Images of Ebiraland

Each season, an Ebira farmer is preoccupied with one farming activity or the other. To accomplish these tasks, he, along with his family, settles away from home..in the farm. The farm known as 'Are' in Ebira dialect is a home away from home for the business minded farmer. He lives and spends most of his time there with ocassional visits to his town, his main home. Among the farmers, while some live there with their entire family, others prefer staying alone and fetching his family's need. It is a unique community with relative peace and lots of hardwork, fun and adventure. EbiraView brings you facts and findings of what makes the farm a beloved home to Ebira farmers. Watch out on this page. The long trek back to the huts The Huts (Udi)

Erosion may not have its way any longer on the muddy path that connects Enyinare to Agassa After many years of neglect, the Ahache road finally got an attention from the Ohize administration, Okene. To forestall further erosion, the use of concrete is employed in place of tar. Strectching from the Ozohu (Idoji) Junction through Enyinare (Iduka), the road is laid across Ahache to Agassa. Though hilly and sloppy at one point or the other, families and loved ones no longer engage in the long trek or the 360 degree journey through Okene from agassa to Enyinare.

The Kogi state government has undertaken the construction of Ege road that connects Okene town to Ihima and beyond. Details and pictures coming soon!

Brooms waved, songs chanted and spirits high! Ebira youths stormed the highways in buses and cars as they head for the Action Congress (AC) rally in Lokoja, Kogi state capital. Ahead of 2007 general election in Nigeria, Anebira are bent on reealising their governorship dream. Since the mantle of leadership has been with the Kogi easterners (the Igalas) since the creation of the state in 1991 till date, the need for power shift is utmost in the political business of every son and daughter of Ebiraland. Many are of the opinion that the chance is slim but whatever comes of the result next year, 2007 is not the immediate concern of Ebira politicians. They are ready to wrestle and the stage is set. Meanwhile, Alhaji AbdulRahman Badamasuiy, the Adavi Local Govt. Chairman, gathered all the political aspirants in his L.G.A at his Nagazi home in Adavi to address the need for a peaceful and successful election in his domain, come 2007. Besides the aspirants, other attendants included Kogi state ...

When sat close to the Oguntoro (the loom), Ebira women employ the best of their skills as they print elegantly on the cloth of the loom (ita-inochi). Watch out as EbiraView brings you images of captivating designs on Ebira traditionally woven clothes. Readers' comment

A community accostumed to burying their dead within the homes, Adavi is a town where lost members of a family is easily determined by the number of graves around a home. Besides other effects it is widely beleived in Ebiraland that homes with graves affect the sinking of water wells or bore-holes as water from such sources is considered impure and its drinking seen as caniballistic. Today, the home-burial tradition is so common in adavi that a landlord might have to reserve some space for his grave and that of his family or loved ones. Where such arrangement was not pre-arranged, a corpse may be buried right inside the compound. Just recently, in his effort to ease the burial stress in his Local government area, Alhaji AbdulRahman Badamasuiy, the incubent LG chairman acquired a vast land in Nagazi area of Adavi as Oganya (grave-yard) for his people. Though report has it that burial has not copmmenced on the acuired space, it is expected that families will endure some distance between t...

Ahead of 2007 general election, Ebiraland has lost another political icon; a son, and achiever and sadly enough, a senatorial candidate. Between the hours of 7 and 8pm on friday the 20th of October 2006, just immediately after taking his iftar (termination of fasting), Engr. Ahmed Onogoh breathed his last in his Kaduna home. Meanwhile he was supposed to attend a meeting shortly after the meal, unfortunately, he couldn't make it. It is indeed another tragedy for the Ebiras as his death marked the third of similar tragedies within a short space of 5 months. EbiraView hopes to do an extensive coverage of his burial. May his gentle soul rest in an everlasting peace... Readers' comment