By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka The Financial Inclusion State Steering Committee (FISSCO) in Anambra State has mapped out strategies aimed at achieving 80 percent adult financial inclusion in the state by 2020. The FISSCO members were drawn from commercial banks, microfinance banks, as well as representatives from ministries of Basic Education and Women Affairs and National […]

THE Anambra State government has commenced the dredging of flood channels on the Nise- Amawbia road as part measures to reduce flooding in the area.

The Anambra State House of Assembly on Wednesday advised the state indigenes in Diaspora to come home and invest in jobs creation to enhance state economic development.

A 17-year-old girl, Chinenye Igwedimma, surprised neighbours at Umupku in Awka South Local Government Area, when she went into their burning four-bedroom apartment and rescued her three cousins, who were fast asleep when the fire started.

Awka—ANAMBRA State government yesterday,  said that evidence abounds that a certain superstitious preacher conducting regular prayers in the various markets in the state had created a culture of fear and spreading rancour in the markets by brainwashing traders into believing that he is responsible for every business breakthrough.

 No fewer than 25 passengers including four children on Sunday narrowly escaped death in two separate auto crashes that occurred in Awka and Onitsha, Anambra.

Awka—Anambra State Primary Health Care Development Agency has said that only 25% of lactating mothers in the state observe exclusive breast-feeding despite the campaigns mounted in the various communities and health centres by the agency.

Awka—Anambra State government has received Information and Communication Technology, ICT, equipment and furniture worth millions of naira from the European Union, EU, for use at the Central Pharmaceutical Centre, Awka.

No fewer than nine out of the states that would be affected if the Senate passes the National Water Resources Bill it recently urged the executive to reintroduce have vowed to resist any attempt to take over their lands under any guise.

The Board of Trustees, BoT, Amalgamated Markets Traders Association of Anambra State, AMATAS, the umbrella body of major markets in Anambra State, which was suspended by the state government and replaced with Anambra State Markets Amalgamated Traders Association, ASMATA, has questioned the legality of government’s action.

Awka- THE Anambra State police command has arrested a man, Sunday Onyema, aged 35, with a loaded police pistol at the ever busy Upper  Iweka in the  commercial  city of Onitsha.

Awka- A 35-year old labourer in Awka, Anambra State, narrowly escaped lynching by suspected herdsmen in one of the secondary schools in the state.

By Vincent Ujumadu THE Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Abang has ordered the arrest of two policemen in the state for allegedly taking money for bail. Those arrested were an Inspector and a Sergeant who, it was gathered, extorted the sum of N60000 from one Mrs. Love Mbachu and two others at Ogidi […]

 A middle-aged man identified as Nduka Emeziagbala, died on Friday, at Enugwu-Agidi community in Anambra in circumstances suspected to be electrocution

ONITSHA—THE face-off between Anambra State Government and the dissolved executive committee of the Amalgamated Markets Traders Association Anambra State, AMATAS, deepened yesterday with the government taking over the official administrative headquarters of the traders.