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Understanding the Arochukwu Development Fund (ADF)

Anicho OkoroNovember 9, 2019

As part of efforts to enlighten Umu Aro on the Arochukwu Development Fund we are publishing excerpts from the Report which was adopted by the Central Executive Committee of Nzuko Arochukwu establishing the Fund at its meeting of 28th April, 2018 in Abuja Background The desire to set up Arochukwu Development Fund was motivated by...

Achieving mutually beneficial banking in Arochukwu

Anicho OkoroMay 14, 2019

During the last week of February this year, Union Bank packaged a most unpallatable new year gift to its customers in Arochukwu. The bank sent electronic message to its customers to the effect that the branch in Arochukwu would move to Ohafia, a distance of about 38 kilometres, with effect from the second week of...

Elder Ukwu Kanu Udonsi: Architect of Modern Nzuko Aro

Anicho OkoroFebruary 26, 2019

It is very difficult to come to terms with the fact that Elder Ukwu Udonsi is no more in this physical realm. Since the 27th of November, 2018 when the news broke, we at Nzuko Arochukwu had prayed that it be fake news. However, when we received official communication from the family it became clear that the...

Generational Curses and Development of Arochukwu

Anicho OkoroNovember 22, 2018

Sometime during last year’s rainy season, in a commercial vehicle that was conveying passengers from Arochukwu to Umuahia through Ohafia/Bende route, a friend reported that the discussion all through the journey was the poor condition of the road. The occupants were more embittered that they had to take the circuitous route because Okobo road, which...

Making Our Population Count in Arochukwu

Anicho OkoroMay 8, 2018

Recently, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) released the data of registered voters on geo- political basis. The table showed that as at January, 2018, North West had 18,505,984, North Central 10,586,965 and North East 9,929,015. Furthermore, the South West registered 14,626,800 voters, South South 11,101,093 and South East 8,293,093. The implications of the figures...

Why we should attend Aro Day, 2017

Anicho OkoroFebruary 4, 2018

“Little by little, a little becomes a lot” -Anonymous A few days ago, I was reflecting with a pal of mine (name withheld to save him embarrassment, for he’s now a big boy in his own right) on the allures of Christmas in Arochukwu. We recalled how we would, as early as September, book for...

Jump-starting Aro Renaissance

Anicho OkoroMay 10, 2017

Let me from the on set make clear the intentions of this intervention. While modern communication practitioners strongly believe that if you do not blow your trumpet no one will blow it for you, I’m more inclined to the threatened thinking that action speaks louder than words, that one should let his or her achievements...

Restoring the glamour of Aro Day

Anicho OkoroMarch 30, 2017

Aro Day in its current form, is the logical fall out of the restructuring of the various organisations that used to champion the cause of Aro into one organisation, the Nzuko Arochukwu. Having set up an umbrella body, it became easy, indeed necessary for the managers to think of a day when all Aros can...

Arochukwu Needs You!

Anicho OkoroNovember 10, 2016

Welcome to the debut of CandidThoughts. CandidThoughts is a column that will seek to ignite debate, provoke thoughtful discussion of our challenges, illuminate the landscape, navigate the controversies and challenge anachronistic views. We will seek to contribute to the conversation, resist defeatism, and proffer solutions; all as our humble contribution to rescuing our society, strengthening...