Abia State News

The Federal Government has declared Friday, 15th and Monday, 18th June as public holidays to celebrate this year’s Eid-el Fitr. This was confirmed by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Monday, in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr M. B. Umar on Mond…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday led top government officials and captains of industry, among others, to attend the wedding of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s daughter, Damilola. The wedding of Damilola and her husband, Oluseun, was held earlier in the day at the National Ecumenical Centre…

A luxury mansion co-owned by a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and his fourth wife, Jennifer Douglas, in the posh neighbourhood of Potomac, Maryland, United States, has been auctioned. The property gained international notoriety in 2005 after it was searched by the Federal Bureau of Investi…

Mrs. Olubisi Osinbajo You don’t sleep with your two eyes closed when raising boys –Vice-President Osinbajo’s mum Mrs. Olubisi Osinbajo, the 85-year-old mother of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, shares pleasant memories of raising her children with KEMI LANRE-AREMU  and  TOFARATI IGE Can you sha…

Reprieve appeared to have come the way of victim’s of human trafficking in Edo State as native doctors in the state were on Friday forced to revoke oaths and curses placed on them. Many victims of human trafficking are usually made to swear to oaths and some of their body parts collected as …

Liberian Senator and 2017 presidential candidate George Weah at RFI studios in Paris, May 2017. [Photo credit: LA Bagnetto & RFI] Liberian President, George Weah, has called on the Nigerian government to provide 6000 teachers to his country as part of the Technical Assistance agreement betw…

Senator Dino Melaye seated in court room A Kogi State senator, Dino Melaye, outwitted a well-armed contingent of anti-robbery police officers during a half-hearted attempt to arrest him in Abuja on Thursday. Mr. Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, manoeuvred himself out of the p…

Nana Opoku Kwarteng, father of popular late Ghanaian Singer, Ebony Reigns has reacted to a viral video of a mortuary attendant touching the late daughter’s corpse inappropriately. A video showing a mortuary attendant touching and examining the badly injured bodies of Ebony and her friend, Franca …

A suspected homosexual identified as Emeka Ibe has escaped lynching following beatings he got from youths of Ntighauzo Community in the Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State. Ibe, who hails from Idemili South Local Government Area in Anambra State, was reportedly caught in the act with hi…

'Senator Shehu and I are strategizing on how to arrest the Monkey that stole our money' - Dino Melaye In reaction to the news of a wild monkey stealing 70million from the cuffers of Northern Senators, Dino Melaye shared the photo above with the caption, 'Sen Shehu and I strategizing on…

Popular gospel singer and hubby to Nollywood actress, Princess Njideka Okeke, Prince Gozie Okeke, has just cheated death after he went into coma for days. Prince Gozie has been fighting a heart disease for a while until he suddenly went into coma for several days in the hospital until God gave him…

There was pandemonium on Wednesday night after policemen attached to a government aide in Bayelsa state - allegedly opened fire on youths in Angalabiri community, Sagbama local government in the state following a heated disagreement. The actual reason for the alleged shooting is yet to be ascertai…

Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu this morning, welcomes Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria to Abia State. President Obasanjo is in Abia State to attend a burial ceremony of a relative of Bishop Onuoha. Bishop Onuoha is an ally of the Former President and Chairman of Vision…

A young man named Ejindu is set to marry two women, Ebere and Oyediya at the same time and same venue, on Sunday, February 25, 2018, in Abriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. However, the traditional wedding ceremonies of the two ladies will hold on February 23 and 24 at their family …

The Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, Monday, declared the founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazurike, persona-non-grata. This came with an order that Uwazurike should immediately vacate Igbo land or risk being stripped naked and flogg…

Canada-based strip club singer Stephanie Otobo, who accused Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministries of having a sexual relationship with her, says she will name her sponsors who gave her money to blackmail the apostle. Otobo had on Saturday in Suleiman’s church in Auchi Edo State confesse…

After the recent altercation between Igbo industrialist, Innoson Chukwu with Nigerian state security and financial crime agency which led to serious national uproar, another Igbo prominent son who is into real estate and financing, Engr. Emmanuel Mbaka have fallen victim to an allegation of sponsor…

The  people of Isiadu Ibeku community in Umuahia North Council Area of Abia State said they now live in fear following threats by armed Fulani herdsmen to invade their community because they refused to allow them graze on their farm land. The community said 15 armed men suspected to be herdsmen la…

Nollywood  movie producer chukwuka Emelionwu popularly known as kas-vid is dead he was said to have died after afatal  car crash on tuesday 17th. chukwuka is the owner of the popular Kas-vid videos may his soul rest in peace.

The cocoa transformation committee Abia state was constituted and inaugurated by the Abia state deputy gov Sir Hon Udeh Oko-Chukwu at his office government house Umuahia. In his speech, he charged the farmers to be more active in cocoa production as it now looks like a better alternativ…