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Dec

2025

2025: The Year Propaganda And Falsehood Failed To Diminish Governor Otti’s Reforms- By Ebere Uzoukwa Ph.D (SSA To Governor Otti On Public Affairs)

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

2025: The Year Propaganda and Falsehood Failed to Diminish Governor Otti’s Reforms By Ebere Uzoukwa In every era of genuine reform, resistance is inevitable. When entrenched interests lose their grip on power and privilege, they often resort to noise, distortion and revisionism in a desperate bid to reclaim relevance. This pattern is neither new nor surprising. What distinguishes true reform moments is not the volume of opposition they provoke, but the weight of evidence that ultimately renders propaganda ineffective. The sustained social media campaign orchestrated by Mr Obinna Oriaku and his associates fits squarely within this tradition. Presented under the…

Dec

2025

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Abia Between Christmas And Consequence: The Question Every Investor Will Ask In 2026 – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

ABIA BETWEEN CHRISTMAS AND CONSEQUENCE: THE QUESTION EVERY INVESTOR WILL ASK IN 2026 As the Christmas season fades into year-end accounting, serious investors move from sentiment to scrutiny. For Abia State, December 2025 is not just festive punctuation; it is a balance sheet moment. The decisive question for 2026 is no longer whether Governor Alex Chioma Otti announces reforms, but whether Abia now operates predictable systems that turn policy into bankable outcomes. Between Christmas optimism and economic consequence lies the real test of governance. MACRO STABILITY AND THE REAL USE OF THE FAAC WINDfallInvestor confidence begins with macro stability. Following…

Dec

2025

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Christmas As A Governance Stress Test: What 18 Years Of December 25 Reveal About Abia – And What Has Changed Under Alex Otti – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

CHRISTMAS AS A GOVERNANCE STRESS TEST: WHAT 18 YEARS OF DECEMBER 25 REVEAL ABOUT ABIA — AND WHAT HAS CHANGED UNDER ALEX OTTI Christmas Day is not sentiment; it is a stress test. On December 25, governance is measured not by speeches but by whether roads move, hospitals respond, security holds, and citizens feel safe enough to gather. Across Abia State, a review of Christmas Days from 2007 to 2024 reveals a pattern that long predates current politics—and a discernible shift that has occurred since 2023.From 2007 through the mid-2010s, Christmas in Abia was largely endured rather than managed. Independent…

Dec

2025

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Abia At Christmas: A Learning State In A Season Of Noise, Hope, And Renewal – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

ABIA AT CHRISTMAS: A LEARNING STATE IN A SEASON OF NOISE, HOPE, AND RENEWAL Christmas is traditionally a season of reflection, renewal, and truth-telling. It is a time when societies pause to separate noise from meaning, theatrics from substance, and promises from purpose. In Abia State, this Christmas arrives at a politically charged moment—one marked by fierce narratives, contested reforms, and an administration attempting to reshape institutions while navigating a hostile information environment. In that sense, Abia’s moment mirrors a global pattern far larger than local politics.Across the world, Christmas 2025 is unfolding against a backdrop of deep concern about…

Dec

2025

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Abia’s Transport Reset: How Governor Otti Is Moving From Political Fleets To A Public Transport System – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

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

ABIA’S TRANSPORT RESET: HOW GOVERNOR OTTI IS MOVING FROM POLITICAL FLEETS TO A PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEMFor more than two decades, transport policy in Abia State followed a predictable and costly pattern: procure vehicles, announce empowerment, distribute assets, and watch the system collapse. What Governor Alex Chioma Otti is attempting today—despite the noise, cynicism, and deliberate misrepresentation—is a break from that history, not its continuation.From Ad-hoc Vehicles to Planned MobilityUnlike previous administrations that treated transport as a patronage tool, the Otti administration has framed mobility as an economic service. The launch of the Abia Green Shuttle is not merely about buses;…

