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Ohanaeze Ndigbo holds elections in January – Aros urged to participate

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 22, 2017

As elections are to be conducted to fill offices in the apex pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, beginning from January 2017, a chieftain of the organization in Arochukwu, Mazi Ogbonnaya Michael Akoma, has urged the Aros at home and abroad to belong to the organisation and contest elections in it at the local government, state...

Fulani herdsmen’s invasion of Eze Aro’s compound – Aggrieved citizen petitions police, others

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 17, 2017

On Monday, 14 November, 2016, a concerned Aro indigene, Emmanuel Emenike, had petitioned the divisional police office in Arochukwu over what he said was ‘Complaint against Fulani herdsmen in Arochukwu Kingdom.’ In that petition made available to Aro News, Mazi Emenike had written, inter alia, that ‘It is with sadness that I write my complaint...

All-Aro USA Medical Clinic – Fifteen Years After

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 17, 2017

Towards the commemoration of the Aro-British war of 1901-02, Aro citizens living in the United States took a bold step in establishing a medical clinic at Baraki – nearly opposite the High and Customary Courts in Arochukwu. The clinic was to cater for the medical needs of the good people of Arochukwu and her neighbours...

ASCETA creates more depts, affiliates to MOUAU

Aro NewsFebruary 7, 2017

The management of the Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu (ASCETA), has announced the creation of ten additional departments in the college apart from affiliating it to the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU). By this development, ASCETA now admits students who will obtain the first degree in certain programmes run by that...

Nzuko Inyom Aro election, a long walk to freedom

Aro NewsFebruary 6, 2017

It is said that, “whatever that has a beginning, definitely has an end’. This was the case with the election of Nzuko Aro Women’s Wing, which has lingered for over six years now. Every nwa Aro who has been a keen follower of Aro events; laced with the interest of Aro at heart, would have...

Aggrey Memorial College’s old students association makes a return

Aro NewsFebruary 2, 2017

Founded in 1932 by Nigeria’s foremost educationist, Dr. Alvan Azinna Ikokwu, Aggrey Memorial College is one of the oldest if not the oldest indigenous secondary school east of the Niger. With the educationist as the pioneer principal of the school, Aggrey Memorial College became the cynosure of all and envy of its contemporaries. The school...

Arochukwu Gets Community Centre

Aro NewsNovember 22, 2016

History was made on Saturday, the 26th of March, 2016, as a three-in-one community centre was opened at Amangba, Asaga, Arochukwu. ABHHCS Nig. Ltd., operates an MTN communication centre, where people can get their complaints and enquiries sorted out. Above and Beyond (Home Health Care Services Nig Ltd) is a health care service outfit which...

Ike Okoronkwo Renovates Eze Aro Palace…Furnishes Eze Aro’s Sitting Room

Aro NewsNovember 22, 2016

Worried by the dilapidated condition of the Aro palace which was an eyesore in the past, a prominent son of the kingdom Sir Victor Ikechukwu Okoronkwo (Ugwu Aro) took the bull by its horns by undertaking a complete rehabilitation of the palace. A visit by our correspondent to the palace revealed that the furniture has...

First Bank Re-opening: How Alex Otti’s Intervention Saved The Day

Aro NewsNovember 22, 2016

Sequel to the dare devil robbery attack on the Arochukwu branch of First Bank Ltd in the early hours of 1st January, 2015, and several efforts made by umu Aro to get the bank re-opened, Aro News can authoritatively report how the intervention of the former Executive Director of the bank, Dr. Alex Otti eventually...

ASCETA Workers Begin Indefinite Strike, As Ultimatum Expires

Ogbonnaya AkomaNovember 14, 2016

The lecturers and workers of Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu (under COEASU, NASU AND SSUCOEN labour unions), will begin an indefinite strike action from Wednesday, 14 September, 2016 as the twenty-one-day ultimatum earlier given to the college management to pay them eight months of salary arrears had expired and another seven-day ultimatum given...