The Abia government has asked for a thorough investigation into allegations that Otti is bankrolling IPOB and Labour Party in the state to instigate terror. The Abia State Government has called on President Bola Tinubu to, without delay, carry out a thorough investigation into allegations against Governor Alex Otti by …
Read More »Girl, 10, kidnapped in Abia and thrown in a car trunk escapes after being taken to Abuja (video)
A 10-year-old girl managed to escape after she was kidnapped and transported to a different state. The girl, who gave her name as Blessing Felix, said she was running errands for her grandmother in Abia State when a woman grabbed her and put her in the trunk of a …
Read More »APC, APGA candidates declared winners as tribunal sacks 2 LP reps in Abia
The court ordered INEC to withdraw the certificate of return issued to the LP candidates and gibe fresh ones to the winners. Labour Party lawmakers, Ibe Okwara and Emeka Nnamani representing …
Read More »Tribunal sacks three Abia LP Reps members
Three members of the House of Representatives, Ibe Okwara Osonwa, Emeka Nnamani and Munachim Alozie, all of the Labour Party (LP), have been sacked from the National Assembly by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia. They were removed on Monday, September 11, after the tribunal agreed …
Read More »Abia LP Reps member Amobi Ogah sacked by tribunal
The election of Hon Amobi Ogah of the Labour Party (LP) has been nullified by a national assembly tribunal which declared the present Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Nkiruka Onyejiocha as the winner of the Isiukwuato/ Umunneochi federal constituency polls. The tribunal which ruled that the emergence and victory …
Read More »Abia government sacks workers employed towards end of Ikpeazu?s tenure
All public servants recruited towards the end of the tenure of the immediate past Governor Okezie Ikpeazu have been sacked by Abia government. The Head of Service, Lady Joy Maduka, said the public servants affected are those recruited from December 2022 to date. Maduka said in a statement; …
Read More »Two married men allegedly gang-r@pe 11-year-old girl in Abia
Two married men allegedly gang raped an 11-year-old girl at Ndiolumbe Nvosi village in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State. The incident happened on Sunday, August 20, 2023, when the victim’s mother, a widow, sent her on an errand. The Abia State …
Read More »Abia Police confirm arrest of clergyman over death evangelist in Hotel room
Police authorities in Abia State have confirmed the arrest and detention of the General Overseer of Agape Evangelical Ministry popularly called Bishop Timothy Otu over the death of a female evangelist, Happiness Echieze, attached to a Pentecostal church in Aba. The lady evangelist who is a mother of five …
Read More »Abia Police confirm arrest of clergyman over death of evangelist in Hotel room
Police authorities in Abia State have confirmed the arrest and detention of the General Overseer of Agape Evangelical Ministry popularly called Bishop Timothy Otu over the death of a female evangelist, Happiness Echieze, attached to a Pentecostal church in Aba. The lady evangelist who is a mother of five …
Read More »Man arrested for allegedly stealing six blocks in Abia
A man identified as Onuabughichi Ikwecheghi, was nabbed for stealing six blocks from a block molding factory in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. The suspect was caught in the act at about 1: am on Saturday, August 12, 2023, 12/08/2023, by the Abia State Community Policing/Vigilante, …
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