Imo Trumpeta newspaper

  By Kelechi Okpaleke Racketeering is simply organized crime.  Official racketeering is therefore a criminal abuse of office. Imo is bedeviled with very high unemployment and underemployment rate, simply because Imo remains basically a rural state with no industrial sector.  Consequently, on the average, over 90% of tertiary institution graduates in the State never return back to the State to reside after...

    Several months ago, I wrote an article entitled, “crude politics indeed.” The kernel of that analysis was to discuss the attitude of those who prefer not to see any type of relationship between members of PDP and those of APGA. My conclusion was that those who indulge in such political thinking are playing crude politics. Admittedly, our political sophistication is...

By Noble Praise, Abuja The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission, Mr. John Kennedy Opara has disclosed that 2013 Easter Pilgrimage Exercise would kick off on the 25th February, 2013. Mr. Opara who made the disclosure in his office at a press briefing, stated that one of the setbacks witnessed by the Commission was the flood incident that prevented 10 states...

  Imo state governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha has inaugurated a 14 man Imo merit award committee. The committee has His grace, Most Rev. Cyril okorocha, Anglican Bishop of Owerri Diocess as its chairman, while chief Goddy Dike, the permanent secretary, ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism as its secretary. Other members include chief Sir Bon Nwakanma, Barr. Mrs. Victoria Eronini, chief...

  The chairman, Imo state oil producing areas development commission , Rev. Emma Ebomuche has urged students to take their studies serious in order to succeed. Rev Emma Ebomuche, Spoke when a group of students under the umbrella of ISOPADEC Student Association paid him a courtesy call in Owerri. Rev Ebomuche urged the students not to look upon their background because...

  By  Innocent Onyeukwu   It was a gathering of who is who in the social, political and economic sector of the federation as men and women who have excelled in their chosen fields of human endeavour gathered at the family compound of the Oparaugo’s of Umuororonjo village in Owerri municipality to witness the funeral of Elder Dame Alice Nwawueze Oparaugo (Nee...

By Gozie Ben 08037901004 The establishment of Imo State Traffic Management Authority IMSTMA, by the Okorocha administration through the instrumentality of the Imo State House of Assembly, IMHA, Law No; 14 of 2011 is another milestone recorded by the administration that deserves commendation from all and sundry. The laudable ideal which is aimed at curbing the mind- boggling traffic...

    Anambra state government is soon to introduce a monthly welfare package for non pensionable elders in the state. The wife of the state governor, Mrs Margaret Peter Obi who stated this in Awka however clarified that only elderly persons who have attained the age of 75 or above would benefit from the package. The occasion was the celebration of the...

  I began this commentary last week but was forced to pause and relax till this weekend, no thanks to lack of space in the Trumpeta pages for that Thursday edition. For those who were not able to grab last Thursday’s edition, my narration centred on the Fourth-Tier Government of Owelle Rochas Okorocha christened, Community Government Council, CGC. The CGC is...

Many years ago, before the advent of Paracetamol, APC was the medicine for headache, stomach-ache and indeed, all aches and pains. Today Nigeria has a headache, a bellyache and all known and unknown aches and pains. The good news is that we know the cause of most of these aches. Diagnosis? Corruption and the poor leadership in the past 14...