The 49-kilometre road was initially awarded to Messrs Hartland Nigeria Limited/Raycon Company Nigeria Limited in 2019, with a 48-month completion target.
Browsing: Theodore Orji
The grand event, which held on Sunday, was celebrated at Camp Neya, the Igbere, country home of the Senate Chief Whip
Apugo had in a statement accused Orji, the representative of Abia Central Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, of having looted the state treasury during his eight years administration between 2007 and 2015.
The Spokesperson of the commission, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this on Thursday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu.
Delivering a unanimous judgment on Tuesday, the Chairman of the three-member panel, Justice Adeyinka Adebirigbe, dismissed the petition on the ground that the petitioner failed to prove her allegations of electoral irregularities.
This followed a motion sponsored by Senator Theodore Orji (PDP-Abia) and 15 others on the rising incidence of suicide among Nigerians.
The call by the senate followed a motion sponsored by Senator Theodore Orji (Abia Central) and 15 other senators on the rising incidence of suicides amongst Nigerians.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged all former Governors now in the ninth Senate to “publicly commit to stop collecting pensions from their states while they serve as senators, return ‘pensions’ already collected to the public treasury, and push for the abolition of double emoluments laws for former governors and deputies in their states.”
Senator-elect for Abia North and former state governor, Orji Kalu, said on Thursday that he had put his political enmity with his successor, Senator Theodore Orji, behind him and was prepared to work harmoniously with him in the Senate.
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Senator Theodore Orji of the Peoples Democratic Party the winner of Abia Central Senatorial District election.
The All Peoples Congress in Abia on Saturday called for the cancellation of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections in Abia Central Senatorial District.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has disclosed that the arrest of Ogbonna Orji, son of Senator Theodore Orji, a former Governor of Abia state, has nothing to do with the sons of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for next year’s election.
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Saturday arrested two sons of a former Governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji, The Eagle Online is reporting.
Orji stated this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja shortly after the Senate passed the Federal Polytechnic Aba, Abia State (Establishment, etc) Bill, 2018, on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that while Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing Abia South, went through the crucible of a keenly contested race to grab his ticket, his counterparts from Abia North and Abia Central, Senators Mao Ohuabunwa and Theodore Orji, literally got theirs without stress.
In a communique in Umuahia, under the aegis of Abia State Traditional Rulers Council, the monarchs adopted the governor as their sole candidate for equity and fairness
Speaking with officials and stakeholders of the party in Umuahia at the weekend, the APC chairman acknowledged the loyalty of party members, adding that the party will not derail from its ideals.
In the interview, described by the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview, Azu Ishiekwene, as “the political equivalent of the ogbunigwe (Biafran improvised explosives)”, Kalu illustrated his point with a conversation he claimed to have had with President Muhammadu Buhari, who wondered aloud why previous high profile Igbo appointees had done nothing for the region
Justice Ibrahim Auta, the Chief Justice of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, has been fingered in another bribery scam in connection with the case between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu, before Justice Anwuri Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja
In his lead debate on the Food Security Bill, Senator Orji submitted that Nigeria was one of the few countries of the world that has no legal framework for food security, hence there was no accessibility to quality and adequate food security by Nigerians