A support pressure group known as vote buying must go campaign organization has inaugurated their executives in Imo state to champion the campaign against vote buying ahead the 2019 general election. Speaking during the official inaugurationh held at Diamond Hotel Orji, the Imo state capital, the former governorship aspirant of Young Progressive Party, YPP in Imo state, Chief Patrick Ohajianya said that vote buying and selling has become an issue that have eaten deep in our democratic setting in the country. The former governorship aspirant described vote buying as a…
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Imo NUJ Elections: Police stops tomorrow’s illegal election plot …We’ll hold Isiguzo responsible for breakdown of law, order’ –Journalists
Tension is building up in the Imo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, following a purported scheduled election of the union on Saturday December 22 ,2018, which does not comply with the provisions of the constitution of the union. In a petition written to the Commissioner of Police Imo State Command, dated December 17, 2018, and copied to the Department of State Services, DSS, the journalists who are also contesting elective positions in Imo NUJ, accused the National President of NUJ, Comrade Christopher Isiguzo of trying to…
Read MoreVP Osinbajo, Oshiomhole to grace Uzodinma’s flag off in Imo today
The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and APC vice presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo and the APC national Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomole are expected in Imo today to grace the official flag off of Sen. Hope Uzodinma’s 2019 governorship bid. Addressing the newsmen in Sen. Hope Uzodinma’s campaign office, Hon. Barr. Kingsley Onunuju said that the APC governorship candidate in Imo State, Sen. Uzodinma will declare for the Imo plum job today at Dan Anyiam Stadium, owerri. According to him, the governorship ambition of Sen. Hope Uzodinma…
Read MoreBlack Christmas: Imo pensioners tricked again, get only one month pay “This is height of inhumanity” Plans to protest Inspite of bailout fund
Imo pensioners are in a sad mood as Christmas remains three days away, following the inability of the state government to clear their heaps of arrears of pensions even with the recently released of #12 billion Paris Club Refund from the federal government . The pensioners who hinted that they only received one month pension out of years and months of arrears, also revealed that they may embark on a serious protest any time from now, to express their total disappointment over the development. The principal secretary of the Nigeria…
Read More2019 N276b budget, grand design to drown Imo deeper into debt
The Ihedioha Campaign Organization wishes to alert the people of Imo State and Nigerians at large that the 2019 budget of N276 billion presented to the Imo State House of Assembly (IMHA) by Governor Rochas Okorocha, is a hoax that will not only see Imo State finally sunk in the ocean of debt but indeed mortgage the future of the State and the people. Accordingly, Governor Rochas Okorocha 2019 budget framework for Imo state is a mixed bag of comic strips, tactlessness, deceit, and a charade designed to further under…
Read MoreImo Guber: Endorsement galore for MAJA party governorship candidate, Osuji
As political parties and their candidates strategize on the way forward, ahead of the 2019 elections, one candidate who seems to be enjoying mass acceptance, support and solidarity of a cross section of the Imo electorate, is the governorship candidate of Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) party, Barr. Aloysius Osuji, who has been endorsed by various individuals, communities, organizations, professional bodies and interest groups, as the most qualified and credible person to occupy the Imo State governorship seat in 2019. The Okigwe Road campaign office of Barr. Osuji, was agog…
Read MoreImo government confers grand chancellor of Imo State on Iwuanyanwu
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has been Confered with the title of Grand Chancellor of Imo State by the Imo State Government. Performing the ceremony at the Heroes square, Owerri, Imo State Governor Ouellette Rochas Okorocha said that Engr Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu deserves every honour accorded him in life. He said that, Chief Iwuanyanwu has contributed immensely to the socio – economic development of the society. He described Chief Iwuanyanwu as a great philanthropist, a humanist and a great leader of our time whose generosity knows no bounds and his leadership qualities in…
Read MoreUgwuanyi presents N109.199bn 2019 budget
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State on Monday presented a budget proposal of N109, 199 billion for the 2019 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly for consideration and passage. Presenting the 2019 budget proposal tagged: ”Budget of peace, equity and prosperity”, Gov. Ugwuanyi disclosed that the appropriation bill was 5.44% higher than the 2018 budget of N103,563 billion. The governor added that the increase was in keeping with his administration’s promise last year to expand its expenditure vis-à-vis projects and programmes of the state as the economy of…
Read MoreReps: Aboh Mbaise/ Ngor Okpala unite for Emereonye
Indigenes of Aboh Mbaise and Ngor Okpala Federal constituency from all walks of life and across politically party lines last Tuesday, converged at the Town School play ground, Enyiogugu, Aboh Mbaise local government area to demonstrate their love, solidarity and endorsement for the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate for the 2019 house of representatives election, Chief Okechukwu Christopher Emereonye as he formally, flagged off his electioning campaign. The day’s historic event kicked off with heroic boundary reception conducted by Aboh Mbaise and Ngor Okpala APGA party executives, chieftains and…
Read MoreNwulu pays N10m medical bills for indigent patients at FMC
The United Peoples Party governorship candidate in Imo State, Hon. Tony Nwulu, weekend, visited the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, to interact with some patients in order to ascertain their health conditions. Also, some of the patients who have been long discharged from the hospital, over six months who could not leave the hospital premises due to their inability to pay their bills were favoured at the visitation. A patient, Mrs. Ikechi Chinwedu, whose bill of N750,000, was also cleared by Nwulu after she delivered her triplets, through caesarean section…
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