Images of Ebiraland

A member of House of Representatives, Hon A.K Saliu has called on President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to investigate the sale of Ajaokuta Steel Company by his predecessor, former president Olusegun Obasanjo. The lawmaker representing Okehi/Adavi federal constituency (Kogi State) made the call while speaking with newsmen in Abuja recently. "Two years after the federal government sold the Ajaokuta Steel Company to Global Infrastructure Holding Limited (GHIL), the fortunes of the company have dwindled", he said. He stated that the concession was not a good decision by the federal government as none of the conditions reached with the Indian Firm had been met, adding that GHIL was only interested in the financial aspect of the whole arrangement. He further disclosed that the plant was under-priced while the amount committed by the federal government into the project was not properly evaluated. He, however, said that the agreement to manage the plant by GHIL for 10 years was defectiv...

Featured in the page 313 of the Dictionary of International Biography, Bishop Haruna Yakub, now 83 years, is our personality of the week. Borne in 1924 in Okene, Kogi state, Bishop Haruna Herbert Yakubu, the Anglican Diocesan Bishop of Kwara, married 1st September 1949 and is blessed with 5 children; 3 sons and 2 daughters. As stated on the page 313 of his personal copy of Dictionary of International Biography where he has his name written in gold: Education: Ordination course 1950-51; Ordinator License Deacon, 1952-54; Diploma in Biblical Studies, 1955-57; Diploma in Theology, 1958-59; International BD. London, 1960-61; Richman College, Further studies, 1966-67. Appointments: Primary school teacher, 1945-49; Deacon, 1952-53; Parish priest, 1954-55; Asst. Priest in Conventory, 1957-58; Parish Priest, 1959-60; Head of Christian Religious Broadcasting in Nigeria, 1961-74; Elected Consecrated Bishop, 1974; Publications: Booklets, Christians Participation in Politics, Author of 14 Addres...

Updated: 29th July, 2009 This Gown cost me 10,000 Dollars Star actress Mercy Johnson was simply the most gorgeously and chicly dressed at the maiden edition of City People Entertainment Awards held at Velley View Hall, Government House, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The Okene, Kogi State born actress travelled to South Africa to buy the gown. read more UPDATED: Jan 10th, 2009 Men Want A Piece Of Me - Mercy Johnson By gbenga Bada ( Saturday Independent ) Within the next few months, Mercy Johnson, one of Nollywood most popular faces, would be returning to the citadel of learning to get herself a professional degree in one of the universities abroad. Though she wouldn't disclose the university and the particular course she is going to read, the dark-skinned actress, who has travelled all over the world, seems to know what she wants from the industry that has given her fame within the last few years of her incursion. Mercy Johnson revealed some of her fears and moves in the next few years t...

He is talented, creative and cheerful. After completing a job in South Africa, he returned to Nigeria for his Album set for release in February 2008. In this interview with EbiraView weekly at the launch of ‘Ebira for Peace, a musical video by Odora & Wizzy on Saturday, December 8th 2007 at the FAAN club Ikeja, he spoke about his career and his love for Ebiraland. Please can we meet you? My name is Musa Nasirudeen popularly known as Baby Face. I work with Bikers club in America, in Nigeria, I am the Managing Director the Club in Nigeria. I am a singer and director. An Ebira by tribe, I hail from Obehira, Okene Kogi state. I love my people so much and they also love me. Ebiras embrace their children wherever they come across them. I worked with Usher in America and a lot of Nigerian artiste like Two shots, Tuface and direct some of their videos. I just finished working in the Ninja Guys video, won the NMA award. I am here today because of my friend, Odora. We started together; we ha...

In the earliest generations when the art of magic was yet a myth to the people, there was born a boy into a family of hunters in the village of Eika - one of the six communities that comprised the ancestral groups. He was believed to have been born with a leaf in his hand and to the elders of then, that was prognostic of what he would be - a native healer. And had grown up performing wonders. His kinsmen were all hunters, they would deny the boy the opportunity to follow them hunting, purely on age ground - and he was really too young to go hunting in the forest. They would leave him in the house with the women as they set out on their hunting expedition. But they had meet the young Obege in the forest roasting a fair member of the forest’s game, all alone - and unarmed! The elders had to defer to this wonderful boy. Obege as an adult was more than human. His fame had spread all over the land: he was a healer of most seemingly incurable diseases, he was a rain maker, assumed more divin...

Abiodun Anako was born in the Sixties in Okene, a provincial town in the North of Kogi State, Nigeria. The region with its rocky landscape and strong light became an enduring preoccupation of Anako an influence that can still be seen in his art. He can be considered as a member of the third generation of Oshogbo artists, having mastered a technique of drawing in pen and ink on an airbrushed background on ricepaper. The colourful result has a lyrical abstract quality that is both subtle and bold by turns. As a painter Anako was slow to mature because of his Father's vehement opposition to his son's chosen career. To win through eventually and ultimately to achieve his goal bespeaks the quiet discipline that he was able to impose upon himself and a forceful resolution of character. He has since gone on to exhibit his work throughout Nigeria and abroad in the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada and United States. He was a participant in the October Gallery's Six African Artists...

It's yet another history as Okumbeku Shrine breathed its last on December 23, 2007. The crowd that gathered to witness the monumental destruction testified to the shock caused by the sight of the horrific charms. The gods, the talisman, the wrappings and other unidentifiable items found in the mess caught everyone in awe. It was an event one would hate to miss. About 4pm, 22nd December 2007, we set for the residence of the shrine custodian who died the day before. We arrived at his home in Ikuehi, Ihima. The house looked like every other house from the outside, but inside it are rooms solely dedicated to the charms of Momoh Jimoh a.k.a Okumbeku Lagbaja of Ebiraland. There he has his consultation office, a bedroom sized spaced stocked with assorted charms and horrific looking objects that can convulse a baby. The darkness of the room was borne out of dark paintings, painting done with black soaps, mixtures with perhaps animal and human bloods. Mix of red and white clothes were found...