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Ahiazu/Ezinihitte Federal House: Ahiazu Leaders endorse Igbokwe for 2019
With the political situation in the country stepping up as to build up to the 2019 general election hits up, the entire political leaders in Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government in unism this week Monday endorsed for third term the incumbent Federal House member representing Ahiazu/Ezinihitte Federal Constituency, Hon Nnanna Raphael Igbokwe, saying this is the best thing that can happen to the Igbo man after 2019. In a meeting hosted by Igbokwe in his Ogwuama Ahiara country home, after going down memory lane on his antecedents right from the State…
Read MoreTony Nwulu’s re-brand Imo project, 2019
By Kennedy Eweama (09030300795) Dynamic, astute, humane, focused, affable and Charismatic are perhaps, apt adjectival definitions of Hon. Tony Nwulu, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, representing Oshodi/Isolo II Federal constituency. Though a native of Eziudo in Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, Nwulu’s foray into politics is very significant. His emergence as a member of the National Assembly, speaking the minds of thousands of Nigerians inhabiting the cosmopolitan and vast Oshodi/Isolo II constituency, in an APC firmly controlled State like Lagos, is indicative of his…
Read MoreBlame Buhari, osinbajo, NSA, IG for Benue killings, ortom tells senate
Governor of Benue State, Mr. Samuel Ortom, on Saturday, blamed the Federal Government for the killing and destructions by herdsmen in the state. Ortom, at a meeting with the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Security, which is in the state on a fact-finding mission on the attacks, accused President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Monguno (retd.); and the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, of ignoring several warnings of the impending attack on communities in Benue. The governor also blamed security agencies for the…
Read More2019 Elections’ll be politics of personality, not political parties -Maduba
Contrary to the insinuation in some quarters that the performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at both the federal and state levels will have negative effects on the people seeking elective offices on the platform of the ruling party, a front-line political godfather and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Chief Cosmas Maduba (Odebube Isu) has said that the 2019 elections would rather be politics of personality and their achievements and not political parties. Speaking with journalists recently, Chief Maduba, who is contesting to represent the people of…
Read MoreImo Claretian University Unveiled
By Paul Chukwu Claretian missionary, Brazil, in partnership with the Imo state government, has unveiled a chapter of the university in the state known as Imo Claretian University, amids joy, eulogies and lofty expectations. The university according to reports, is expected to be the 21st century innovation educational system that will incorporate Healthcare, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, inventing technology programs, as well as a unique technology-enhanced learning platforms designed with the learner in mind. Speaking at the unveiling ceremony held at the Imo International Convention Centre, IICC, Annex, Owerri,…
Read MoreA critical analysis of Acho Ihim’s latest benevolence for his people
By Marcel Ekwezuo I had earlier decided to keep mum concerning the kind gesture of Rt. Hon (Dr.) Acho Ihim’s manifold and exemplary benevolence to his beloved people of Okigwe state constituency. The thought did not come because I have nothing so fresh or unprecedented to say about it. Rather, like the proverbial little vulture, who once, asked his mother, because of the uncountable geese flesh on the mother’s body, ‘this your request to scratch your body, where should I start from, one, two, or where’? “Mama, the craw –…
Read MoreAPC Congress: My allies, security agencies betrayed me – Okorocha
Even as he described his detractors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) as cowards, Imo State, Governor Rochas Okorocha, has said that his allies betrayed him during last Saturday’s ward congresses of the party. The governor did not spared security agencies, whom he accused of compromising their offices during the exercise. Okorocha stated this in Owerri, the state capital on Monday at the Government House Victory Chapel when he addressed some of his aides and supporters on the outcome of the party election. He said: “I never knew that all…
Read MoreHeartland, CHAN Eagles in barren opener
Heartland FC of Owerri, the Naze Millionaires, that bounced back to the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) after spending a season at the lower division, recorded a barren draw against the visiting Sunshine Stars of Akure on Sunday at Dan Anyian Stadium, Owerri in its first game of the season. The returnee Heartland’s gaffer, Ranson Madu, explained after the match, that his boys played the game of their life but it was unfortunate that they failed to score even as he promised to correct noticed lapses before their next game…
Read MoreImo Guber: Mbaise indigenes in USA back Osondu
As interests continue to mount on who succeeds Governor Rochas Okorocha in 2019, a daispora group known as All Mbaise USA has come out strong to support the governorship ambition of one of their own and medical expert, Dr. Lawrence Osondu. The group, whose delegation met with Dr. Osondu last weekend in Owerri, the Imo State Capital said there was an urgent need for somebody like Dr. Osondu to come out and run for the number one seat in the state, promising that they would give him necessary backing to…
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