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Obulimba Unity Cup comes to a Coloureful end, as Irete emerge new champs   The second edition of the Obulimba Owerri-West Unity Football Competition came to it's Crescendo on Sunday April 7, at the police Training school field, Umuoma-Nekede. The final of the football tournament which was powered by Hon. Obulimba Innocent Ekeh (Master Cheff), the Hon. Member representing Owerr-West LGA at the...

Let’s Go Surfing!!!

Fellow Nigeria, lets go surfing for Sundry issues. We will touch on a few topical matters, the things that at times threaten to raise our blood pressure and some other times make us laugh, yes laugh at our misery. Mine is going to be a top/bottom approach and not bottom/top approach a' La' Governor Rochas Okorocha. My top/bottom approach...

Amnesty To Boko Haram, Insult On Nigerians

Amnesty implies a political pardon or forgiveness for a felonious crime against the state. “It is a period of time during which people can admit to a crime or give up weapons without being punished”- (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary). This word amnesty has occupied a greater space of public lexicon as one of such widely applied refrains in the political...

Storage of Objects and Collections In The Museum

The International Council of Museums (ICOM), which is the umbrella body of all the museums in the world, defines a museum as “ a non- profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, and open to the public , which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, material...

Unmasking the CGC Monster in Imo

As a social commentator and political analyst maintaining a regular column in a local tabloid, the Trumpeta, my responsibility is to highlight on issues affecting the locality and have a stake on contemporary matters and current developments. There is no gain saying in the fact that in trying to undertake this mental task I stand the risk of picking on...

Editorial

Sleep Disorders and Good Health Recently, one of the renowned neurologists at the College of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Professor Njideka Okubadeju warned Nigerians about some adverse health conditions resulting from inadequate sleep. In a lecture: Good Sleep, Healthy Ageing at the 3rd Edition of World Sleep Day, she further affirmed that sleep and good health are closely...

With few weeks remaining for the present administration to clock two years in office, the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has employed subtle means to win the support of the masses again as the polity begins to change gear for the next general election.   Okorocha’s campaign antics came to the fore last weekend when he embarked on strategic movements...

MD Naija Plaza Buried Amidst Tight Security

Security was last Friday beefed up in Oguta urban as the remains of the Managing Director of Naija Plaza hotel, Engineer Emeka Aseme was committed to mother earth. Engr. Aseme was abducted from his hotel premises in Oguta on February 24, 2013 by gunmen who also shot and killed two policemen who were on duty in the hotel. His corpse...

Judges Told To Be Fair In Their Duties

Judges have been advised to be fair and courageous in order be able to carry out their jurisprudence without fear or favour. Dr Livy Uzoukwu (SAN), gave the advice at a public presentation of “Essays on contemporary Issues of Law”, written by the Hon. Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Imo State, Barr. Soronnadi A. Njoklu, held at Ikemba Ojukwu Convention...

Iwueke Foundation Visits Motherless Babies Homes In Imo

Comfort iwueke foundation visited motherless babies homes and distrubuted essential items to widows, aged, physically challenged and less privilege, people living with HIV and AIDS and the vulnerable Children in Imo State on the 4th, 6th, and 7th of April 2013. The C.E.O of comfort Iwueke foundation, Lady Ebere Iwueke said that the programme was slated to mark the memorial...