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Ebonyi, Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News
Sunday, April 12th, 2015
By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI – EBONYI state Deputy Governor and PDP governorship candidate, Engr Dave Umahi has won the April 11 governorship election in the state. Governor Martin Elechi and Dave Umahi Governor Martin Elechi and Dave Umahi Announcing the result at the INEC’s headquarters in Abakaliki, the State Collation Officer and Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
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Ebonyi, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
By Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Abakaliki Monday, August 11, 2014 Police have arrested a 20-year-old man, Chukwuma (surname withheld), who allegedly specialised in killing women and having sex with their dead bodies in Ebonyi State.The suspect allegedly killed three women along farm pathways in the area and had sex with them. The state Police Public Relations […]
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Monday, July 28th, 2014
By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—Founding fathers of Ebonyi State yesterday met with members of the State House of Assembly over the impeachment crisis that had trailed the legislature in the last one week. The meeting, which lasted over four hours, was held in efforts by the founding fathers to broker peace in the House. All members […]
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Ebonyi, Headlines, State News
Thursday, May 15th, 2014
Youths in Ebonyi State have been urged to shun any form of political violence such as thuggery in the forthcoming 2015 general elections. The youths were, however, told to seek elective positions as they were already leaders of today against the notion that they were leaders of tomorrow and should stop being used as thugs […]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 advertisement From Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Abakaliki Amiddle-aged man (name withheld) yesterday died in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State while allegedly having sex with a female student of the state university. The incident, which happened in the girl’s room near Presco campus of the university threw residents into confusion as […]
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Ebonyi, Headlines, State News
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
No fewer than 20,000 applicants on Thursday besieged the Ebonyi Secondary Education Board in Abakaliki to obtain recruitment forms for teaching jobs. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the applicants scrambled to collect the forms from officials of the board. A source in the board who spoke on condition of anonymity said that obtaining […]
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Friday, January 17th, 2014
From JEFF AMECHI AGBODO, Abakaliki Ebonyi State Government has said that a total of 500 million US dollars would be spent on the development of the State University (EBSU), Abakaliki. The state governor, Chief Martin Elechi gave the figure during the flag-off ceremony of the distribution of 2013 instructional materials, assessment report booklets and commissioning […]
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Ebonyi, Headlines, State News
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
» From JEFF AMECHI AGBODO, Abakaliki The governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi, has granted unconditional pardon and clemency to 15 indigenes of the state serving different jail terms in prisons in the country. They include eight inmates of the Abakaliki Federal Prisons convicted for offences such as stealing and burglary and seven inmates […]
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
From JEFF AMECHI AGBODO, Abakaliki The police in Ebonyi State have uncovered kidnappers’ hideout where victims were kept in Emezabi community, Ngbo in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. The location at the boundary between Ebonyi and Benue states had served as hideout for kidnappers over the years where they kept their victims while […]
