Imo Trumpeta newspaper

Life has taught me that good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matters. Progress in life is man's ability to complicate simplicity.  A man who desires to say the truth about our society today (as the Reformer does) is a radical with both feet planted firmly in the air. When you are more successful is...

A non-governmental pressure group known as Imo Transformation Assembly (IMTA) has stated its readiness and commitment in transforming the society through the conduct of policy and affairs of the state for the general interest of the common man. IMTA which is identified by the motto “transformation for good governance” having a grasp of the myriad of challenges that has engulfed...

Phasing out the Polymer Naira Notes The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN is soon to introduce new N5, N10, N20 and N50 to replace the old polymer notes. The director, Banking Supervisor of the apex bank, Mrs. Tokunbo Martins who disclosed this in Abuja attributed the scarcity to the truncation of CBN's currency restructuring exercise. She explained that apart from flooding...

by Phoenis Owen Tufia in English means, God forbid. Some may think otherwise. But I am entitled to my opinion no matter how positive or negative. Tufia is a simple way an average Igbo person curses out evil away from himself. It is a word that does not stand alone. When spoken, it must be followed by a landing prayer....

  For releasing the sum of N750m (seven hundred and fifty million naira) as take-off grant to the Community Government Councils in Imo State, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Imo Chapter has challenged the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to explain to Imo populace where the money came from.   In a release signed by Chief Blyden Amajirionwu, the State Public Secretary,...

    Despite the fact that the impeachment saga of the former Imo State Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso has come and gone, yet the aftermath consequences are still vibrating in Imo House of Assembly, headed by Hon Benji Uwajumogu.   Trumpeta was informed that forces have been marshaled out to commence recall process of the member representing Owerri North, Hon Don Ikpeazu...

  anthony anyanwu   Piqued by alleged marginalization policy of the Imo state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who has severally schemed him out of the party for unknown reasons, the Emekuku-born oil magnet and former Minister of Interior, Captain Emmanuel Iheanacho has said that he will defy odds to run the 2015 Governorship election in PDP.   Impeccable source close to...

Ikenna Collins   Imo State Government has been grossly accused of paying lip service to its much taunted free education programme in the state school system.   Apart from lack of qualified teachers in the system, there are also evidence of lack of teaching aids in majority of the schools even as Governor Rochas Okorocha has continued to point at school development as...

    Ahead of tomorrows annual May Day celebration in Owerri, the Imo State Capital, discordant tunes and mutual suspicion have taken over the organized labour unions as the leaders and various affiliate unions are at daggers-drawn.   The source of the altercations is the planned honour award to the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha by the Nigeria Labour Union, NLC, as part...

  More revelations have continued to emerge over the controversy surrounding the leadership struggle rocking Adapalm Landlord Association. ADAPALM Landlord Assocation is the umbrella body of host communities where the Imo state owned down stream sector Adapalm, christened Imo Palm Plantation.   It would be recalled that the Imo State House of Assembly is enmeshed in war of attrition with a government...