Imo state Governor, Rochas Okorocha, says the crisis rocking the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is beyond repair. The governor made this comment while receiving the party reconciliation committee led by Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, and Godswill Akpabio, a senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west, at the Imo International Convention Centre (IICC), Owerri, the state capital. overnor Okorocha said he honoured the meeting because of his relationship with the two party leaders but the situation at hand can no longer be managed. “Let me make bold…
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Owerri North NUT Chairman puts smiles on faces of retirees
On the 28th day of November 2018, Comrade Kennedy Opara the NUT North Branch Chairman celebrated his one year in office in grand style, he elected into office on 4th December 2017 in a keenly contested election which he won with large margin of votes over other contestants. On assumption of office he maintained an open door policy which endeared him to all teachers in the Local Government including the Association of Secondary School Principals in Owerri North (ANCOPPS) and Association of Headmasters/Headmistresses in the Local Government. He established…
Read MoreImo governorship: AA also rejects Nwosu, as Okolienta holds tight to ticket …Drags INEC, Party, Nwosu to court
The governorship candidate of Action Alliance, AA in Imo State, Sir Leonard Uzoma Okolienta has maintained that moves by Ugwumba Uche Nwosu to take away the Party’s gubernatorial ticket from him cannot work. Sir Okolienta made this ascertion to newsman weekend at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport Owerri when he arrived from Abuja, the nation’s capital. Describing the move by the Ex-Chief of Staff to Governor Okorocha as effort in futility, he insisted that with the whole money in the world, he cannot trade the mandate freely handed to…
Read MoreNkwo-Ngwa fire: Otti rebuilds market,as Aba residents renew support for APGA
The swift intervention of Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, which is expected to midwife the reconstruction of the fire ravaged ancient Nkwo-Ngwa, situated along Obohia road, Aba, Abia State, has been lauded by the traditional ruler of the community, HRH Eze (Barr) Ishmael Ifeanyichukwu Nnakwue and residents of the area. Dr Otti, who incidentally is the Abia State Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2019 general elections, made this promise while addressing the traders that thronged to receive him during an unscheduled visit to commensurate and…
Read MoreAlleged defection: DPP rejects Nwosu,as he opts for AA to vie for Imo guber
These may not be the best of times for Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, ex-Chief of staff Gov Rochas Anayo Okorocha’s anointed successor as speculations making the rounds have it that his next alleged preferred political party, Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, has rejected him. Nigeria Newspoint learnt that the party’s hierarchy has turned down proposals tabled before it by the governor’s son-in-law as part of the process to defect to the party and contest the 2019 Imo governorship election on the party platform. It was reliably gathered that the state leadership of…
Read More2019: Bayelsa NUJ sets up committees for general elections, reconciliation
Comrade Samuel Numonengi, Chairman Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bayelsa state Council, has inaugurated seven working committees with a charge to deliver on their mandate. Comrade Numonengi while inaugurating them in his office at NUJ Press Centre, said setting of the various committee’s became necessary in order to collectively achieve the aims and objectives of the present administration. Terms and refrence for the various committee’s according to the chairman include, reconciling of aggrieved members, training of journalists ahead of the 2019 general election as well as to ensure the training and…
Read MoreOrlu Youths rally support for Nwadike, berate detractors
Orluzurumee Youth Assembly, OYA, in Owerri, yesterday November 26, debunked allegations making rounds that the former National President of the organization, Comrade Precious Nwadike who is the rallying point of Orlu youths is fueling crisis in the organization. In a release issued in Owerri and signed by the National Secretary, Comrade EbereOkeke, the Union said, “that her attention has been drawn to a baseless and embarrassing publication” on the social media accusing their former National President who is currently a UPP Senate candidate for Orlu Zone, of collecting the sum…
Read MoreWhy Buhari is angry with Rochas
When Adams Oshiomhole was elected as the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress in June this year, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State was exultant that his mission of foisting his son-in-law as his successor was accomplished. When also one of his protégées, Chief Emma Ibediro, was elected in a very controversial manner as the National Organizing Secretary of APC, Okorocha, in his heart could have concluded that no Jupiter or a man born by a woman could stop him as long as Imo APC was concerned. Alas, he was…
Read MoreImolites flay Rochas over N1000 cash gift to 3yr-old
Imolites have criticised Gov Rochas Okorocha for giving one thousand naira(N1000) cash gift to a three year old boy in Owerri, weekend. According to an eyewitness the governor was in Douglas last Saturday ostensibly on inspection of his urban renewal projects when incident took place. It was learnt that in the process of the inspection the governor had come across the child and the mother and in display of his fabled love for the poor stretched his hands and carried the child. However, countenances of onlookers who were watching the…
Read MoreDisregard election debate fraud of expired Cttee, Imo journalists warn politicians.
Members of the Nigeria Union Journalists, NUJ Imo Council have warned political parties candidates and other individuals who may want to be part of a fraud being packaged in the name of election debate by an illegitimate group masquerading as NUJ executive to desist from doing so. The council members who strongly faulted and condemned the election debate fraud being championed by some elements under the guise of Imo NUJ caretaker committee made it abundantly clear that the body is unconstitutional, illegal and therefore is indulging in illegality to dupe…
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