Report has it that the Abia State Executive Council has approved 10,000 reduction of the Abia State University (ABSU) school fees for Abia indigenes in ABSU as well as the relocation of the Faculties of Law and Humanities to Umuahia and Faculty of Engineering to Aba.

This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Strategy, Comrade Bonnie Iwuoha.

According to him, the reduction in school fees was to
encourage poor and needy students from Abia state to go to school.

He equally added that each student has to prove the he/she is from Abia State by presenting the tax receipts of their parents or guardians.