As Soludo’s Campaign got a boost with the return of Ibezi

 

By Ejike Anyaduba

The homecoming and mega rally of September 20, 2025, held at the Christ the King Catholic Church field, Abatete, Idemili North LGA, Anambra State, was not just any other rally in the campaign effort of Governor Charles Soludo. It was one that shifted the dial. The homecoming of former House of Representatives member, Hon. Ifeanyichukwu Ibezi (Ochiagha Idemili) to the All Progressives grand Alliance (APGA) was all that was needed to give impetus to Soludo’s re-election effort and dim any hope of the opposition winning the biggest constituency in the state, come November 8.

EFCC grills Sujimoto CEO over N5.7b ‘contract fraud’*

Passport seized, accounts frozen_

For hours yesterday,  the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)  grilled the Chief Executive Officer of Sujimoto Luxury Construction Limited, Sijibomi  Ogundele  in Abuja over alleged diversion of about N5.7 billion belonging to Enugu State.

There were indications he might be detained because the quizzing was ongoing as at 8pm.

NAWOJ FCT Congratulates Stella Din Jacob on Her Appointment as Executive Director, News – NTA

 

The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), FCT Chapter, warmly congratulates Stella Din Jacob on her well-deserved appointment as the Executive Director, News, of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

A trailblazer in Nigeria’s media landscape, Stella Din Jacob has consistently demonstrated excellence and integrity. 

Amaka Obi Lifts 700 Families From Poverty In Idemili-South

 

RAYMOND OZOJI reports 

In yet another display of responsible and people-oriented leadership, Chief Mrs. Iyom Amaka Obi PhD the Chairman of Idemili-South Local Government Area of Anambra State has lifted 700 families from poverty and squalor. 

Fidelity Bank In Partnership With JDPC Awka Diocese Distributes Food Items to Over 600 Vulnerable People in Anambra

...Bishop Ezeokafor Hails Fidelity Bank, Urges Others to Follow Suit

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu 

Fidelity Bank Plc, in conjunction with the Justice Development and Peace Caritas (JDPC), Awka Diocese, on Thursday, 14th August, 2025, distributed different food items to over 600 vulnerable people in Anambra State. 

2025 NUJ Man of Year Award/ Press Week Grand Finale: Committee Reels Out Activities

 

  By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu 

2025 NUJ Anambra State Council Man of the Year Award/ Press Week Committee has reeled out activities to mark the celebrations. 

 Speaking during a press conference, which is part of activities marking the 2025 NUJ Man of The Year Award and Press Week, the Chairman of the Committee,  Comrade Ekpone Francis Emeka said the Press Week is an annual ritual where journalists and other media professionals  highlight the importance of journalism and the role of the press in society, noting that it was a period when journalists reflect on their responsibilities, discuss challenges, and promote ethical and responsible reporting.

St. Martin Catholic Church Ihiala Confers Nneoma Title On Mrs. Elizabeth Okoye

RAYMOND OZOJI reports

Chief Mrs. Elizabeth Okoye a.k.a Dibumma was amongst over 50 women recognized by St. Martin Catholic Church Ihiala in Anambra State on August 9th 2025 for their impeccable personalities and outstanding leadership roles in their respective families and the society at large. 

Mrs. Okoye who hails from Umumeri Uzoakwa Ihiala was filled with joy and ecstasy as families, friends and well-wishers travelled from far and near to celebrate her on the special occasion of her investiture as NNEOMA which means a good mother. 

Enugu: APC Leaders Condemn Attack on Party, Disruption of Rally by Alleged PDP Agents

 Give State Govt, PDP 24 Hours to Own Up or Condemn Attack

Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Enugu State have condemned attack on party members and destruction of canopies and plastic seats by alleged agents of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in an attempt to forestall a reception rally for defectors into APC at St. Charles Catholic Church field, Opi, Nsukka at the weekend.

Tariff Slash: EERC Moves to Resolve Sudden Power Supply Shortages*

. _As EEDC blames “code coverage conflicts and related glitches”_

The Enugu State Electricity Regulatory Commission, EERC, says it is taking steps to resolve the sudden electricity supply shortages that have plunged parts of the country into an acute power shortage.

How Police Allegedly Aided APC Thugs To Manhandle ANSAA Officials On Enforcement Duty In Anambra

 

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka 

It was a narrow escape for Engr. Chika Ngobili, the Chief Enforcement Officer of the Anambra State Signage and Advertisement Agency (ANSAA) and his enforcement team at Nri, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state where thugs and supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) allegedly manhandled them while carrying out their lawful duties of removing unauthorized political campaign materials. 

