Imo Trumpeta newspaper

Imo State Commissioner for Petroleum and Environment, professor Okee Okoro has charged community leaders and the political class in Ohaji/Egbema to ensure that a conducive atmosphere that will ursher in purposeful and meaningful Development of Ohaji/Egbema is maintained. The honourable commissioner who was responding to speeches by Interim Leaders of Ohaji/Egbema, All Progressive Congress (APC) on a courtesy call at...

By adedeji tunji & orji sampon It was a convergence of Imo Political stakeholders over the weekend when PDP stalwarts from the 27 LGA's in Imo state stormed the National Liason Office of President Goodluck Jonathan to deliberate on strategies that will ensure that Mr President declares for presidency come 2015. The assembly held at the South East, South South National...

By ohanele casca In what looks like an indictment on the Imo State Government, a Professor of law in Imo State University, Prof Uchefula Ugonna Chukwumaeze has said that the society can do away with a state government but can not do without the local government system. The Njaba born academic and legal luminary made this revelation while delivering a lecture...

Apprehension and fear have gripped most Aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP jostling for the Imo Governorship Seat in 2015, as the plan by Senator Hope Uzodinma to join the race has shattered the political equilibrium of the PDP as regards the earlier plan to zone the ticket to Owerri Zone. A reliable source told Trumpeta that the Senator...

The wide gulf developing between the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and the Agbaso family is entering a dangerous dimension with both camps drawing flaks and throwing jibes at each other. Prior to the 2011 general elections in Imo state, Governor Okorocha and the Agbaso family entered into political marriage that saw the patriarch of Agbaso family, Chief...

By orji Sampson All is now set for the second edition of the annual Mbaise Unity Lecture powered by Mbaise Consultative Assembly (MCA) an umbrella group of the Ezuruezu Mbaise social-cultural group that has the mandate to move Mbaise nation forward. The event which is scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 14 at Hilman Castle Hotel Afor-Oru in Ahiazu Mbaise Local...

By onyekachi eze Eighteen months after the untimely death of former Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, FUTO, Professor Celestine Onwuliri, the widow and Coordinating Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prof (Mrs) Viola Adaku Onwuliri is still in pains over the huge vacuum created in the family by the demise of the husband. It would be recalled that Prof Cele Onwuliri...

By peter uzoma Commercial and business activities were grounded yesterday in Owerri and other parts of Imo state as commercial banks operating in the state were under lock and key, no thanks to a tax-related disagreement with the state government. Residents of the state who had business transactions with the various banks and the bank workers scheduled for duties experienced a...

The rate of divorce in our contemporary Nigerian Society is rising by the day. Many marriages do not live up to the old religious flavor anymore. A time there was when couples vow before men of God and witnesses who have gathered to witness their weddings that "until death do us part". Many marriages start crashing even at the...

By tunji adejdeji Customers of the First City Monument Bank Limited have started reaping the fruit of banking with the one of the leading banks as winners from across the country emerged in the 1st zonal draw of the 3oth Anniversary Promo in Owerri Imo State. The draw conducted at the FCMB Co-orperate Office 81 Wetheral road Oweri were supervised by...