The Director General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) Brigadier General Suleman Zakari Kasauri has said inadequate logistics was responsible for the Federal Government’s decision to reduce the three weeks of orientation camping to two weeks.
Following a downpour yesterday, some portions of the busy Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene federal highway were cut off at Okwe community in Ikwuano Council in Abia State.
The Abia State Farmers Cooperative Union says the farmers in the state had not accessed anything of the N3 billion intervention fund from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for farmers in the State.
The Abia State chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RFAN) has cried out to the state government for help over cattle herders whose activities they say pose grave threat in the state.
Primary and secondary school teachers in Abia State have embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid four months of salary.
The recent report of the National Bureau of Statistic (NBS) naming Abia as the fifth state in the profile of high debtor states with N78 billion to financial institutions is not true, the state commissioner for Finance, Mr Obinna Oriaku has said.
Following the alleged killings of some northerners in the South-east by alleged members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a pressure group, the Conference of Minority Tribes of Nigeria has warned that Nigeria may be heading for the 1990 Rwanda styled genocide, if the perpetrators and their sponsors are not brought to justice.