#david Umahi Archives | FAMOUS REPORTERS

Mar

16

2022

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Church Sues Umahi, Demands N5bn Damages Amidst Sack

POLITICS, RELIGION#Court's judgement, #david umahi, #Engr.DavidUmahiApologigises, #Umahi's sack

Church Sues Umahi, Demands N5bn Damages Amidst Sack The Presbyterian Church of Nigerian has dragged Ebonyi Governor David Umahi to court for taking over its hospital. Also joined in the suit are Ebobi Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice as well as Ebonyi Assembly as second and third defendants. The church in suit no HAB/120/2020 is seeking N5bn for general damages from the Governor for the takeover and shutting down of the Presbyterian Joint Hospital in the Governor’s hometown of Ụbụrụ. It said the government’s action was illegal, unconstitutional, null and void and amounts to…

Mar

15

2022

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Just In: Why Three House Of Assembly Members Resign In Ebonyi

POLITICS#david umahi, #defection #endBadGovernment, Ebonyi State APC, ebonyi state government

Just In: Why Three House Of Assembly Members Resign In Ebonyi Three members of the Ebonyi State House of Assembly, have resigned their membership of the House. The Speaker, Rt. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, on Tuesday March 15th 2022, received letters from three Members of the State Assembly, notifying the House of their resignation as Honourable Members of Ebonyi State House of Assembly. According to the Chief Press Secretary (CPS), to the Speaker, Leo Ekene Oketa, the Members are: Hon. Mrs. Franca C. Okpo (Abakaliki South State Constituency), Hon. Ali Kizito Okechukwu (Ishielu North State Constituency) and Hon. Victor U.…

Feb

07

2022

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See Photograph of Ebonyi Commissioner, Who Flogs Female Trader, 40, Sets Goods, Money Ablaze

CRIME, METRO#Assault, #david umahi, #EbonyiStateGovernment, #Market development, #Violence

See Photograph of Ebonyi Commissioner, Who Flogs Female Trader, 40 Sets Goods, Money Ablaze FamousReportes.com had reported about the brutality meted out to a female traders in her late thirties, in Ebonyi State, by the Commissioner for Market Development, simply identified as Pastor Nwachukwu. Narrating her ordeal in the hands of the Commissioner and his thugs, in the viral video, Miss Alu said:"the Commissioner and his boys came on 21st January 2022 and ordered the boys to flog me mercilessly and equally burn her goods. “While they were flogging me, others were busy burning my goods. Anybody that tried to…

Jan

04

2022

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Breaking!!! Ebonyi Gov, Umahi hosts Senate Chief Whip,Orji Kalu

POLITICS#2023 Igbo Presidency, #APC, #david umahi, #Dr. Orji uzor kalu, #EbonyiGovermment

Breaking!!! Ebonyi Gov, Umahi hosts Senate Chief Whip,Orji Kalu Executive Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi on Tuesday played host to the former Governor of Abia State and current Chief Whip of the Senate ,Senator Orji Uzor Kalu at his Umunaga- Egugwu Uburu country home in Ohaozora Local Government Area of the state. Kalu and his entourage arrived the Governor's residence at exactly 2:49 pm and were ushered into the Governor's sitting room, few minutes later Umahi decked in navy blue native attire walked straight towards Orji Kalu. Both APC chieftains exchanged a warm embrace and proceeded for lunch after…

Jul

23

2020

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CBN/ NIRSAL LOAN: Ebonyi Govt commences Operation Show Your Farms<br>… Reveals criteria for assessment

CBN/ NIRSAL LOAN: Ebonyi Govt commences Operation Show Your Farms
… Reveals criteria for assessment

NEWS#david umahi, #EbonyiGovermment, agriculture, CBN loan, empowerment, farmers, NIRSAL

By Chijioke Njoku In a bid to prepare the entire Ebonyi state for zero oil economy, the Governor Engr. David Umahi has reiterated that the CBN/ NIRSAL could only be accessed by interested individuals are currently farm owners in the state. This is even as the state has, in conjunction with CBN /NIRSAL kicked off inter local government tour which started at Ezza south local government area . Addressing beneficiary at the Ezza south local government headquarter, the deputy chief of staff, Government House, Abakaliki, and programme falicitator Dr. chief Okechukwu Nwakpu said the visit to the local government was…

