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The Nnannas float Scholarship Foundation

Aro NewsJanuary 30, 2018

Engr. & Dr. (Mrs.) Obi Charles Nnanna have jointly launched a Scholarship Foundation as one of the latest schemes designed to give basic education to some indigent Aro pupils. Under the scheme, 10 Aro children (five in primary 1 and five in JSS 1), out of which six must hail from Atani village and the...

Aro unveils historic Civic Centre amid fanfare

Aro NewsJanuary 29, 2018

After several years of floundering, the glorious moment has finally come, as Arochukwu Kingdom unveils its historic Civic Centre on December 26, 2017. Nothing has in recent memory been more exhilarating for Umu Aro than having this project completed. Indeed, it is dream come through. Throughout the 19 villages, the excitement is palpable, the atmosphere...

Why I designed Aro Civic Centre – Arc Chima Chijioke

Aro NewsJanuary 26, 2018

Mazi Emmanuel Okorafor Avonta (now late) as then President General of Nzuko Aro invited me to go and take a look at what Nzuko Aro was trying to do at the site of the Civic Centre, which they called Aro Hall. He sent three people – Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, Mazi Ukwu Udonsi and another person...

A brief history of the Civic Centre

Aro NewsJanuary 26, 2018

Conceived in August 1975 by Nzuko Aro (then known as Nzuko Ikom na Inyom Aro), the story of Aro Civic/Cultural Centre project had taken a chequered trajectory. Records have it that the land was acquired from Okoni compound of Ibom village, and later surveyed. On it was started a modest town hall project, which had...

Services improve at Arochukwu General Hospital

Ogbonnaya AkomaNovember 5, 2017

Medical, nursing and general health services have significantly improved in Arochukwu General Hospital located at Baraki, the administrative headquarters of Arochukwu local government area of Abia state. The observation was made when the duo of Aro News Bureau Correspondent and a stakeholder in Arochukwu cum freelance journalist, Emmanuel Emenike (of Oror village), visited the hospital...

Okennachi elects kindred Eze

Ogbonnaya AkomaNovember 2, 2017

Okennachi, one of the three distinct enclaves that constitute the triumvirate political arrangement in Arochukwu, has elected her Eze, during a meeting of the kindred held on Sunday, 27 August, 2017 at Ndi Okwara Compound Hall, Atani, Arochukwu, by 05:49pm. All the villages that make up the kindred were in attendance except one, Amangwu. During...

AROSON exco pays courtesy call on Sen. MAO

Aro NewsOctober 26, 2017

The National Executives of Aro-Okeigbo Social Club of Nigeria (AROSON), led by its Vice President, Arc. Godwin Nwachukwu, paid a courtesy visit to the Senator representing Abia North in the National Assembly, Senator Mao Arukwe Ohuabunwa on Sunday, June 25th, 2017, at his Baraki residence, Arochukwu. Earlier on June 24, the social club had held...

Ndi Ezeogos’ stand on Eze Aro’s representative at Eke Ekpe Day – the implications

Ogbonnaya AkomaOctober 20, 2017

There are strong indications that the Council of Ndi Ezeogo of Arochukwu, an umbrella organization of the various village heads in Arochukwu, has issued a statement and threatened that if the representative of Eze Aro of Arochukwu, Mazi Oji Kanu Oji, appeared at Amaikpe Square, Obinkita, to represent Eze Aro during this year’s Eke Ekpe...

Impressive work going on at Aro Civic Centre site

Aro NewsOctober 10, 2017

Work is currently progressing at the Aro Kingdom Civic Centre in line with the promise made to Umu Aro by Dr. Alex Otti (OFR) at the 2016 Aro Day celebrations. At the event, Dr. Otti who was the special guest of honour announced to a cheering crowd his decision to take over the project and...

Disgruntled Umu Aro shamed as they drag Aro News to anti-corruption agency

Aro NewsMay 3, 2017

A dastardly plot hatched by some umu-Aro to cause a major calamity has been uncovered. The conspiracy is said to be the brain child of some principal officers of the past EXCO of Nzuko Aro who were not satisfied by the verdict of the committee it constituted to settle the ‘ownership tussle’ it engineered with...