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My plans for Arochukwu-Ohafia road – Sen Mao Ohuabunwa

Ugo OkoroDecember 1, 2017

The senator representing Abia North in the National Assembly, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has promised to do everything possible to ensure that the dilapidated Arochukwu-Ohafia road is fixed, to bring a lasting relief to the users. For one 1 hour 15 minutes recently in Aro, Senator Ohuabunwa fielded questions from Aro News team consisting of Patrick...

NASS probes $4 million dollars Aro Electricity projects as Uko Nkole tables motion, petitions Minister of Power

Aro NewsNovember 8, 2017

The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Power to commence full investigation into the circumstances that led to the abandonment of the Federal government’s huge investment of over $4 million on Arochukwu 132/33KV substation for over ten years. The resolution by the House to probe the project followed a popular motion moved at...

Fashola committed to Arochukwu-Ohafia road – Hon. Nkole Uko

Aro NewsMay 9, 2017

Honourable Nkole Uko is the House of Representatives member for Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in the National Assembly. He spoke to Aro News on the side lines of the Nzuko Aro Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting held in Enugu on March 25, 2017. Below are the excerpts: Aro News: As a member of the National Assembly,...

Akoma, Nwabueze, others elected Ohanaeze chieftains

Aro NewsApril 28, 2017

By the time the 2017 national, state and local government elections into the Ohanaeze Ndigbo executives had ended on the ninth of January at No 7, Park Avenue, Enugu (the national headquarters of Ohanaeze Ndigbo), a well-known trado-cultural revivalist-crusader in Arochukwu, Mazi Ogbonnaya Michael Akoma, 57, (of Isimkpu village) had emerged ( as unopposed candidate)...

Hon. Nkole meets Aro stakeholders

Aro NewsApril 21, 2017

The member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Uko Nkole on the 30th of December, 2016 at the residence of Mazi Emeka Okoronkwo in Atani village, Arochukwu, met with stakeholders from Arochukwu. Facilitated by Mazi Nnanna Nwagbara, the honourable member used the occasion to present his scorecard to some members of...

Awka Ibom govt flags off construction of Nkana road

Aro NewsJanuary 27, 2017

The Akwa Ibom State government has awarded contract for the construction of Ikpe- Ikot- Nkon-Obotme-Arochukwu road and the 102-meter Nkana Bridge in Ini Local Government Area of the state. The contract also covers control of the gully erosion affecting some communities in the area. Briefing newsmen recently during an assessment tour of the project, the...

Abia North: Appeal Court upholds Mao’s victory

Aro NewsJanuary 27, 2017

The Appeal Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, under the chairmanship of Justice Jimmy Bada, upheld the judgment of the National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Umuahia, Abia State which validated the election of Mao Ohuabunwa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the duly elected senator representing Abia North Senatorial zone...

Abia North re-run: How Mao floored OUK, others

Aro NewsApril 11, 2016

It is no longer news that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Abia North senatorial election re-run, Senator Mao Arukwe Ohuabunwa, winner of the March 5 election. Declaring the result at about 1.45pm on Sunday, March 6, 2016, at Ohafia collation center, the INEC...

Group pays solidarity visit to Alex Otti

Aro NewsApril 4, 2016

It was planned to be a solidarity visit by the Lagos Support Group to Dr Alex Otti, coming after the Supreme Court had denied him and APGA victory at the governorship elections in Abia State. Date was February 21, 2016, venue: his Lekki residence in Lagos. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon; and in twos...

Okezie Ikpeazu versus Alex Otti governorship tussle: How Aros received the Supreme Court ruling

Ogbonnaya AkomaApril 1, 2016

By the time news filtered into Arochukwu on Wednesday, 3 February 2016 that the Supreme Court of Nigeria was going to deliver judgment in the case filed by the People’s Democratic Party and the party’s governorship candidate (Dr Okezie Ikpeazu) on the 11 April, 2015 election, and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand...