Imo Trumpeta newspaper

Samuel Ibezim       The Imo state House of Assembly yesterday passed a motion compelling the state Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Chief Judge of the state, Imo state Judicial Service Commission and the National Judicial Council to appoint twelve new judges in the state. The motion which was sponsored by Honourable Eudora Igwe representing Ideato North in the State House of Assembly and...

By Innocent Onyekwu/Chijoke Hilary       A new chapter has been opened in the ongoing controversy trailing the sack of 27 Local Government chairmen by the Owelle Rochas Okorocha Administration. This time, the battle has moved from the legal to the political front, as Imo APGA, yesterday, claimed that the PDP working in concert with the presidency have perfected plans to remove Governor...

The International Electrical, Electronics and Automobile Market site at Naze/Nekede Owerri West LGA, received a boost when the Imo State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Ichie Uche Best Mbanaso, pledged the support of the state government for the speedy completion of the International market, which he described as the first and the best in the entire South East. Hon Mbanaso...

There are strong indications that the Imo state House of Assembly has waded into the confusion over the payment of salaries and allowances of elected Local Government Chairmen, Councillors and Development Area Co-ordinators and their members. According to Imo Trumpeta checks, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly Rt. Honourable Benjamin Uwajumogu last week during a meeting with Local...

  The appointment of Hon Stan Dara by the Imo State House of Assembly to head the Peace Committee to resolve the face – off between the Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and elected Council Chairmen, has come under heavy attack by Imo people. Many of those who spoke to Imo Trumpeta said that Hon Stan Dara has more sympathy for the...

The Imo State House of Assembly, Tuesday, threw it support for the creation of an additional state in the South-East. The House said that the zone is over due for more states, Moving the motion on the floor of the House, the Chief sponsor, Hon. Acho Ihim and 13 others, said that the South-East geo political zone deserve to have more states. In...

The rumoured ambition of Senator Hope Uzodinma to join the Imo Governorship race in 2015 has pitted him against the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. However, Senator Hope Uzodinma has reacted through one of his Aides, Mazi Chinasa Nwaneri that he is not interested in Imo governorship in 2015, but would support any candidate produced by Owerri Zone. This...

Chairmen of Three Local Government Areas in Imo State, namely, Engr Ikenna Elezieanya, Owerri West, Kevin Nwanaforo, Ideato South LGA, and Prince Ikegwuruka, Ohaji/Egbema LGA have denied Newspaper reports and rumours making the rounds that the trio have joined Gov Rochas Okorocha’s camp. Speaking to Imo Trumpeta separately in Owerri yesterday, they described the insinuation as not only wicked propaganda,...

  In apparent reaction to the recent radio announcements and text messages signed by the Commissioner for Information, Imo State, Chinedu Offor, inviting chairmen and councilors to the Local Government Service Commission for payment of May 2011, and July 2012 salaries, the councilors in Ohaji/Egbema and Njaba legislative councils have asked the state government to apply caution in its action. In...

Sharp criticisms has come the way of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, over the Oguta re run election in four wards which produced Hon. Eugene Dibiagwu of the PDP as the winner of the election.   The INEC boss, was accused of reversing himself after nine commissioners in INEC had allegedly signed that no...