By Chinedu Opara Looking at Distinguished Senator Francis Ezenwa Onyewuchi’s life trajectory, there is every reason to believe his destiny was revealed to his father, Chief Olumba.Onyewuchi before he was born fifty three years ago. It seems while the man slept before his birth an angel of the Lord came to him saying: “Arise and take note, the child your wife is about to deliver will take over from you,” ” He will step into the big political and leadership shoes you will leave behind and continue your life of…
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IPOB denies involvement in attack on Imo Correctional Facility
The Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) has dissociated itself from the recent attack at the Nigerian Correctional Service in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The IPOB also reiterated that its members and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) have never been involved in assaulting Nigeria’s security operatives. Emma Powerful, the Media and Publicity Secretary of the group, stated this to SaharaReporters while reacting to the incident on Monday morning. Hundreds of inmates at the headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), Owerri, Imo State, were set free by unknown gunmen on…
Read MoreOwerri Easter Sunday Attack: One Too Many.
Last Easter Sunday attack on Owerri, the Imo State Capital was one attack too many, because since the state was created in 1976, it has never witnessed anything like it. The entire state is still shell shocked and speechless, while national gaze is on a state hitherto regarded as relatively peaceful amid galloping insecurity across the country. What that unprecedented attack has forcefully succeeded in achieving is that it has unequivocally demonstrated that nowhere and no one is safe again in Nigeria. In other words, it seems to have lent…
Read MoreASUP Strike: Imo Poly gives its total blessings –Ugorji
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic ASUP, Imo state Polytechnic, has revealed it’s plans to join in the nation- wide industrial action by Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics in the country as directed by it’s national Secretariat. The chairman of ASUP , Imo state Polytechnic, Comrade Kelvin Ugorji who revealed this to journalists in Owerri said the industrial action will be total and consuming , pointing out that there will be no room for compromise. Comrade Ugorji said it is become expedite and necessary for such strike , coming from…
Read MoreBlood Cancer: Father of 3 year-old spends N.2m, weekly cries out for help
Miss Oluomachi Ukpabi is the 3rd daughter a daughter of one Ikemba Alaska Ukpabi from Umuda Isingwu in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State. Little Miss Oluomachi is 3 years old and on the 12th of March, 2020 she fell sick and was admitted in a private hospital in Owerri on the account of recurrent fever with a PVC of10%. She was transfused with fresh whole blood and laboratory results showed that all her blood cells were significantly low with platelets and neutrophil at the lowest. A bone marrow aspiration…
Read MoreAbia: Better days are ahead –Ikpeazu
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia Atate has urged Abians to brace up for better days ahead. In his Easter message to the people of the State, Ikpeazu urged Abians to draw inspiration from the significance of the season which is synonymous with fresh hopes and a brighter tomorrow, adding “Easter signifies the victory of Light over Darkness, of life over death, and of hope over despair”. According to him, “The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead after three days bears a message that forms the foundation of our Christian…
Read MoreVincon hands over to new PG in Umunneato Ishi-Ogwa …Says: Election, peaceful …Ekemam emerges new PG
The present National Public Relations Officer (PRO) for Imo State town unions and defence officer of Association of South East Town Unions (ASETU), Prince Vincon Uwakwe-Uwandu has handed over the mantle of leadership to a newly elected executive council of Umunneato Ishi-Ogwa community, with a promise to continue living for the development and progress of the community. The hand-over ceremony which took over on April 3, 2021 during the annual delegates conference at Ogwa Central School, Idem Ogwa witnessed the election of a new exco for Umunneato Ishi-Ogwa headed by…
Read MoreTragedy: Uzodinma Pulls Down Two Storey Building Without Compensation …Owner: No reason given for demolition …Says: Property has C of O, built 1982
A resident of Owerri the Imo State capital, Engr. George Asi has had his two-storey building demolished by the administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma. The said two-storey building which Nigeria Newspoint learnt was demolished on yesterday (Tuesday), was located at No. 47, Egbu Road, Owerri, and was said to have all the legal documents including a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) according to investigations. Nigeria Newspoint further gathered that no compensation whatsoever has been paid to Engr. Asi in respect of the demolished property, even as owner, Asi, does…
Read MoreCabinet Reshuffle: Cabals Clash In Uzodinma’s Govt …OCDA Boss: It’s laughable, I’m no cabal head
Last week, in the wake of two seeming unexpected events in the government of Gov Hope Uzodinma, rumour mills in Imo State were agog with claims of the existence of a powerful cabal in the government. The events were the sudden redeployment of Barr Enyinna Onuegbu, one of acclaimed performers in the Gov Uzodinma adminstration from the Ministry of Lands to the obscure Power Ministry, as well as the demolition of a building belonging to Mr Chinasa Nwaneri, Special Adviser Special Duties to the governor. The proponents of the existence…
Read MoreNeed For Peace In Imo NUJ
It may baffle some members of the Public when I say that I am a full member of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Imo State chapter. This was facilitated by Fidel Onyeneke and concretised by the strenuous effort of the Innocent Igwe Leadership. However, ever since I came back from the United States in 1979, I had always identified with NUJ Imo State. Although I am not a trained Journalist, NUJ council approves the admission of anybody who is a creative writer and one who has established him/herself as a…
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