ANAMBRA, Awka First City Monument Bank, FCMB, has donated eight hundred and fifty bags of rice to Anambra State government as part of their palliative to support the State government. The donation was made by the officials of the bank who made available 850 packs of five kilogramme bags of rice to the state government
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ANAMBRA, Awka A community in Anambra State has embarked on a peaceful protest over what they described as encroachment on their ancestral land by their oppressors. The protesters under the aegis of Enugwu-Agidi Brotherly Union, a town under Njikoka Local Government Area of the state, said the protest was against the invasion of their land
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ANAMBRA, Onitsha Information reaching THE DAILY VENDOR from Onitsha in Anambra State has it that a petrol laden tanker has crashed at the Niger bridge on Wednesday, May 6. According to information released to THE DAILY VENDOR by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Anambra command’s spokesperson and Sector Public Education Officer,RC Pascal A. Anigbo,
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ANAMBRA, Onitsha No fewer than seven persons have narrowly escaped death in Anambra, following a multiple auto crash that happened at the Obosi bridge axis of the Onitsha – Owerri Road. The crash which involved three vehicles occurred at about 7:30 am, Tuesday 5th May, 2020 at Obosi Bridge by the round about, along Onitsha-Owerri
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ANAMBRA, Awka Indigenes of Umudunu village, Abagana, in Njikoka Local Government Area were this morning, thrown into panic as an entire flat in the first floor of a one-storey residential building was gutted by fire. THE DAILY VENDOR gathered that the inferno, which started around 9:15am from one of the rooms in the building, spread
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IMO, Owerri The newly posted Imo State Commissioner of Police, CP Isaac Olutayo Akinmoyede has officially started work as the commissioner of police in charge of Imo police command. The information was contained in a press statement by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikeokwu Godson Orlando in Owerri on Monday, May 4. Ikeokwu
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ANAMBRA, Awka The Anambra state Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala has reassured that the state will continue to cooperate with the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control including other partners in the fight against COVID 19 pandemic. The Commissioner gave the reassurance when representatives of UNICEF and NCDC
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ANAMBRA, Onitsha The Onitsha main market has inaugurated it’s COVID 19 Task force as part of the state government’s directives to ensure a working enforcement team to monitor and enforce government’s compliance on preventive measures of COVID 19. THE DAILY VENDOR reports that the Onitsha Main Market has taken the lead by inaugurating its task
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State has said that the greatest sin of the present All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) government of Gov Willie Obiano is jettisoning a well-cooked meal called Continuity. A meal that was equally served well. The PDP Publicity Secretary in the state, Nnamdi Nwangwu stated this in a chat
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Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has stated that the officer who was arrested for smuggling passengers into Ebonyi State is not one of the commands staff. Mr Mbam James was arrested for allegedly smuggling two passengers on his motorcycle into Ebonyi State. THE DAILY VENDOR correspondent reports that the Ebonyi State Commissioner for
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In line with Federal Government’s directives on nationwide curfew, the Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, CP John B. Abang, has urged the citizens and residents of the state to cooperate with the police by strictly adhering to the stipulated directive. The Nationwide curfew is expected to commence between 8pm to 6am daily with effect
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The Anambra State Government has confirmed two potential COVID 19 testing centers in the state. The state also urged residents to take few careful steps to return the state to normalcy. Governor Willie Obiano stated this while briefing the public in a special broadcast on COVID 19 on Friday, May 1. According to Obiano “I am
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Death toll in the building collapse along Yar’Adua Drive in Owerri has risen to 15, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The latest casualty figure was given by Mr Evans Ugoh, Head of the Imo/Abia State Operations Office of the National Emergency Management Agency. He spoke in an interview with a NAN correspondent on
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Appoints ICT/Media Directorate team ANAMBRA, Awka, In line with the Anambra State Government’s directives and measures of preventing the dreaded COVID 19 pandemic, a group, Movement for Good Governance (MGG) Anambra state chapter has distributed free face masks to the populace within Awka, the state’s capital. THE DAILY VENDOR correspondent said the group distributed over
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ANAMBRA, Awka, Anambra State government has commenced the training of Markets and Parks COVID-19 Task Force members as earlier stipulated by the governor of the state, Dr Willie Obiano ahead of next week’s re-opening of major Markets in the State. The training which took place at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Centre Awka had
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