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EDUCATION
Gregory University best graduating medical Doctor gets N2 million reward from the Proprietor’s family. – Medical Council inducts 83 graduating Doctors, females out-number...
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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria ( MDCN ) has inducted the 83 third batch of medical doctors trained by the 13 years old Gregory University Uturu in Abia state bringing the total it has so far trained/ in three batches to 154.
The 154 which comprised 97 females and 57 males, show that the...
NEWS
GWIHR decries systematic exclusion of Sex Workers from civic participation in public programmes.
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Greater Women Initiative for Health and Right (GWIHR), a non governmental organization ( NGO), has decried the scenario where sex workers across Nigeria are systematically excluded from civic participation in public health programmes, among others.
The NGO disclosed this while commemorating this year's International Sex Workers Day , themed " No Justice Without Us: The...
GOVERNANCE
N208 billion 260 new road projects have commenced with support from Renewed Hope Agenda Fund. Reps Deputy Speaker Kalu says
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Deputy Speaker ( DS ) of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon Benjamin Okezie Kalu said that over 260 new road projects worth N208 billion have been commenced by the federal government-led President Bola Tinubu with major works ongoing on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and the Sokoto-Badagry Highway, adding that the Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund...
Abia partners Access Bank to expand Tax Net, achieve N120 billion IGR target for 2025.
From Gordi Udeajah - Umuahia
Abia state government has announced its engagement of Access Bank partnership towards expanding its Tax net in its bid to actualize its targeted N120 billion internally generated revenue in 2025.
This was announced to journalists yesterday by the state...
BY GORDI UDEAJAH
Fall-outs from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd Foundation ( NNPC) sponsored and Abia State government-partnered week-long 1,000 Free Cataract Extracted Surgery Outreach ( Outreach) in Abia state has elicited the consequences of Cataract and the pro-active measures to prevent it and treat the victims.
Cataract is said to be preventable and treated if diagnosed and...
OTHERS
Researchers call for sustained Root and Tuber Crops-focussed agricultural practices
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BY GORDI UDEAJAH
National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Abia State rose from their 2025 two-day Annual Review and Planning Workshop stressing the urgent need to sustain agricultural practices that focus on root and tuber crops, maintaining that doing so, will address the food security challenges in Nigeria.
The...
OTHERS
Governor Otti orders Security Agencies to apprehend killers of Chinese Miners , Police Officer.
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BY GORDI UDEAJAH
Following the killing of two Chinese Miners and a Police Officer on Friday at their Mining Site at Uturu in Isuikwuato Council, Abia State, the state governor, Dr Alex Otti has tasked Security Agencies to do the needful and apprehend their killers describing their killing as brutal and for non disclosed...
OTHERS
Otti to recall non indegines compulsorily disengaged from Abia public service in 2011.
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BY GORDI UDEAJAH
In his drive to redress the actions he considered illegal, irrational or wrongly taken by his predecessors, the Abia state governor Dr Alex Otti has announced intent to recall non-indigenes hitherto in the state public service but were suddenly and compulsorily disengaged in 2011
The then state administration led by governor Theodore...
TECHNOLOGY
Abia partners ipNX to drive economic progress through technology and innovation power
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The partnership Initiative between the Abia State government led by governor Alex Otti and ipNX which has Mr Ejovi Aror as the Group Managing Director ( GMD ) is providing a world-class broadband connectivity to business organizations and residential customers in the state including building a secured communication networks for government...
GOVERNANCE
Journalists want full domestication and enforcement of FOI, FR and PP Acts/Laws
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Journalists want full domestication and enforcement of FOI, FR and PP Acts/Laws
BY GORDI UDEAJAH
Journalists of the Correspondents Chapel of the Abia State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists ( NUJ ) have called for the domestication and full enforcement of the provisions of the Freedom of Information ( FOI ) Act of 2011, Fiscal...