History's Eye

Some working mothers in Anambra have lamented the three months maternity leave policy of the state, saying they are caught between trying to achieve exclusive breastfeeding and maintaining their career. They expressed their displeasure in Awka to mark the ongoing World Breastfeeding Week. According to the nursing mothers, they go the extra mile to breastfeed exclusively because  their babies' delicate immune systems depend on breast milk nutrition for proper development. Mrs Irene Dike, a civil servant said that she took her mother and five-month old baby to work everyday to achieve exclusive breastfeeding. "I was determined to defy all odds when I resumed work after three months maternity leave. My mother comes to work with me and she stays with the baby in my car.  "I have to run down to the car park every two hours whenever my mum calls so I can breastfeed my baby. It is not easy at all but my mum keeps encouraging me, saying I'm making the healthiest choice for my...

  Tension is building up in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area (LGA) of Anambra State following the gruesome murder of a 40-year-old daughter of Abba, Njikoka LGA, Mrs Nkiru Okoye (nee Okelue). An international award winning author, Chimamanda Adichie is also from Abba. Nkiru, wife of Mr Emenike Okoye, a mechanic from Ogbunike, was allegedly beaten to death on July 19th, 2022 by her brother-in-law, Mr George Okoye and family, who equally inflicted severe pains on her husband and left him paralysed, although currently recuperating at Isaac Chira Memorial Hospital and Maternity, Awkzu, Oyi LGA.   It was learnt that the suspect, Mr George Okoye has been arrested and currently in the police custody, but the whereabouts of his wife, Mrs Uzonna Okoye, twins daughters and son, Somtochukwu Okoye, was still unknown, a development which the family of Okelue where Mrs Nkiru hailed from, saw as an aberration, stressing that they could take the law into their hands if nothing was done so ...