Diaspora community leader says Nigerians, Nigerian businesses safe, intact, secured in Ghana

 

A leader of Nigeria community in Ghana, Chief Chukwuemeka Nnaji, says Nigerians and Nigerian businesses remained safe, intact and secured in Ghana in spite of a mischievous viral social media post.

Nnaji, who is the immediate past President of the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana (NUTAG), disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu on Thursday via cell phone.

MainPower rolls out mass MAP prepaid metering programme in Enugu

 

The MainPower Electricity Distribution Limited (MEDL) says it will roll out mass prepaid meters via mobile Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Metering Programme across its network in Enugu State.

The Head, Corporate Communications, MEDL, Mr Emeka Ezeh, in a statement on Monday in Enugu, noted that the MAP metering programme was meant to fast-track metering process for unmetered customers in the state.

PDP mortgaged our future not APC - ex-DG VON Okechukwu

The former Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu, has said that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) should be held liable for mortgaging the future of Nigeria and not the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

I am Fully Loaded With Developmental Ideas - AA Candidate

.Vows To Change Narrative in Governance 

 By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu 

The Governorship candidate of Action Alliance (AA) for Anambra State 2025 gubernatorial poll, Ozo Jeff Nweke, on Tuesday, 29th July 2025, has described himself as the best candidate to change the narrative in governance, even as he urged the voters to shun those he described as wolves in sheep's clothing.

Anambra State ICT Agency MD/CEO, Agbata Eulogizes Governor On His 65th Birthday

  By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu 

The Managing Director (MD) and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Anambra ICT Agency, Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata (CFA) has showered encomuims on the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, on his 65th birthday anniversary celebration.

Encomium as Deputy Commander General of NDLEA, Momodu Bows Out of Service

TRIBUTE

LINUS ALEKE writes that colleagues, friends, public office holders, and well-wishers have poured encomiums on the former Deputy Commander General of NDLEA, Sule Momodu, as he bows out of service after over three decades of meritorious service to the fatherland.

GOVERNOR SOLUDO APPOINTS MR. JOACHIN ACHOR AS ACTING ACCOUNTANT GENERAL

The Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has approved the appointment of Mr. Joachin Chinedum Achor as Acting Accountant General of Anambra State, effective immediately.

Awujale’s burial and Aso Rock’s graveyard politics

 

Festus Adedayo

“Why should I bother myself with what is done to my body when I die? Oyomesi (the council of seven high-ranking chiefs in the Oyo Empire) knows what to do with my body!” That was what immediate past Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi 111, told me in his palace, a few weeks before he journeyed to Ibara - where Oyo buries its kings. He was furious with Ogun State traditional rulers. His grouse was with the Obas and Chiefs Law of 2021. That law has aberrant stipulations that are repugnant to tradition and customs. One of them is the provision stipulating that traditional rulers can be buried according to their religious dispositions. 

 

BREAKING... Enugu Electricity Regulatory Commission Issues New Tariff, Crashes Band A from N209 to N160 Per Kwh

 

..._Freezes Bands B, C, D and E Tariffs_

The Enugu State Electricityv Regulatory Commission (EERC), has issued a new tariff to MainPower Electricity Distribution Limited, the utility that succeeded Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, (EEDC), for electricity distribution in the state, reviewing electricity cost for Band A from N209/ kWh (per kiloWatt) to N160 kWh, effective from August 1, 2025.

Anambra 2025: Court reserves July 23 for judgement on Ozigbo's suit against Prince Ukachukwu's guber nomination

......as Ozigbo admits Ikukuoma's nomination followed due process 

The Federal High Court sitting in Awka has fixed July 23,2025 for judgement in the suit brought before it by Chief Valentine Ozigbo, a defeated aspirant for the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the party's April primary election.

Buhari Dies In London Hospital at Age 82

Former President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday afternoon passed on in a London hospital.

A two-paragraph statement issued on Sunday by his spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, announced the demise of ex-President Buhari.

COOU Boils as Varsity Community Questions Commissioner for Education Involvement In the Election of Senate Representatives to Joint Council/Senate Committee for the Selection of Substantive VC, Accuses Her of Lying Against Governor Soludo, Usurpation of University Senate's Powers

...Describes role as illegal 

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Anambra State has been thrown into a serious pandemonium and chaos following the alleged involvement of the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Ude in the election of Senate Representatives to Joint Council/Senate Committee for Selection of Substantive Vice-Chancellor of the citadel of learning, even as the University community accused her of lying against the Visitor of the University, Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, CFR. 

