Category: FEATURES

Umuejechi Nekede community, Owerri West local government area of Imo State, have cried out over what they described as “the growing degree of intimidation, harassment and illegal detention of our people, by supposed agents of the state government, in collaboration with the police”. The Chairman of Umuejechi Central Assembly, UCA, Sir Sam Achogbuo, who raised the alarm while addressing the Press in Owerri, yesterday, also lamented that “these ugly things are happening to us, despite the subsisting Court of Appeal judgment in our favour, over our ancestral land.” His words:…

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By Chukwudi Ihenacho The immediate past Imo House of Assembly member for Ikeduru Local Government and candidate of Labour Party in the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru House of Representatives elections, Mr. Uche Ogbuagu, has reportedly received a massive financial boost of fifty million Naira in his quest to unseat the winner of the election and All Progressive Congress, APC candidate, Hon. Engr Akarachi Amadi. Report has it that the comedian turned politician has allegedly secured a whopping fifty million Naira from a Senator from an opposition party in the South East who instructed…

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Imo State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Mrs Rubby Emele has been honoured with a meritorious award as the Most Performing Commissioner in the State by Imo State Council of Autonomous Communities Youth Presidents, an umbrella body that unites all the the President Generals of the 655 Autonomous Communities in the state, Presenting the award to performing commissioner in her office, the State Coordinator, Imo State Council of Autonomous Communities Youth Presidents, Comr. John Kennedy Ezerihe, said; the award is in recognition of the Hon  Commissioner’s resilience…

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Senator Athan Achonu, the Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party in the November 11 gubernatorial elections in Imo State, has pledged to develop the state by enhancing ease of doing business and establishing industrial layouts in Imo State. He spoke at the Imo State Congress of America (ISCA Convention), Houston, Texas, on Saturday, 22nd July, where he was invited to speak on his plans to govern Imo State. Speaking about his determination to take back Imo State from its current state to a leading sub-national government, he said his administration,…

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  …As group key members are on the run Scores of members of the outlawed  Indigenous Peoples Of Biafra,IPOB have been reported arrested in Ogbe Ahiara and Akpodim Communities, while  its key leaders who escaped have  been  declared wanted by the  Nigerian security operatives made up of the Police,DSS and Army , generally known  as  Joint Task Force,JTF. Our  correspondent reported that following the lingering security challenges being experienced in the Mbaise communities of Imo  state, the JTF  had to mount surveillance in the  areas aimed at frustrating and neutralizing…

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The Peoples Democratic Party,PDP gubernatorial candidate in Imo State, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu(Samdaddy) has congratulated his Deputy Governorship standard bearer, Rt Hon Jones Onyereri, on the celebration of his 56th birthday anniversary. “Dr Onyereri is forthright, focused, dedicated, unassuming and energetic in life. He is a young man with capacity to change his world from bad to good. It is not in doubt that Onyereri is a great asset not only to Nkwerre LGA, Orlu zone and Imo state in particular, but Nigeria at large. “At 56, Dr Onyereri has…

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…Bags leadership Icon award By Nkechi Ojukwu An illustrious son, business Mogul and strong  stakeholder from  Ideato South LGA of Imo State, Chief Johnpaul Ochemba has in dismay decried  what he says is “the recent fall of South-East in total darkness” as a result of  heightened  insecurity. Ochemba lamented that it has  led to the death of many South-Eastern youths and collapse of businesses in the region, even as he solicited for peace in the area. The  business Mogul called for the total commitment of the youths in bringing peace to…

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Ahead of the scheduled November 11,governorship election in Imo State, the Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Hon Tony Ejiogu has unveiled a five-point manifesto focusing on Security, Power,Infrastructure, Job creation, Digital economy,  Agriculture,  Government and Social reforms. The Imo APGA gubernatorial candidate who recently returned from overseas trip where he met Diaspora groups in a bid to shore up support for his ambition, said he would adopt community-based integrated  approach to curb insecurity, as well as create  community-centred vigilante outfit that would work in synergy with the…

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The people of Njaba, Isu, Nwangele and Nkwerre local government areas have unanimously given a nod to the Governorship bid of Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu and his Deputy, Rt Hon Jones Onyereri ahead of the November 11 election. In a “Thank You Tour” to the LGAs, leaders, students, youths, market women, artisans, okada riders and party members unanimously declared support for the PDP standard bearer as the only consensus Governorship candidate to salvage the state, and vowed to vote him as the Governor. It can be recalled that Njaba, Isu,…

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In the face of lingering community leadership crisis in Obi-Mbieri Autonomous Community, Mbaitoli LGA,Imo state, concerned Indigenes of the community living in the United States of America,USA, have kicked against the recent purported dissolution of the Obi-Mbieri Development Union,O.D.U Executive led by the President-General,Chief Ugo-Martins Iwuajoku (Onyeugo) by the Sole Administrator of Mbaitoli LGA,Hon.Hamilton Opara, describing the said  dissolution as’ undue interference in the administrative affairs of the community. Speaking in a telephone interview with journalists in Owerri on Tuesday, July,4, Nze Richmond Okoro,who spoke on behalf of the Obi-Mbieri…

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