Ogeneukwu Na Nkpola Icho

Whenever our king, Eze Aro, speaks we know. The tone of his voice and the language of his speech are familiar to us. Eze Aro’s words are normally laced with care, peace and love but never jumbled with malice, conflict and hate. He is always concerned with things that will bring progress to his kingdom. […]

Okpankpo Aro, the highest traditional governance council in Aro kingdom socio-cultural and development setting was founded by the late legend Eze Aro, Mazi Kanu Oji, CFR, at about 1934 to mark his twenty years of been crowned Eze Aro in 1914. Before then, there were some other Arochukwu Native Authorty councils such as Council of

Arochukwu, a very important ancient kingdom in Igbo land, has been in Abia state from the beginning since 1991 when the state was carved out from the old Imo state which was also created out of the defunct East Central State of Nigeria on 3rd February, 1976. Since these 40 years (1976 to 2016), Arochukwu

Now; the heated political electoral war that had hitherto enveloped Nigeria, Abia, oh! Arochukwu is almost over. And so, it does no longer matter which political party we in Aro had sympathy for at the beginning of this very political regime. It does not even matter who those that voted in each of the past

About two weeks ago, I received an email from Aro carnival organizers requesting me to deliver a key note address at the unveiling of a mascot for this year’s Aro carnival event holding in December 2015. This year’s event, the second in series, is sure to be bigger and better because it is been preceded

Nzuko Arochukwu as now constituted came into existence in 1981 when the legend late Eze Aro, Mazi Kanu Oji, CFR, urged the Aro people (umuaro) to come together under one umbrella named Nzuko Arochukwu, structured into two wings, namely: Nzuko Arochukwu men’s wing and Nzuko Arochukwu women’s wing with each wing having its own separate

Finally on 2nd January 2015, Aro Leaderships (in this case, Nzuko Aro National Patrons and Aro traditional Leaders) signed a very important document that has successfully put to rest certain conflicting issues that had hitherto almost torn Aro kingdom apart. Before then, for a very long time, there existed a sad environment of hate or