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EBONYI GOVERNOR CONFIRMS SECOND CASE OF CORONAVIRUS IN THE STATE: Otu Obiahu, AJM NEWS Wednesday 29/04/2020 The Governor of Ebonyi State, Engr. Dave Umahi today confirmed another case of the dreaded Coronavirus in the state, making it two cases in less than one week. According to Governor Umahi, this second COVID-19 patient is a 27-year old man who resides and does business in Asaba, Delta State; but was intercepted while returning to Ebonyi with his wife and their caregiver at Ishieke, Abakaliki by a team of police men who later brought them to the State Covid-19 holding centre at Pa Ngele Oruta Township Stadium, Abakaliki where they were scheduled for screening. The three were later tested at the State COVID-19 Testing Center, unfortunately the man tested positive. Governor Umahi broke the news in a statewide broadcast at the New Governor's Office at the Centenary City, Abakaliki, the state capital, which is also contained in a Communique signed by the Commissioner for Informatio...

AN NGO, ELEJE LEGACY FOUNDATION DISTRIBUTES FOOD ITEMS TO 100 FAMILIES IN OZIZZA, AFIKPO NORTH OF EBONYI STATE: Otu Obiahu, AJM NEWS Wednesday 29/04/2020 As so many individuals and families are loosing hope in the midst of lack and hunger ravaging the land, caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic lockdown, a Non-governmental organization, the Eleje Legacy Foundation (ELF) has brought back hope in Amikpo Community, Ozizza in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, as it distributed food items worth hundreds of thousands of Naira to100 families in the community. AJM NEWS gathered that the Eleje Legacy Foundation, which is also a Non-profit making organization, distributed no fewer than one hundred (10 Kg) bags of rice to 100 households in Amikpo, Ozizza. Other food items shared by the ELF include: One Litre of Vegetable Oil; One Hundred Cubes of Maggi; Tomato Pastes and Indomie Noddles to each of the hundred families. Speaking on the distribution of the palliatives, the Representativ...

FAMILY BATTLES CATHOLIC CHURCH OVER PLOTS TO FORCEFULLY TAKEOVER LANDED PROPERTY - Vows To Drag Priests, Others To Court {"...It is sad, we will not allow this to happen and we want the Pope and the entire Catholic community in Nigeria and the world to know this, that their clergies want to forcefully takeover what does not belong to them", said the family}  Charles Otu, AJM NEWS Tuesday 14/04/2020 The matrilineal lineage of  Nde Abagha Ota, Ibe Anuma maternal family of Ehugbo in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State has petitioned the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Afikpo to the Police Command in the area over plans by some Catholic Priests acting for and on behalf of the Church to forcefully takeover landed property bequeathed them by their fore-fathers. A document made available to this medium on a letter-headed paper of the mission hospital dated 9th May 1977 certified that the grandfathers of the Nde Abagha Ota ...

🆘EX – COMMISSIONER TRIES TO GENERATE CRISES IN HIS VILLAGE IN EBONYI STATE: (Written And Sent To Afikpo Jokwa Media By Surveyor Titus Obila) A former Commissioner for Border Peace and Conflict Resolution Ebonyi State, Chief Donatus Ezeogo Aja, propelled by rage and acrimony , has ordered the construction of an illegal structure on an existing road in his village Amankwo Nkpoghoro, Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State; thus blocking the road and denying people access to their homes, especially that of Surveyor Titus Obila whom he wanted to oppress, suppress and intimidate for differing in opinion with him. It was gathered that Town Planning Authority, Afikpo North L.G.A. issued him a 'Stop Work' order on 5th February, 2020 but he refused to obey the order of the Planning Authority. The Police also advised him to stop work but he paid deaf ears to the advice. On 5th February, 2020 at about 4.00pm when one Pastor Emmanuel Nwachukwu and Mr. Joseph Otu Igwe ac...

NEWS Insecurity: We warned Nigerians Buhari will be a failure – Northern Elders Forum attacks President Published   14 seconds ago on   February 9, 2020 By   John Owen Nwachukwu Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has declared the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari a total failure. The group said it had warned Nigerians that Buhari has nothing to offer to them, adding that the President has failed to tackle insecurity and improve the economy. NEF said the Buhari-led government appeared helpless in finding solutions to the numerous challenges the country is faced with. NEF’s position was made public by the Forum’s Director, Advocacy and Engagement, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmad shortly after a meeting convened by the chairman of the forum, Professor Ango Abdullahi. Those that attended the meeting were: Abdullahi, former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alamin Daggash (retd); Secretary of the Coalition of Northern Gro...

SEE HOW IGBO GOVERNORS ARE INSULTING NDIGBO Written By Mazi Omife I.Omife See how Igbo Governors have remained cowards and made South West Governors heroes! See how Igbo Governors have remained slaves to Mi yetti Allah leaders because they, not Buhari, promised one of the governors to become the next President! Imagine how aggressive and militant OPC has been. Nobody stopped them till today. When Yorubas felt that OPC was not enough, their Governors created Amotekun without taking permission from anybody. Imagine how eminent Yoruba heavyweights such as Femi Falana, Wole Soyinka, Odumakin, Femi Kayode and others came out fully in support of their Governors. Imagine the Northerners establishing their own security network in the name of 'Shege ka Fasa' security outfit, without taking permission from anybody. But Igbo Governors had pretended to be sleeping until pressure from Ndigbo forced them to hold an emergency meeting with only one agenda. After the meeting, ...

AJM NEWS The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday reduced the number of political parties in Nigeria from 92 to 18, by deregistering 74 political parties. Meanwhile , the  chairman of INEC, Alhaji Mahmood Yakubu has given reasons for the deregistration of the 74 political parties, while briefing newsmen in Abuja. He said the affected parties failed to meet the criteria provided for by section 225A of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) which include: “breach of any of the requirements for registration as a party, failure to win at least 25 percent of the votes cast in one state in a presidential election or 25 percent of the votes cast in one local government area, and failure to win at least one ward in a Chairmanship election, one seat in the national or state assembly election or one seat in a councilorship election”. By the end of its assessment, INEC said only 18 political parties survived, including one registered after the elections and anothe...