Abia State Executive Council has approved the comprehensive renovation and upgrading of the Ojukwu Bunker and National War Museum, two civil war structures located in Umuahia, the State’s capital.
The decision was taken on Monday during the State Executive Council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti.
Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, who made this known while briefing journalists after the executive council meeting, said that the renovation would reposition the two war-time monuments to rich historic and tourism sites for Abia State and Nigeria at large.
Kanu said that the renovation of the centres would preserve the Abia and Nigerian history and elevate tourism potentials of the sites.
Also speaking on the projects, Abia State Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, Mathew Ekwuribe said that the Abia State government would finalize every memorandum of agreement with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, and the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy under one month.
Abia State government also announced that 119, 438 persons have successfully enrolled into the Abia State Health Insurance Scheme, saying that the figure brings to 217,000, the number of those captured in State and National Health Insurance Scheme.
It announced that there is no outbreak of Lassa Fever, Yellow Fever, Cholera, Mpox, Lassa Fever, Diphtheria or any other disease of public health concern in the State.
