Imo Trumpeta newspaper

Nigeria’s telecommunications giant, MTN, has reversed its 15G data plan 200 percent tariff hike. The company disclosed this in a statement through its official X account on Thursday. Recall that on Tuesday, MTN commenced implementation of a 200 percent tariff hike for the 15G data bundle alongside other data plans. The hike had contravened the 50 percent telecom tariff hike approved by the Nigerian Communications...

Former First Lady of Ondo State, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has said that she would not have been a widow if the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had listened to her. Mrs Anyanwu-Akeredolu stated this in an exclusive interview with StarNews Publisher, Olumide Akinrinlola, published on Thursday. Diagnosed with breast cancer 27 years ago, the former Ondo First Lady said her decision to seek medical care...

The educational promotion tactics of the lawmaker representing Onuimo State Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly,  Hon Chief  Uba James Esile has been described as an aggressive one aimed at defeating the backward syndrome in the area. A frontline member of the All Progressives Congress, APC Ordinand Prince Bright Ekwebelem who made this assessment while exchanging views with newsmen...

The attention of the Commissioner of Police, Imo State, has been drawn in a heart wrenching petition from FID Asika Ilobi & Co, under the instruction of their Client, Chief Barry E.C Nwigwe. The petition borders on the alleged harassment, ill treatment and extortion of eighty thousand naira (#80,000) from Nwigwe's son, Mr. Ikemefuna Emmanuel Nwigwe by unknown men adorned...

The stakeholders of Ohoba Autonomous Community visited the Special Adviser (SA) on Community Relations to the Executive Governor of Imo State, Dist. Sen. Hope Uzodinma, Hon. Deacon Ernest Oziri, on the 11th of January, 2025. During the visit, which took place at the office of the SA Community Relations at the Ahiajoku Convention Centre, off Owerri/Port Harcourt Road in Owerri,...

  By Okey Alozie  Concerned Imo people have expressed worry over the constant encroachment into Government lands and the destruction of the state developmental plan by land grabbers and fraudsters. Reports suggest, Railwayline running from Aba, Owerri  to Onitsha to be among the development plans that were taken forcefully  by the land grabbers through encroachment and illegal acquisition of land. It was also...

Drama played out on Tuesday at the Senate Committee on Public Accounts as the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Suleiman Abdul was interrogated over 3,907 missing assault rifles, many of which were AK-47. The AIG, who represented the Inspector General of Police, listened with rapt attention when the representative of the Auditor General for the Federation read the 2019...

A former member of the Labour Party, LP, Kenneth Okonkwo has urged President Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi, and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to step aside from contesting for the presidential seat in the 2027 election. The  Nollywood actor-turned politician was a former spokesman of the LP presidential campaign team in the 2023 general election, working alongside Obi who flew the...

  The Nigeria Labour Congress has directed its members and Nigerians to boycott telecommunications services from Thursday, 13, 2025, following the implementation of a 50 percent telecom tariff. NLC stated that the boycott is expected to kick off on Thursday between 11 am and 2 pm till the end of February 2025. NLC disclosed this in a communique signed by its national...

The self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has been returned to the custody of the Department of the State Service, DSS, following the indefinite adjournment of his terrorism trial. Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday adjourned the matter sine die. The adjournment of the trial indefinitely followed Kanu’s...