Imo Trumpeta newspaper

Today is just one week after the news filtered into town that the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha was involved in an auto crash while on his way to Orlu. The news came to me as a shock, haven seen the Governor at the venue of Action Congress of Nigeria ACN, National Congress the previous day at Onikan...

All is now set for the flagging-off of the multi-billion Naira Mbaise  Ngwa road ring attracted by Senator Chris Anyanwu, the Distinguished Senator representing Owerri Senatorial zone. According to press statement signed by Mr. Everest Ezihe, Media consultant to the ranking senator, the ceremony will comes up by 11am this Friday at Afor Ogbe Junction in Ahiazu Mbaise Council area...

  By Ikenna Orioha he beneficiaries of Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P_ in Orlu Iga have been inaugurated. The ceremony took place at the residence of Chief CaniceMoore Nwachukwu, the Orlu local government co-ordinator of SURE-P, on the 24th April, 2013. “You are hereby inaugurated as members of SURE-P Chief Nwachukwu assured. Speaking at the inauguration Chief Nwachukwu said the program...

By Onyekachi Eze The People of Umuna/Uzubi have been assured of government resolve to ensure that the issue of flooding in the area becomes a thing of the past. The Sole Administrator of Orlu LGA, Chief Barr. Hyacinth Mbachu gave this assurance when the people of Umuna/Uzubi town development union, Owerri branch called on him at the council's headquarter, Orlu. Chief...

  Who is who in Nigeria are expected today at Isinweke in Ihitte Uboma LGA, Imo State, as the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha joins his inlaws to bury his younger sister, Mrs Natachi Onyinye Ben-Chukwuma.   Before her death, late Mrs Ben-Chukwuma was a staff of Federal Inland Revenue Service Abuja. A graduate of Linguistics...

    A palpable tension is hanging on the air at Awo-Omamma, Oru East LGA, following the fate that has befallen one of their own, Hon Osita Nnewuihe whose Mercedes Benz car was involved in an accident with the Convoy of the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha who had minor head injury during the incident.   As at this morning, the...

    By Onyekachi Eze   Over the last month, the Onitsha/Owerri express road has become a death trap for motorists and passengers alike that statistics is gradually loosing count on the actual number of deaths on the ever busy highway.   Recently, another road mishap was reported at the Awo-Omamma section of the express road involving an ITC bus, a Conoil tanker, and a...

    Former Transition Council Chairman of Aboh Mbaise LGA, Imo State, and House of Assembly candidate of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN during the last election, Chief Allan B Onyemaechi has replied the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, on the purported suspension from the party.   In a letter made available to Trumpeta dated April 20, 2013 and addressed to APGA Ward...

    Despite the break being experienced by the members of the Imo State House of Assembly since they impeached the former Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso, to observe the Easter, the Speaker Rt. Hon Ben Uwajumogu is restless over emerging developments working against his office.   Trumpeta exclusively gathered that following recent exposures made concerning a meeting between the Speaker and some...

I Hate Watching  Football- Okorocha The alleged Travails and fund starvations being experienced by players and management of the Imo state football team, Heartland Football Club of Owerri, may not be unconnected to the recent statement of the governor of the state Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Governor Okorocha at an induction ceremony of the Owerri Club recently, pronounced his hatred for watching the...