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774,000 Jobs: Selection Committee Member Lists Full Criteria

July 18, 2020 4:59 am

A member of the Federal Government Special Public Works Programme (SPWP) in Ebonyi, Ann Agomeze, has explained the criteria for selection.

Agomeze spoke on Friday in Onicha Local Government at a stakeholders meeting in Abakaliki.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain said selection of beneficiaries of the programme will be based on merit.

She said Nigerians to benefit are “the lowly and vulnerable members” of every local government across Nigeria.

Agomeze confirmed that the committee will engage both skilled and unskilled labours.

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Herdsman Rapes Woman To Death In Ebonyi

December 31, 2019 5:21 am

The Police in Ebonyi State arrested a herdsman for allegedly raping a 56years old woman to death.

Though details of the incident were sketchy at the time of filing this report, a source in the community, however, said the herdsman allegedly carried out the evil act on 28th December 2019 in Ufuezeraku, Ugwulangwu in Ohaozara local government area.

Police spokesman in the state, Loveth Odah confirmed the incident.

She said the suspect was arrested on 29th December and will soon be charged to court.
Mrs Odah gave the name of the victim as 56years old Mrs Okereke while the suspect …

Senator Sues Ebonyi Over ₦361m Debt

December 10, 2019 6:36 am

Senator representing Ebonyi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Chief Obinna Ogba, has dragged the Ebonyi government to state High Court, Abakaliki Division, for allegedly refusing to pay an outstanding balance of ₦361,718,875 million owed his hotel, Salt Lake Hotels Limited, Abakaliki.
In suit No. HAB/15/2015, which was brought before Justice Elvis Ngene, Senator Ogba who is the Chief Executive Officer of the hotel, asked the court to order the defendant to pay the said debt.
Ogba claimed that the debt accumulated from accommodation bill owed his hotel from 7th February, 2011 to 30th September, 2014.

 

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Explosion Rocks Ebonyi School

December 5, 2019 1:47 pm

An object suspected to be an improvised explosive device has exploded at Glory Land High School,Azugwu, in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

 

The device which exploded during break hour, Thursday, according to sources within the school, shattered the left arm of an SS 2 student simply identified as Chibuike while undisclosed number of students sustained various degree of injuries.

 

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The incident which happened at about 11 am caused serious confusion and panic within the school and its vicinity.

 

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Buhari Approves Salt Development Project In Ebonyi

November 30, 2019 7:01 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the development of salt deposits in Ebonyi State.

The project was part of efforts to ensure that Nigeria starts the production of salt in commercial quantities.

The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah disclosed this during courtesy call on Governor David Umahi and inspection of some salt lakes in the state.

He noted that the federal government had brought consultants to look at how they could develop the salt project which is the first in the history of the country, coming to the South-east and being driven by the Ebonyi …

2 Sisters Trapped, Rescued From Ebonyi Mine Collapse

November 29, 2019 9:17 am

A lady with seven-month old pregnancy, Chinenye Mbam, and her sister, Anurika Mbam, narrowly escaped death following earth crust that collapsed on them in a mine at Ezzagu village, Inyimagu in Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

Daily Sun gathered that it took the swift intervention of the owner of the site, Mr. Chukwuebuka Nwosu, other miners and sympathisers before the trapped sisters could be rescued on Tuesday. They were immediately rushed to an undisclosed medical facility for treatment.

The expectant mother, who managed to speak, told our correspondent that both of them were busy digging and scooping

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Ebonyi Denies Using Bakassi Militia To Attack IPOB

November 26, 2019 3:52 am
Ebonyi State government yesterday denied a report that Governor Dave Umahi floated a group called ‘Bakassi Boys’ to attack the Federal Government-proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
The Biafra Restoration Voice (TBRV) had alleged on social media that Umahi had commissioned the said security group.“Governor David Umahi has just commissioned a group of men called Bakassi Boys in Ebonyi to attack IPOB members,” the grouped alleged.Denying the allegation, the Commissioner for Internal Security and Border Peace, Stanley Emegha, said the state had no other internal security outfit except the Neighbourhood Watch, describing the information about Bakassi Boys as strange.

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Bloody Clash Over Motor Park Leadership In Ebonyi

November 21, 2019 2:47 am
Palpable tension has engulfed Agubia Ikwo community in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State following a bloody clash by youths over control of one of the biggest motor parks in the area.

Daily Sun gathered that one of the youths involved in the clash was reportedly killed on Tuesday during a reprisal while no fewer than 15 were seriously injured.

Some of those injured were being treated at the Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki.

Unspecified number of houses and vehicles belonging to some of the current leaders of the parks were also vandalised and torched by the angry …

Holy War: Ebonyi Pastors Fight Over Gov Umahi’s Manna

November 18, 2019 10:50 am

The leadership crisis that erupted among a group of pastors in Ebonyi State operating under the aegis of Divine Mandate Pastors’ Forum shortly after the election of Chief David Umahi as governor in 2015 is gradually taking a distasteful dimension.

Although the matter was allegedly laid to rest sometime in 2017 in a controversial way; a development which paved way for the emergence of Pastor Eunice Oyeyemi of Christ Embassy, Abakaliki as the new leader of the group, at the moment, the forum has been polarised again.

The two camps appear to have drawn a battle line with fists tightly

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Ebonyi Refutes Report On RUGA

November 13, 2019 7:02 am
The Ebonyi State Government has debunked a story published on Page 9 of Daily Sun of Monday, October 21, 2019. 

A statement by Orji Uchenna Orji, Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, described the story as false, misleading and orchestrated by enemies of the state with a view of embarrassing Governor David Umahi.

The statement said, “The Ebonyi State government has noted with displeasure that the false publication on page 9 of The Sun is nothing but sheer falsehood deliberately orchestrated by enemies of the modest achievements of the Government of Ebonyi State, under  Governor David Umahi.

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Family Loses 3 Kids As Building Collapses In Ebonyi

Family Loses 3 Kids As Building Collapses In Ebonyi

November 4, 2019 12:02 pm
Three young children belonging to Mr. Sunday and Mrs. Elizabeth Okereke died in Akaeze, Ebonyi State, yesterday, when their building collapsed while they slept inside.

The bodies of the kids, Mmesoma (11) Onyinyechi (5) and John (3) were removed from the rubble by neigbours who witnessed the incidence and have been buried.

Daily Sun gathered that Mr. Okereke was away watching football when he received news that the house had collapsed on his family.

It was also gathered that his wife had often expressed fears over the physical condition of the hut and wanted her husband to make alternative arrangements …

RUGA: IPOB accuses Umahi of dispossessing Ebonyi landowners

RUGA: IPOB accuses Umahi of dispossessing Ebonyi landowners

August 18, 2019 12:45 am

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has accused Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi of ordering the arrest and detention of Ezza people to dispossess them of their land for the suspended Rural Pastoral Grazing Areas (RUGA) of the Federal Government.

In a statement made available to The Guardian and signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, IPOB said its attention had “been drawn to the purported mass arrest of supposed members of IPOB in Ebonyi State by Governor Dave Umahi” under the guise that those abducted were Biafrans planning an anniversary.…

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