SIXTY persons described as notorious touts, causing discomfort in various parts of the commercial city of Onitsha, have been sentenced to jail, while 23 others were still awaiting trial.

With renewed killings and kidnappings by bandits and herdsmen in Zamfara, Kaduna, Borno, Lagos, Katsina, and Anambra states, President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said it would be “ridiculous and unfair” to suggest that he was not concerned about the killings.

FIVE States on Wednesday night were rewarded for being top reformed states in easy of doing business in 2018.

The Nigerian Police, Monday arrested the most notorious and wanted suspect, Ikechukwu Udensi alias Ikanda.

A PREGNANT woman, Mrs. Nwazuru Okeke and her two children, Chidiebube and Makuochukwu, were burnt beyond recognition following a fire incident that occurred in their house on Tuesday night at Umuofor village, Okija in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State.

ONITSHA —A candidate of Accord Party in  Orumba North/South federal constituency  in the just concluded National Assembly elections, Mr. Sopuluchukwu Ezeonwuka has been arrested by the operatives of Anambra State Police Criminal Investigations Department, Awka, for alleged forgery and falsification of election results.

en. Andy Uba, his younger brother Chris and Chief Victor Umeh are among the those who filed petitions challenging the outcomes of their various elections in the Anambra Election Petitions Tribunal as at March 19.

HUNDREDS of placard-carrying men, women and youths from Ozzu –Ndiukwuenu community in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State on Monday stormed the Government House in Awka to protest the alleged ceding of part of 8,500 hectares of Mamu River Forest Reserve in the area to an individual by the Anambra State Government.

Dr Nkem Okeke, Anambra State Deputy Governor, has appealed to residents of the state to come out en-masse to vote during the March 9 House of Assembly election.

Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has sworn in a new Acting Chief Judge for the state. She is Hon. Justice Ijem Onwuamaegbu.

Anambra state is now counting the gains associated with the resuscitation and expansion of a moribund rice mill, under the Public Private Partnership, PPP venture.

ABUJA: The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has announced the postponement of the elections in some parts of Lagos, Rivers and Anambra States following disruption of the exercise due to violence.

FOUR hundred and thirty-seven former elected councilors, supervisory councilors and local government secretaries in 20 council areas of Anambra State have turned to prayers warriors, asking God to touch the hearts of Governor Willie Obiano to pay them N2.19 billion being the total amount allegedly owed them as severance allowances after their tenure.

Some hoodlums have allegedly set on fire, a police station in Ajali, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Awka- THE Anambra State branch of the Association of South East Town Unions, ASETU, has endorsed the candidature of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Mr. Peter Obi of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Saturday’s presidential election, citing the party’s promise to restructure the country as its reason for doing so.