As part of his effort to help small scale businesses in Owerri zone grow and become sustainable, Hon Ezenwa Onyewuchi has rolled out an intervention programme christened “business support initiative.” The lawmaker who flagged off the programme Tuesday June 19 2018 at Orji, Owerri North LGA with the donation of over 100 generators to businessmen […]
By Chidinma Onyeananam Following an earlier report carried by this newspaper concerning suspected uneasy calm in the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, community, over who will become the next Rector after the tenure of the incumbent, the management has come up to allay fears stating that there is nothing like interference or interest from any quarter. Trumpeta […]
The call on a frontline Journalist, Sir Kelechi Mejuobi, to declare interest for the Ohaji/Egbema State Constituency of the Imo State House of Assembly, in 2019, has received a boost with women from the area coming up with their own demand for him. It would be recalled that a group of youths drawn from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
With the APC coalition in Imo, otherwise known as Allied Forces, making desperate efforts to consolidate gains garnered so far after the State Congresses, a picture of who gets what has started appearing even as the group plots how to scale the convention hurdle against the camp of Owelle Rochas Okorocha in Abuja. Trumpeta can […]
Tunji Adedeji The National Industrial Arbitration Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State on Monday fixed 21st June ruled on a preliminary objection brought by the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission ISIEC chairman, Rt Hon. Amaechi Nwoha seeking to stop the State Government from relieving him of a tenured job as the chairman of ISIEC until […]
The reputation of members of the Imo State House of Assembly appears to have received a scratch again as President Muhammad Buhari overrules their submissions on autonomy of the state legislature and the judiciary. President Buhari late last weekend signed into law a Constitution Amendment Bill that provides for Funding of State Houses of Assembly […]
Their desire of the Imo State government to change the formula of holding elections at the local government levels from wards to autonomous communities system may be unrealistic following discoveries that many of the communities where the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission, ISIEC, would conduct election has no polling unit. The administration of Owelle Okorocha […]
