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Trending News In Anambra, Today February 5, 2025

* Residents of Osumenyi in Nnewi South, Anambra State have urged Dr. Romanus Uzochukwu Umeh, to throw his hat into the ring and contest the upcoming governorship election.

The people’s call for Dr. Uzochukwu Umeh to run is rooted in his exceptional capacity and leadership qualities, which have left an indelible mark on the community.

One resident, Prince Dan Ojimba enthusiastically exclaimed, “We want him to go! He is the best person for the job.” Another supporter echoed this sentiment, saying, “Dr. Uzochukwu Umeh has always put the needs of others before his own. He’s a true leader and a blessing to our community.”

* Anambra State Government has commemorated the 2025 World Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs Day with its theme “Unite to act towards elimination of NTDs”.

The commemoration which was climaxed with a road walk, was in partnership with the Anambra State NTDs control and elimination program, department of public health and disease control, ministry of health, in support of the carter Center

In his speech, Anambra Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, said the yearly event takes place every 30th of January. He explained that the day is aimed at raising the profile of NTDs that concerns a group of 21 preventable and treatable diseases that significantly impact the poorest populations of the world.

The Health Commissioner noted that the State is committed to controlling and eliminating NTDs to free more than six million population who are at risk of soil transmission helminths and that the state has successfully interrupted the transmission of river blindness through mass drug administration and vector control programmes.

In his remark, Anambra State Director of Public Health, Dr. Afam Aneme said the day is meant to create more awareness about NTDs and to tell residents of the state how to stay safe and report those that have such issues for treatment.

* God’s Own Tipper Owners and Drivers Association Anambra State has refuted allegations that claimed that it was tipper drivers that laid ambush to kill Special Anti Touting Squad (SASA) officers saying that the tipper garage was neither a den of armed robbers nor a hub for drug peddlers.

The Association’s Unit Charman, Oba Old road Junction garage, Mr. Alochukwu Egbobe who narrated the tipper drivers ordeal in the hands of the SASA Operatives before the accident said;

The duo of Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Isikomkom, Chairman of the Loaders and Chukwunonso Agudosi who were both eye witnesses on that fateful Friday corroborated the Unit Chairman’s report.

They said they were eye witnesses present at the garage when the anti tout squad stormed the place and started beating up every one they could lay hands on but they managed to escape watching from a distance.

* The President-General of Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union (EBU) in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State Hon. Chukwuebuka David Onuorah has vowed that no matter the efforts of dissident groups in the community to thwart government’s efforts to flush criminals out, he must ensure against all odds that the Operation Udo Ga Achi Security Formation succeeds in Enugwu-Agidi town.

Onuorah made the vow following a video confessional statements allegedly made by the wife of a suspected kidnapper arrested by the personnel of the operation Udo Ga Achi security squad at Enugwu-Agidi where all manner of unlicensed firearms, charms and other incriminating items were found in his possession.

In the said video interview, she said each time she confronted her husband about the guns he was keeping in the house, the husband would not listen to her instead he would say no one would know about the guns.

* Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC), at its first meeting for the year at Council Chamber, Awka, noted that structures without state government approval, particularly those on waterways’ right-of-way, exist at the risk of their owners because they violate the Land Use Act, which vests in the states physical planning responsibility.

The Council urged communities to take action to prevent sand excavations in undesignated areas of the state, denouncing human behaviour and conduct that have fuelled stormwater and gully erosion in the state, which is endangering some communities and transforming the state into an ecologically endangered zone.

In a press statement signed by the
Commissioner for Information, Anambra State, Dr. Law Mefor, the following contracts were awarded

The contract for the building of a Protocol Lounge at Chinua Achebe International Airport, Umueri, Anambra State, was approved. The proposal to build the Protocol Lounge at the airport was accepted, and Gill Associates Ltd. was given the contract, which will cost N144 million, and will be completed in seven weeks.

The memo for the release of N380,600,669.48 for the rehabilitation of all internal roads with a complete asphaltic overlay at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH) Amaku, Awka, was also approved by the ANSEC meeting.

