* The Anambra State Ministry of Health has suspended the salaries of a medical doctor and two nurses caught diverting patients from government owned General Hospital, Ekwulobia in Aguata Local Government Area, to private hospitals. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike expressed disappointment over the attitude of the healthcare workers and their inhumane treatment to patients, stressing that those involved will not receive their salaries until further notice.
Obidike cautioned that the administration of Governor Chukwuma Soludo will not tolerate such behaviour going forward. He explained that Governments intention in establishing hospitals is not to make profit, but rather to render quality and affordable care to the public while ensuring universal health coverage in the state.
* Some women farmers at Umunankwo, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State have expressed dissatisfaction with the failure of flood palliatives from federal and state government to get to all of them who were affected by flood. The women spoke during a sensitization programme organized under the Strategic Opportunity Fund, (SOF) by the Social and Integral Development Centre, SIDEC, supported by Action Aid Nigeria and funded by Global Affairs Canada, One of the women, Mrs. Josephine Ogwuno, regretted that most of the flood victims of 2022 didn’t get anything from the government to cushion the effects of the disaster on them.Â
* The immediate past member representing Anambra East and West Federal Constituency, at the National Assembly Chief Chinedu Obidigwe has appealed to Ndi Anambra to unite towards promoting the good governance of the Soludo administration. He made the appeal when he hosted Anambra West Local Government principal officers and stakeholders of the All-Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Awka.
Addressing the gathering, the former lawmaker urged them to mobilize strongly at the ward levels towards promoting Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s good governance for him to continue and consolidate on the gains recorded by his administration beyond 2025.
* The Executive Director, Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa, PAACA, Ezenwa Nwagwu, says Nigeria’s electoral system has recorded remarkable progress despite the deficiencies witnessed in the 2023 general election. Nwagwu stated this in Awka, Anambra State capital, during a one-day citizens town hall meeting on electoral reform, supported by McArthur Foundation to popularize electoral knowledge across the country in a manner that allows citizens to contribute meaningfully to the growth of democracy in the country. According to him, “Election is a law guided activity and it is incorrect for stakeholders to talk about election and electoral process without having a good knowledge of the laws.
* The immediate past Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Aderemi Adeoye, has been extolled by his kinsmen in the Yoruba community in the state for pulling out of service while the ovation was still very loud. The people gathered at BON Hotel in Awka to celebrate Adeoye, one of their illustrious sons, who just retired from the Nigeria Police Force after 35 years of meritorious service. Leader of Yoruba Community in Awka, Oba Abdulrasak Olahan, eulogized Adeoye for making the entire Yoruba nation proud with patriotic service to fatherland offered in enviable humility.
* Nigerians have been urged to patronize made in Nigeria products and services to boost local production. Speaking in Awka, the Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke Ogene said this would strengthen the economy.
Okeke Ogene said patronizing made-in-Nigeria products would also stabilize the naira against foreign currencies as well as encourage local investors to establish more industries to create more employment opportunities and reduce dependency on importation.
He noted that massive production of local goods was the only way the country can sustain its drive towards achieving industrialisation and diversification of the economy and scaling up of the Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
* MD/CEO of Pillars Oil and Gas Ltd, Chief Pius Njoku says Governor ChukwumaÂ
Soludo has delivered Anambra state. In a recent interview at his office in Onitsha, Njoku expressed his deep conviction and empathy about the progress that the state is making under Soludo’s administration.Â
He said that the current government has come to the rescue of the state, which was previously neglected, and is now actively leading the state on the path of rapid development. He stated that the governor has transformed the Ochanja refuse dump site into a beautiful roundabout with a water fountain and restored the confidence of traders by ensuring the security of the state.
* The Federal Government through the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has handed over sixteen thousand, one hundred and thirty thousand-fifty-kilogrammes bags of maize and three thousand nine hundred and forty-eight-twenty-five kilogrammes bags of garri to Anambra State Government for onward distribution to vulnerable persons in the state to help cushion the effect of economic crunch in the country. The flag-off and distribution of the food items which came from the National Strategic Reserve took place at the Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, Awka with four local governments, Awka North and South, Dunukofia and Njikoka as first batch of beneficiaries.
* The Aguata Diocese of the Anglican Communion has stated that its attention has been brought to a malicious online voice note by one Okuekwe Aguata alleging that some students of the Aguata Diocesan Institute of Arts and Crafts were recently locked out of the school and forced to sleep in a drainage channel.
Reacting to the development, the Director of Media and Communication of Aguata Diocese, Mr. Abuchi Nwozor, described the online voice note as false and unfounded. He maintained that the said online voice note was an attempt by individuals who do not wish for the mission school to succeed in training people to become employers of labor and useful citizens, contributing to the transformation of society.
