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Okorocha Orders Sack of 65 ICAPS Staff .Disengaged Workers Lament Favouritism, Sexual Harassment

    Sixty five staff of the Imo State College of Advanced Professional Studies, ICAPS have been ordered sacked by the instruction of the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha.   Imo Trumpeta learnt that most of the staff who were disengaged without pay were given sack letters dated 27th February, 2013, which took effect from February 28th, 2013.   However, it was discovered that some...

Heads to Roll in Imo Exco .As Okorocha Moves after Agbaso’s Loyalists

    Following the adamant stance of the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Sir Jude Agbaso that the law, transparency and due process must be followed to the letter in the plot to remove him from office, his Boss, and the Governor of the state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is said to have adopted new tactics in the whole affair.   An impeccable source...

AFTERMATH OF AGBASO’S IMPEACHMENT PROCESS: RACE FOR DEPUTY, OKOROCHA SHOPS FOR AGBASO’S REPLACEMENT, EZE MADUMERE, UGOCHI NNANNA OKORO, KACHI NWOGA, JUDE EJIOGU, UWAJUMOGU SHORTLISTED.

  Even as the impeachment process initiated by the Imo state House of Assembly over allegations of bribery scandal is jet to be completed, the state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is reported to have begun a search for a new second in command in the government leadership organogram. Following altercation that erupted between the Okorocha and Agbaso family over the...

AHIAZU DAGS DECRIES SLOW PACE OF ROAD CONSTUCTION

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...

BRITISH MP COMMENDS ORJI KALU ON FIGHT FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE

  By Austin Oboh Snr Correspondent, Lagos   The arrowhead of Britain’s opposition and Member of Parliament (MP), Ed Miliband, has urged a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, not to relent in his quest for the enthronement of good governance in Nigeria. Miliband, who spoke at the launch of Diversity Group of the British Labour Party in London, United Kingdom,...

GOVERNOR OKOROCHA COMMESURATE WITH KANO STATE OVER BOMB BLAST

The executive governor of Imo state, His Excellency Owelle Rochas Okorocha on behalf of the good people of the state sympathize with the government and people of Kano state and families of those that lost their lives and properties in the recent bomb blast at Kano motor park. The attack is not only barbaric but utterly evil, callous, condemnable and...

trumpeta sports

  Sports   Eagles Spurred by Liyel Imoke’s larges as Keshi  U.J    Esuene pitch high.   As the super Eagles (Afcon Champions) get set to engage the Harambee stars of Kanye in Saturdays Brazil 2014 world cup game, the players on Wednesday relieved amoral boost by the Cross River Government Liyel Imoke.   Governor Imoke while receiving the Afcon trophy at the Government House in Calabar...

Ex-convict case Ilomuanya Floors Imo Assembly

  Hon Justice Paschal Nnadi has declared that the Chairman of South East Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya is not an ex-convict as against the resolution of the Imo State House of Assembly.   Ruling in Owerri High Court, Justice Nnadi ruled that a declaration that the allegation that Ilomuanya is an ex-convict without fair hearing is a breach of...

No Going Back on Agbaso’s Impeachment, Imo Assembly Insists .Sets out Procedure for Operation of 7-man Committee

    Despite the setback encountered in the impeachment process initiated against the Deputy Governor of Imo state, Sir Jude Agbaso by the state legislature, as the Chief Judge of the state, Hon Justice Njemanze failed to inaugurate a 7-man panel requested by the Imo Assembly as enshrined by the constitution to further investigate the matter, the lawmakers are bent on...

Battle for Imo LGAs ALGON Appeals to Police against SOLAD Incursion

    In apparent bid to avoid casualties arising from skirmishes over struggle for who calls the shot in the Local Government Areas of Imo state, elected Chairmen and Councilors under the umbrella of Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON has appealed to the Nigeria Police, Imo Command over the breach of agreement reached at the Commissioner of Police office...