A 45-year-old businessman Emeka Asibirionwu living in Orindu Autonomous Community in Umuahia North local government area was yesterday paraded for defiling a two-years-old girl.
Tributes poured in for a former minister of foreign affairs, late Chief Ojo Maduekwe as the Abia State government yesterday kick-started his final burial rites.
A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused to vacate the order for the removal of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State.
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.