Owerre Ezukala Catholic Community Agog For Bishop Ezeokafor AS St. Patrick's Parish Celebrates Silver Jubilee

It was like a home coming for the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor, as the entire Catholic faithful of Owerre Ezekala, Orumba South L.G.A, turned out en masse to herald the arrival of the bishop who was on his second pastoral visit to the Community.

Nigerian Teenager Arrested For Killing Brother And Brutalizing Mother In US

Charles Okonkwo Jr., a Long Island, New York, teenager with a history of psychiatric problems killed his 15-year old brother and brutally beat his mother — a respected physician — into a coma over the weekend, police say.
Okonkwo, 18, has been charged with assault on his mother, Chinwe Okonkwo, 52, on Saturday in Dix Hill, New York, but does not yet face charges on the death of Bradley Okonkwo.
Mrs Okonkwo, a Brooklyn doctor, has received the Congressional Leadership Award and runs Hope Outreach Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promote public health in Brooklyn and across the world.
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Eke-Awka Market Traders Association Elects Chief Emeka Agwumadu As Their New Chairman

Chief Emeka Agumadu an interim chairman of Eke-Awka Market has been elected as the substantive chairman of the market traders association chapter.
Agumadu, in his acceptance speech promised to draw the attention of government to the lingering challenges of electricity and water in the market.

Anambra Government Shots Down 486 Special Exam Centres

Following the announcement on Sunday to close Magic centers up to 486 existing in Anmabra there was intense pressure on these schools operating expo centers in the name of exam centers.
 The  operators have started lobbying Ministry of Education officials to discourage the Prof Kate Omenugha ,Commissioner for Education from such exercise but unknown to them that Prof Omenugha is carrying out an explicit instruction from the state Governor , Chief Willie Obiano.
A stakeholder of the Private schools in Anambra where most of the existing centers are located but who would not want to be named said,’’ since the announcement we have been up beat on what to do because that is the major source of income to majority of these private centers including my own before I gave my life to Jesus Christ.

2015 Election : Umeh Declares For Senate Sit of Anambra Central Senatorial District To Unseat Ngige

 National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Vic­tor Umeh, at the weekend succumbed to pressures by his party members, especially stakeholders of Anambra Central Senatorial District, for him to represent the zone at the Senate in 2015.

This declaration will pit the APGA national chairman against former governor of Anambra State, Senator Chris Ngige the incumbent senator representing the senatorial dis­trict.

Triumph Story Of Anambra Song Mistress---Agatha Onyinye Ibeazor

Agatha Onyinye Ibeazor, a graduate of the MUSON School of Music, Onikan, Lagos, is a living testimony that the darkest night often reveals the bright star.

She lost her dad at the age of four and faced a tough struggle for survival, along  with her widowed mum and other four siblings. Not even her mother’s diligent hands could ease the  stranglehold of hardship on her family.

What 160 Parents , 57 Escape Girls Of Chibok Schoolgirls , Escapees Told Jonathan

Information that almost 100 days after the over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped from their hostel at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, some 160 parents of the abducted girls as well as 57 of the students who escaped from their captors,  met with President Goodluck Jonathan today at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Massive Corruption Behind $1 Loan

THE All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, cautioned against issuing President Goodluck a carte blanche on the funding of the battle against insurgency in the country, saying he could use such financial empowerment to further cripple the nation’s democracy.
The party was reacting to the president’s request to the National Assembly for $1 billion loan to fight the Boko Haram insurgency.

GROUP SUBMITS BILL FOR REGISTRATION OF SOUTHERNERS IN KADUNA

           A Non-Governmental Organization, Concerned Arewa Citizens, yesterday submitted a bill to the Kaduna State House of Assembly for the registration and issuance of work permit to all Southerners living in the state.

A similar bill was last week sent to the Kano State House of Assembly. Presenting the bill to Speaker of the House, Alhaji Shehu Tahir, President-General of the group, Audu Bulama Bukarti, said the “Registration of Southerners and Allied Matters Bill”, seeks to protect the state from the evils of drugs and human trafficking, kidnappings, baby factories, armed robbery, importation of firearms, pipeline vandalism and other terrorist activities, which he said have become prevalent in Southern Nigeria.

2015 ELECTION: PDP Replies Atiku

    

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), National Working Committee (NWC), has declared that former vice-president Atiku Abubakar was keeping wrong company ahead of 2015 general elections.
Atiku had on Sunday accused the PDP and the Presidency of creating division and animosity in the country by linking chieftains of All Progressives Congress (APC), with terrorism. The former vice-president noted that such accusations by the ruling party was meant to divert attention from its failure to deliver democracy dividends to Nigerians.