(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia, on Thursday, dissolved the state executive committee (EXCO) and replaced it with a caretaker committee. The dissolution was coming in the wake of the expiration of the four years of the EXCO headed by Chief Johnson Onuigbo from Abia Central Senatorial District. The Acting Publicity […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former Governor of Abia State, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu has remained in Kuje Prison because the judgement of the Supreme Court does not affect him. The Apex Court, it was learnt, did not issue any order for Kalu’s release because he did not file any application for such. The judgement only […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Inspector General of Police (I-G), Mr Mohammed Adamu, had ordered the deployment of Ms Janet Agbede as the new Commissioner of Police in Abia. Consequently, the current commissioner of police Mr Okon Ene has been redeployed to the Force Headquarters. A statement by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP Frank Mba […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia Government on Monday disclosed that the state has two confirmed index cases of COVID-19 after the test results of the patients returned positive. Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, the state Commissioner for Information, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia. “We have […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Umuahia (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Abia State government, southeast, Nigeria, Saturday evening hinted that a suspected COVID-19 patient it had earlier declared wanted has been apprehended, and now in its custody. Commissioner for Information in the state, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, who made this known in a press statement issued on Saturday in Umuahia, the […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, who was on December 5 convicted over N7.1bn fraud and sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment, has begged the court to grant him bail from the Ikoyi Custodial Centre pending determination of his appeal. Kalu said in an application Tuesday that he was faced with serious […]
By Ayo Akindele, Lagos (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court, Lagos Division has sentenced a former Governor of Abia State and serving Senator Orji Uzor-Kalu to 12 years in prison over N7.65 billion fraud. Ahead of the ruling, Justice Mohammed Thursday held that the ex-Governor was guilty of the charge filed against him. The case […]
