* Three hundred level students of Mass Communication of Chukwuemeka Odumegu Ojukwu University (COOU) has visited Fides Media in Awka South LGA of Anambra State on an excursion. The students were received by Mr, Jude Atupulazi, Editor-in-chief, Fides Newspaper; and Rev Fr. Dr. Robert Anagboso, Director Fides Media. Also present at the visit was the Deputy Director, Rev, Fr. Constantine Okoli. The students were taken on a tour of Fides Media facilities comprising the newsroom; the press where general printing and publishing are done; as well as the graphics/studio section where pictures are taken and materials designed.
* The Anambra State government has assured of its readiness to partner the Anambra State AIDS Control Agency (ANSACA) in the fight against the scourge. Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh while addressing the members of ANSACA on an advocacy visit in her office stated that the highest scourge humanity has witnessed outside tuberculosis is HIV and syphilis and that it is a thing of joy that there are people out there battling to secure and safeguard the lives of others. Prof. Chuma-Udeh further stated that the Ministry would apart from establishing HIV awareness clubs in schools, domesticate it in the curriculum which flows from the national, by adding some extracurricular activities.
* Anambra State is to host the first Large Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses Since 2019, with Uli set to be the venue of the three-day global event after a three-year pandemic pause. It is one of the largest convention organizations in the world and the theme of the convention is, “Exercise Patience!”. Prior to 2019, summers in Uli, Anambra State were marked by Jehovah’s Witnesses filling hotels and restaurants as they attended their annual conventions at the Uli Assembly Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Anambra State. But in 2020, the pandemic interrupted that tradition in Uli when the Witnesses cancelled their in-person events throughout the world and held their convention programmes as virtual events in more than 500 languages.
* Anambra state government has asked youths in the state to endeavour to learn a skill or two under the numerous ongoing skill acquisition training schemes of the Professor Chukwuma Soludo led administration. Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr Onyekachukwu Ibezim made the call in Awka during the opening ceremony of Code Anambra, a four month skill acquisition training for youths on digital skills in the state.
Ibezim who explained that the present administration is committed to ending youth restiveness and unemployment through provision of good opportunities including through training schemes and empowerments.
* The Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship, Most Rev Paulinus Ezeokafor, has admonished members of the Anambra State Judiciary to take some minutes of sober reflection and talk to themselves in the privacy of their minds, in a period he says Nigeria has become an object of ridicule before the entire world because of the misdemeanor of some persons in the profession.
* Governor Chukwuma Soludo has presented a draft 2024 budget of N410, 132, 225, 272 for fiscal year, 2024 to the 8th Anambra state house of assembly. Before laying the budget titled ” Changing Gears; The Transformation Agenda Begins’ at plenary, Soludo in his address commended the 8th Anambra assembly lead by the Speaker Rt. Hon. Somtochukwu Udeze for their support.
* Tansi International College, Awka, has engaged her students in a post-traumatic counseling and therapy to enable them to ease off the negative impact of the tragic deaths of their mates on 4th November as a result of thunderstorm.
According to the Principal of the College, Rev Fr Fidelis Izuakor, the essence of the psychosocial intervention, which took place on Wednesday, 8th November, 2023, and facilitated by three Rev Sisters, Sr Bibian Marie Okelue, Sr Raphaela Maria Nnorom, and Sr Maria Echezonachukwu Dim; all of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mother of Christ, Amawbia Community, was to rehabilitate the students from shock and trauma resulting from the deaths of their mates.
* The national executive members of the Anambra Mandate for Good Governance (AMFGG) and the Board of Trustees (BoT) members of the group, have visited the member representing Njikoka II State Constituency in the Anambra State House of Assembly, Hon Dr Jude Akpua, to congratulate him on his emergence as a lawmaker, as well as the deputy majority Leader of the 8th Assembly. Hon Akpua, before his emergence as a lawmaker, was the Coordinator of Anambra Mandate for Good Governance (AMFGG), in Njikoka Local Government Area Headquarters in Anambra State. Speaking during the recent visit the National President of AMFGG, Chief Emmanuel Ogugua and the Chairman Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Cyprian Okereke, praised the legislator for his doggedness and dexterity, describing him as the people’s lawmaker.
