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1 month ago | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Dennis Naku |Matthew Ochei |Samuel Ese |Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party has taken a new turn with the governors from the South-South moving against the newly elected Zonal Chairman, Dan Orbih, and other executives loyal to the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Abdulrahman Zakariyau |Ogbonnaya Ikokwu |Sunday Nwakanma
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party Abia State chapter believed to be loyalists of FCT minister, Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday suspended the party’s BoT Chairman, Adolphus Wabara, for endorsing Ude-Okoye as national secretary instead of Samuel Anyanwu, an ally of the minister.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
Cross-section of the matriculating students The Vice Chancellor of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Prof Maduebibisi Iwe, has warned its new students to shun cultism throughout their stay in the university. He also enjoined them to embrace the values of honesty, hard work respect and academic excellence.
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2 months ago | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
An Abia State-born education enthusiast Chief Chimaobi Anyaso, has harped on the need to preserve the role of human educators, even as the world is evolving into the use of Artificial Intelligence in teaching.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
A former acting state chairman of the Labour Party in Abia State, Kelechi Madugba has described as untrue a petition/publication alleging that he sponsors the activities of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra. In a statement made available to South East Punch in Umuahia, the state capital, Madugba insisted that he is neither a sponsor nor a sympathiser of IPOB. He added that he does not know any member of the group and has never interacted with any known IPOB member.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of the National Commission for Persons Living with Disabilities, Hon. Ayuba Gufwan, has said that the governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, is the champion of the disability community in Nigeria. Gufwan said this during a working visit to Governor Otti in his country home in Nvosi, Isialangwa South Local Government Area of Abia State.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
The wife of Abia State Governor, Mrs Priscilla Otti The wife of the Governor of Abia State, Mrs Priscilla Otti, has distributed relief materials to orphanages and charity homes in the state. Among the items distributed were bags of rice, cartons of noodles and spaghetti, cartons of tomatoes, sanitary materials and cash.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
The Abia State Government has announced plans to soon commence the construction of the Abia Medical City project, designed to reverse medical tourism and attract patients to the state. The Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing journalists on the outcomes of this week’s State Executive Council meeting, presided over by Governor Alex Otti.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
The Abia State Governor, Mr Alex Otti, has reiterated that health care is at the top of his administration’s agenda. Otti stated this on Sunday when he received a delegation from Belgium, the Revive Medical Team, who came for a Medical Mission in Abia State for the second time. He thanked the medical team for keeping its promise of coming again to the state for a free medical mission and said that the reports he received from last year’s mission were positive.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
punchng.com | Ogbonnaya Ikokwu
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti. Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to eradicating discrimination based on ethnicity within the state. Otti made this statement on Saturday in Aba during the wedding ceremony of Clement Owunna Jr., son of the Chief Executive Officer of Starline, and his wife, Chinelo.
