The build- up to Nzuko Aro general elections is gradually picking momentum. In less than a year, a new executive committee of the influential cultural and development union will emerge to pilot the affairs of our community. Not surprisingly, there is a resurgence of interest in the election as demonstrated by the swelling number of […]
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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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On the wee hours of the night of 1st January, 2015, while Aro citizens were celebrating the New Year, a band of dare- devil armed robbers stormed the Arochukwu branch of the First Bank of Nigeria and robbed it for over an hour. In the course of their operation, innocent citizens who ran into their
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Many Nigerians woke up in the morning of the 11th April, full of apprehension. Their apprehension could be explained because on that day, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was scheduled to conduct the governorship and State House of Assembly elections in 29 of the 36 states of the federation. Reason being that the tenure
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The history of kidnapping in Nigeria can be traced to the late 90s. After the Abacha one-million man march, which saw a convergence of Nigerian youths across the six geo-political zones in the federation; the youths from Niger Delta region were astonished at their discovery. As the story was told, the N’Delta boys thought that
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The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), in the April 11, 2015 election in Abia State, Dr Alex Otti, has vowed to ‘reclaim my mandate stolen by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and its standard bearer, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu,’ who was declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on
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When the 2015 general elections commenced and a few sons and daughters of Arochukwu origin showed interest at various levels, many Aros had welcomed the development and hoped that such candidates would win. Under the arrangement, two candidates emerged from Atani (Arochukwu). Hon. MAO Ohuabunwa (of the PDP) was contesting to become the senator for
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The 2015 general elections have been won and lost, have come and have gone, but the wounds inflicted on unity of Aro is still fresh and open in our minds and actions. The bone of contention was the interest of four prominent Aro sons who contested the elections for various positions. While many pitched their
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Dr Alex Otti, an accomplished banker and the standard bearer of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), is a frontrunner jn the Abia governorship race. Recently, he fielded questions from newsmen in his Library Road Campaign Office in Umauhia. He broached on issues concerning the dual governorship candidacy of APGA in Abia, allegations by the state
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Q:You are one of the Governorship aspirants in Abia state . How do you assess the current Governor Theodore Orji in the areas of infrastructural development in the State? A: The best way to describe what has happened in Abia for the past 16 years, not just eight years of Theodore Orji, is to
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