Abia State Archives - Page 343 of 370

Oct

12

2022

Abia court remands man for the murder of two

Abia State, Lifestyle, MetroAbia State, Court, Crime, Metro, Nigeria, Security

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, 2016, respectively. While Chukwu was allegedly killed at Amanato Ezukwu in the Bende LGA of the state, Moses was killed at Otampa in the Isuikwuato LGA. The prosecuting counsel from Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, Romanus Eke, pleaded that the defendant is remanded in custody. Granting the request, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs. Ugo Nkpa, adjourned…

Oct

11

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

2023: Abia Christian community, ACC, Unveils Ukpai Iro Ukpai as Consensus Candidate

Abia State, Metro, Ohafia, Politics2023, Abia Christian community, Abia State, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, Politics, Ukpai Iro Ukpai

THE UNVEILING OF ABIA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FLAG BEARER, a.k.a THE DAVID OF ABIA STATE. I, on behalf of Abia Christian Community ACC, present to you our consensus candidate for the 2023 Governorship election in the person of DR UKPAI IRO UKPAI, the NNPP Governorship Candidate, Abia State. OUR METHOD While other groups are bringing the governorship candidates together in an interactive forum with the intention of picking the best, ACC believes that outward appearance is very deceptiveand has not helped us since 1999 till date. We decided that since we have God who has come to deliver Abia to wait…

Oct

10

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

Dr. Samuel Uba Okorie sends strong message to supporters.

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Politics, Samuel Uba Okorie

From The Office of Dr. Samuel Uba Okorie Good morning brothers, sisters, friends, comrades and fellow constituents, I want to thank God for giving us a bright Monday. A public holiday for our muslim brothers and of course a sit-at-home day for my Eastern brothers. In all, let peace, love and unity be our watchword today. I wish us all a beautiful week ahead. I also want to inform you that as campaign has commenced fully, funny incidents will start unfolding. People will become extremely nicer to you. You will begin to see a lot of branded things like branded…

Oct

09

2022

By Kalu Odinakachi

The Behemoth Called “ABIA” And The Exchange Of Deceits – Opinion

Abia State, Amos Oge Kalu, Ohafia, Opinion, Politics2023, Abia State, Metro, Next Level, Nigeria, NNPP, Opinion, Politics, Ukpai Iro Ukpai

What a walking disaster with a strange-sounding melody of frustration, in a state adjudged to be the 12th richest state among the Nigerian federating states! Why would a state blessed and punctuated with revered intellectuals and astute professional juggernauts be basking in the euphoria of exchanges of ignorance? For barely 24 years, no government in Abia State has ever produced a new general framework of economic thought. It is totally inconceivable and it distorts the technology of reasoning how a state rich in both human and material resources is dying by instalment. Our state governance system has so reduced us…

Oct

09

2022

By Amos Oge Kalu

2023: Ikpeazu inaugurates PDP Advisory Campaign Council in Abia

Abia State, Politics2023, Abia State, Nigeria, Okezie Ikpeazu, Peoples Democratic Party, Politics

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has boasted that there is no other political party in Abia State with the requisite capacity and potential like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He stated this during the inauguration of the 26-member Advisory Council for the Peoples Democratic Party 2023 Campaigns, held at the Banquet hall of Government House in Umuahia, the state capital. A former presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa chairs the Abia PDP Advisory Campaign Council, while Chief Uzodinma Okpara and Professor Paul Ananaba, SAN serve as the Deputy Chairman and Secretary of the Abia PDP…