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By Vincent Ujumadu TRAGEDY has struck in Azia, a community in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, following the murder of a 70 year old man, Mr. Kenneth Ekwesianya, his wife, Grace (50) and their 36 year old daughter, Chioma, who was a postgraduate student at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. Another person, Emeka Ntukokwu,
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By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka THERE is mounting tension in the sleepy town of Amorka in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State following the withdrawal of the chieftaincy title of the executive secretary of the Anambra State Judicial Service Commission, Chief S.U. Mbanaso, by the traditional ruler of the town, Igwe K. 0. Obiriolemgbe. Apart
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…he disappeared two week after resignation from Obiano Govt By Anayo Okoli FEAR and apprehension have enveloped Anambra State over the whereabouts of the immediate past Commissioner for Trade and Commerce in Anambra state, Dr. Christian Madubuko, who has been missing since 14 days ago. Maduako who resigned from Governor Willy Obiano’s cabinet when advised
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Fifteen years after the traditional stool became vacant, people of Ajali town in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra, installed a new traditional ruler, Eze Emesinwa Nwosu VII, on Monday. Nwosu is the first son of the immediate past traditional ruler, Eze Obinali Nwosu. The Ogbuti-Oti dynasty is famed to be the founder of
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By Vincent Ujumadu THERE was jubilation at Ukpo, Dunukofia local government area of Anambra State yesterday when information filtered in that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, at its weekly meeting, approved the award of contract for the 2. 2 kilometers erosion devastated Ukpo – Police Zone 13 expressway road. The project would gulp N2.5 billion.
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By Vincent Ujumadu THE Federal Government has approved the construction of the erosion –prone 2.2 kilometres of road linking Ukpo, the home town of the oil magnate, Prince Arthur Eze, with the headquarters of Zone 13 police formation in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State. Many families living along the road had since vacated
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By Vincent Ujumadu A native doctor and a philanthropist in Okija, Ihiala local government area of Anambra State, Mr. Henry Okam, popularly known as Chinyereze was allegedly killed by a member of his family, with the connivance of some people and buried in a shallow grave. The police have already recovered the decomposed body in
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By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Over twenty years land dispute between two villages in Oba Community, Idemili South Local Government Area Anambra State, took a drastic turn with the destruction of over fifty residential buildings and seventy fences, belonging to the people of Ezelle Mbana, Oba village and their tenants. The land dispute between Ezelle Mbana village
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By Vincent Ujumadu – Awka The various communities of Igbakwu, Umumbo, Omor, Umuerum, and Anaku in Ayamelum local government area of Anambra State have been engaged in a protracted land dispute that had turned the area, which is the food basket of the state, into a war zone. Over the years, lives and property worth
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…106-year-old man takes over By Vincent Ujumadu – Awka The people of Nsugbe in Anambra East local government area of Anambra State, weekend conducted a mock burial for their traditional ruler, Obi Victor Ntorka, for allegedly committing sacrilege. In his place, the oldest man in the community, 106-year-old Obi Arinze Obiagwu, was appointed to hold
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