Imo Trumpeta newspaper

A new dimension was on Sunday added to the organization of the annual Mock – Nations cup as Naira Stake Entertainment concluded arrangements to partner with members of the local organizing committee (LOC) to add glamour to the competition. Speaking with ‘Imo Trumpeta’ immediately after the opening game of the tournament on Sunday the company’s representative here in Owerri Mr...

Heartland Football club of Owerri is set to abolish the contractual monetary agreement with players tagged “signing – on fees” from the next season. The team for the large part of the season suffered a riotous time from the players basically on the signing – on fees for the outgoing 2011/12 Nigerian Premier League season. Only 20% of the agreed signing...

Luck was not on the side of a four – man kidnap gang who met their waterloo at Umuapu a border town ofOhaji/Egbema LGAofImoState. The rampaging gang who invaded the sleepy town ofUmuapuin the evening hours succeeded in carting away two victims but their operation ran into a hitch as they could not move their captives out of the town. According...

The opposition political parties inImoStateare at each others throat now following the free “donation” the Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha made to them yesterday, after the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties CNPP visited the Governor at Government House Owerri. Our sources said Gov Okorocha invited the parties, under the aegis of CNPP, Imo State Chapter, to rub minds with them on...

By Casca Ohanele The Catholic Arch Bishop of Owerri Archdiocese, His Grace, AJV Obinna has said that the handing over of the 11 general hospitals in Imo State to a Muslim Northerner, by the administration of Gov. Rochas Okorocha, should not be a thorny issue if due process was followed. The respected cleric made the remark while addressing newsmen in his...

By Bright Eluagu       A frontline politician and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Ikeduru LGA of Imo state, Hon. Earnest Iwuji has described the member representing Ikeduru/Mbaitolu Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Hon. Bethel Amadi as a visionary and pragmatic leader. Hon. Iwuji made this known, while interacting with Imo Trumpeta, Thursday, on the activities of Bethel...

Many Stakeholders in Ezinihitte Mbaise have debunked the recent allegations by the Community Speaker of Owutu Autonomous Community Chief David Nwoko against the Imo state Commissioner for Special Duties Dr. Ifeanyi Nwachukwu. It would be recalled that the 24 August 2012 Edition of Weekend Trumpeta carried a story where Chief Nwoko was quoted to have among other things, accused Dr....

Residents of Owerri, the Imo state capital were tensed yesterday morning when heavily armed policemen and armoured tanks took over strategic positions in the state including the premises of the Imo State House of Assembly. At theAssumpta Road, otherwise known asBank Road, an armored vehicle with police escort was a surprise visitor on the road in the morning as anti...

    These are not the best of times for staffers of the Imo Water Corporation, IWC, who have resorted to hunger strike to express their displeasure over the decision of the state government to cater for their welfare. According to the union leaders of the troubled government agency “we have no option than to embark on hunger strike over Gov Okorocha’s...

By Innocent Onyeukwu       The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)ImoStatechapter may be uncomfortable with certain aspects that may lead to the conduct of the Local Government election inImoState, following its conspicuous absence at the recent parley between the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission and the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) held last Monday. Though the parley was at the behest of the...