Jun

27

2020

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Ebonyi govt vows to cut all tinted hair… Saint Anacho

NEWS#david umahi, #indecency, #security

Towards ensuring thorough eradication of indecency and all manner of social vices among Urban dwellers in Abikiliki,Ebonyi state capital, the government in collaborationwith the office of the special assistant to the Ebonyi state Governor on Internal Security, Public and Capital Utility, embarked on street awareness and sensitisation of young people to shun all related acts. Governor David Umahi who disclosed this through theS.A on Internal Security Saint Nchekube Anacho pointed out that the quest to end appearances the society abhors such as provocative outfits, tinting of the hair would not only sanitize the area but also ensure the security of…

Jun

25

2020

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COVID-19: Ebonyi government reviews 2020 budget to accommodate pandemic

POLITICS#COVID-19, #david umahi, #EbonyiGovermment

In a bid to further accommodate the effects of Corona virus on the state economy, Ebonyi state government led by Engr. David Umahi has made a public review of the state 2020 budget. Governor David Umahi, while addressing Ebonyians in a live broadcast, held at the ecumenical center Abakaliki, the state's capital, pointed out that the approved 2020 budget was hitherto made public for necessary scrutiny by members of the public, civil societies as well as none governmental organizations, before it was approved by the state house of Assembly. According to the Governor, "the unfortunate decline in global economy as…

Jun

22

2020

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We won’t allow Ebonyi Govt force our people to ‘disown’ ex-Commissioner Onyike – Group tells Govt

POLITICS#Abia Onyike, #david umahi, #dictatorship, #EbonyiGovermment, #prof. Benard Odoh

Edda Professionals' League, a body comprising eminent experts in diverse professions, on Sunday, raised an alarm over a subtle move by Ebonyi State Government, led by Governor David Umahi to compel some appointees of government and traditional rulers to 'disown' Chief Abia Onyike, a former Commissioner for Information and State Orientation in the State. It would be recalled that Onyike had served as Commissioner for Information and State Orientation during the administration of former Governor Martin Elechi. The former Commissioner, as gathered hails from Owutu Edda community, Edda clan (in the Afikpo South Local Government Area) of the state. FamousReporters reports…

Jun

13

2020

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COVID-19: Umahi’s order to isolate me; plot to make me keep quiet; Governor’s brother had threatened to kill me— Ex Ebonyi Commissioner cries out

POLITICS#Chief Abia Onyike, #david umahi, #EbonyiState, #threat

The former Commissioner for Information and State Orientation in Ebonyi State, Chief Abia Onyike, on Friday, said the order by Governor David Umahi that he should be quarrantined for 14 days was a ploy geared towards silencing him from criticising his administration. Umahi had on Thursday during the Statewide broadcast to update citizens on the fight against COVID-19, ordered the State Director of State Security Service, to ensure that Onyike was quarrantined for 14 days. The governor also insisted that he should be made to undergo COVID-19 test, adding that the law should not spare the “big men” of the…

Jun

11

2020

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Gov Umahi’s creation of new office is unhealthy to us’— Ebonyians …I’m not embarrassed by my appointment— Laz Ogbee

POLITICS#COVID-19, #david umahi, #EbonyiState, #government, #LazarusOgbee, #politics

Ebonyians have faulted the creation of a new ministry by Ebonyi state government led by Governor David Umahi and the subsequent appointment of Hon. Lazarus Ogbee, as the commissioner, describing it as"an undue political patronage which is another method to run state account dry."This is shortly after Governor Umahi had appointed and sworn in the former House of Representatives member, Hon Lazarus Ogbee as the Commissioner for inter- governmental affairs, a newly created Ministry in the state.Recall that Hon Lazarus Ogbeewho represented Ezza /Ikwo federal Constitency in the national assembly, had contested in the 2019 general elections but was sacked…