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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...
LIFESTYLE
Igbo insist Igbo language must not die despite United Nations prediction.
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BY GORDI UDEAJAH
Ndi Igbo ( Igbo People ) of Nigeria at the weekend insisted that Igbo Language must not die despite the reported prediction credited to the United Nations Organization UNO that it will go into extinction in six years time.
This vow of Ndi Igbo was renewed when Igbo Women Assembly (IWA) in conjunction with Alaigbo Development...
EDUCATION
320 register for Foreign Languages study at Gregory University Institute,
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By GORDI UDEAJAH
Over 320 persons are said to have registered to study Foreign Languages at the 13 years old Gregory University Uturu ( GUU ) Institute for Foreign Languages headed by Emeritus Professor Evaristus Anyaehie.
The Vice Chancellor ( VC ) Professor Cele Njoku said that the foreign languages available in the Institute which are meant for both young...
GOVERNANCE
Why 2025 is crucial year for Abia State, Otti tells enlarged Abia State Executive Council.
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BY GORDI UDEAJAH
Abia state governor Dr Alex Otti has tasked members of the state enlarged Executive Council during their 2025 two day retreat to develop robust governance execution template stating that year 2025 would be a crucial one for the state.
He also charged them to approach their assignments with a...
LIFESTYLE
Igbo Women decry extra judicial killing of suspected criminals, – schedule to hold Mother Tongue Day Event in March.
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Igbo Women under the aegis of Igbo Women Assembly ( IWA) has decried the alleged extra judicial killing without due trial and conviction of suspected criminals when apprehended in Anambra state by the Local Vigilante Group called Agunaechemba
IWA national president Lolo Nneka Chimezie decried this scenario during interaction with journalists in Umuahia, Abia state capital and announced IWA's...