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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Other aspirants kick • Okorocha’s role in controversy By EYA WILLY, Lagos and FRED ITUA, Abuja As the clock ticks toward the November 16 governorship race in Anambra State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is mired in confusion over who picks its ticket. The development came following the presentation of Senator Chris Ngige as the […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
An Abuja High Court will today (Friday) hear a motion in which a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and a governorship aspirant of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Prof. Charles Soludo, asked it to set aside his disqualification from the Anambra State gubernatorial election by the party’s screening committee. Soludo and five […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
As Shock, disbelief trail Soludo’s disqualification in APGA ELEVEN ASPIRANTS in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who at the commencement of the congresses pledged to work for the realization of the party’s victory in the gubernatorial polls have taken their collaboration to a higher level. The 11 aspirants Vanguard learnt at the weekend have obtained […]
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Anambra, Lagos, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, August 4th, 2013

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE AND OLASUNKANMI AKONI …No, Fashola should apologise to Obi — APGA LAGOS — All Progressives Congress, APC, Sunday, accused Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, of threatening the country’s unity and whipping up tribal sentiment by sensationalising the recent ‘deportation’ of some indigenes of the state from Lagos. The party in a […]
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Anambra, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Onitsha, on Thursday, experienced another horror, as Anambra State police command arrested 11 persons and discovered two fresh human heads, two military AK47 rifles and two magazines in a hotel (name withheld). Nigerian Tribune gathered that policemen from the Onitsha Area Command, acting on a tip-off, swopped on the hotel located at the bank of […]
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Anambra, General Politics, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Friday, July 26th, 2013

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor They are three senators with a common streak of having been pushed out of office by the courts. Now Senators Chris Ngige, Emma Anosike and Andy Uba are in the frontline in the battle to succeed the outgoing governor of Anambra State. Yesterday, Senator Chris Ngige stole the show in […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
ANAMBRA State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Joe-Martin Uzodike yesterday announced that pensioners who retired from the Anambra State Broadcasting Service (ABS) and National Light Newspapers would be tackled promptly by Governor Peter Obi. Uzodike spoke to newsmen while inspecting the new corporate office of the ABS in Onitsha at Awada Obosi. He […]
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Anambra, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, State News
Friday, July 5th, 2013

Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday bagged the best performing governor on the eradication of polio in the southeast from Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation at a massively attended ceremony at the Women’s Development Centre in Awka. Speaking while presenting the award to Gov Obi which went with a cash prize of N120 million, […]
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Anambra, General Politics, Headlines, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Governor Peter Obi’s declaration of his imminent political retirement is an affirmation of the unusual political steps of the governor in his more than seven years in office“For me, I have come to the end of it; I want to quit and rest,” Governor Peter Obi said in a remark […]
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Anambra, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 1st, 2013

By Tony Edike ENUGU – Chairman of South-East Governors’ Forum and Anambra State Governor, Mr. , said Sunday that he would retire from active politics at the expiration of his second term in February next year. The governor spoke in Enugu during the thanksgiving service and award ceremony to mark the end of the 2nd […]