By Chimaobi Nwaiwu Two youths were on Tuesday shot dead at the New Tire Market Area of Nkpor, Anambra State by the Policemen enforcing the restriction movement over the Coronavirus pandemic. However angry residents of the area embarked on protest against the shooting to death of two youths by Police over an argument. According to […]

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi All daily foodstuffs markets in Nnewi and environs ordered on Tuesday to close and relocate to designated areas by Anambra State government as part of measures to check the spread of Coronavirus were on Wednesday reopened. Some of the markets whose traders joyfully returned to their permanent trading sites were Obi […]

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka- THE police enforcement teams for the stay -at – home order have created food markets for all the 179 communities in Anambra State and closed down all the existing markets in the state. The reason behind the new policy was to ensure that traders maintained reasonable distances from each other in […]

Following the recorded case of coronavirus in Anambra State last week and the subsequent total lockdown of the state by the government to prevent the spread of the virus, there were mixed reactions by the residents of the state yesterday.

The Anambra State alleged COVID-19 Index case victim, Chief Marcel Eze, yesterday described all the stories being peddled about him testing positive to Coronavirus as all false and fabrications to tarnish his image.

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka – FORMER governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo says he has forgiven those who lied against him in the last few days, apparently referring to the negative comments concerning the multimillion hospital project which he is executing in his home town, Isuofia, Aguata local government area […]

The immediate past National Auditor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways Authority [NIWA], Chief George Moghalu, has risen to the call by President Muhammadu Buhari for leaders to rally support for citizens in the face of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

By Vincent Ujumadu FRESH facts have emerged that the COVID-19 index case discovered in Anambra State on Friday actually visited the two major cities of Awka and Onitsha before traveling to his home town, Adazi in Anaocha local government area and was admitted at St Joseph’s Hospital in the town. “The case was first treated […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Two States in Nigeria, Anambra and Niger States on Friday recorded their first case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. The confirmation of the index cases in the states brings the total number of states in Nigeria with confirmed coronavirus case(s) to 19. This was revealed in the recently released report by […]

By Vincent Ujumadu Elders of Umuike, Umuayom village in Awka Kingdom, Anambra State, have threatened to place a curse on the youths, who have allegedly turned themselves into land-grabbing agents, thereby undermining the efforts of the state government to make Awka a modern city. There had been tension in the town since the youths, said […]