By Williams Odunze In the move to ensure public safety and friendly environment within the State especially, its Capital territory, the State House of Assembly has drawn the attention of the State Governor, Hope Uzodinma to checkmate the proliferation of Cooking Gas Outlet within the residential areas across the State. The call was made following the adoption of the motion moved by the member representing Isiala Mbano Constituency, Hon. Samuel Ikechukwu Osuji who informed the House that indiscriminate establishment of Cooking Gas is posing serious threats to lives and property…
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Igbo: Ikwerre People Should Tell Who They Are, Ignore Stories –Amaechi
The former Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi,has responded to claims that the Ikwerre people are part of the Igbo ethnic group. He urged the Ikwerre community to assert their true identity and disregard the narratives being written about them. Amaechi emphasized the importance of the Ikwerre people taking control of their own narrative and history, ensuring their distinct cultural identity is accurately represented. He called on those involved in politics within Ikwerre land to actively promote and project the image of the Ikwerre people, no matter where they are. In…
Read MorePower-Drunk Niger Gov-Bago Publicly Orders Security Detail To Assault Islamic Cleric
The Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago has been caught on camera ordering his security detail to assault and deal with an Islamic cleric. It was gathered that the governor gave the order during the 3-day Fidau prayer for the wife of his deputy, Hajiya Zainab Yakubu Garba who died after a brief illness in Minna on Monday. Fidau is a special prayer offered after 3, 7 or 40 days after a Muslim ummah died. Sources at the event told news reporter that the cleric had volunteered to offer prayers…
Read MoreACPN Summit: Pharmacists want govt to end sale of drugs in open market, blames such for fake drugs
…Pharmaceutical industries should diversify, says Reagan Remedies MD By Ebenezer Ojor A one-day business summit organised by the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, Imo State Branch, held in Owerri, Wednesday, with a call on government to end the sale of drugs in the open market. In a chat with newsmen during the event, ACPN national president, Pharm Wale Oladigbolu blamed the sale of fake drugs to the practice of selling drugs in the open market. The ACPN helmsman who hinted that the association was concerned with how to…
Read MoreI’m not worried about Appeal Court judgment, says Fubara
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that he is neither deterred nor worried by Thursday’s Appeal Court judgment which returned Martin Amaewhule and 24 other lawmakers to the state House of Assembly. The Appeal Court had nullified the order of a Rivers State High Court which restrained Amaewhule and the other lawmakers loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, from parading themselves as lawmakers. The court also said only the Federal High Court has the jurisdiction to entertain the matter of the lawmakers. Meanwhile, Fubara…
Read MoreSenator Hope Uzodimma Hands Over Sam Mbakwe International Airport To Staff Of The Art Electronic Tollgate To The Federal Airport Authority Of Nigeria
Governor Hope Uzodimma Of Imo State has officially handed over a state-of-the-art, electronic tollgate at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport to The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). The tollgate, located at the airport’s entrance, was donated by the Imo State Government to enhance the airport’s beauty and functionality. According to Governor Uzodimma, the facility aims to improve traffic management and provide quality service to airport users. He acknowledged that President Ahmed Bola Tinubu had earlier commissioned the airport’s road, and now, the tollgate is ready for use. The…
Read MoreHe Poured Salt into My Mouth,Raped Me At Gun Point–SS2 Student.
…Court remands suspect in prison. He was pouring salt into my mouth during intercourse’, SS2 student raped at gun point recounts ordeals A Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikirun, Osun State has ordered a 24-year-old man, Wahab Taofeek to be remanded in Ilesa Correctional Centre for allegedly raping a teenage girl. It was gathered that the girl, an SSS student, was allegedly defiled and sexually abused by the accused person at gunpoint. The incident, it was gathered, happened on June 1, 2024 when the 16-year-old victim (name withheld) was at their…
Read MoreIPOB: Back Off-Make No More Anti-Kanu Utterances, kinsmen Warn Reno Omokri
Members of the Ibeku Youth Association have made a strong case for the unconditional release of their kinsman and detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu from the DSS custody. In a communique signed by the National President, Ibeku Youth Association, Mr Martins Chiedozie Nwosu and the National Secretary, Mr Chibuzor Onwukamuche and read to the press at Isieke, Ibeku ancestral home in Umuahia, the group expressed sadness that one of her own has long been detained in the DSS custody. The Ibeku youths, who used the communique to warn social media…
Read MoreGender Based Violence: Imo Women Affairs Commissioner Wades In To Prosecute Man Bullying Widow
By Williams Odunze The Imo state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Lady Nkechinyere Ugwu has intervened to save a widow who was being maltreated by one Chinagorom Ukaegbu via a video that has gone viral on Social Media. The commissioner insisted that the state government is determined to prosecute the suspect to ensure justice for the widow . She made the statement while addressing Journalists in her office at State Secretariat in Owerri, Imo state capital, yesterday . The Commissioner said that the Ministry was moved by the…
Read MoreCharter Of Equity: 2027 Governorship, Mere Distraction For Uzodinma, Says Ex-speaker Nwagwu
A former speaker of the Imo House of Assembly, Rt Hon Kelechi Kennedy Nwagwu, says it is still quite early for politicians to start overheating the polity with talks about which zone of the state takes over from the incumbent Governor, Hope Uzodinma in 2027. In a chat with Nigeria Newspoint ,recently, the outspoken former IMHA speaker said what the governor, Senator Uzodinma needs at the moment is the support of all well meaning Imolites to continue to deliver dividends of democracy to the people, instead of the on-going distraction…
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