Category: FEATURES

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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The Labour Party, LP, has warned members of the public to be wary of the activities of those it described as ‘political and judicial’ pranksters. The warning is coming on the heels of a purported judgment by an Imo State Court, claiming that the LP governorship candidate in the Imo State election in November, Sen. Athan Achonu, had been ordered replaced. The LP blamed Lamidi Apapa and his loyalists for the “mischievous misinformation”. The report had it that the Imo State court had replaced Achonu with Joseph Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, who…

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…As APGA gives him rousing welcome The candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the November 11,gubernatorial election in Imo State, Hon Tony Ejiogu, says his experience as a tested technocrat and youthful age were necessary credentials needed to fix the state bedeviled by myriad of challenges. Hon Ejiogu made the statement recently  when he returned to Imo from overseas trip,  amid a rousing reception. The reception was organized by leaders, stakeholders and APGA faithful including his running mate, Chief Chris Uche(Dinkpa SSAs),the Party state chairman , Barr John…

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The orchestrated rumour of the death of the governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, CON, by some political profiteers have become a grave concern to me and men and women of good conscience in Ondo state. In the past, I have ignored the tune as a mere political adventure but the latest version of the woven wicked rumours from their mill is satanic and totally inhuman. As mortals; we can fall ill. The governor, like any human being can fall ill. When illness comes, we seek medical treatment…

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