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May 18, 2024 · At creation, in August 1991, Awka was virtually left with nothing as most of the public institutions – i.e. university, airport, prisons, etc. – had to remain in Enugu, the capital of the old...
Agu-Awka becomes the gateway to progress as the Enugu-Onitsha expressway undergoes a majestic reconstruction, promising a highway of possibilities and paving the way for a new era in Anambra...
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Awka (Igbo: Ọka) [2] is the capital city of Anambra State, Nigeria. The city was declared capital on 21 August 1991, after the creation of Anambra and Enugu state, which moved the capital from Enugu to Awka (an administrative center since pre-colonial times). [3] The city has an estimated population of 301,657 as of the 2006 Nigerian census.
Sep 27, 2015 · RECENT fatal accident involving an ash-coloured Toyota Camry and a container-laden truck at the Agu Awka end of Enugu-Onitsha expressway, Awka, Anambra State, has, once again, raised issues...
- Protesting For Her Brother
- What Happened to Chijioke?
- Double Tragedy
- A River of Bodies
- A Family Mourns in Silence
- A Mother’s Despair
- Inside Awkuzu Sars
- Breaking The Silence
- Steps Towards Reform?
- Praying For Closure
In early October 2020, thousands of young Nigerians began pouring onto streets across the nation to demand the Nigerian government dismantle SARS. Twenty-five-year-old Obianuju Iloanya felt compelled to join them. The NGO worker wanted to speak out for her older brother, Chijioke Iloanya, who was 20 years old when police officers arrested him in No...
Meanwhile, about 450km (280 miles) south of Abuja, more protesters gathered in Obianuju’s home state of Anambra to condemn the local Awkuzu SARS. Obianuju grew up in a community less than 25km (15 miles) from the post. Throughout her childhood, she shared a bedroom with her two sisters. But she had a special bond with her older brother Chijioke. Th...
Emmanuel and Hope have been married for 31 years. Attracted to “her beauty and character”, Emmanuel fell in love with his wife the first time he saw her, he says. He built a modest three-bedroom bungalow in Hope’s hometown in Anambra State. There, they raised their children: Ebuka, Chijioke, Obianuju, Peace and the last born, Kosisochukwu. They liv...
In January 2013, Emmanuel heard about something that stirred his hope – dead bodies in a river. That month, local communities were abuzz with disturbing news that more than a dozen bodies had been found floating in the Ezu River, a tributary of West Africa’s longest, the Niger. At the time, police cited at least 18 corpses, but local human rights a...
With Chijioke gone, the Iloanyas decided to keep his story to themselves. They did not bring it up with people outside the family. Still, some people heard gossip about Chijioke being an armed robber and stopped visiting the family. In Nigeria, families whose loved ones are taken by law enforcement officials often experience a deep shame, even when...
Obianuju and Ebuka say that of all the people in the family, it is their mother, Hope, who is having the hardest time. Hope had finally crawled her way out of misery after Peace died. But what happened to Chijioke pushed her back in. She stopped going to social events and even avoided going to the market because she said people would point or look ...
“Welcome to Hell Fire” was what Justin Nwankwo saw etched on a wall in black paint when he entered Awkuzu SARS. In August 2013, Nwankwo was arrested from a popular hotel where he worked as a manager, along with the hotel’s owner and some of the staff. Nwafor and his officers had found a gun and two human skulls inside one of the guest rooms. Founde...
The Iloanyas had not spoken in public about Chijioke’s case for years, but in 2019, Obianuju broke the silence. “I told myself I will no longer be held back by this culture of shame. If it will lose friends for me, then that’s fine. But now, I’m going to talk,” Obianuju explains. She had just watched When They See Us, the award-winning American cri...
The #EndSARS protests are considered to be the largest youth-led campaign against the Nigerian Police Force in the country’s history. Young Nigerians galvanised to confront an institution perceived as one of the worst in the world. Nigeria’s police force had the lowest score of 127 countries in a 2016 indexthat looked at how the police enforce the ...
It is about 6.30am on a Sunday morning in November and the Iloanya family is waking up. Emmanuel, Hope, Ebuka, Obianuju and Kosisochukwu shuffle into the living room. They come together to pray. It is a daily family ritual. Outside, a gentle Harmattan breeze blows around the frame of the small house. The sun has not come up yet and the room is dim....
Jul 30, 2021 · A change has occurred that nestled Awka on a comfortable range among the best in Nigeria. But for the speed of transformation, many would have dismissed the governor’s promise of transforming ...
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Awka, town and capital of Anambra state, southern Nigeria. The town lies along roads leading from Owerri, Umuahia, Onitsha, and Enugu. Formerly covered with tropical forest, the area around Awka now mostly consists of wooded grassland. South of the town on the slopes of the Awka-Orlu Uplands are.
