Tag Archives: Abia

Two young men have been arrested for allegedly gang raping a 15-year-old girl in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area of Abia State.   The suspects were arrested by men of the Abia State Community Policing/Vigilant group, Mkpuka unit in Isiala Ngwa South on Friday, August 11, 2023.    They …

Governor of Abia State, Mr Alex Otti appears to be helpless as the state speedily descends into a state of anomie while grappling with several social crises and serious security challenges on multiple fronts. On a day local government workers were losing consciousness and collapsing in Umuahia the state capital …

A 37-year-old man, Chiemela Victor Ekeke, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Magistrate’s Court in Umuahia, Abia State, for the sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl.    The incident happened at Eze Ogbulafor Street in Umuahia, Abia State on Friday, July 7, 2023.    Ekeke, who is a …

Rev. Chukwuwemeka Orji, a suspended Assemblies of God clergy who [email protected] his 13-year-old domestic worker has been denied bail and remanded at the Aba Correctional Centre, pending further investigations.      LIB reported that the suspect, who took the victim from her family members with a promise to sponsor her …

Aba South Senior Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday remanded 60-year-old Chukwuemeka Orji at the Correctional Centre over the alleged rape of a minor.    Mr. Orji, a pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Aba is facing a one-count charge of serially raping a 13-year-old girl that lived with him. …

Read the statement by Ururuaja. below… Dear Governor Alex Otti, ABIA STATE WAS NOT CREATED IN 2015 Anyone who read the Press Release signed by officials of the Otti administration yesterday wherein they indiscriminately bandied financial records will think that Abia State was created in 2015 and that Dr. Okezie …

Abia state government has directed all government officials, including appointees of the past administration to return the state properties in their possession on or before Tuesday, June 6, 2023.   Prof Kenneth Kalu, Secretary to the State Government in a statement released on Saturday, June 3, warned that failure to …

The local government transition committees in Abia state have been dissolved by Governor Alex Otti.    The Governor has also approved the removal of the education secretaries of the 17 local governments in the state. A statement released by his media aide Ferdinand Ekeoma read;    “The Governor of Abia …

  Following the deepening crisis in the Abia state chapter which culminated in an illegal election without the knowledge of the National EXCO and the state AGNEC, the National President, Ejezie Emeka Rollas, MON, has just made significant change in the leadership of the state.     A statement released …

Gunmen have killed an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Ndiegoro, in Aba South Local Government Area of Abia State.    The ASP identified simply as “Agbalagba”, said to be attached to the Ndiegoro Police Division, was gruesomely murdered with his head cut off along East Road at about 5:am …