The Abia State Executive Council has approved the setting up of a standard material testing laboratory in the state to ensure quality building and road construction standards. Also, all illegal gates in the streets of Umuahia are to be removed by the Abia State government. The Commissioner for Information and Culture, Okey Kanu disclosed this while briefing journalists at the Government House, Umuahia on the outcome of the week’s Executive Council meeting presided by Governor Alex Otti. He said the laboratory became necessary to tackle the incessant collapse of buildings in Nigeria, which had …