The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday signed the state’s Water Bill into law. In his address during the ceremony held at the Government House...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday arrested a major supplier of illicit drugs in Abia State, Chibuike Apolos. The NDLEA spokesman,...
It was mixed fortunes for Nigerian states, as 18 states out of 36 including federal capital territory recorded negative Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This...
Police operatives in Abia State have arrested two suspected killers of two brothers, Bright and Victory Osuagwu, in the state. The spokesman of the state police...
The Abia government has announced a review of the curfew imposed on Aba and Umuahia between 8 pm and 6 am. In this edict, the towns...
The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, of Abia State, has announced a curfew in Aba and Umuahia metropolis from 10pm to 6am daily from...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has revealed that the states of Abia and Taraba have the lowest number of vaccinated people so far...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured on a hitch free conduct of Saturday’s Aba North/South federal constituency by-election in Abia State. Dr Joseph Iloh,...
The Abia State Police Command has been thrown into mourning as three officers were murdered by suspected gunmen on Tuesday, March 23, while carting away two...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Thursday received his jab of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Ikpeazu, who was administered the vaccine by his Personal Physician,...
Police operatives in Abia State have arrested two kidnap suspects, Ikechi Monday and Onyekachi Orji in the state. The suspects abducted a 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Patricia...
Police operatives in Abia State have killed four suspects and arrested eight others over an attack on a police station in the state. Suspected hoodlums had...
Gunmen on Tuesday, attacked and burnt the World Bank Housing Estate Police Station, Abayi in Aba, few weeks after burning of Omoba Police Station in Isiala-Ngwa...
The government of Abia State has banned cultural festivals till further notice, and also warned that it would hold responsible the Traditional Ruler of any community...
The Abia State government on Thursday banned public gatherings in a bid to check the rising cases of COVID-19 in the state. The Chairman of the...
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday lifted the ban on the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state. Ikpeazu, who disclosed...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday residents of Abia, Kebbi and Kwara States paid the highest price for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also...
The Abia State Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu has said that six corps members taking part in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state...
The family of a 19-year-old boy, Friday Arunsi, who was allegedly murdered on April 17 by a drunken police constable in Abia State on Wednesday demanded...
In this concluding part, ARINZE CHIJIOKE discovers that apart from the Obohia-Ohuru-Aba Road, there are similar projects initiated by the NDDC in Abia State which have either been abandoned, not started...
The Abia State government has relaxed the curfew in the which has earlier imposed due to the #EndSARS protests which later turned violent. This was contained...
The Abia State government led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has announced a date for the resumption of private and public schools in the state. The announcement...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Friday inaugurated a 16-man judicial panel of inquiry to investigate allegations of extra-judicial killings and brutality by security agents in...
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At least five people are feared dead in an ongoing building construction collapse incident in Aba, Abia State. It was gathered that the incident happened on...
The Abia State Police Command on Friday confirmed the arrest of four persons in connection with the killing of a police inspector, Princewill Divine, in the...
A former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, said on Thursday the state needed a competent leader...
Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has dismissed 5,666 public secondary school teachers. He also sacked the state Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB) Executive Secretary, Mr Lawrence...
Gunmen on Tuesday night abducted Pa Chilaka, father of a commissioner in charge of Abia State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Henry Chilaka. An eyewitness...
One Mrs Rose Uwaga has been arrested by the Abia State police command for allegedly strangling her 83-year-old husband, Alhaji Isa Uwaga, to death in Umuahia,...
The pastor of Chapel of Answers Ministry, Jubilee Road, Aba has been arrested and the church sealed off by the Abia State Inter-Ministerial Committee on Covid-19....
The Abia State government confirmed on Saturday that the fleeing COVID-19 patient in the state had surrendered himself and members of his family to the Infectious...
Unknown gunmen have kidnapped Mrs Chinyere Okoye, an assistant manager, News and Current Affairs of Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) Channel 6 Aba, Abia State. It was...
The Abia State police command Tuesday confirmed that a 50-year-old man identified as Chukwudi Maduka had allegedly committed suicide at Umuezu-Ore Umuana village, Umuahia North local...
Policemen in Abia State have rescued two abducted persons in the Aba area of the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbede, who confirmed the...
Residents of Abia State are to continue to observe the COVID-19 lockdown in the state by another seven days beginning from April 8, the state government...
The Abia State Police Command said Monday that a police inspector who allegedly shot a man dead along Ururuka Road, Ogbor Hill area of Aba has...
The sum of N263,327,800 out of N8.5 billion recovered from suspected Kwara State treasury looters has been returned to the state government by the Economic and...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Friday ordered new security arrangements in 11 states where supplementary elections would take place on Saturday. The Independent National...
Nigerian Governors, as custodians of the people’s mandate at the state level, have so much expectations placed on their shoulders. These range from policy formulations to...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) on Wednesday asked the United States President, Donald Trump, to place a travel ban on seven Nigerian governors for...
The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia has cried out over what it claims is a dangerous development in the state. The party also asked...
At least six buildings and shops were on Wednesday razed by fire at Upper Iweka, on Onitsha/Awka Road in Onitsha, after a 33,000-litre diesel tanker fell...
The newly introduced charges on bank deposit by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is expected to kick off today. According to the new policy, bank...
The Abia governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the last 2019 general elections, Alex Otti, has said that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu had...
The Nigerian Army on Wednesday revealed actions it has taken against the soldier that allegedly killed a motorcyclist (okada rider) in Abia State. The motorcyclist, Chimaobi...
A National Assembly/House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, on Wednesday ruled on a petition by PPN and its candidate,...
The idea of a merger of all five South Eastern states as one federating unit is being pushed by the youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. That...
A Sergeant named Collins Akpugo, who allegedly shot and killed 21 year old Mr Chukwuikem Onuoha has been declared wanted by the Commissioner of Police in...
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Sen. Walid Jibrin, has condemned the atrocious activities of herdsmen in the country. While leading members...