EBONYI STATE TODAY

On 18th April, 2018, Ezza North LGA chapter of Akubaroha Youth Assembly; PDP Okposhi ward and the women and men of Okposhi Community stood up defying the evening rain in Okposhi Umuoghara - the home of the new Ebonyi SSG, Chief Hyginus Nwokwu. The event was courtesy calls by the youth group and the Okposhi ward chapter of the PDP to the diplomat. The women poured encomia on Governor David Umahi for his numerous achievements for Ebonyi people. Equally, speakers congratulated Nwokwu on his appointment and charged him to give his best to his new job, insisting that the second term project of Governor Umahi is a must for development. Chief Nwokwu thanked Governor Umahi, appreciated his people and assured the people of better days in Ebonyi state under the leadership of the supersonic Gov. Umahi which will last till 2023! The secretary of Ezza North LGA, Barr Friday Nwuwhuo; a senior lecturer in sociology in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki - Dr. Rowland Oginyi, the ex-o

On Tuesday, 3rd April 2018, a landmark development took place in Ebonyi State - The Salt of the Nation. This particular development even though an internal one for young Ebonyi State is important because of its positive implications for both the government and the masses of Ebonyi in the impending days. On that day, the Divine Mandate administration in Ebonyi State under the eagle-eyed Governor David Nweze Umahi inaugurated Chief Hyginus Nweze Nwokwu as Secretary to the Government of Ebonyi State of Nigeria! By that singular development, Dr. Nwokwu, an unassuming but cerebral scholar, became the eighth person in the history of young and promise-laden Ebonyi state to occupy the position. Dr. Hyginus Nweze Nwokwu's earthly sojourn began at his birth on 6th November, 1964 in the pastoral community of Okposhi Umuoghara in the present Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi state. Nwokwu who was ostensibly imbued with socratic genes was driven by his insatiable hung

  COPIED! COPIED! COPIED! *Injustices Of Voting But Not Being Voted For: The Hausa Plaintive  By Col. Dauda Gora (rtd) Hausa land, history and people yearning for freedom. Nigerians, 50 years old and above who attended Primary School in any part of what used to be Northern Nigeria, must have been taught during History lessons about the 7 Hausa States of Biram, Kano, Katsina, Daura, Gobir, Rano and Zaria as well as the 7 Banza Bakwai Kingdoms of Zamfara, Kebbi, Yauri, Gwari, Nupe, Kwararafa (Jukun) and Yoruba.   These Kingdoms were viable in virtually every aspect of human endeavour at that time. I should draw the readers attention to the meaning of the Hausa word ”Banza”. Banza, is a derogatory word which means worthless or anything that is of lower quality which clearly showed a marked distinction between the Hausa Bakwai and the Banza Bakwai Kingdoms. There may have been the pastoral or nomadic Fulani as part of the population in these Kingdoms but not much if anything was recorded i