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Editorial; Impeachment of Deputy Governor: Beyond Posterity and History

    Last week, the Chief Judge of Imo State, Justice Benjamin Njemanze inaugurated the 7 man Committee charged to unravel the allegation of N458 scam slammed on the Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso.   This is coming on the heels of a similar Committee constituted by the House of Assembly, which has since given its verdict against the Deputy Governor. The Committee...

AHIAZU DAGS DECRIES SLOW PACE OF ROAD WORK

Contractors handling 15KM State - Local Government joint road projects in Ahiazu Mbaise LGA have been charged to redouble efforts and ensure completion of the roads before the rainy season set in. The LGA Director of Administration and General Services (DAGS), Chief Innocent Ekwueme gave the charge in a meeting he held with them at the Council Headquarters, Afor Oru. He decried the slow pace...

Achebe’s demise a colossal los to Nigeria, Igbos- Okorocha

The Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has expressed shock over the death of literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe. In a statement made available to Imo Trumpeta and signed by Ebere Uzoukwa, SA (Print Media), Okorocha , he described Achebe’s demise as a colossal loss to Nigeria and Igbo nation, having contributed eloquently in the education sector and overall nation...

Hon AMADI ADVOCATES PEOPLE CENTERED POST 2015 MDG DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

The President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) and member representing Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru Federal Constituency in the Nigerian House of Representatives, His Excellency Hon. Bethel Amadi has stressed the need for future development agenda to be informed by democratic principles. Addressing a recently concluded African thematic consultation on governance and post 2015 development agenda held in Midrand, South Africa, sponsored...

THE SALT OF THE EARTH (1)

    THE INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIAN, as well as, the church (collectively) must justify God’s transferring the promises and blessings of the literal Israel to the church by being the salt of the earth: Jesus in Matt. 5:13 said to His disciples (which today include the individual Christian and the church by extension by all implications):   “Ye are the salt of the earth:...

ALAMEISEIYA’S PARDON: TRULY A SET BACK.

By Nnamdi Nwigwe nwigwennamdi@yahoo.co.uk G.S.M: 08037024609           One cannot stop wondering why our President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, with all the good luck that has trailed his political ascendency, appears to have been infested with horrible advisers, who seem not to care a hoot about the “corporate integrity” of this country or the image we reflect in some of the actions taken by...

Ohakim, Returning to Douglas House

By Prince Stanley Okoroji (08064378213) Around 600BC, the Heraclitus, an Ionian pluralist cosmologist and philosopher lanced his philosophical thesis that, “all of reality was in perpetual flux,” nothing is permanent; everything is constantly changing to the extent that one can neither breath in the same air again or step into the same flowing water twice; unchanged. The perpetual flux is the...

ROCHAS AND POLITICS OF FREE EDUCATION IN IMO STATE – Sir Roy Iwuala (07039096666) As Socrates once said, “an unexamined...

-     Sir Roy Iwuala      (07039096666) As Socrates once said, “an unexamined idea is not worth having, and a society whose ideas are never explored for positive error may eventually find its foundation insecure or completely eroded”. In a similar circumstance, President Olusegun Obasanjo said, “we must have the courage to tell ourselves what is immoral and unjust in order that...

Agbasos, Owerri Zone And The Hocus Pocus For 2015

Hocus Pocus is an American movie that showcases the celebration of hallowen.  Hallowen is a christian festival celebrated on October 31st each year in the United States where children dress up in attires and play “trick or treat”   But in the Hocus pocus movie, what should have been a festival of  treat turned out to be of tricks, horror...

Orluzurumee Boils Again .As factions head to court

    The crisis rocking Orluzurumee social-political organisation, has taken a dangerous turn, as one of the factions led by Chief Emeka Diwe has filed a motion in court seeking an injunction to restrain Chief Chime Nzeribe from parading himself as Chairman of the group.   The resort to legal fireworks by contending forces in the group further strengthens insinuations that the powerful...