Tragedy stuck on Friday the 8th of September, 2017 at Asaga village as fire engulfed Cyea filling station. According to an eye witness Mazi Obinna Onwumere Ulo, the accident occurred at about 7pm after the manager of the station pleaded with a road side ‘’Akara woman’’ to put off the fire she was using to […]
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Amoba village and Arochukwu community as a whole was agog recently as the village presented her Eze Ogo, Mazi Kanu Oji Nwokoro to Eze Aro -in- council. This feat was realised after more than a decade vacancy that existed in the Eze Ogo stool. According to the long standing customs and traditions of the Aro,
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The leadership of Obinkita Patriotic Union, Arochukwu has been commended for offering purposeful leadership to the people of Obinkita village, Arochukwu. The commendation was made by Mazi Oji Ogbonnaya Akweke, Ezeogo Obinkita, while receiving in audience the executive committee of OPU who paid him a courtesy visit in his Palace at Obinkita, Arochukwu, recently. Mazi
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On Tuesday, 19 August 2017, a new set of leaders of the home branch of Amuvi Welfare Union, Arochukwu, was elected during the union’s meeting held at the village hall by 11:03am that day. The result of the election exercise showed that Mazi Theophilus O C Igboko emerged the chairman while Omere Okoroji was elected
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Ugwuavor, one of the Aro villages formerly immersed in one controversy or the other, has now become a united and more progressive village, according to Forster Osita Nwosu, a former youth leader, in an exclusive interview with Aro News in Arochukwu. Explaining more during the twenty-minute interview, Forster pointed out that the beautification of the
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The National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of Isimkpu Progressive Union (IPU) ended at the Federal Secretariat building, Aba Road, Port Harcourt, on 22 July 2017 on a day the heaviest rainfall of the year occurred in the Garden City, and which had flooded many parts of the city, or pulled down houses, tenements and other
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The recent membership drive and enlargement campaign embarked upon by the Port Harcourt branch of the Isimkpu Progressive Union, IPU, Arochukwu, has been recording some remarkable successes, as more people now attend the meetings with regard by the call by the chairman, Obinna Onyemuwa, to Isimkpu sons and daughters resident in the town and its
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As the reporter had travelled through the major road that traverses Ugwuakuma through Agbagwu villages in Arochukwu and leads to ‘ime Aro,’ some villagers interviewed were full of praises for the federal government and the company handling the repair of the Arochukwu-Ohafia federal road, Messrs Beks Kimse Nigeria Limited, for tarring the portion of the
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In 2008, a colleague of mine in the Ministry of Environment, in Umuahia, had requested of me for a favour, as he had termed it. He had requested me to take him to Arochukwu for a visit to the historic and the ‘cradle of Igbo cilvilisation’ town. I obliged him readily, and before long, we
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The village of Ugwuakuma, Arochukwu, has been bubbling with economic and social blitz since the return of Beks Kimse Nig. Ltd. to begin work on the Arochukwu-Ohafia federal road the company had abandoned more than one year ago. A visit to the village revealed that since the workers of the coy came to begin the
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