Anambra State Housing Commissioner, Hon. Pauly Onyeka, has emphasized the importance of using the media to project the achievements of the present administration to the people.
The commissioner made the call while receiving the team from CHOFFAN Communication Limited, owners of Blaze and Ijele FM Radio Stations on a courtesy visit at the State Secretariat Complex, Awka.
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Festus Adedayo
Late Afrobeat superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in his early musical ensemble days as Africa ‘70, recalibrated a folklore that told the story of food shortage and hunger. The folklore, which Fela entitled Alujanjankijan brims with the motif of greed and its implications. The hunger folktale goes thus: Long time ago, a very severe famine hit the animal kingdom, leading to intense food crisis. As against the predictions of diviners called to seek the face of divinities for solution, hunger continued to ravage the land, so much that the kingdom’s silos were completely depleted. Lion, the king of the jungle and the monarch of the kingdom, called a meeting of all known animals. After all, don’t the elders say, though “eat” and “become” are rendered same way in Yoruba lingual representation, what to eat occupies a higher hierarchical ladder than what we want to become? (Ohun t’a o je l’agba ohun t’a o je). With hunger pelting their bellies, all the animals literally crawled to the central square. Lion, with his hitherto luxuriant but now withered mane, cleared his throat and spoke. There was no gainsaying that the food crisis in the kingdom would prove fatal, leading to animals dying in droves, he said. Except urgent and quick remedy was procured, Lion underscored the calamity ahead. A drastic action was agreed, to wit, every mother of each animal must be offered in martyrdom to ensure a continuation of the animal race. The agreed modus operandi was that each of those mothers must be brought to the square and mutually devoured, for the sustenance of the race.
BY Ginika Oguji
The new Chief Medical Director, Comprehensive Medical Centre, Akwuzu, Dr. Adaobi Igwebuike has called on the staff of the hospital to always be proactive in the discharge of their duties.
Dr. Igwebuike made the call during her maiden meeting with the staff of the hospital at the Comprehensive Medical Centre, Akwuzu, Oyi Local Government Area.
The Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, Mr. Obieze Chiejina has paid a courtesy visit to All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Onitsha North Secretariat and the Solution Skill Acquisition Centre in Onitsha North LGA.
The local government secretaiat is being furnished by the APGA Chairman , Onitsha North, Sir Okwy Madekwe.
By Juliana Nwachukwu
The Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), has bestowed some special awards on the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG in charge of Zone 13, Ukpo, Anambra State, Godwin Aghaulo for his gallant efforts so far in fighting crime to a standstill in the zone which controls Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi States.
By Azuka Offor
The Anambra State Commissioner for Power and Water Resources, Engr. Julius Chukwuemeka has charged the Atani and Ossomala/OKpanam Communities in Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State to take full ownership of the water supply projects in their Communities.
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BY RAYMOND OZOJI
As part of proactive measures to curb insecurity in Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has tasked the 36 state governors to support the activities and operations of Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service (NHFSS) in their respective states.
By Ifeyinwa Ogwo
The work to convert the premises of defunct Anambra State Printing and Publishing Company (National Light) premises to a Neighbourhood Leisure Park has begun unabated.
The State Government in its bid to transform the state to a livable and green environment for the benefit of the inhabitants handed the project to Bludave Logistics Nigeria Limited.
Anambra State Government has handed over the premises of its defunct printing and publishing company, National Light for the construction of a Neigbourhood Leisure Park for recreational purposes.
On the occasion were the Commissioner for Culture, Entertainment and Tourism, Mr Don Onyenji, Commissioner for Housing, Hon. Pauly Onyeka whose ministry is the supervisory one, Managing Director, Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA, Mr Ossy Onuko, who all extolled government’s decision to create a befitting recreational park for residents of the state.
BY RAYMOND OZOJI
The Nigerian Hunters and Forest Security Service (NHFSS) says massive recruitments and deployments of hunters in the North-East region of the country have helped tremendously to battle as well as reduce forest crimes in the region.
Speaking exclusively with this journalist on Wednesday, the Zonal Commander North-East zone, ACG Haruna Umaru Hammanjoda Furo, said hunters now battle criminal elements which he described as bigger animals in the forests.
