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2 min read The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, Aliyu Garba, confirmed on Monday that gunmen attacked another community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state on Sunday hours after South-east governors met to deliberate on rising insecurity in the region. Mr Garba told reporters the gunmen attacked Ebele village, Umuogodo Akpu, Mgbo in the LGA. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that gunmen attacked five communities in the state – Egedege, Obegu, Amazu, Nkalagu a...

Punch Newspapers Sections Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki The Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State has said the party would take over the reins of government in the state come 2023. This is as the party alleged that it was ready to eschew negative tendencies that almost ruined it before the defection of Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, to the All Progressives Congress, adding that the governor’s sudden departure remained insignificant. Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party in the state, E...

Following the unexpected resurgence of criminal activities in the affected communities of Ezza-Effium and Effium of...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Ebonyi State government on Wednesday reacted to the alleged use of its Abuja liaison office as a kidnap hideout by hoodlums suspected to hail from Uburu community, the hometown of Governor David Umahi. Recall that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command arrested and paraded one Chukwu Betherand who was said to be the younger brother to Governor Umahi’s wife, Mrs. Rachel Umahi. 27 years old Chukwu Betherand was arrested and paraded alongside six othe...

Punch Newspapers Sections Edward Nnachi, Abakaliki The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested the Chairman of the Ohaukwu Local Government Area, Clement Odah, and the member representing Ohaukwu North State Constituency, Mr Chinedu Awo, in connection with the recent killings and destruction of property in Effium and Ezza Effium communities. This was just as residents told journalists that the death toll was now above 40. Although there was no official confirmation about the number of deaths,...

Punch Newspapers Sections Edward Nnachi There are mixed feelings in Ebonyi State among residents over Governor David Umahi’s clampdown on cultists and their sponsors in the state. The governor had during a special thanksgiving service, last Sunday, at the Christ Embassy Church, Abakaliki, vowed to deal with cultists and their sponsors. Umahi had said, “In the past few days, we have terrible cult activities. But let me warn that we are starting war against cultism. There are big people that...

By Chukwuemeka Opara Abakaliki, Dec. 21, 2020 The Ebonyi Government, on Monday, said that nine persons were killed in a renewed clash between two rival cults in the state. The Commissioner for Border Peace and Internal Security, Mr Stanley Okoro-Emegha, made the disclosure in Abakaliki while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the state Security Council meeting. Okoro-Emegha, who is also the Caretaker Committee Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, said that 37 suspected ...

My daughter was abducted and murdered during end-of-year party closing prayer — Father of two-year-old Ebonyi girl Published 21 December 2020 Mr Sylvia Ufiem-Nnachi is the father of a two-year-old pupil, Miss Rosemary Ufiem-Nnachi, who got missing at an end-of-year party she attended with her parents on Saturday, December 12 in Obeagu Aba village in the Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, while her body was found floating in a river on Monday. In this interview with EDWARD NNACHI H...