Abia State News

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, on Wednesday,  said there was no truth in the reports suggesting that he issued an ultimatum to Israel to return the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to Nigeria. Mohammed made the clarification while answering questions from Stat…

Explosion used to illustrate the story The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Thursday restated its stance that the fire incident that happened on System 2E pipeline network in Umuaduru and Umuimo communities in Abia State was caused by suspected oil thieves. The corporation disc…

A publication by Financial Times on the United States  President, Donald Trump’s comment on President Muhammadu Buhari generated different reactions on Monday. The newspaper in its recent publication stated that Trump called  Buhari, “lifeless,” after their April meeting in Washington. Financi…

•Nigeria hails historic summit United States President Donald Trump and North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un yesterday signed an agreement after talks in Singapore which marked the first time a sitting U.S. president had met a North Korean leader. The two leaders, who in 2017 exchanged threats of wa…

Twenty-five years after the military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by the late Chief Moshood Abiola, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday formally apologised to the family of the deceased who died in custody while struggling to rec…

Nigeria, now a police state under Buhari-PDP Caution security agencies, Atiku urges Buhari We will not be distracted by frivolous allegations – FG Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday raised the alarm that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration  was plotting to slam false ch…

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, has begun a legal action to have the Federal High Court in Abuja to quash the May 9, 2018 resolution of the Senate declaring him “an enemy of democracy and unfit to hold any public office within and outside Nigeria.” In an affidavit which he fi…

The police have invited the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, over the Offa bank robberies on April 5 during which some policemen were killed and millions of naira stolen. He was asked to report to the Force Intelligence Response Team Office at Guzape, Abuja to answer to the allegations reported…

Abuja / Jos / Owerri –  Christians across the country have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Assembly to prevail on police authorities to cancel the ongoing police recruitment exercise. The reported inclusion of Arabic questions in the written recruitment exams organised for …

The three years anniversary of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu witnessed poor turn-out as all the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, federal lawmakers from Abia boycotted the ceremony. Only a lawmaker from the opposition party, Honorable Ossy Pretige, member representing Aba north and south federal constitu…

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the ‘Not too Young to Run’  bill and give the younger generation the opportunity  to govern  the country in 2019. The National President of the ACF, Alhaji Yerima Shettima, stated this in an interview with The PUN…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in his Democracy Day broadcast assured Nigerians that his government will continue to work for them. Buhari, who spoke on many issues, called for support for his administration, assuring that Nigeria was on the path of greatness. Full text is his speech: “…