By Elizabeth Vincent from Yenagoa Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Seriake Dickson on Tuesday, urged the private sector, particularly corporate organizations and individuals to make contributions to the State Education Development Trust Fund, to enable indigent children acquire free and qualitative education. Governor Dickson stated this, when members of the board of the Education Development Trust Fund, led by its Chairman, Prof. Turner Isoun presented the 2017 report of the board to him in Government House, Yenagoa. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Francis Ottah Agbo,…
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UNN Alumni honour Uwakwem, AIFCE Provost
The Alumni Association of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has honoured Imo State Commissioner for health, Hon. Dr. (Mrs) Angela Uwakwem with an award of excellence in public service. According to the association, the prestigious award of excellence was in appreciation of the awardees’ great learning, indelible impacts in the medical profession and outstanding devotion in service to humanity. Presenting the award to Angela Uwakwem at the Imo State International Trade and Investments Centre, Owerri, the president of Owerri branch of the association and permanent secretary (establishment) in the…
Read MoreMbaise Catholic Laity to Ugorj: Give us Indigenous Bishop …Hopeful, Priestly ordination will soon resume
As the dust raised by the protracted crisis that had raged between Mbaise Catholic Diocese and embattled Bishop Peter Okpaleke begins to calm down, the laity of the diocese have pleaded with the adninstrator Bishop LuciousUgorji to give them an indigenous bishop They are also excited that at last critical church activities such as ordination of priests and confirmation can resume in earnest after been in limbo for years now. Speaking to NigeriaNewspoint on condition of anonimity a laity from AhiazuMbaise Council said the diocese is still insisting on an…
Read MoreIkeduru Can never endorse Nwosu -ex-Imo Speaker ..Says: Rochas is on “impossible Kilimanjaro mission”
Former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly Rt Hon Kelechi Kenedy Nwagwu has distanced Ikeduru people from the ongoing endorsement jamboree on Ugwumba Uche Nwosu saying Ikeduru people can never be part of it. Speaker Nwagwu who spoke in Owerri recently during an interractive session with some journalists expressed shock that Gov Rochas Okorocha is adamant on embarking embarking on a fruitless kilimanjaro climb adding that he would receive the greatest shock of his life from that futile adventure. The ex speaker who was reacting to a question on…
Read More2019: I’ve got blue print to take Imo outof economic doldrum —Osuagwu
As SDP guberFaithful Hosts political Science Alumni Reunion of Open University London in Owerri Ahead of the 2019 general election ,a Social Democratic Party (SDP) gubernatorial candidate in Imo , Chief. Collins Osuagu on Wednesday hinted that he had developed a detailed blueprint to take the state out of the current economic woes . Chief Osuagwu maintained that with the present socio-economic malaise, bedeviling the state, only a thorough and strong economic policy can save Imo from becoming a failed state. The governorship Faithful who made this known in a…
Read MorePolice Award is my Birthday gift, says Uchemec …Dedicates it to Obodoukwu Clan
Chief Uche Umeh, CEO, Uchemec Group of Companies, says the recent award he garnered from the Imo State Command of the Nigeria Police was a birthday gift. Chief Umeh stated this when leaders of his Obodoukwu Community in Ideato North LGA called at his Owerri Mec Plaza Weekend, to felicitate with him over the award. He said that the award was special to him, as according to him, it came when he was celebrating his 50th birthday. “So many awards have come my way, both those I rejected and those…
Read MoreOrlu zone has no interest in 2019 Imo guber -Nzeribe
The leadership of Orluzurumee, the apex socio-cultural organization, comprising the twelve local government areas of Orlu zone, have sounded it loud and clear that the zone is not interested in contesting for the Imo state governorship position, in the 2019 general election except when Owerri and Okigwe zones fail to present credible persons from whom the zone will select for the position. They said this, when members of OganihuOwerri led by Chief OrikezeAjumbe and OluOkigwe led by High Chief C.C Anyanwu visited the group at the AwoOmamma residence of Chief…
Read MoreIkedi Ohakim and the walls of Jericho
By Collins Ughalaa What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground…”, Zachariah 4:7. “So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall (of Jericho) fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city”, Joshua 6:20. “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too…
Read MoreThe proposed Imo Apc Mock Primaries
As the critical journey towards the next electoral process in 2019 gathers momentum, the polity has been awash with reports of proposed mock primaries in the Imo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, by Governor Rochas Okorocha. The governor who is being accused of favouring his Son-inlaw and the Chief of staff to succeed him. In a recent function in Owerri, the Imo state capital, the governor was quoted as saying that the proposed mock primaries would enable the party in the state harmonise itself ahead of the…
Read MoreNo To Rescue Government’s Build and Destroy Policy
Last year at the Orlu political summit held at the Nkwerre Country Club, Nkwerre, Chief of Staff to Gov Rochas Okorocha, Ugwumba Uche Nwosu had thrown a banter that was as serious as it was humourous. He had told his listeners about a mad who operates close to Government House Roundabout who once said while Owelle is building, Rochas is demolishing. Both the lunatic and CoS may have actually said what they said as jokes but a deeper analysis would surely reveal that what was said was also largely true.…
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