Chief Philip Ibekwe has joined a dozen of other aspirants to declare for Imo governorship for the 2019 general elections on the platform of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. Chief Ibekwe who hails from Ahiazu Mbaise Local government area said his decision to throw his hat into the ring for 2019 Imo governorship was inspired by the need correct alleged anomalies inflicted on Imo people by the APC government. Chief Ibekwe vowed to sanitize the education sector and diversify the economy of the state for improved production and job…
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Imo Guber: Araraume’s magic wand saves APC, Imo from Okorocha’s 3rd term plot-Nwosu
Going by what transpired at the recently held All Progressive Congress APC, stakeholders forum in Owerri, Imo State capital, excited party members are currently upbeat that at last the burning passion of Gov Rochas Okorocha to plant his in law as his successor may have been quenched. Besides this, it is also been bandied by members of the party that the new lease of life being enjoyed by the party can be attributed to the doggedness and never say die spirit of Senator Ifeanyi Araraume and other well meaning leaders…
Read More2019: Much ado about re-ordering of election sequence
The recent action of the National Assembly in re-ordering the sequence for the 2019 general elections has been in the front burner of national discourse in the past few weeks. This has been so considering that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had earlier scheduled the order or sequence of the 2019 elections to begin with the presidential election first. Understandably, therefore some interests who have been uncomfortable with the re-ordering of the elections with the presidential election now scheduled to hold, last, apparently jumped into the ring for what…
Read MoreThe danger in blocking your prayers
This is your chance and may be your last chance to take positive action in this life-deciding matter. Stop blocking your prayer through sin. Stop being a hindrance to yourself through faithlessness and other wickedness in your life. The people you will read about in 2nd Kings Chapters 1-7 received answers to their own prayers, because they possibly removed the blockade of sin and unfaithfulness from their lives. All the people that pitiably perished like the foolish soldier in Chapter 7, Gehazi in Chapter 5 and others that suffered there…
Read MoreRelegation of God among politicians
Without equivocation, I want to take a stand on one of the issues that provoked this piece. And that is Governor Rochas Okorocha’s consistent authoritative submission that Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Araraume “will never become Imo Governor”. To me, it is an overstatement which smacks of pride and places God on relegation from control over the affairs of men. There is no ambiguity in the above introductory scripture. It is simple and self explanatory. But for some who are not conversant with their Bible, there might be a reason to ask…
Read MoreGroup hails Imo speaker on fuel pump price
The Imo State House of Assembly speaker, Rt. Hon. Acho Ihim has been commended for working hard to revert the prices of petroleum products in the state to official federal government approved products prices. According to a release signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the speaker, Mr. Marcel Ekwezuo, the Onyeaghalanwanneya Youth Movement, OYM, Ngor-Okpala LGA praised speaker Acho Ihim for his determination to enforce the federal government approved petroleum price in Imo State. Mr. Ekwezueo stated that the commendation was enshrined in a letter written by the association…
Read MorePolice harassment: Ihiagwa petitions Imo CP
The people of Umuokwu Dindi Ihiagwa Autonomous community in Owerri West Local Government Area Imo State have written a strongly worded petition to the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chris Ezike over alleged incessant harassment by policemen in his command. In the petition, dated March 15, 2018, addressed to the Imo State Commissioner of Police, signed by Chief Nze Vincent Oparaugo, Mr. Chukwuemeka Agoziem and Ezinna Sir Sam Ajoku, which copies were made available to news men, pleaded with him to investigate the matter so that he will call his…
Read MoreImo Guber: 11 wards in Oguta endorse Madumere
The APC Ward executives in 11 wards of Oguta L.G.A have paid a solidarity visit to Prince Eze Madumere, the Deputy Governor Imo State, at Malinda Achi-Ezi Mbieri, his country home recently. The leader of the group Hon. Timothy Onyeoma, told the Deputy Governor that they came to identify with him, as it is clear that he is the most qualified candidate that can succeed Governor Okorocha come 2019. Hon. Onyeoma further stated that the group, rained other well-meaning Imolites to ask Madumere to consider and decide to heed to…
Read MoreDiaspora-Ogwa youths support Nnataraonye’s re-election
Moved by the purposeful representation of the people of Mbaitoli state-constituency in the Imo House of Assembly by Hon.Ifeanyi Nnataraonye(Olugbu),the Diaspora-Ogwa Youth Association, a consortium of Ogwa youths living abroad has approved the re-election bid of the state lawmaker and indigene of Ogwa clan ahead of the awaited 2019 state House of Assembly election. A communiqué issued to newsmen, last week in Owerri, signed by the state coordinator of the youth organisation, Comr. Earnest Nnanna and secretary, Mr. Celestine Ejiofor, noted that, the youth group deemed it most-necessary to assist…
Read MoreOrlu lawmaker charges constituents to register, collect PVC
The member representing Orlu state constituency at the Imo state House of Assembly, Hon. Marcel Odunze has urged the people of the area to come out in their numbers to register in the on-going Continuous Voters Registration exercise and to collect their PVCs. He stated this during the INEC local government level town hall stakeholders meeting held at the Council Headquarters last week. Odunze noted that the only way the people can vote in the 2019 general election was to register in the on-going CVR exercise and to collect their…
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