PRESS RELEASE:

GOVERNOR ALEX OTTI TO COMMISSION 14 ROADS AND 4 FULLY EQUIPPED, FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PROJECTS

The Abia State Government wishes to inform the general public, stakeholders, and development partners that His Excellency, Dr. Alex Chioma Otti, OFR, Executive Governor of Abia State, will commission a series of critical road projects and fully equipped, functional Primary Health Care Centers under the Project Ekwueme PHC's Program across the 184 Wards of the state.

Governor Alex Otti who is poised to commission and flag off a total of 55 projects in the coming weeks will commence the first phase with the commissioning of 14 roads and 4 Primary Health Centers (PHC's) across various LGA 's in Abia South and Central senatorial zones. This unprecedented commissioning exercise is scheduled to take place between Tuesday, June 10 and Wednesday June 11, 2025.

These projects are a clear demonstration of the Governor's unwavering commitment to fulfilling the promises made to the people of Abia under the “New Abia” vision anchored on transparent governance, infrastructure renewal, improved healthcare delivery, and socioeconomic revitalization.

The commissioning events for Tuesday and Wednesday are scheduled for 12:00 noon daily. Rallies will immediately follow the commissioning ceremonies once the Governor has cut the ribbons and declared the projects open at the various locations where they are situated.

Below is a breakdown of the Projects to be commissioned on Tuesday and Wednesday .

- TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2025 – ABIA SOUTH ZONE

1. Umuode Road – 1.500km (Greater Aba Development Authority)

2. Bakassi Road – 0.600km (Greater Aba Development Authority)

3. Isu Ihiteukwa Street – 0.300km (Greater Aba Development Authority)

4. Asa Triangle Road – 0.500km (Greater Aba Development Authority)

5. Enyimba Junction – Ariaria Gate Road – 0.300km (Greater Aba Development Authority)

6. Rehabilitation of Market Road (Asa Road to Eziukwu Road) – 0.744km (Ministry of Works)

7. Rehabilitation of Tenant Road (Asa Road to Eziukwu Road) – 0.740km (Ministry of Works)

8. Rehabilitation of Cameroun Road (Asa Road to Eziukwu Road) – 0.711km (Ministry of Works)

9. Rehabilitation of Ehi Road (Queens Road to Eziukwu Road) – 0.500km (Ministry of Works)

10. Reconstruction of Clifford Road (Asa Road to Eziukwu Road) – 0.836km (Ministry of Works)

11. Rehabilitation of School Road (Asa Road to Railway Crossing) – 0.729km (Ministry of Works)

12. Reconstruction of Afikpo Road (Azikiwe Road to School Road) – 0.480km (Ministry of Works)

- Venue of Rally: St. Joseph’s College (CKC), Asa Triangle, Aba

- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2025 – ABIA CENTRAL ZONE

13. Owerrinta Primary Health Centre – Isiala Ngwa South (Ministry of Health)

14. Imerem Primary Health Centre – Isiala Ngwa South (Ministry of Health)

15. Amigbo Primary Health Centre – Umuahia South (Ministry of Health)

16. Ekeoba-Oriendu Primary Health Centre – Umuahia North (Ministry of Health)

17. Reconstruction of Isi Eketa-Obikabia Road (Isiala Ngwa South to Isiala Ngwa North) – 8.300km (Ministry of Works)

18. Reconstruction of IBB Road (Duzie Way to Ahiaeke) – 1.500km (Ministry of Works)

- Venue of Rally: Ibeku High School, Umuahia.

The administration of Governor Alex Otti remains committed to purposeful governance and people-focused development.
We therefore invite all Abians, friends of the state government and Development Partners to join in these commissioning ceremonies and celebrate this new chapter in our collective journey to rebuild and transform Abia State.

Signed:
Prince Okey Kanu
Hon. Commissioner for Information

BREAKING: Victor Osimhen has officially rejected Al Hilal’s fifth offer — no matter the money, he’s not moving to Saudi Arabia.

Case closed.

His main priority is to stay in Europe, with one top Italian club showing strong interest, alongside other top European sides.

Osimhen is in no rush — he’s going to take his time and make the right decision.

His name is Felix. This is one of our brothers from Nigeria that came to buy goods in China. So 3 days ago he felt sičk and this sickness made him to have a partial strokě. Which took him to hospital and he was revived, but as God may have it, he's alive. We want to know any of his family members. And unfortunately none of his family members is in China and no way to open his phone to contact any of his family or friends, But we are meant to know that he owns shops in lagos and is from Aba, Abia State.

