Tag: Aba
The Late 5: Three die in Aba as Soldiers and Police engage in shoot out, Egypt and Morocco lose opening games and other stories
These are the stories that drove the conversation today: Three persons have been feared dead in Abia on Friday as personnel ...
IPOB: Abia governor Ikpeazu lifts curfew on Aba
Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has lifted the curfew imposed on the commercial city of Aba. What happened: Governor Ikpeazu had ...
Gov Ikpeazu extends Aba curfew till Sunday
The governor of Abia, Okezie Ikpeazu has further extended the curfew in Aba to Sunday. Reference: Tuesday 12, the governor ...
‘Army to withdraw troops from Abia’
The Nigerian army has agreed to withdraw its soldiers from Aba and Umuahia in Abia. The governor of Abia, Okezie ...
Police station razed in Abia (PHOTOS)
The Ariaria police station in Aba, Abia state, has been burnt down, TheCable reports. The station was said to have ...
Governor Ikpeazu declares curfew in Aba
The governor of Abia, Okezie Ikpeazu has declared a three-day curfew in Aba, following the Nigerian army’s activities in the ...
Top four winners in the Hi-Life regional competition
Hi-Life Fest, a talent competition aimed at discovering and development of upcoming artistes through the mentorship of key music industry ...
Dogara bestowed with chieftaincy title in Aba
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, on Saturday, was honoured with the title, Ome Udo 1 (Peace Maker) ...
BEYOND BIAFRA: From the heart of Aba, a food revolution is coming
by Victor Akhidenor Agbai Amarachi is on a mission. She is a student of the department of Food Science and ...
BEYOND BIAFRA: Stories of innovation, grit and tenacity from the South-East
This month’s citizenship series on YNaija is focused on the South-East part of Nigeria. Keeping in line with our commitment to ...
Regulatory agencies must be agents of profound change – Osinbajo
by Dolapo Adelana Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) has urged government’s regulatory agencies to act as catalysts of beneficial change ...
Girls in Aba start having sex at 10 – Report
Girls in Aba, Abia State start engaging in sexual activities at the age of 10, a medical practitioner, Godwin Uwaoma ...
YNaija Analysis: 5 things ‘Made In Aba’ must do
On Monday, Sam Hart, an SSA to the Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, announced that MadeInAba.com.ng will go live on ...
Abia state recruiting ‘Able-bodied’ vigilantes
In the wake of the outbreak of violence in Aba, Abia state, between Igbo butchers and Hausas as well as the ...
‘Buratai confessed that soldiers killed Biafrans while praying’ – IPOB
Following the Chief Army Staff, Lt.-General Tukur Buratai’s disclosure that the army has set up a committee to investigate the ...
How 6 pro-Biafra protesters were ‘shot dead’ by security agents in Aba
6 members of the Indigenous People of Biafra were on Tuesday killed in Aba, Abia state, while 20 others were ...
Saraki inspects Aba-made military fatigues (PHOTOS)
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, inspected locally-made military fatigues at the National Assembly. The Senator representing Abia-South Senatorial District ...
Gunmen abduct woman driving kids to school in Aba
by Ranti Joseph Is moving around no longer safe, a woman going to drop off her kids at school was ...
Opinion: Why Abia has totally fallen in love with Alex Otti
by Ifeanyi Amanze In Abia State, prospective voters are coming to terms with the fact that they’ve been handed a ...
Opinion: The hallucinations of Madubuko Hart and the wind of change in Abia
by Ifeanyi Amanze It is not the fact that Hart spews his gibberish from a beer parlour that riles. It ...
Buhari goes to Aba, gets chieftancy title, buys groundnuts (PHOTOS)
by Azubuike Azikiwe The nationwide campaign tour of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, has berthed ...
@egbas: See Aba and weep (Pictures!!!)
by Jude Egbas “The decay of Aba made a former Governor of the old Imo State (Sam Mbakwe) weep, which ...
Orji Kalu is a political liability, ignore him – Gov. Orji
by Akan Ido Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has told his predecessor, Orji Uzor Kalu to stop pointing ...
Opinion: #Abia and the insanity of a critic
by Madubuko Hart I was astonished that some persons are still backward in the way they reason and act. Some ...
Union Bank holds 2014 Market Access for SMEs in Lagos
by Jewel Stephen Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, in partnership with ‘Business Day and the Small and Medium Enterprises Development ...
“They killed my daughter” || Landlord machetes two tenants in Aba
by Azubuike Azikiwe Police officers of the Ndiegoro Division, Aba, Abia state, have arrested Emmanuel Ndukwe, a landlord, for cutting ...
GOtv launches in Makurdi with open-air concert
by Jewel Stephen To mark the launch of its service in the city of Makurdi, GOtv on Wednesday, 20 August ...
Who will educate us? Who will give us light? How many more have to die from generator fumes?
by Mayowa Aboah Fumes from a generator have reportedly killed a 6 year-old boy in Aba, Abia State. The ...
Boy dies, 15 others unconscious during church vigil in Aba
by S’ola Filani A six-year-old boy has been reported dead while doctors are now battling to save the lives of ...
Femi Aribisala: Nigeria cannot survive without the Igbos
by Femi Aribisala Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very ...