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Arochukwu council loses officer in certificate forgery

Ogbonnaya AkomaMay 1, 2017

About one thousand, six hundred employees serving in the seventeen local government areas of Abia state have been relieved of their positions because such officers had forged their certificates before entering into service or after, or that such officers falsified their ages aimed at cheating government in serving longer than the statutory sixty years of...

ASCETA’s investiture of Gov Ikpeazu as Visitor

Ogbonnaya AkomaApril 29, 2017

All roads led to the premises of the Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu, on Friday, tenth March, 2017 when the management of the college, led by the provost, Dr Phillips O Nto, had invested on the governor of the state, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, as the Visitor to the college, the first governor to...

Palace, Nzuko Aro and Ndi Eze Ogo feud is unnecessary

Ogbonnaya AkomaApril 28, 2017

On the fourth of January, 2017, the Eze Aro of Arochukwu, Mazi Vincent Ogbonnaya Okoro (CFR), had issued his New Year message to Umu Aro. In the message, the items the Palace touched were (1) Royal greetings (2) Arochukwu roads (3) 5th All-Aro National Conference (4) Senator MAO Ohuabunwa, and (5) Nzuko Arochukwu. For the...

AROSON elects new national officers

Aro NewsApril 26, 2017

In the festive mood of Christmas last year, members of Aro Okeigbo Social Club of Nigeria (AROSON) gathered in Arochukwu to elect a new set of officers to steer the affairs of the club for another three years. It was a twin event – national convention and election. Date was December 26; venue: Atani Hall....

AAUSA Medical clinic gets maternity ward

Aro NewsApril 26, 2017

The All Aro USA Medical Clinic situated at Baraki, Arochukwu, can now boast of a modern maternity ward courtesy Inyom Aro, Houston, Texas. The state of the art health equipments for the clinic will be launched on Saturday, the 15th of April, 2017 at its site, Baraki, Arochukwu, by 10.00am prompt. The clinic, which was...

National Lottery Fund donates sports equipments to Aro schools

Aro NewsApril 22, 2017

Four schools from Arochukwu town recently smiled home with sports equipment from National Lottery Trust Fund, courtesy of one of the organisers, Rev. Barr. Sally Williams Chinebu. Rev. Chinebu is an Arochukwu daughter but married in Imo state. The sports equipment include footballs, lawn tennis kits, athletics materials, volleyball equipments among others. The benefitting villages...

Alex Otti takes over civic centre project

Aro NewsApril 20, 2017

Umu Aro from all walks of life who converged on the kingdom’s Historic Cultural Center on Aro Day the 26th of December 2016, could not believe their ears as an illustrious son of the kingdom and the Abia State All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 general, Dr. Alex Otti (OFR) announced...

Abiriba-Arochukwu-Ohafia road: Contractor obeys Fashola, returns to site

Aro NewsApril 7, 2017

Construction work has once again picked up on the dilapidated Abiriba-Ohafia-Arochukwu federal highway following directive by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, to the contractor to return to site immediately. Perhaps in response to the hue and cry of the people of Arochukwu, rehabilitation work on the road is beginning...

Arochukwu police preach peace, renovate cells

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 24, 2017

The police in Arochukwu divisional headquarters, under the leadership of the Abam-born officer, Igodo Agwu Kalu, an amiable fellow, has been doing everything to see that people should always choose the part of peace and amicable resolutions of minor social conflicts within themselves instead of escalating such conflicts that will attract the attention of the...

Weeds take over Arochukwu general hospital…workers pledge more dedicated, committed services

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 22, 2017

Established about fifty years ago, Arochukwu General Hospital had catered for the medical needs of the whole area originally under Arochukwu Division before local governments were created in 1976 by the Obasanjo military regime of that period. And when the late Mazi S G Ikoku became Commissioner for Health, more and the necessary equipment were...