Dec

2025

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Why Are Investors “Scared” Of The New Abia? The Facts Say Many Are Not “Scared” – They Are Doing Due Diligence – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

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

WHY ARE INVESTORS “SCARED” OF THE NEW ABIA? THE FACTS SAY MANY ARE NOT “SCARED” — THEY ARE DOING DUE DILIGENCE The claim that “serious investors are scared of Abia” sounds dramatic, but it collapses under one basic test: investors don’t make location decisions from skits, hashtags, or abuse threads. They make decisions from governance signals—policy stability, infrastructure trajectory, land and tax administration, dispute-resolution credibility, and whether project sites are visible enough to verify. That is exactly why the loudest online verdicts about “nothing on ground” are not proof of failure; they are, more often, proof of weak civic verification…

Dec

2025

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Otti The “Evil Genius”: How Disruptive Reformers Are Misread In Real Time – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

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

OTTI THE “EVIL GENIUS”: HOW DISRUPTIVE REFORMERS ARE MISREAD IN REAL TIME In political discourse, labels often travel faster than facts. Few phrases illustrate this better than the loose and increasingly careless use of the term “evil genius” in describing Governor Alex Otti of Abia State. The phrase, borrowed from Nigeria’s long history of elite political commentary and pop culture, has been deployed online not as a serious analytical category but as a shorthand for discomfort with disruption.Historically, the term “evil genius” entered Nigeria’s political lexicon through debates around Ibrahim Babangida, whose strategic brilliance was often acknowledged even by his…

Dec

2025

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How Governor Otti Is Institutionalizing Technology In Abia Civil Service – By Ebere Uzoukwa Ph.D (SSA To Governor Otti On Public Affairs)

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

How Governor Otti is Institutionalizing Technology in Abia Civil Service By Ebere Uzoukwa, PhD Governor Alex Chioma Otti’s administration is steadily redefining public service delivery in Abia State by deliberately institutionalizing technology within the civil service. This strategy goes beyond the adoption of digital tools; it reflects a comprehensive governance philosophy that places human capital development, meritocracy, and technological innovation at the core of state administration. The recent automatic employment of 50 outstanding graduates of TechRise Cohort 2 into relevant Ministries, Departments, and Agencies of the Abia State Civil Service is a practical demonstration of this vision in action. At…

Dec

2025

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Governor Otti, Due Process, And The Abia Airport Claim: Why Law, Not Noise, Defines Accountability – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance

GOVERNOR OTTI, DUE PROCESS, AND THE ABIA AIRPORT CLAIM: WHY LAW, NOT NOISE, DEFINES ACCOUNTABILITY Public debate around the alleged ₦10 billion Abia Airport expenditure has too often been framed as a “media trial.” That framing misses a crucial point: governments do not prosecute by press conference; they prosecute by evidence, audits, and due process. Since assuming office in May 2023, Governor Alex Otti has repeatedly stated that his administration would audit first, recover next, and prosecute last—in that order. This sequence aligns with Nigerian law and international best practice.Audits Before Arrests: What the Law RequiresUnder Nigeria’s legal framework, criminal…

Dec

2025

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Courts And Criticism: Why Abia’s Democratic Space Is Not Being ‘Shut Down’ – But Being Defined By Law – By Prof Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke

Abia State, Columns/Opinions/Letters, Good Governance, Human Rights, Politics

COURTS AND CRITICISM: WHY ABIA’S DEMOCRATIC SPACE IS NOT BEING ‘SHUT DOWN’—but BEING DEFINED BY LAW In any constitutional democracy, citizens have the unequivocal right to question the use of public funds, project execution, and governance decisions. But rights have limits; freedoms must be exercised responsibly, and democracies do not collapse because individuals are held to account for demonstrably defamatory conduct. Recent commentary alleging Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and human-rights abuse in Abia State under Governor Alex C. Otti, however earnest in tone, mischaracterises legal norms and misunderstands both the facts of the N100 bn defamation suit and…