Ikpeazu Gives Scholarship To 17 Best WASCE Students

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu
of Abia State has awarded tertiary education scholarship to 17 students, who performed very well in the May/June 2015 West African School Certificate Examination, WASCE.
The beneficiaries were drawn from the 17 Local Government Council areas of the state.
The governor had also approved that henceforth, the best performing student in WASCE from each of the 17 council areas, would get automatic tertiary education scholarship from the state government.
In another development, tragedy struck, yesterday, at a checkpoint mounted by police at Ogbor Hill Waterside Bridge, Aba, Abia State, when a truck’s brakes failed and it rammed into a commercial bus and tricycle, killing a driver and three passengers.
A source stated that three passengers in the bus and driver of the tricycle died on the spot, while five other passengers, who sustained serious injuries, were taken to a nearby hospital.
Eyewitnesses claimed some policemen from the Eziama Division had mounted a checkpoint in the area, leading to a gridlock, which the truck ran into. Angered by the incident, a mob attacked the police team and vandalised their vehicle. A detachment of policemen was later deployed to the area to bring the situation under control.
When newsmen visited the scene of the crash, the police team, the truck and the crushed tricycle were still there. Contacted, Police  Public Relations Officer, Abia State Command, ASP Ogbonnaya Nta, who confirmed the incident, however, denied that it was caused by the checkpoint mounted by the police.