By Biodun Busari A former Mr Universe, singer and actor, Slami Ifeanyi has been shot dead by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in Umubere in Akwa, capital of Anambra State on Sunday morning. It was learnt that the 31-year-old songwriter was driving in his newly acquired vehicle when he was attacked and killed. Read also: Imo monarch, 2 […]

By Ada Osadebe A 37-year-old woman, identified as Udeogu Chinelo in Awka, the state Anambra state capital was arrested for beating a three-year-old granddaughter to death. In a statement released today, the spokesperson of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters (NAPTIP) command in the state, Okafor Anthony, said […]

Some yet-to-be identified gun men have abducted the Leader-General of All Christian Practical Praying Band, Elder Dan Nwokolo.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, NNEWI Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma  Soludo, yesterday, said that the hoodlums perpetrating the violent activities in Anambra State have not only made kidnapping and killing a lucrative criminal enterprise, but have also established camps in the forests where they practice idolatry. Governor Soludu disclosed that they are neither liberation movement activists nor […]

Anambra: This violence, killings must stop, League of Professionals warns

By Kenechukwu Obiezu AS South-East Nigeria continues to unravel under the burden of crushing insecurity, a people, many of whom survived the atrocities of the Nigerian Civil War, are being forced to relive the arresting anxieties that were associated with those heady days when a newly independent country deployed the darkest arts to keep the […]

As residents of Anambra State were still weighing in on the likely impact of Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s weekend visit to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, gunmen struck in three locations in parts of the state yesterday.

By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka THE Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, claimed yesterday that gunmen abducted 10 of their members and 300 cows in Anambra, and demanded a ramsom of N4 million and a gun as ramsom. The South East chairman of the association, Alahaji Gidado Siddiki, said the incident took place at […]

The Anambra government has called for a comprehensive investigation and prosecution of the case of a 12-year-old girl defiled by an alleged preacher in the state.

Barely 12 hours after a combined team of Nigerian Police, Army, and other security agencies in over 25 trucks and vehicles paraded around the Nnewi-South Local Government Headquarters and Ukpor town, in what they called ‘Operation Show of Force’, unknown gunmen struck the headquarters, attacking and killing a security operative and setting ablaze several buildings.

By Okelo Madukaife Charles Chukwuma Soludo, a 62-year-old professor of economics who rode on many plus and minus factors to ascend to the position of governor-elect on November 9, 2021, finally took his oath of office on March 17, 2022 to become the sixth elected governor of Anambra State. Between these two remarkable dates, Soludo, a […]

Anambra residents have shown enthusiasm in the new state administration of Governor Charles Soludo, who has promised to provide definite leadership and skills to the people. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent got the opinion of some residents who witnessed the inauguration of the 6th governor of the state on Thursday in Awka. Former governor Peter […]

By Nwabueze Okonkwo, ONITSHA An Awka High Court in Anambra state, presided over by Justice Ike Ogu has restrained the former Chairman of Nigerian Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers, NAPPMED, Nkpor Unit, Gilbert Obiekezie and two other members of his executive from further parading themselves as officers of NAPPMED, Nkpor Unit, forthwith. Delivering […]

The Anambra Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Monday commenced sitting in Ilorin. The tribunal, chaired by Justice Balikisu Mohammed, has Justices Edem Akpan and H. O. Oyanjimi as members. After its formal inauguration at the Kwara Sharia Court of Appeal complex, the tribunal commenced the pre-hearing process in respect of the 13 petitions against the […]

By Vincent Ujumadu A petrol tanker yesterday caused fire outbreak, razing down a part of a filling station in Ogidi, a town near the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State. An eyewitness said the fire started when the petrol tanker was discharging petroleum product in the filling station, thereby causing the fire outbreak. The incident […]