By Batos Nwadike Arthur Francis Nzeribe has come, seen and conquered. I met Arthur Nzeribe in 1987 at Oguta in his one story building country home on a street near the river that has a bridge that takes one to his present day Haven of Peace and Agwa ancient community( i was in that journey with Chief Joseph Agbahiwe) erstwhile chairman of all chairman of SDP in the Old Imo state. I was a teacher and youth leader and nursing the ambition to run as chairman of Nkwerre/ Isu LG…
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Town Union vows to fight drug sale and abuse
Newly elected President-General of Ndiokwu Federated Union, Elder Chidi Uneze, has vowed to rid the community of all points of sale of illicit drugs just as he stated that dealers in banned drugs and substances in the community would be reported to law enforcement agencies for prosecution. Elder Chidi Uneze, who made the vow shortly after his election as President-General Ndiokwu Federated Union, Ndiokwu Lorji, Aboh Mbaise LGA of Imo State, said the leadership of the union would work with relevant government agencies to make Ndiokwu Lorji drug-free, and warned…
Read MoreOwerri Senate: Anyanwu-Akeredolu Declares Interest To Run
…Says: She is fit for the position By Williams Odunze The Emeabiam, Owerri-West-born First Lady of Ondo State, Mrs.Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu has officially declared her interest to represent Owerri Zone at the Red Chambers in the National Assembly under the platform of All Progressives Congress,APC.She maintained that she is fit and capable for the position. Accompanied by different groups from Owerri Senatorial Zone to the APC State Secretariat in Owerri where She addressed the State Party Executives under the Chairmanship of Hon.MacDonald Ebere, the First Lady of Ondo State maintained that…
Read MoreOwerri Municipal Insistence On Anukam For Assembly Seat
By Austine Echereozo Recently I boarded a Bus Imo from Tetlow junction to the other end Tetlow that terminates at Wetheral near Ogboshishi. I was actually going to Nekede to meet a friend of mine that lectures as Federal Polytechnic Nekede. Before I entered the bus five persons were already seated, two middle aged men. A young man in his late twenties and two women of which by my calculations, one of the women of which by my calculations, must have sixty. I noticed that they were discussing politics as…
Read MoreReps Seat: Iwuanyanwu Explodes, Rules Out 3rd Term In Mbaike
…Flays moves to truncate agreement between the two sister LGAs A revered elder statesman and nationalist, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu (Ahaejiagamba) has condemned in strong terms the moves by Hon. Henry Nwawuba and his accomplices to truncate a gentleman agreement between the two Local Governments of Mbaitoli/Ikeduru regarding the seat of House of Representatives. Chief Iwuanyanwu, also known as Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo therefore ruled out the argument that there was an existing third term in Mbaike Federal Constituency, adding that Mbaitoli had gotten its share of the gentlemanly agreement when Hon…
Read MoreOrlu Senate Big Shoe, Not For All Comers
Orlu Senatorial zone, otherwise Imo West Senatorial zone is the second largest Senatorial zone in Nigeria after Jigawa(a certain senatorial zone in Jigawa is 14 LG’s). It is made up of twelve Local Government areas namely: Nwangele, Orlu, Nkwerre, Isu, Njaba, Oru East, Oru West, Orsu, Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta, Ideato North and Ideato South. It is a sub state in a state almost as big as Ebonyi and Bayelsa states. The authochotonous inhabitants of Orlu zone are mainly sedentary farmers and traders. As civilization opened up especially through British colonialism,…
Read MoreNkwerre: Satellite Communities Meet Reiterate Support For Uzodinma
…Set up 10 Man committee By Williams Odunze The Satellite Communities Leadership Forum,a Political group for Services and development of Nkwerre LGA has brainstormed on the way forward For Socio-Economic and Political development of the Area as they reiterate their support for the present administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma. At the end of the meeting which was well attended by Presidents General of the Communities, Traditional Prime Ministers, Selected Youths and Women Leaders, Former and present Government appointees and other Communities Leaders resolved as follows- That the Communities will continue…
Read MoreEuropean Union To Embargo Russian Oil By End Of The Year
By Alex Nwahiri More than two months into Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine, the European Union today announced an embargo on Russian fossil fuels , its biggest economic sacrifice yet to inflict pain on the Russian economy and Vladimir V Putin. The measure unveiled by the President of the European Union, Ursula Von Der Leyen, would ban Russian crude oil imports to nearly all of European Union in the next six months, and refined oil products by the end of the year. The embargo contained in the sixth round of…
Read More2023: Attempt To Hijack House Of Assembly Ticket From Mbieri Will Spark Grassroots Crisis For Mbaitoli APC, Ononuju Warns
A prominent leader in the All Progressives Congress, APC, Imo state, Owerri Zone and Mbaitoli Local Government Area, Barr Kingsley Ononuju (Ekwedashike) has cautioned that any attempt or plot to deny Mbieri bloc (Mbaitoli East) the chance of producing the Imo House of Assembly in 2023, would spark grassroots discontent which he said, could spell doom for the party in Mbaitoli local government and affect the micro-zonig arrangement in the area. Barr Ononuju spoke out recently against the backdrop of moves by desperate politicians who are name droppers that Onwa,…
Read MorePlot To Undermine Ikenga Hits Rocks, Stakeholders Expose Fake Panel Report
The desperate attempts to truncate the aspiration of Barr. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere to the Ideato North-Ideato South Federa Constituency seat may have hit the rocks following shocking revelations that documents and Panel Reports upon which the purported disqualification was based have been confirmed as forged, doctored and fabricated. Not a few stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have warned that those who have beat their chests and vowed to ‘deal with Ikenga’ for whatever differences they have with party leaders, may be inadvertently leading the party down the road…
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