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  APGA LAUNCHES POVERTY ERADICATION PROGRAM IN IHIALA NKIRU NWAGBO  A novel poverty eradication program was introduced by the Ihiala Zone of the All Progressive Grand Alliance ( APGA) at the weekend to help party supporters to boost their small scale businesses. The APGA leader in the zone and the Anambra State Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Affairs, Barr. Vin Ezeaka launched the initiative at the CWO Hall, Odoata to the delight of a mammoth crowd of party members and supporters.  The program involves the disbursement of interest free loans to members of the party who desire to improve their businesses with the injection of funds.  Barr. Ezeaka who midwifed the project explained that the party plans to create millionaires out of the fund and asked the beneficiaries to be diligent in the management of the resources.  The seed money for the fund was donated by party chieftains and over #15million was raised at the occasion....

  Awka Anglican Chancellor Nwafor Demands N5 Billion Label Damages From Supervising Bishop Ezeofor  As Tension Worsens Ahead Of Take Over  Nkiru Nwagbo  Less than 24 hours to the take over visit of the Supervising Bishop of Awka Anglican Diocese Rt Rev Bishop Samuel Ezeofor, the Chancellor of the Diocese who was removed by him BEI Nwafor SAN  has demanded label damages to the tune of N 5 billion from Ezeofor describing it as a defamation against his name . Nwafor ordered the Bishop to withdraw the said sack letter and tender an unreserved apology to the Diocese over his actions. Nwafor also accused the Bishop of faking the letter headed papers of the Diocese contending that the Diocese has its letter head and that there is nothing like Office Of The  Supervising Bishop. According to the letter to the Bishop Nwafor stated that ;  " The said publication is libellous as it was deliberately designed to tarnish my reputation" " Your Lordship has no right to...

 Tension Mounts In Awka Anglican Diocese   As Supervising Bishop Ezeofor Plans Take Over Wednesday  Nkiru Nwagbo  There is growing tension in Awka Anglican Diocese following concluded arrangements by the newly appointed Supervising Bishop Rt Rev Samuel Ezeofor to take over  affairs as directed by the Primate Rt Revd Henry Ndukuba. Recall that Ndukuba had in a letter which suspended the Archbishop of Awka Anglican Diocese Rt Rev Alexander Ibezim directing Ezeofor to take over the administration of the area as Supervising Bishop. But Archbishop Ibezim however  filed litigation at the High Court challenging the directives of the Primate and the constitution of the panel of inquiry into the allegations leveled against him . At the Church service last Sunday the compound of the St Faith Cathedral  witnessed heavily armed combined team of security personnel who had come  to maintain law and order in the area . On the said Sunday Archbishop Ibezim a...

  "We Are Fighting Principalities And Spiritual Agents Says  Archbishop Ibezim  As Diocese Demands Reports Of 2 Panels Of Enquiry  NKIRU NWAGBO  Awka Anglican Archbishop Alexander Ibezim has described the lingering crisis in the Diocese as a fight against Principalities and Spirituality contending that it is not a fight against flesh and blood. This is coming as the leadership of the Diocese is demanding the reports of the two panels of enquiry into the alleged land sales by the Archbishop contending that it is improper and unacceptable to it for the Primate, Henry Ndukuba to set up such panels and is yet to make public the outcome of the two investigations . Addressing the congregation shortly after the Communion during the Sunday service at St Faith Cathedral Awka , Ibezim stated that ;  "At this time of trial, at this moment, let us recognize that we are not fighting against flesh and blood; it is spiritual warfare, it is a battle against principalities ...

