Abia State News

A socio-political organisation, Nigeria Renewal, has raised alarm over an alleged plot by some influential Nigerians to “politically neutralize’ former Abia State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu”. The group, in a statement by its President and Secretary-General, Ibrahim Rabo and Usman Mohammed resp…

Orji Kalu, former governor of Abia State, has said he can never return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, because the All Progressives Congress, APC, was “where all Nigerians of note are sitting”. Kalu, a chieftain of the APC, said this while noting that politicians were defecting because of …

The embattled former Abia State governor, Orji Kalu, on Wednesday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that he had no case to answer with regard to the alleged fraud charges preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Kalu is being prosecuted alongside his company, Slok…

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has defied the “no entry” statement of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as his Peace Advocacy Tour moved to Ekiti on Sunday. Mr Kalu said the statement credited to Mr. Fayose that he was not welcomed to Ekiti, State amounted to a manifestation of…

A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has defied the “no entry” statement of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, as his Peace Advocacy Tour moved to Ekiti on Sunday. Mr Kalu said the statement credited to Mr. Fayose that he was not welcomed to Ekiti, State amounted to a manifestation of…

Former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has identified as challenges facing Nigeria today, the scathing criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration by persons who when they were in power, never obeyed the law. Kalu faulted Buhari’s critics, saying notwithstanding the cyn…

Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia state and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) on Monday accused President Muhammadu Buhari of not waging a holistic war against corruption in the country daring the president to president to arrest former president Olusegun Obasanjo if ind…

05:58AM The Accountant General of Abia State, Mr. Gabriel Onyedilefu, told the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday that Chief Orji Kalu, who was governor in the state between 1999 and 2007, received a total of “N22,312,272 only” as salaries for eight years. Onyedilefu tendered before the…

February 11, 2018     Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu and Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the former governor of Abia State has lambasted former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. Kalu, an All Progressiv…

A High Court in Isuikwuato, Abia State, has ordered the state university to restore a degree certificate, which was withdrawn from former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu. Justice Agwu Umah Kalu held that the university’s withdrawal of the degree was unconstitutional. He directed the university’s Sen…

“I CAN BECOME PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA COME 2023 IF WE SUPPORT BUHARI NOW” – OUK REVEALS      The former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has expressed optimism that someone from the Igbo extraction would be president in 2023 after President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term. The APC chieft…