* Veteran Nigerian actor, Sir Bob-Manuel Udokwu, has lamented that many people in the Nollywood industry make society happy but regrettably go home sad. The Anambra-born actor disclosed this in an interview in Awka during which he also mourned and expressed his sadness over the recent deaths of some Nollywood stars, including Mr. John Okafor (Mr. Ibu), Amaechi Muonagor, Jonh Odonwodo (Junior Pope), Zulu Adigwe, and others.
While recounting his relationships with these movie stars, he described their deaths as painful and touching, especially considering the situations that resulted to the deaths and the circumstances surrounding them.
* The Managing Director of Anambra State Housing Development Corporation (ASHDC), Chief Chike Anyaonu has lamented the rot he met at the Corporation on the assumption of office two years ago, saying that he is working hard to ensure that the Corporation lives up to its responsibility. In an interaction with members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of Nigeria Union Of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State Council in Awka, Anyaonu said that 20 of the 22 estates which he inherited cannot help the Governor, or the government in improving, engaging and the delivery of Housing in the state. In fact, he described one of the estates which houses the high and mighty in the state as a scam, in that the contractor failed to provide amenities required of it, but simply sold all the plots of land to prospectors and went away.
* The Archbishop, Province of the Niger, Most Rev. Alexander Ibezim has called on President Bola Tinubu as a matter of urgency to obey the courts and release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Ibezim stated this while presenting his presidential charge during the second session of the thirteenth Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Awka, held at the Church of Pentecost. The Prelate lamented the unbearable pain of poverty, hunger and economic hardship in the country and called on the President to overhaul his economic policies which he said is bereft of necessary transformative value for the economy.
* Former Vice Chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State Council, Chief Boniface Okechukwu Obeta, has been bestowed a chieftaincy title of Nnadiebube (Glorious father) by the Catholic Diocese of Awka. Chief Obeta, a Correspondent of Leadership newspaper, was honoured with the title alongside 18 other distinguished professionals living in Awka and worshipping at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Church of the Catholic Diocese of church. The Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Awka, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, represented at the occasion by the Cathedral Administrator, Ven. Rev. Fr. Anthony Nwafor, commended Obeta for having assisted the church in various ways since he joined the parish at 1996.
* Two-time Director General of Senator Uche Ekwunife Campaign Organization and former Idemili North Local Government Area Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Alphonsus A. Anagu has decamped to
All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, alongside his Political ally, Hon Nonso Ekpunobi. The decampees were received into the party by stakeholders of APGA in Umuoji Ward.
* Anambra State Ministry of Justice has prepared and transmitted the “Anambra State Correctional Services Bill” to the state House of Assembly for consideration and eventual passage into law. The Attorney General of the state and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Sylvia Ifemeje, who spoke after transmitting the bills to the state legislature, described them as innovative.
Ifemeje further explained that the enactment of the Correctional Service bill will ensure humane and effective management of offenders.
* Anambra based Football Club, Edel FC attacking sensation, Arinze Anya and midfield maestro, Harrison Ofonime have put pen to paper with Swedish third division club Ljungkile SK Herrfotboll on a one year loan with an option of signing outrightly for two years.
Ljungskile SK, a Swedish football club located in Ljungskile, a town within Uddevalla Municipality, are currently playing in the Swedish third tier, Division 1 (Ettan Sodra). The duo, Arinze and Harrison have contributed massively to the present position of Edel FC who are currently third in group A of the Nigeria National League (NNL).
* The Anambra State Government is thinking of demolishing the bungalows at both Iyiagu and Real Estates in Awka, the state capital. In their stead, the government mulls over erecting high-rise buildings in the two Estates as part of the measures to economize land in the state capital and provide more accommodations to the citizenry. The Managing Director of Anambra State Housing Development Corporation, (ASHDC), Chief Chike Anyaonu, disclosed this at the forum of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists( NUJ), Anambra State Council, held at the Tochukwu Udorji Hall at the Ezeemo Press Centre. Describing the bungalows at the two Estates as archaic and of no useful purpose again, Anyaonu said high-rise buildings would serve better purpose at a time like this as they would accommodate more people.
* Lack of resources, social amenities and political instability have been described as bane of development of the Nigeria nation. A lecturer in the Music Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Professor Alvan-Ikoku-Nwamara, made the assertion in Awka while delivering a keynote speech when the ABS Managing Director, Sir Chido Obidiegwu received Eastern Nigeria merit award. Addressing the gathering, Prof. Ikoku-Nwamara, whose topic “Strategizing indigenous Igbo ideologies and concepts for the development of the eastern region” centered on the theme “The development of the eastern region, a call for all stakeholders”, regretted that the Easterners known for hard work, resilience and accommodating spirit have now become a shadow of themselves because they have deviated from their true selves.
