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Anambra Will No Longer Be The Same Under My Watch As Governor ......... Iwuoba.

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  Anambra Will No Longer Be The Same Under My Watch As Governor ......... Iwuoba. As the November 2025 gubernatorial election draws near, one of the front line contenders in the All Progressives Congress APC Hon  Basil Iwuoba spoke with Okey Maduforo  on what he would do differently if elected as governor of Anambra state. Question; What informed you decision to contest for the governorship position of Anambra state? Answer ; My ambition is devine and it is equally spiritual because only God that makes kings and leaders. I am not new to the politics and governance of Anambra state and there is no one or politician that do not know me and my pedigree. So I am not a green horn in the political battle field of Anambra state because I have been around for a long time. When I say that is devine I mean that this is the time God has chosen to change the narrative of Anambra state when it comes to governance of His people and I am happy and humbled to have been chosen as that ins...

Anambra Activist Battles Police Over Kidnap Of Estate Businessman, LP Guber Candidate, And Lawmaker

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  Anambra Activist Battles Police Over Kidnap  Of Estate Businessman, LP Guber Candidate, And Lawmaker An Anambra Based Human Right Activist Comerade Osita Obi has resolved to battle the State Police Command over the kidnap of  an Estate Businessman Mr Benjamin Ezenma , Labor Party gubernatorial candidate Chief Obiora Agbasimelo' and the lawmaker representing Onitsha North 2 state Constituency Mr Justice Azuka . Recall that Obiora Agbasimelo' was kidnaped during the gubernatorial election campaigns over two years ago while Mr Benjamin Ezenma aka Big Ben and Justice Azuka were Kidnaped in last year respectively. According to the leader of the planned protest and a Human Right Activist Comerade Osita Obi the protest is predicated on what he described as the failure of the Anambra Police Command to either secure their release or fish out those behind the dastardly act. Anambra State-based human rights activist and convener of the Recover Nigeria Project, Comrade Osita Obi, h...

Tension In Awka as Keke Riders Protest Arrest of Members by Operation Udo-Ga-Adi (AGUNACHEMBA)

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    Tension In  Awka as Keke Riders Protest Arrest of Members by Operation Udo-Ga-Adi (AGUNACHEMBA) Tension heightened in Awka, Anambra State Capital, on Thursday as tricycle operators protested the arrest of one of their members, Mr. Amose Nweke, by state security operatives, Agunachemba, for failing to comply with the security number profiling requirement. Our reporter gathered that the mayor of Awka South Local Government Area, Anambra State, Prince Chinedu Okafor, allegedly in collaboration with the former chairman of the Keke riders in Awka, Hon. Prince Collins Ozojiofor, alias Snoop, arrested Amose Nweke at Eke Awka for not having a security number on his tricycle. Speaking to journalists at Aroma Park, a tricycle operator and one of the coordinators of the park, Mr. Uchenna Umeh, said that Snoop, contrary to government directives, arrested one of their park coordinators for not having an Anambra State security number. “One person, called Snoop, who prides himself a...

Gov Soludo Places N 5 Million Bounty On Each Gunman,Signs Agunechemba Homeland Security Bill Into Law.

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  Gov Soludo Places N 5 Million Bounty On Each Gunman,Signs Agunechemba Homeland Security Bill  Into Law. By Nkiru Nwagbo. Gov Charles Soludo of Anambra state this Saturday placed a N 5 Million Bounty on any gunman found or identified by whistle blowers in the 179 Communities in the area. Also Soludo has signed the Homeland Security Bill Into law known as Agunechemba which stipulates the use of maximum force to smoke out gunmen and criminals out of the bushes in Anambra state. The Gov also revived the use of the 1980s popular Boys Oyeh! that was used to quell Onitsha Commercial city from the strong fangs of criminals noting that the situation in Anambra state needs every element is share brute force on confirmed gunmen and kidnappers in the state . Making this pronouncement while launching the Operation Udo Ga Chi Security Outfit in the state also announced the recruitment of trained 2,000 more vigilant operatives to join the already existing personnel in the area.  Accor...

AIG Zone 13 Decorates 15 Police Officers

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  AIG Zone 13 Decorates 15 Police Officers  NKIRU NWAGBO. The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of zone 13 Ukpo in Dunukofia Local government area of Anambra Godwin Ndidi Aghaulor along with the the Anambra Police Commissioner Nnaghe Obono Itam decorated fifteen officers from the ranks of Assistant Superintendent of Police up to the rank of the Deputy Commissioner of Police. Among those decorated are Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Dung who was promoted to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Assistant Police Commissioner Chris Bassey promoted  to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police and Chief Superintendent Of Police William Odum Robinson  promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police. Others include four Chief Superintendent Of Police one Superintendent Of Police and Seven  Deputy Superintendent Of Police respectively. The trio had served in Anambra state as Divisional Police Officers as well as Officer In Charge of Operations and...

