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Assault On Bishop; Imo ANRP Chairman Sues For Peace

By Amaechi Kingsley The attention of the All Nigerian Renewal Party ANRP Imo State has been drawn to the alleged ugly and sacrilegious incident that occurred last Saturday, March 3rd 2018 at the funeral mass of late Lolo Ezinne Eziada Juliana Mbata. A release made available to Trumpeta Newspaper, Archbishop AJV Obinna incurred the wrath of some alleged incensed Imo government...

Okorocha Sacks Mbanaso For Joining Opposition Against Uche Nwosu’s Guber Race

Indications are that Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha has parted company with one of his best confidants, Ichie Best Mbanaso. Trumpeta learnt that Okorocha has sacked Mbanaso as Adviser on Market Developments. Mbanaso’s problem stemmed from the meeting he attended in Umuoye, Imerienwe, in the residence of a former Okorocha’s Commissioner, Dr TOE Ekechi, where a Group called APC Restoration...

Rural Road Revolution; Govt. releases more Funds to Contractors, Commissioners, TC Chairman Accused of Embezzlement

By Okey Alozie. Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas last week released more money for the road contract projects in the 27 local government areas in the State that are still ongoing. Information available to us revealed that over 80 percent of the road project money have now been released. Moreover, the Governor has now given the contractors marching order to complete their...

Plot By Imo Govt. To Collect N6m from Communities Hit Rock, As Youths Threaten Mayhem

By Okey Alozie The fresh plan by Imo State Government to collect Six Million Naira N6m Development levy from each autonomous communities in the State may not succeed in the rural areas as youths are opposed to it. Our reporter who moved round the rural communities observed that they young men have vowed to resist any plan of Imo government to...

Akuzie warns Imolites against fielding wicked successor to Okorocha

  A former Isiala Mbano House of Assembly candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria in the 2011 election, Engr. Chima Akuzie has warned the generality of Ndi Imo against the dangers of allowing a wicked man to govern them in 2019. He made this known to newsmen in Owerri, the Imo State capital, where he maintained that Ndi Imo...

“NGWOMAGATE”: Bishop Obinna And the Other Gods

Thunder, they say, does not strike twice. But in Imo State, it does. Take it or leave it, the failure of the regime of His Excellency, Chief Ikedi Ohakim to return to power in 2011 for a second term was majorly as a result of the fictitious story that he flogged a Reverend Father. All that Ohakim did to clear...

SUSTAINING THE NEW MOMENTUM IN APGA BY JOHN UCHEOMA

The just concluded state-wide sensitization tour of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the unprecedented acceptance of the party across both the eastern region and Nigeria in general by various leaders as the party with the needed potentials to really wipe the tears off our people, give them a sense of belonging and bring prosperity and development to...

HUMPHREY ANUMUDU AND THE CALL TO SALVAGE IMO

BY JOHN UCHEOMA One thing that all Imolites are settled on is that the state is in dire need of astute leadership to deliver it from the state of confusion poor leadership has brought it into. Nigerians all over the country agree with this as well. This is why, as 2019 is fast approaching, everyone in this state is very...

2019 Elections, Parties and the voting values Chief Barr. Humphrey Anumudu APGA’s Voting Values-Lumenze Michael

A critical survey of the political parties in Nigeria will but make one to wonder the sanity in a country having about sixty four parties. Developed countries like America, Britain, France, Russia, etc have limited numbers of parties, principally based on ideology, China and some other informed countries develop a party based on their socio-cultural needs. Here in our...