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AWU holds annual outreach

Aro NewsMay 24, 2018

By Henry Nsidinanya Held every 24th December at Atani Arochukwu hall (except when it falls on a Sunday), Atani outreach is an event designed to bridge the gap between the haves and the have-nots in the society. This year’s event started at about 11.04am. The first segment of the occasion was a brief opening speech...

Amoba, Asaga villagers chase away Fulani herdsmen

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 19, 2018

Two villages in Arochukwu, Amoba and Asaga, had reportedly chased away the Fulani herdsmen that had brought their cattle into those villages and which had destroyed their farms extensively. According to an eye witness account who spoke to Aro News, Amoba villagers in particular had chased those herdsmen and their cattle (numbering about five hundred)...

Ugwuakuma sons in philanthropic gestures

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 10, 2018

Two sons of Ugwuakuma village, namely Mazi Fidelis Okoro Nwosu (a former chairman of Nzuko Aro, Abuja and Aro News director) and Mazi Kanu Joe (a retired oil company worker) have exhibited what could be termed the highest sense of patriotism based on altruistic instincts by embarking on the projects that have been impacting positively...

Arochukwu Central School II, Obinkita: Studying with tears, under unsafe condition

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 10, 2018

Have you ever gone into the premises of Arochukwu Central School II in Obinkita located inside the premises of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Amaeze Parish? Aro News correspondent had the need to be there recently, and it was discovered that the mud buildings constructed (perhaps) by the Native Authority administration of pre-Independence Nigeria still...

OPU elects Innocent Okoronkwo as PG, other officers

Aro NewsJanuary 26, 2018

November 11, 2017 was a special day in Obinkita; the day the village union – Obinkita Progressive Union (OPU) – elected its national officers. The election had elicited unprecedented enthusiasm from Obinkita sons and daughters from far and near. Delegates came from different branches of OPU for the election, which held in Obinkita Hall. Proceedings...

Day fire gutted Cyea filling station

Aro NewsNovember 20, 2017

Tragedy stuck on Friday the 8th of September, 2017 at Asaga village as fire engulfed Cyea filling station. According to an eye witness Mazi Obinna Onwumere Ulo, the accident occurred at about 7pm after the manager of the station pleaded with a road side ‘’Akara woman’’ to put off the fire she was using to...

Amoba gets Eze Ogo ten years after

Aro NewsNovember 20, 2017

Amoba village and Arochukwu community as a whole was agog recently as the village presented her Eze Ogo, Mazi Kanu Oji Nwokoro to Eze Aro -in- council. This feat was realised after more than a decade vacancy that existed in the Eze Ogo stool. According to the long standing customs and traditions of the Aro,...

OPU Exco commended for purposeful leadership

Aro NewsNovember 20, 2017

The leadership of Obinkita Patriotic Union, Arochukwu has been commended for offering purposeful leadership to the people of Obinkita village, Arochukwu. The commendation was made by Mazi Oji Ogbonnaya Akweke, Ezeogo Obinkita, while receiving in audience the executive committee of OPU who paid him a courtesy visit in his Palace at Obinkita, Arochukwu, recently. Mazi...

Amuvi Village – History & Administration

Amuvi Welfare Union elects new EXCO members

Aro NewsNovember 3, 2017

On Tuesday, 19 August 2017, a new set of leaders of the home branch of Amuvi Welfare Union, Arochukwu, was elected during the union’s meeting held at the village hall by 11:03am that day. The result of the election exercise showed that Mazi Theophilus O C Igboko emerged the chairman while Omere Okoroji was elected...

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...