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USA ’94 Eagles To Honour Yekini In Ibadan Today

  Samson Siasia, and other ex-national team players have indicated their readiness to honour late Rashidi Yekini in a memorial game slated to hold at the Lekan Salami Stadium, Ibadan, Oyo State today. The late footballer's lawyer, Barrister Jibril Mohammed Olanrenwaju, in a brief chat, disclosed that the Nigeria Football Federation donated two sets of jerseys and balls to the Rashidi...

.May Day, Celebration .Rochas Disappoints Imo Workers, Pensioners .Keeps silence on promotion, Entitlements Workers. .Engages Sacked Imo Indigenes in Aba as Ad hoc staffers.

This year’s May Day Celebration in Owerri, the Imo State capital, ended on a sour note for employees of the state Government who were disappointed that their worries and expectations were not properly addressed by the state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha.   Prior to the celebration of this year’s Workers’  Day in the state, promotion of civil servants welfare packages like...

Imo Wonder JPROS Back to Project Site Begins Work on Abandoned Warehouse – Nworie Road

    In what could be described as a surprise move, work has resumed at the controversial warehouse – Nworie lane road project as earth running machineries have commenced construction works.   Imo polity was severally shaken few weeks ago over alleged bribery scandal that rocked the contract awarded to JPross International Limited. Even as the crisis led to the impeachment of the...

Imo PDP Raises Alarm Over Flooding in Owerri .Urges Okorocha to Complete Ring Road

  The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Imo State Chapter has raised a serious alarm that Owerri, the state capital is at the mercy of flood as the raining season sets in, except Gov Rochas Okorocha completes the ring road which the administration of the PDP started.   In a release by the Party signed by its Publicity Secretary, Chief Blyden Amajirionwu, PDP...

Aftermath of Oversea Medical Treatment Okorocha’s Return Tears Aides Apart, .As Madumere, Anwuka, Ejiogu Battle for Supremacy .Imo Governor Declares He is Fit and Sane to...

  While many Imolites were jubilating over the return to Imo State by Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha from oversea treatment, after a minor auto crash, his top Aides were busy engaging in battle of supremacy.   An impeccable source informed this Newspaper that Governor Okorocha, who arrived the state via PortHarcourt International Airport, on Monday night, was received on arrival by only...

Before Imo Celebrates “Freedom Day” (Part 1)

Available news releases oozing from Government House quarters in Owerri, Imo State Capital indicate that every May 6 will be marked as Freedom Day. According to the State Government, it marks the day the Great Imo Rescuer and Commander General of the Imo Rescue Mission, His Excellency, Owelle Rochas Okorocha braced all odds to become fifth civilian Governor of...

‘Northernization’ Of Nigerian Government

It is startling to learn that Nigeria produced Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote who has overtaken the Morrocan Mo Ibrahim. Guess what, Dangote is planning to build a refiner at the cost of USD $ 9 billion and it should be sited in the north supposedly, that is by the way. Yours sincerely crave the indulgence of the readers...

IMSTMA And Traffic Control In Imo State

Gozie ben 08037901004 The establishment of Imo State Traffic Management Authority IMSTMA? by the Okorocha administration through the instrumentality of the Imo State House of Assembly, IMHA, Law No; 14 of 2011 is another milestone recorded by the administration that deserves commendation from all and sundry. The laudable ideal which is aimed at curbing the mind- boggling traffic situation across...

Trumpeta Sport

Team Play Plus Discipline Equal Success _Sam Obugh Bussdor United Football Club, onTuesday went a step further to announce the rebirth of the onetime Pro-League side, when it qualified for the Imo State Federation/Governors Cup final. In the first semi-final game played at the Dan Anyiam  Stadium, the team eliminated hard fighting Police Machine on penalty 4  3  after the normal...

Needed, A State Of Emergency Over Jobs

By Richard dirim odu 08033374378 When former governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, came up with his 10,000 jobs offer to wearied unemployed youths of the state, one did not need a pair of binoculars to see the tinge of politics in the project. Smart as he was, the former governor had seen the frustration in the younger generation who...