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Nwadeyi’s Unity Football Cup debuts

Aro NewsJanuary 30, 2018

Youths in Arochukwu will have something to engage themselves positively this Yuletide, as Mazi Emma Nwadeyi’s Unity Cup makes its debut in the ancient kingdom. According to a statement by the organizers of the football tournament, the winner of the competition which will be competed for by the 19 villages in Arochukwu, will take home...

The Nnannas float Scholarship Foundation

Aro NewsJanuary 30, 2018

Engr. & Dr. (Mrs.) Obi Charles Nnanna have jointly launched a Scholarship Foundation as one of the latest schemes designed to give basic education to some indigent Aro pupils. Under the scheme, 10 Aro children (five in primary 1 and five in JSS 1), out of which six must hail from Atani village and the...

Crunchies boss, Jude Nwosu, elected Aba Sports Club President

Aro NewsJanuary 29, 2018

Proprietor of the Crunchies chain of fast food eatries, Mazi Jude Nnamdi Nwosu (Ugwu Aro) has been elected President of Aba Sports Club 1926. Nwosu floored his closest rival by an unprecedented wide margin in a keenly contested election conducted on November 29, 2017, at the Club House. He polled 502 of the 644 votes...

Aro unveils historic Civic Centre amid fanfare

Aro NewsJanuary 29, 2018

After several years of floundering, the glorious moment has finally come, as Arochukwu Kingdom unveils its historic Civic Centre on December 26, 2017. Nothing has in recent memory been more exhilarating for Umu Aro than having this project completed. Indeed, it is dream come through. Throughout the 19 villages, the excitement is palpable, the atmosphere...

OPU elects Innocent Okoronkwo as PG, other officers

Aro NewsJanuary 26, 2018

November 11, 2017 was a special day in Obinkita; the day the village union – Obinkita Progressive Union (OPU) – elected its national officers. The election had elicited unprecedented enthusiasm from Obinkita sons and daughters from far and near. Delegates came from different branches of OPU for the election, which held in Obinkita Hall. Proceedings...

Why I designed Aro Civic Centre – Arc Chima Chijioke

Aro NewsJanuary 26, 2018

Mazi Emmanuel Okorafor Avonta (now late) as then President General of Nzuko Aro invited me to go and take a look at what Nzuko Aro was trying to do at the site of the Civic Centre, which they called Aro Hall. He sent three people – Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, Mazi Ukwu Udonsi and another person...

A brief history of the Civic Centre

Aro NewsJanuary 26, 2018

Conceived in August 1975 by Nzuko Aro (then known as Nzuko Ikom na Inyom Aro), the story of Aro Civic/Cultural Centre project had taken a chequered trajectory. Records have it that the land was acquired from Okoni compound of Ibom village, and later surveyed. On it was started a modest town hall project, which had...

Chimere Anabanti bags math award

Aro NewsJanuary 25, 2018

Birkbeck PhD maths student Chimere Anabanti has been awarded a Gilchrist Educational Trust prize for the postgraduate researcher at the College who has made the most outstanding contribution to their field during the past academic year. The winner was chosen by the Birkbeck Graduate Research School (BGRS) from a field of 36 entries, with all...

From the desk of Nzuko Aro Pub Secretary General

Aro NewsNovember 20, 2017

Aro News: We want to first congratulate you on the double honours bestowed on you by God. You were recently ordained a deacon in your church and shortly the President General of your community, but if we may ask, how do you feel about these honours? P.S.G:- Thank you my brother. It is God’s doing...

Day fire gutted Cyea filling station

Aro NewsNovember 20, 2017

Tragedy stuck on Friday the 8th of September, 2017 at Asaga village as fire engulfed Cyea filling station. According to an eye witness Mazi Obinna Onwumere Ulo, the accident occurred at about 7pm after the manager of the station pleaded with a road side ‘’Akara woman’’ to put off the fire she was using to...