* Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo has applauded the efforts of the Inspector General of Police Baba Alkali Usman stating that since he assumed the role as the IGP, the honours received from President Buhari is well deserved as a mark of distinction. Governor Soludo stated this when the IGP paid him a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia on Wednesday. He solicited increased support for the Nigerian Police to confront its death of resources challenge.
* Gunmen have set ablaze buildings belonging to the Anambra State Deputy speaker, Pascal Agbodike and one of the traditional rulers in the State . Also, two buildings belonging to the President General of Osumoghu, Nze Denis Muomaife were not spared too. As a result, Stakeholders from Anambra South senatorial zone and the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, have met in the state over 2023 general elections.
* The Anambra State Police Command has banned the use of fireworks during the harmattan cum Christmas seasons in the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer( PPRO, Tochukwu Ikenga disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He said the harmattan season and the prevailing security situation in the state as well as other circumstances necessitated the command’s decision.
* The Anambra State Police Command has banned the use of fireworks during the harmattan cum Christmas seasons in the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO, Tochukwu Ikenga disclosed this in a statement made available to ANN on Thursday. He said the harmattan season and the prevailing security situation in the state as well as other circumstances necessitated the command’s decision.
* Professor Dennis Aribodor, the Zonal Coordinator of a civil society group called Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition, has discovered that women in the hinterlands pay as high as N30,000 to have their babies delivered at primary health care centres in the communities across Anambra state. Aribodor further disclosed that apart from the high cost of child delivery at the primary health care centres, there seemed to be a dichotomy between male and female delivery.
* The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed doubts over the conduct of elections in some parts of Anambra State in the 2023 general polls as gunmen continue to wreak havoc. The State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Queen-Elizabeth Agwu, expressed the fears in a meeting with stakeholders on Thursday at the INEC Secretariat in Awka, the state capital.
She asked the stakeholders rhetorically: ” Do you think elections will be held in those communities because of their current volatile state?”
* A story funded by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (The ICIR) has emerged as the winner of the 2022 Professor Chinyere Stella Okunna Ethical Journalism Award. The award which is presented by Okunna, the first female professor of Mass Communication in Nigeria and matriarch of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), was announced on December 21 during the NUJ end of the year party held in Awka, Anambra State. The entry by Alfred Ajayi, a correspondent of Radio Nigeria, was adjudged the most outstanding out of 23 entries submitted for the award.
* St. Johnbosco Seminary, Isuaniocha of Awka Diocese, has come top with highest gold medals in All Minor Seminaries Sports Competition (All Hallows 2022), which ended 21st December, 2022 at All Hallows Seminary, Onitsha. This year’s competition captioned, “All Hallows 2022,” started on the 15th of December, 2022 with the arrival of the contingents of about Nine Catholic Seminaries in Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province that participated in the games.
* Commissioner for Health Anambra state, Dr. Ben Afam Obidike, said there are 617 primary health care centres in the state and that the government of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo was coming with what he called Digitisation of the Health Care System in Anambra state. Obidike also stated that the official amount for child delivery would be pasted in all the primary health care facilities across the state which according to him, must not be more than N10,000.
