Fatal accident claims one life, leaving many injured in Anambra

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Fatal accident claims one life, leaving many injured in Anambra

A 54-year-old man, identified as Chidi Ezechi Uruala of Ideato local government area, Imo State, on Sunday lost his life in a fatal accident involving a commuter bus and an SUV.

Seventeen other passengers also conveyed by the bus and its driver, whose name was given as Asomgha Chiemezie, all escaped death, but sustained varying degrees of injuries.

We gathered that the accident which happened at Ogidi, Idemili North local government area of Anambra State involved 18 passengers of a Delica bus and a Pathfinder SUV driven by one Paul Okey at about 9:45pm.

The Anambra State police Public Relations Officer, SP Haruna Mohammed, who confirmed the incident to our correspondent said, “On the 18/05/2019 at about 9:45 pm, along Ugwunasike /Abatete Road by Oye ogidi Primary School, there was a fatal motor accident Involving a Delica Bus with Registration number ACA 105 ZL conveying 18 passengers.

“The bus was driven by one Ethelbert Asomgha Chiemezie ‘m’ of Uruala Ideato in Imo State and a Nissan Pathfinder Jeep Reg No BM 513 EPE driven by one Paul Okey m’. As a result of the accident 15 passengers in the bus sustained various degrees of injuries.”

He stated that the police personnel attached to Ogidi Division visited the scene and rushed victims to Inyienu hospital Ogidi for medical attention.

The PPRO added, “Meanwhile, on the 19/5/2019 at about 2pm, one of the casualties namely Chidi Ezechi ‘m’ of Uruala Ideato about 54 years old was confirmed dead by the medical Doctor while receiving treatment at the hospital. Corpse deposited at the mortuary for autopsy.”

Haruna said the driver of the SUV driver, who escaped from scene of the accident, was subsequently arrested at about 3pm on Sunday, while the injured casualties have been moved to their hometowns in Imo State for further medical attention.

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Deeper Life pastor, Charles Esimone emerges new UNIZIK Vice Chancellor months after welcoming quadruplet

EDUCATION

Deeper Life pastor, Charles Esimone emerges new UNIZIK Vice Chancellor months after welcoming quadruplet

 

Prof. Charles Esimone has emerged the new Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka in Anambra State.

His emergence was sequel to the conclusion of interviews for the post of Vice-Chancellor in which he took the first position.

The university’s Director of Information & Public Relations/Chief Protocol Officer, Dr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, disclosed this in a statement Tuesday night.

He also said Esimone was immediately handed his appointment letter as the sixth substantive Vice Chancellor of the university on Tuesday by the governing council of the institution.

According to Ojukwu, the Pro-Chancellor and the Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Azeez Oladotun, said Esimone’s emergence as the new Vice Chancellor was done through a rigorous and transparent selection process.

“No fewer than 10 professors indicated interest in the vice chancellorship seat of the prestigious university,” he said.

Esimone, a Deeper Life Pastor, emerged Vice Chancellor barely two months after he and his wife welcomed a quadruplet, two boys and two girls.

The couple had welcomed their first son in 2015, after 12 years of barrenness.

A pioneer dean of the faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of UNIZIK, Esimone was the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) until his latest appointment.

Prof. Esimone was also the director of Confucius Institute of the University.

He is a Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical microbiology as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Science (FAS).

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Ex-Anambra lawmaker Killed: Police arrests second suspect in his murder

CRIME NEWS

Ex-Anambra lawmaker Killed: Police arrests second suspect in his murder

A second suspect who had participated in the dastardly killing of a former lawmaker in Anambra State and president general of Nimo community, Hon Frank-Anthony Igboka has been arrested.

The former lawmaker was three weeks ago riddled with bullets in his Chevrolet SUV in Oye Nimo market at about 8pm.

Sources from his community attributed his killing to cultists, who had been ravaging the community before he became the president general and banished the cultists from the community.

Governor of the state, Chief Willie Obiano had placed a N5million bounty on the heads of the killers for anyone with information that could lead to their arrest, but later increased it to N15million after the kingpin of the killer gang known as Transformer was arrested a week ago.

State police commissioner, CP Mustapha Dandaura in a press briefing on Monday said a second participant in the killing has been arrested.

He said, “Last week Monday, 29/4/2019 I paraded one of the kingpins who actively participated in the dastardly act and declared three others wanted.

“It would also be recalled that in the same vein, His Excellency, Governor Willie Obiano increased the reward to Five Million Naira (N5,000,000) on each of the three suspects declared wanted in order to fastrack Police investigation.

“In view of the foregoing and following credible intelligence report, the Command Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had on Friday 03/5/2019 at about 7:30pm arrested the second principal suspect, one Okoye Ernest Chinwe aka (IBB) ‘m’ aged 34 years of Obosi in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State who was initially concealed and later mentioned by the first suspect following discreet investigation.

“The suspect was traced and arrested in his hideout at old INEC road Awka. Upon interrogation, he confessed to being among the gang members that shot and killed the President General and is assisting the Police with useful information that could lead to unveiling the circumstances surrounding the incident and arrest other fleeing accomplices.”

Dandaura thanked the Governor of the state, Willie Obiano and the people of Anambra State whom he said were observed to have been very cooperative with the law enforcement agencies in the quest to arrest the killers of the former lawmaker.

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Anambra assembly bans marriage among sickle cell carriers

HEALTH NEWS

Anambra assembly bans marriage among sickle cell carriers

The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill banning marriages involving people living with sickle cell anemia or incompatible genotypes.

