Imo Trumpeta newspaper

The Enugu State government has introduced mortuary taxes, which it said is not to generate revenue but to discourage people from taking their dead ones to mortuaries. In a circular, the Enugu State Internal Revenue Service (ESIRS) approved the tax in line with the provisions of section 34 of the Birth, Deaths and Burials Law, Cap. 15 Revised Laws of...

    A medical practitioner, Dr. Uchenna Uchegbu, has dragged his brothers including Hon. Kyrian Uchegbu, the Imo State representative in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to court for denying him share of their father's landed property. The defendants in the suit pending before Justice Obinna Nwachukwu of Oguta High Court and marked HOG/59/2022 are Chief Bartholomew Uchegbu, Nicholas Uchegbu, Hon....

…APC SOUTH EAST VICE CHAIRMAN EXPRESSESS APPRECIATION ….AS HE VISITS UMUCHIMA GULLY EROSION SITE   By Onyekachi Eze  The years of indifferent feelings by the natives of Ideato North and South Local Government Areas of Imo State may have come to an end following a reprieve for the reconstruction of the main access road to the area from Orlu/Mgbee/Umuchima/Akokwa/Uga express road by the...

Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri has addressed recent media reports on staff appraisal and placement, reassuring that procedures followed established National Universities Commission (NUC) guidelines and directives from the University’s Governing Council. The University's management, led by Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Stella Ngozi Lemchi, clarified that appraisal and placement guidelines for teaching and non-teaching staff were developed to ensure...

The usual saying, "good name is better than gold" is currently playing in Imo State as Federal Ministry of Justice in collaboration with Imo State Ministry of Justice have moved to implement some sections of Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2020,a proposed law sponsored by the former member for Oguta State Constituency in Imo State House of...

A grand ceremony was held today by the community and political stakeholders of Ideato Federal Constituency in honor of Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State. The event, which took place in Umuchima autonomous community of Ideato South, was organized to appreciate the governor's intervention in addressing a severe erosion menace that threatened to disconnect the federal constituency from the...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again lamented the state of Nigeria, noting that the nation has squandered God’s gifts. Obasanjo said at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Methodist Archdiocese of Abuja on Sunday that Nigeria was never meant to struggle.  “We have all we need to thrive,” the former Nigerian leader stressed, echoing the message of Methodist Prelate Dr Oliver...

Details of how suspected unknown gunmen attempted to break into the Ehime Mbano LGA in Imo State with an intent to set it on fire but repelled by soldiers have been received. Ehime Mbano LGA has been in the news for wrong reasons for a while until two days ago reports of gunshots in the area filtered in. It would be...

  By Peter Uzoma   The people of Amato Orogwe in Owerri West woke up last Tuesday morning to behold a horrendous sight of scaring ritual items under the staircase of an uncompleted building at the entrance of a site popularly called Ogbuehi avenue    The items discovered were three brand new Ghana-must-go  bags, an egg, two pieces of one thousand...

The alleged act of embarking in handing crazy bills and outrageous charges to consumers in Imo State have led the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC in trouble as the power providers has been dragged to court. Overtime, consumers in the state have been crying out over alleged  "crazy bills and outrageous charges" perpetuated by EEDC who have refused to provide...