 Anambra APC Welcomes Hon Nnabuife From APGA NKIRU NWAGBO AWKA  Anambra state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC )has described the recent defection of the member representing Orumba North and South Federal Constituency Hon Chinwe Nnabuife from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)as a testament of the party's strong hold   on the political structure in area. The party further stated that Anambra is fast connecting to the center ; a development that goes to  represent  the homogeneity of the support by the electorates. "Our great party has always been populist oriented and has continued to interface with our people in Anambra state with the massive infrastructural development ongoing in the state on the account of the policies and programs of President Ahmed Bola Tinubu administration" "This is made manifest in the recent defection of Hon Chinwe Nnabuife from APGA to the APC and it further brings to the fore  the capacity of the Anambra...

  2027 ; gale of transfer/ reshuffle hits Anambra INEC  takes  delivery of 5,720 BVAS NKIRU NWAGBO, AWKA. Ninety seven days to the conduct of the general elections in the country a gale of transfers and reshuffling has hit the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC)in Anambra state. Dausing the apprehension in several quarters that the move is not aimed at compromising the electoral process the Commission contended that such allegations are untrue insisting that it is a routine. This development affected more Electoral Officers ,  and local government staff of the Commission which according to the Commission is aimed at injecting fresh blood and tonic into the system. According to the Resident Electoral Commissioner ( REC ) in Anambra Mrs Queen Elizabeth Agwu in a stakeholders meeting which had in attendance political parties and candidates, the transfer is normal and aimed at rejuvenating the system. She explained that the transfer has no political colorat...

  Nigeria Will Be Better When a Woman Becomes President — Dr. Ezeadili BY NKIRU NWAGBO  Dr. Applpnia Obiageli Ezeadili, Chief Executive Officer of Africa for Millennium Change Initiative, has advocated greater participation of women in Nigeria’s political leadership, saying the country would experience significant positive change when a woman becomes President. Ezeadili made the assertion in an interview with our reporter, where she stressed that women must be given greater opportunities to participate in decision-making institutions across the country.  According to her, women play a critical role in building and sustaining families and therefore possess the capacity to contribute meaningfully to national development. She said the era when women’s education was regarded as preparation mainly for domestic responsibilities was long gone, noting that women are now better educated, professionally competent and capable of occupying strategic positions in government. “Women ar...

  Uncertainty In Anambra! ,As Litigations Threaten Inauguration Of  LG/ Mayors / Councillors  Nkiru Nwagbo  An air of uncertainty is currently hovering over the inauguration of the newly elected 21 local government Mayors and Councillors in Anambra state. The inauguration which is being expected to take place early next month going by the Anambra state local government laws is being challenged at the Court . This is on an account of a suit filed at the State High Court Awka by 56 incumbent Councillors at Court contending that their four year tenure as stipulated in the Constitution has not expired. They also sought for an Order of Court directing and affirming the Plaintiffs and indeed all democratically elected Local government polls are entitled to a secure and standard tenure of four years(4) years, in alignment with the democratic mandates of the federal and state tiers of government in the federation . They  prayed for a Perpetual Injunction restraining the...

  A Reflection on Geometric Power’s Laudation of Abia Government By C. Don Adinuba   Geometric Power’s laudation last week of the Abia State government for its efforts to ensure reliable power supply in its utility’s coverage area brings to the fore a critical element in Nigeria’s economic development, public-private partnership (PPP) which has become regrettably a desideratum. While the PPP is officially a development strategy adopted by every government in the country, the reality tells a different story.   With the publication in 2014 of the book entitled Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, Francis Fukuyama, one of the leading global thinkers, shocked the world by revealing that a Nigerian state governor compelled a soya milk-producing company owned by a German named Robert and his Nigerian wife to shut down for refusing to offer huge bribes to him. Ironically, it was the couple that brought the governo...

