Civil Liberty Organization (CLO), and women’s group from the South-eastern states, comprising over 300 persons, yesterday stormed Abia State Government House in three mini buses , in readiness to protest peacefully against the gang-rape of a female student by five young men, which allegedly took place in the state university. They were, however, tactically diverted […]
The intended transfer of service of non-Abia State civil servants to their states of origin has resulted in a war of words between the two information commissioners in Abia and Imo states. The Abia State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Don Ubani said yesterday that there was no going back on that policy by […]
Dare-devil robbers yesterday stormed the Lagos residence of Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia state in Victoria Island and shot dead one of his domestic staff, Michael Ogbonna, and carted away N2 million. The robbers were said to have trailed the deceased and two others, who had gone to the Adeola Odeku branch […]
The Abia State House of Assembly has summoned the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Hassan and the Vice Chancellor of Abia State University , Uturu, Prof. Chibuzo Ogbuagu , following the total outcry over the alleged gang rape of a female student by five students suspected to be students of Abia State University. […]
THE threat to Nigerian unity, fanned by ‘indigene’ and ‘non-indigene’ issue is apparently not about to abate, going by a recent order emanating from the Abia State Government. The Theodore Orji-led government practically sacked so-called non-indigenes from the state’s public service, even when many of these are Igbo sons and daughters from other states in […]
ABIA State Government has said its statement on the gang rape video clip was based on claims by the Vice-Chancellor of the state University, the institution’s student union government and the state police commissioner. Five suspected members of a cult group had gang-raped a student of ABSU, recorded the incident and posted it on […]
Port Harcourt- About 16 illegal refineries have been discovered within Imo River Field of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Abia State, causing the company to shut down production of 25, 000 barrels of oil per day since August 28, 2011. The action aims at starving the bunkerers of oil product in order to prevent further […]
Abia State Police Command Thursday commenced prosecution of the police corporal, Umar Mohammed, who killed a fellow officer, Clement Amaechi, for some inexplicable reasons. Mohammed was arraigned at a Magistrate Court in Umuahia, where he was charged with the killing of Amaechi by “shooting him in the heart with AK 47 rifle, which caused his […]
Achief priest of Okonko Cult, Chief Emenike Umogariko has allegedly sacrificed a 200- level student of Political Science of the Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu at the altar of the cult in Umuopara village, Mkpa , Bende Local Government Area of Abia State. The victim, Ekenna Sunday Ugochukwu, had the left side of his face […]
The Minister of Youth Development, Mallam Mobolaji Abdullahi, said on Thursday, that one of the suspects in the gang rape of a yet-to-be identified female had been identified. Reports say the five men who raped the young woman recorded the act, which was later uploaded to the Internet. The incident, which is believed to […]
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