The bill, sponsored by the member representing Anaocha II state constituency, Charles Ezeani and 15 others, seeks to eradicate sickle cell disease in the state by checkmating marriages among people with incompatible genotypes.

The law to be cited as Sickle Cell Disease Control and Eradication Repeal law, barred parents, guardians, traditional rulers or group of persons from giving out their children/wards in marriages without presentation of a certificate of verification by a qualified sickle cell expert of their genotypes.

It also provided that no religious body or marriage registry shall perform Holy Matrimony without first demanding and obtaining sickle cell disease prevention certificate from intending couples.

The law stated, “Anybody who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N200,000 or imprisonment to a term of three years or both.”

The law when it becomes effective shall also put in place a monitoring committee to ensure compliance.

Speaking, the co-sponsor of the bill, Charles Ezeani, described the law as life-saving.

He said, “The development would put a stop to the notion that love is blind by ensuring that intending couples must present their genotype test before marriage.”

Ezeani commended the Speaker of the Assembly, Mrs Rita Maduagwu and other members of the Assembly for being the first to pass such health enhancement bill into law in the country.

The National Coordinator of People Living with Sickle Cell Disease, APLSCD, Aisha Edwards, who was also at the assembly, thanked the lawmakers for enacting the law.

She said the law above other things bars all forms of discriminatory practices against carriers of the disease, both in employment and admission into schools.

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2019 Election: 2 Anambra Lawmakers Dump PDP For APGA

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2019 Election: 2 Anambra Lawmakers Dump PDP For APGA

Two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday, announced their defection to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

They are Hon. Ben Nwankwo, representing Orumba North/South federal constituency of Anambra State and Hon. Anayo Nnebe, representing Awka North/South federal constituency also from the state.

In their separate letters to the Speaker of the House, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, Nwankwo and Nnebe cited division in the state chapter of the party as the reason for their defection.

However, House Deputy Minority Leader, Hon. Chukwuka Onyema (PDP, Anambra), raised a point of order, insisting that there is currently no factionalisation within the party as claimed by the two lawmakers.

He said the PDP was not bitter over their defection, but warned that they should not create any sense of faction which do not exist.

“We don’t have any crisis of faction in PDP. We are not complaining but don’t create a sense of faction in the party,” Onyeama stated.

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Governor Chief Willie Obiano of Anambra State assurance that his administration would continue to accord priority to the welfare of workers in the state.

BREAKING NEWS

Governor Chief Willie Obiano of 

Anambra State assurance that his 

administration would continue to 

accord priority to the welfare of 

workers in the state.

Governor Chief Willie Obiano of Anambra State, on Thursday, has given assurance that his administration would continue to accord priority to the welfare of workers in the state.

Governor Obiano made this known during the 3rd Quadrennial Delegate Conference of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Anambra State chapter held, in Awka.

Declaring the conference open, Governor Obiano, represented by the Head of Service, appreciated the civil servants in the state for their unalloyed support to his administration especially, during the last year’s governorship election that made him win the election convincingly.

He further reassured the workers that he would continue fulfill all the promises he made to them, saying that the welfare remains paramount to his administration and called on them to always discharge their duties effectively and efficiently for the overall development of Anambra State.

National President of the Association, Comrade Bobboi Kaigama, represented by the Vice President, South East Region of the association, Comrade Kennis Ngene, eulogised Governor Obiano for his sterling performance in the state especially the prompt payment of workers’ salaries, efficient security network, infrastructural development among others, and appealed to the governor to also look at the issue of housing deficit confronting the workers in the state among others.

The state chairman of the association,Comrade Ifeanyi Okechukwu, in his address, said that the conference affords the members an opportunity to interact and reach resolutions on issues that bind them together in order to move the Union forward, even as he praised Governor Obiano for being the only governor that has paid civil servants gratuity up to date as well as the current recruitment of over one thousand teachers in the state.

The delegates equally re-elected Ifeanyi Okechukwu as Chairman and Alex Ebi, a legal practitioner as Secretary among other executives that will serve the association for another four years.

Source by TheSun

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5 lives lost in a suspected cult rivalry in Ihiala

5 lives lost in a suspected cult rivalry in Ihiala

Anambra state governor Mr. Willie Obiano

Five persons are reported to have lost their lives in Ihiala, Anambra State following clash by rival cult groups in the area, necessitating an emergency meeting by stakeholders and security operatives to find ways of stemming the tide.

It was gathered weekend that primary and secondary school pupils were brazenly being initiated into cult group in the area, thereby posing danger to the people.

President General of Ihiala Progress Union, IPU, Chief Jude Ngobili, who spoke on the issue said the peace and stability of the town were being truncated by the violent juvenile cultists, who, according to him, were killing and kidnapping innocent people. 

Ngobili said further that apart from the danger posed by cult activities in the community, the people of Ihiala could no longer watch while their children engaged in criminal activities capable of destroying their future. . 

He explained that following the worrisome nature of the activities of the cultists, the leadership of the town decided to invite security operatives to find solution to the problem. 

The Police Area Commander in charge of Ihiala, Mr. Michael Falade commended the community for resolving to partner with security agencies to fight cultism, pointing out that security was an intricate issue that called for collaboration from every law abiding individual in the society. 

Falade, said the rampaging cultists were not spirits, but youths known by members of the society who had operated for a long time because the stakeholders had not involved law enforcement agencies about their criminal tendencies and activities, adding that the police required information from the public to be able to fight crime effectively.