Abakaliki

Chief Kelechi Chima, governorship aspirant in Ebonyi, has debunked alleged claim of presidency endorsement of one of the governorship aspirants in the 2019 governorship election.

Chief Eze Nwachukwu, the Ebonyi Chairman of All Progressives Congress, has commended the conduct of party members that elected the 39 ad-hoc national delegates for the party’s 2019 presidential primary.

The new Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, Musa Kimo, has said that the insinuation that he was sent to work for the opposition in the state is “mendacious”.

Chief Austine Edeze, former Chairman, Ebonyi Universal Basic Education Board, says he will address decay in the education sector if elected governor of Ebonyi in the 2019 governorship election.

An aspirant for the Ebonyi South Senatorial District seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Onuoha Nnachi, has described the contest for the party's flag bearer in the zone as a battle between light and darkness.

The deceased, a father of seven, was said to have been brought to the Police Station with his two sons over skirmishes with the Pastor

The Independent National Electoral Commission says it requires 2,652 vehicles of different types for movement of materials and officials for the 2019 general elections in Ebonyi.

An Ebonyi State Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Obiahu, has located the incidences of religious killings across the country to direct lack of knowledge of the basic tenets of the Islamic religion.

The Ebonyi Government on Monday suspended the collection of consolidated revenue, income tax and property rates in the state until further notice.

Chairman of the South East Governors Forum and Ebonyi Governor, David Umahi, says the zone will negotiate with whomever it will support in the 2019 presidential election on its wellbeing.

Umahi gave the charge on Monday when members of the association paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Abakaliki.

The Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Lovett Odah, told the News Agency of Nigeria that adequate security preparations had been put in place to secure lives and property of every citizen.

According to him, if the government desires to achieve overwhelming result in its fight against corruption, it must adopt inclusive approach rather than selective method.

The governor noted that his decision was a matter of principles, stressing that Buhari remained his only boss.

The Police spokesperson in the state, Lovett Odah, made the disclosure to newsmen in Abakaliki on Thursday shortly after a protest by people of Akpoha community in Afikpo North Local Government Area of the state at the command.

Nwachukwu, who spoke to newsmen on Friday in Abakaliki at the party secretariat, said that all arrangements had been put in place to ensure hitch-free, credible and successful exercise.

Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, the Deputy National President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, stated this on Wednesday in Abakaliki, while delivering a speech at a town hall meeting.

The party chairman, Chief Eze Nwachukwu, who briefed newsmen on Monday in Abakaliki, said that the ratification of the zoning arrangement was the major decision taken at a stakeholders’ meeting held behind closed doors.

The Prosecution Counsel, Peter Amadi, told the court that Ogiji, on Nov.10, 2006 at Abakaliki in the court’s magisterial district, knowingly swore false affidavit of a First School Leaving Certificate.

Dr Daniyan Babafemi, Head of Clinical Services at the centre, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abakaliki.