The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has dismissed as fake a widely circulated result slip purporting to show a candidate from Cross River State scored 394 in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The result, shared by social media user @Onsogbu on X, claimed the female candidate, Okon Winniefred Sampson, scored 394 out of 400….
By John Obi Odu Power, as Niccolo Machiavelli’s “The Prince” reminds us, is never secured by sentiment, habit, or inherited arrangements, but by clear-eyed judgment, decisive action, and an unflinching willingness to prioritize survival over comfort. For a governor still consolidating his authority and identity, often metaphorically described as a “new prince” in the state’s…
By Ovat Abeng Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo has announced that the Anambra State Government will provide full academic sponsorship for 37 first-class graduates of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam. Speaking during the institution’s 2024/2025 Convocation Ceremony at the Igbariam campus, the Governor confirmed that the scholarship covers both Master’s and PhD programmes at…
By Ovat Abeng About eight suspected cultists has been arrested by the Anambra state Police Command during a raid of their hide outs in Enugu-Ekwu community, in Njikoka local government area of the State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga who disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Sunday, said the…
By Sylvia Okoi In a renewed push to achieve full compliance with its monthly environmental sanitation exercise, the Cross River State Ministry of Environment has unveiled plans to intensify public sensitization across the state. Speaking while supervising the April sanitation exercise in Calabar metropolis, the Team Lead, Mr. Dien Ugumanim, who represented the Permanent Secretary,…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Governor wife, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has called for a collective action against malaria disease that has continued to pose a major public health challenge, particularly for children and pregnant women. Mrs Soludo made the called in her message on Saturday to mark this year 2026 World Malaria Day. World…
French police are investigating suspicions that a hairdryer may have been used to tamper with official weather readings to make thousands of dollars in Polymarket bets. Temperature readings at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport have unexpectedly spiked twice in the last month, reaching levels much higher than expected. On both days, gamblers on Polymarket, the…
By Ovat Abeng National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) on Friday, swore in 1500 corps members of the 2026 Batch ‘A’ Stream 2 set, deployed to Anambra for the one-year mandatory national service. The State Coordinator, Mrs Pauline Ojisua, gave the number during the swearing-in ceremony at the Nnamdi Azikiwe NYSC Unity Permanent Orientation Camp, Umuawulu/Mbaukwu,…
By Ovat Abeng In recognition of his philanthropists service to vulnerable residents of Anambra State, a Journalist and the Editorial Board Chairman of Obev Industries Limited Port Harcourt, River State, (the Publisher of Freenews Magazine), Mr Obinna Evaristus Mbonu, has presented an award of excellence in humanitarian service to the 2027 House of Representative aspirant…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has appealed to governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo to stopped championing that the party and the state ruling-All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA are assiduously working together as progressives in the state and beyond. The party argue that there is no evidence to show…
