…assures the Abia Governor Elect that he would put in place necessary measure to ensure seamless transition Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has congratulated Labour Party Candidate in the 2023 Gubernatorial Election in Abia State, Dr Alex Otti on his emergence as Governor Elect. He appealed to candidates in the election not to distract the
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…Dr Uche Ikonne Chikezie announced the death of the governorship candidate in a press statement The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2023 general elections Prof Eleazar Uche Ikonne on Wednesday died in National Hospital, Abuja. Dr. Uche Ikonne Chikezie announced the death of the governorship candidate in a press statement. “I regret
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…the NDLEA has been on their trail since 2013 when they organised a mob attack on some of the agency’s operatives The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has confirmed the arrest of a man, Onyeaghalachi Stephen, for allegedly supplying illicit drugs in the South-East and South-South regions of the country. The spokesperson of the
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‘Ogah is in Court because he was denied the opportunity to contest the governorship election under PDP’ By: Toby Chuks A Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital and presided over by Justice Anyadike is set to hear a Motion brought before the Court by Mr Ndubisi Etugo Ogah seeking to stop
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‘The prosecuting counsel pleaded that the defendant be remanded in custody’ A middle-aged man, Ugochukwu Nwanaji, has been remanded in the Umuahia Custodial Centre, Abia State, over murder charges. Nwanaji was alleged to have beheaded a 65-year-old woman, Mrs Mercy Chukwu, and a 68-year-old man, Mr Moses Uyai, on September 14, 2016 and October 10,
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A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, has claimed that the N5.2 billion Arochukwu–Ohafia–Bende federal road project he attracted while in the Senate had been abandoned for lack of follow-up by the current representative of Abia north senatorial zone, Orji Uzor Kalu. Ohuabunwa, who represented Abia north senatorial
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…Says zoning is by Senatorial districts not by clans …Accuses Governor of narrowing Abia Charter of Equity to clannish politics By: Toby Chuks A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Abia State for the 2023 general elections, Mr Ndubuisi Etugo Ogah has opposed the decision of the incumbent Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu
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Unknown hoodlums on Sunday razed Ubani Market Police Station in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State It was gathered that the hoodlums suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra were heavily armed. No life was lost in the incident as officers of the station were relocated from the place to a
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A suspected notorious major supplier of illicit drugs in Abia State, Chibuike Apollos, was on Wednesday arrested during an early morning raid on his hideout at Mbausi in the Isialangwa North Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi, in said a statement that Apollos had
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At least 100 people have lost their lives in communal squabbles between communities in Akwa Ibom on one hand and between their neighbours in Cross River and Abia in the last three months. Recent cases of communal clashes between communities in the state include land disputes between Enwang /Ukonteghe communities in Mbo LGA, Okopedi/ Amamong
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Soldiers of the 144 Battalion, stationed at Ariaria junction, along the Enugu – Port Harcourt expressway, Wednesday, killed 11 gunmen who engaged them in a fierce gun battle. This is coming 48 hours after three policemen were ambushed and murdered by hoodlums in Abiriba, in Ohafia council area of the state. The gunmen, said to
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Three police officers, Inspector Austin Ugwu, Inspector Longinus Ugochukwu and Constable Ama Ifeanyi were on Monday killed by gunmen in Abiriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the officers were ambushed at Agu Eze Amaogudu community in Abiriba, at about 8.30 am, killed and their two rifles taken away by
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Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, a biochemist, got his PHD at 29 and became a politician by accident. In this interview, he opens up on so many issues including his upbringing, education, marriage and incursion into politics. As a son to a common man, how did you brave the odds to become the governor
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The Abia State Government says it has so far removed a total of 6,064 irregular names from state and local government pension payroll. The state Commissioner for Finance, Dr Aham Uko, disclosed this during a radio programme in the state on Thursday, stating that all amounted to a total sum of N354m monthly. The commissioner
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The Abia State Government, led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has signed the dissolution of the Abia State Local Government Service Commission. This was contained in a terse statement issued to newsmen by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Barrister Chris Ezem, on Saturday. The statement contains, the Governor ”thanks all the former members of
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