So we are trying to know in case if you know who is this person is. Please send contacts to get to his family. Atleast he is shaking his body and his alive. Please help share this post with this picture here. So that people who knows him can come so that we can take him back. Please share this video, So that it can get to his people, please Save a brother.

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

* On this day in 1998, General Sani Abacha, a military head of state of Nigeria, died in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. On November 17, 1993, Abacha became head of state when he overthrew the Ernest Shonekan-led interim national government set in place by General Ibrahim Babangida on August 26, 1993, after Babangida annulled the 1993 presidential which billionaire MKO Abiola won.

* On this day in 1949, George Orwell published ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’. Orwell’s nightmarish description of a totalitarian society set in the year 1984 is a significant work of English literature and popular novel. The phrase, Big Brother is watching you, stems from this work.

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Let every Igbo read and pass this educational piece to our children. Culled from Chike Ofilli.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON THE IGBO:
Clearing the Basic Confusions Honestly

*Question: Is Southeast and Igboland the same thing?*

*Answer* : Not at all. Southeast is only about 3/5th of Igboland. Igboland covers the whole of Southeast, parts of Rivers, Delta, Edo, Cross river, Benue, Kogi, and Akwa Ibom states.

*Question: Why were we taught in school that Igbo people are easterners?*

*Answer* : It is both an unfortunate parroting by teachers and careless adoption by Igbo educated class. Igbo people come from Southern Nigeria and not Eastern Nigeria. It may be correct to say that the Igbo are found predominantly in eastern Nigeria. However, by saying that the Igbo are easterners, the implication is that the Igbo in western Nigeria, numbering about 2.5 million (Agbor, Ogwashi Ukwu, Ibuzo, Okpanam, Asaba, Orimili, Ndokwa, Anioma, etc) are not Igbos. The best-known Igbo anthropologist Professor Mike Onwuejeogwu is from the western part of Nigeria, Chukwuma Nzeogwu, Dennis Osadebe, Okonkwo Adibe (the famous musician), Sony Odogwu, etc. are all from the western part of Nigeria. They are no less Igbo than those who live in the eastern part of Nigeria. The correct answer to your question is “the Igbo come from Southern Nigeria.”

*Question: Why do some Igbo refer to themselves as “core Igbo?”*

*Answer:* That is clearly arrant nonsense. Nobody is core and others peripheral. All Igbo are the same. It is both arrogant, thoughtless, and insensitive for anybody to regard others as marginal.

*Question: Is Igboland landlocked?*

*Answer:* Not at all. Igboland stretches from Port Harcourt to Agbor. The Atlantic ocean washes the shores of Igboland at the islands Opobo and Bonny, Africa’s second largest river – River Niger, traverses Igboland with one part of Igboland in the east and another part in the west of Nigeria. Oguta Lake has the potential to accommodate large ships and could be made a navigable port. If Igboland is landlocked, then all Nigeria is landlocked.

*Question: Is there oil in Igboland?*

*Answer:* Yes, indeed. There is a lot of oil & and gas in Imo, Abia, and currently in Anambra states and Igbo areas in Rivers and Delta States. Besides, Igboland has many other natural resources, including coal, iron ore, limestone, lead, zinc, brine, glass, etc.

*Question: Are the Igbo a nation or a tribe?*

*Answer:* The Igbo is a nation and a very large one. There are many dialects or tribes in Igbo nation, just like you have many tribes within Israel.

*Question: Why do some Ikwerre people and other non southeastern Igbo say they are not Igbo?*

*Answer:* First, it is not up to them to say what they are and what they are not. When God created them, He did not ask them who they wanted to be. He just created them Igbo. The only way you’ll know who belongs to what ethnic group in Nigeria is the name and what language the name comes from. Anybody whose name is Amadi or Onyeri, or Eke, or Odili, Wanodi (Nwanodi) does not need to tell you who he is. He is Igbo, notwithstanding their politics.

*Question: But they claim that their language is Ikwerre, not Igbo.*

*Answer:* That is politics. Ikwerre is a dialect of Igbo language. Just like an Ngwa man speaks Ngwa Igbo, Arochukwu speaks Arochukwu Igbo, Ika speaks Ika Igbo, Ibani speak Ibani Igbo etc.

