A private security organization in Abia State, Pem Security has endorsed the Abia Christmas Village Festival and has promised to provide all the private security officers needed for the project to be successful. While speaking during the strategy meeting with the Abia Christmas Village Festival project team, the Chief Executive Officer of Pem Security, Emeka…
…Says existing ones malnourished Lecturers in the nation’s public universities have advised the government to put on hold any plan to set up new universities, but adequately fund existing ones. According to them, existing ones are looking malnourished because of poor funding. They also said existing universities were suffering from dearth of lecturers and other…
The Abia State Government has introduced a whistle-blowing policy, which empowers members of the public to raise the alarm over suspected fraudulent acts. Okey Kanu, the state’s Commissioner for Information and Culture, , disclosed this, on Tuesday, while briefing journalists on decisions taken at the State Executive Council meeting. He described the policy as a…
A former Commissioner for Finance and Economic Planning in Abia State, Dr Philips Nto has advocated the utilisation of research findings in agriculture to assist farmers improve their yields. He said the Abia State Government could leverage on the presence of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike and the National Root Crops Research Institute, both…
To expose evil, curtail crime and insecurity, as well as preserve sanctity of life in Abia communities, an Igbo group, Alaigbo Human Rights Network (AHURIN), has threatened to seek legal action against Hausa/Fulani over an alleged discovery of 70 decomposing bodies and several numbers of headless bodies at Lokpanta Cattle Market in Umunneochi Local Government…
Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, on Tuesday, inspected the ongoing reconstruction work on the Enugu-Umuahia-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway. Governor Otti, accompanied by some members of the Abia State Executive Council, including the commissioner for Works, Engr Otumchere Oti, started the tour from the border side at the Rivers State end, down to Alaoji, and entrance…
Leaders and stakeholders of the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have called on the Deputy Speaker House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu and the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Rt.Hon.Nkeiruka Onyejeocha to end the ongoing media war between their camps. The APC stakeholders and leaders who were worried…
…Gives final warning to corrupt heads of health Institutions The Abia state government has ordered the immediate cancellation of the just concluded Preliminary Test Session (PTS) Examination into State-owned Schools of Nursing and Midwifery. It has further directed that all the qualified candidates involved should re-sit the same examination without any extra fees charged. This…
As the controversy over the rejection of the new Government House, Umuahia commissioned by the immediate past administration of the state by Governor Alex Otti rages on, the state government has come out to say that the Okezie Ikpeazu’s administration wittingly made both the old and new government houses uninhabitable. The Chief Press Secretary to…
The people of Ala Imenyi autonomous community of Lomara, Umunnochi Local Government Area of Abia State, have alerted the Abia State Government about the discovery of an object in their community, suspected to be a bomb. They made the report during their visit to Hon. Mathias Umeh, the member representing the Umunneochi constituency in the…
