The member representing Ikeduru State Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly, Amb. Uche Ogbuagu has asked citizens to always hold their leaders accountable if they truly desire an improvement in their living conditions. Amb. Ogbuagu gave the charge while speaking as the Special Guest of Honour at the 2019 Harvest and Thansgiving Service of St. Marks Military Church Obinze. He said it will only take the grace of God for the country to witness any meaningful progress if the citizens remain docile and allow leaders to run the…
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Free at last: Abducted Appeal Court Justice-Iheme released by kidnappers …Spent 15 days in kidnappers dungeon
At last, freedom of Hon. Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme of the Court of Appeal, Benin Division, who was kidnapped by some unknown gunmen along Benin-Agbor Road, Edo State, on October 30; she regained her freedom, Wednesday night, November 13, 2019. Details of the release and what really happened is yet to be made official and public. Nigeria Newspoint recalls that the Appeal Court Judge was kidnapped on her way to Benin on her official duty, while her police orderly accompanying her, Inspector A. I. Momoh, was shot and killed by the…
Read MoreDon’t ever feel inferior, Imo First Lady urges special citizens
Special citizens have been advised to engage in something meaningful in other to develop their potentials/dignity and be free from developing inferiority complex and street begging. The wife of Imo State Governor, Lady Ebere Ihedioha gave the remark during the 2019 Awareness week celebration of the United Imo State Deaf Women Association held at Ludan Hotels Ikenegbu Owerri. Lady Ihedioha ably represented by her special Assistant on Special Duties Hon. Mrs Louis Osueke encouraged the deaf women to shun inferiority complex and belief that they can also be what their…
Read MoreTETFUND: Imolites laud Imo Gov. for College of Education Enlistment
Imo Education Commissioner, Prof. (Noble Lady) Viola Adaku Onwuliri has commended Gov Emeka Ihedioha for the successful enlistment of Imo State College of Education, Ihitte Uboma as a Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) Institution. She made this disclosure during a working visit to the College recently. In her remarks, Prof. Onwuliri observed that prior to this new development, the immediate past administration had neglected the College and made no effort to secure it’s enlistment as a TETfund Institution. She therefore eulogized Gov Ihedioha for his doggedness in securing the enlistment…
Read MoreChina Roads: Ihedioha Blasts Imo Engineers, You Allowed Okorocha Destroy Imo Infrastructure In 8years …As Iwuanyanwu absorbs Buhari from Nigeria’s problems
Imo State Governor Emeka Ihedioha has blamed the member of NSE, especially those living in Imo for what he described as their lackadaisical approach in dealing with immediate past government of Rochas Okorocha as it concerns fake and substandard projects. Governor Ihedioha said as people who occupy strategic position in the country, it beholds on them to monitor all projects, be it state or Federal, to ensure that such project meets all regulatory standards adding that failure to carry out this sensitive role, NSE may be putting the lives of…
Read MoreUnmask masquerades behind Imo pension fraud, now
The word pension according to an English dictionary means a gratuity paid regularly as benefit, due to a person in consideration of past services, notably to one retired from service on account of retirement, disability or similar incidence, especially a regular stipend paid by the government to retired public officers. Almost all the countries of the world practice pension. There is no gain saying the fact that almost (if not all) cultures value old age and if one did not meet an untimely death, it will meet old age. It…
Read MoreImo Govt. will prioritize vocational, technical education -Onwuliri
Gov. Emeka Ihedioha has declared that his administration will prioritize vocational and technical education in order to tackle unemployment in the State. This was made known by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. (Noble Lady) Viola Adaku Onwuliri, during an official visit to the Imo State College of Education, Ihitte Uboma. Speaking further, Prof. Onwuliri revealed that the Rebuild Imo Government, had planned to achieve the foregoing, by revamping the four Technical Colleges in the State, hitherto neglected by the immediate past administration of Rochas Okorocha. While addressing the Management of…
Read MoreImo NURTW crisis: Group wants Ihedioha to continue with appointments
A group drawn mainly from the Control Post unit of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Imo State, has urged Governor Emeka Ihedioha to allow the Mbakwem-led state executives of the union to continue in office. The group which made the call Monday at the end of a meeting in Owerri, flayed those insisting on elections saying that the same people calling for elections became officers of the union in the past without going through any electoral process. Speaking on why Mbakwem popularly known as Bus-stop should continue…
Read MoreImo Guber: Appeal Court may refer to election petition tribunal’s verdict
The Imo state election petition tribunal panel that superintended over the governorship suit of the state critically dealt with evidences and petitions raised by the trio of Ararume, Hope Uzodinma and Uche Nwosu respectively as regards the declaration of Hon Emeka Ihedioha ( CON) as the winner of the Imo governorship election held in the state early this year. In the separate ruling of the judges which lasted for hours, the judges of the EPT extensively without bias carefully examined the petitions / evidence (s) before them and struck out…
Read MoreAPC Ahiazu closes ranks, unites all factions …Leaders tour wards to strengthen party
Despite the outcome of the 2019 general elections which did not augur too well for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State, the Ahiazu LGA chapter of the party, under the leadership of Engr. Bede Opara has resolved to put all issues behind and move forward to re-position and strengthen the party in their LGA so as to be able to win future elections and play a strong role in enthroning an APC-led stated government in 2023. Addressing party stakeholders at his country home in Ahiazu LGA last Sunday,…
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