The whole nation has been over the moon since Vice President Kashim Ibrahim commissioned the Geometric Power Group on Monday, February 24, 2024, designed to generate 188 megawatts and supply power to the Aba industrial city and the environs in…
Geometric Power and National Control Centre map out programme on electricity supply to Aba
Geometric Power Ltd and the National Control Centre (NCC) at Osogbo in Osun State have developed a timetable on how electricity will be supplied to all parts of the Aba Ring-fenced Area in Abia State following the commissioning of the…
Geometric Power: Electricity consumers criticise “Southeast enemies”
The Southeast Zonal Chapter of the Electricity Consumers of Nigeria (ECAN) has criticised those it described as mortal enemies of the geopolitical zone for “working against the takeoff of the Geometric Power plant in the Osisioma Industrial Estate in Aba…
Police arrest Eze Aro aspirant over alleged impersonation
UMUAHIA – The police in Abia State have arrested one of the contestants to the Arochukwu traditional stool in Abia State, Godwin Kanu Idei, over alleged impersonation. There has been a raging tussle for the stool between Idei and Pastor…
Court nullifies Alex Otti’s candidature, all LP contestants in Abia, Kano
A Federal High Court sitting in Kano State and presided over by Justice M N Yunusa has nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti. Justice Yunusa on Friday also nullified the candidatures of all those who…
Electricity restored in Abia, as NLC leader intervenes
The sustained power blackout in Abia State which began last Monday as a result of the dispute between the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the outgoing Governor Okezie Ikpeazu administration ended last night following the intervention of the NLC president,…
NLC strike plunges Abia into prolonged darkness, as individuals and businesses lament acute hardship
The strike by all affiliates of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Abia State over nonpayment of the state public servants’ salaries and pensions has thrown the entire state into darkness. The strike started last Monday following the directive dated…