…says state wasn’t carried along By Tom Okpe Abia State Caucus/Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) has rejected the party’s National Working Committee, (NWC) led by Abdullahi Umar Ganduje’s decision to replace position of the National Welfare Secretary, initially held by the state. The Party’s member of the NWC from the state, Friday Nwosu […]
BY UGOCHUKWU UGOJI-EKE Abia State Government said it has saved over N200 million on monthly wage bill following ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers in the state. State Accountant General, Deaconess Njum Onyemenam, said the huge savings came using a unified payment system. Onyemenam, who spoke yesterday after a meeting with the […]
BY UGOCHUKWU UGOJI-EKE The Government of Abia State has directed all former appointees of the immediate past administration to return all government property in their care immediately, or face dare consequencies. The directive was contained in statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof Kenneth Kalu and made available to newsmen, saying […]
By Tunde Opalana As the people of Abia State continue to celebrates the declaration of Dr Alex Otti of the Labour Party (LP) as winner of the Saturday 18 governorship election in the state, a former governor of the state, Senator Uzor Orji Kalu has congratulated the Governor – Elect. The Senate Chief Whip in […]
BY LEONARD OKACHIE The Governorship Candidate of the African Democratic Congress in Abia, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, has said that he joined the race to recover the lost glory of the state. Onuoha said this on Friday, when he visited the Traditional Ruler of Ogbor Ancient Kingdom, near Aba, Eze Ukaegbu Egege, to formally notify him […]
Socio-economic activities and vehicular movements went on unhindered in Umuahia, the Abia State capital and its environ, on Tuesday, without fear of molestation by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) as court sat over Nnamdi Kanu’s alleged abduction by the Nigerian government. Recall that the hearing in the suit filed before Justice KCJ […]
A former Commissioner for Sports in Abia State, Uche Mpamah, has been confirmed dead. The late Mpamah died of undisclosed illness on Saturday. The deceased served as Commissioner under the administration of former Governor Theodore Orji now the Senator, representing Abia central senatorial district in the National Assembly. The late ex-Commissioner hailed from Obuohia Obi-Ibere, […]
Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Peoples Democratic Party PDP Governors Forum has congratulated governors of Abia, Adamawa, Delta, Edo, Enugu and Taraba states on the occasion of 30th creation anniversary of their states. The Chairman of the Forum, His Excellency, Governor of Sokoto State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal CFR, on behalf of his colleagues in […]
Dare-devil gunmen, numbering at least 100, have attacked Bende Divisional Police Station in Abia, leaving two operatives with gunshot wounds. Eyewitness account said the hoodlums set the station on fire at about 11pm on Wednesday. “We heard a cacophony of gunshots around 10.45pm and when we rushed outside, we saw the station on fire. “At […]
The Abia Police Command says it has commenced full investigation into Sunday’s fire at the Ohafia office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Godfrey Ogbonna, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Monday that available information showed that the attack was carried […]
The Abia State Government has threatened to close the iconic Ngwa Road Market in Aba due to attacks on the contractor in charge of the road’s reconstruction. Chief John Okiyi Kalu, the Commissioner for Information, issued the threat in a press release and directed the leadership of Ngwa Road Market and the traditional ruler of […]
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu, said he is optimistic the All Progress Congress (APC) will clinch Saturday’s bye-election for Aba North/Aba South Federal Constituency. Kalu said this on Thursday when he hosted some clergymen in the state to a breakfast meeting in his Camp Neya country home in Igbere, Bende Local […]
A Nigerian man in an expository tweet called out a Chinese-owned company in Abia State, Inner Galaxy Group, for dehumanising Nigerian staffs. READ ALSO: Chinese man dismembers wife body, flush remains down the toilet Daily Times reports that Inner Galaxy Group which deals in high-tech manufacturing and servicing was established in Nigeria in 2008. He […]
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) says it has nabbed two notorious electricity installation vandals in Osisioma community near Aba, Abia State along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway. EEDC’s Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Emeka Ezeh, in a statement he made available via email on Tuesday that the duo had been handed over to the Osisioma Police […]
Abia state People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, Johnson Onuigbo is dead. According to the Sun, a source close to the family who wouldn’t want his name in print confirmed the death of the party chairman whose tenure could have expired on April but for the COVID-19 pandemic. READ ALSO: Eid-el-Kabir: FG declares Thursday, Friday public […]
Umuahia – Abia Commissioner for Health, Dr Joe Osuji, says the major problem confronting the fight against COVID-19 in the state is people’s disbelief that the virus is real. Osuji made the observation in Umuahia on Friday. The commissioner regretted that the people rather believed that the state government was using it to collect money […]
Two persons were reportedly injured and many allegedly abducted in a renewed clash between Amata, Ishiagu community in Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi state and Lokpanta community in Abia state. The two communities have for years been locked in inter-communal conflict over ownership of a vast arable farmland near their borders. The warring communities […]
Abia State Government has released photos of the man who absconded from a holding facility in the state after testing positive for COVID-19. Emmanuel Ononiwu escaped from a holding facility in Aba just before he was to be moved to an isolation centre. He switched off his phone afterwards and also his wife has remained […]
Abia government on Friday announced the gradual relaxation of its lockdown directive, effective from May 11. The relaxation is billed to begin on May 11, Mr Chris Ezem, the Secretary to the State Government, said in a statement in Umuahia. Lockdown: Wike orders prosecution of over 200 persons arrested, impounded 20 vehicles to be auctioned […]
Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia on Friday announced the recovery and discharge of one of the two index cases in the state. Speaking at a press briefing at the Government House, Umuahia, Ikpeazu said that the decision on the patient was reached after the patient satisfied the Nigeria Center for Disease Control’s conditions for discharge. […]