Tag: Onitsha
GRAPHIC WARNING: Onitsha accident kills 50
About 50 persons and 15 buses were burnt on Sunday in Onitsha when a tanker lorry conveying petroleum product fell.…
Onitsha: Police smash 4-man robbery gang
The Police in Okpoko community near Onitsha, have smashed a four-man armed robbery gang that has been terrorising residents of…
APGA will resolve internal crisis – Lawmaker
Rep. Afam Ogene (APGA – Ogbaru) said on Tuesday that the leadership of the party in Anambra would resolve its…
Police recover four bodies from collapsed building
The Police in Anambra have recovered four corpses from rubbles of the collapsed uncompleted four-storey building at a church premises…
Four-storey building collapses, workers feared trapped
No fewer than five persons may have been trapped in the rubble of an uncompleted four-storey building that collapsed on…
200 shops burnt in Onitsha
No fewer than 200 shops and goods worth over N100 million were burnt in Ose Okwuodu food stuff market in…
Traffic Gridlock In Onitsha Ahead Gov Polls
A traffic gridlock on Friday crippled commercial activities in Onitsha, the commercial hub of Anambra, barely hours to the governorship…
Onitsha roars back to business with rain
Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria’s South-East and South-South, witnessed its first rain in 2013 that lasted for 40…
Yuletide: Onitsha Markets’ Leaders Ban Okada
Markets’ leaders in Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of the South-East, have banned commercial motorcyclists from entering their markets during…
Gunmen Rob, Kill Car Dealer
Four armed men on Monday robbed and killed a middle-aged car dealer, Chief Emeka Ekwerendu, at Modebe Avenue Junction in…
MASSOB loses members to AIYO
No fewer than 1,000 members of MASSOB have deserted the association and joined another one, an official of the new…
Jonathan commissions Ojukwu gateway
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday commissioned the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu Gateway in Onitsha as part of his one-day official visit to…
Nigeria: Clergy urges probe of lady’s brutal killing
The Catholic Archbishop of Onitsha, the Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, has urged the police to investigate the death of a…
Another police officer shot dead in Anambra
Unidentified gunmen have killed a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Emmanuel Ochiobi, attached to the Central Police Station, Onitsha…
Riot in Asaba,Onitsha: Hausas seek refuge in barracks
Rioting in Asaba, capital of Delta State and Onitsha, the neighboring city in Anambra state over a police killing has…
Army Denies Killing MASSOB Members
The Nigerian Army has denied killing members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB)…
Flood Kills 2 In Onitsha
Mr. Abdulbakir Isah, the Divisional Police Officer for Okpoko, near Onitsha, on Tuesday confirmed the death of two men and…