Category: FEATURES

A former member of the Imo House of Assembly, Hon Steve Orji who represented Orlu state constituency in the 7th Assembly is dead. A release from his family made available to newsmen indicates that the deceased was a formal majority chief whip of the 7th Assembly, Imo House of Assembly, when he represented Orlu state constituency. A doctorate degree holder including several professional qualifications, Hon Steve Orji was a prominent political figure in Orlu Zone and Imo State. He also held the traditional title of Okeosisi NdIgbo. The release further…

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The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has promised to wade into the matter between General Lincoln Ogunewe(Rtd) and Chairman of Action Alliance,AA in Imo State, Comrade Ifeanyi Okponwa-Eze. Ogunewe, the candidate of Action Alliance,AA in the 2023 Governorship election in Imo state, had after the poll, petitioned the police, leading to a suit in a Magistrate court on alleged defamation against his person by the Party Chairman (Okponwa-Eze). But the Inter-Party Advisory Council (I-PAC) Imo State, Wednesday , visited Chief Iwuanyanwu and called on…

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Imo State has been described as the fastest developing state East of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ,considering far reaching infrastructural development programs and projects of the 3R Shared Prosperity government of Sen Hope Uzodinma in the last four years in the State and his recent inauguration for another four years in Office, the State is better positioned to record an unprecedented and accelerated socioeconomic transformation in the next few years. This was the position of a prominent leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress in Orsu Local Government Area…

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Imo concerned citizens have expressed surprise that the Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu  led APC government which Imo state  is a crucial part has not considered any Imo citizen(s) qualified enough to be nominated in the new list of Ambassadors. Some prominent personalities and APC Chieftains( names with held) have expressed deep seated surprise about the absence of any Imo citizen in the list of the new Ambassadors released yesterday. “It is most disturbing and worrisome that no Imo man is in the  list,even when our Governor,Sen Hope Uzodinma is the…

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The remains of Mrs Esther Ekenma Joseph Ohanaga (Nee Ezeben) will be committed to mother earth, Friday ,March 22 at her husband’s compound in Umuduruire Alaude Ibeme Ugiri in Isiala Mbano LGA, Imo State. There will be a Christian wake keep at her husband’s compound on Thursday March 21. On Friday March 22 her remains will leave Alpha Mortuary Ugiri to her husband’s compound where her body will lie in state. Her body will be interred at her husband’s compound after a funeral Mass at Saint Ita’s Catholic Church Ibeme.…

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I Shall Pass Through This World But Once.Any Good Therefore That I Can Do Or Any Kindness That I Can Show To Any Human Being,Let Me Not Defer Or Neglect It, For I Shall Not Pass This Way Again”–Stephen Grellet. The above philosophy can well be said as part of what drives the Chief of Staff,CoS to Imo state Governor,Hon. Barr Nnamdi Richardson Jnr Anyaehie, Ezeumuokorobia as he is popularly called by close pals,towards philanthropy . Any way the following story as told to Nigeria Newspoint by Madam Ndidi NJoku,an…

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A former Information commisioner in Imo State, Prof. Orikeze Vitalis Ajumbe says Owerri Zone must reconcile with Okigwe Zone to get the needed support to win the 2027 governorship poll in the state. In a recently publicized statement, Prof. Ajumbe, who was also a former state chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Imo State, hinted that since power is taken and not given, Owerri Zone leaders should not go to sleep for the simple reason that the incumbent Governor,Sen. Hope Uzodinma has assured of his willingness to hand…

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The Coordinator of Amawom Concerned Citizens in Diaspora and Home, Princess Stella NJemanze-Neboh has specifically pleaded with the Imo state Governor,Sen Hope Uzodinma to advise Hon MacDonald Ebere,the All Progressives Congress,APC state chairman to stop politicizing the Amawom youths’ election which ended on crisis at the weekend. In a statement she issued after the crisis marred youths’ election, the Princess asked that the APC state chairman should not be involved in such a village/ community youths poll. She condemned the introduction of politics into the brotherly election such as that…

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Members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ,  Imo State Council, have commended the Commissioner of Police in the state, Danjuma Aboki, for his timely intervention in the Union’s matter which led to the detention and recovery of property of the union, forcefully carted away by one  Ifeanyi Nwanguma of StarPost Express Newspaper. Imo NUJ also flayed the activities of the Divisional Police of Officer, DPO, New Owerri Division, for what it called the seeming unprofessional manner he  handled the matter before it was reported to the Commissioner of Police…

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Seriously perturbed residents and plyers of the ever busy World Bank/ Umuguma Road, Owerri, have cried out to the Imo State governor Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma, urging him to use his powers to compel the contractor handling the World Bank/ Umuguma road construction to complete the project. The residents who spoke to Nigeria Media Hub recently, maintained that the call on the governor to wade into the issue of abandonment of the project by the contractor, became urgent in view of the imminence of another rainy season and subsequent unprecedented…

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