Abia state has commenced another round of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) implementation with the official launch of three new programmes to tackle poverty, reduce morbidity and mortality in mothers, new-born babies and infants.

The United Nations REDD+ Programme has tremendously enhanced many aspects of the Cross River State economy, especially the forestry business in the state, the chairman of the state forestry commission, Dr Odigha Odigha, has disclosed in Calabar