Imo Trumpeta newspaper

BY BEN ONYEUKWU     The continued media discrimination that exist at the Radio Nigeria Heartland FM, Owerri against the Pentecostal Churches has really assumed a worrisome dimension, since the issues raised by the writer on the matter, a few months ago seem to have fallen on deaf ears. To call a spade, a spade, there exist a subtle “contempt policy” which...

I am sure many writers may have written on this subject matter but I must confess that I have not read any.  If my line of thought as here expressed, had been voiced or written before now, it is either a coincidence or a confirmation that many of us are thinking alike. In the near past when all Nigeria Football...

The Mayor/Chairman of Owerri Municipal Council, Imo State, Chief Emma Odor has not only raised alarm over alleged plans by the state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to kill him, but has also stated the reasons. In a press release made available to Imo Trumpeta, signed by Odor and copied to Security Agencies, the Council hinted that Okorocha has not forgotten...

Politics of intrigues has continued to dominate the battle for who controls the local government councils in the state between the Owelle Rochas Okorocha led APGA government and the elected council chairmen of the PDP stock. The latest is that some council chairmen, (names withheld) have dumped the struggle to remain in office in place of their outstanding allowances and...

By Samuel Ibezim.       Three years to the next governorship election inImoState, former Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho says he is under pressure to take a shot at the Imo governorship seat in 2015. Iheanacho, told journalists in Owerri, last week, that aside pressure from well meaning Imolites, his achievements in public and private sectors, age and capacity ranks him above...

ImoStategovernor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha yesterday put to rest doubts over his administrations free education programme forImoStateindigenes at the tertiary institutions with the issuance of cheques to the students. Governor Okorocha during a parley with the Independent publishers association disclosed that with the signing of the cheques, that government will commence with the disbursement to the students within the next few...

The Stakeholders of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State has stressed the need for the party to work in synergy with Agenda Imo Rescue Mission to enable the party achieve its aim at the grassroot level. The Apex leader of APGA in Ezinihitte Mbiase LGA Hon. Josiah Ehuchie While addressing the stakeholders...

It is good news that the Senate has rejected the proposed introduction of N5,000 notes by the Central Bank ofNigeria, CBN.  The governor of the apex bank, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi shocked the nation with the decision that this highest denomination of the Naira will be in circulation next year. Surprisingly, the CBN is still convinced of its desirability when...

Sir Street Numbering I beg to observe that as a result of the massive development projects being undertaken by the Rescue Mission administration, government has diversified its internally generating revenue sources to include new heads and sub heads. This is the only plausible reason for street numbering at a fee of N5,000 per landlord in both urban and rural communities.  Government’s...

By Ibezim Samuel       The 2013 Annual Odenigbo lecture of Owerri Catholic Archdiocese would be delivered by Prof. Peter Ejiofor from Anambra state with theme, “Igbo Progress:  The Stand of Igbo language”.  The Odenigbo founder, Archbishop Anthony Obinna, announced this shortly after the successful delivery of 2012 Odenigbo lecture by Bishop Lucius Ugorji with the theme, “The Church:  A unifying force...