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APC Governors Storm Owerri Weekend For Summit

Sixteen Governors, on the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, in the country according to a statement from Government House, will arrive Owerri, the state capital this weekend, to continue their lecture series on Progressive Governance. The governors are coming on the aegis of the Progressive Governors Forum, which, by the grace of God, has the Imo State...

Orlu Zone Fed Up With Unproductive Senators

By onyekachi eze One of the structures of Hon Eudora Igwe known as Okwesilieze Remedy Group has tongue lashed the past senators that represented Imo West Senatorial District in the past political dispensation saying that they are abruptly fade up with dormant senators from Orlu zone and not ready to wallow in poor representation again come 2015. Expanciating their feelings, they...

Imo Speaker, Finance Commissioner In Supremacy Battle Over Okigwe Zone Rescue Mission Platform

By okey alozie The seeming power tussle between Imo State Finance Commissioner, Deacon Chike Okafor and the Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly Rt Hon. Benjamin Uwajumogu over who controls Okigwe zone keeps manifesting daily. Both men from Okigwe zone (Imo North) are said to be locked in serious cold war concerning several issues but not limited to power struggle for...

2015 Election; PDP Guber Aspirants Spoil For War In Imo As Delegates’ Lists May Split Party State Chairman, Anyaehie Assures Free And Fair Primaries, Mourns Keke Rider...

Even as modalities for the selection of delegates that would pick candidates for the coming primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in next year's general election have not been made public, there are strong indications that the umbrella-sign party in Imo is sitting on a keg of gunpowder. The expected explosion is said to be gingering aspirants of...

Alleged Threat To Life On Eze Ilomuanya Eze Ohiri, Eshi Of Nkwerre Return To Abuja For SSS Interrogation

By thompson agu, Abuja Two prominent traditional rulers in Imo state, Eze Samuel Ohiri of Obi Orodo and his Nkwerre counterpart, Eze Chijioke Okwara, Eshi of Nkwerre are expected in Abuja on Friday in continuation of their interrogation by security agencies following petitions raised by Eze Cletus Ilomanya over threat to his life. Trumpeta exclusively revealed in last weekend edition how...

Contractors In Imo Cryout Over Govt Hijack Of Road Projects Through Direct Labour Process

By peter uzoma Contractors handling projects in Imo State have raised alarm over a new method allegedly introduced by the state government to convert awarded contracts for personal execution through direct labour means. Trumpeta learnt that at the beginning of the Okorocha administration, contracts for several projects especially for roads were awarded to different outfits. However, instead of funding the projects...

Barrister Humphrey Anumudu And His Political Voyage

As we count down to the primaries of all the political parties ahead of the 2015 general elections in the country and particularly in Imo State, it is imperative to draw public attention especially that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to some of the issues which are germane in its effort to making a good choice in its...

Why Kill The Critic?

According to Oxford Advanced Leaner's Dictionary, a Critic “Is a person who expresses opinions about the good and bad qualities of Books, Music, etc; A person who expresses disapproval of and talks about their bad qualities, especially publicly” In the world of today's Democratic culture which allows for free association, speech, thinking etc, critics are abound. These are people who...

Imo House Leader, Ihuoma Rescues Another Abandoned Mother In Hospital

To prove that her kind gesture and her philanthropic dispositions as practically demonstrated by rescuing a mother of triplets at the Umuokrika Hospital and Maternity, Ekwerazu Mbaise, by footing her hospital bill after delivery, provision of baby clothes, bag of rice and other items, as well as handing over a completed two-bed room bungalow to a widow both in...