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Views: 172 Some unknown persons in the early hours of Wednesday attacked and set ablaze two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Ebonyi State, Nigeria’s South-east. The offices are located at Ezza North and Izzi local government areas of the state. INEC spokesperson in Ebonyi State, Cornelius Ali, confirmed the attack to reporters in Abakaliki. Mr Ali said the fire destroyed power generating sets, voting cubicles and other materials in the affected facilities. Th...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, on Wednesday, ordered for the immediate querying of three local government chairmen and Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Samuel Okoronkwo for failure to protect, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, offices in their areas. The affected council chairmen include; Mrs Nora Alo of Ezza north LGA, Chinyere Nwaogbaga Ebonyi LGA and Mr Paul Nwaogha of Izzi LGA for allowing hoodlums to atta...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 May 2021 AT least, 19 offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission have been gutted by fire in the last two years, findings by The PUNCH have revealed. A breakdown of the fire incidents showed that the most affected states include Akwa Ibom (four), Abia (three) Anambra (two) and Imo (two). Other states that witnessed fire incidents between February 2019 and May 2021 are Borno, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kano, Ondo, Plateau and Rivers. Abuja was also affe...

Advertisement Last Tuesday, the gang had attempted to rob a commercial bank at the Onueke area of the state. Frank Mba, spokesperson of the police, in a statement on Sunday, said operatives attached to Ebonyi police command stormed the gang’s hideout in Ezza North LGA, and on sighting the police they were said to have opened fire, which led to the death of three of them. The operatives also recovered two AK-47 rifles, five pump action guns, and other ammunition from the gang. Advertisement �...

Governor David Umahi The chairman of the Southeast governor’s forum and governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, on Wednesday, said that the Indigenous People of Biafra,(IPOB) were not responsible for most of the numerous attacks in parts of the state. Umahi made this known while briefing journalists on some decisions reached during this week security council meeting, held in Abakiliki. He added that the hoodlums hide under the umbrella of IPOB to carry out their evil attacks. The governor drew...

He added that the hoodlums hide under the umbrella of IPOB to carry out their evil attacks. The governor drew his view from the recent incident which happened on Tuesday at Onueke in Ezza South Local Government Area of the state where unknown gunmen attacked a bank. A reliable source said that hoodlums who were armed stormed that area with seven motorcycles. He noted that the attackers, after attacking a bank situated at Onueke, stormed the quarry clusters in Umuoghara in Ezza North LGA to stea...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The chairman of the south-east governors’ forum and governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi has decried the increasing rate of police station burning in the region by unknown hoodlums. Umahi made this known during the Ebonyi End SARS youth summit, with the theme ‘Youth engagement in national development’, which took place at the ecumenical Christian centre, Abakaliki. Umahi, who addressed over one thousand five hundred youths selected from the 13 local governmen...

Welcome To Ladun Liadis Blog Tuesday, December 22, 2020 Mother of five commits suicide over hardship in Ebonyi A 45-year-old mother of five children identified as Mrs Ifeoma Otubo from Okposi Umuoghara in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi state has committed suicide. The deceased, it was gathered, took took her own her life by hanging on Sunday December 20, 2020. She reportedly hung herself on a bush mango tree behind her house. A brother to the. deceased, Christopher Nwuzor told Reporter that, she had...

Views: Visits 67 A frustrated mother of five identified as Ifeoma Otubo, in the early hours of Sunday, December 20, 2020, committed suicide at Okposi Umuoghara, in Ezza North local government Area of Ebonyi State. It was gathered that the deceased, her husband and children had moved to her parent after being displaced by the Ezza/Eziulo communal crisis in Ishielu local government area of the state. The 45-year-old woman who had attempted suicide in 2015, was said to be experiencing a v...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, on Tuesday, presented a total of N122,852,045,222.49 billion proposed budget for the 2021 fiscal year to the Ebonyi State House of Assembly. The governor, while presenting the bill tagged “Budget of Stabilization and Consolidation in a Recession” to the lawmakers, explained that the budget is expected to be funded through the Federation Account estimated at about N52bn representing the total of 42.33% of the budget. He ...