Mbagen College of Health Technology (MCHT) is located in Abwa town of Mbagen community at Km 30 Gboko – Katsina Ala Road, Buruku LGA, Benue, Nigeria Phone0908 390 9466 Emailinfo@cohta-agen.edu.ng Websitecohta-agen.edu.ng Mbagen College of Health Technology Mbagen College of Health Technology (MCHT), Abwa is a tertiary educational institution that develops primary healthcare personnel through a…

Onwuegbulem Ekechukwu of Umuanuma Nguru was the first modern day leader of Mbaise. His reign was during the colonial period. In 1909, the Colonial Administrators established courts at Nkwogwu (Nguru) and Okpala respectively due to long distance of Owerri court from Mbaise. The first to be appointed warrant Chief in Mbaise for the court at…

In 1911, the Christian Missionary Society (CMS) mission came to Mbaise at Ife and Ubonukam Onicha Ezinihitte. It was the first advent of Christianity in Mbaise. Following the coming of churches was also the schools. In 1915, four years after, the Catholic Mission came to Nguru, through Chief Anyamele who also brought the school at…

The name Mba-Ise literally means five law court areas. The name was suggested and adopted for a political unit, a federation of some five Igbo clans near Owerri, Imo State. This happened during the colonial era. The five clans are: Agbaaja, Ahiara, Ekwereazu, Ezinihitte and Oke Uvuru located in the three Local Government Areas, (Aboh…

There are farmers in every village and town of Mbaise who grow and harvest more yams. The greatest among the farmers were given the prestigious title of EZEJI. They are acclaimed as having the largest farms and could feed hundreds of people without running out of supply. Though the Ezeji title holders regard New Yam…

 Iriji Mbaise Festival is Mbaise’s new yam festival usually celebrated on the 15 day of August yearly. When July came and people entered their farms for harvest and found enough tubers of yam, they celebrated. More mysterious would be the fact that when you cut and leave the head of the yam in the ground,…

Before the advent of Christianity, early inhabitants of the Mbaise, believed in mini gods and one supreme God, the Almighty and Creator of all things. Their belief were said to stem from the fact that there must be a reason for every creation and thus the belief in higher beings which cannot be fathomed by…

British Colonial administration in what is today known as Mbaise started in 1901 by Captain H.M. Douglas, the District Commissioner for Owerri. The imposition of this colonial rule marked the end of Mbaise Native Administrative system following the introduction of warrant Chiefs and native courts which carried out the functions of the Amala people. In…

Legends have it that the cradle of creation took place in Ezinihitte Mbaise at ‘Ihu Chineke Orie Ukwu’; a boundary between Oboama and Umunama with the birth of five clans: Agbaja (Nguru, Okwuato, Enyiogugu, Obiangwu, and Umuohiagu), Ahiara, Ekwerazu, Ezinihitte, and Oke Ovoro; thus, the name ‘Mbaise’ came into being as a federated unit of…

Mbaise clans constitute 3 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Imo state, south eastern Nigeria, namely: Imo LGAs Imo State is administratively divided into 27 LGAs (Local Government Areas) namely: Mbaise Mbaise is a sub-group of Igbo ethnic group located in Imo state, south eastern Nigeria. Meaning of Mbaise In Igbo language Mbaise literally means “five…