*Question: Some people say that Igbo language is not complete, is it true?*

*Answer:* No language is complete. All languages borrow from each other. Igbo language is very rich. It has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, sayings, anecdotes, riddles, folklores, etc. Igbo language is one of the major languages of the world, being spoken by millions of people.

*Question: How many are the Igbo?*

*Answer:* The Igbo are very numerous. There is an educated guess that if Nigeria’s census is properly enumerated, the Igbo could easily be the largest ethnic group in the country. They may number up to 40 million. Everything right now is speculation. Nobody knows the true stratification or ethnic populations in Nigeria. The Igbo are the only ethnic group found in large numbers everywhere in Nigeria and foreign countries more than any other ethnic group in Africa.

*Question: Do the Igbo have a culture of their own?*

*Answer:* Yes, indeed. Igbo culture is perhaps one of the richest and all-encompassing cultures in this world. Igbo culture always observes the temporal and the spiritual aspects of cosmology. The study of Igbo culture reveals that it is extremely deep and original.

*Question: Why do the Igbo wear Yoruba Agbada and Hausa babban riga, but the Yoruba and the Hausa do not ever wear Igbo national dress?*

*Answer* : Unfortunately, this is the case. The Igbo have very attractive and resplendent national dresses. And they come in assortments that are extremely dignifying. The Igbo take up foreign cultures more readily than other Nigerians, and they seem not to care that nobody reciprocates their carefree attitude to life. Most ethnics promote their cultures and show off what makes them unique. Actually, it is still the same so-called educated Igbo class who behave in such disgraceful and devil-may-care attitudes.

*Question: Why do the Igbo call themselves Biafrans?*

*Answer:* Great question. Some people have the idea that Biafra originates from the Bight of Biafra. But that is wrong. Biafra was the National name of Igboland given to Igbo by the Portuguese, just as Nigeria was named by the English of Britain. There was the Kingdom of Biafra that ruled most of the ancient subtropical Africa about 50,000 years ago. Unfortunately, nobody talks about it, for whatever reason (maybe because Portugal lost the colony right of Biafra to Britain who buried it, in other to promote Nigeria amalgamation), "I do not know". But, it is in the ancient maps of the world. If you wish, search it in Google.

*Question: Were the Igbo also taken into slavery during the slave trade?*

*Answer:* Yes. The Igbo slaves themselves gave account of their travails in slavery. Olauda Ekwuano, an Igbo ex-slave who bought his freedom in Britain, was the first slave to write about his experience in slavery. His book has become a classic. You ought to find it and read it. Also, other Igbos who were brought to America revolted, and some walked back on water and were said to have returned to Africa. Several books have been written about them. One of such books is “Ibo Landing.” It is available in bookstores like Barnes & Noble. In Haiti, the Igbo settled there and refused to be colonized by anybody. There are many places where the Igbo left their mark or their signature.

*Question: How did the Igbo know days and years?*

*Answer:* The Igbo invented an accurate, if not the most accurate, calendar called “Iguafo Igbo (Igbo Calendar).” In Igbo calendar, there are four market days – Eke, Afor, Nkwo, Orie that make one week. Four days make one week, seven weeks make one month, and thirteen months make one year. There are 28 days for each month, with the last month having 29 days. Each month starts the same day as the previous. Igbo calendar forms the perfect astronomical alignment with the cosmos and regulates the seasons, agriculture, navigation, astrology, geography, mathematics, travel, etc.

*Question: Did the Igbo have their own alphabet?*

*Answer:* Yes, indeed. It is called “Nsibidi.”

*Question: How about mathematics; did the Igbo know mathematics?*

*Answer:* Yes, indeed. There are such inventions as “Okwe” and “Mkpisi” which the Igbo used to resolve figures.

*Question: Did the Igbo know anything about banking?*

*Answer:* Yes. Igbo banking was more in the nature of savings and loans. The authentic Igbo savings and loans invention is called “Isusu’ in which contributions are pooled each week, and one person who has the need, collects, is still in practice. Igbo slaves took this invention to the Caribbean Islands, where they still practice it and call it “Sue Sue.”

