Imo Trumpeta newspaper

For Imo State to avert a looming calamity, the Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha must be bold enough to relocate the present site of the Ama Hausa quarters along the busy Douglas Road, Owerri to a more serene environment that will be conducive for the settlers and also for the good of Imo state and its citizens. This clarion call was...

Tragedy strucked Wednesday evening as a police sergeant deployed at the popular Oguta Motel, Imo State (names withheld) allegedly shot dead inspector Ukiwe. An account disclosed that the incident which took place late evening of Wednesday took the neighbourhood of the area by storm and frightened residents. The report has it that Inspector Ukiwe who was re-deployed from his Oguta base...

The verbal missiles being exchanged between the Imo state government and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over Sunday's aborted bomb blasts at the Living Faith Christian Church (aka), Winners Chapel seem unending with the opposition party firing fresh salvo against the governor for lack luster approach to state security. In reaction to a statement from the Government House, Owerri,...

Trumpeta ace columnist and popular women rights activist. Mrs Nina Nwulu has swelled the number of aspirants seeking to run for the Imo State House of Assembly race. Nwulu, who is married to Dr Vitalis Nwulu, a university Don, former political appointee to ex-Governor Achike Udenwa and political leader in the area made intention known when she briefed ward members...

The Appeal Court judgment confirming Chief Victor Umeh and members of his executive as leaders of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, is leaving devastating effects on the fortune of a frontline governorship candidate of the party in Imo state, Capt Emma Ihenacho. Appeal Court on Wednesday ratified the leadership crisis by confirming Umeh and Umaru Shinkafi as chairman of...

By onyekachi eze interesting event yesterday at Grasshoppers International Handball Stadium, Owerri at the Senatorial declaration ceremony of the commissioner for industry and the Non-formal Sector Imo State, Hon Barr Lady Ugochi Nnanna Okoro as the crowd that stormed the occasion wondered why a serving commissioner's declaration under the platform of the state ruling party, All Progressive Congress (APC)...

By okey alozie Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Imo state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and some of his appointees, few lawmakers of the Imo State House of Assemblers, keke operators, market women and CGC officials are expected to leave the state and jet into foreign countries this weekend. The foreign trip will see some commissioners, local government chairmen and a section...

The world is an irony. While good men plan and think how the society will get better and more pleasurable to live in, bad men also plan evil on the same equal measure. When we were growing up in Owerri in the seventies, we heard then with shock and disbelief of one “Onyenusi” said to be a dare devil armed...

On this bright fateful Sunday morning, a middle age woman was spotted on the Owerri Port Harcourt road by Owerri Plaza Hotel, opposite the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, building, showering praises to God near the highway. Her theatrical displays garnished with songs of praises and worship to God suggest that something was amiss. Passers-by and road users slow-paced to...

As I return to this issue, permit me to strongly apologize for devoting much time to the persons likely to be in Imo State House of Assembly after next general election. For four weeks, I concentrated on political rookies expected to make laws for the state and represent the interest of their constituents in the state legislature. Suffice it to note...