The Light is Back,” Chimamanda Hails Enugu’s Strides Under Gov Mbah*

*Says Enugu Smart Schools initiative a shining example of way forward

Globally renowned author and public speaker, Chimamanda Adichie, has commended the positive developments in Enugu under the Governor Peter Mbah Administration, saying the state’s dark times were over.

ECOWAS partners Anambra in Phase Two of Youths’ training on TAENPROWIZ Fish Production Business System and Technology

Kenechukwu Ofomah

Awka

Two hundred youths in Anambra State are to be trained on the TAENPROWIZ Fish Production Business System and Technology under the second phase of the ECOWAS Commission and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Value Chain Business Development Partnership, otherwise known as the Taenprowiz Production System and Technology Partnership Center, Anambra State anchored by FABDA with legs at the Adazi-Nnukwu Fish Production Village Business franchise and the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam.

MacRose Foundation Set to Uplift the Needy, Sick Persons, to Marks One Year Anniversary

 

By Ifeizu Joe 

A Non Governmental Organisation, MacRose Pleasant Humanitarian  Foundation, has commenced plans to hold its second health Outreach in Anambra State.

The Foundation with the motto: Helping The Less Privileged, was founded in July 2024, and held its first medical outreach in April this year, where it offered treatment to about 400 people with various ailments. 

NFSS Seeks Collaborations With Southeast Governors To Fight Forest Crimes

 

The Nigeria Forest Security Service (NFSS) says collaborations and partnerships with governors of the Southeast states will greatly help to fight forest crimes for grassroots transformation and rural development in the region. 

Commander-General of the NFSS Dr. Joshua Wole Osatimehin stated this at the closing session of the NFSS nationwide sensitization visit to all its zonal commands held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium Enugu. 

South East Group: Marriage with PDP a Nightmare, Roots for Political Realignment*

 _Says Ndigbo have no future in PDP_

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for alleged serial injustice against the region, describing the zone's marriage with the main opposition party as nightmarish.

 The group urged leaders of the party in the region to seek political alignment outside of the party ahead of the 2027 general election, maintaining  that the region has no future in the PDP.

Federal lawmaker donates mobile labs, renovates existing lab in Enugu school

 

The Member Representing Enugu North and South Federal Constituency, Hon. Chimaobi Atu, has donated three smart mobile laboratories and  renovated existing laboratory hall in Comprehensive Secondary School, Akwuke, Enugu.

The Federal lawmaker also donated laboratory long tables, stools, customised laboratory self-learn guide booklets, laboratory coats and other laboratory consumables; and equipping of the newly renovated laboratory hall of the school with laboratory items.

Presenting the smart mobile laboratories to the school, Atu said that the initiative was part of his intervention tagged: Renovation and Installation of Mobile Smart Laboratories in Selected School in Enugu North and South Federal Constituency.

Divine Rays British School wins big in UTME and SMASE competition

 Ejike Anyaduba

The Divine Rays British School (DRBS), Obosi, Anambra state has achieved yet another remarkable feat with the release of the just concluded 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The school which is barely eight years old and sitting for its third UTME has ten of its students scoring 300 marks and above in the examination.

Akpabio, Deputy endorse Ukachukwu, in line with President Tinubu's charge to connect Anambra to the Center

 

The agenda to get Anambra State connected to the centre through the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC during the November 8 Governorship Election gathered momentum on Friday, as the APC Governorship candidate for the election, Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu was endorsed by the APC Senate caucus.

President Bola Tinubu's Two Years of Resolute Reforms in a Tenuous Republic

 

By Sir Paul Chukwuma 

A close confidant once remarked, during the crescendo of the 2023 general elections, that it would take a “mad man” to aspire to lead Nigeria at such a perilous juncture. His words were less hyperbole and more diagnosis: Nigeria, at that time, represented the archetype of a “wicked problem”; a multidimensional crisis with no easy resolution and several painful trade-offs. To him, the presidency was a poisoned chalice; any occupant was fated for disillusionment and the slow erosion of political capital.

NFSS Backs Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda On Forest Security

 

...As DCG Intelligence Gets Recognition 

RAYMOND OZOJI reports

The Nigeria Forest Security Service (NFSS) says that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Renewed Hope Agenda on forest security is a task that must be pursued with the vigor and vitality it truly deserves inorder to secure as well as protect the forests from brigands and undesirable elements. 

