Images of Ebiraland

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri (Vanguard) ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, 60 days to produce the Certified True Copy, CTC, of an alleged  petition that it said culminated in the trial of an ex-Chairman of Adavi Local Government Council of Kogi State, Mr. Raji Owuda Ahmed. The embattled ex-chairman, who is answering to a 10-count criminal charge preferred against him by the anti-graft agency, was alleged to have siphoned about N590 million from the treasury of the council in two years. Justice A. A Kafarati, ordered EFCC to produce the substantive petition against the accused person, after listening to the testimony of the alleged petitioner in court yesterday. The petitioner who was simply identified by the EFCC as a security consultant, yesterday, boasted in court that he single handedly dragged the embattled chairman to court via an alleged resolution he insisted was passed by councillors in that local go

Our ref: EYC/NEC/01/16                                                                            Date: 29 th May, 2010 His Excellency Dr. Goodluck E. Jonathan, GCFR President and Commander–in–Chief Federal Republic of Nigeria Your Excellency, REMOVAL AND THEFT OF VITAL INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT AT AJASTEEL AND NIOMCO:   AN APPEAL FOR URGENT INTERVENTION The above named umbrella body of youths of Kogi Central Senatorial District hereby congratulates you on your epochal assumption of duty as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. We also commend your historic strides in governance so far; as evident in your appointment of technocrats, your avowal to ensure a credible reform in the electoral process for the nation and, indeed, your administration’s approval of the sum of six hundred and fifty million naira (N650, 000, 000.00) for the take-off of the Ajaokuta Steel Company (Ajasteel) and National Iron Ore Mining Company (NIOMCO), Itakp

Aerial View of Okene from Okene-eba Total Filling Station Junction, Okene

Eugenia Abu is one of Nigeria’s foremost Broadcasters. In 1995 she won the Nigerian Media Merit Award for TV Newscaster of the year. A prize winning Essayist, Poet, Short Story Writer, her works have appeared in The Guardian Newspapers, Leadership, This Day Newspapers, Daily Trust and the Association of Nigerian Author’s publication Themes Fall Apart but the Centre Holds (2008). This Ebira, Kogi state born mother, broadcaster and writer had her first published Book, a collection of Essays "In the Blink of an Eye" (Spectrum 2007) won the ANA/NDDC Flora Nwapa Prize for best female writing in 2008. Eugenia is a 1981 graduate of English from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and has a Master Degree in Communications Policy Studies from the City University, London (1992). An engaging Motivational Speaker and multimedia strategist, Eugenia delivered the 2009 Nigerian Independence Anniversary Lecture in Perth, Western Australia. How did you get into Television? "By acciden

  In this photo taken in the 70s, Ado Ibrahim (now the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland) is seen campaigning for the Governorship seat of the old Kwara state. He contested against his brother, Alhaji Adamu Atta on the platform of National Party of Nigeria (NPN). Even as a minority tribe, two brothers of Ebira extraction contested the highest political office in the old Kwara state and Adamu Atta-through majority support from various ethnic groups- won the elections and became the first Ebira Governor of the state. This was indicative of fairness, equity and inclusion policy that once commanded politics in Nigeria. Will these principles ever hold sway on the modern Nigeria politics? Is any politician, irrespective of his ethnicity or party affiliation willing to make the ultimate sacrifice as 2011 beckons? ... just a matter of time.

Source: Nigerian Compass The ancient city of Okene , the political headquarters of Ebira land stood still for the incumbent Deputy-Governor, Chief Philip Omeiza Salawu, as he received the royal blessing and endorsement, when he formally consulted with the traditional rulers, political office holders, Party executives, community leaders and all the stakeholders over his aspiration to run for governorship election come 2011. The colourful event took place at the Azad Palace of the Paramount traditional ruler and the Vice- President of Kogi State Council of Traditional Rulers, Dr. Ado Ibrahim at weekend in Okene. The occasion was yet another political gathering that brought the Who is Who in Ebira land to formally endorse the candidature of Chief Salawu who has been the deputy governor in the last seven years. With the calibre of political stakeholders and the traditional chiefs from the central who converged at the palace on that day, one is inclined to believe that pea

By Aliyu Bello Every age has its pet contradictions. Thirty years ago, we used to accept civil strife in the guise of festivities and cultural celebrations, and wondered aloud why life was so confusing. Today, there is a similar challenge over the question of whether we can have a civilised society as seen elsewhere, where order is permanent and criminality is abhorred and punished; where children go to school without the fear of molestation; elders feel free to socialise and were accepted by the society they toiled hard to build; where businesses fear no interference by untoward influences that often lead to their disruption and where the government is responsible for the needs of the governed. We can no longer shield our society from the force of modernity that has challenged our very existence. Incidentally, we are products of this difficult past. We start off infinitely plastic and we are formed by the society in which we grow up. However, what we take to be the problems today