Society News

Abiriba-Arochukwu-Ohafia road: Contractor obeys Fashola, returns to site

Construction work has once again picked up on the dilapidated Abiriba-Ohafia-Arochukwu federal highway following directive by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, to the contractor to return to site immediately. Perhaps in response to the hue and cry of the people of Arochukwu, rehabilitation work on the road is beginning […]

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Ogbonnaya Akoma

Arochukwu police preach peace, renovate cells

The police in Arochukwu divisional headquarters, under the leadership of the Abam-born officer, Igodo Agwu Kalu, an amiable fellow, has been doing everything to see that people should always choose the part of peace and amicable resolutions of minor social conflicts within themselves   instead of escalating such conflicts that will attract the attention of the

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Omu Aro

Weeds take over Arochukwu general hospital…workers pledge more dedicated, committed services

Established about fifty years ago, Arochukwu General Hospital had catered for the medical needs of the whole area originally under Arochukwu Division before local governments were created in 1976 by the Obasanjo military regime of that period. And when the late Mazi S G Ikoku became Commissioner for Health, more and the necessary equipment were

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Ohanaeze Ndigbo holds elections in January – Aros urged to participate

As elections are to be conducted to fill offices in the apex pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, beginning from January 2017, a chieftain of the organization in Arochukwu, Mazi Ogbonnaya Michael Akoma, has urged the Aros at home and abroad to belong to the organisation and contest elections in it at the local government, state

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Fulani herdsmen’s invasion of Eze Aro’s compound – Aggrieved citizen petitions police, others

On Monday, 14 November, 2016, a concerned Aro indigene, Emmanuel Emenike, had petitioned the divisional police office in Arochukwu over what he said was ‘Complaint against Fulani herdsmen in Arochukwu Kingdom.’ In that petition made available to Aro News, Mazi Emenike had written, inter alia, that ‘It is with sadness that I write my complaint

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Prof. Nnennaya Kanno

ASCETA creates more depts, affiliates to MOUAU

The management of the Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu (ASCETA), has announced the creation of ten additional departments in the college apart from affiliating it to the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU). By this development, ASCETA now admits students who will obtain the first degree in certain programmes run by that

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Aggrey Memorial

Aggrey Memorial College’s old students association makes a return

Founded in 1932 by Nigeria’s foremost educationist, Dr. Alvan Azinna Ikokwu, Aggrey Memorial College is one of the oldest if not the oldest indigenous secondary school east of the Niger. With the educationist as the pioneer principal of the school, Aggrey Memorial College became the cynosure of all and envy of its contemporaries. The school

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