Tag: Ebonyi State
Ebonyi Speaker calls for sack of commissioners
The Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Francis Nwifuru, says legislators should recommend commissioners that are not performing for…
Ebonyi confirms second Lassa fever death
The Ebonyi government has announced the second death from Lassa fever in the state. The Commissioner for Health in the…
Fire kills mother, 7 children in Ebonyi
The Police in Ebonyi has confirmed the death of a mother and her seven children in an inferno on Saturday.…
No case of Lassa fever in Ebonyi – Commissioner
The Ebonyi Government has said that the state has not recorded any case of Lassa fever contrary to reports that…
Serial paedophile arrested in Ebonyi
The Ebonyi Police Command said it had arrested a middle-aged man for allegedly defiling nine children aged between six and…
Tribunal upholds Gov. Umahi’s election
Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Abakaliki on Friday, upheld te election of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi in the…
Ebonyi auto crash death toll increases to seven
The death toll from the ghastly motor accident which occurred at the Nkalagu junction of the Enugu-Abakaliki express road on…
FRSC confirms 14 dead in Ebonyi auto crash
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), on Sunday confirmed the death of 14 persons in an auto crash that occurred…
Ebonyi to appoint women as vice-chairmen of councils
Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi on Friday announced that women would be appointed vice-chairmen in the caretaker committees of local…
Ebonyi CJ frees 31 inmates from Abakaliki, Afikpo prisons
The Chief Judge of Ebonyi, Justice Alloy Nwankwo, on Friday in freed 31 inmates of Abakaliki and Afikpo prisons during…
Enugu govt wants FG to settle disputed border with Ebonyi
The Deputy Governor of Enugu State, Mrs Cecilia Ezeilo, has called on the National Boundary Commission to intervene in a…
PDP wins governorship election in Ebonyi
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Chief Dave Umahi, has won the governorship election in Ebonyi. Announcing the result on…
PDP chairman in Ebonyi shot dead
Two persons were reportedly shot dead in the early hours of Saturday by unknown gunmen in the state. The victims…
Police confirm murder of Labour Party supporter
The Police in Ebonyi have confirmed the murder of one Ifeanyi Onu, a Labour Party supporter from Umunaga Ward in…
Court stops Assembly from impeaching Elechi
Temporary reprieve came the way of embattled Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, eastern Nigeria on Wednesday as an Abakaliki…
Ebonyi Women Protest Against Impeachment Notice On Gov Elechi
Jethro Ibileke/Abakaliki Thousands of women of Ebonyi state on Wednesday marched through streets of Abakaliki, capital of the state to…
Ebonyi Paralysed As Youths Protest Plot To Impeach Gov
As plans to impeach Governor Martins Elechi of Ebonyi State continue, commercial activities were on Monday paralysed in Abakaliki, the state capital…
Ebonyi governor set to be impeached
The political tension in Ebonyi state rose on Friday after the state House of Assembly passed a motion to serve…
Ex-Minister Faces PDP Disciplinary Panel
Former Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu has been summoned to face a disciplinary committee of his party, the Peoples Democratic…
Man,45, kills son who came home for Xmas
The Ebonyi State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of a 45-year old man, Nwofu Igbo, who allegedly killed…
NDLEA secures 70 convictions, seizes 1.6 tons of drugs in Ebonyi
The Commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ebonyi, Mr Raphael Igwenagu, on Saturday said the agency…
Thugs invade Ebonyi courts, molest judges and workers
Youths suspected to be political thugs on Friday in Abakaliki invaded Ebonyi Court complex and disrupted proceedings in the various…
2015: Ebonyi elders buy guber form for ex-health minister
Ebonyi elders and stakeholders on Tuesday bought the PDP governorship nomination forms for the immediate past Minister of Health, Prof.…
Health minister adopted as consensus candidate in Ebonyi
Two governorship aspirants in the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi, on the platform of the PDP, have dropped their ambitions…
Ebonyi engages 7 firms to evacuate refuse
The Ebonyi government on Saturday said it had engaged the services of seven private firms to evacuate refuse dumps in…
Ebola: Panic grips Abakaliki Teaching Hospital
Ebonyi State Government has dismissed claims of a possible Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in the state. Panic gripped the state…
Elechi, PDP attempt to reinstate impeached Speaker
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi said in Abakaliki on Monday that Chukwuma Nwazunku remained the Speaker of the State House…
US, Ebonyi State sign clean water expansion agreement
By Simon Ateba/Lagos The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the…
Ebonyi Speaker Impeached
The Speaker of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Chukwuma Nwazunku, has been impeached. He was impeached on Monday morning…
Zoning favours political weaklings
Senator Paulinus Igwe-Nwagu (PDP Ebonyi Central), has said that zoning of political offices are meant to favour political weaklings in…