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2 days ago
Ekoli Edda community in Ebonyi State has called for the intervention of President Bola Tinubu in the cycle of killings, which have claimed over 30 lives in the area.
2 days ago
The Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), labour unions, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Ebonyi State Government are to collaborate to enhance tax justice in the state.
22 Mar
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State, yesterday, ordered revenue collectors in the state to stop indiscriminate taxation of the less privileged persons selling farm produce in local markets. Instead, he charged them to go for big-time property owners and business moguls.
19 Feb
The Ebonyi Government has confirmed the recruitment of 2, 600 youths as forest guards to support the fight against insecurity in the state.
28 Jan
The Federal Government of Nigeria/ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)-assisted Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), is assisting 150 benefiting farmers in Ebonyi in dry season farming. Mr Sunday Ituma, the IFAD-VCDP State Programme Coordinator, made the disclosure while flagging off the 2023/24 dry season farming at Odomowo, Inyimegu in Ikwo Local Government Area of…
19 Jan
The Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural In the Diaspora (AEISCID) has congratulated the Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, on his victory at the Supreme Court, asking him to accept congratulatory messages earlier rejected from the opposition candidates within 48 hours. The five-man panel of Jurists had dismissed petitions of both the People's Democratic Party,…
16 Jan
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State, yesterday, said that Ebonyi is the only state in the country without an industry, insisting that he will attract more than two industries to boost the economy and wellbeing of the state.
3 Jan
The ruling All Progressive Party (APC) candidate for the Ebonyi South senatorial rerun Prof. Anthony Ani said that his decision to contest the senate position for Ebonyi South is because he wants to contribute to the building of a future and better Nigeria. Prof. Ani a renounced Academician in a chat with journalists added that…
28 Nov
Governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, and his counterpart from Cross River, Bassey Otu, yesterday, met to resolve lingering boundary dispute between the two states as the Federal Government takes steps towards definition of the boundary.
22 Nov
Gov. Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi, says that the state chief judge and House of Assembly speaker use bullet-proof vehicles just like himself because all tiers of government should be equal. Nwifuru made the declaration on Tuesday night in Abakaliki during a dinner he organised for the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the federation, Mr…
16 Nov
Minister of Works, Chief David Umahi, has said that nothing will make him quarrel with his successor, Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State, whom he described as ‘a worthy son’.
23 Oct
The controversial removal of popular Abakaliki Street, in highbrow Awka Central Business District of Anambra State and re-naming it as Club Road, has been resurrected, deepening fresh face-off between Ebonyi and Anambra states, with stakeholders calling for reversal to avoid reprisal.  

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