2015 Guber: I Am Not In The Race For Negotiation -Onyeagbako
A prominent politician in Imo state and one of those who have declared intention to run for the 2015 governorship election, Chief Charles Onyeagbako has declared that he is a serious contender for the number one position in the state.
Addressing media executives at his Okwu-Urratta country home at the weekend, the lawyer-turned politician opined that his rich political pedigree...
Ahead 2015 Party Primaries Delegates’ List Splits Imo PDP Leaders It Is A Fake Exercise, Says Party Spokesman
Even as the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Imo State, are four months away, a list of those who will elect the aspirants to become candidates is said to be out, even before the delegate elections could hold at the various political wards in the state.
The purported list is said to have emanated from the PDP state...
Struggle For Chairmanship Of Ndi Eze Imo Again, Court Stops Ohiri, Recognises Ilomuanya .As Owerri High Court Dismisses Eze Imo’s Claim
By victor madumere
Again, the legally and constitutionally recognized chairman of Imo State council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya as pronounced by the appeal court, has floored the governments acclaimed and recognized chairman Eze Samuel Ohiri at the high court, as Ohiri's case was dismissed with a five of twenty thousand naira to cost to the defendant.
Delivering the judgment,...
Anumudu Dedicates Ambition To God, Promises N100m Loan To Journalists
By kelechi ugo
Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Obazu Mbieri, Mbaitoli LGA of Imo state was electrifying last Sunday when Barr. Humphrey Anumudu dedicated his Governorship ambition to the Almighty God after declaring to join Imo guber race come 2015 in his political ward.
Barrister Anumudu as a household name in Imo state political terrain and he had contested to become the...
One Year Anniversary Bishop Okpaleke Barred From Mbaise Land
There was tension in Mbasie on Sunday 25th May, 2014 as speculations heightened that few pro Bishop Okpaleke indigenous priests and few traditional rulers and their supporters are making plans to sneak in the prelate into Mbaise to mark his 1st anniversary.
In a peaceful process and high level contacts, Mbaise Catholics and their indigenous priests, religious, traditional...
Political Reporting And National Integrity
By nnamdi nwigwe, nwigwennamdi@yahoo.co.uk, 08037024609
With the approach of Presidential and gubernatorial elections in 2015, and the current scheming by ambitious politicians to position themselves for specific political offices, we are witnessing a rash of new newspapers and a plethora of hack writers masquerading as journalists and “political analysts.”
Unfortunately the profession of journalism is one that very easily sprouts...
Sport
NEK United Striker, AjokuChidebere Joins Prime FC
Owerri- West born diminutive but hard fighting striker Chidiebere Ajoku who last played for his LGA team in the Samuel Mary & Dame-Emily Obiyo YSFON organized Football Competition and the ongoing CGC Cup has joined a Nigerian National League (NNL) side Prime FC of Osogbo for the rest of the season.
The move is...
Onyeagocha Goofed On Ohakim Re: Onyeaguocha Alleges: Ohakim Burnt His House To Attract Sympathy.
By Chinyochaobi Israel, 08137921022
This explosive joke captured the front page Headline of Nigeria HORN Monday May 19-20, 2014. My take is that he who alleges must prove! To the respected Uche Onyeagocha, this blunt but enigmatic, charismatic former Owerri Federal Constituency representative stirred the honest nest by the above unorganized wordings, against Imo's Ochinanwata. But my respected Owerri senate...
Life After Death (part 2) Concept Of Immortality Of The Soul
(Continuing from last week) Majority of various ancient civilizations, faiths (religions), customs and traditions, scholars and mystics agree that there is a form (at least) of life after death since they believe in the theory of the immortality of the soul. This leads inevitably to the question: “where are the spirits of the dead?”.
Many pagan customs and traditions...
2015 and Imo Charter of Equity
As we count down to the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC's) deadline for the submission of names of the various candidates of the political parties in the 2015 general elections, it is important that we ponder a while over the Imo situation.
According to that INEC deadline, all primaries of the political parties should have been rounded off by October...