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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
The numerous activities of armed robbers have increased in the commercial city of Onitsha in recent times as the men of the underworld have held residents and traders of the city under siege for the past one week. Daily Sun gathered that gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have been terrorizing the residents and traders […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Anambra State government, yesterday, called on the Federal Government to review upwards its monthly allocation from N2 billion to N5 billion to enable it pay the N18,000 national minimum wage. In a statement by the Commissioner for Information, Chief Maja Umeh, government said the present wage bill with the N7,500 minimum wage paid workers stood […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
The former Archbishop and the Metropolitan of the Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Most Revd Dr. Albert Obiefuna has passed on after a protracted illness. Daily Sun gathered that Archbishop Obiefuna died yesterday in an undisclosed hospital after battling with cancer for so many years after his retirement as the Archbishop of Onitsha Arch Diocese. Though there […]
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Anambra, INEC Politics, State News
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday issued certificates of return to elected officials in the 2011 general election in Anambra State amidst tight security with only Dr. Andy Uba of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) being the only senator-elect present. The fear of chaos necessitated INEC inviting security agencies including the military to man the […]
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Anambra, Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
SOBBING pervaded Government House, Awka on Thursday evening at a special service for Mrs. Agnes Ezennadozie, a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, from Anambra State who was murdered during the post -presidential election riot in Bauchi. The service drew a large crowd of sympathisers, many of whom were members of NYSC serving […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
For those who knew her, it would have been better passed as an April Fool joke as the news filtered on April 1, that Ngozi Ogbe, nee Obetta, had died. Ngozi had lived in refuse dump for 25 years, where she delivered and nurtured a son, but was retrieved and rehabilitated by a Catholic sister. […]
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Anambra, Bauchi, Governors, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Anambra Governor Peter Obi has said his administration did not abandon stranded youth corps members from the state during the post-election crises in some parts of the North. He described the allegation that he abandoned the corps members in Bauchi as baseless. Obi spoke yesterday in Awka through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]
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Anambra, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News, Top Stories
Friday, April 29th, 2011
Miss Vivian Chidinma Anumba is one of the lucky corps members who survived the recent Bauchi mayhem, where many young people serving their fatherland were butchered. The female corps member, who hails from Uzoako community, in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, read Banking and Finance at Federal Polytechnic, Oko and was serving at […]
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Anambra, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

New Nigerian Politics that confirm that ex Anambra Governor Dr. Chris Ngige has defeated Prof. Dora Akunyili in a NASS election re-vote in Anambra Central senatorial district. Details of Ngige’s win are still coming in but an electoral officer who spoke to NNP stated that the people voted enmass for the former governor much out […]
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Anambra, Elections 2011, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The political crisis in northern Nigeria is taking a huge toll on the lives of the residents of Onitsha. Both consumers and traders in foodstuff that comes from the north are lamenting the drop in their businesses, as Hausa and Fulani traders that bring livestock to the state have stopped supply. The Hausa traders, had […]