The Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) has declared the results of the state’s local government elections it conducted on Saturday with the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) winning all the 21 local council chairmanship seats. The commission’s chairman, Genevieve Osakwe, announced the results in Awka late Sunday. According to Osakwe, APGA also won the councilorship positions in each local …

Young athletes took to the track on day four of the 2024 National Youth Games (NYG) in Asaba, with Team Ondo and Anambra producing the champions in the boys and girls 100 metres events, respectively. Team Ondo’s Olumide Ibikunle delivered a clutch performance in the boys final, coming through with a big performance to win the gold with a time …

Ahead of the 28 September local government election, the Anambra State House of Assembly has amended the State Electoral (Amendment No 3) Law 2024. The state House of Assembly passed the amendment during plenary in Awka, the state capital, on Thursday thereby becoming the third time state Electoral Law was amended this year in precisely the last one month. The …

Rampaging hoodlums have killed one person and abducted three others in Anambra State at the weekend. The dare-devils who carried the attacks at different parts of the state on Saturday at about 8 pm killed a petrol station attendant at St. Michael’s Secondary School junction, Nimo, Njikoka LGA of the State. The hoodlums had thereafter abducted and taken away the …

The Anambra State Local Government Service Commission said it has discovered over 427 ghost workers earning salaries from the state government without being staff members. The Chairman of the Commission, Vin Ezeaka, disclosed this to journalists in Awka, the Anambra state capital, on Friday. Ezeaka said the commission also discovered that six senior employees at the various local government areas …

The retired Commissioner of Police (CP) in Anambra State, Aderemi Adeoye has recounted how he fought the dreaded Niger Delta militants, the Book Haram terrorists in the North East and the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), insurgents in the South East and survived all of them without a scar. Speaking during his pullout ceremony at the Alex Ekwueme Square in …

Residents of Onitsha in Anambra State have commended the aggressive efforts of Governor Soludo’s administration towards infrastructural development in the state, especially road construction. Speaking over the recent fabricated and syndicated falsehood on a purported washed-off part of the 2.3 kilometres of Ochanja Road, a resident who has a shop owner near the affected spot being sensationalised by certain persons, …

Pensioners, who retired from the Local Government Service of Anambra State from 2015 to 2019, yesterday, held a prayer session to mourn four of their colleagues, who allegedly died as a result of their unpaid benefits. The prayer session was to seek God’s intervention to avert more deaths and to survive what they described as the inhuman conditions and intimidation …

Anambra State has continued with its winning streak in educational competitiveness, as one of its indigenes has been declared the best candidate in the category of visually impaired students in Nigeria in the 2022 Senior Secondary School Certificate examination, conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). Miss Precious Nzube Mbajiorgu, who wrote the examination at St John of God …

The Anambra State government has finally demolished the dreaded “Olulu Eke Deity” in Ekwulobia, Aguata local government area of the state to make way for the construction of a flyover at the popular Ekwulobia roundabout. It was gathered that the Olulu Eke deity held significant reverence among its worshippers in the surrounding communities in Aguata, which was why many people …