The remains of Eze Israel Kanu and his wife, Salome, both parents of Nnamdi Kanu, the Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), were on Friday laid to rest in their country home at Isiama Afaraukwu, Umuahia, Abia State. Delivering a sermon during a funeral service at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, Afaraukwu, Rt. […]
The police in Abia state on Thursday arrested two pensioners for allegedly organising a protest in Umuahia against the state government’s failure to pay their pension arrears. The arrested persons are Daniel Amugo and Chukwuemeka Augustus, who are the chairman and secretary of a group, called the Abia state Concerned Pensioners. Speaking with newsmen, the […]
A middle-aged palm oil merchant in Umuahia, Mr Basil Odoemelam, who was robbed of over N1 million in broad day light in the capital city on Thursday, has died from gunshot wounds. Odoemelam died around 6pm on Friday at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Umuahia, where he was taken to after the attack. READ ALSO: […]
The Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, Dr Azubuike Onyebuchi, has said that the second Sovereign Wealth Laboratory in Nigeria, being put up at the hospital, will be ready for inauguration by January 2020. Onyebuchi made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen in his office on Friday, saying that the laboratory had reached more […]
Umuahia – Many houses and farmland have been reported swept away by a landslide in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia state. The landslide according to eyewitnesses happened on Monday night at Umuchime Amuzukwu-Ibeku in Abia Mrs Ijeoma Emmanuel, a nursing mother and her child who escaped the incident, said on Tuesday, that the […]
Dr Chioma Uchendu, a consultant ophthalmologist at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Umuahia, has warned against the use of breast milk and urine to treat eye infections. Uchendu issued the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Thursday, while speaking on the World Sight Day celebration. She described […]
It was an atmosphere of fun and tradition as women of Ohafia living in Umuahia, weekend launched their new uniform, Aka Inyom Ohafia (Hand of Ohafia woman) in Umuahia. Under the auspices of Ohafia Improvement Union, women wing, Umuahia Branch, the women also used the occasion to honour deserving Abians with various awards, especially women […]
Gracious Freedom Theological Institute, Umuahia yesterday, honoured a veteran journalist and staff of Lumen newspaper, Umuahia, Sir Emmanuel Nnamdi Ejiogu, KSM with the prestigious Doctor of Divinity award. This was even as the President of the Institute, Prof. Ohaegbulam John Kalu has identified lack of proper ecclesiastical training as the problem facing the world today. […]
As the 2019 governorship election draws near, 29 others from different parties are ready to contest with the incumbent governor, Okezie Ikpeazu over Government House, Umuahia. Though the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Abia says a total of 30 candidates are jostling for the governorship position in the state, only 29 candidates’ photocopied forms […]
Rotary Club of Umuahia North, Zone 5, District 9142 has continued its ‘End Polio Project’ of Rotary International in Umuahia Abia state. The ceremony took place Wednesday at Plaza Hotel with Rotary prayer kicked off by the Club President, Rotn. Chukwudi Ibegbulam, while the Assistant Governor Zone 5, Rotn. Chimdi Oluoha made his opening speech […]
Abia State Commissioner of Police, Ogbizi, Friday arraigned one Mrs. Felicia Ejezie, otherwise known as Mama Biafra “F” at an Umuahia Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Linda Ugboaja for selling Pro-Biafia newspapers. The Police had in the charge number U/9512018, charged Ejezie, aged 55 years for “promoting membership of a terrorist group, IPOB by […]
A 64-year old vendor, popularly known as mama Biafra was mid-Wednesday arrested by a team of police men suspected to have come from the Central Police station, Umuahia. Armed to the teeth, the police officers numbering more than 10, including four women police officers were said to have arrived at vendors’ distribution point around 3 […]
Fifteen years after redundancy, surviving staff of the Golden Guinea Breweries PLC, Umuahia Sunday gathered at the St Finbarrs Catholic Church, Umuahia to offer thanksgiving to God for sparing their lives since Monday 17th, 2003 when their brewery blew off. Under the National Union of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees, NUFBTE the former workers, their […]
The corpses of a popular Umuahia-based pastor of Wind of Glory Church, situated at Ohokobe Ndume, Pastor Blessed that of his assistant as well as a former woman leader of the church was on Friday discovered in cold blood in the pastor’s residence at Umuobia Olokoro Housing Estate. The people of the estate in Umuahia […]
…Banks, markets defy charge The sit-at-home order issued by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), recorded partial compliance on Friday as some people obeyed the order while some went about their normal businesses in the south-east. Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business, defying the sit-at-home order by […]
Commercial banks, markets and business outlets in Umuahia, the Abia capital, opened for business on Friday, defying the sit-at-home order by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB). The city was initially enveloped by an air of uncertainty in the early hours of the day as residents and commuters kept off the streets. Business, however, began […]
Combined team of security personnel, Wednesday embarked on a show of force in and around Umuahia metropolis in an apparently move to pre-empt the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) or any pro-Biafran group from implementing its forthcoming sit-at-home order. This was even as the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr Anthony Ogbizi, had said that […]
Three armed robbers disguised as touts “Agboro” at Abia Tower between Okigwe and Aba Road in Umuahia, Abia state met their waterloo on the early house of Monday. The three robbers as early as 5:30 am stopped a commuter Bus returning from Okigwe to Aba, at the Okigwe Road, near NNPC mega filling station, by […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia says, it will hold a mega rally mid-week to ask the state governor and their sole governorship candidate to confirm his acceptance to either run for a second term or reject it. In a media chat with newsmen in Umuahia, the state chairman of the party, Sir Johnson […]
Gunmen numbering four on Thursday opposite Umuahia General Post Office snatched a Ghana-must-go- bag with suspected cash from the media aide to an All Progressive Congress (APC), chieftain, Dr. Uche Ogar who later declared his intention to remove Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu from government house. Eyewitnesses disclosed that the victim who drove in a […]