By Ejike Abana On November 19, 2024, Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, stood before the Anambra State House of Assembly and presented the 2025 budget—aptly titled “Changing Gears 2.0.” This budget proposal marked a decisive step in pursuing the administration’s ambitious agenda for economic transformation and social development. With a modest but significantly ambitious figure…
By Ovat Abeng Engr. Professor Joseph Tagbo Nwabanne of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka, Anambra State, on Thursday, 20th November, 2025 delivered the 117th Inaugural Lecture of the University on the topic: “From Waste to Energy: Unlocking Nigeria’s Biomass Potentials.” The inaugural lecturer, in his opening remarks…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has announced strengthened security measures across schools and churches in the state. The announcement was contained in a statement signed and made available to Journalists in Awka on Sunday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga. According to Ikenga, the measure…
By Ovat Abeng Drug traders in Onitsha market, Anambra State have cried out to Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo to urgently intervened and stop excessive illegal revenue collection activities in the market. They lamented that the illegal activities has become a daily norm in the drug market, also know as “Ogbogwu market” without any government intervention…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Police Command said it has recovered a three year old girl sold to a suspected buyer in Calabar, Cross River State. The recovery notice was contained in a statement issue to journalists in Awka on Saturday, by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga. The statement read;…
By Ovat Abeng The Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Charles Soludo, has conveyed his sincere condolences to the Awolowo family, friends, and associates of Mr. Segun Awolowo Jnr, who passed away on Thursday, November 20, 2023, at the age of 62. In his condolence message signed and made available to Journalists in Awka on Friday,…
By Ovat Abeng Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Gender unit, Awka with the assistance of the local community security outfit, has arrested one Chigbo Umeugokwe, male, 20 years old, of Umuezeiyi Village, Achina, Aguata Local Government Area of the State for alleged armed robbery, rape of…
By Ovat Abeng National Executive Council (NEC) of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), has announced the appointment of Comrade Godwin Ugochukwu Okoye as the Acting Chairman of the Council, Anambra State Chapter with immediate effect.. The development, announced via statement, in line with the provisions of the NYCN Constitution (2018, amended 2025), saw…
By Ovat Abeng The people of Abagana community in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State are celebrating the return of one of their sons, whose parent was sold into slavery several years ago, Dr Griffin Lotson, from the United States of America (USA). The 71-year-old Lotson, who is now a Council Member and…
By Ovat Abeng In a remarkable demonstration of commitment to educational development in Anambra State, the Joseph Onuorah Foundation has donated 400 curriculum-approved textbooks to students of Community Secondary School Ndiowu, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, marking the largest direct-to-student academic book donation ever recorded in the area. The event, held on…
