Ikeji Aro is a yam festival celebrated annually to mark the harvest of new yam in Aro. Aro celebrate the festival in the month of September, at times the celebration crows into early months of October. The end of Ikeji does not mark the beginning of another farming season, as it opens a recess that leads into […]
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The immediate past Editorial Board Chairman and a director with Aro News Publications Limited, Mazi Patrick Murphy Asonye has been admitted into the noble fraternity of Knights of St. John International. A seasoned journalist, he is the Saturday Editor of Newswatch Times Newspapers. His career trajectory includes Guardian Newspaper, The Sun Newspaper and National Life
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The family of Elder John Okoronkwo of Amuvi, Arochukwu has announced the demise of the family matriarch, Lady Lydia Daa Okoronkwo at the youthful age of 55 years and 8 months. A scion of the famous Okereke brothers of Amuvi, Arochukwu, Lydia graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, took a master’s degree in Public
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The Central Executive Council meeting of Nzuko Arochukwu took place on Saturday, August 29, 2015 at Margaret School auditorium, Azikiwe Road, Umuahia, hosted by Umuahia branch. Expectedly, executives from many branches of Nzuko Aro were present at the meeting which started around 2pm. Opening remarks were given by the President General and Chairman of Umuahia
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All roads – on August 17, 2015 – led to Sheba Events Centre in Maryland, Lagos, as captains of industries, chief executives of financial institutions, the academia, celebrities, the clergy, in fact, crème-de-la-crème of the Nigerian society and people from all walks of life converged on the above named centre to honour a distinguished Nigerian,
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The Abia State Government has reiterated its commitment to clear the 10 months arrears of salaries owed workers of the Abia State College of Education (Technical’), Arochukwu, with the bail-out funds being released to the state by the Federal government. The amount involved is in the neighbourhood of N14.152 billion. The news was broken to
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His Royal Highness, Mazi Charles Kanu Okoro, Ezeogo Atani Arochukwu, has appointed Mazi Onyema Harbor as his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. Harbor’s appointment was announced by Ezeogo Kanu Okoro during his cabinet meeting recently. Harbor’s appointment took effect from August 27, 2015. Mazi Harbor, a freelance journalist, is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the
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It was dancing and jubilation in the families of Mazi Harbor of Atani, Arochukwu and Nnaji of Otamkpa in Isuikwuato local government areas following the arrival of a new baby for the couple – Mr. and Mrs. Emeka Nnaji. Before then, the couple had waited on the Lord for six years without the fruit of the
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In the same spirit of the moment, Aro Okigbo AROSON, Lagos branch, went to the polls on July 25 this year. The Club elected new officers at a meeting hosted by its Patroness, Barrister (Mrs.) Joy Chiori, at her Apapa residence. The election produced the following officers to serve the Club for the next three
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In what seems like an election wind blowing through branches of Atani Welfare Union, members of the union domiciled in Lagos gathered on July 5, 2015, at Awori Grammar School, Agboju, Amuwo, to elect new officers to pilot its affairs for the next three years. The choice of Awori Grammar School was informed by the
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