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Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reassured the people of the state that his administration will continue to promote peace in the state in order to enhance good governance and rapid development. The governor reiterated that his administration will not take the existing peace in the state for granted, stressing that he would do whatever is necessary to sustain the existing peace throughout his tenure. Speaking during an official visit to Aninri Local Government Area on Monday, to inaugurate some development projects executed by the council chairman, Hon. Ezekiel…

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There was unprecedented excitement in Uba Agwa autonomous community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, over the weekend as the community rolled out the drums to receive Mrs Atiba Frederick Buckman, from United States of America and her team in Uba community to commission a borehole water project which she built for the community through her Non-Governmental Organization, NGO. Early on that day, the traditional ruler of the community Eze (Hon) Herbert Chima Azubuike, the Ohanyere 1 of Uba Agwa autonomous community, had invited other traditional rulers from…

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The Imo community of Tampa Bay USA have awarded scholarship to ten students of the polytechnic Nekede Owerri. Speaking on the occasion at the office of the Rector Federal Polytechnic Nekede on Tuesday. The vice chairman of the association Mr. Emeka Eziakonwa who represented the chairman Dr. Duke Maduagwu thanked the rector for giving them such opportunity adding that he wants to make it an annual event. He said that they started from Federal Polytechnic Nekede because it is a premier school. He informed that he belonged to a group…

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Imo State Universal Basic Education Board, IMSUBEB, is to commence the construction of a seven hundred million (N700M), model primary school in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of the state. The primary school according to the Executive Secretary of IMSUBEB, Barr Kingsley Nzemeche is among the schools mapped out in the pilot scheme to test run Federal/States governments plan to return boarding school system to the primary schools in the country. Barr Nzemeche who spoke in his office in Owerri during a visit to him by journalists from Ngor Okpala…

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Special citizens have been advised to engage in something meaningful in other to develop their potentials/dignity and be free from developing inferiority complex and street begging. The wife of Imo State Governor, Lady Ebere Ihedioha gave the remark during the 2019 Awareness week celebration of the United Imo State Deaf Women Association held at Ludan Hotels Ikenegbu Owerri. Lady Ihedioha ably represented by her special Assistant on Special Duties Hon. Mrs Louis Osueke encouraged the deaf women to shun inferiority complex and belief that they can also be what their…

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Imo Education Commissioner, Prof. (Noble Lady) Viola Adaku Onwuliri has commended Gov Emeka Ihedioha for the successful enlistment of Imo State College of Education, Ihitte Uboma as a Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) Institution. She made this disclosure during a working visit to the College recently. In her remarks, Prof. Onwuliri observed that prior to this new development, the immediate past administration had neglected the College and made no effort to secure it’s enlistment as a TETfund Institution. She therefore eulogized Gov Ihedioha for his doggedness in securing the enlistment…

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Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has advised the new Emir of Bichi, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero to work closely with the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi for the unity of the State. Speaking when the Monarch from far away Kano State, paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Owerri, the Imo State capital weekend, Iwuanyanwu said what Kano needs from all the Emirates Councils in the State is mutual relationship that transcends beyond politics. This he said, will foster unity and helps in economic prosperity of the State.…

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Governor Emeka Ihedioha, has commiserated with Muslims in the state on the death of Chief Imam, Alhaji Dauda Anozie Onyeagocha, who passed in the early hours of Tuesday. He described Alhaji Onyeagocha as a peace loving leader who placed premium on the virtues of love and tolerance. Governor Ihedioha noted that the late Chief Imam, a native of Amawom community in Owerri Municipal Local Government Area of Imo State, was a detribalized Nigerian, a bridge-builder, who contributed immensely to the peaceful co-existence of adherents of Islam and Christianity in the…

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Hon. Aloysius Oluigbo, Chairman Interim Management Committee, Orlu Local Government, is a happy person. This follows the action of Governor Emeka Ihedioha over the paretic conditions of patients admitted at the Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH), Orlu, who he ordered for their immediate discharge at zero bills. The staff of the apex Health Institution had embarked on strike leaving the patients at the Mercy of the winds. The cries and prayers of the patients got to the governor who ordered for their immediate discharge without cost or bill. Reacting…

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The chairman of Owerri Province of the Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, ESOCS Special Senior Apostle C.C. Chieke Sunday, empowered 60 members of the church with cash gifts and food items such as bags of rice, noodles to mention a few. The event which took place at the Eternal Sacred Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Mount Bethel, Orji in Owerri Province, had in attendance many elders of the church. Special Senior Apostle Chieke also used the event to perform the fourth inspection of the church’s…

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