By Jude Njoku In the next approximate six months, Nigeria will go to polls to elect leaders who will take charge of affairs for four other years, as the constitution stated. Now that Nigerians are at the threshold of the 2019 elections, raucous situations abound everywhere. Jangling with each other for egoistic scopes has become the most hackneyed thing in the whole of the ambience. Ranting and prattling in chimerical and Utopian promises have indubitably become the order of the day, to the amplitude that every aspirant feigns to be…
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Medical students’ group endorse Okey Ezeh for 2019Imo Guber
As the 2019 governorship polls draw closer in Imo State, various groups have continued to outline varying yardsticks for determining the most qualified candidate to govern the state. They seem to have a shared perspective on the reality of Imo’s relative underperformance in the past decade and the overriding necessity to get the state out of the doldrums. Investigations have shown that most of the groups are throwing their weight behind the aspiration of the leading governorship contender on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Okey…
Read MoreDiocese on the lake crisis: Board passes vote of confidence on Bishop
An emergency Diocesan Board meeting of the Anglican Diocese on The Lake has ended at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Kalabari Beach, Oguta L.G.A with a mandate on the Bishop. The RT. Rev. Chijioke BN Oti (Phd) to immediately set up a board of enquiry to investigate the remote and immediate causes of a protest by the Oguta parishioners at the Cathedral Church of St Mary Magdalene, Oguta, on the 14th of July, 2018. The special Diocesan Board meeting which was attended by over fifty delegates who equally endorsed the…
Read MoreIdeato North Assembly: Umeh declares for APGA, amid wide support “I’ll end poor representation”
As the race for Ideato North House of Assembly seat, Imo State gathers momentum, a businessman and politician, Hon. Obiora Umeh has formally declared to run on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA. Hon. Umeh popularly known s Nkwachikwere Ideato, while addressing ward and local government executives of APGA in Ideato North state constituency during his declaration at Urualla on Tuesday, said he has answered the clarion call by well meaning Ideato sons and daughters to contest for the assembly seat of Ideato North in 2019. Umeh…
Read MoreNo vacancy: I am still Imo deputy governor -Madumere …As CP withdraws security, exposes his life to danger
Imo State deputy governor, Prince Ezeakonobi Madumere has come out to publicly declare that there is no vacancy in the office of the state deputy governor in spite of alleged purported impeachment by the Speaker Acho Ihim led House of Assembly. Prince Madumere who made this declaration in a release issued by his media aide,Mr Uche Onwuchekwa in Owerri further revealed that an Owerri High Court presided over Justice Benjamin Iheka’s order which restrained the state Chief Judge Justice Paschal Nnadi, Speaker Acho Ihim and his colleagues from going ahead…
Read MoreNwachukwu to Owerri Zone, I’ll surpass past Senators,
The senatorial aspirant for Owerri zone on the platform of APGA in the forthcoming election, Chief Mike Nwachukwu, has promised to cause a stir if elected by his people by offering unrivalled representation never experienced in the history of the zone. Chief Mike Mwachukwu who stated this during the last leg of Ikeduru local government ward tour, said he will push vigorously to attract the rehabilitation and constructions of network of roads within his first 3 years. The last lap of the ward tour in the local government included Ama-Imo,…
Read MoreLight House Gospel Center holds Glory Convention
A three-day Glory to Glory convention of David Eze World Evangelism has ended with a thanksgiving and miracle service held on Sunday. The event which started last Friday had the theme: “Not By Might nor by Power” and was also used to mark the 1st year anniversary of the outreach. The programme featured prayers, praises, worship healing and miracles with Apostle Paul Abanigbo ministering while Pastor David Eze was the host.
Read MoreRotary Club, Owerri Central holds installation ceremony
It was jubilation galore as the Rotary Club of Owerri Central installs Rtn Modestus Okeke as the 18th President of the club. The 2018/2019 installation ceremony, which took place at the Roselife Hotel, opposite Villa Garden Hotel, New Owerri, last weekend, was attended by people from all walks of life, including the government officials, technocrats and captains of industries. In his opening remarks, the Chairman of the occasion, Prince Chinedum Jovita Okeahialam, the Regional Manager, Local Corporate South-South and South-East, Eco Bank Nigeria Plc, commended the Rotary Club for being…
Read MoreWe shall revamp Imo ailing healthcare –Ezeh
Governorship of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Imo State, Mr. Okey Ezeh, has assured Imo people that the comprehensive health policy which his blueprint for the rebirth of the state named the Imo Marshal Plan has articulated will promote wellness, stop disease and restore the collapsed health care system in the state. Speaking on Sunday in Owerri as Special Guest of Honour at the 2018 Family Day Celebration of the Nigerian Medical Association, Owerri Zone, Ezeh who was represented by the Director of Media and Publicity in his…
Read MoreMadumere Impeachment: confusion in Govt House, as court stops swearing in of new deputy
It was a day of anguish and disappointment for Gov Rochas Okorocha and his supporters who had thronged the venue of the swearing in Mr Callistus Ekenze, as the Imo State new deputy governor, following the halting of the inuaguration by a High Court in Owerri. Gov Okorocha, his would be deputy, Mr Callistus Ekenze, other government functionaries, members of the State Assembly who had impeached Prince Eze Madumere on Monday, and other members of the APC faction loyal to the governor were left dejected and disappointed after waiting in…
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