BREAKING: ASEPA launches house-to-house waste collection in Umuahia
Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA) has launched a new house-to-house waste collection program in Umuahia as part of its efforts to further improve sanitation within the capital city. Speaking during the launch, Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Ude Oko Chukwu, PhD, expressed the determination of government to ensure that...
AbiaPoly Alumni Association Visits Abia Speaker, Requests for Collaboration to Move Institution Forward
President of the association while addressing the Speaker and Honourable Members present, eulogized the Speaker and his colleagues “for all the wonderful works you people have been doing including the remodeled Assembly to world class standard, quality laws emanating from the House and the productive oversight functions by the different House Committees that have brought about positive changes in...
BREAKING: Court Asks T.A. Orji, Saraki, Akpabio To Refund Pensions Received As Ex-Governors
A federal high court in Ikoyi has asked the federal government to recover pension and allowances received by Bukola Saraki and Godswill Akpabio as former state governors. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) sued the federal government in 2017 over its “failure to stop former governors from receiving double pay and life pensions”. It also sued the government for failing...
My son learned good marriage practice from me – Amobi Ogah
Following a dramatized wedding by kids of Pinecrest School Enugu that recently broke the internet, father of the little bridegroom, Chief Amobi Godwin Ogah has said his kid's excellent performance was influenced by how he lives with his wife at home. In a chat with ABN TV on Wednesday, Ogah said his son, Prince Amobi Jnr learned the art of...
INEC to conduct local council polls as Senate grants full autonomy to LGAs
The National Assembly on Tuesday, granted full financial and administrative autonomy to all the 774 local council authorities across Nigeria by amending section 124 of the nation’s constitution. The section provides a consequential provision for the making of the local councils, a full third tier government without undue interference from the state governments. The amendment was one of the 22 others...
Ikpeazu sacks Abia North waste management team
Few months after its constitution, the Abia state Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has approved the immediate dissolution of the Waste Management Team for Aba North LGA for dereliction of duty. According to a release signed by the chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Onyebuchi Ememanka, s new team to manage waste collection, especially along Aba Owerri Road would be reconstituted...
Abia Speaker, Ikuku Rewards Assembly Staff (Photos)
In fulfilment of the pledge made in June to the Staffers of the Abia State House of Assembly, the Speaker Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji, on Tuesday presented a Sienna Car, on behalf of Members of the 7th Abia State House of Assembly, to Mrs Ijeoma Ezuta, a Staff of the Assembly, as reward for her dedication to duty. Recall...
Unqualified teachers to exit classrooms December 31, says TRCN
OYO - The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), yesterday, disclosed that the Federal Government has directed that all unqualified teachers should be flushed out of the classrooms by December 31, this year. TRCN Registrar, Prof Olusegun Ajiboye, while inducting over 200 Education graduates of the University of Ibadan, said quacks teaching Nigerian children would be thrown out and replaced...
Military forces kill 13 terrorists in Duguri Island, Borno
BORNO- The Nigerian Army says 13 terrorists have been killed in an operation in Duguri Island, Borno state. Media coordinator, Nigerian Army operations, Col. Al Aminu Iliyasu, said in a release that the ISWAP terrorists were "neutralised" in an operation by combined troops of sector 3 operation LAFIYA DOLE and sector 2 of the Multinational Joint Task Force on Thursday,...
Akwa Ibom internal revenue chairman bags award for improved IGR
AKWA IBOM- The Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) Akwa Ibom state has presented an award to the Executive Chairman, Akwa Ibom Internal Revenue Service (AKIRS), Mr. Okon Okon. The award is in appreciation of his ingenuity in repositioning tax collection and the concomitant improvement in the internally generated revenue of the state. The AKIRS generated N26.6 billion between...
