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Alumni pledges to rescue Aggrey Memorial College, set to publish Dr. Alvan Ikoku’s biography

Aro NewsOctober 3, 2018

It was an epochal re-union recently in Abuja, as the new executive of Aggrey Memorial College Arochukwu Alumni Association was inaugurated amid fanfare. For those who had not met in several years, the ceremony was a perfect forum to relive old times, and catch up on sundry things. President of the Association, Mazi Emmanuel Okoro...

Arochukwu Central School II, Obinkita: Studying with tears, under unsafe condition

Ogbonnaya AkomaFebruary 10, 2018

Have you ever gone into the premises of Arochukwu Central School II in Obinkita located inside the premises of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Amaeze Parish? Aro News correspondent had the need to be there recently, and it was discovered that the mud buildings constructed (perhaps) by the Native Authority administration of pre-Independence Nigeria still...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...