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   Amanuke Community Boils Over Arrest and Imposition of Monarchs. BY NKIRU NWAGBO Hundreds of people from Amanuke commu­nity in Awka North Lo­cal Government Area of Anambra State, Monday, protested against arrest and detention of it's traditional ruler Chief Dennis Ezebuilo Ezeuba   by the police and the imposition of another traditional ruler on the community by a section of the town. Dennis, it would be recalled, was remanded in the police custody by Justice Hyeladzira Aji­ya Nganjiwa of Awka Federal High Court following a case of im­personation of the Tra­ditional Ruler of Ama­nuke and related issues initiated against him by the Police. The protesters bear­ing placards some of which read, “Leader­ship is not by force, Amanuke is one with one king,’ ‘Igwe Dennis Is our crowned king of Amanuke Eri,’ ‘Ama­nuke stands with Igwe Dennis Ezebuilo’,” de­scribed their leader as duly crowned tradition­al ruler by the commu­nity following extant laws of the land as against Chief Alphon­su

  Anambra Guber: Court Upholds Uba/ Soludo As APGA/ PDP Candidates. As N600 million Bribe  Allegation Rocks Anambra Election. Nkiru Nwagbo The battle over the candidacy of the People's Democratic Party PDP and the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA took a new twist yesterday when the Awka High Court upheld that Sen Ugochukwu Uba is the candidate of the People's Democratic Party PDP and not Valentine Ozigbo adding that the Independent National Electoral Commission IÑEC should also enlist Prof Charles Soludo as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA. Similarly the Federal High Court Awka   presided by Hon Justice Njajiwa Hyeladzira Ajita yesterday adjoined hearing on the suit filed by Ozigbo challenging the earlier order that he should stop parading himself as candidate of PDP to September 23rd this year. Amidst heavy security made up of the police and soldiers inside and outside the court Hon Justice Charles Okara ruled that Soludo is the candidate of APGA a

 Protest: UNIZIK reverts to 2019 agreement of consolidated school fees structure.....NANS. By NKIRU NWAGBO AWKA Following the Nnamdi Azikiwe University students' protest for alleged hike in school fees, the University management has reverted to the 2019 agreement of consolidated school fees structure according to National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) Addressing Journalists in Awka yesterday  in a world press conference,  the Chairman of joint  Campus Committee of NANS Anambra State Axis Comrade Peter Onyenwife,  the chairman council of past presidents Patrick Afubere and other stakeholders of students community, Onyenwife said; "We  have through the protest dragged the authorities to the negotiation table noting that it had agreed that payment of school fees should discontinue to give room for discussion between the students and the management with a view of addressing the concerned issues. He said that a good number of  students did not have details and full informa

FEATURES:  How Did Soludo Discover Dr Ibezim? By Ody Chukwube. Chukwuma Charles Soludo, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), candidate in the November 6 gubernatorial vote in Anambra State, has right from primary school been noted for uncanny brilliance, but hardly did any person expect him to choose Dr Onyeka Ibezim, a medical doctor with expertise in public health, as his running mate when he announced the selection on June 30. Dr Ibezim was not among those speculated both in the mainstream and social media. Still, when he was announced to be the deputy governorship candidate, the whole of Anambra State went agog. “For those of us from Eastern Nigeria,” says Valentine Ntomchukwu, a lawyer, political scientist and the first Anambra indigene to serve as Deputy Inspector General of Police, “it is reminiscent of how Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first president, chose little known Dr Michael Okpara, the Minister of Agriculture and Production, to succeed him as the Eastern Nigerian