Imo Trumpeta newspaper

  Trouble is brewing in some of the Communities in Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta LGAs affected by the recent flood that ravaged the area.   At the centre of the controversy is the manner the committee set up by the Imo State Government intends to utilize the N400m meant to ameliorate the sufferings of flood victims in Imo.   While protesting that no meaningful Ohaji/Egbema...

  Governor Rochas Okorocha 2013 budget proposal to the Imo State House of Assembly has left in its trail a bitter war between the information and strategy Commissioner, Chinedu Offor and SA, (media) to the Speaker, Ikenna Samuelson.   Imo Trumpeta learnt that the genesis of the crisis was when Offor went on air to announce the invitation of all practicing Journalists...

  By Innocent Onyeukwu   The controversial Community Government Council election scheduled to hold on December 15, 2012 may not take place inOwerriMunicipality, following plans by the five villages that make up the area to boycott the polls.   Imo Trumpeta learnt that stakeholders in the area are angry with Governor Rochas Okorocha for not fulfilling his promise to “allocate” a Community Government Council...

  It is with mixed feelings that I approach this week’s topic. Since the 2011 General Election was conducted with some candidates emerging victorious and others losers, I have relegated the exercise and intrigues that characterized it to the dustbins of the past. I am only looking forward to 2015 for another chapter to be opened again in our political...

By John Mgbe,08032722897   Governor Anayo Okorocha has effected a sudden change in the top management of Imo State University: Professor B.E.B. Nwoko has been removed as Acting Vice Chancellor while Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie, the former National President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), is now the new Acting Vice Chancellor of IMSU. What immediately flashed through my mind was...

Aesop was a slave and a philosopher of note, he embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved in view of his logical cum allegorical way of presenting issues. In fact, his fame I must say is well deserved in our state now due to the correlating factor of his fables in...

        By: Nma Olebara & Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor   According to Obi Egbuna “culture is definition, he who define is your master. To let anyone define your culture for you is to make that person your master”. This signifies that when you accept another person’s definition of you, he becomes your master and you have to pay for his masterly definition of you...

  By Emma Okafor A lot of things have been said about Udenwa and 2007 election. There are some schools of thought who believed that Udenwa could not produce a successor after serving Imo State as Governor for eight years and the aftermath of that is what Imo is suffering today. Some believed that Ararume who was seen then as being...

By Reagan Obioma The Kpakpando Foundation, a non- governmental organization set up by senator Osita Izunaso has awarded scholarship to seven blind persons as part of the organization’s commitment to assist the less privileged. Speaking at the presentation of the awards in Owerri, the executive secretary of the foundation, Prince Denton Ogbuehi said the award is in line with the aims...

  Commissioned about six years ago, users of the Owerri/Onitsha Expressway ought to have been familiar with its usage by now. But this is not happening as many road users have continued to lose their lives in avoidable road accidents. The double lane highway has provisions on both sides for parking lanes in case one has to break his journey close...