  How I Arrested Akwa Okuko And Stopped Austin  Ndigwe Says AIG Orutugu (  rtd )  By Nkiru Nwagbo  Former Anambra Police Commissioner and retired Assistant Inspector General of Police Ikioye Orutugu on Sunday narrated how he was able to apprehend popular Native Doctor Chigozie Nwangwu aka Akwa Okuko Tiwala Aku and checkmated Ozo Austin Ndigwe who was as it were parading himself as the Monarch of Awka Kingdom. Recall that Nwangwu aka Akwa Okuko Tiwala Aku was recently released by Governor Charles Soludo from the Awka Correction Center after serving his jail term and Ozo Austin Ndigwe has hands off his claim to the thrown of Awka Kingdom which had unsettled the area in the past . Orutugu who narrated this at his Thanksgiving Service at the St Peter's Anglican Church Amawbia in Awka South local government area of Anambra state. He recalled that when he was posted to serve as CP Anambra state he saw it as a great challenge in view of the negative reports about the s...

  Akwaokuko Released As Soludo Visits Amawbia Correction Center  By Nkiru Nwagbo Awka . Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra state displayed magnanimity at Amawbia Correction Center when he granted the release of popular Native Doctor Mr Chigozie Nwangwu aka Akwaokuko who has been serving six months jail term . Awka Okuko had pleaded guilty of the charges of misleading the general public with his phantom traditional miracles of making people wealthy under false pretences . He had spent over a year at the facility of the Agunechemba Security Squad before his conviction which reduced his sentence. Last three months he had made an application for his release though his term has not been completed and at exactly 5.32 pm Thursday, Governor Charles Soludo visited the Correction Center and signed his release. Speaking shortly after the release the Special Adviser to Soludo on Youth Dr Omenugha thanked the Governor for his gesture adding that it is a manifestation of his determination t...

  South East APC Rejects Wike's Rainbow Coalition Says It's Chameleonic  Nkiru Nwagbo Awka . South East chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC has thrown it's weight behind the party's Progressive Governors Forum against the Rainbow Coalition proposed by the Minister for Federal Capital Territory Chief Nyesom Wike . The party dismissed the coalition describing it as highly chameleonic insisting that the proposal would adversely affect the re-election of it's Presidential candidate Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general elections. In a resolution signed by the National Vice Chairman APC South East Dr Ijeoma Arodiobu  and the Chairmen of the five states led by Anambra Chairman Sen Emma Anosike, the party wondered why Wike chose to meddle with the affairs of the party in reelecting its candidate insisting that the Progressive Governors Forum are a crop  of Governors duely elected by their people and have been performing since being in office. "The Leadership ...

Anambra APC Sidelined Over Visit Of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Says Chairman Anosike  NKIRU NWAGBO  The  visit of the First Lady Sen  Oluremi Tinubu to Anambra is currently causing ripples following the protest by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC Sen Emma Anosike that the party was never informed about the visit of the First Lady. According to Anosike, the party in Anambra state was never informed about the proposed visit and that the party is taken aback upon hearing that wife of the party's Leader and Presidential candidate President Ahmed Bola Tinubu is visiting the state without recourse to the state Chapter of the party. "It is indeed strange that the First Lady of our Presidential candidate is visiting Anambra state without recourse to the party in the state"  "The party wishes to state categorically that we are not part of the arrangements for the reception of our First Lady Sen Oluremi Tinubu because the party was never put in the picture...

  Soludo Carpets Critics Of Anambra Road Projects   NKIRU NWAGBO AWKA  Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra state has dismissed reports that massive road constructions undertaken by his administration are substandard hence being washed away by flooding. Recall in the past three weeks now there has been sustained rain fall in most parts of the state , a development that has led to the eating up of some parts of the road infrastructure in the state. According to Soludo who spoke through his Commissioner for Works and infrastructure Arch Okey Ezeobi, the flooding had earlier been predicted by the Nigerian Metrological Agency (NiMet ) adding that incidents of flooding this year is a global issues and has nothing to do with the quality of roads constructed by his administration. He contended that since Soludo commenced the massive road constructions last four years there have been rains and the roads never collapsed noting that the 2026 rains is not the first since the Governor ...

