Ebonyi State is a mainland south-eastern state of Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

, inhabited and populated primarily by Igbo of south eastern Nigeria. Its capital and largest city is Abakaliki

Abakaliki

Abakaliki is the capital city of the present-day Ebonyi State in southeastern Nigeria. The inhabitants are primarily members of the Igbo nation. It used to be the headquarters of the old Abakaliki zone in the Old Anambra and Enugu state before the creation of Ebonyi State in 1996. Abakaliki is made...

. Afikpo

Afikpo

Afikpo is the second largest city in Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Until recently it was the home Local Government Area of the late Eze Akanu Ibiam, who hailed from the village of Unwana. Dr...

 is the second largest city. Other major towns are EDDA

Edda

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, Mgbo

Mgbo

Mgbo is a northeastern Igbo subgroup, in southeastern Nigeria....

, Onueke

Onueke

Onueke is the ancestral headquarters of the Ezza, one of the most populous clans in the Ebonyi State of Nigeria. Ezza people live in virtually all three senatorial zones of Ebonyi State and beyond, but are concentrated in the Ezza North, Ezza South, Onicha, Ishielu and Ohaukwu Local Government Areas...

, Ezzamgbo, Nkalagu

Nkalagu

Nkalagu is a town in the east of Nigeria. It is notable for having a limestone formation — not common in Nigeria — which provides the raw material for the large cement plant of the Nigerian Cement Company ....

, Uburu, Onicha

Onicha

Onicha is a Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. It has an area of 476 km² and has a population of 236,828 according to the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 491...

, Ishiagu

Ishiagu

Ishiagu is a town in the Ivo Local Government Area in Ebonyi State, Nigeria, located on the plains of the south-eastern savannah belt.It is the location of the Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu....

 (location of the Federal College of Agriculture

Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu

The Federal College of Agriculture, Ishiagu is based in Ishiagu, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.The college was established in Umudike in 1955 by the government of Eastern Nigeria, was amalgamated with the Agricultural Research Station, Umudike in 1964 and was taken over by the East Central State Government...

), Ukawu, Amasiri and Okposi. It is one of the six new states in Nigeria created in 1996 by the Abacha

Sani Abacha

General Sani Abacha was a Nigerian military leader and politician. A Kanuri from Borno by tribe, he was born and brought up in Kano, Nigeria. He was the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998....

 government,Ebonyi was created from the old Abakaliki division of Enugu State

Enugu State

Enugu State is a mainland state in southeastern Nigeria. Its capital is Enugu, from which the state - created in 1991 from the old Anambra State - derives its name. The principal cities in the state are Enugu, Agbani, Awgu, Udi, Oji, and Nsukka....

 and old Afikpo division of Abia State

Abia State

Abia State is a state in southeastern Nigeria. The capital is Umuahia, although the major commercial city is Aba, formerly a British colonial government outpost. The state was created in 1991 from part of Imo State and its citizens are predominantly Igbo people...

.

The state is governed by Chief Martin Elechi

Martin Elechi

Martin Elechi is the Governor of Ebonyi State in southeast Nigeria. He ran in the April general elections on the People's Democratic Party ticket and assumed the position on May 29, 2007, succeeding Sam Egwu....

, who was elected State Governor in 2007.