Ugo Okoro, Author at Aro News Online

Ugo Okoro

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...

Society News

What Aro plans to do about Ekpo

Ugo OkoroNovember 1, 2020

The Arochukwu corporate leadership and the intelligentsia have undertaken a hard appraisal of the Ekpo masquerade, and passed a damning verdict on the way it is currently celebrated. They frowned at the way Ekpo masquerade – a cultural play, which ought to be celebrated and enjoyed – has become a menace and source of embarrassment...

My plans for Arochukwu-Ohafia road – Sen Mao Ohuabunwa

Ugo OkoroDecember 1, 2017

The senator representing Abia North in the National Assembly, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has promised to do everything possible to ensure that the dilapidated Arochukwu-Ohafia road is fixed, to bring a lasting relief to the users. For one 1 hour 15 minutes recently in Aro, Senator Ohuabunwa fielded questions from Aro News team consisting of Patrick...

Inyom Aro election imbroglio…the true story

Ugo OkoroApril 20, 2017

Many followers of Aro affairs both at home and in the Diaspora have watched with consternation the scenarios that emerged since 2012, arising from the election of the women’s wing of the umbrella union, Nzuko Aro. As the Nwada Igwe-led executive of Nzuko Inyom Aro prepared to organise an election that would have ushered in...

How ‘fake result sheet’ almost marred April 11 election in Abia State

Ugo OkoroJuly 5, 2015

Many Nigerians woke up in the morning of the 11th April, full of apprehension. Their apprehension could be explained because on that day, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was scheduled to conduct the governorship and State House of Assembly elections in 29 of the 36 states of the federation. Reason being that the tenure...

Ejike Onwuchekwa Emerges Nzuko Aro Lagos President

Ejike Onwuchekwa Emerges Nzuko Arochukwu Lagos President

Ugo OkoroJuly 5, 2015

Ikom Aro domiciled in Lagos, and who are members of Nzuko Arochukwu headed to their usual end of the month meeting venue on Sunday April 26, 2015 with one thing in mind – election. On that day, the postponed election of the branch was to take place. They were to elect a new executive that...