The Management of Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, says students of the institution were duly informed before the increment in school fees, which sparked off protest among students of the institution on Monday and continued on Tuesday. Tension heightened on Tuesday at Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, following the disagreement between students and…
Abia State Governor Alex Otti will on tomorrow, Wednesday flag-off the reconstruction of the deplorable Umuahia-Uzuakoli-Ohafia road, the Commissioner for Information and Culture, Prince Okey Kanu told journalists at the Government House, Umuahia after the weekly Executive Council meeting presided over by the governor Kanu while noting that the road has been abandoned for a…
The Abia State Commissioner for Lands and Housing, Chaka Chukwumerije has embarked on public enlightenment and sensitization outreach to communities that will be affected in the planned road expansion of Owerrinta to Umuikaa by the Governor Alex Otti’s Administration. Recall that the State Government had recently announced that it would soon embark on the expansion…
The Chief Executive Officer of Chrome Group and Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), Sir Emeka Offor on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, paid a courtesy visit to the governor of Abia State, His Excellency Dr Alex Otti at the state’s Government House, Umuahia. Speaking at the event, Sir Emeka Offor commended Dr Otti for his historic…
Imo State University Teaching Hospital Umuna in Orlu LGA would have been razed down to ashes except the timely intervention of the Umuna Traditional Ruler, HRM, Eze Dr Douglas Okwara who deployed the Community Vigilante in the company of other Residents to quench the inferno. Information revealed that equipment worth more than Two hundred Million…
The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) of the Abia State University, Prof Godwin Emezue, who was kidnapped about two weeks ago by unknown hoodlums, has been freed by his abductors. Emezue was kidnapped last month while fueling his car at a filling station in Umuahia by the bandits who also snatched an Automated Teller Machine (ATM)…
Married women in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, staged a peaceful protest on Tuesday against the prolonged power outage in some parts of the state capital, prompting their husbands to avoid having romance with them at night due to the excruciating heat. The protesting women drawn from the Mile 2 and Mile 3 axes…
More revelations have emerged on the driver of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure-Ekiti, Ekiti State, who was abducted last week, but never made it out of the forest. All the abducted victims were released but the driver was killed in the forest. In a now viral clip, the freed pupils and their teachers sat…
Colonel Hassan Stan Labo, a retired military officer, has said that small arms weaponry, including as AK-47 rifles and pistols, are carried on almost every truck carrying grain that enters the North through the Nigerian borders. He brought attention to the major obstacles posed by Nigeria’s vast boundaries in the northern regions. He emphasized that…
Abia State Commissioner of Police, Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, has expressed confidence that the state will experience significant improvement in security going forward, thanks to recent measures implemented by the state government. He also mentioned ongoing efforts to rescue the kidnapped Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu. CP Onwuemelie made these remarks while briefing journalists…
