The Osu Caste System In Igboland: A Challenge To The Igbo Christian Intellectual
Nobody living today in Igboland of Eastern Nigeria can claim to be a living witness to the origin of the Osu Caste System in Igboland, an ugly dichotomy that tends to make some people inferior before their ilk, although in some Igbo communities like Ngwa, Osu does not exist as everybody is nwa afo, son of the soil.
Osu, by...
2015: Now, Okorocha Believes In Zoning
When I was 10 years old, one day, my late father, Dr Hilary Ekpe woke me up in the night that he has something to discus with me as his first child and son. I wondered what the man wanted to tell a little fellow like me. But honestly speaking, that story and day have ever remained fresh in...
Verification Exercise: Retired Primary School Teachers Cry to Okorocha for Assistance
Retired primary school teachers in Imo State have cried to Governor Rochas Okorocha to rescue them from the severe agony which they have been subjected to over one week in the on-going pensioners data capturing exercise going on in the 27 Local Government Area.
Speaking to the press at Iho, Ikeduru Local Government Area, a retired headmistress, Mrs. A.C. Opara...
Editorial
APC Congresses and The Nigeria Factor
Just last weekend the All Progressive Congress APC held its state congresses across the country. Before that weekend, the congress had on two occasions been postponed.
Eventually the congress which ordinarily supposed to end at the field according to party constitution in some of the states ended up through harmonization from the ward to...
I am Well Qualified To Serve Imo Better, Says Ken Njemanze
A Governorship Aspirant in Imo State under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, for the 2015 general election in the state, Bar Ken Njemanze (SAN) has declared that he has the qualities to navigate the ship of Imo affairs to safety having studied and lived in Imo state all his life, with a track record that will...
Owerri North Agog As Chijioke Ude Declares For Imo Assembly Seat
As declarations and aspirations for a position now seen to be the order of the normal political business in Imo State towards 2015,
In Owerri North, preparations for who takes over as the next honourable member of the Imo State House of Assembly seat are in top gear.
A P.D.P stalwart in the Area, Hon Pastor Chijioke Ude has already concluded...
Lifeline Assembly holds Passover Seminar
Lifeline Assembly Incorporated Church, with headquarters at Aboha Ohii, in Owerri West LGA, Imo State, will hold its 2004 Passover Seminar this week at the Church's Cathedral, Mercy Centre, Ohii.
According to the General Overseer Bishop Maxwell Korie, this year's topic is; Divine Change of Times and Seasons: and will resume on Thursday 17th April to Friday 18th April...
Mass Sack Looms In Imo Workforce As Govt Suspends Six Heads of Parastatals, Staffers Employed From 2010 Till Date To Go
By peter uzoma
A tsunami that will sweep off workers in government establishments is in the offing as the Imo state government panel of inquiry into the activities of Heads of Administration and Accounts of various parastatals in Imo state commences operation.
To herald the looming mass sack which the Okorocha administration is accused of perfecting, heads of some government parastatals...
Isiala Mbano Youths Jubilate As Onwa Joins Chairmanship Race
t was massive jubilation across Isiala Mbano Local Government Area, Imo State as one of their illustrious sons, Chief Ibe Franklin Chukwuemeka (Onwa Mbano) joined the race for the chairmanship position of the LGA.
Youths of the LGA went wild with celebration when the news broke out that Chukwuemeka, who has been under pressure from teeming youths of Isiala Mbano,...
Alleged Imposition In Imo APC Congresses Izunaso, OkaforAnyanwu, Onyeagocha, Others Stage Walkout Against Okorocha Aggrieved Stakholders Threaten To Dump Party For PDP
By onyekachi eze/okey alozie
f there are no measures to check the high rate of disaffection and disagreement rocking the Imo state arm of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governor Rochas Okorocha may be the only notable figure to be associated with the party as stakeholders are threatening to jettison him and APC for another platform.
The major trial for unity...
