Category: FEATURES

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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In a bid to attracts God’s blessing to Bayelsa a State, which is the glory of all lands, and to maintain prevalence of peace in the November 16 election which is two weeks from now. Bayelsa State Governor His Excellency Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, accompanied by his wife Her Excellency Rachel Seriake has led a delegation to the Bayelsa State Ecumenical Centre, Igbogene Yenagoa for his Annual Thanksgiving in order to dedicate the state to God. This year thanksgiving theme is tag “Covenant Keeping God” 8th, Governor Dickson said he…

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It was praises galore for the Chairman of the Interim Management Committee, Ngor Okpala Local Government Area, Hon Charles Abara, in Umuneke, the council headquarters, on Monday, November 4, 2019, during the flag off of ICT skills training program for 170 indigenes of the area. The trainees are the first set to benefit from the training program which the chairman said will become a continuous one as well as a key component of his administrations empowerment drive owing to the key role of ICT in the world presently. One of…

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Imo State Commissioner for Finance, Prof. Joe U. Uwaleke has eulogized Governor Emeka Ihedioha over the introduction of the Treasury Single Account TSA saying, the policy has helped the state to raise its Internally Generated Revenue IGR from a paltry monthly income of N250million to N877million as at close of business in October. He said the target is to hit N1b and above before the end of December 2019. “TSA has stalled abuses and sharp practices. “Multiple accounts was festering corruption and the new accounts policy has assisted in promoting…

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