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BURIAL ANNOUNCEMENT On behalf of the families of MR DAVID OKWUANALU and ENGR. EKE UKWA, we announce the passing of our beloved wife, daughter, sister, aunt, in-law and friend, MRS LUCY NNENNA "BABY" OKWUANALU (NEE UKWA) who departed this life on Sunday 5th April, 2026. BURIAL ARRANGEMENTS: SERVICE OF SONGS DATE: Friday 17th April 2026TIME: 5:00pmVENUE: The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, First Abuja Parish FUNERAL SERVICE & INTERMENT DATE: Wednesday 22nd April, 2026TIME: To be AnnouncedVENUE: Amaekpu Ohafia, Abia State. DRESS CODE: Black. We invite family, friends and well-wishers to join us as we honour her life and commit her…

Tinubu Orders Appointees Eyeing 2027 Elections To Resign Before March 31 President Bola Tinubu has directed all political appointees under his administration who intend to contest in the 2027 general elections to resign their positions on or before March 31. The directive was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement issued by the Head of Information and Public Relations at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), Dewan Goshit. The move is seen as a preemptive step to enforce political neutrality within government and prevent the use of public office for electoral advantage ahead of the…

How Prof. Mkpa’s Testimony Validates Governor Otti’s Transformational Governance in Abia By Ebere Uzoukwa, PhD Abia State has firmly entered a new era in which governance is measured not by promises, but by visible outcomes, institutional reforms, and the restoration of public trust. Under the visionary leadership of His Excellency, Dr. Alex Chioma Otti, OFR, governance has become purposeful, people-centred, and results-driven. Across the State, the people are offering compelling testimonies that affirm a clear and irreversible departure from the failures of the past. From the expansive renewal and widening of roads in Umuahia metropolis to the liberalisation of public…

Governor Alex Otti’s 2026 Vision: Building Abia as a Learning State in the Narrow Corridor of Reform Governor Alex Chioma Otti’s thinking about Abia as the state approaches 2026 can be distilled into a single governing idea: reforms must become institutions, not episodes. In his own framing, progress that depends on constant defence by a governor is already failing. What must endure, he argues, are systems that function without personality, withstand scrutiny, and survive succession. This vision places Abia squarely within the core debates of modern institutional economics.At the heart of Otti’s 2026 outlook is the belief that prosperity follows…

THE MISINFORMATION ECONOMY IN ABIA: A Rebuttal to Ekwedike Public discourse in Abia State has entered a troubling phase where emotion has begun to overpower evidence and where assertions, repeated loudly enough, are mistaken for fact. The viral commentary by Ekwedike is a prime example of how selective outrage, historical amnesia, and financial illiteracy can combine to create an illusion of scandal where none exists. His argument collapses the moment it encounters verifiable data, yet it thrives on a nostalgia for a past that, in truth, was marked by opacity, debt, arrears, and administrative paralysis. Let us begin with the…

TRANSFORMATION AT OGBONNAYA ONU POLYTECHNIC, ABA: A NEW DAWN FOR HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT UNDER RECTOR ENGR. DR. CHRISTOPHER OKORO KALU - By Barnabas Kalu The winds of change have swept through Ogbonnaya Onu Polytechnic, Aba and nowhere is this transformation more evident than in the Department of Hospitality Management. Before the appointment of Engr. Dr. Christopher Okoro Kalu as Rector by the Executive Governor of Abia State, His Excellency Dr. Alex Chioma Otti (OFR), the department was in dire need of revival. The school restaurant, once envisioned as a hub of learning and culinary creativity had been under lock and key,…