This is an updated on our earlier report on the ghastly motor accident that occurred Friday morning around Bako Hotel at the Ihiala axis of the Onitsha-Owerri expressway in Anambra State. Giving details of the incident to THE DAILY VENDOR in a statement, the Sector Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps, Anambra State, RC
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Four persons on Thursday survived multiple auto crash in Adazi Ani along Igboukwu-Adazi Road, Anambra state. The accident which occurred around 9am, involved Mitsubishi Bus and a Rovers saloon car. Eye witness account blamed it on over-spending. Confirming the incident, Sector Public Education Officer, Pascal Anigbo, attributed the cause to over loss of control. He
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There is palpable tension in Enugu Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of Anambra state following the alleged killing of a young man on Wednesday night. The deceased was allegedly knocked down by commercial tricycle operator while being chased in the area by a policeman, one Okeke, described as a terror in the Division. The
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Anambra state Signage and Advertisement Agency has ordered the general public particularly landlords that all payments for house numbering should be paid to Anambra state government IGR account, on house numbering. A release signed by the management of the agency, stated that as soon as the inter-state lockdown is relaxed, it will start erecting the
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Anambra state Government has set up a COVID 19 Task Force in each of the twenty-one local government areas in the state for the second phase of community searching A statement released and signed by the Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment C. Don Adinuba, said that each Task Force will be headed
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The Chief Medical Director of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State, Professor Anthony Igwegbe has debunked a news report that the hospital last Sunday recorded one death of Coronavirus patient. He described the report as falsehood, saying that the hospital had never recorded any single positive case for Covid-19 since the
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An Onitsha based businessman, Ben Ubakaeze has placed a demand of N36millon to the management of Iyienu Mission Hospital, Ogidi, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, as a condition to quitting the facility. Ubakaeze, an evangelist and Prayer Director, Chapel of Divine Compassion of the Hospital, but also ran a provision store
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The Ohaneze Ndigbo and the town union leaders in Anambra state on Tuesday warned against infiltration of strange persons from Northern Nigeria to the Southern part of the country, particularly Anambra State and the Southeast. The group warned those behind the wickedness to refrain from the act or have themselves to blame. National President, Anambra
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has confirmed the accreditation of a Covid 19 testing centre in Anambra State. The Accunalysis Diagnostic Centre, Nnewi is the first to be accredited in Anambra State. In a release on NCDC official Twitter handle @ncdc.gov, the country’s leading agency in charge of disease Control and management in
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Anambra state government has inaugurated a ten-man panel of enquiry over farmlands crises between Omor and Umumbo communities in Ayamelum Local Government Area of the state. The Deputy Governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke performed the inauguration on Monday at government house, Awka on behalf of the Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, to look into the issues that
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Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has refuted reports alleging he had been mobilising members of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) to secure the party’s ticket ahead of the November 2021 governorship election in Anambra State. He described the report as “baseless, unfounded, and devoid of an iota of truth,” THE
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Three persons were said to have narrowly escaped being drowned in Anambra State when a Lexus RX300 car was said to have veered off the road slamming into a ditch right next to the river at Agulu Lake in Anaocha Local Government Area of the state. Confirming the incident to THE DAILY VENDOR the Federal
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Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has ordered total restriction of vehicular and human traffic into the state from 8pm to 6pm. He said every movement into the state, including those carrying essential goods and services must wait till the next morning. Obiano in a Special Broadcast on Covid-19, confirmed the new case of the
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The Nigeria Erosion and Water Management Project (NEWMAP), Anambra Office says the contract for control intervention at the massive gully erosion ravaging parts of Agulu, Nanka, Oko were yet to be awarded. NEWMAP made the clarification in a Statement issued by Mr Emeka Achebe, Project’s Communications Officer in Awka Achebe who was reacting to the
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No fewer than 22 houses were swept away by gully erosion at Obeleagu Street and Nkissi Aroli axis in Onitsha Inland Town, Anambra State. THE DAILY VENDOR learnt that the erosion, occasioned by a heavy rainfall the previous day, reportedly claimed property worth hundreds of millions of naira. Many residents were said to have sustained
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