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Weep Not, Anumudu Tells LGA Chairmen, Councillors, Ex- Appointees

A Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria PDP Governorship aspirant Barrister Humphrey Anumudu has assured the dissolved Local Government Chairmen, Councilors, Co-ordinators and members of the Development Centres as well as all former political office holders of prompt payment of their entitlements if elected into power. In a telephone chart with our reporter, Barrister Anumudu regretted that three years after assumption...

Women Shut Down Orlu Zone As Rochas Loses APC FRONTLINE Senatorial Aspirant To PDP

Commercial activities were paralyzed in Orlu Zone with a protracted raffc gridlock when women from various communities in Orlu Zone and beyond stormed the century home of Chief Felix Idiga at Amaifeke to register their support forms register their support for his return to PDP. Idiga a Frontline Senatorial aspirant from the Imo West senatorial, the same Zone with Imo...

Dead Bodies For Sale In Imo Exhumed Corpse of 70 Yr- old Woman Sold For N2m In Oguta LGA

By peter uzoma Barely twelve months, precisely 11th April, 2013, when the former police commissioner, Imo command, Mr Muhammed Katsina led a crack police squad to Nzurum Ejemekwuru community in Oguta LGA, to recover the remains of one Mrs Lucy Osuigwe who was allegedly killed by her son for ritual purposes and kept her in wardrobe for thirteen years before...

Imo Lawmaker In Fresh N50m Bank Loan Scandal

Trumpeta can reveal that one of the legislators who has the mandate of his constituents to speak their voice in the state Assembly is alleged to have defaulted a loan agreement he has with a commercial bank (names withheld). It was learnt that the House of Assembly member with controversial profile, judging from his shoddy antecedents reportedly had agreement with...

Flood Ravages Owerri As Amakohia Residents Protest, Block Road, Blame Govt

By victor madumere /okey alozie Economic activities suffered a great set back in Owerri Imo State yesterday, owing to the resultant effect of a heavy down pour that submerged residents and shops in Amakohia community of Owerri North. The rain resulted to a heavy flood that over took major roads and streets in Owerri metropolis causing uncontrollable traffic jam during the...

APC LGA CONGRESS: Tension in Ahiazu, Aboh, Oguta Ohaji/Egbema, Others As Party Members Threaten Defection To PDP

Our correspondent who has been monitoring affairs of the party in the ongoing congress revealed that implosion is underway following disaffection in different local governments over harmonization of lists and names forwarded as ward exco and delegates for the LGA exercise. The architect of the looming disaster is the decision of some interested party leaders to foist exco members that...

Ripples In State Secretariate Over 3.5m to Each Perm Sec

By okey alozie Uneasy calm pervades the Imo State Secretariat in Owerri Port Harcourt Road as Civil Servants grumble over the alleged N3.5m said to have been handed over to ranking Civil Servants for the on going rehabilitation of the complex As part of the strategies adopted to save cost and minimize wastage of resource through contracts, Owelle Rochas Okorocha,...

“Eneneb’ejegholu” Crooner, Dame Chinwe Ogba Re-surfaces At COMEN …To Drop Album At 70

Renowned Singer Dame Chinwe Kalu Ogba, a distinctive unique soprano vocalist popularly known for her “Eneneb'ejegholu”, was recently conferred with an award of honour for her contribution to music in Nigeria by Conference of Music Educators in Nigeria (COMEN) at the auditorium of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education (AIFCE), Owerri, Imo state. Speaking to newsmen, Dame Chinwe Kalu Ogba...

Okorocha’s LGA Tours and Imo Lawmakers

When the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha commenced the Tour of the twenty seven Local Government Areas in the State with a visit to Ngor Okpala , nobody envisaged that the visits and town Hall meetings with the people would open a can of worm that will remain indelible in minds Imo populace. Today, a harmless working tour...

Why Uwajumogu Must Resign, Lawmakers Insist Ad hoc Committee Members Not Qualified

As the six-man ad-hoc committee set up to probe allegations of fraud and corrupt practices leveled against the office of the Speaker, Imo State House of Assembly, the number one lawmaker in the state legislature, Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu has been asked to step aside for undiluted probe panel result. This resolution came from few lawmakers who spoke under anonymity,...