Ikpeazu called on the commission to, as a matter of urgency, look into the plight of the residents of Ohanku Road with a view to alleviating their pains and sufferings caused by the commission’s inability to ensure the completion of the road.
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We are into shipping, banking, insurance. We are also in trading, which is my major traditional profession as an Igbere man, while all of our other businesses that were thriving during the tenure of former President Olusegun Obasanjo have been moved out of Nigeria. This happened when the licenses of Hallmark Bank and Slok Airline were cancelled. We had to move to the region to remove First International Bank, which had been there since 1997, first opened in Gambia and spread to other Aest African countries and the international insurance company, we have investment of all over some insurance companies in Nigeria, some banks and the rest of them, So the major ones that were in control were these two institutions. We are into shipping. We are the largest shipping company in sub Saharan Africa and we are also transporting and supporting oil drilling. It has been ups and downs. Agriculturally, we export cocoa, we export cashew nuts and all major cash crops. We are also into manufacturing with 9,000 workers on the payroll, which is a fairly large group.
Onuigbo disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a climate change walk programme organised by Ecolife Conservation Initiative, an NGO as a pre-event to mark the International Day for Climate Change Action on October 24.
A statement signed by Brian Etuk, the Head of Public Affairs, NFC, in Jos on Friday, quoted the governor as saying that the production “should be 100 per cent shot in Abia”.
Okoro made the observation in Umuahia on Monday at an event organised by the state Ministry of Agriculture to commemorate the 2017 World Food Day.
Ogunwusi said this on Friday when he paid Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State a visit at the Government House, Umuahia.
A statement signed by the Deputy Director of Public Relations, 82 Division, Colonel Sagir Musa, and made available to newsmen in Enugu, described the programme as a success.
Kalu is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside his former Commissioner for Finance, Ude Udeogo, on 34 counts bordering on fraud.
Benjamin resides in Amirima Compound, Achara Ihechiowa community in Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State.
Ikpeazu made the remark on Sunday when he visited the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Abia council to commiserate with journalists over last Tuesday’s invasion of the secretariat by soldiers.
Ogbizi disclosed this during a press briefing and parade of seven suspected members of IPOB at Ariaria police station in Aba.
The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Enyinnaya Appolos, made this known in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria in Umuahia on Friday.
Secretary of the association in the state, Rev. Sunday Ibrahim, made the appeal in an interview with newsmen in Kaduna over recent events in the eastern part of the country.
Col. Sagir Musa, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations in the 82 Division, made the disclosure in Enugu on Thursday while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The party made the call in a statement by Dayo Adeyeye, its National Secretary of National Caretaker Committee on Thursday in Abuja.
The last couple of days have witnessed actual and rumours of unsavoury goings on in Abia State ostensibly leading to clashes between the Nigerian Army and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Ogbizi said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Umuahia.
Mike Udah, the Director of Media and Communication of the forum’s secretariat, made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abakaliki.
He said that the situation in the past few days, which led to the deployment of soldiers ahead of ‘Operation Python Dance II’, a military exercise by the Nigerian army, had generated great concern to both the government and the people.
The NBA Chairman, Nnamdi Eluwa, who briefed newsmen in Umuahia, said there was no security threat in Umuahia to warrant Operation Python Dance.