Images of Ebiraland

Onyayi Senabu Usman is the age long 'Face of EbiraView' whose elegant pose in Ebira traditional attire has graced the pages of EbiraView media since the year 2007. At 80 years,  inya Senebu is aging gracefully in the company of children and grandchildren. Tracing the location and family of this woman since we adopted her photograph as the Face of Ebiraview has been a wild goose chase for almost a decade until we met her grand daughter recently. EbiraView will soon be celebrating this Octogenarian who hails from Irachi family in Oboroke Ihima of Okehi LGA Kogi State.

Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu is a neurosurgeon at National Hospital, Abuja. She is the first indigenous trained female neurosurgeon in Nigeria is also the first female to be certified a neurosurgeon in West Africa. Dr. Aliu is an indigene of Okenne Local Government Area of Kogi State but was born in Ilorin, Kwara State, where she had most of her education up to the university level. She found the area of neurosurgery interesting and intriguing, and then decided to specialize in the discipline. When an opportunity opened up for her at the Neurosurgery Centre in Sokoto state, she went ahead to train in spite of discouragements and difficulties. The training, which takes about six years to get certified, if there no unforeseen circumstances during the training period, tested both her capacity to handle the pressures of the job as well as managing her job with other family responsibilities. Since she got certified, she has mentored other four women who are also training as neurosurgeons- tw

A woman has claimed major honours as the most outstanding student in the just concluded call to Nigerian Bar Ceremony. The brainy woman made history with her exceptional academic performance. A rare genius of a kind, Fatima Bombom Sani has made history as the first Law student to collect nine separate awards at the Call to Bar of Nigerian Law School held on Wednesday. The bookworm was honoured with standing ovation by Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, other members of the Body of Benchers (BOB) and the Council of Legal Education (CLE), other dignitaries and the new wigs (her colleagues just called to Bar) for the outstanding feat. Fatima broke existing record in the Nigeria Law School by bagging nine separate awards compared to existing record of seven awards ever received at the Call to Bar of Nigerian Law School. The awards include the “Best Student of the Year (1st Prize)’’ donated by Sir Adetokunbo Ademola , Dr. Taslim Elias and Justice Atanda Fat

A genius, Fatima Bombom Sani, made history on Wednesday, 21 October 2015 when she was honoured with standing ovation by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, other members of the Body of Benchers (BOB) and the Council of Legal Education (CLE), other dignitaries and the new wigs (her colleagues just called to Bar). Fatima broke existing record in the Nigeria Law School by bagging nine separate awards compared to existing record of seven awards ever received at the Call to Bar of Nigerian Law School. The awards include the “Best Student of the Year (1st Prize)’’ donated by Sir Adetokunbo Ademola , Dr. Taslim Elias and Justice Atanda Fatayi-Williams; the ‘’Council of Education Star Award’’; Corporate Law Practice donated by Chief Adegboyega Awomolo SAN; Best Overall Female Student of the year award donated by National Association of Women Judges; and Best Female Student in Criminal Litigation award donated by Mrs. Oluwatoyin Doherty. The rest are Best

An Appellate Court sitting in Abuja has orderd the immediate reinstatement of sacked council chairmen and councillors in Kogi State. The chairmen and councillors headed to the court after the councils were dissolved through an order of a High Court in Kogi State. Ruling on the case earlier today, the Appeal Court ordered the immediate reinstatement of the council officers to complete their legitimate term of three years. Some of the Chairmen who spoke to Vanguard expressed joy at the judgement and hailed it as victory for democracy. The case which was instituted against the State Government over the constitution of the State Independent Electoral Commission by the APC led to the sack of the council helmsmen. Kogi State Government had challenged the judgement to ensure the reinstatement of the council chairmen and with the ruling of the appeal court, the APC may decide to appeal the ruling at the supreme court.

By Kingsley Fanwo (Vanguard news) LOKOJA—The possibility of Kogi State governorship election holding has been threatened by the determination of FairWin, a political advocacy group, to challenge the legal propriety of the former INEC board to set the timetable for Kogi and Bayelsa polls. Vanguard scooped that it was necessary to clear all legal hurdles leading to the election to give the recently constituted board the opportunity of organising governorship polls in the two states to avoid legal tussle. It would be recalled that last week, a respected constitutional lawyer in the country, Mr Femi Falana, SAN, had raised an alarm over the legality of the previous board to take any decision concerning the two elections, in view of the fact that they could not form a quorum. INEC had only 3 federal commissioners until Wednesday when President Muhammadu Buhari appointed a new chairman and other commissioners for the commission. However, FairWin said there was need to test the legality

Mr Sanusi Mohammed, Secretary-General, African Iron and Steel Association, said about 1.1 billion dollars would be required to revive the Ajaokuta Steel Company in Kogi. Mohammed told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja thatthe association estimated that the sum would be used for the internal and external rehabilitation of the steel company. He said the fund would be used to rehabilitate the steel production plant, complete the remaining blast furnace, raw materials sites and construction of railway and access roads for easy movement of steels.According to him, if the fund is released, Ajaokuta rehabilitation canbe completed within three years, including the external infrastructure.Mohammed, however, said that if 300 million dollars could be released from the amount required, it could be used to rehabilitate part of the company for mini production to commence. He said 43 smaller companies with different areas of specialisation were located in Ajaokuta, adding that they c

By Onuru-oyiza M. Sanusi I noticed that people were consoling a crying colleague of mine, for she was rubbed. Where? Okene! My home town! Every one turned to look at me. “Are you from that wicked place?” cold sweat came over me. My mouth opened, no word. Times you hear news about Ebira on NTA, printed media or verbal it is disgusting, very shameful. Few people started to calm me; I did not know I was shedding tears. I did not shed tears for the rubbed woman but, my land. Okene is definitely not the only place where rubbery is committed but, it is certainly the only place where brothers kill themselves for no just cause. A place where political crisis reigns for years yet no political position. It is a land where it is either killing for clannish differences or over nothing. What answers do we give when another ethnic groups ask why the killing and burning in our land always? I do not know whether those at home know the shame and challenges we outside the land always face. I thoug

By: Buhari Omolori Sani Buhari Omolori Sani If anything took the Ebiras by surprise more than anything else, it is the claim of the Igalas that Ajaokuta belongs to them, and the inclusion of the area as part of the Okura State they are currently agitating for. Whatever the challenges that the Ajaokuta issues has posed to our communities, it is very essential for us to go down memory lane for the purpose of awareness, posterity and most importantly for the preservation of a peaceful co-existence in Kogi state. History has it that the first settlers saw the bird (Aja) perching (oku) on their newly braided cottages (uta) and therefore coined the word “Aja-oku-uta (Aja perched on cottage) as the name of the land.   These are all Ebira words.

Reporting reaching EbiraView indicates that thick smoke can be sighted from Inike community of Okene where soldier invaded since the early hours of the morning. As more gunshot is heard from the area, residents are reported to have remained indoor with little or no movement across the entire Inike and Idoji areas of Okene. A source who preferred anonymity told us that the incidence may not be unconnected to the recent attack on DSS hqtrs in Lokoja when some suspected Boko Haram inmates escaped. It is alleged that some of the escaped suspects are hiding in that area . In Idoji, residents are seen gathered in small numbers around their homes unsure of the unfolding incident as more gunshots are heard from the distant. More update soon.