No fewer than 10 persons were feared dead with two others seriously injured in a fatal auto crash that occurred on Ishiagu-Axis of the Okigwe-Afikpo highway. An eye witness, Mr Jeremiah Aja told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the accident occurred when a bus belonging to Abia Line Network coming from Umuahia to […]

By Peter Okutu Abakaliki-HOODLUMS suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, yesterday attacked Onicha Divisional Headquarters in Isu, Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. In a statement by the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Loveth Odah, the hoodlums burnt the left wing of the division, including four patrol […]

The Ebonyi Government has constituted a judicial commission of inquiry into the protracted Effium, Ezza-Effium communal crisis that had claimed many lives and property worth millions of naira. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation in the state, Mr. Uchenna Orji, disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Abakaliki on the outcome of Thursday’s state Executive Council […]

The Ebonyi State Police Command, yesterday arrested the Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, in the state, Barr Obinna Iteshi, for alleged breaking and entering into the party’s Secretariat. 

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ebonyi has confirmed that three persons died and six others were injured in an accident in the state on Thursday.

Indigenes of Okposi Ezinasato in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State in diaspora known as Ndi Okposi in Diaspora has faulted the Okposi-Uburu road dualization project by the government of Engr.David Umahi, nothing that the project  will not be in the overall best interest of Okposi Ezinasato indigenes. The group made this known in […]

The police, in Ebonyi, have confirmed the death of eight persons and arrest of more than 60 others, following clashes between Effium and Ezza Effium communities in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aliyu Garba, made the disclosure on Sunday during a joint security operation, which included […]

As Umahi orders arrest of Ohaukwu LGA Chair, Ebonyi Assembly member, 22 others By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki No fewer than seven persons have been feared dead while many were seriously injured as aggrieved members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW clashed in Effium Community of Ohaukwu local government area of the […]

The Ebonyi government has announced a ban on night clubs and drinking joints among others to forestall the spread of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The ban is contained in a statement signed by Mr Francis Nweze, Special Assistant to the governor on Media and Publicity and made available to newsmen […]

Scores of protesters on Thursday stormed the Abakaliki High Court complex to kick against the judge’s recusal from the suit on the dissolution of the Caretaker Committee of the Ebonyi Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The protesters, numbering at least 100 and believed to be loyal to the former Chairman of the committee, Chief Onyekachi Nwebonyi, […]