Gunmen kill 2 policemen, injure one in Aba
Two policemen have been shot dead while one was injured following an attack on their checkpoint by unknown gunmen in Aba. This is barely one month after some yet-to-be-identified gunmen also attacked a military checkpoint at Obikabia junction killed five soldiers and burnt their patrol vans. The incident which took place at Opobo junction, along […]
Ikpeazu commissions molecular lab, infectious disease hospital in Aba
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has commissioned a molecular laboratory and diagonistic centre in Aba, for the testing of Covid-19 and an infectious disease hospital with capacity to isolate and treat 50 patients of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases at the same time.
Police arrest man with dead baby in Abia
By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia The Abayi Police Division, Aba, Abia State, has arrested a man with a dead baby at Afor Ule market along Aba- Owerri road area of the city. Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the suspect, whose name was yet-to-be ascertained at the time of filing this report, was almost lynched by the […]
Ikpeazu bans street trading in Opobo junction, Aba
By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has banned street trading at the popular Opobo junction, Igbor Hill, Aba, and directed the Traffic and Indiscipline Management Agency of Abia State, TIMAAS, too, rid the area of forms of street trading. Ikpeazu gave the directive to the General Manager of the agency, […]
COVID-19: Police battle joggers as woman slumps, dies in Aba
By Ugochukwu Alaribe UMUAHIA- Policemen enforcing the Covid-19 lockdown at Opobo junction, along Ikot Ekpene Road, Ogbor Hill, Aba, Abia state, had a hectic time Sunday, dispersing over 1,000 joggers who came for their usual morning exercise in the area. Some of the joggers resisted the police team who blocked the junction warning them to […]
PHOTOS: Heavy gridlock as bus falls into huge sinkhole after downpour in Aba
By Eric Ugbor TRAGEDY was averted in Aba, Abia State when a commercial bus plunged into a large sinkhole after a heavy rain caused unexpected damage and heavy gridlock on the road on Saturday night. Luckily, the driver, Victor Daniel who was the only occupant of the bus when the incident occurred at the popular […]
