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IPU NEC meeting ends in Port Harcourt

Aro NewsOctober 20, 2017

The National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of Isimkpu Progressive Union (IPU) ended at the Federal Secretariat building, Aba Road, Port Harcourt, on 22 July 2017 on a day the heaviest rainfall of the year occurred in the Garden City, and which had flooded many parts of the city, or pulled down houses, tenements and other...

PH IPU’s membership drive records success

Aro NewsMay 1, 2017

The recent membership drive and enlargement campaign embarked upon by the Port Harcourt branch of the Isimkpu Progressive Union, IPU, Arochukwu, has been recording some remarkable successes, as more people now attend the meetings with regard by the call by the chairman, Obinna Onyemuwa, to Isimkpu sons and daughters resident in the town and its...

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...

Amuvi Village – History & Administration

Amuvi – ‘the best village I have seen’

Aro NewsFebruary 16, 2017

In 2008, a colleague of mine in the Ministry of Environment, in Umuahia, had requested of me for a favour, as he had termed it. He had requested me to take him to Arochukwu for a visit to the historic and the ‘cradle of Igbo cilvilisation’ town. I obliged him readily, and before long, we...

Ugwuakuma bubbles as Beks Kimse returns to site

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 7, 2017

The village of Ugwuakuma, Arochukwu, has been bubbling with economic and social blitz since the return of Beks Kimse Nig. Ltd. to begin work on the Arochukwu-Ohafia federal road the company had abandoned more than one year ago. A visit to the village revealed that since the workers of the coy came to begin the...

Eze Ogo Atani celebrates at 10

Aro NewsDecember 7, 2016

Mazi Charkes Kanu Okoro will on the 29th of December, 2016, roll out drums to celeberate his 10th anniversary as Eze Ogo Atani, Arochukwu. According to a statement by Mazi Onyema Harbor, Special Adviser to Eze Ogo on Media and Publicity, elaborate preparations are being made for the community to celebrate the anniversary in a...

Ezeogo Isimkpu Loses Wife

Aro NewsNovember 14, 2016

The good people of Arochukwu, the People’s Democratic Party family, business associates and others who knew her were thrown into mourning in the morning of Thursday, 8 September, 2016 when the sad news filtered in and became stronger by the hour that ‘a pillar of women’s politics’ in Arochukwu, a seamstress, and a leader in...

Amuvi celebrates 2015 Day in grand style

Aro NewsApril 8, 2016

The event was ‘Amuvi 2015 Day’ celebration on December 25. It featured inter-alia, launching to raise funds for the development of the community and recognition of selected individuals who have contributed to the development of the area. Venue was the Amuvi Civic Centre complex, Arochukwu. Branches of the town union nationwide were represented by their...

Sad news as antelope kills famous hunter

Aro NewsApril 8, 2016

Tragedy reportedly struck in Ugwuakuma Village, Arochukwu, on Monday, January 4, 2016 as a famous hunter in the village, Uyo Okorafor, lost his life to an antelope which his trap caught. Believed to be about 58 years old, Uyo was said to have informed his family members at about 3pm on that fateful day, his...

Leadership crisis resolved, peace returns to Ndi Okwara

Aro NewsDecember 23, 2015

His Royal Highness, Eze (Amb) Charles Kanu Okoro, Ezeogo Atani community, Arochukwu, recently resolved the lingering leadership crisis which pervaded Ndi-Okwara, one of the four units that make up Atani community. The national leadership of Ndi Okwara Development Union (NDU), had been locked in unhealthy relationship with its home branch counterpart over who has the...