By Ikenna Onuoha In a bid to ensure good governance and development in Owerri zone, the South East and Nigeria in general, the following BILLS were sponsored by Senator SamDaddy: Bill for an Act to Establish the South East Development Commission (SEDC). Bill for an Act to Establish Postgraduate Physiotherapy College of Nigeria Bill for an Act to Establish Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri (From College to University) A Re-Enactment Bill on the Public Complaints Commission Act, CAP P37 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria. A Bill for…
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Ruby Emele: A Unique Politician
By Ifeanyi Ndukwe Chief Hon. Mrs. Ruby Emele is the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Imo State. A native of Isiala Mbano Local Government Area. She is a refined politician who has remained outstanding among other politicians in the state, with her style of politics. Hon. Ruby Emele has always mixed politicking with kindness and philanthropy, hence her name has remained a household one in Isiala Mbano in particular and Imo State at large. Regardless of her high position, she doesn’t segregate, she treats everyone the same…
Read MoreNiger Republic: A word of caution
By Femi Fani-Kayode I am on record as saying that if Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali or any other country, attacks Nigeria, violates our territorial integrity or attempts to take one inch of our nation we must and will fight them to the last man. I have also said that Nigeria’s defence budget is far higher than all the other 14 countries in West Africa put together and that there is no nation in our sub-region that can defeat us in a military conflict despite our many challenges. …
Read MorePlace of Imo Journalists In Uzodinma’s Era
By Henry Ekpe By the end of November, Senator Hope Uzodinma would have completed his first term as the Governor of Imo State, yet he has not met Journalists based in Imo State in any interactive session. He had several times met with Journalists from outside Imo State, but he has not deemed it necessary to have an interface with the Media Men based in the State he has operated in for nearly four years now. Whatever is the reason, I cannot fathom, but certainly this was not how I…
Read MoreOgunewe-AA Imo Guber Candidate Calls For Nonso Nkwa’s Release
The Governorship candidate of the Action Alliance ,AA in the forth coming November 11 election in Imo State, Maj. Gen. Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (rtd) has called for the immediate release of popular On-Air Personality, Mr. Theodore Chinonso Uba, otherwise known as Nonso Nkwa from the custody of the Nigeria Police in Abuja. It will be recalled that Mr Uba was on July 27, in a manner reminiscent of the dreaded gestapo,whisked off by some hooded Men who were later identified as men of the Ngeria Police at the Assumpta gate…
Read MoreEvery Land belongs To Imo Govt, Says Commissioner
…Debunks Land grabbing allegation By Nkechi Ojukwu Following the news making rounds in the Media recently in Imo state by some individuals concerning land issues, the Commissioner for Lands has debunked the grabbing allegation against him. ” Putting the records straight every Land lawfully belongs to government and the government takes Land or lands from individual or community after due process”,he stated. The state Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning, Hon. Noble Obiaso Atulegwu, said this while charting with the Guild of Imo Field Journalist (GIFJ) during a recent …
Read MoreFederal Contract: 558 Health Centres Completed, Contract On-going -Achonu …Says: Call For His Arrest, Handiwork Of Rejected Party In Imo The candidate of the Labour Party for the November 11 Governorship Election in Imo State, Sen Athan Achonu has described as childish and baseless, recent media reports purporting the involvement of his company in an alleged abandoned federal government contract for the construction of 774 primary health centres, PHCs, across Nigeria. The former Okigwe Zone senator in a release signed by Chibuikem Diala, Director, Media of Sen Athan Achonu…
Read MoreHow Police Summon Of PDP SWC Members, Deputy Governorship Candidate Helped To Reinvigorate Opposition In Imo
By Onwuasoanya FCC Jones Let me first of all say that I am delighted with the solidarity displayed by members of the Peoples Democratic Party’s State Working Committee and critical leaders of that Party when they were invited by the Police yesterday. The impression of those whom Uzodimma used to write that frivolous petition is that the Party in Imo State is not United, and they believe that any member invited by the Police would be abandoned by the others to answer for himself, but with the solidarity shown yesterday…
Read MoreEmefiele: 60 Days In Tinubu’s Gulag…
20 reasons why his detention is a witch-hunt By Steve Osuji GOVERNANCE BY WITCH-HUNT: It is clearly a vendetta mission. There’s no other reason why a former bank MD and subsisting governor of a country’s central bank would be kept in detention for 60 days without bail and without serious process of litigation. The clamping of Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) into detention since the inception of the Bola Tinubu administration and the near abrogation of the powers of the judiciary in the matter…
Read MoreYour Votes Must Count AAC Guber Candidate Assures Imolites
Barr. Emmanuel Ifeanyi Awulonu, the Imo State AAC Governorship Candidate has assured Imolites that their votes must certainly count and that they will have the final say on who becomes the Executive Governor of Imo State at the November 11,2023 Governorship election. He also reminded those still sceptical and uncertain about the level playing ground and fairness of the fast approaching election that in the words of Prof Mahmood Yakubu, INEC has learnt it’s bitter lesson how not to toy with or experiment with the election.Speaking further,Barr Awulonu promised to…
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