Category: Metro

Onitsha, Ogbaru Main Markets, Observe Soludo’s Order On Sit-at-Home – Pray for Release of Nnamdi Kanup

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Alphonsus Nweze The multi-billion Naira Onitsha Main Market and Ogbaru Main Market popularly known as Relief Market joined other markets in Anambra State to observe Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s order to use every Monday to conduct environmental sanitation exercise and hold prayer for the release of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). Governor Soludo from inception of his administration had wanted to use force to cancel the Sit-at-Home in the State and reopen the markets but the strategy has been unsuccessful. Hence the latest strategy of using…

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Fix Failed Onitsha-Owerri Road, Rights Groups Tell FG, Anambra State Govt

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Alphonsus Nweze Civil Society groups have called on Federal Government and Anambra State Government to immediately begin rehabilitation of Onitsha end of Onitsha-Owerri Road, which has become an unpassable and death trap to the users. The Campaign for Democracy (CD) and Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) made the call in a joint statement they made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital, weekend. In the statement signed by the Chairman of CD in South East and Executive Director, HURIDE, Dede Uzor A Uzor, the…

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Court Orders Bank, Police To Pay N2.2Million To Nursing Mother

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Alphonsus Nweze Federal High court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, has ordered Isuofia Micro Finance Bank Ltd and Police to pay the sum of #2,200,000 (Two Million, Two Hundred Thousands Naira) to Ohadugha Gloria Chizara, a nursing mother for unlawful arrest and detention with her six months old baby at Okpoko Police cell. The case with suit No: FHC/ Awka / CS/ 121 /2022 was between Ohadugha Gloria Chizara, the applicant and Isuofia Micro Finance Bank Ltd, Nwafor Okechukwu, Nwoke Ifeoma, Commissioner of Police Anambra State, Ugochukwu Ugbo,the…

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2023 Synod: Bishop Nwokolo Decries Insecurity, Hunger in Nigeria

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By Alphonsus Nweze The Bishop on the Niger Rt Rev. Dr. Owen Nwokolo, has decried high level of insecurity, hunger, unemployment and untold hardship in Nigeria. Bishop Nwokolo disclosed this during his presidential address delivered at the 32nd Synod of Diocese on the Niger held at St John Anglican Church, Fegge, Onitsha, Onitsha South Local Government of Anambra State. He lamented that Nigerians have continued to suffer untold hardship years back, saying, “These few past years, insecurity, hardship, unemployment, hunger and sickness have affected the psyche of most Nigerians that…

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Tragedy as businessman is assassinated in Onitsha

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Tragedy struck again in Onitsha, Anambra State as a businessman, Sir Edwin Umealo, was last Sunday night assassinated at Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of the State. According to a competent source, the victim Sir Edwin Umealo, popularly called Sir White by his friends and business associates was killed at about 7pm last Sunday as he was driving to his Asaba, Delta State home. Our source said that Sir Umealo who hails from Umunze in Orumba South Local Government Area attended a meeting in one of the communities in…

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Uma Ukpai Storms Onitsha for Miracle Crusade

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Alphonsus Nweze A foremost evangelist, Dr. Uma Ukpai, will as from Sunday May 7, 2023, storm the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State for a seven-day miracle crusade.The General Overseer of Bible Base Miracle Assembly, Rev. Jerry Nwachukwu, the organisers of the crusade said the visit of Dr. Uma Ukpai, as “an apostle of miracle” will bring salvation, deliverance and healing to the people of Onitsha and surrounding towns including Asaba, the capital of Delta State.He said for years now his church has been hosting the international preacher where he…

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Nothing in life is permanent – Anglican Priest tell Christians

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Rev. Oguaka buries mother in grand style Alphonsus Nweze A priest in the Diocese on the Niger has urged Christians to remember that nothing in this world including our life is permanentRev. Canon Henry Nwachukwu spoke on Easter Monday during the burial of Mrs Roseline Oguaka at Ojoto in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.Canon Nwachukwu who is the Vicar of St. Barnabas’ Anglican Church, Ojoto asked family members, relations, friends and sympathisers of Oguaka family that everybody has a date with death.He said: “Everyone of us has…

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We’ll shut down shops of traders who fail to clean their surroundings – Ochiogu

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Alphonsus Nweze The Chairman of Ogbaru Main Market, Chief Ndubuisi Ochiogu, has vowed to shut down the shops of traders who refused to align with the directive of Governor Chukwuma Soludo that every trader should clean his environment, including the drainage system in front of his shop. Ochiogu spoke last Friday, April 7, 2023 which was declared environmental exercise day for every trader in the market. He expressed happiness that majority of the traders joined in the exercise especially the cleaning and excavation of dirts from gutters. Explaining the benefits…

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Archbishop Okeke Celebrates Christmas with Onitsha Correctional Centre Inmates – Wants FG’s Approval of Acquisition Centre

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Alphonsus Nweze The Archbishop of Onitsha Metropolitan Archdiocese, Most Rev. Dr. Valerian Okeke, has appealed for thecommitment of Federal Government of Nigeria in the Skill Acquisition Centre he is building for the inmates of Onitsha Correctional Centre by fencing the Centre. Archbishop Okeke who spoke on Sunday when he celebrated the Christmas with the inmates of the Correctional Centre said the project is almost completed with only the landscaping and fencing remaining. The Archbishop said the landscaping would cost about N8m but that would not pose any problem because he…

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Soludo Orders Detention of Anambra Market Leader

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Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has ordered the arrest and detention of the Acting President General, Caretaker Committee of Bridgehead Market, Onitsha, Chief Chinedu Ezekwike. A source close to the market said Chief Ezekwike was arrested on 22/12/2022 by Police from Fegge Division on the orders of the Governor himself. It was gathered that the Governor was infuriated by the commencement of the rebuilding of the shops razed down in November this year during the explosion of chemicals at Onitsha Drug Market The chairman of Onitsha South Local Government…

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