Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State yesterday empowered over 500 Ebonyi people hawking in various cities across in the country with N2 million naira to help them improve in their businesses.  Flagging off empowerment of 500 indigenes of the state in Abakaliki, Nwifuru noted that the 500 persons would be trained in various skills by…

The recent South-East Economic and Security Summit held in Owerri, the Imo State capital, was a worthwhile intervention by the stakeholders in the region to address the dwindling and unimpressive fortunes of the Southeast as well as the unprecedented worsening peace time insecurity situation in the hitherto peaceful and progressive zone.

Ebonyi people living in Anambra State have cried out to their state governor, Francis Nwaifuru, over the hostile attitude of their communities, urging him to hold urgent parley with his Anambra counterpart, Prof. Chukwuemeka Soludo, to avert any impending crisis.   

• Affirms Nwifuru’s victory Ebonyi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Abuja, has dismissed petitions brought before it by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chukwuma Odi, and that of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Bernard Odoh, challenging the election of Ogbonna Nwifuru as…

In a bid to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change and positive role of urban greening, the Director, Centre for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke has begun climate education and tree planting exercise in Enugu State.

People of Agila in Ado Local Council of Benue State and Ngbo in Ohaukwu Local Council of Ebonyi State have resolved to end hostilities along their disputed boundary and pursue the restoration of peace.

The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has said that the Federal Government (FG) will complete the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by the middle of September. Umahi made the disclosure on Tuesday following his visit to the sites of completed and ongoing Federal Government projects in Lagos State. Years after reconstruction commenced on the ever-busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, work…

The Southeast must embrace other geopolitical zones in politics to get its fair share of Nigeria, Sen. Onyekachi Nwebonyi (APC- Ebonyi North) said in Abakaliki on Monday. Nwebonyi, vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation and Water Resources told a news conference that the zone must play politics that would accommodate it fairly in the…

Rev. Fr. Joseph Azubuike of St. Charles Parish of Catholic Church, Mgbaleze Isu in Onicha LGA of Ebonyi State who was kidnapped on Monday has regained his freedom. The priest regained his freedom alongside three other persons who were kidnapped with him. Ebonyi State Police Command and Abakaliki Diocese of Catholic Church confirmed the release…

Ebonyi Government has hailed the Nigeria Police Force on the arrest of a 15-member gang following Tuesday’s shooting in the state.

Member representing Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency of Ebonyi State, Chinedu Ogah, yesterday, visited correctional centres, orphanages and other destitute homes where he donated food items, clothes, toiletries, sewing machines and other materials worth hundreds of millions of naira, as part of activities to mark his 47th birthday.

The Ebonyi Government has denied the allegations that it set aside the sum of N1 billion to bribe the election tribunal in favour of candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. The Commissioner for Information and State Orientation in Ebonyi, Jude Okpor, while addressing newsmen in Abakaliki on Monday noted that the…