Abia State News

President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to the United Kingdom today on a four-day medical holiday. The Presidency said yesterday that the President will honour an appointment having been told to return for a “meeting with his doctor.” A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and pub…

Zahra Buhari The Presidency on Friday in Abuja raised alarm over fake Facebook account in the name of Zahra, President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter. The Presidency’s concern is in a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. He stated that “merchan…

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja from London, where he attended the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM. The President took off from London a little after midday on Saturday and arrived Nigeria few minutes past 7pm. He was recieved at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Internati…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will be the guest of US President Donald Trump on 30 April in Washington, the White House announced on Sunday. According to the statement, Trump will discuss issues such as promoting economic growth and fighting terrorism with Buhari. “The relationship of th…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared his intention to seek re-election in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. The president made his plan known to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress. The president said he was responding to the clamour by Nigeri…

L-R: Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe-Ibas; Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai; Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin; Minister of Defence, retired Brig. Gen Mansur Dan-Ali during the National Security Council Meet…

Buhari and Ambode Ahead of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Lagos on Thursday, the Lagos State Government has announced closure of some roads and traffic diversion in Agege, Ikeja, Ikoyi and Victoria Island. The popular Agege Motor Road will be shutdown for the president’s visit. Also to b…

The Presidency, on Saturday, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s extended family was bereaved of two members in quick succession. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, announced this in a statement made available to journalists. “President Muhammadu B…

Vice-President Namadi Sambo has advised the APC presidential candidate, retired Maj.-Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, against committing suicide by planning to personally lead the war against Boko Haram terrorists, if elected president. The vide president said his advice was against the backdrop of …

In what a lot of Nigerians would term shocking, Abian born cleric, Prophet Anthony Nwoko, has prophesied that neither President Goodluck Jonathan nor Gen. Muhammadu Buhari will be president after next month’s election. Nwoko had in 1993 prophesied the end of the military regime of former Head of S…

Former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has urged politicians across political divides to refrain from heating up the polity with provocative statements ahead of the February general election. Kalu advised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the opposition All Progressives Congress (…

As election day draws near, the country is heating up gradually and if care is not taken it might boil over. The main competitors PDP and APC should put the interest of Nigerians first and not the interest of Buhari and President Jonathan. when Islam goes bad heads roll That aside is interestin…

Recently a popular Nigerian Politician (name witheld) called Olusegun Obasanjo a Monkey, which sparked an outcry. He has come out to clear the air using Abiastatenews.com as the platform on why OBJ is a monkey. This detailed explanation is quiet shocking. Let me tell you what good monkeys are su…