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Nov

2025

A New Abia In Motion: The Electric Bus Revolution Has Arrived – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, Transportation

A New Abia in Motion: The Electric Bus Revolution Has Arrived Global Vision. Local Action. Real Impact. Across the world, great cities are defined not just by the height of their buildings but by the efficiency, safety, and dignity of their transportation systems. From Oslo to Seoul, from Kigali to Shenzhen, electric mobility has become the gold standard of modern governance—and today, Ndi Abia can proudly say: we are entering that global league. The unveiling of Abia’s brand-new electric buses is not merely a transport upgrade; it is a philosophical statement. It is the rebirth of a state that once…

Nov

2025

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Emotions Aside; Facts, History, Constitutional Realities Surrounding Nnamdi Kanu’s Case – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Human Rights, Judiciary

My brother, let us put emotions aside and sit with the facts, history, and constitutional realities surrounding Nnamdi Kanu’s case. Leadership is not always loud. Sometimes, the loudest noise is a signal of distance, not influence. Federal Crimes Are Not Resolved in State Government Houses Nnamdi Kanu is being prosecuted under federal laws, before a federal court, by the federal executive.No governor — not from Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia, nor Imo — has the constitutional authority to negotiate or interfere in: Federal charges DSS custody High-profile national security trials Even the Supreme Court, in AG Federation v. AG Lagos (2004),…

Nov

2025

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A Daniel Has Come To Judgement: Schooling Obinna Oriaku On Public Finance, Transparency And Intellectual Honesty – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy, Good Governance

A Daniel Has Come to Judgment: Schooling Obinna Oriaku on Public Finance, Transparency and Intellectual Honesty It is curious — almost tragicomic — that the same man who supervised Abia’s finances between 2015–2019 without publishing a single Quarterly Budget Implementation Report now seeks to interrogate Q2 and Q3 2025 documents with the zeal of a philosopher-king. But as Shakespeare warned in Measure for Measure, “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” In this debate, however, the irony is reversed: he who fell by opacity now pretends to rise by feigned transparency. Before we engage his questions, the stage…

Nov

2025

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The Enyimba Economic Distric & The Rise Of Abia’s SME Powerhouse: A Historical And Data-Driven Argument- By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Business, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

THE ENYIMBA ECONOMIC DISTRICT & THE RISE OF ABIA’S SME POWERHOUSE: A HISTORICAL AND DATA-DRIVEN ARGUMENT The story of Abia’s economic revival cannot be told without acknowledging the deep historical roots of enterprise in Aba. From the 1970s textile clusters to the legendary “Aba Made” boom of the 1980s and early 2000s, Abia has always been Nigeria’s grassroots innovation capital. Yet, despite its enormous informal productivity, successive administrations allowed the economic engine to decay—flooded roads, epileptic power, zero standards support, and no export architecture. By 2019, UNIDO and the National Bureau of Statistics classified the Aba industrial cluster as one…

Nov

2025

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The Julius Berger Effect In Abia: Why Quality Infrastructure Is The New Political Currency – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

The Julius Berger Effect in Abia: Why Quality Infrastructure Is the New Political Currency In a nation where road construction has historically served as a coded language for rent-seeking, inflated contracts, and premature collapse, Abia State’s insistence on Julius Berger is not merely an engineering decision—it is a philosophical reset. It signals a government that understands that reputation, not rhetoric, now builds economies. For the first time in decades, Abians are witnessing infrastructure designed to last, not to fail; infrastructure awarded on competence, not political patronage; infrastructure built to German standards, not patched with cosmetic asphalt that dissolves after the…

Nov

2025

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Rt. Hon Gabriel Saleh Hosts Ikenna Ukwa, Commends His Stewardship And Unification Of Aro/Ohafia APC

Abia State, National Assembly, News Flash, Politics

IKENNA UKWA PAYS COURTESY VISIT TO RT HON GABRIEL SALEH The Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President of Nigeria, Hon Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa today paid a courtesy visit to his friend and brother, RT Hon Gabriel Saleh in his office at the National Assembly complex, Abuja to strengthen inter-chamber ties and reinforce their friendship. RT Hon Gabriel Saleh, who is also the Chairman, House Committee on Culture commended Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa's stewardship and efforts in strengthening and unifying the APC in Arochukwu & Ohafia LGAs, and his philathropic gestures to his people, describing him as a loyal, reliable and…

Nov

2025

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Abia’s Q3 2025 Financial Report: Facts, Context And The Politics Of Manufactured Doubt – A Response To Obinna Oriaku – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Economy, Good Governance

Abia’s Q3 2025 Financial Report: Facts, Context and the Politics of Manufactured Doubt — A Response to Obinna Oriaku Public commentary on Abia State’s finances is healthy for democracy, but it becomes dangerous when it is anchored on selective interpretation, exaggerated arithmetic, and an unfortunate attempt to weaponize public misunderstanding. Obinna Oriaku’s critique of Abia’s Q3 2025 Financial Report is a vivid example of how numbers can be stretched to create suspicion where none exists, and how nostalgia for opacity can be disguised as patriotism. His concerns sound weighty until they are placed beside verifiable data, constitutional accounting rules and…

Nov

2025

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Let Love Lead Us To Victory; Ikenna Ukwa Charges APC Ward And LGA Party Excos

Abia State, Abia North, Politics

FORGIVE EACH OTHER, LET'S UNITE AND ALLOW LOVE TO LEAD US, IKENNA UKWA CHARGES APC WARD AND LGA PARTY EXCOS The Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President of Nigeria, Hon Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa has charged the ward and Ohafia LGA party Executives to forgive each other, and allow love and peace to exist among them, as it's the panacea that will unite the party and position it for victory come 2027 general elections. Chief Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa gave the charge when he hosted all the ward and Ohafia LGA chairmen and secretaries in his country home , Amaekpu Ohafia…

Nov

2025

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Abia State APC Chairman,Ononogbu Convenes APC State Stakeholders Meeting

Abia State, News Flash, Politics

ABIA STATE APC CHAIRMAN, ONONOGBU CONVENES APC STATE STAKEHOLDERS MEETING The Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President of Nigeria, Hon Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa today Saturday 15th November 2025 joined APC stakeholders and political gladiators in Abia State to the APC stakeholders meeting convened by the State party chairman, Chief Dr Kingsley Ononogbu at the party Secretariat, Umuahia, Abia State. Chief (Dr) Ikenna Nicolas Ukwa charged the State party executives and the stakeholders to remain united in love and peace, which is crucial for the progress of the party and position it for victory in all elective political positions come…

Nov

2025

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What If Gov. Otti Is Wrong?: A Question That Falls Apart The Moment The Facts Arrive – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

*WHAT IF GOV. OTTI IS WRONG? A Question That Falls Apart the Moment the Facts Arrive* Every political era has its favourite question, and in Abia today, the provocation of choice seems to be: “What if Gov. Otti is wrong?”It is a beautifully dramatic question—until one places it beside actual history, verifiable data, and the sobering memory of what Abia truly was before May 2023. Then the question disintegrates into dust. To ask whether Otti is wrong, one must first recall what he inherited. Between 2015 and 2023, salary arrears mounted across institutions like a national embarrassment. Abia Poly, Absu…