Abia Immigration Comptroller dies

The incumbent Abia State Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration Service, Mr. Banaebi Edward Ogba is reported dead.

Though information surrounding his death is still sketchy at the time of filing the report, reports have it that Ogba reportedly died in Umuahia, the state capital on Wednesday.

Reports have it that the staffers of the agency were in shock when the news broke.

But Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, in a release issued on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Onyebuchi Ememanka said that the state government received the news of the death of the State Immigration Comptroller with profound grief.

According to the release, Ikpeazu stated that the useful and incisive contributions of the deceased during the State Security Committee which has gone a long way in assisting the State Government in managing issues around security of lives and property in the State would be greatly missed.