Imo Trumpeta newspaper

  Apparently irked by the mannerImoStatefunds are being spent by the present administration, the state chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria may drag the state Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha to anti – graft bodies in the country. The ACN in a statement released to media houses in Owerri and made available to Imo Trumpeta last week stated that a “total...

An indication that the 4 tier government, otherwise known as Community Government Council, CGC, is very dear to the state expertrate farmers are in the state to inculcate their farming system in the various autonomous communities. The state governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha made this known recently during a media chat with publishers in the state. The governor who requested for...

-          The Government of Imo State has moved against the Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, (NUJ),ImoStatechapter, Mr Innocent Igwe, by posting him toAba,AbiaState. According to information available to Imo Trumpeta, Mr Igwe, who is under the employment ofImoState, as a staff of Imo Broadcasting Corporation IBC, has been posted to itsAba commercial office inAbiaState. Mr Igwe, who was elected...

  The residents of Egbu community in Owerri North Local Government Area,ImoStateare not only mourning but angry over the beheading of one of their own, Mrs Evelyn Uzodinma. Mrs Uzodinma, a native of Ofuzo, Egbu, was said to have been beheaded while in her farm. According to the husband, Mr Nat Uzodinma, the wife met her untimely death last Friday when she...

In this report, Imo Trumpeta special correspondent, Kingsley Amaechi, was at the Government House Owerri to witness Governor Rochas Okorocha’s one year in office celebration. May 29, 2012, will remain indelible in the heart of Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. It was a day that marked his one year in office as Executive Governor of Imo State. The Governors first...

On the 29th of May 2012, Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration clocked one year in office. Within this one year, the government formulated and implemented a lot of policies, programs and projects. Traditionally, it is always the practice that at such occasions, government only extols its achievement more for political reasons. Most a times, government does not give an unbiased...

GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH OLYMPIC STANDARD STADIUM By Chibuzor Munonye. An Olympic standard stadium is to be established alongPortharcourt Road, Owerri by the state government. The Commissioner for Youths and Sports Hon Kenneth Emelu who disclosed this while commenting on the one year in office of Hon Kelvin Amuka representing Ideato South in the state legislature, noted that the stadium would be used...

The European championship in Polandand Ukrainewill be the 4th time that the competition has been held. It was the brainchild of Henri Delaunay, the secretary of the French Football Federation, who first came up with the idea of a continental competition in 1927. At first he had little support and it did not start until 1960. Before 1980 only four teams...

  Ex – international, Ndubuisi Opara the current chairman of YSFON (Eastern Region) and Imo state chapter has been decorated with a special award for his selfless efforts and contribution for the development of sports among the youth especially at the grass root level. This decoration was made by the National president of YSFON, Alhaji Nasairu Dawuna in conjunction with the...

Penultimate week in Ghana, Nigeria’s West African neighbour, a football match was going on at the National Stadium Accra and the flood lights went off. The stadium manager was sacked the next day. That is in a country where things work! Had such an embarrassment taken place in Nigeria, nothing would have happened. The stadium manager would still be...