The presidential candidate of the Labour Party’s in last year’s  election, Mr. Peter Obi; and the Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti have expressed their views about the planned hardship protests by Nigerians beginning on 1st August. The two leaders who addressed the press after a breakfast meeting held at Otti’s country home in Nvosi, Isiala Ngwa South Local Government …

Three hundred Abia State youths have just returned from Nassarawa State where they were mobilised by the state to train on modern agricbusiness skill acquisition. This is a fulfilment of Governor Alex Otti’s campaign promise. The idea is to expose participants to the untapped wealth creation and job security in integrated farming. Otti also aims to develop resource persons who …

Barely a week after the brutal murder of five soldiers and six civilians at Umuobiakwa junction, Obingwa Local Government Area (LGA), on 30 May, by bandits who have since been apprehended, Abia State Governor Dr. Alex Otti stepped out of his comfort zone and embarked on an empathetic troubleshooting shuttle to military formations across the state. He first paid a …

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power – Marcus Brutus, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar I couldn’t be a Machiavellian. I hated this statement and others by Niccolo Machiavelli: “A promise is the necessity of the situation and broken promise, the necessity of the after situation”. I am also not a student of Robert Greene. After reading and …

The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has raised the N25 million bounty placed on the killers of five soldiers in Obikabia Junction in Aba, the commercial hub of the state to N30 million. He made the pledge during the meeting which had the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Hasan Abubakar, the Commander 14 Brigade Ohafia, Brigadier General O.O. …

Why is the one-year birthday of a baby very significant? Why do parents, especially mothers, prepare so hard and go all out to give their babies a resounding one year birthday party? Why do children look forward in excitement for the one-year birthday of the babies around them? I recall being dragged from Abia State to Lagos to attend the …

How time flies! It is one year of the Labour Party in Abia State. Governor Alex Otti has shown himself approved as a workman that needs not be ashamed. He has, with every zeal and energy, taken the tide at the flood and it is today clear where the Abia journey is headed. If you take the tide at the …

In the next four days, it would be precisely one year when Dr. Alex Chioma Otti took the oath of office as the fifth civilian Chief Executive of Abia State at a colourful ceremony in the Umuahia Township Stadium. In this last one year, it has been a flurry of commendable activities that has changed the hitherto sorry state of …

Rebirth. Regeneration. Renaissance. These three R-words, almost expressing the sameness of meaning, aptly capture the idea of the political reforms that have taken place in Abia State in the last one year. Old things have indeed passed away! All things have become new! Governor Alex Otti has caused a total political upheaval that has led to the abolition of old …

Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti has said that it was not on the front burner of his administration to employ new people into the state’s civil service. During the monthly media interactive session on Thursday in Umuahia, the state capital, the governor said that the issue of employment would arise when the government finished dealing with what it met in …