Gov Okezie Ikpeazu has explained that the reason his administration decided to relocate the Abia State College of Health and Management Technology, Aba currently at the heart of Enyimba to a new site at Umuobiakwa, was to help decongest the City centre. The governor who made the explanation while laying the foundation stone for the … Read more
The Abia State Government says senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Smart Adeyemi, needs to be hospitalised for urgent psychiatric evaluation. The statement government said this in response to the senators comments calling the state governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu a drunkard. EKO HOT BLOG had reported how Adeyemi made a disparaging remark calling Ikpeazu … Read more
Gov. Ikpeazu tasks youths Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has advised Nigerian youths to use social media in propagating ventures and discourse that promote national unity. Ikpeazu said this on Sunday in Umuahia during the Abia Social Media Converge, an event organised by the state government with the theme, “Social Media for Good Governance”. The … Read more
EKOHOTBLOG, 29TH NOVEMBER, 2020 The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Abia Statehas dismissed the claim of a former governor in the state, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu on social media that the incumbent, Okezie Ikpeazu had planned to defect from PDP to the APC, as a precondition to winning his last electoral mandate at the Supreme Court. … Read more
Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu says he is considering to jettison the Abia Airport Project. He said this during a meeting with Abia State traditional rulers which was led by their chairman, Eze Joseph Nwabeke of Eziama Ntigha of Isialangwa North. Nwabekee and the Royal Fathers had urged the governor to shelve the proposed Abia … Read more
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has ordered management of the Abia State University(ABSU) to immediately scrap the “pandemic prevention fee imposed on students in the school.” The Governor gave the directive during a Town Hall meeting with students and management of the school on Thursday. According to him, his administration will henceforth pay N30,000 … Read more
The Abia state government on Tuesday announced that the state governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has fully recuperated from COVID-19. It would be recalled that the governor tested positive for COVID-19 some weeks back and subsequently went into isolation. Following the completion of the two weeks compulsory isolation of COVID-19 patients, sources in the government house who … Read more
The Abia state governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu on Friday unmasked a 100-bed modern isolation and treatment facility for the management of COVID-19 in the state. The facility located within the premises of the Abia State Specialist Hospital at Amachara, Umuahia South LGA was donated by the Coalition of the Private Sector Against COVID-19 (CACOVID-19) in … Read more
The Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has inaugurated a Joint Negotiation Committee on the Implementation of the New Minimum Wage with a view to work out modalities that will make it seamless for Government to implement its payment to workers. While inaugurating the 16-man committee,the Governor called on them to see it as part … Read more
-PDP congratulates Okowa and Ikpeazu over the Governorship Elections Petition Tribunals judgment which upheld their elections -The party noted that the report of celebrations in the states at the breaking of the news of the verdict was a testimony that indeed justice was upheld in the rulings -The PDP urges the governors not to relent … Read more
-Mr.Alex Otti said that Governor Ikpeazu has impoverished Abia people. -Despite tranches of fund from Federal government to pay workers’ salary. The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, (APGA) in the last 2019 general elections in Abia state, Alex Otti has declared that Governor Okezie Ikpeazu led Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has decided to … Read more