Category: EDITORIAL

Recently, the Nigeria Police High Command in Abuja posted a new commissioner of police CP Dasuki Galadanchi to Imo State as the 33rd Police Commissioner for the state. The new police boss took over from CP Chris Ezike who was redeployed to the Lious Edet Force Headquarters in Abuja. The belief in many quarters in the state is that CP Ezike whose redeployment could better be described as some sort of palace coup was consumed by politics. More specifically, his sudden transfer has strongly been linked  to the internal wrangling…

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Douglas road in Owerri, the Imo state capital is strategically located, and also the commercial nerve center of the state. The nerve centre of an organization or place is where its activities are controlled as well as where bulk of revenue is generated. All over the world, nerve centers exist from where the prosperity of a state or nation is determined.  The constituents of these commercial centers may include banks, corporate offices, markets, parks etc. Economic activities around most nerve centers determine the healthy or otherwise nature of the most…

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Recently, a civil society organization, Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP forwarded a letter to the United Nations, UN, calling on it to declare the Fulani herdsmen a terrorist organization. SERAP’s call came against the backdrop of bloody activities of this dangerous group which has sent thousands of defenceless Nigerians to their untimely death. We have to recall that long before this bold initiative from SERAP, many well meaning Nigerians had also spoken in similar manner and way by telling President Muhammadu Buhari to declare the group a terrorist…

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The recent action of the National Assembly in re-ordering the sequence for the 2019 general elections has been in the front burner of national discourse in the past few weeks. This has been so considering that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had earlier scheduled the order or sequence of the 2019 elections to begin with the presidential election first. Understandably, therefore some interests who have been uncomfortable with the re-ordering of the elections with the presidential election now scheduled to hold, last, apparently jumped into the ring for what…

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Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Ethelbert Okorocha,recently announced the upgrading of some secondary schools to tertiary institutions as well as the creation of new ones. Among the upgraded schools are Ahiara Technical College,upgraded to a Polytechnic and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Imo State University at Ngor Okpala upgraded to a full fledged university of Agriculture. The  governor also announced the founding of College of Education, Ohaji/Egbema and College of Nursing, Owerri.  On the surface, this government decision is one deserving commendation. Education remains the bedrock of societal growth…

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A forthright ago residents and people doing business around Item by Mbari Street junction in Ikenegbu Layout in Owerri metropolis experienced an armed robbery incident in which a woman was dispossessed of her hand bag by two suspected armed robbers as they rode past her on a motor bike. The woman was said to be heading towards Diamon Bank located at Item Street probably, to do some transactions before her handbag was snatched from her according to the woman’s lament. In the handbag were her Automated Teller Machine (ATM), card,…

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Nigerians, already fatigued by unending daily cascade of ugly stories, again woke up last week to hear another depressing story. It was the story of another mindboggling kidnap of 110 innocent students of Dapachi Girls Secondary, Yobe State. Boko Haram terrorists had invaded the school and carted the students away to an unknown destination leaving parents, people of Yobe and indeed, Niherians in shock and grieve once again. This wicked and unconscinable abduction re echoes the 2014 Chibok Girls saga which jolted the world and drew global condemnation. The abduction…

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Good health often depends much on a clean environment. Environment itself must be seriously managed else it degenerates and possibly wipe out human, animal or even aquatic lives. Environmental cleanliness and sustainability cannot be achieved by mere lip services, it requires well thoughout policy and institutional framework to actualize it. The then Governor Ikedi Ohakim Administration between 2007 and 2011, demonstrated a rare but uncommon commitment towards reclaiming the environment in Imo State through his administration’s flagship Clean and Green Initiative, which placed Imo ahead of all the 36 states…

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 Much has been heard and said about Fulani herders in the country who go about killing, maiming and raping people. Countless of lives and property have lost in various parts of the country due to the barbaric activities of the herdsmen as they take pleasure in spilling innocent blood of Nigerians, mainly rural dwellers. The rural dwellers are predominantly farmers whose farms are being destroyed by the heartless Fulani herdsmen’s cattle. From the North to the South, these herders have left blood in their trail destroying everything and persons they…

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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…

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