At least one person have been confirmed dead and many others injured, when a 40ft container, fell off a truck and landed on vehicles at Aba-Ogbo Hill Waterside bridge along the Aba- Ikot Ekene Expressway. The incident involved an unmarked heavy-duty truck, a Coaster bus belonging to Anambra State government Transport Company, with registration number…
The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has explained why he operates from home instead of the state government house. According to him, he chose to work from home for the time being in order to manage the cost of governance. Otti stated this during the weekend when he received the global leadership of the…
Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, has said that his administration will invest heavily in education, stressing that in his experience and conviction, education presents the surest path towards overcoming the burden of poverty and the bondages that come with ignorance. This came as he commended the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church for investing in education…
The Coalition of Igbo Unions of Nigeria has warned the Abia state governor, Alex Otti not to evacuate northerners from the cattle market in the state. They insisted that any effort made by the Governor to evacuate the northern businesses in the cattle market forcefully will have a terrible effect on igbo traders in the…
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, said that the decomposing, headless bodies found in Abia State indicates the scale of insecurity in the country. Recall Alex Otti, governor of Abia, while speaking at a media parley on Sunday, said 20 headless bodies and countless human skeletons were found around Lokpanta cattle market…
Gov. Alex Otti of Abia has expressed the resolve of the state government to rid Abia of all forms of crime, because “no government succeeds in the face of insecurity”. Otti said this during the monthly Media Parley organised by the government at the Government House, Umuahia. The governor said that the dedication of the…
A member of a vigilante in Abia state was beheaded when gunmen attacked a team of security personnel in the Ossioma area of the state. The spokesperson of the Abia State Police Command Maureen Chinaka confirmed the vigilante’s death in a Friday statement. “Yesterday 26/10/2023 At about 15:50 hrs, Abia State Police officers stationed at…
Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF Chief Edwin Clark, has called for an amendment to the 2000 Act that established the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He specifically urged President Bola Tinubu to remove Abia, Imo, and Ondo states from the NDDC, which currently comprises nine states in the Niger Delta region. The…
A popular Big boy/businessman from Abia state Nnanyereugo Best, popularly known as Killaboi who was declared wanted by Lagos state police for killing his girlfriend, Augusta Osedion, a student of Lead City University, has been arrested in Sierra Leone. After committing the act, he spent over $25,000 purchasing a Sierra Leonean passport. According to a…
A Nigerian woman Uzoma Chioma Asagwara, from Olokoro in Umuahia South LGA of Abia State, has been appointed as the Health Minister and Deputy of the Region of Manitoba in Canada. What makes this achievement genuinely historical is the way Uzoma Asagwara has inscribed her name in history as the first black person to occupy…
