One person died on Saturday, while nine others sustained injuries in a fatal accident involving two buses in Anambra. Mr Andrew Kumapayi, the Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra Command, who confirmed the death said 10 persons were involved in the accident. Kumapayi said the accident occurred when an Onitsha bound bus fully […]

By Vincent Ujumadu POLICE detectives attached to the Awada Division of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested a 22-year-old scammer, David Maduabuchi believed to be a specialist in swindling vulnerable teenage girls on Facebook. Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in the state, Mr Haruna Mohammed confirmed Wednesday that the scammer, Maduabuchi, who was arrested […]

By Vincent Ujumadu – Awka The Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Dr. Francisca Nwafulugo has attributed the increasing sudden death in Nigeria to lack of awareness on health issues, advising that people should take their health care very seriously. Speaking at the health sensitization campaign mounted by the medical unit of the […]

By Vincent Ujumadu – Awka The Director of Inspection and Monitoring in PCN, Mrs. Anthonia Aruya said in Awka that a total of 779 outlets were visited during the inspection exercise, comprising 191 pharmacies and 500 patent medicine shops, adding that the exercise was geared towards streamlining the drug distribution value chain to promote the […]

According to him, the programme which was targeted for youths between the ages of 18 and 35 years was a special empowerment initiative of the Ministry in partnership with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Business School.

NO fewer than 3,000 corporate organizations and private businessmen and women from almost all the 36 states of the federation and Abuja, recently gathered at Agulu, Anambra State to grab a chunk of the $250 billion global capital for the African Continental Free Trade Area said to have been provided by the United States of America, USA, Canada, China, Japan and some European organizations for the third world countries.

President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated former Governor of Anambra State, Dame Virgy Etiaba, who turned 77 on Nov. 11, 2019. In a congratulatory message by his spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Monday, Buhari described Etiaba as “the good teacher who completely altered the history of Nigeria as first female governor between November 2006 […]

By Abayomi Adeshida The two Nigerian states, Plateau and Anambra states that have been listed as part of those committed to the United Nations Climate Change may miss the benefits of the UN programme due to the inconclusiveness of their registration process for the Breathlife Campaign. The revelation was made over the weekend in Abuja […]

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Friday identified human errors as the leading cause of road accidents in the state. Obiano made this known at the ongoing 2019 “Ember Months Safety Campaign” organised by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Onitsha. Theme of the campaign is: “Road Safety is a State of Mind, Road […]

The Anambra Government will soon employ no fewer than 200 physically challenged into the state civil service, an aide to the governor said on Friday.

By Vincent Ujumadu The Anambra state government has assembled 14 local contractors to rehabilitate all the failed roads in the state as part of efforts to return to its status as the state with the best road network in the country. Most of the urban and rural roads became impassable following this year’s heavy rainfall, […]

A Chief Magistrate Court in Nnewi, Anambra State presided over by Emekwue AC has sealed off one of the new generation churches in the area over noise pollution. The church leadership which was sued by the Director of Environmental Health Services and the Nnewi North local government area, was also given ten days for relocation. […]

By Chimaobi Nwai Three alleged call girls (sex workers) between 17 to 25 years have died in a fire accident in a popular brothel/bar known as ‘Amaka Padded Bar’ located at Okpuno Otolo, near Nnewi Diocesan Hospital, also known as Akwudo General Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State. The girls were said to have been allegedly locked […]

Traders at Ochanja Market, Onitsha, who recorded colossal damage due to Wednesday’s fire disaster arising from a tanker accident have blamed their calamity on poorly equipped Anambra State Fire Service. Some of the traders who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Onitsha said the state’s firefighters were not able to get […]

..as Obiano visits Upper Iweka By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Angry reaction has continued to follow Wednesday, October 15, 2019 fuel tanker accident that resulted in razing of over 40 houses 500 shops and untimely death of a fleeing woman and baby who slip and fell into the fire and both burning to death. Meanwhile, another victim […]