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The Chancellor and founder of Gregory University Uturu, Prof. Gregory Ibe has saluted the tireless efforts of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu in growing Small and Medium Scale Entreprise (SME) in the State.
Professor Ibe made his feelings known during an interview with newsmen in his hometown, Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area.
“The Governor dresses almost all the time in Made in Aba, so, he is also an ambassador of Made in Aba, whether he is in government or outside the government. The history of Abia State in terms of Made in Aba will not be written without his name.
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By Davies Iheamnachor
The Interim Administrator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, has said that beneficiaries of the training programme would henceforth be trained to dominate areas of food security, maritime sector and other areas of comparative advantage in the Niger Delta region.
Dikio stated that it has become important for amnesty beneficiaries to get actively involved in empowerment programmes that would guarantee food security in the region.
Dikio, in a speech at the Convocation and Investiture Ceremony of the Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State, said it was risky to continue depending on other region’s for food supply.
It is worthy to note that PAP has over 400 ex-agitators being trained in various faculties at the Gregory University under the programme’s formal education scholarship schemes.
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Despite being a constituent state of the Niger Delta region that enjoys 13 per cent derivation from oil revenue aside from the monthly FAAC allocations and Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), Abia is still not rated among the financially healthy states in Nigeria.
Bizarrely, her full basket of natural resources is yet to change her fortune and that of her citizenry. With over 100 oil wells and three installed flow stations that produce approximately 40,000 barrels of crude oil per day, Abia State remains on financial life support.
The scowls on people’s faces explain the frustration and growing disenchantment with the unfortunate situation, all thanks to decades of failed promises from touted solutions. It has led to trepidation to the extent that an expression of interest from anybody with capacity to proffer solution-no matter his/her pedigree is greeted with the deriding street parlance, “na the same people”.
Ikeddy Isiguzo pays tribute to Pius Anyim, former Senate President at age 60
Could life start at 60 for former Senate President Anyim Pius Anyim? The indications so suggest. For a man who first became a Senator at 37, made Senate President at 39, and voluntarily did not seek re-election to the Senate at 41, Anyim has shown that the tides and waves of life can be turned to one’s advantage at different points on the stretched spectrum that life can be.
He is re-starting that life with packs of experience. He is a new Anyim rooted in his principles about getting things done.