…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…
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Importance 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…
Read MoreIbejiako Lauds Southern Governors Over First Meeting Ever, Since 1914 …Urges Imolites to be patient with Uzodinma …Says: Security Is Everybody’s Business
Ex-House of Representatives member who represented Owerri Federal Constituency, Hon Ernest Ibejiako has commended Southern Nigeria Governors for coming together for the first time since 1914 amalgamation of Nigeria. The former lawmaker who, also, represented Owerri State Constituency in the Imo State House of Assembly who made the commendation in an exclusive interview with Nigeria Newspoint, also called on Imo people to be patient with the Gov Hope Uzodinma adminstration, even as he emphasised that security is everybody’s business. Expressing happiness over the historic meeting of the governors’ which, held…
Read MoreAsaba declaration: Ohanaeze to Southern Governors, We need action
The Igbo Social-Cultural Organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, on Wednesday, backed the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum in their recommendations towards ending the high level of insecurity across the country, especially on the ban on open grazing. Tribune Online had earlier reported that the governors had after their meeting in Delta State, on Tuesday, 11th May 2021 recommended among other things, the convocation of a national dialogue, ban on open grazing and state police. Speaking to Tribune Online in Awka, on the development, the Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Demian Ogene-Okeke, called…
Read MoreActing IGP-Baba not qualified -Lawyer
An Abuja based legal practitioner, Barrister Silas Onu, has written an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari in respect of the appointment of Usman Alkali Baba as the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP). He also drew the attention of Mr. President to the implication of appointing a legally unqualified person to such position. The Barrister appealed to President Buhari to avoid the embarrassment of being documented as a serial law breaker in the court records by acting in accordance with the very law he assented to. Onu urged the President…
Read MoreArrest Of Vendors In Owerri, Dangerous For DEMOCRACY -Anyanwu
Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Sam ddhas described as dangerous to democracy, the arrest of newspaper vendors and circulation representatives in Owerri by suspected security operatives, adding that such act was an underground attempt to gag the press. Anyanwu’s reaction followed the news of arrest and brutalization of newspaper vendors by security operatives and agents of the government in Owerri, the capital of Imo State. Senator Anyanwu, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State further advised against the use of force on innocent citizens in the cause…
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