The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has dismissed claims that the agency’s recent operations are disrupting businesses, insisting that their focus is on saving lives and curbing the circulation of fake drugs. Speaking at a press briefing on Saturday, the NAFDAC Director General, prof. Mojisola Adeyeye reiterated…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has uncovered and sealed a warehouse of six flats containing expired foreign drugs and supplements in the outskirts of Aba. The News Agency of Nigeria NAN reports that the building is located in the serene village setting of Umummeje, Umuocheala in Osisioma LGA of…

Aba, once celebrated as the “Japan of Africa” for its vibrant entrepreneurial spirit and craftsmanship, had in recent years suffered from significant infrastructural decay and economic stagnation.

The Coalition of Southeast Youths (CESYD) on Tuesday applauded the opening of a Garment and shoe factory in Abia State, and urged the Federal government to replicate the Aba plant across the 36 states of the country, noting that "the buzz that this will trigger for allied industries can only be imagined." The group explained…

Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Sir Charles Udoh, has said the 1914 Amalgamation relics are in Ikot Abasi in the state and not in Zungeru in Niger State, proving that the amalgamation of Nigeria took place in Akwa Ibom and not Niger State. The Commissioner expressed the need to rewrite all contentious…

Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) has strongly condemned the killing of five Nigerian soldiers by gunmen during the enforcement of a sit-at-home order by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba, Abia State. The Guardian reports that the soldiers were part of the troops of Operation UDO KA deployed at Obikabia Junction…

Nigeria’s military high command is in a sombre mood over the ‘unwarranted’ killing of no fewer than five soldiers at a checkpoint by IPOB/ESN terrorists in Aba. The high command has vowed to retaliate the attack, warning that it will no longer handle with kid gloves any attack on their personnel. Spokesman of Nigeria’s Defence…

The Military High Command has promised to bring overwhelming military pressure on the proscribed Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) over

Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatization and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has condemned in strong terms the killing of soldiers at a checkpoint in Aba on Thursday morning. Describing the incident as “wicked, evil and unacceptable,” Kalu called on security agencies to fish out the perpetrators of the ugly act, noting that…

President Bola Tinubu on Monday inaugurated the Geometric Power Generating Company in Aba to boost power supply in the commercial nerve centre of Abia.