Damtech Nig. Ltd. was given the N140 million contract of creating a responsive master plan for the management of the Aguata Storm Water Project, which is to be finished in three months.

The memo for the release of the sum of N84,255,318.00 was approved for the completion works at the specialist hospital Fegge, Onitsha South LGA. The contract was awarded to the Crystal Dove Construction Company Ltd.

* The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed confidence in winning the forthcoming November 2025 off-cycle governorship election in Anambra State.

The party’s National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, made this assertion while speaking on a TVC television program.

Bashiru emphasized that the APC is determined to add Anambra to its growing list of states in the South East geopolitical zone.

He further stressed that the APC remains undistracted by any plots or tactics aimed at derailing its focus. According to him, the party is fully committed to the upcoming election. The former senator and party’s National Secretary affirmed that the APC is focused and poised for victory.

* The Mayor of Idemili South local government area, Hon. Mrs Amaka Obi has visited Eke Awka-Etiti market and assured traders of continued partnership in developing the council area.

Speaking during the visitation, Hon. Obi urged women to continue to uphold the unity, remain focused and undeterred in the face of crises.

While highlighting the achievements of Governor Soludo in the State especially in Idemili South, she promised to continue complementing on the efforts of Mr. Governor at the grassroot level.

The Market women reaffirmed their unalloyed support for administration of Governor Charles Soludo and Hon. Amaka Obi.

* A human rights activist, Comrade Osita Obi has cried out over the spate of missing people in Anambra State, urging government to hunt for their kidnappers.

Comrade Obi while addressing journalists in Awka on Tuesday said it is becoming almost normal for people to mysteriously disappear in Anambra with no trace, while life continues as if nothing has happened.

Obi said Mr. Benjamin Izuchukwu Ezemma, House of Assembly member, Hon Justice Azuka and candidate of Labour Party in the Anambra 2021 governorship election, Mr Obiora Agbasimalo have remained missing, and nothing was being done to trace them.

The activist revealed that some people who are suspected to have had dealings with Ezemma have been dragged to court. He begged journalists to show interest in the matter and report it to the world, so that it would not be swept under the carpet.

* The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, Justice Development and Peace Caritas, (JDPC), and Help For All (HIFA) Foundation, Anambra, a Non Governmental Organization, recently spent over ten Million Naira on eighty-one indigent students and pupils across all denominations in Anambra State.

The Director of JDPC in Awka Diocese and Chairman of HIFA Board in Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Levi Ukor, in his speech,
commended HIFA for their continuous aid to the less privileged

Fr. Ukor stated that HIFA had been consistent with this scholarship for the past 25 years and still counting.

In his remarks, the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most. Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, who was represented by the Education Secretary of Awka Diocese, Rev. Fr. Maximus Okonkwo thanked HIFA for their support. He narrated the story of how one of his classmates, who was a beneficiary of the HIFA Scholarship, is today a Catholic priest working in the United States of America.

* Mr. Udochukwu and Mrs. Chikazor Ejezie, the parents of the three children found dead in a freezer in Nnewichi, Nnewi insist their children were murdered, demanding that the police uncover the truth and bring the culprit to justice.

Mrs. Ejezie, a nurse and lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, while narrating the heartbreaking incident, explained that she had gone for an exam on the fateful day, leaving her three children at home alone, as she usually did since her husband was based in Edo state.

However, upon her return, she noticed that the doors were open, yet the house was quiet with no sign of the children.
Initially, she assumed they had gone to church, possibly for a Saturday rehearsal in preparation for Sunday service, as they were altar servers.

But as the evening drew nearer with no sign of her children, she became anxious and began searching for them at the church, in the surrounding area, also making phone calls to her husband, relatives, and friends but to no avail.

In desperation, she returned home with her parish priest and asked her neighbour, a medical student at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), to help search the apartment once again.

It was during this second search that the medical student discovered the three children lifeless sitting inside the freezer, which had been locked from the outside.

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