Abia State
25 Jan
Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has promised to industrialise Abia State to make it one of the major exporters of manufactured goods.
21 Jan
Abia State Health Commissioner Dr Joe Osuji said that the state within the past 14 months has collaborated with the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFNG) achieved 82.8% HIV Treatment Current (TX CURR) and 98% suppression rates. He made this known during a Stakeholders' Forum that featured the formal kick off of the Accelerated Control…
21 Jan
Patients in public hospitals in Abia have continued to bear the brunt of the ongoing strike by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in the state.
13 Jan
The electorate in Abia State have been urged to cherish their rights to vote and use it to enthrone good governance in the state by electing right leaders to preside over their affairs. The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Chief Ikechi Emenike, gave the advice during his visit to…
2 Jan
Women of Amaba Community, in Isuikwuato Council of Abia State, who reside abroad and outside the community, have called for economic empowerment of women in the area. They urged their male counterparts to emulate them by forming groups or platforms through which they can empower people of the community, economically. President of…
14 Dec
Public position begets public scrutiny and it opens up a vista of shared opinions, assumptions and commentaries on the affairs of governance and public trust. Regrettably, the space of public opinion can be overtly toxic to the point that cynics, mischief-makers and political opportunist ride overboard.
7 Dec 2022
I aspired to be the governor of Abia State in 2014 and the governor then asked me to hold on for the sake of the Abia zoning formula, which favoured the Ngwa community.
5 Dec 2022
The Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is binding on Federal Government to pay its members for the eight months they were on strike, despite its ‘no work, no pay’ policy. ASUU’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known…
1 Dec 2022
Abia State Governor, Dr, Okezie Ikpeazu, yesterday, presented his proposed budget outlay of N157, 517, 504,300 .00 for the 2023 fiscal year, which is his last as governor, to the state House of Assembly. The budget, which is tagged, ‘Valedictory Economic Expansion and Stability Budget,’ is 6.95 per cent higher than that of 2022. While…
22 Nov 2022
Abia State Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate, Dr. Alex Otti, has offered an insight on the role he intends to play in the newly established Signature Bank Plc, which was officially unveiled in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
19 Nov 2022
Barely four months from now, the people of Abia State will decide their political future and that of their children. They will have the rare opportunity of going to the polls to choose who will be the next governor of Abia State after Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu...
25 Oct 2022
The Governor of Abia State Dr Okezie Ikpeazu turned 58 on Tuesday October 18. He marked it not with a lavish champagne party but with an assembly of Igbo intelligentsia and public intellectuals that were asked to sink their teeth into the place of Ndigbo in the Nigerian political, social and economic firmament.
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