By Henry Ekpe Since the inception of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Imo State chapter, in 1998, the party has never gone through such contentious challenges facing her presently. When PDP arrived Imo State, it was the darling of politicians, as the likes of Chief ID Nwoga, Chief Emeka Echeruo, Chief Charles Ugwu, Dr Mrs Kema Chikwe, Late Chief Livy Okereafor etc with the younger ones like Hon Oliver Enwerenem and co moulded the party into a behemoth. Then, the likes of Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Senator Arthur Nzeribe, Chief Evan…
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Realistic Approach To Implementing Student Loan Act In Nigeria
By Erimma Nwosisi On the 12th of June 2023, the new President of Nigeria , Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed into law The Access to Higher Education Act, 2023, also known as the students loan Act, it was established to help Students in Nigeria pay tuition fees towards their higher education and in turn pay back in instalments after two years, after completing their one year orientation programme in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). This seems like a good policy, however in a country that had in decades, experienced a…
Read MoreImo PDP Condemns APC, Uzodinma’s Plot To Abduct Spokesperson To Our Governorship Candidate, Onuoha
The lmo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party notes with apprehension the, alleged plot by a group of “unknown gunmen” in collaboration with Uzodinma’s private militia to abduct the SA to its Governorship candidate, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, Mr Ikenna Onuoha for reasons yet to be ascertained. Information has it that the Governor has detailed his Adviser on Special Duties, one Mr Chinasa Nwaneri to ensure that Ikenna Onuoha is picked up by his boys starting from today, the 12th day of July, 2023 for prosecution or possible elimination.…
Read MoreImo Governorship: APGA Flagbearer-Ejiogu Reels Out Manifesto, Security, Jobs, Electricity, Get Attention
Ahead of the scheduled November 11,governorship election in Imo State, the Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Hon Tony Ejiogu has unveiled a five-point manifesto focusing on Security, Power,Infrastructure, Job creation, Digital economy, Agriculture, Government and Social reforms. The Imo APGA gubernatorial candidate who recently returned from overseas trip where he met Diaspora groups in a bid to shore up support for his ambition, said he would adopt community-based integrated approach to curb insecurity, as well as create community-centred vigilante outfit that would work in synergy with the…
Read MoreOne-Incumbent Governor And 16 Incoming Governors Existing In Imo
…So Who Amongst Them Is “Next Governor”? By Frank Nwaete At the 2019 GENERAL ELECTION, IMO STATE had the highest number of GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATES with SEVENTY-ONE (71)! Followed closely by RIVERS STATE with FIFTY-FOUR (54) CANDIDATES! Ahead of the Saturday NOVEMBER 11, 2023 IMO STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION, the number of Candidates is SEVENTEEN (17)! They include Incumbent Governor, SEN HOPE ODIDIKA UZODIMMA (APC), SEN SAMDADDY ANYANWU (PDP), SEN ATHAN NNEJI ACHONU (AGU OTU AKA)/IKENGA JOSEPH IKECHUKWU UKAEGBU (LABOUR PARTY), GEN JACK- LINCOLN OGUNEWE (ACTION ALLIANCE), CHIEF UCHE BEN ODUNZEH (NNPP),…
Read MoreThank You Tour: Njaba, Isu, Nwangele, Nkwerre Renew Support to Imo PDP Guber Candidate, Senator Anyanwu
The people of Njaba, Isu, Nwangele and Nkwerre local government areas have unanimously given a nod to the Governorship bid of Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu and his Deputy, Rt Hon Jones Onyereri ahead of the November 11 election. In a “Thank You Tour” to the LGAs, leaders, students, youths, market women, artisans, okada riders and party members unanimously declared support for the PDP standard bearer as the only consensus Governorship candidate to salvage the state, and vowed to vote him as the Governor. It can be recalled that Njaba, Isu,…
Read MoreIdeato League Of Patriots: Imo Is Burning While Uzodinma Chases Rats -Group
…Cautions: Leave Ikenga alone Ideato people under the aegis of Ideato League of Patriots have replied Governor Hope Uzodinma in strong terms over his recent media attack and his concerted and seeming paranoid plot to undermine the member representing Ideato Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere. The group maintained that the level of insecurity in Imo state is alarming while their governor is junketing in far away Abuja, only to wake up from slumber to make uninformed references to Ikenga Ugochinyere instead of addressing the…
Read MoreInterim Town Union Executive: Obi-Mbieri Diaspora Indegenes Reject Oparaugo
In the face of lingering community leadership crisis in Obi-Mbieri Autonomous Community, Mbaitoli LGA,Imo state, concerned Indigenes of the community living in the United States of America,USA, have kicked against the recent purported dissolution of the Obi-Mbieri Development Union,O.D.U Executive led by the President-General,Chief Ugo-Martins Iwuajoku (Onyeugo) by the Sole Administrator of Mbaitoli LGA,Hon.Hamilton Opara, describing the said dissolution as’ undue interference in the administrative affairs of the community. Speaking in a telephone interview with journalists in Owerri on Tuesday, July,4, Nze Richmond Okoro,who spoke on behalf of the Obi-Mbieri…
Read MoreFull Scale Rehabilitation: After Narrating Suffering Of His People, Reps Adopts Ugochinyere’s Motion To Repair Federal Highway
Reprieve may be underway for the long neglected people of Ideato, Okigwe, Aguata, and Nnewi Local Government as the House of Representatives adopted a motion by Hon Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu (Ikenga Imo) mandating the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) and Ministry of works to commence immediate repairs and reconstruction of the deplorable Oba- Nnewi-Aguata- Akokwa- Arondizuogu-Okigwe Road in Anambra and Imo state. Hon. Ugochinyere, in his lead debate on the floor of the House,yesterday, painted a horrifying picture of the said road, which he said has become a death trap in…
Read MoreImo Guber: LP Insists On Achonu,warns, Beware of judicial, political pranksters
The Labour Party, LP, has warned members of the public to be wary of the activities of those it described as ‘political and judicial’ pranksters. The warning is coming on the heels of a purported judgment by an Imo State Court, claiming that the LP governorship candidate in the Imo State election in November, Sen. Athan Achonu, had been ordered replaced. The LP blamed Lamidi Apapa and his loyalists for the “mischievous misinformation”. The report had it that the Imo State court had replaced Achonu with Joseph Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, who…
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