Tag Archives: Dave Umahi

…people sleeping had their heads chopped off — Survivor Barely 24 hours after the South-East Governors Forum announced formation of its regional security outfit, EbubeAgu, some Ebonyi villages were again in focus yesterday as many people were feared killed, following an attack allegedly carried out by some assailants on the villages at Ngbo in Ohaukwu Local Government Area. But the ...

The Federal Government will do everything to ensure that security is beefed up in communities affected by recent communal clashes and violent attacks in Ebonyi State, while ensuring justice for victims, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. He condemned the attacks, and sympathized with the victims, describing such acts as cowardly, wicked and “very deeply distressing.” Prof. Osinbajo stated ...

… urges security agents to fish out perpetrators Utterly bewildered and eternally pained by the recent spate of killings that greeted the people of Nkalaha, Obegu, Amaezu and Umuhuali, all of Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State, the Technical Assistant to the Executive Governor of Ebonyi State on Media, Lady Monica Chidinma Ada Eze, has joined Governor Dave Umahi, ...

Over 50 villagers including women and children were feared killed on Monday by suspected herdsmen in Egedege, Obegu and Amazu in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and Umuhu community in Isiuzo Local Government Area of neighbouring Enugu State. Many others sustained various degrees of injuries while vehicles and motorcycles were burnt. The attackers also looted some property from the ...

National Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), South East zone, Chief Ali Odefa, yesterday accused his former boss and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, of plotting to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on him and some of his property in the state. Odefa, in a statement, claimed that Governor Umahi’s major target was to pit him against ...

Former Students of Holy Child Secondary School, Afikpo, under the aegis of Holy Child Alumni Association have donated 22 computer sets to their Alma Mater to assist the school in its quest to deliver quality education in a technologically advanced world. Donating the items to the school, the International President of Holy Child Alumni Association Afikpo, Ms. Regina Okoroafor, who ...

Governor of Ebonyi State and Chairman Southeast Governors’ Forum, Engr. David Umahi, yesterday said the zone had before now banned open grazing of cattle within the region. The governor announced this during an APC stakeholders meeting at the Christian Ecumenical Centre, Abakaliki. The governor who said the Southeast Governors’ Forum had also banned the movement of cows by foot enjoined ...

Replies PDP on murder allegations against Umahi As reactions continue to trail the recent call on Gov. Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State to resign as Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum, Lady Monica Chidinma Ada Eze, the Technical Assistant to Umahi on Media, has bared  her mind on the trending issue. In a statement made available to media houses, the ...

By Casmir Igbokwe Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, has the heart of a lion. That is the summary of the latest gospel according to Mr Femi Adesina. Last Friday, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity revealed in his Facebook series, ‘From the Inside’, that Umahi proved himself to be a lion for the courage he exhibited by ...

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has finally spoken on the recent defection of the Governor of Ebonyi State from PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), saying that such political dramas should not form the focus of Nigerians, when the country is facing severe economic recession. Obi, who ...