2019: APC grassroots movement wants Madumere as consensus candidate

A leading group within the Imo state APC family which is very popular in all the wards and LGAs of the state, the APC Grassroots Movement, has called on the leadership and members of the party in the state to close ranks and save the party unnecessary headache by unanimously adopting the Deputy Governor, Prince Exe Madumere as the party’s flag bearer in next governorship election. Speaking exclusively to our reporter last weekend in Orlu after an executive meeting of the group which has strong membership in all the wards,…

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Owerri zone agenda gives Okorocha sleepless nights

Indications have emerged that Gov Rochas Okorocha, may have started tactical withdrawal from the agenda of Uche Nwosu for governor amid unrelenting opposition to the plot which has set Imo polity on fire. According to impeccable sources within the corridor of power in the state   having seen that the  Uche project is doomed, the governor is currently thinking seriously about buying into the Owerri for governor project. Nigeria Newspoint gathered that this seeming changing mindset of the governor dominated discussions in a recent meeting of Owerri Zone leaders  held in…

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Abandonment of youths, root of Nigeria’s problem – Ihenacho

Former Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho has said that the myriads of social problems bedevilling Nigeria today are traceable to the neglect of Nigeria’s youth population especially, the vast army of unemployed youths. Speaking at the unveiling of a job centre and youth empowerment initiative of the Dozie Mezie Owerri group, a development and advocacy platform of Owerri people of Imo state, Ihenacho lamented the plight of the Nigerian youth noting that government must have a definite action plan for its youth population. He said, “The problem of Nigeria…

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Show of Shame: We got promise of N5m, land to endorse Nwosu, Mbaitoli Ward Chairman …Group’s leader begs Madumere

An APC ward Chairman in Mbaitoli Council Area of the state, Mr Wilson Nwachukwu has shockingly confessed how they were deceived with fake promises of land and N5m cash each to endorse Ugwumba Uche Nwosu, in law to Gov Rochas Okorocha. Mr Wilson Nwachukwu,also known as son ward Chairman, Orodo Ward A who revealed the dirty trick few days after they endorsed Ugwumba Nwosu said they were promised N5m each plus a plot of land to carry out the show of shame. Giving insight into how the plot was hatched…

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Tension brews at Imo Airport as youths threaten action over rights

Youths of the host communities of Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Ngor Okpala, have threatened fire and brimstone over what they say is deliberate ploy by some agencies at the facility working in collaboration with some corrupt and discredited persons from their clan to deny them their due rights. The youths who spoke under the banner of Onyeaghanwanneya Youth Movement OYM, in Owerri shortly after a meeting with Senator Samuel Anyanwu, added that the honeymoon between them and the agencies is over even as they vowed to legitimately fight to…

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2019 governorship: Fear grips Okorocha over APGA Chairman’s visit to Bishops in Imo …He’s turned state to Prison Yard-AJV Obinna

Indications have emerged that the Gov Rochas Okorocha may actually have been gripped by fear despite seeming bold face in the face of seeming increasing interest of the church in the governance and politics of the state. Even as the Catholic Archbishop AJV Obinna accuses the governoor of intimidating Citizens, turning state to a Prison Yard. The governor for sometime now has been engrossed in a verbal altercation with the Archbishop of Owerri Catholic Archdiocese and just when he least expected it,  the leadership of the opposition APGA subtly increased…

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Initiative for new Nigeria: Restructured to work and for Justice to prevail

The time has come, and it is now, for believers in the restructuring of Nigeria, to act to push the project to implementation. For those who may have doubts about its meaning, restructuring, in our context, is the re-arrangement of how the nation is organised for carrying out the functions of governance. A belief in the need for restructuring Nigeria presumes that the present structure, or organisation, is not right, or is faulty, and therefore hinders the growth and development of our country and, also, does not allow justice to…

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2019 Guber: Achonu vows toindustrialize Imo …Recalls: I empowered Imolites with N6 bn job

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and immediate past senator representing Okigwe Zone at the National Assembly, Senator Athan Achonu has said that he is in the race for the 2019 Imo gubernatorial election in order to turn the state into a Japan of sorts. Senator Achonu who is popularly known as ‘one-arm general’ disclosed that he had in past spent over N6 billion naira in various forms of empowerment for men and women of Imo State origin through contracts. Senator Achonu equally disclosed that he single handedly…

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Buhari opposes Oyegun’s tenure extension

President Muhammadu Buhari at the Tuesday National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the All Progressive Congress called for a reversal of the tenure elongation decision of the party for its executives from the national to the ward levels. Buhari, who referred to the decision of the NEC of APC which met on February 27, 2018 and okayed tenure extension for the national chairman, John Oyegun and all excos down to the ward level, said the decision could spell doom for the party in view of Article 17(1) and 13, 2(B)…

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Ayisha Osori takes ‘Love Does Not Win Elections’ Campus tour to FUTO

In a bit to sensitize youths especially students on importance of being active in political activities in Nigeria, author of the book ‘Love Does Not Win Elections’, Mrs Ayisha Osori has taken the campaign to Federal University of Technology Owerri. At the event which took place on Thursday March 22, 2018 at the SUG Resource Center, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Mrs Ayisha Osori said that the essence of the book tour was to groom young politicians with a better mindset that will solve the problem of the country. Mrs.…

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