Why Present And Past Governors Of Anambra State Should Get Along

By UCHE Nworah PhD

This past week, the former Governor of Old Anambra state, Jim Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo, clocked 85 years. I was in secondary school at the College of Immaculate Conception (CIC) Enugu when Jim was governor. This was before the creation of states. Anambra state then included today’s Ebonyi state, Enugu state, and the new Anambra state. This means that Jim, as he is fondly called, had a larger territory to govern. 

Aso Rock’s voodoo statistics and my friend, Al Venter

 

Festus Adedayo 

A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never knew it was Providence’s own way of anticipating Nigerian Aso Rock’s nauseating historical revisionism. History’s embrace had come by the way of a terse mail I received from foremost online medium, Premium Times. The newspaper had been sent an enquiry from a South African British author on February 7, 2025, “wanting to make contact with one of your Op-Ed writers, Festus Adedayo.” The enquirer described himself as “an old Africa hand (who) lived and worked in Nigeria…(who) also wrote (a book) on the Nigerian civil war”. I immediately proceeded to make contact with the British author. One thing led to the other and the enquirer and I were glued together by Thoth, the Egyptian mythological god of writing. He then couriered to me a copy of his recent book with the title, Takka Takka Bom Bom: A South African Correspondent’s Story (2022).

BREAKING: Innocent Okoli Returned as Uruagu Community President-General; Mbazuluike Iloka Wins Vice President General Position

 

In a significant electoral event held today, Innocent Okoli has emerged as the winner of the Uruagu Community President-General election, securing 130 votes to lead the community for the upcoming term. Additionally, Mbazuluike Iloka was elected as Vice President-General, promising to support the President in bolstering leadership and development efforts across the 15 constituent communities.

House of Reps Presents N18m Cheque to Victims of Enugu Tanker Explosion

… _As Mbah extols Speaker Abbas for compassionate leadership style_

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, Tuesday, presented a cheque for N18 million to the Enugu State Government as support to the victims of the January 25 petrol tanker explosion at Ugwu Onyeama on the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, which claimed several lives.

Enugu govt, Private investor sign MoU to develop Lion Business Park*

Enugu State Government and the Management of the Lion Business Park have signed a novation Memorandum of Understanding for the new Enugu Lion Business Park Limited.

Performing the function in his office, the State governor, Dr Peter Mbah said the project will leverage the incentives associated with doing business in a Free Trade Zone to attract foreign direct investments, promote human capital, innovation and technology development as well as create jobs for shared economic prosperity for Enugu State, the South-East Geo-political Zone and Nigeria at large.

*A DIALOGUE IN ACCOUNTABILITY: SOLUDO TAKES SCORE CARD TO EU/UK NDI ANAMBRA*

By Christian ABURIME 

If charity, as they say, begins at home, then accountability as a governance virtue must also be shown first at home before being trumpeted to the world. 

Since last month, when his administration clocked three years, the Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has been regaling Ndi Anambra with reports of his scintillating performance. 

Nigerian leaders as CBEX Ponzi chancers

 

Festus Adedayo 

On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis, British historian and Africanist, compared Nigerian politics to con artistry. Their practices, he said, were not different from acts of fabulists and fraudsters. Ellis’ take on Nigerian leaders synchronizes with a Henry Louis Gate’s The New Yorker piece of September 25, 1995. With the title, “Powell and the Black Elite,” the piece quoted ex-American Secretary of State, Colin Powell, as saying, “Nigerians as a group, frankly, are marvellous scammers… I mean, it is in their natural culture.”

Igweship crisis: Anambra community boils over plan to crown monarch, Soludo, CP, urged to intervene

There is crisis currently in Ihite community in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State over plan to crown a monarch for the community.

It was gathered that a section of the community loyal to the President General, Mr George Madu plans to crown chief Timothy Ifurunwa as king on Easter Saturday, a move that members of the traditional council of the community has vowed to vehemently reject, describing Ifurunwa as an illegal monarch.

Soludo To Construct Another Strategic Road In Umueri

 

RAYMOND OZOJI reports

The Executive Governor of Anambra State His Excellency Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo has assured the people of Umueri community in Anambra-East Local Government Area of the state that Ugwu-Oyi road will be constructed in no distant time. 

Enugu: Edeoga Dumps LP, Returns to PDP, Extols Mbah’s Leadership*

The 2023 governorship candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in Enugu State, Hon. Chijioke Edeoga, has returned to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Recall that Edeoga had met with the leadership of Enugu State PDP behind closed doors on January 31, fueling speculations about his possible return to his former party.

