Ugo Okoro, Author at Aro News Online

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Aro Kingdom marks Easter 2025 amid grief, joy

Ugo OkoroApril 22, 2025

By Ugo Okoro Arochukwu Kingdom is marking this year’s Easter draped in an unusual mood – a blend of grief and joy – specifically saddened by the loss of her precious sons and daughters. In the last couple of months, the ancient kingdom had been hit by a string of deaths, in a manner capable...

2023 election: How Alex Otti emerged Abia Governor-elect

Ugo OkoroApril 19, 2023

The candidate of the Labour Party, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR was on Wednesday 22nd March, 2023 declared winner of the 2023 Abia State governorship election. Declaring Otti winner of the election, the Returning Officer, Prof. Nnenna Oti, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, (FUTO), Owerri , announced that the Labour Party candidate scored...

2023 Elections: Aro candidates go into polls with high hopes

Ugo OkoroFebruary 15, 2023

As countdown to the 2023 general election continues, Nigerians and indeed Abians are of the expectation that the poll will usher in a new crop of leaders to pilot the affairs of the nation and the State. Nigerians are upbeat about the 2023 general elections especially with the signing into law of the Electoral Act...

Pathetic story of ASCETA workers: ‘Abia govt owes us 25 months salaries, 10 of our members dead from hunger, disease’

Ugo OkoroNovember 4, 2022

The situation at the Abia State College of Education Technical Arochukwu (ASCETA), especially among its workforce, is one that should elicit empathy. Theirs is a reminder of the folk tale which narrates the dilemma of a man sent to deliver a bag of salt at a far flung location, but made to face a heavy...

Nzuko Aro Election: Udensi, Kanu intensify efforts to win PG post

Ugo OkoroJanuary 13, 2022

Less than five months from now, eligible Umu Aro will line up to elect a new President-General (P-G) of Nzuko Arochukwu Worldwide, along with his cabinet members, as the current Executive Council led by Mazi George Ezuma winds down its tenure in April next year. Already, two candidates have emerged seeking to wear the crown...

2023: Ohanaeze chieftains, Arewa groups, others urge support for Ohuabunwa as Nigeria’s next president

Ugo OkoroOctober 2, 2021

From the North, South, East and West – men, women, the young and the elderly – indeed Nigerians from all walks of life desirous of a better country, converged on Lagos recently to give fillip to the aspiration of Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa to transform Nigeria to a country that works for all. Ohuabunwa, a former...

Sad news as Eze Aro enters Ovia Uwasi

Ugo OkoroJanuary 17, 2021

Arochukwu Kingdom is currently in a solemn mood following the disclosure by the leadership of Nzuko Aro that its revered monarch, His Royal Majesty, Mazi Vincent Ogbonnaya Okoro (CFR) has slipped into what is traditionally described as “Ovia Uwasi”, a euphemism for eternal transition. The Executive Committee of Nzuko Aro, in a statement, said the...

Transitions

Nkemka: Painful exit of an icon

Ugo OkoroDecember 27, 2020

The death of Dr. Nkemka Osimiriatata Jombo-Ofo on the 3rd of June, 2020 no doubt was a shock to many who had associated with the medical doctor turned businessman over the years. Born on May 19, 1950 in far away Kaduna, to the family of Mazi Joseph Jombo-Ofo of Atani village, Arochukwu, he was educated...

Aros move to revamp, upgrade general hospital

Ugo OkoroDecember 26, 2020

For good reasons, Aros have resolved to take their destiny in their own hands, conscious that governments at all levels – having looked the other way for several years – are not in any position to lift Arochukwu out of the doldrums. Indeed Arochukwu Kingdom had suffered setback in almost all indices of development –...

Politics

Ikpeazu lauded as Jideofor is reappointed Arochukwu TC Chairman…AROSON, Aggrey Memorial College Alumni Association hail govt

Ugo OkoroNovember 24, 2020

From all walks of live, Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has been applauded for re-appointing Mazi Emmanuel Jideofor Kanu as the Transition Committee Chairman of Arochukwu Local Government Area. The leaderships of Aro-Okeigbo Social Club of Nigeria (AROSON) and the Aggrey Memorial College Arochukwu Alumni Association duly hailed Kanu’s reappointment as appropriate. Kanu, one of...

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Ugo Okoro

Aro Kingdom marks Easter 2025 amid grief, joy

2023 election: How Alex Otti emerged Abia Governor-elect

2023 Elections: Aro candidates go into polls with high hopes

Pathetic story of ASCETA workers: ‘Abia govt owes us 25 months salaries, 10 of our members dead from hunger, disease’

Nzuko Aro Election: Udensi, Kanu intensify efforts to win PG post

2023: Ohanaeze chieftains, Arewa groups, others urge support for Ohuabunwa as Nigeria’s next president

Sad news as Eze Aro enters Ovia Uwasi

Nkemka: Painful exit of an icon

Aros move to revamp, upgrade general hospital

Ikpeazu lauded as Jideofor is reappointed Arochukwu TC Chairman…AROSON, Aggrey Memorial College Alumni Association hail govt

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