The Executive Governor of Abia State, His Excellency, Dr Alex Otti, OFR, says that public school enrolment in the State has skyrocketed from 117,000 last you to over 300,000 this January, tripling the number of school children in our public schools.
Governor Otti stated this on Thursday, January 29, in the banquet hall of Government House, Umuahia during the January edition of his monthly media interaction tagged “Governor Otti Speaks to Abians”
Gov. Otti said that the positive results coming out from the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education concerning the increase in the enrolment is the kind of results he wants.
“That’s exactly the kind of result we expect. It’s good news. The recruitment of 4,000 additional teachers is on at the moment. We are paying a lot of attention to make sure that things move smoothly.
“We will continue with our push to make education available and affordable to every Nigerian living here. Reconstruction projects continue in different schools.
“The renovation, rebuilding, retrofitting of hostels, offices in the Abia State University, Abia State College of Education, Technical, Arochukwu, are still ongoing”
Governor Otti, who noted that a lot of projects are getting to finishing stages, disclosing that his administration will be commissioning the Omenuko Bridge and the Abam – Okobo – Amuvi – Arochukwu road
The State Chief Executive also announced that he will soon flag-off the reconstruction of the Uratta road and Old Express road to achieve the complete recovery of Aba.
The Governor further informed Abians that the government would be flagging off the pocket layout housing estates construction and other housing estate projects including, Mbaisii, Mgbarakuma, and another one in Ubakala.
Governor Otti said that, his government has signed a ground breaking partnership to digitally create and rate every hotel and hospitality facility in the State.
“In the next few months, all the hotels in the State will be accessed using the Global Positioning System, and verified criteria that is used to classify hotels, guest houses, and lodges,
“So, that at the click of a button, you can see the hotels, get their rates, and then ready to make your choice without necessarily visiting” Gov. Otti stated.
In the area of science and technology, the Governor disclosed that the State is launching a pilot bio-gas programme at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike.
He informed the people that the, whole idea is to turn waste into clean energy, to provide Abia with renewable energy from bio-gas.
“This is a pilot programme, so, instead of the waste that we are disposing, we can turn that with this technology into clean energy. We will be able to power a whole lot more places, particularly in the Umuahia ring fence,”
The Governor reported that the “Project Ekwueme Phase 1 project which is 200 primary healthcare centres have been completed and many of them functionalised, while those that have not been functionalised will be functionalised soon. He informed the people that plans are in place to start the 2nd phase of the project Ekwueme initiative.
He added that, “We insist that before a primary health care centre is functionalised, it must have not just all the facilities and minimum standards that we have set up,
” We insist that before we open any primary healthcare centre, we must have healthcare professionals around those centres.
“We hired over 600 health care professionals recently and we are deploying them. Some of them have now resumed. As they resume, we will continue to functionalize more.
“We also have awarded the construction of a brand new general hospital in Ndoki, Ukwa East. Just recently, a contractor took over the site.
On the CKC Aba water project flagged off last year, Governor Otti said that the project is almost completed and would be commissioned soon to supply water to parts of Aba, while the Ariaria area and other regional water schemes including that of Umuahia would soon be flagged-off.
The Governor added that all efforts are geared towards making available pipe borne water to every household in the State as was the case in the past and announced that the Water project at the Abia State College of Education, Technical, Arochukwu is ninety percent completed and would be made to supply water in other parts of Arochukwu.
The Commissioner for Information Prince Okey Kanu and other members of the State Executive Council and aides of the Governor was present at the media chat.
Ctz. UKOHA, NJOKU UKOHA
Chief Press Secretary to the Executive Governor of Abia State.
January 30th, 2026.
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