Tinubu is the law!

 

Festus Adedayo

"Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law." Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above.

In Nigeria of a little more than a week ago, they all came in quick successions: A National Assembly where libido ran riot; a son who said his father was Nigeria’s best president; a corps member who condemned that same father as terrible and that president, when he wakes up and looks at the mirror, like Banda, sees himself as “the law”. In the hands of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria appears to have become one complex, complicated web of mess and intrigues. When a people suffer such plague of multiple, endless afflictions, my people deploy a phrasal description to denote it. So, they compare such situation to an “egbinrin òtè”. Egbinrin òtè is a situation that defies solution. It scorns the biblical exhortation that affliction would not rise a second time. Under Tinubu’s egbinrin òtè Nigeria, afflictions come in multiple folds. Literally, egbinrin òtè is leaves of conspiracy. In usage, however, it is a scary, endless tale of repetitive sorrow. The affliction is sustained by a coldblooded-ness or bloodlessness. When you cut a leaf out of the branch of this tree, another sprouts immediately. In manifestation, you can compare an egbinrin òtè situation to the biblical cursed fig tree, doomed to bring out a sap of sorrow. 

Ebube Muonso: Priest with unusual charisma

By Ejike Anyaduba

Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma, a.k.a Ebube Muonso of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra state, does not need introduction. He is a household name with an Adoration Ministry that is venerated for years as solution ground by Catholics and non-Catholics in search of spiritual and physical needs.  The number of worshippers that throng the Uke Adoration ground every Friday from across the states, excluding virtual participants, bespeaks of the priest as a man of unusual charisma.    

End To Erosion Menace: NEWMAP- EIB Team Inspects Designated Sites In Anambra, Lauds Soludo

 

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu 

Following Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s efforts geared towards reclaiming major parts of Anambra State lands ravaged by gully erosion, a team of experts from the European Investment Bank (EIB) assisted Nigeria Climate Adaptation Erosion and Watershed Project (NEWMAP-EIB), led by the National Project Coordinator, Engr. Anda Ayuba Yalaks, on Tuesday, 11th March 2025, visited some designated sites in the state to ascertain the level of the environmental degradation caused by the menace. 

IWD: Linda Metchie Celebrates Anambra Women, Lauds Nonye Soludo's Healthy Living Initiative

RAYMOND OZOJI reports 

Wife of the President-General of Umueri community Anambra-East Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Linda John Metchie has described women as very strong pillars of the families and the society at large. 

Mrs. Metchie who made the description during a special programme she organized to celebrate women in this year's International Women's Day Celebration, stressed the need for women to always see themselves as change agents, character molders, role models and pillars of support to their husbands and families. 

Did Soludo Approve N500m For Media War Against Attackers, Opposition?

 

As November 8, 2025 governorship election draws closer, Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra state has reportedly approved five hundred million naira for propaganda and coordinated media attack against his attackers and the opposition elements.

Top targets, according to the information, are the Spiritual Director of the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, Anambra state, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma (Fr. Ebube Muonso) and a number of other opposition elements, especially within the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Labour Party (LP), who the governor is said to have perceived as his top attackers.

Re-Fr. Ebube Muonso and the tragedy of ego

 

Ubaka Okwusogu

While scanning through the internet I chanced upon an article titled: Ebube Muonso and the tragedy of ego written by a certain Henry Chigozie Duru of the Mass Communication Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. It was an overly presumptuous piece.   

Supremacy of Jesus Christ: Pastor Challenges Native Doctor In Anambra

 

Prominent Pentecostal cleric, Dr. Jerry Nwachukwu, has challenged one Mathias Ezeaku, a native doctor, to supremacy contest in Anambra state.

Dr. Nwachukwu, Senior Pastor of the Bible Base Miracle Assembly, Nkpor-Agu, said he was upset that Mathias Ezeaku, a native doctor, took to the social media to say that Jesus Christ has no power to heal the sick, make the lame walk or make the barren to conceive, among other claims.

OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR SOLUDO

 OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR SOLUDO

Ubaka Okwusogu

Dear Governor,

I write to convey my worries which are not totally different from the concerns of the silent majority who are shy of communicating same to you. You may never get to know your public rating because of your brand of politics that forbids feedback and encourages echo chamber. You have since assumption of office fought every real and imaginary enemy and seem determined to carry on with the offensive as long as you remain the governor of Anambra state. It does appear there is no restraining you.