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Echeng Echeng, disclosed this on Wednesday during a press conference in Awka, the state capital. Mr Echeng said five of the hoodlums were suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra […]

The Anambra State Commissioner for Youth Development, Mr Patrick Aghamba has said that the present administration wants to make the state the skill hub of Africa. Mr Aghamba stated this during a statewide monitoring and inspection of training centres and Entrepreneurship Development Institutes for the One Youth Two Skills project. The local government areas visited […]