Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has commended the Ebonyi chapter of the All Progressives Congress for supporting President Muhammadu Buhari’s led Federal Government. Osinbajo made the commendation on Saturday when he addressed thousands of APC party supporters in Abakaliki on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vice president was in Abakaliki to […]
Charles Onyekwere, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State government on Monday said it would prosecute any cleric or leader of traditional institution who allowed a woman to die during child birth. It noted that it has labeled it as criminal offence for anyone to allow such to happen. Governor David Umahi disclosed this in Abakaliki at a […]
The governor of Ebonyi state, Engr. David Umahi, has approved the setting up of a National Mathematical Center in the state. He gave the approval when the members of National Mathematical Centre paid him a courtesy call at the Government House, Abakaliki. Umahi, who enumerated the importance of Mathematics, observed that the number of students […]
Ebonyi State Government has reported the chairman of the Enugu State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Virginus Nwaobodo, to the national leadership of congress in Abuja. In a letter written to the national body and signed by the SA to the Governor on Labour Relations, Mrs. Grace Chukwu, the government flayed the […]
The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Nweze Umahi, has signed the 2017 appropriation bill of N127,233,074,799 and the state Public Procurement and Related Matters AmendmentBill into law. While performing the ceremony at the Government House, Abakaliki, Umahi said that much was expected to come from his administration’s agricultural programme. He consequently directed […]
The Ebonyi State Governor, Engr. Chief David Umahi, has said that his policies and programmes aimed at promoting locally produced goods have led to no capital flight in the state. He stated this during a dinner organised for retired permanent secretaries, chairmen and members of boards, commissions, parastatals, Local Government Advisory Committee, former […]
Weekend negotiations between Greece and rescue lenders have made progress, officials on both sides said Monday even though Athens stressed it needed a swift release of delayed bailout money to keep up with debt payments. Greece’s new government is struggling to deliver economic reforms and budget measures that are deemed acceptable by creditors in order […]
No fewer than twenty-five people have been reported killed by the outbreak of cholera in Ebonyi state. According to the Director, Public Health and Disease Control in the state Ministry of Health, Christian Achi, a total of 256 persons had been affected by the outbreak since February when the first case was reported. However, he […]
Normalcy has returned in Ezillo community of Ishielu local government area in Ebonyi State, following government’s directive that anyone staying in the disputed land should vacate within 24-hours, and warning that defaulters would be treated as criminals. Fear and apprehension gripped the people after reports of fresh hostilities in the area at the weekend, […]
Over 20 households have been rendered homeless and few others displaced following a fire outbreak that gutted a 17-room residential building, situated at No.13, Awolowo Street, very close to fire service office, in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State. Also properties worth millions of naira, which include eight shops of different kinds attached to the building were destroyed […]
Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, has said that the state House of Assembly had no power to freeze the accounts of local governments, development centres or any other agencies of the government, since such powers resided with the executive arm of government. He said that the recent resolutions passed by the House of Assembly […]
The Independent Electoral Commission, Ebonyi State, has presented certificate of return to all the candidates who emerged victorious in the last Governorship and other elections held on March 28 and April 11, 2015. Presenting the certificate to the winners, National Commissioner in-charge of Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo states, Mrs. Gladys Nwafor, urged the Governor and […]
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, Ebonyi State chapter, Sen. Julius Ali Ucha, has said that peace was paramount for the speedy development of a young state like Ebonyi. Ucha made this remarks in Abakaliki while addressing the party supporters on the outcome of last Saturday’s elections in the state, and […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Rural Development has threatened not to appropriate money to the Department of Rural Development of the Ministry of Agriculture over the absence of the minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, at a scheduled budget defence exercise yesterday. The department, which was led by the ministry’s permanent secretary, was to defend its […]