All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chief Ike Mbonu, the Udemba of Nibo in Awka South Local Govern-ment Area Anambra, died on Tuesday in a motor accident on the Enugu-Awka express-way.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Nigeria: DFID, Anambra, Others, to Partner on Eradication of MalariaVincent UjumaduAwkaThree states, Anambra, Lagos and Kano, have been selected for the pilot programme by the Department for International Development (DFID) for the eradication of the malaria scourge in Nigeria.Eight states would eventually participate in the programme. A member of the British parliament and chief executive of...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Nigeria: U.S. to Assist Anambra on AgoaVincent UjumaduAwkaThe United States of America is to assist Anambra State in the area of micro credit, micro finance, educational exchange and trading within the mechanisms of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the US ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Robin Renee Sanders, has said.Exchanging views with Governor Peter Obi at the Government House, Awka,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
Nigeria: 'Peace in Anambra PDP Depends on Stakeholders'15 September 2008Vincent UjumaduAwkawAS the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Vincent Ogbulafor inaugurates the Prof. Jerry Gana-led peace committee to try again at resolving the crisis in the party in Anambra State, a governorship aspirant of the party in the 2007 election, Chief Ikenna Azomchine has said that...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
NNAMDI Azikiwe University, Awka has established linkages with some renowned universities abroad in order to improve the quality of its academic programmes, the acting vice chancellor, Professor Boniface Egboka has said.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday carpeted the Federal Government for withholding since 1992 the N500million naira take-off grants meant for the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday carpeted the Federal Government for withholding since 1992 the N500million naira take-off grants meant for the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
NNAMDI Azikiwe University, Awka has established linkages with some renowned universities abroad in order to improve the quality of its academic programmes, the acting vice chancellor, Professor Boniface Egboka has said.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Sixteen years after it was taken over by the Federal Government, the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has not gotten any take-off grant from the authorities, the acting Vice-Chancellor (V-C), Prof. Boniface Egboka, has complained.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
AWKA- THE communal feud at Umunze in Orumba South local government area of Anambra State has taken a new dimension with the two warring groups storming the Government House, Awka, asking the state government to intervene in the matter to avoid total breakdown of law and order.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
THE coordinator of Anambra State Traffic Agency (ASTA), Colonel Sam Onwueteka (rtd), has raised alarm over what he called "sponsored plot and conspiracy to blackmail" the agency so as to stop the good work of decongesting Anambra's commercial cities of Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Nigeria: Confusion Mars Anambra PDP Rescheduled CongressCONFUSION marred the rescheduled ward congress of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State yesterday leading to the postponement of the exercise in two out the three senatorial zones.Former governor of the old Anambra State, Senator Jim Nwobodo, who headed the reconciliation committee of the party for the South East had stormed Awka...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Nigeria: Intercontinental Bank Awards Varsity Scholarship to 502 September 2008Vincent UjumaduAwkaINTERCONTINENTAL Bank Plc has offered university scholarship to 50 indigenes of Anambra State, which the chairman of the bank, Dr. Raymond Obieri, said is part of its corporate social responsibility. It was the second time the bank was offering scholarship to indigenes of the state.Obieri, who announced...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... zone to protest "the continued marginalization of Ndigbo by the Nigerian federation."The Awka Regional administrator of the Movement, Comrade Edeson Samuel, told Daily Champion yesterday on telephone that every arrangement had been put in place to ensure the success of the exercise.He said that all the market leaders, industrialists, transporters, Okada riders, bank managers and the clergy...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
A hydro-geologist and Acting Vice Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka, Professor Boniface Egboka, has said if the perennial devastation of the Anambra environment by flood is not properly checked, the state may be obliterated from the map of Nigeria in the next 20 years.
