The prelate of Obiekpere Ndigbo and presiding Bishop, Friends of Jesus Global Mission, Owerri, His Lordship, Rt. Rev Dr. Maglorious Enyioha has called on the United States Organization (UNO) to urgently intervene in the prevailing state of insecurity manifesting in the forms of unbridled insurgence, civil disturbances, inter-tribal clashes, religious intolerance and unwarranted killings by security operatives and unknown gun men ravaging all parts of Nigeria and general frustration among the people. According to Bishop Enyioha, the highly dreaded state of insecurity which has placed the country into a hypertensive…
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Protest: Host Communities To FUTO, Stop Cutting Corners, Leave Our Ancestral Land Alone
Host Communities to the Federal University of Technology ,FUTO, Owerri ,Tuesday May 18,sent a warning to the institution to steer clear of their Federal Government excised land or face the wrath of the communities. They issued this order during their massive peaceful protest against FUTO on the excised expanse of land which the University had before now laid claim to, though there was no compensation on the land by the institution. Speaking to newsmen during the protest at the excised Land which has been mapped out for a well built…
Read MoreEx-Imo First Lady- Udenwa Lauds LAOF St Mulumba Nigeria
A former First Lady, Prof (Dame) Theresa Agbonma Udenwa, has commended the Ladies of St. Mulumba Nigeria, Owerri Metropolitan Council, on their Think Thank Project Speaking last Sunday at the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church Parish Mbato,Isu LGA Imo State, on the Conferment of the “Charity Partners(Ome Ogo Award on her by the Ladies of St. Mulumba Nigeria Owerri Metropolitan Council. The event coincided with the Official handover of the Key Ceremony to their third house, built and donated to Mrs Maria Ajoko of Umuezeofor Umudibi Ekwe, Isu LGA, Orlu Diocese.…
Read MoreTension In Owerri-Onyewuchi Calls For Restraint
The Senator representing Imo East Senatorial district, Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi has expressed dismay at the spate of violence in Owerri amid recent reports of harassment, extortion and maltreatment of the civilian populace by Security Agents. He has also noted with deep concern the sporadic shootings in some parts of Owerri. He observed that this has further exacerbated the tension, fear and apprehension among residents. He therefore urged Security agencies who are duty bound to maintain peace and order to adhere strictly to the rules of engagement and show due regard…
Read MoreAnglican Priest Sells Land to Build House For Widow
…Uchehara: It’s joy fulfilled It was all jubilation in the sleeping Umuezeala village in Eziobodo in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo state, as the Anglican Church commissioned a six bedroom bungalow for an indigent widow, Mrs Patience Eke. The house was built by an Anglican priest, Rev Uchenna Uchehara. Rev,Uchehara, an indigene of Eziobodo autonomous Community, Owerri West LGA, is serving as the Assistant Chaplain to His Grace, Most Rev Isaac Chijioke Nwaobia,the Archbishop of Aba Province and Bishop of Isiala Ngwa South Diocese in Abia state. The…
Read MoreImportance Of Peace To Person And Nation
By Chuks Osuji It has been established that the greatest possession of a man or a nation is peace. It has also been confirmed by statements by some great world leaders that peace and tranquility are two important components of national pleasure, comfort and happiness. For example, it has been said by Winston Churchill, Second World War prime minister of England that,”It is better that we jaw-jaw instead of War-war.” The importance of peace as a universal componanet of tranquility in development cannot be overstressed. It has been said that…
Read MoreImo Command Arrests 4 Suspects For Burning Okigwe Police Station.
Imo state police command, weekend, disclosed that it had arrested four suspects in connection with the razing of Okigwe south area police command headquarters. It will be recalled that some armed hoodlums,on April 26,invaded and attacked Okigwe South Police Area Command headquarters where Five Policemen were gruesomely killed while others sustained injuries. Imo state new Commissioner of Police,Mr. Abutu Yaro said last Friday that when the armed hoodlums left the station, some “unscrupulous youths of the community stormed the Area command building and looted the station arms and ammunition and…
Read MoreEmele lauds Uzodinma On Payment Of Imo Workers’ Salaries
Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodimma on Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon Mrs Ruby Emele has commended the governor for capturing more civil servants in the recent payment of workers’ salaries. According to her, this gesture by the governor means that he has a listening ear and is committed to the welfare of not only civil servants, but Imo people in general. She said with the development, a few people are yet to be captured, which is why the noise of non-payment has since died down and…
Read MoreSouthern Governors’ Meeting: Right Step in Right Direction.
For the very first time in the history of independent Nigeria, governors of the Southern Region of the country met in Asaba, Delta State ,last week. Before the governors came together, it had appeared that such gathering was unthinkable because of much touted age long mistrust and unhealthy rivalry between South West and South East flanks of the region. But, seemingly acting out the wise counsel of the third President of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson who said :” I admire the dreams of the future more than…
Read MoreImo Vendors Set To Drag Imo Government, IGP Baba to Court
The last may not have been heard of the recent arrest and brutalization of Imo Vendors and Newspaper Distributors as authoritative sources within their circle have revealed ongoing plan to drag Imo State Government and the acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba to court. Nigeria Newspoint gathered that the aggrieved vendors and distributors are planning to press fundamental rights abuse charges against the parties over what they described as illegal and unconstitutional arrest and beating of their members while carrying out their legitimate business. Recall that operatives of…
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