Tag: Ebonyi State
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…
Gunmen kill police officer in Abakaliki
The police in Ebonyi on Monday confirmed the killing of a police officer on Sunday by unknown gunmen. The Public…
Council to pay medical bills of malnourished children
The Chairman of Ohaoazara Local Government Area in Ebonyi, Chief Enekwachi Akpa, has pledged to offset the medical bills of…
Two children, aged 4 and 6, drown in Ebonyi pond
Two children of the same parents drowned in a pond at Enwugba village in Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi.…
Governor Elechi recants opposition to national dialogue
Gov. Martins Elechi of the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi on Friday restated his support for the proposed Federal Government’s…
‘My mother sold my baby for $1,600’
A woman in Cross River state has been arrested by the police after her daughter reported her for selling her…
12-Year Old Girl Commits Suicide
A 12-year-old girl, Miss Chisom Okechukwu, has committed suicide by hanging herself at her family compound at Nnoche-Uduke Community in…
40-year-old bridge collapses in Ebonyi state
The 40-year-old Eguhuo Bridge in Agba, Ishiellu Local Government Area of Ebonyi state, eastern Nigeria caved in on Wednesday after…
Kidnapping: Lawmaker’s wife, 8 others rescued
The police in the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi have rescued the wife of a member of the state assembly…
9 MASSOB members charged with felony
Nine members of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were on Friday arraigned before…
Governor Elechi’s ADC escapes robbery attack
The Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed the attack on Gov. Martin Elechi’s Aide De Camp (ADC), DSP Ibrahim Tinja,…
Medical doctor kidnapped in Abakaliki, guard killed
A Nigerian medical doctor in the eastern Nigeria state of Ebonyi has been kidnapped. Police said Dr Pius Mauyike, a…
Governor Returns To Rice Farming In 2015
Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State says he will return to rice farming after completing his second term in office…
Governor Elechi dethrones 4 chiefs
Governor Martin Elechi of the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi has announced the dethronement of two traditional rulers and sacked…