By Ovat Abeng The Young Progressives Party (YPP) has condemned the violence that erupted in Onitsha Main Market, Anambra State, on Tuesday, 9th September 2025, following the actions of the Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (OCHA Brigade). The attack, it would be recalled, led to the death of one persons miss Chinwe Igwe and six…
By Ovat Abeng The Onitsha South Local Government Area of Anambra State has cautioned all individuals and groups claiming ownership of land along Silas Works Road in the Fegge Layout to refrain from taking any further action until the courts have delivered a final judgment on the matter. In a statement issued to Journalists in…
By Kelvin Obambon A final year student in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar (UNICAL), Daniel Udoh, has taken his birthday celebration to the Government Children Home Uwanse (formerly the Motherless Babies Home Uwanse) to put smiles on the faces of the children. Daniel, a senator representing faculty of Arts and…
By Ovat Abeng Suspected cultists has reportedly killed four mourners, injured fifteen others during burial ceremony in Anambra State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga who disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Friday, said the incident happened at Ezi Village, Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of the State on…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (OCHA Brigade) has dismissed as false and misleading reports circulating on social media and blogs alleging that its operatives were responsible for the recent shooting at Onitsha Main Market, Emeka Offor Plaza axis. In a statement on Thursday, the leadership of OCHA Brigade clarified…
By Asuquo Cletus The Cross River State Government has taken delivery of a newly built Primary Health Centers (PHC) in Akor and Old Ndebeji communities in Akamkpa Local Government Area, following the official handover by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), its long-standing partner in healthcare delivery. MSF, which has been active in the state for years,…
The Cross River State House of Assembly has officially launched the Christian Legislators’ Fellowship Chapel and dedicated musical instruments within the Assembly complex in Calabar. The event was led by the Speaker, Elvert Ayambem, who pledged the 10th Assembly’s commitment to honoring and praising God for His blessings and mercy. During the dedication service, Ayambem…
By Ovat Abeng Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC in the forthcoming November 8, 2025 governorship election in Anambra State, Mr John Nwosu has described the recent shooting and killing of Onitsha trader, Miss Chinwe Igwe by personnel of the Ocha Brigade, an Anambra Environmental Law Enforcement outfit as evidence of bad governance in…
By Ovat Abeng An Onitsha Magistrate Court presided over by Her Worship, Ukamaka Okoye, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former Anambra State House of Assembly member, Hon Ifeanychukwu Chiekwu, and two others, alleged to have involved in the destruction of a building under construction worth two hundred million Naira (N200,000,000,00)….
…Esighi Community Sensitized on Climate-Smart Agriculture as Women Adopt Home Gardening Grace Bassey, an Intersectional Leadership Incubation (ILI) Fellow with the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD), has flagged off a climate adaptation sensitisation campaign in Esighi community, Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River state. The initiative, which emphasises household gardening…