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Some group of Imo women, yesterday besieged the High Court demanding the appearance of former governor of the state,Sirl Ikedi Ohakim to answer alleged fraud charges and other matters level against him by Lagos based business woman, Chinyere Amuchinwa. The women who were cladded in black sang anti Ohakim songs even as they matched along the roads around the court carrying placards which such inscriptions as “Ohakim is not above the law, Injustice to one woman is injustice to all, Ohakim, stop running away and face the court”, among others.…

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Latest Nigeria News, Nigerian Newspapers, Politics / Oamen Eromosele / 13 minutes ago Fear has gripped residents of Amanze and Amainyi communities in Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of Imo State after the decomposing bodies of a young woman and a young man were discovered inside a big sac at a bush path within the area. The communities are border areas between Ihitte Uboma and Obowo LGAs of the state. The bodies of the unidentified victims were discovered by villagers going to farm during the weekend following an offensive smell…

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The Industrial Court sitting in Owerri has adjourned suit filed by aspirants of the 2018 Imo NUJ Election asking the court to compel the Caretaker Committee of the Union to conclude the Union’s botched election. When the matter was called on Tuesday, March 9,the petitioner, Elder Lambert Ojukwu who spoke on behalf of other aspirants tendered affidavit of facts and other relevant documents before the court as exhibits. He told the court that the aspirants filed an application praying the court to compel the Francis Ebenugwo’s caretaker committee of Imo…

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Tragedy occurred Sunday at Umuokire-Okuku in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, as one Chidube Onyema shot his girl friend Miss Chinaza Onyenwendu 22, to death. Chidube who is a hunter took Chinaza from her home Ohabele Obosima, Ohaji to his house at Okuku where she met her sudden death. Eye witness account said that shortly after Chidube and Chinaza locked up themselves in Chidube’s room gunshot was heard in the room. This attracted people around and on entering the room, they saw Chinaza lying in a pool…

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The General Overseer of the Freedom Church of all Nations Pastor Ohama Innocent Bliss has announced the two day power packed programme tagged “Breaking of cruses”. This is contained in a release issued by the clergy. He stated that the programme will start on Friday 5th of March with a Night of Bliss and end on Sunday 7th of March with the freedom water service. The release also stated that in the previous programme one Mrs Adanna testified how the Lord used the freedom water to real her of ear…

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The member representing Mbaitoli state constituency in  the Imo state House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Okey Onyekanma, at the weekend paid a condolence visit to the family of late Mrs. Fidelia Opurum at Umuchoke, Obazu, in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state. Condoling the beraved family, Onyekanma, who was accompanied by Hon. Becon Duru, executive director of Okey Onyekanma Foundation and other legislative aides, described late Mrs. Fidelia Opurum as “a wonderful, peaceful woman who would always go for the option of peace.” The Lawmaker urged the children of…

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An Elder Statesman, Chief John Enyogasi popularly called OK2000 has wept for Imo State Workers over unpaid salary arrears, pensions and deprivation of citizens from the common patrimony. Chief Enyogasi who told newsmen that he shaded tears when he visited the Ministry of Justice at Imo State Secretariat Complex, New Owerri on Thursday, 25th February, 2021, condemned the State Government for subjecting its workers into abject poverty and penury. Chief Enyogasi, a notable philanthropist and Contractor who through his firm won and built so many State owned infrastructural projects including…

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The deployment of security agents including the military to flash points in Orlu and its environs by the Federal Government of President Muhammadu Buhari, has been described as timely. Imo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. C.O.C Akaolisa while briefing newsmen in his office in Owerri, Friday, disclosed that the intervention of the Federal Government of Nigeria in the crisis that erupted following what he said were the unbecoming activities of hoodlums under the guise of a security network fighting alleged killer herdsmen in the area, forestalled breakdown…

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A former speaker of the Imo House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Amaechi Nwoha has advised leaders in the state not to take laws into their own hands whenever they are aggrieved. Rt. Hon. Amaechi, a lawyer who represented Nwangele State Constituency in the Imo House Assembly between 2003 and 2011 described as unfortunate and disgraceful for a former governor to be allegedly involve in such act of forceful entry into a property confiscated irrespective of whether or not it was properly confiscated by the state government. The speaker emeritus noted…

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Two members of the 8th House of the Imo State House of Assembly, Hons Kennedy Ibe, Obowo State Constituency and Uju Onwudiwe, Njaba State Constituency, have denied allegations that the House purposely enacted the Public Private Partnership, PPP, which gave rise to Eastern Palm University, just to favour ex Gov Rochas Okorocha. The duo who opened up on the controversial law on Wednesday while contributing to the debate on a bill that sought to repel the law, said the House passed the law to encourage private investors to partner the…

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