* Traders at Ogbaru main market in Anambra State, have resolved to control flooding, bemoaning the devastating erosion that have destroyed their stores and ware houses numbering over fifty. Addressing newsmen recently at the scene of the collapsed Sakamori bridge, the President-General of the Market, Mr. Ndubuisi Ochiogu said they have begun to use sand slabs to checkmate erosion at the collapsed Sakamori bridge.
* Wife of the Governor of Anambra state, Mrs Nonye Soludo says parenting has gone from being just a responsibility to a family unit to a task for the overall good of the larger society. Mrs Soludo stated this in a statement released in Awka to celebrate parents on the 2023 Global Day of Parents. The governor’s wife, while describing parents as important stakeholders in the progress of any society, noted that parental responsibilities have also increased greatly with changing human and environmental factors, including culture, traditions, migration, technology and education.
* All Progressives Grand Alliance faithful, have expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the just concluded 2023 National Convention and election of new national executive members of the party, describing the election as credible and transparent. This was the reactions of some members of the party shortly after the convention held at the International Convention Centre in Awka, which saw the emergence of Barrister Sylvester Ezeokenwa from Anambra State, as National Chairman of the party, while Comrade Onyebuchi Eze from Ebonyi State, emerged the National Youth leader, among others.
* Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, have arrested members of a syndicate involved in the illicit importation and trafficking of lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl, a drug which is one hundred times stronger than tramadol and capable of causing mass casualty among the youth population being targeted by the cartels. The arrest of two members of the syndicate, Odoh Collins Oguejiofor and Oliver Chigozie Uzoma at Ogbogwu market, Onitsha Head Bridge, is coming on the heels of an alert issued by the anti-narcotics Agency in November 2022 that some criminal elements were plotting to flood the Nigerian market with the drug.
* Anambra State government through the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in conjunction with the United Nations Children’s Fund has distributed farm inputs of various types to one hundred and sixty women in four villages of Umueze Anam, Anambra West Local Government Area. The crops distributed to the women were rice seedlings, potato stems, groundnut, pepper, water melon seeds, and cucumber.
* The President-General Building Materials International Market, Ogidi, Chief Jude Nwankwo, has lauded the current administration of Professor Chukwuma Soludo for effective governance and efficient use of the taxes and levies of the market in improving essential infrastructure. Nwankwo was speaking in an interview at his office in Building Materials International Market, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area.
* Anambra State Government has warned petroleum products marketers against hiking the prices of their products following President Bola Tinubu’s pronouncement on fuel subsidy removal. Speaking in Awka recently, the commissioner for Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Barrister Tony Ifeanya, made clear that the ministry will not hesitate to sanction any petrol station that violates government directive.
* The chairman, Anambra State Local Government Service Commission, Barrister Vin Ezeaka, has set up a peace and conflict resolution committee of nonpartisan technocrats to broker peace between the two factions of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees, NULGE. The committee, comprised of heads of local government administrations, is looking into the remote and immediate causes of the disagreement within NULGE with a view to finding a lasting peace between the two factions.
* The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it secured twenty-six convictions against illicit drug traffickers in Anambra State between March and May, 2023. The State Commander of the Agency, Mr. Daniel Onyishi, made the revelation while speaking on the efforts made by the agency to push back on the supply of illicit drugs.
