NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
The Abia State Government under Chief Theodore Ahamefule Orji “has done wonderful works in developing the state,” his spokesman Ugochukwu Emezue has said.
He was reacting to the claim that the Orji administration wasted N46.4 billion collected on behalf of the state’s oil communities in the state from 2007 to September 2012 and also has little to show for a total of about N350 billion received from the Nigerian Government during the same period. The claims published yesterday by News Express were first made by the Lagos newspaper, The SUPREME.
But defending his boss and the administration, Emezue told the paper: “I doubt your source, but if your source is correct, the governor has done wonderful works in developing the state.”
He insisted that oil producing establishments in the state “have a chairman and he is in charge of the funds for oil communities. Come to Abia State and see the wonderful development that is going on.”
The T. A. Orji administration is generally rated as one of the worst in Nigeria.
•Photo shows Governor T. A. Orji.