The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC), on Tuesday, inaugurated a 10-man technical committee to find lasting solution to the contentious extension of the tenure of the current national state and ward officers of the party. Speaking while inaugurating the committee comprising four Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN), the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said that while Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state will serve as the committee chairman, APC National Legal Adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire, will serve as member and committee Secretary. According to…
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Imo Youths assures maximum surport for Ekwerikes ambition
The Association of Imo State students and graduates has demonstrated their commitment and maximum support for Prof Alphonsus Ekwerfike’s gubernatorial bid come 2019. Speaking during the association courtesy visit to Prof Ekwereike recently in his Owerri Office, assured that Imo State needs a man with quality mental capacity and wealth of experience like Prof^ Alphonsus Ekwer$ike as the next governor of Imo State in According to the co-ordinator of the Imo State students and graduate association comred Iwu Justus said, “Sir, with great respect and honour, after watching and scrutinizing.…
Read MoreFG expresses support for Imo car manufacturer
By Paul Chukwu The Federal government has expressed its determination to encourage indigenous inventors and manufacturers to achieve their lofty dreams, while contributing to the Nigerian economic growth and development. The Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, gave this assurance during the week while inspecting an indigenous vehicle (Iyi Combatant ) built by an Imo citizen, Engr. Ephraim Akwiwu, at his production yard in Owerri. He said that with the strong implementation of the Executive Order No.5, propounded by President Muhammadu Buhari, which has to do with ease…
Read More2019: 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,…
Read MoreOwerri 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…
Read MoreAbandonment 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…
Read MoreShow 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…
Read MoreTension 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…
Read More2019 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…
Read MoreInitiative 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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