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 …

Beyond the physical infrastructure, there is an intangible asset which Governor Alex Otti has gained for Abia State in just one year. He has given us an asset of great value, the asset of renewed image and perception. When the public sing the song, Otti is Doing Well, their mental conjecture is not only about the roads and the monuments …

As the controversy over how the administration of former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, allegedly spent a whopping N10 billion for a non-existent airport project continues to rage, the incumbent Gov. Alex Otti, has said that he was not interested in jailing anybody but only after the recovery of the fund. Gov. Otti who spoke while responding to a …

Many may not have noticed this! One remarkable footprint of the one-year stride of Governor Alex Otti is the death of the Abia dichotomies, the main being the Old Bende and Old Aba Divisions. These two groups presented a consistent pattern of struggle over the years. There were other intra clannish and intra group bickering that shaped the tempo of …

One week, one trouble. Last week, it was the bearers of false witness in Abia. Today, the hullabaloo over the viral video from United States of America is over. That was the hype and blitz that engulfed the media space. The Abia media space was agog and the opposition went to the market arena to dance over an entirely private …

Nothing could be more scandalous and horrifying than the disclosure by Governor Alex Otti on a missing airport in Abia State that was purportedly built by the immediate past administration of Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu. At a recent town hall meeting in Maryland, United States of America, where he had an interactive session with a section of Abia people in the …

Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti on Tuesday fufilled his promise of extending financial relief to the victims of the Ehere Timber Market fire disaster. Five victims — Charles Maduforo, Obinna Emmanuel, Uzochi Ubani, Chigozie Theophillus and Chinecherem Joseph — received cheques to the value of their estimated loss in the fire outbreak that destroyed huge timber goods and shops …

Abia State under the watch of Governor Alex Otti has continued to record impressive developments on all fronts since about 11 months ago when he mounted the saddle of political leadership. For a state that has been mired in gross misgovernance and bad leadership in the last 24 years when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held sway, its good people …

I guess, perhaps that you are conversant with classical tales, that you may have encountered the Penguin Bookshelf or come across Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales or John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim Progress. Mine is an inspiration from the classical tales. There is another pleasant tale for you, the tale of Abia pensioners. Our fathers and mothers. The elder statesmen who served …

In the years to come, Governor Alex Otti’s 10 months scorecard shall be classified as the early days of a historical age. Every historical age has its peculiar identity, social forces and the values that shaped the movement. The early days of Otti in power have been a period of emergency intervention, consolidation of change and creating a new political …