  Anambra new CP charges Officers on proactive community oriented policing NKIRU NWAGBO,AWKA The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, CP Nnanna Oji Ama has emphasised the need for proactive, intelligence-led, and community-oriented policing, among the Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and other sectional heads of the Command The new commissioner of Anambra state who gave this hint during a maiden security meeting with Area Commanders, Tactical Commanders, Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and other sectional heads of the Command urged all commanders to take full responsibility of security within their respective jurisdictions. According to CP Nnanna the meeting was part of efforts to strengthen operational effectiveness and enhance public safety across the State . He said the meeting also  provided an opportunity for the him to set clear operational expectations for commanders and heads of sections . while urging all commanders to take full responsibility of security...

  Anambra  CP Orutugu Is Decorated As AIG    By Nkiru Nwagbo Awka . Anambra state Police Commissioner Ikioye Orutugu was decorated this Tuesday  as Assistant Inspector General of Police AIG  Recall that AIG Orutugu was among the Senior Police Officers that sat for the promotional examination which accounts for his being shortlisted among those promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police. Also decorated was the immediate past Police Commissioner in Anambra state AIG Nnaghe Obono Itam who handed over to Orutugu as Police Commissioner. According to the statement by the Police Public Relations (officer SP Tochukwu Ikenga ; "The Anambra State Police Command is pleased to announce and celebrate the decoration of its substantive Commissioner of Police, AIG Ikioye Orutugu, fwc, mnips, PhD, to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG). Also decorated is the immediate past Commissioner of Police, AIG Nnaghe Obono Itam, psc (+), PhD, wh...

RULAAC Demands Independent Probe into Disappearance of Anambra Vigilante Operative, . Ekenne Valentine; Says Nearly Two Years Without Answers Is an Indictment of Accountability*  The Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has called for an urgent, independent and transparent investigation into the disappearance of Mr. Ekenne Valentine, a member of the Anambra State Vigilante Group (AVG), who reportedly disappeared during an official security operation in August 2024. RULAAC described the continued uncertainty surrounding his fate nearly two years after his disappearance as "deeply disturbing" and symptomatic of the weak accountability mechanisms governing security operations involving state-supported security outfits. The organisation expressed concern that despite repeated complaints by Ekenne Valentine's father, Chief Benjamin Nwosuagwu, to the leadership of the Anambra State Vigilante Group, the Anambra State Police Command and the National Human Right...

  2027; Orogbu 4 Years Of Impactful Representation . By Nkiru Nwagbo. As Nigeria goes into the 2027 general elections, all political parties and their candidates are pulling all stops in a bid towards launching a come back to their respective elective positions . In Awka North and South Federal Constituency, it has been a tale of accomplishment under the watch of the member representing the area Prof Hon Liliana Orogbu. Coming from the academia , Orogbu appears to have been well tutored on the needs and challenges of the two Council Areas that she was heading to represent and against this backdrop she hit the ground running. Orogbu took the issue of Community infrastructure as her first tine  charge through the  construction of Isiagu Police station, construction of Ogechuckwu street Awka, Ezinkwa - Mgbakwu road in Awka North local government area, Holy Family access road Amansea also in Awka North Council Area . In a bid towards lighting up the rural areas,  Orogbu ...

  *Annoying, Nigerian AI Researcher and Digital Transformation Strategist Appointed Visiting Lecturer at Olivia University, Burundi* Bujumbura, Burundi- Nigerian AI-in-Business researcher, digital transformation strategist, and education advocate, Ifeanyi ANIAGOH, has been officially appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at Olivia University, Bujumbura, Burundi, under the institution’s Faculty of Computing and Sciences. The appointment reflects growing recognition of Aniagoh’s contributions to artificial intelligence, digital transformation, research innovation, and human-centred technology systems across Africa and beyond. After acquiring Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Nigeria, and completing his Postgraduate Programmes in Information Technology at the National Open University of Nigeria, Aniagoh is currently pursuing a Master of Research (MRes) in Artificial Intelligence in Business at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, United Kingdom. His research focuse...