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“Guard your heart”

Dr Ochi IgbokoApril 4, 2015

Heart disease may be a leading cause of death, but that doesn’t mean you have to accept it as your fate. Although you lack the power to change some risk factors — such as family history, sex or age — there are some key heart disease prevention steps you can take. You can avoid heart...

Kanu Nwankwo: You don’t need this Identity Information Crisis

Kanu Ohuche Ph.DApril 3, 2015

It was in faraway Mauritius, that little island in Indian Ocean beside Madagascar near South Africa. I was on a trip to attend an IMF sponsored conference on Capital Flows in emerging and frontier markets. Arriving the clean and beautiful Mauritius airport, and checking through the immigration counter, I noticed that the officer on the...

Politicians and empty promises

Ogbonnaya AkomaApril 2, 2015

In Nigeria (as in Arochukwu), one of the characteristic features of politicking and political activities is the making of promises during campaigns. The politicians who want to be elected into offices at the local, state and national levels of elections usually give the electorate one promise or the other should such politicians be elected into...

Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

Ben EzumahFebruary 5, 2015

It goes without saying, that Abia remains one of the most unfortunate states in Nigeria. Successive governments there seem to have dealt the state a sleight of hand that has left it traumatized; pauperized, in mass suffering, poverty, filth, squalor and general under-development. In all of the nineteen LGAs of the state,there is absolutely nothing...

Politics and The Aro Economy: A Prognosis

Kanu Ohuche Ph.DFebruary 2, 2015

Around November 2014, I had the privilege of discussing the state of Arochukwu Micro Finance Bank with a senior member of the board. I simply wanted information on the health of the bank against the backdrop of its long rumored liquidity and solvency challenges. My intention was to see how the institution will reposition to...

Charting Our Democratic and Development Future

Anicho OkoroFebruary 2, 2015

On the 14th and 28th February, 2015 Nigerians will go to the polls to elect the president/national assembly members and governors /state assembly members. The February general election is a landmark in Nigeria for this is the first time that the country is experiencing democracy for a period of sixteen unbroken years. If successfully held...

Abia women think Abia, think wise!

Ezinye Eucharia OtiFebruary 2, 2015

Just like yesterday, we are in the countdown of 2015 Nigeria general election. Different political parties are now moving their campaign trains from one state to the other and from one local government to another. Mouth watering manifestoes laced with clichés fill the air- ” If am voted into power, I will provide portable water,...

Arochukwu and lack of grassroots leadership

Ogbonnaya AkomaDecember 18, 2014

In September 1987, the first Administrative Secretary of Nzuko Arochukwu and a patriotic Aro man of the highest order, the late Mazi John Obinali Nnanna (my teacher at Amuvi Community Primary School, Amuvi, Arochukwu in 1973 through 1974), had made a statement that has had a lingering impact on me and which I don’t think...

A Vote for Aro Carnival and its Sociological Essence

Azubike OkoroDecember 18, 2014

Sociology, often seen as the queen of the social sciences, argues that man (generic man, I mean) is man only in the context of society. Sociology therefore, is about man, man in any society such as Arochukwu kingdom. Also, the Aro Carnival is about the Aro, what makes him what he is, his uniqueness and his values which...

Talk About Aro News Ban Was Fueled by Witlessness

Azubike OkoroSeptember 22, 2014

Let’s place this talk about Aro News ban into perspective. And, as we do so, we shall endeavor to resolve some puzzles such as: who actually wants Aro News banned, was it a rumor or was it actually envisioned, who shall profit from the ban; in fact, is it actually possible to ban Aro News and under what...