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NEMA promises Isu IDPs of FG’s relief materials

Aro NewsOctober 21, 2019

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has assured the people of Isu community in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State, who are internally displaced, that the Federal government will do everything to ensure that relief materials are provided for them, to ameliorate their plight as a result of the lingering crises between them and...

Nzuko Aro Election: How George Ezuma was re-elected for 2nd term

Aro NewsOctober 21, 2019

Mazi George Okoronkwo Ezuma (Ugwu Aro) was on Saturday the 27th April 2019 re-elected for a second term of three years as the President General of Nzuko Aro Worldwide. The election, which took place at the main arena of the Aro-Okeigbo Historic Centre saw Ezuma re-elected unopposed alongside members of his executives from the first...

FG to set up cassava processing plants in Arochukwu

Aro NewsOctober 21, 2019

In a bid to further drive the cassava value chain to the grassroots, the Federal government has concluded plans to establish three modern cassava processing plants in Arochukwu Local Government Area. The plan was initiated by the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO), which has already trained farmers in Abia on modern processing of...

Mazi John Okoro bows out at 93

Aro NewsOctober 17, 2019

The death has occurred of Mazi John Akaego Okoro of Isimkpu village, Arochukwu at the ripe age of 93 years. He was born on 26th June, 1926 in Isiegbu Bende, in Bende Local Government of Abia State. He attended the Methodist School, Bende; Church of Scotland Mission School, Igbere and the Methodist Central School, Afougiri....

Nzuko Aro wades into St Luke, Ndi Eze feud

Aro NewsOctober 17, 2019

Nzuko Aro home branch has intervened in a legal battle between an Arochukwu based patent medicine dealer, Mazi Luke Kanu, operator of the popular St. Luke’s Shop and the trio of HRH Eze Kanu Nwa Kanu, Eze Ibom Isii, HRH Eze Okorafor Uror, Eze Ezeagwu and Mazi Oji Kanu Oji, Eze Aro’s representative). Mazi Luke...

Succor underway for Aro General Hospital, as Nzuko Aro home branch meets with Abia Health Mgt Board

Aro NewsOctober 17, 2019

Members of Nzuko Arochukwu home branch recently paid a visit to the management of Abia State Hospital Management Board in Umuahia to bring to its notice the deplorable state of Arochukwu General Hospital and lack of qualified personnel to run the facility. Led by Mazi Jerry Onwumere, Chairman of the branch, the team also included...

Ukoha emerges Abia House of Assembly minority whip, holds maiden town hall parley

Aro NewsOctober 15, 2019

Members of the Abia State House of Assembly on Tuesday July 2nd 2019 resumed plenary with the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji announcing the names of some of the principal officers of the House. The member representing Arochukwu State constituency, Hon. Dr. Mike Ukoha was announced as the House Minority Whip, while...

OUK emerges Senate Chief Whip

Aro NewsOctober 13, 2019

The lawmaker representing Abia North Senatorial Zone in the National Assembly and former governor of Abia State, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu has emerged the Senate Chief Whip of the 9th National Assembly. In a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan which was read during plenary on Tuesday, the 2nd of July, 2019,...

Nzuko Inyom Aro Lagos elects Nwaka president

Aro NewsOctober 10, 2019

Members of Nzuko Inyom Aro Lagos branch gathered at the Railway Recreational Club, Ebutte Metta, Lagos, on Sunday, the 26th of May, 2019 to elect new officials who will be saddled with the responsibility of piloting its affairs for the next three years. As the Madam Gift Onwuchekwa’s (Onwa) administration gradual came to an end,...

How Ibini Ukpabi was used to save slaves from death

Aro NewsOctober 10, 2019

Arochukwu people of the South Eastern Nigeria are one people with an enviable history. In the pre-colonial days, the Aros spread across the length and breadth of the East, establishing trading posts wherever they went. They also took the veneration of the one supreme God to these places, manifest as Chukwu Abiama, Ibini Ukpabi (christened...