IT was a weekend of grief for two families in Anambra State as a 73-year old man, Mr. Obadiah Eliaku, was reportedly beheaded in his farm at Akuzor Nkpor, Idemili North local government area by unknown persons, while two children of the same parents, aged 12 and six years, lost their lives following a heavy flooding at Okpoko area in Ogbaru local government area.

A group under the aegis of Kingdom Human Rights Foundation, on Thursday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order declaring President Muhammadu Buhari as permanently incapable of discharging the functions of his office.

APC chairmanship candidate, in Ikotun Igando, Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Morenike Adeshina Williams has expressed her desire to deliver dividends of democracy to the teeming populace through their support and cooperation if elected into office in the July 22 local government election.

ONITSHA – Despite the decision by the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, that his group would boycott the November 18 governorship election in Anambra state, unless a referendum was held for Biafra restoration before then, various stakeholders and various pro-Biafra groups have taken a contrary decision to that effect.

AWKA- THE Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has unfolded mouth–watering loan packages for all categories of enterprise owners in Anambra State. Top on the loan plan, which attracts only nine percent interest, is in the area of agriculture.

Ikemba would not have wished for Ndi Anambra to be engrossed in Eke Awka or Otu Nkwo politics as alternative to mainstream politics

GOVERNOR Obiano’s achievements in the area of security would guarantee his re-election, a top politician in the state, Dr. Okey Odunze, famously known as Caterpillar has said.

AHEAD of Thursday’s national convention of the party, former aviation minister and aspirant on the platform of the United Progressives Party, UPP, Chief Osita Chidoka, has said that the party has gained firm roots in the state.

THE Anambra Consensus Project, ACP, a nongovernmental organization with the objective of ensuring that good governance is enthroned in the state, has set up an eleven member committee to screen all the aspirants who presented their programmes during an interaction with the organization. The committee is headed by the president of ACP, Dr. Emeka Eze, with other members drawn from the three senatorial zones of the state.

The Police in Anambra State have detained eight mobile policemen serving at Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state for allegedly shooting a 17-year-old boy, Arinze Obigbo, in the abdomen during the Mgbe-Agbogho festival of Ogidi, weekend.

THE Anambra Consensus Project, ACP, a nongovernmental organization with the objective of ensuring that good governance is enthroned in the state, has set up an eleven member committee to screen all the aspirants who presented their programmes during an interaction with the organization. The committee is headed by the president of ACP, Dr. Emeka Eze, with other members drawn from the three senatorial zones of the state.

Awka- A STUDY by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF,- sponsored Social Mobilization and Technical Committee, SOMTEC, of the Anambra State Ministry of Information and Communications Strategy has shown that only about 50% of mothers in the state complied fully with exclusive breastfeeding of their babies.

ANAMBRA State is living up to its billing as a centre of political intrigues. Yesterday, Governor Willie Obiano and his political associates were at their wits’end after Justice Onuora, the Enugu State judge hearing the case instituted by Chief Victor Ike Oye, former national chairman of the governor’s party, All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to upturn his removal from office withdrew from the case.

I am by nature an optimist; and by training a problem solver and conflict resolution practitioner.

Charles Chinwendu Odedo, a two-term member of the House of Representatives (2007- 2015), who represented Idemili North and South Federal Constituency of Anambra State, has declared interest to contest the governorship election in Anambra State in the November 18, 2017 election. His declaration brings to 14, the number of aspirants on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC).