By Williams Odunze Youths of Imo State have been advised not to involve themselves with fake and unidentified group who parades as leaders of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Imo State Chapter, to avoid being defrauded nor used to cause mayhem in the state. This advise for youths to live responsibly was given by the Imo State Chapter Chairman of National Youth Council of Nigeria, Barr. Comr. Ezinwanne Chimuanya Udoka, while reacting to a purported Imo State NYCN elective congress slated to hold on September 9, 2022. Speaking…
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Obilor Ogbonna Promises Ekwuano Umuahia People Quality Representation
By Williams Odunze House of Representatives candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Obilor Ogbonna, has promised the people of Ikwuano Umuahia Federal Constituency quality and unbiased representation if he is given mandate in the 2023 general election. He stated that as landlord that houses Abia State Government, time has come for Ekwuano Umuahia Federal Constituency to regain the pride of the place by voting in good and God fearing people into political offices. Ogbonna who disclosed this to newsmen during a seminar organized for APC candidates in South East,…
Read MoreOnyewuchi Laments Prolonged ASUU Strike, Says Nigeria Students Suffering
The senator representing Imo East Senatorial District,(Owerri Zone), Sen. Ezenwa Onyewuchi has lamented the breakdown of negotiations between the Federal Government and ASUU, leading to the continued strike by the University Lecturers, saying it is an ill wind that blows no one any good. Sen. Onyewuchi stated this when a group of students from the senatorial zone paid him a courtesy visit at his Owerri residence. The astute Lawmaker decried the damage the continued strike is causing on the psyche of the students as well as its negative effects on…
Read MoreBritish Monarch-Queen Elizabeth II Dies At 96, Ends 7 Decades Reign
The long-serving monarch was placed under “medical supervision” on Thursday as her health deteriorated. Queen Elizabeth II has passed away at the age of 96, Buckingham Palace has announced. Her reign lasted 70 years, making her the longest-serving British monarch and female head of state in history. “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday evening. Earlier, the Queen’s doctors had placed her under “medical supervision” at her residence in Balmoral Castle in Scotland, after becoming concerned with her health. Born Elizabeth…
Read MoreHushpuppi Sentenced to 11 Years In USA
U.S govt. agrees to reduce Hushpuppi’s sentence to 11yrs for helping detectives solve other criminal cases. Prosecutors in the United States have asked a federal judge to sentence Ramon ‘Hushpuppi’ Abbas to 11 years in prison and three years of supervised release for his role in a multinational conspiracy that earned him millions of dollars between 2019 and 2020. According to Peoples Gazette, American attorneys led by Khaldoun Shobaki in the U.S. Central District of California (Los Angeles) argued that Hushpuppi should also be asked to pay $1.7 million in…
Read MoreRecent Izombe Mayhem: Imo Government Must Investigate Root Causes
The oil-rich town of Izombe in Oguta Local Government Area, Imo State has been in the news recently although for the wrong reasons. There were reports of clashes between security agents and some youths in the area a fortnight ago, which allegedly led to houses and other property belonging to indigenes of the area being destroyed,set ablaze. Many residents of the area are equally believed to have fled the town and adjourning communities especially, the villages in Obeabor community. Security agents were reported to have stormed the villages of Obuogwugwu …
Read MoreOnyewuchi: Burden Of Opposition Lawmaker (2)
By Chinedu Opara Analysts and the good and appreciative people of Owerri Zone unanimously agree that it is in the area of projects and empowerments that the man has shone brilliantly like a bright morning star. That accounts for the popular nickname of “Grand Commander of Empowerment” which they have happily bestowed on him. His litany of projects executed with his annual 200m budgetary intervention fund includes projects in Aboh Mbaise LGA like construction of Modern market with Abbaittoir at Afor Ajala Market, construction of 10,000 capacity Solar Powered Borehole…
Read MoreOwerri Senate: Imo East Senatorial Poll: Mike Nwachukwu Sets Agenda
…As he continues assessment tour of zone’s infrastructural decay in 9 LGAs The Senate as an upper chamber of the parliament in a bicameral legislature is primarily an arena of political wits which mandate is to set agenda of development for the nation through credible representation of the various constituencies. Over time, this lucid mandate has not been realized as a result of many factors that point towards incompetence orchestrated hitherto by electoral malpractices and brigandage which throws up representatives that do not represent the wishes of the electorate but…
Read MoreEmeka Ihedioha: The Resurgence Of Peoples’ Power In 2023 And Rest Of Us
By Sonny Ogulewe In this submission I will try to be objective since any attempt to shift the conversation from the realm reality could only serve entertainment purpose, delusive and unhelpful to the task before us, which is to salvage what is remaining of Imo state from the present brigandage. My objective in this submission is not any of the above, but to give us something to ponder as a party as the 2023 governorship election approaches. A keen observer of global politics would agree with the view that the…
Read MoreIPOB Leader-Nnamdi Kanu Drags FG To Court, Tuesday 13
The lead counsel to the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, on Wednesday said that the case between the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and the Federal government has been brought forward to 13th September 2022 from the earlier date of 11th October 2022 at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. He attributed the change of date to the continuous prayers by the members of IPOB.According to IPOB’s lawyer, “Our Appeal No: CA/ABJ/CR/ 625/2022; between Nnamdi Kanu vs federal republic of Nigeria, earlier scheduled for Hearing on the 11th Day…
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