•Road safety officials and vehicle at an accident scene At least five persons have been burnt to death and nine others injured following a ghastly motor accident involving a 16-seater mass transit bus along Abakaliki-Enugu Expressway in Ebonyi State. The incident occurred on Thursday at the popular G-hostel axis of the busy and strategic inter...
•IPOB There was partial compliance in the capital city of Awka and its environs today as the two-day sit-at-home by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) commenced. But the situation was not the same in Onitsha and Nnewi where there was full compliance, reports The Nation. Anambra Governor Chukwuma Soludo used today’s sit-at-home to visit [&h...
•Emmanuel Ajah The chairman of Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Chief Emmanuel Ajah, today, banned media coverage, cultural display, musical entertainment, and all forms of public gatherings in Ihie Autonomous Community for five days. According to a statement he signed and made available to the press, the restrictions, which will aff...
No fewer than 10 persons have died in fresh outbreak of cholera in Ebonyi State. The deaths were recorded in Ndibokote village in Ezza-Inyimagu, Agbaja Autonomous Community, Izzi local government area, reports The Nation. Commissioner for Health Moses Ekuma confirmed the outbreak and the deaths in an interview with our correspondent today. Eku...
•Troops Troops of Sector 2 (EBONYI) of the Joint Task Force South East Operation UDO KA in conjunction with personnel of NPF, DSS and NSCDC acting on credible intelligence yesterday, successfully conducted a raid operation on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and their armed affiliate the Eastern Security Network (ESN) Camp located at Mgb...
•Gunmen There was panic in the Iboko community in the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Tuesday when gunmen stormed the area and killed no fewer than two security guards. An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunmen disguised as natives of the area, stopped at strategic locations in the […]
•Governors Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi and Dauda Lawal of Zamfara states The Supreme Court, today, affirmed the election victory of Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State. In the same vein, the Supreme Court also upheld the election of Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State. For Ebonyi, the court, in its lead judgment that was delivered [&helli...
•Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the Ebonyi State governorship election appeal to a date that will be communicated to parties. Justice John Okoro reserved the judgment after parties adopted their briefs of argument today. The Court of Appeal Lagos, had earlier affirmed the election of FranÂcis N...
•Austin Umahi Chief Austin Umahi, younger brother to the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi has quit his bid to contest for Ebonyi South senatorial re-run elections. Austin Umahi who earlier faulted zoning of the position to Onicha local government area by the State Working Committee of the All Progressive Congress (APC) dropped his senato...

