Imo Trumpeta newspaper

By Onyekachi Eze  Organized Labour in Imo State, comprising the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, has disassociated self from the purported "thank you" rally being planned for the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Recall that Trumpeta had earlier last week reported of plot from government quarters to coerce State Civil Servants into embarking on solidarity march on...

By Onyekachi Eze  Apparently not wanting to be left in the lurch in the battle for the soul of Imo State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, the state governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is applying all mechanisms at ensuring that what the opposing Allied Forces, the coalition working against his interest does not work. It would be recalled that in the...

  BY Onyeananam Chidinma Ahead of the 2019 general elections, the Dankwambo Presidential Project, DPP, Imo State chapter last Friday inaugurated the new executive council members of the chapter saddled with the responsibility of ensuring Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo’s victory at the 2019 Presidential polls, under the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The event which took place at De Legend Hotel,...

  The people of Owerri Zone; the landlords of Owerri Capital City; have been badly short-changed; and; indeed, sidelined, in the allocation of power resources of Imo State, since the State was created in 1976. All the lands, properties, businesses, markets; I mean, everything that belong to Owerri indigenes, have been taken away from them by the Rochas government. They have...

A frontline journalist, Sir Kelechi Mejuobi is attracting the attention of Ohaji/Egbema State Constituency youths who want him to join the race for the Imo State House of Assembly. The youths, under the umbrella of Ohaji/Egbema Patriots, OEP, after a careful assessment of those said to be warning up to run for election requested Mejuobi to throw in his hat...

Respite finally came the way of the former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Sir Jude Agbaso, in his legal battle against a former Imo State Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prince Marshall Okafor-Anyanwu. Last Thursday, a Lagos High Court held Okafor-Anyanwu liable in libel to Agbaso five years into a protracted legal battle. This is contained...

By Okey Alozie Irregularities, alleged frauds and malpractices are said to have trailed the council polls primaries of the Imo APC faction known as Rescue Mission group otherwise ascribed as Governor Rochas Okorocha’s followers. Reports from the Twenty Seven (27) Local Government Areas of Imo State show that it was only the chairmanship position primaries that was agreed to be conducted...

There are very strong indications that the planned 14 July, 2018 Local Government Elections in Imo may not after all hold if the recent motion filed by the democratically elected local Government Chairmen, Councilors and LG political Office holders who still claim that they ire in office is anything to go by. Documents made available to our judicial desk confirmed...

    Tunji Adedeji The internal crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Imo State has assumed a disturbing dimension as it chieftain and the convener, Imo APC Restoration Coalition and former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Dr. Theodore Ekechi , last Thursday allegedly escaped assassination. Speaking to journalists at his Umugboma estate residence, Owerri, Imo State on Saturday shortly after the...

  By Onyeananam Edmund-Victor The interim President general of Owere communities Assembly, OCA, Hon Dr Sir. Christian Oweaya Anukam, Agbawo Dike Izu Owere over the weekend, held a crucial meeting with an enlarged executive council of presidents and secretaries of age grades to fastrack the grand finale of Oru Owere festival. According to information made available to newsmen, prior to the meeting,...