Anambra Community Gets N140 M Empowerment As Ex - Council Boss Celebrates Crime Free Xmas .

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Anambra Community Gets N140 M Empowerment As Ex - Council Boss Celebrates Crime Free Xmas . NKIRU NWAGBO. The people of Onne Community in Orumba South local government area of Anambra state yesterday got empowered by gifts to the tune of N140 million from the Ezeakunne Foundation. This is coming as the former local government area of Orumba South local government area Prince Nevill Sunday Uchendu celebrated a crime free Christmas celebration in the area this year . A break down of the gift items include a Mercedes 911 tipper at the cost of N28 million given to a son of the community for business as well as four shuttle buses at the cost of N36 million and bags of rice and cash offers bringing the total sum to N140 million. According to the Chairman and sponsor of Ezeakunne Foundation Nze Vincent Nwankwo;  "By this time last year we had more than enough to go round and people were hopping that this year would be better "  "But by this year's January dollar rose from N...

Ohaneze/ Cleric Lament Crash Of Igbo Marriage Abroad As Foundation Announces Scholarship For 200 Pupils

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  Ohaneze/ Cleric Lament Crash Of Igbo Marriage Abroad As Foundation Announces Scholarship For 200 Pupils  NKIRU NWAGBO. The apex Igbo organization Ohaneze Ndigbo has lamented the numerous crash of marriages within the Igbo communities abroad expressing fears that the crave to travel abroad has derailed the Igbo culture and traditional marriages in several homes. In the same vein clerics have also joined in the insistence that Igbo families abroad should not allow the western culture to rubbish those morals and values of Ndigbo positing that should that continue the heritage of the Igbo people would soon be a thing of history. This is coming as the Late Simon Okeke Ezeajughi Foundation has announce a scholarship scheme for two hundred Primary school children studying at five Mission Schools in Awgbu Community of Orumba North local government area of Anambra state. Speaking at the ninety two birthday celebration of Lady Christiana Mgboye Ezeajughi at Awgbu the Vice President of...

Soludo threatens to arrest anyone parading as Igwe Oba, says election was cancelled

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  Soludo threatens to arrest anyone parading as Igwe Oba, says election was cancelled  NKIRU NWAGBO, AWKA. Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo has cancelled an election purportedly held by Oba community in Idemili South Local Government Area to elect a traditional ruler and order for an arrest of anyone parading himself as Igwe. The purported election was said to have held on Saturday, in violation of a matter that is still being determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, which was instituted by some interested person in the matter.. The commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy and Community Matters, Hon TonyCollins Nwabunwanne who disclosed this to journalists on behalf of the governor in his office said anyone found parading himself as the monarch of Oba community or a monarch-elect will be arrested, as the purported election holds no water.    Nwabunwanne further stated that until the pending matter in Court is decided no election of a new Ig...

Southeast Insecurity: Ojukwu Jnr Calls For release of Kalu

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  Southeast Insecurity: Ojukwu Jnr Calls For release of Kalu . Ruth Orji. (Awka) Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the son of the late Biafra warlord, has called on the federal government of Nigeria to  release Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra – IPOB. Emeka Ojukwu Jnr,  who  spoke to Journalists in an interview said that Ñnamdi has been held and prosecuted by the State authorities on charges bothering on terrorism, and crime against the State insisted that  if Ñnamdi kalu is released the insecurity in the Southeast especially Anambra State would reduce drastically.  According to him " there has been   daily violent attacks on innocent individuals by criminals, with attendant high mortality which has now attained near normalcy, considering the development from the big picture perspective, the release of Nnamdi Kanu may not put an immediate end to the insecurity, but it will assuage the rising tension among the populace, who wil...

Iyom The Female Warrior At 54

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  Iyom The Female Warrior  At 54 By Okey Maduforo. She  stepped into the Anambra political stage learning the ropes in a terrain full of high flyers, and most political watchers felt, as it were, that coming from the banking sector, she may not stand the heat in the “kitchen.” On her first journey to the Green Chambers in 2007, she indeed made a statement that sent signals to pundits that she had come to stay. Many who may have run away with the erroneous impression that she was a pushover came to terms with the stark realities that their permutations were dead on arrival. After eight years at the Green Chambers, she had built for herself one of the most formidable and well-oiled political structures ever in the history of Anambra politics. Still not done yet, the Lily of the National Assembly, Sen. Uche Liliana Ekwunife, made a foray into the Red Chambers, which is the Nigerian Senate. Though her first term was short-lived, no thanks to the litany of litigations that tra...