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 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)….
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ASPHCDA) in partnership with the State Ministry of Health and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), has held interview for the recruitment of Anambra community-based health workers. It was gathered that the exercise held at the Jerome Udoji Secretariat Complex in Awka, on Tuesday…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Police Command has restored calm in Onitsha main market following a distress call reporting that personnel of the Ocha Brigade, an Anambra State Environmental Law Enforcement outfit, allegedly engaged in an altercation with some traders, during which seven traders sustained gunshot injuries. According to the State Police Public Relations…
By Ovat Abeng A veteran human right activist, Mr Bonaventure Ezekwenna has urged governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo to urgently investigate an alleged gross corruption currently ravaging the Anambra State Ministry of Justice. Ezekwenna made the call while briefing Journalists in Awka on Monday to sake justice over alleged harassment, intimidation, forcefully taking of his landed…
By Ovat Abeng The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State has set up its Governorship Campaign Council at the various polling units, 326 wards and 21 local government areas preparatory for the victory of candidate of the party for November 8, 2025 election, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu in the state. Ukachukwu, disclosed this to newsmen…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra Police-led Joint Security Force, Aguata, comprising troops from the 302 Artillery Regiment (GS), 14 Field Engineer Regiment, Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Anambra State Vigilante (Agunechemba) in the early hours of 2nd September 2025 carried out a coordinated joint operation at an ESN/IPOB militia camp located…
By Ovat Abeng Motorcycle operators in Anambra State, mostly youths from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have endorsed governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo for a second term ahead of the November 8, 2025 governorship election in the State. The endorsement took place during the official commissioning of the 50 km reconstruction…