Anambra Commissioner accused of collecting money to make traders Caretaker Committee Chairmen, Members

A group of traders in Anambra State under the aegis of Anambra Elite Traders’ Forum has accused the Anambra State Commissioner for Commence and Industry, Dr. Obinna Ngonadi, of commercializing Caretaker Committee membership in the State. In the petition to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, copied to prominent politicians, religious leaders, human right community in the State and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State chapter. The group said they want to intimate the Governor that the Commissioner is selling leadership offices in different markets in the State to the highest…

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Start reconstruction of Main Market roads, Anambra group tells Soludo

Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has been urged to commence immediate reconstruction or carry out palliative work on roads leading to the biggest market in West Coast of Africa, the Onitsha Main Market. The call which came from no less a group than the Anambra Consultative Forum (ACF), become imperative following the near cut into two of the roads leading to the popular Onitsha Main Market.In a statement in Onitsha signed by the leader of the group, Dede Uzor A Uzor, they decried the cutting into two of the…

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Soludo’s Deputy Chief of Staff inaugurates Awogu’s 50-man Campaign Council

*As Arinze assures, “I understand problems of Ogbaru” Alphonsus Nweze The Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Protocol to Governor Chukwuma Soludo, Mr.Chinedu Nwoye, has said Comrade Arinze Awogu, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) House of Representatives candidate for Ogbaru Federal Constituency, has no reason not to win the the election in February 2023.Speaking weekend during the inauguration of Awogu’s 50- man Campaign Council, he charged the members to work hard to deliver the former chairman, Transition Committee Chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area during the last four years…

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The Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ONICCIMA), has stressed the compelling need for the Anambra State Government to urgently addeess the infrastructural needs of the State particularly in Onitsha, the State commercial hub.

Addressing newsmen yesterday on the deplorable condition of infrastructure in the commercial town,the President of ONICCIMA,Chief Kevin Obieri, said the roads in the state are in urgent need of repair. Chief Obieri mentioned such dilapidated roads to include 3-3-Nsugbe,Awka Road, New Market Road, Niger Bridge approach from Onitsha, Niger Street to Main Market, Creek Road, Ochanja Round About to Zik Ave, Oguta Road among others. He said the deplorable state of these roads has led to traffic gridlock being experienced in Onitsha for sometime now, hence the need to speed…

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Ogbaru Market: Commissioner flouts Court order, installs Caretaker Committee

Alphonsus Nweze Inspite of an order of Anambra State Hight Court, presided over by Justice Alexious Okuma, that the State Commissioner for Commerce, Dr. Christian Ngonadi, Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and others should maintain status quo ante bellum in Ogbaru Main Market, they went ahead on Thursday, June 16, 2022 to impose Caretaker Committee on the market. The Judge had also directed in his sitting on June 3, 2022, that the security operatives should not harass and intimidate Ndubuisi Ochiogu led executive following complaints by Ochiogu’s lawyer, Chief…

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Stop harassing Ogbaru Market leaders, Court orders Ngonadi, others

Alphonsus Nweze Justice Alexius Okuma of Atani High Court has directed the Anambra State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Dr. Christian Ngonadi and other officials of the Ministry to stop harassing the chairman of Ogbaru Main Market, Chief Ndubuisi Ochiogu and the members of his executives with security operatives. Justice Okuma issued the order on Friday when the case brought by Ochiogu led executive against the Commissioner for Commerce and Attorney-General of the state came up for hearing at Onitsha High Court.The directive came following the complaints by the counsel…

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UCKEMORAN boss asks Anambra citizens to back Soludo to flush out touts

Alphonsus Nweze The chairman of United Commercial Keke -NAPEP and Motor Riders Association of NIgeria (UCKEMORAN), Anambra State chapter, Chief Arunsi Igbaniuka, has called on Anambra people to support Governor Chukwuma Soludo in his determined efforts to flush out touts in the state. Chief Igbaniuka spoke recently when the chapter held its convention at Awka, the Anambra capital to reaffirm their support for the governor. “This is to show our unalloyed support and solidarity to the present government led by Prof. Soludo and all his seasoned commissioners.” The UCKEMORAN boss…

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We want more actions than words, Rev. Nwachukwu tells Governor Soludo

The General Overseer of Bible Base and Miracle Assembly, Onitsha, Anambra State, Rev.Jerry Nwachukwu, has advised Governor Chukwuma Soludo to take more actions and speak less. Rev. Nwachukwu who spoke to newsmen in Onitsha also asked the Governor to implement his plan on meeting the infrastructural needs of the state one by one instead of jam-packing them and allow himself to be overwhelmed. The cleric said on 31st December, 2021, God had shown him that Prof. Soludo’s one year in office would be turbulent but after that he would stabilize.…

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Give speedy attention to waste management, roads – ONICCIMA president urge Soludo

Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ONICCIMA), has asked Governor Chukwuma Soludo to develop a structured waste management system in Anambra State as against the present disorganised system.The President of Onitsha Chamber Chief Kevin Obieri, who stated this recently when the Organised Private Sector (OPS) addressed the press in Onitsha, the Anambra State commercial nerve centre on critical issues affecting the state.He also called on Governor Chukwuma Soludo, to urgently address the issue of failed road networks in the city and it’s adjourning areas.Obieri who was with some…

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I’ll make Anambra livable, prosperous – Soludo

Alphonsus Nweze Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has reassured the people of Onitsha and its envions that his priority is to make the state livable and prosperous.Prof. Soludo spoke at Sharon House, GRA, Onitsha on Thursday when he met with Landlords and stakeholders in Onitsha and and adjourning communities.Accompanied by his deputy and sizable number of his commissioners, the Governor said Landlords are critical to his agenda of turning around Anambra State. He said Landlords should be able to channel the rainstorm in their compounds, clear the drainage channels…

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