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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”.
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Professor Gregory Ikechukwu Ibe, administrator, academic and businessman is the Founder and Chancellor of Gregory University, Uturu, Abia State. He shares the story of his life with TUNDE ADELEKE.
Your name, Ikechukwu, means God’s power; can you recount the circumstances of your birth that informed the name?
Well, it’s a reported thing I am going to tell you because nobody knows any information, but it was in Kaduna around 3pm and a white doctor wondered why a child should come by 3pm as most births came by evening or early morning. But this one was in the hot afternoon on a December 10. Somehow, it wasn’t funny because for three months, I wept! You can confirm from my parents, they are alive; my father is 99 years old and my mother is 76 years old. My father is the king and is in his house there.