Police operatives in Abia have arrested 10 members of a dare-devil armed robbery gang that allegedly robbed a bullion van and carted away about N390 million...
Nigeria’s food inflation rose to an 8-month high as the effect of Russia and Ukraine’s war 9,475 kilometres away continued to rake havoc in Nigerian homes....
A former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank, Alex Otti, on Wednesday won the Labour Party governorship ticket in Anambra State. The Returning Officer, Sunday Okeke,...
Gunmen on Sunday abducted the Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Samuel Kanu, in Abia State. Eyewitnesses told journalists that Kanu was kidnapped along...
An explosion at an illicit oil refinery in Uzuaku Community, Ukwa West Local Government Area, Abia State, is said to have killed around ten persons Three...
A two-year-old baby has been abducted by unknown persons in Abia State. The spokesman for the state police command, Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the development to...
Suspected hoodlums on Tuesday night killed at least eight cattle traders at New Cattle Market in Omumauzor, Ukwa West Local Government Area Abia State. The state’s...
Rev. Father Mark Chimezie Godfrey, a priest of the Catholic Church, who was kidnapped in Umuahia, the Abia State capital on October 13, 2021, has regained...
Gunmen on Wednesday abducted the Catholic Priest with the St. Theresa Parish in Umuahia, Abia, Rev. Fr. Godfrey Chimezie, and a lady in the state. The...
A catholic priest, Rev Fr Godfrey Mark Chimezie of St Theresa’s Parish, Umuahia, was on Wednesday morning, kidnapped along the Enyiukwu Road, Ohokobe Afaraukwu community, in...
Justice Christopher Balogun of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Monday ordered the Nigerian Navy to convey the body of the late former military governor of...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly referred to as petrol, was more expensive in Abia in the month of August,...
Two lecturers of the Abia State University, Uturu, and others were robbed and kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen along Uturu – Isuikwuato Road...
Health workers under the umbrella of Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) in Abia State on Thursday suspended their strike in the state. JOHESU announced the suspension...
The Nigerian Army High Command has debunked speculations that made the round on social media that troops were on a revenge mission in Abia State, following...
Unknown gunmen on Saturday night attacked the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) office in Abia State and set the facility on fire. The NIS spokesman in the...
The House of Representatives on Sunday suspended indefinitely the public hearing on review of the constitution in Imo and Abia States over worsening insecurity. The Deputy...
Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has extended the curfew he imposed on the state capital, Umuahia, Aba and Ohafia last month, to a few other...
The attacks by unknown gunmen in Abia state seem to have no end in sight as the Amaekpu Ohafia Local Government Area office of the National...
A Local Government office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ohafia in Abia state was Sunday night set ablaze by hoodlums. Important electoral materials...
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday signed the state’s Water Bill into law. In his address during the ceremony held at the Government House...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday arrested a major supplier of illicit drugs in Abia State, Chibuike Apolos. The NDLEA spokesman,...
It was mixed fortunes for Nigerian states, as 18 states out of 36 including federal capital territory recorded negative Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020. This...
Police operatives in Abia State have arrested two suspected killers of two brothers, Bright and Victory Osuagwu, in the state. The spokesman of the state police...
The Abia government has announced a review of the curfew imposed on Aba and Umuahia between 8 pm and 6 am. In this edict, the towns...
The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, of Abia State, has announced a curfew in Aba and Umuahia metropolis from 10pm to 6am daily from...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has revealed that the states of Abia and Taraba have the lowest number of vaccinated people so far...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has reassured on a hitch free conduct of Saturday’s Aba North/South federal constituency by-election in Abia State. Dr Joseph Iloh,...
The Abia State Police Command has been thrown into mourning as three officers were murdered by suspected gunmen on Tuesday, March 23, while carting away two...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Thursday received his jab of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Ikpeazu, who was administered the vaccine by his Personal Physician,...
Police operatives in Abia State have arrested two kidnap suspects, Ikechi Monday and Onyekachi Orji in the state. The suspects abducted a 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Patricia...
Police operatives in Abia State have killed four suspects and arrested eight others over an attack on a police station in the state. Suspected hoodlums had...
Gunmen on Tuesday, attacked and burnt the World Bank Housing Estate Police Station, Abayi in Aba, few weeks after burning of Omoba Police Station in Isiala-Ngwa...
The government of Abia State has banned cultural festivals till further notice, and also warned that it would hold responsible the Traditional Ruler of any community...
The Abia State government on Thursday banned public gatherings in a bid to check the rising cases of COVID-19 in the state. The Chairman of the...
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday lifted the ban on the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the state. Ikpeazu, who disclosed...
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Saturday residents of Abia, Kebbi and Kwara States paid the highest price for Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also...
The Abia State Commissioner for Information, John Okiyi-Kalu has said that six corps members taking part in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state...
The family of a 19-year-old boy, Friday Arunsi, who was allegedly murdered on April 17 by a drunken police constable in Abia State on Wednesday demanded...
In this concluding part, ARINZE CHIJIOKE discovers that apart from the Obohia-Ohuru-Aba Road, there are similar projects initiated by the NDDC in Abia State which have either been abandoned, not started...
The Abia State government has relaxed the curfew in the which has earlier imposed due to the #EndSARS protests which later turned violent. This was contained...
The Abia State government led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has announced a date for the resumption of private and public schools in the state. The announcement...
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Friday inaugurated a 16-man judicial panel of inquiry to investigate allegations of extra-judicial killings and brutality by security agents in...
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At least five people are feared dead in an ongoing building construction collapse incident in Aba, Abia State. It was gathered that the incident happened on...
The Abia State Police Command on Friday confirmed the arrest of four persons in connection with the killing of a police inspector, Princewill Divine, in the...
A former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, said on Thursday the state needed a competent leader...
Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has dismissed 5,666 public secondary school teachers. He also sacked the state Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB) Executive Secretary, Mr Lawrence...
Gunmen on Tuesday night abducted Pa Chilaka, father of a commissioner in charge of Abia State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (ASOPADEC), Henry Chilaka. An eyewitness...
One Mrs Rose Uwaga has been arrested by the Abia State police command for allegedly strangling her 83-year-old husband, Alhaji Isa Uwaga, to death in Umuahia,...