*Question: Some people say that Igboland is too small for the Igbo, that they have no alternative than to live as Nigerians: is this true?*

*Answer:* False. Igboland is a large country. Do every Igbo need to stay and work in Igboland? No. Everywhere in the world, some will stay home while others venture abroad in search of opportunities. Igboland is large enough for the Igbo. It is a very rich and hospitable part of the world. It has rich soil for agriculture, abundant rainfall, good sunshine, and table land in many parts. Its land space and population are more than that of over half of the present countries in the world.

*Question: Where did the Igbo come from?*

*Answer:* That question is still being asked. There are very intriguing theories or histories now being studied. You may have heard of the Jewish angle & the Egypt angle which are connected, and the Origin of man angle. This twenty-first century, hopefully, will resolve the mystery.

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Breaking News

Super Eagles and Napoli striker, Victor Osimhen, has finally agreed on personal terms with top Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal.

The striker had previously walked away from negotiations after he was not given his request of €40 million per year.

He will make 660 Billion Naira in 4 years

Moral lesson : It’s either my son plays football or he plays football

Abia people are very creative, kudos to them!

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen has turned down a massive €40 million-per-year offer from Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal, according to Nigerian journalist Buchi Laba (Onyebuchi Onokala).

Buchi Laba revealed on X that the offer was identical to the one Al-Hilal made last summer, which Osimhen initially accepted before Napoli altered their financial terms, causing the deal to fall through.

“Excl: Victor Osimhen officially turns down Saudi club Al Hilal’s first offer. It was the same offer they made last year,” Buchi posted. He also mentioned that an unnamed Italian club is ready to match Osimhen’s salary expectations, while Turkish giants Galatasaray are also pushing hard for his signature.

“RC [release clause] not a problem,” he added. Despite the initial rejection, Al-Hilal remain determined to sign the Nigerian striker and are willing to activate his €70 million release clause. They reportedly expect a final answer from Osimhen by Friday as they look to finalize the deal ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup.

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen has turned down a massive €40 million-per-year offer from Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal, according to Nigerian journalist Buchi Laba (Onyebuchi Onokala).

Buchi Laba revealed on X that the offer was identical to the one Al-Hilal made last summer, which Osimhen initially accepted before Napoli altered their financial terms, causing the deal to fall through.

“Excl: Victor Osimhen officially turns down Saudi club Al Hilal’s first offer. It was the same offer they made last year,” Buchi posted. He also mentioned that an unnamed Italian club is ready to match Osimhen’s salary expectations, while Turkish giants Galatasaray are also pushing hard for his signature.

“RC [release clause] not a problem,” he added. Despite the initial rejection, Al-Hilal remain determined to sign the Nigerian striker and are willing to activate his €70 million release clause. They reportedly expect a final answer from Osimhen by Friday as they look to finalize the deal ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup.

UK updates travel advisory, warns citizens to avoid 23 Nigerian states

Check the states mentioned !!

Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, and Bauchi in the Northeastern part of the country.

Others include Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kebbi, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the North-Western part of Nigeria.

Niger, Kogi, Plateau, and Taraba States in the North-Central part of the country.

Abia, Delta, Bayelsa, Anambra, Rivers and Imo states in the South-East and South-South parts of Nigeria.
“No travel can be guaranteed safe,” it said.

Not one single Yoruba state was Mentioned and it has been this way for years . This just shows who Yorubas are naturally .. Easy going , peaceful , loving people . They just want to live their life in peace .

But the visitors from other Regions Yorubas are allowing into their Lands are Gradually changing this.

UK updates travel advisory, warns citizens to avoid 23 Nigerian states

Check the states mentioned !!

Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Gombe, and Bauchi in the Northeastern part of the country.

Others include Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kebbi, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the North-Western part of Nigeria.

Niger, Kogi, Plateau, and Taraba States in the North-Central part of the country.

Abia, Delta, Bayelsa, Anambra, Rivers and Imo states in the South-East and South-South parts of Nigeria.
“No travel can be guaranteed safe,” it said.

Not one single Yoruba state was Mentioned and it has been this way for years . This just shows who Yorubas are naturally .. Easy going , peaceful , loving people . They just want to live their life in peace .

But the visitors from other Regions Yorubas are allowing into their Lands are Gradually changing this.

PLEASE MY GOOD PEOPLE OF ABIA STATE, IN ABA TO BE PRECISE, IS RAINING SEASON, AND SOME OF OUR GUTTERS ARE NOT COVERED PLS WALK BESIDE THE ROAD TO AVOID PIT FALL.