Fresh Trouble In Imo Concorde .Plans To Reduce Retired Workers Gratuities Exposed .It’s A Lie – Workers Union Boss
By kelechi ugo
Fresh trouble is brewing in Imo Concorde Hotel following shocking revelations that gratuities of retired workers of the hotel will be slashed by 10%.
A source in the hotel told Trumpeta that part of the grand design is to allocate the deducted 10% to some facilitators.
The facilitators, according to sources, include government officials, some national executive members of...
The True Story of Ngor Okpala Tragedy .How 8 Persons Met Their Untimely Death After Eating Ugba, Ofe Owere
Details emerged yesterday on the tragedy that struck a family in Umueze, Egbelu Nguru in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. Some members of the Nwosu family had perished after eating oil bean and soup.
However, A family member (names withheld) of the deceased who claimed to be their relative revealed to Trumpeta yesterday the entire story that...
Tension in Imo APGA State Chairman, Marshal Okafor Disowned
The crisis that has hunted the Imo State Chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) since Governor Rochas Okorocha joined the APC, has accentuated to an unprecedented level.
APGA in Imo split into two shortly after Okorocha’s declaration for APC. While Marshal Okafor Anyanwu heads the pro Okorocha group, another splinter group is led by Dr Emeka Ukaegbu, Chief...
Editorial
The Road To 2015
in less than two years from now, Nigerian voters will be warming up for yet another opportunity to exercise their franchise in the 2015 polls for the National Assembly, Presidential gubernatorial and state Assembly elections.
The ritual is a constitutional issue which is binding on all the political parties even though disturbing echoes of the 2011 polls...
The Next Imo Governor Must Be A Grassroots Oriented Person
Many years ago, during the life time of Rt. Honourable M.I. Okpara, the Former Premier of the old Eastern Region, it was in this Dan Anyian stadium in Owerri that he made his most famous statement. He was being criticized to have joined the NPN in place of NPP. In response to his critics, he told a story of...
Emergency Rule: Pulling The Rug Off The Feet Of NGF
By Sidney Madumkwem
The Nigerian Governors' Forum is an organization that came into existence in 1999 with the inauguration of democracy on the May, 1999.
Membership is exclusively for the 36 serving state Governors of the federation. From the original concept of the organization, the forum was meant for rubbing minds, exchanging of ideas and comparing notes among members, with the...
2011 Supplementary Case Supreme Court Decides Today
Today at the nation’s apex court, the Supreme Court sitting in Abuja, will rule on the appeal filed by the present Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) against the ruling of an Appeal Court sitting in Owerri which granted the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the past governor of Imo State, Dr Ikedi Ohakim...
Why Judicial Council Queried Anunihu
Of all the legions of petitions pouring into the office of Chief Justice of Nigeria, against Hon Justice Goddy Anunihu, it was learnt that three major allegations irked the Council, which prompted the query fired at Anunihu.
In a letter from the office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, and Chairman, National Judicial Council, Ref No. NJC/S.16/HC.IM/15/1/52 dated 22nd May,...
Ngor Okpala Oil Tragedy Death Toll Rises to Eight .It is Lasser Fever-FMC, No, It Is Poison – General Hospital .Government Yet to Visit Victims –...
The number of deaths recorded in Nguru, Ngor Okpala LGA, which began last Thursday, after as consumption of Oil Bean Salad, by the Nwosu family has continued to rise by the day.
In the last count yesterday, the death toll has risen to eight, which has now thrown the entire Nguru Community into confusion, as what exactly is the cause...
Boko Haram Killings of Ndigbo No Movement in Imo On June 8 MASSOB Tells Imolites
In apparent bid to make real its protest threat against the Nigerian State over the senseless killings of innocent Igbo Christians in different parts of the country, particularly in the North, the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has declared sit-at-home order on Saturday June 8, 2013.
MASSOB leader in Owerri, Chief Okechukwu Nwogu, in a statement urged...
