The Abia State Government has announced plans to settle outstanding salary arrears owed to former Local Government Councillors who served between 1999 and 2022. Governor Alex Otti made this known on Sunday during a meeting with members of the Association of Former Elected Councillors in Umuahia. The governor stated that payments of the arrears accumulated…
Abia State Executive Council has approved the construction of housing estates across the state for both civil servants and other members of the public. This was even as the Abia State Electricity Regulatory Authority plans to issue an order for the regularisation of all electricity activities in the state. The commissioner for Information, Prince Kanu,…
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has commenced distribution of relief items to flood victims in Abia. NEMA, in collaboration with the State Emergency Management Agency, handed over the relief items to the representatives of the affected communities on Thursday in Umuahia. In a speech, Head, NEMA Owerri Operations Office, Mr Nnamdi Igwe, said that…
Abia State government, through the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, has extended its ongoing revalidation exercise to August 29, 2025. It warned that any private school that failed to be captured in the revalidation would be shut down immediately without any option for appeal. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary education, Goodluck Ubochi gave…
The Abia State Government has announced the passing away of Sunny Onwuma, a member of the Abia State Executive Council and Honourable Commissioner for Labour and Productivity. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Information in the state, Prince Okey Kanu, on Friday, stated that Onwuma passed in the early hours of Monday, March 3,…
A political analyst, Basil Abia, has said that the projections of the 2025 budget proposal presented by President Bola Tinubu at the National Assembly are unrealistic. Recalled that President Tinubu, in his presentation to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday, said the budget aims to bring down inflation from its current 34.6 per cent…