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Abia, Headlines, State News
Saturday, July 13th, 2013
Abia governor, chief Theodore Orji has urged people of the state residing in China to be good ambassadors while in the Asian country. In a statement by the chief press secretary, Ugochukwu Emezue,the governor in a town hall meeting told them to be law abiding and shun the urge to push hard drugs. According to […]
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Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Wednesday, July 10th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers, Nigeria | July 10, 2013 – In any locality, state or country where the leader is weak, not as a result of old age, but out of incompetence, such an environment is bound to grow weaker and, the people that such a leader is heading, susceptible to suffering. There would […]
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Saturday, June 29th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere, |Rivers, Nigeria | June 28, 2013 – A government without good performance is like a pregnancy without fetus. A lie can take off with the speed of lightening but a lameduck truth will always surmount that speed. These are unconnected to the scorn called governance of Gov. T.A Orji of Abia State, […]
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Monday, May 20th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere / NNP / May 20, 2013 – It was Hubert H. Humphrey (American 38th US Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78). 1911-1978), who said that the essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Via Sun… Says Gov Orji’s act worse than Judas’s From IKENNA EMEWU, Abuja Abuja activist lawyer, Chief Amobi Nzelu who earned prominence in championing the cause of the Apo Six victims has blasted the Abia State University (ABSU) over the withdrawal of the certificate of former state governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu. Nzelu in reaction […]
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Abia, Headlines, Letters, State News
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
The editor, I would like to thank the senate of Abia State University for withdrawing the certificate formerly granted our admirable one-time governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu. If I have the power to grant national honors, the members of the Senate of the university who who voted for the withdrawal of the […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013

The Abia State University has withdrawn the degree certificate it awarded to a former governor of the state, Uzor Orji Kalu. An online news portal, Premium Times, reports that the university in a statement by its Registrar, O. E. Onuoha, on Saturday said the decision was taken after an emergency meeting of the university senate […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Thursday, February 7th, 2013
•I Support Igbo to produce President …the same way we supported you on Abiola, Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan Former Governor of Abia State, founder and former presidential candidate of the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who recently rejoined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), spoke to LEO SOBECHI (in Kalu’s Camp Neya country home, […]
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere / Aba, Imo State / Jan. 15, 2013 – The latest ranting by Governor Theodore Orji’s aides in the media is dishonourable. They have thrown decorum to the dust bin just as their principal has thrown a gemstone such as the position of a governor away and chose to be a gainsayer. […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Bank gives five Toyota double -cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets to the state THE fight against insecurity in Abia State was boosted at the weekend with a donation of five security Toyota double-cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets by First Bank of Nigeria Plc. to the state. The Managing Director of the […]