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  • BREAKING: NBTE restores Abia State Polytechnic’s accreditation

    BREAKING: NBTE restores Abia State Polytechnic’s accreditation

    The accreditation of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Abia State has been restored by the National Board of Technical Education (NBTE).

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Barr Eze Chikamnayo, the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy made this known in a statement on Tuesday.

    According to Barr Chikamnayo, the restoration of Abia State Polytechnic’s accreditation by the NBTE was made possible by the intervention of the State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu.

    Recall that a few weeks ago, the accreditation of Abia State Polytechnic Aba was withdrawn by the NBTE in curious and controversial circumstances. The development was greeted with outrage and sadness by the people of the State.

    “Consequently, His Excellency, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu rose to the occasion propelled by the fact that the welfare of our citizens has always been of utmost concern to his administration beyond all other legalistic consideration .

    “We are, therefore , happy to announce that the accreditation of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba has been restored by the National Board of Technical Education ,NBTE owing to gallant efforts of our Dear Governor,” Chikamnayo stated.

    According to the Commissioner, the achievement was made possible by the provision of N450 million by the State Government to bail out the institution, and also by the immediate adoption of far-reaching reforms aimed at establishing sustainable growth and best practices in the institution.

  • APGA demands Abia Governor’s resignation, apology over failure to get state poly accredited

    APGA demands Abia Governor’s resignation, apology over failure to get state poly accredited

    The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has called on the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State to resign and apologise to the people of the state, over NBTE’s withdrawal of accreditation for the state polytechnic, and the Medical College of the Abia State University, Uturu.

    APGA said such an action would show decency on the part of the Governor.

    Abia State APGA Chairman, Reverend Augustine Ehiemere, made the call in a press statement.

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    According to the Chairman, the party had received with sadness the de-accreditation of the Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).

    The statement read in part, “The All Progressive Grand Alliance is saddened by these developments and condemns in the strongest terms the callousness and financial brigandage by the PDP government in Abia State which has resulted in this continuous tale of woes.

    “APGA finds it hard to understand why a polytechnic and university which are being run successfully and seamlessly by Abia sons like Prof. Gregory Ibe, who do not command the vast resources available to the state, continues to collapse in the hands of a government that pledged to deliver on the trust and expectation of the Abia people.

    “Enough is enough. APGA is calling on the PDP governor of Abia State to show some decency by resigning honorably and apologising to Abia State for the misrule and directionlessness his government has foisted on the people”.

    “APGA, therefore, called on the Abia masses to “take advantage of the 2023 elections which is a few months away, and ensure that Abia State is rescued from the stranglehold of the PDP by voting in an APGA government through the ballot box.

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    The Abia State Government has said the administration of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has so far remitted a total of N7.1 billion to the Abia State Polytechnic since the inception of the administration in 2015.

    The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) had withdrawn the accreditation of the polytechnic, prompting the state government to dissolve the school’s governing council.

    But the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dr Eze Chikamnayo, who disclosed this at a press briefing on the outcome of the executive council meeting at Government House, Umuahia, said that the Ikpeazu-led government had consistently remitted about N92 million monthly in the past 78 months of his administration, adding that the problem of the institution was poor management and self-inflicted.

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    According to Chikamnayo, the polytechnic was an autonomous body set up by law as the government neither recruited workers for the institution nor received funds from it.

    He explained that the board and management of the school failed to uphold best practices.

    He, however, assured that the government was engaging all stakeholders to ensure that the polytechnic regained full accreditation within the next one month as a high-powered committee had been set up in that regard.

    Chikamnayo further disclosed that the government was leaving no stone unturned to sanitise the Abia State Polytechnic and other parastatals in the state and urged all managers of parastatals and other semi-autonomous boards in the state to buckle down, warning that the government would not hesitate to sanction any board whose activities brought embarrassment to the government.

    He also advised the National Board for Technical Education not to take up the job of trade unions as issues of welfare are within the purview of the union leaders.

  • Abia Polytechnic recovers N43m from students

    Abia Polytechnic recovers N43m from students

    Abia State Polytechnic has recovered more than N43 million from students who faked the school’s receipts, Prof. Ezionye Eboh, the Acting Rector, has said.

    Eboh, while briefing newsmen in Aba, Abia, on the latest development in the institution, said that more than 700 students were involved in the act of obtaining fake receipts from unauthorised sources.

    He said that the students would be punished, to serve as a deterrent to others.

    Eboh also said that the Police had arrested a woman who operates a business centre near the polytechnic for allegedly issuing students with fake receipts.

    He said that the woman worked for a lecturer and that she was collecting N10,000 and issuing fake stamped receipts to the students, thereby aiding them to evade payment of N50,000 school fees.

    According to the rector, management discovered the forgery when it made it mandatory for students to show their school fee receipts before writing examinations.

    He said that the lecturer had been suspended and that the students involved in the act were being investigated.

    On the issue of the redeployment 10 nurses working in the school clinic, Eboh said that the development was due to the intervention of the governor.

    “If it was not for the intervention of Gov. Ikpeazu, we would have sacked them. But he said they should be retained but re-assigned to places where their services would be needed.”

    He said it was mind-boggling to employ such a large number of such senior nurses earning handsome salaries, in a non-residential campus.

    He said that following their redeployment, the institution was saving N34 million per annum, adding that by plugging several loopholes, the institution had paid five months of 2016 salary arrears.

    Meanwhile, the Abia Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Geoffrey Ogbonna, confirmed to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday that the name of the woman connected with the fake receipts was Caroline Augustine.

    He said that Augustine had been charged to court and also identified the owner of the business centre as Mr Alwell Nwachukwu-Njoku.