Party Merger: Ojukwu Warned Us Against Merger – APGA Leader
By anthony anyanwu
Interim Imo State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Hon Dr. David Iwuagwu has taken a swipe at the purported merging of APGA with All Progressive Congress, APC, saying that Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu warned the party against that.
Speaking in Owerri, Honourable Iwuagwu explained that the party has never taken any collective decision on the merger issue....
Report Corrupt Traffic Officers – IMSTMA Boss
The Chief Executive Officer, Imo State Traffic Management Authority, IMSTMA, Chief Don Linus Onwukaike has urged road users in Imo State, who witness shoddy deals among the officers of the establishment to report such fellow at their office located at Old Secretariat Building, Okigwe Road, Owerri.
Speaking to Journalists in his office yesterday the Chief Traffic Officer disclosed that this...
Imopoly Student Feared Dead .After Gunshot Attack in School
As the country is still grieving over incessant gunmen attack believed to be orchestrated by Boko Haram extremists in the Northern parts of the country, tertiary institutions in Imo State may turn to war zone if Tuesday’s event in Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo-Ohaji, is anything to go by.
There was pandemonium and confusion in Imopoly campus, Umuagwo, when unknown gunmen...
No Going Back on April 27, 2013 LG Polls in Imo – ISIEC
The planned April 27, 2013 Local Government election in Imo State will go on as scheduled as the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission is bent on holding the polls on the said date ISIEC Chairman, Barr Teddy Akwari made the disclosure recently when a group, Concerned Citizens of Igbo Race (COCIR) paid him a courtesy call at ISIEC headquarters,...
OKOROCHA’S ENDLESS TORMENT OF 106 EZES.
By law, the responsibility of creating autonomous communities in Imo State and indeed the entire South Eastern States rests with the State House of Assembly. The selection of an Eze is the business of autonomous community concerned. On selection, his people under the umbrella of the town Union presents him to the Local Government Council. The local Government Council...
St Rochas, Angel Agbaso and the People’s Parliament
At the wake of the inglorious N458m bribery allegation leveled against the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Sir Jude Agbaso, by a probe committee of the Imo State House of Assembly over abandonment of road projects in the state, I joined in the media ruckus that have characterized the unfolding drama. In my earlier write-up titled; Agbaso and JPross...
IMO: AGONY OF A PRIVATIZED STATE BY ETHELBERT OKERE
When a few months ago agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested some functionaries of the Imo state government over alleged financial irregularities, hell was let loose. The governor, Chief Okorocha, went bisark. He accused his so-called enemies for master minding the arrests and in a baffling betrayal of a desperate attempt to cover-up the matter,...
AN ENCOUNTER WITH ACHEBE
By Nnamdi Nwigwe
nwigwennamdi@yahoo.co.uk
G.S.M: 08037024609
The news about the death of Chinua Achebe hit me in a very personal way, coming exactly a fortnight of the burial of my eldest brother, Benji, as his Owerri contemporaries called my own “head of states,” Ben C. Nwigwe.
Achebe had come to mean so much to me, almost as a brother, since we had a...
Youths take over Lagwa Community, Restore Peace in the Area.
Anthony Anyanwu
Worried at the slow pace of development in the ancient Lagwa town occasioned by tussle for leadership, the youths under the aegis of “Lagwa Reality Youth Organization (LARO)” has seized power from the warring factions.
Investigation by Imo Trumpeta Newspaper revealed that the factionalization of the of the town is occasioned by the struggle for the soul of the...
Newly Appointed SOLAD vows to Restore Peace in Ehime Mbano
By Kelechi Ugo.
The newly appointed sole administrator of Ehime Mbano Council Area of Imo State, Hon. (Lady) Chioma Ogoke has articulated her plans to ensure that peace reigns in the area.
Leady Ogoke while assuming duties at the council headquarters Umuezeala on Monday charged every aggrieved person in the council area to sheath his sword that she remain agent of...
