Abia State is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria,it is bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Enugu,and Ebonyi,Imo State to the west,Cross River State to the east,Akwa Ibom State to the southeast,and Rivers State to the south. It takes its name from the acronym for four of the state's most populated regions:Aba,Bende,Isuikwuato,and Afikpo. The state capital is Umuahia while the largest city and commercial centre is Aba.
Umuahia is the capital city of Abia State in southeastern Nigeria. Umuahia is located along the rail road that lies between Port Harcourt to its south,and Enugu city to its north. Umuahia has a population of 359,230 according to the 2006 Nigerian census. Umuahia is indigenously Igbo.
Orji Uzor Kalu is a Nigerian politician and businessman who is the Senator representing Abia North Senatorial District,He also serves as the Chief Whip of the Senate. He served as Governor of Abia State from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. Kalu is the chairman of SLOK Holding and the Daily Sun and New Telegraph newspapers in Nigeria.
Enyinnaya Harcourt Abaribe is a Nigerian politician who was elected to the Abia-South Senatorial District of Abia State in the Senate of Nigeria in April 2007. He holds the title Nwadiohanma Ngwa. Enyinnaya is an outspoken senator often contributing to debates on national issues. He is a member of the major opposition People's Democratic Party,PDP in the Nigerian senate. He is currently the Minority leader in the senate.
Nkechi Justina Nwaogu,is a Nigerian politician and banker,founder and CEO Libra Investment. She is the former Chairman Governing Council and Pro Chancellor University of Calabar. Nwaogu was the Member representing Osisioma Ngwa,Ugwunagbo and Obi Ngwa Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives from 2003 to 2007. In 2007 she was elected as the Senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District. In 2011 she was re-elected for a second tenure in office.
Abike Kafayat Oluwatoyin Dabiri-Erewa is a Nigerian politician and former member of the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives representing Ikorodu Constituency in Lagos State. She was the Chairman of the House Committee on Media &Publicity.
Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki(Listen) is a Nigerian politician who has served as the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development of Nigeria since 6 July 2022. She served earlier as the Minister of State for Transportation from 2019 till she was moved by the President to the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development in 2022.
Ambassador Sarafadeen Tunji Isola was appointed as the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom by President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021.
Nnenna Ijeoma Elendu Ukeje is the former representative for Bende Federal Constituency,Abia State,Nigeria. She was re-elected to this position on 29 May 2011 and also served as the Chairman house committee on foreign affairs. In the 2015 general elections she was also re-elected to the house of representative &once again appointed as the house committee chairman on foreign affairs. In 2019,she was replaced by Benjamin Kalu.
Khadija Bukar Abba-Ibrahim is a Nigerian politician and was All Progressives Congress member of the House of Representatives for Damatura/Gujba/Gulani/Tarmuwa in Yobe State. In 2016,she was made the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs by President Muhammadu Buhari. In October 2018 she defeated her step son to clinch the ticket of her party to run for Federal House of Representatives. On 9 January 2019,Abba-Ibrahim announced her resignation from the federal cabinet to focus on her campaign for Federal House of Representatives seat for her Constituency which she won. Khadija Ibrahim is married to senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim a former governor of Yobe State and former senator.
Alex Otti is a Nigerian economist,banker,investor,philanthropist and politician. Otti is currently the Governor-elect of Abia State in Nigeria. the former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc,a retail financial institution in Nigeria. Otti was a gubernatorial candidate of Abia State on the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). On 31 December 2015,The Court of Appeal which sat in Owerri removed Okezie Ikpeazu of the Peoples Democratic Party as governor of Abia State and declared Otti the winner of the April 11 and April 25 Governorship elections in the state. On February 3,2016,the Supreme Court of Nigeria reversed the verdict of the Court of Appeal and affirmed the election of Ikpeazu as Governor. Otti is a member of the editorial board of Thisday,and writes a fortnightly column,every other Monday,titled "Outside The Box".
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington,D.C.
Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakinpsc(+) GSS CMH fwc is a retired Nigerian army general,former Chief of Defence Staff,and current Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon. He was appointed to the position of Chief of Defense Staff on 13 July 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari. He resigned from office on 26 January 2021.
Victoria Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire is a Nigerian politician. She served as deputy governor of Lagos State from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that,she was the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation of Lagos State from 2003 to 2011.
Nkeiruka Chidubem Onyejocha is a Nigerian politician and a ranking lawmaker in Nigeria’s Federal House of Representatives. She represents Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Federal Constituency of Abia State. Onyejocha is an active member of the Nigeria federal parliament and often contributes brilliantly to debates on critical national issues in the house. She has sponsored several bills and moved motions that have improved the lives of ordinary citizens and help safeguard their rights.
Zainab Shamsuna Ahmedpronunciation is a Nigerian accountant who has been serving as Minister of Finance,Budget and National Planning since 2019. At the time,President Muhammadu Buhari brought the two ministries under her as one,making her the de facto Minister of Economy.
Ogbonnaya Onu is a Nigerian politician,author and engineer. He was the first civilian governor of Abia State and was minister of Science,Technology and Innovation of Nigeria from November 2015 till his resignation in 2022. He was the longest serving Minister of the ministry.
The 2019 Abia State gubernatorial election occurred on March 9,2019. Incumbent PDP Governor Okezie Ikpeazu won re-election for a second term,defeating APC's Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah,and several minor party candidates. The major contenders for the race signed a peace accord agreement in January 2019.
The 2023 Abia State gubernatorial election took place on 18 March 2023,to elect the Governor of Abia State,concurrent with elections to the Abia State House of Assembly as well as twenty-seven other gubernatorial elections and elections to all other state houses of assembly. The election—which was postponed from its original 11 March date—will be held three weeks after the presidential election and National Assembly elections. Incumbent PDP Governor Okezie Ikpeazu was term-limited and could not seek re-election to a third term. Alex Otti,a banker,gained the office for the Labour Party by a margin of victory over first runner-up and PDP nominee—Okey Ahiwe,the former Chief of Staff to Ikpeazu.
Fatima Waziri-Azi is a Nigerian lawyer and the Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) of Nigeria. Before her appointment at NAPTIP she was an advisor on the rule of law to the President of Nigeria,Muhammadu Buhari. She is a former Head of Department of Public Law at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and she is a woman rights advocate and a campaigner against domestic and sexual based violence.
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