Ogbonnaya Akoma, Author at Aro News Online

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Services improve at Arochukwu General Hospital

Ogbonnaya AkomaNovember 5, 2017

Medical, nursing and general health services have significantly improved in Arochukwu General Hospital located at Baraki, the administrative headquarters of Arochukwu local government area of Abia state. The observation was made when the duo of Aro News Bureau Correspondent and a stakeholder in Arochukwu cum freelance journalist, Emmanuel Emenike (of Oror village), visited the hospital...

Ugwuavor records more progressive strides

Ogbonnaya AkomaNovember 2, 2017

Ugwuavor, one of the Aro villages formerly immersed in one controversy or the other, has now become a united and more progressive village, according to Forster Osita Nwosu, a former youth leader, in an exclusive interview with Aro News in Arochukwu. Explaining more during the twenty-minute interview, Forster pointed out that the beautification of the...

Okennachi elects kindred Eze

Ogbonnaya AkomaNovember 2, 2017

Okennachi, one of the three distinct enclaves that constitute the triumvirate political arrangement in Arochukwu, has elected her Eze, during a meeting of the kindred held on Sunday, 27 August, 2017 at Ndi Okwara Compound Hall, Atani, Arochukwu, by 05:49pm. All the villages that make up the kindred were in attendance except one, Amangwu. During...

Ndi Ezeogos’ stand on Eze Aro’s representative at Eke Ekpe Day – the implications

Ogbonnaya AkomaOctober 20, 2017

There are strong indications that the Council of Ndi Ezeogo of Arochukwu, an umbrella organization of the various village heads in Arochukwu, has issued a statement and threatened that if the representative of Eze Aro of Arochukwu, Mazi Oji Kanu Oji, appeared at Amaikpe Square, Obinkita, to represent Eze Aro during this year’s Eke Ekpe...

Senior Advocate of Nigeria position: Who will replace Dr Nwakamma Okoro?

Ogbonnaya AkomaOctober 16, 2017

As many lawyers are elevated to the position of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on annual basis by the Privileges Committee of the legal council that regulates law practice in Nigeria in recognition of excellence in advocacy, soliciting and general input in the legal profession in Nigeria, some Aro sons and daughters have been ruminating...

Now, where is Abia Hotel Arochukwu?

Ogbonnaya AkomaMay 5, 2017

In the old Imo state, Imo Hotels were located in Owerri, Aba, Afikpo, Umuahia and Arochukwu. Then, suddenly, the Ibrahim Babangida Administration created Abia state on 21 August 1992. So, Imo Hotels branches located in Aba, Afikpo and Arochukwu then became Abia Hotels and, luckily for Ndi Aro, Mr John Ogbonnaya Egwu, one of the...

When will Arochukwu Post Office be renovated?

Ogbonnaya AkomaMay 4, 2017

Are you an Aro man, woman, or leader? Do you know where the Post Office is located in your town of Arochukwu – and when did you visit it last? Yes; the answer to the above questions will surely lead you to see the sorry state of the only Post Office ‘the colonial masters had...

Arochukwu council loses officer in certificate forgery

Ogbonnaya AkomaMay 1, 2017

About one thousand, six hundred employees serving in the seventeen local government areas of Abia state have been relieved of their positions because such officers had forged their certificates before entering into service or after, or that such officers falsified their ages aimed at cheating government in serving longer than the statutory sixty years of...

Aros rejoice as Agbagwu-Ugwuakuma road is tarred

Ogbonnaya AkomaApril 29, 2017

As the reporter had travelled through the major road that traverses Ugwuakuma through Agbagwu villages in Arochukwu and leads to ‘ime Aro,’ some villagers interviewed were full of praises for the federal government and the company handling the repair of the Arochukwu-Ohafia federal road, Messrs Beks Kimse Nigeria Limited, for tarring the portion of the...

ASCETA’s investiture of Gov Ikpeazu as Visitor

Ogbonnaya AkomaApril 29, 2017

All roads led to the premises of the Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu, on Friday, tenth March, 2017 when the management of the college, led by the provost, Dr Phillips O Nto, had invested on the governor of the state, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, as the Visitor to the college, the first governor to...