I mo politics is replete with stories of people who threatened to go on exile if A or Z candidate wins or loses election. The recent story that hit newspaper headlines was when Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, governorship aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, visited a ward in Owerri Municipal Council as part of his consultation exercise. After his address, journalists accosted Dr Josiah Odunna, one of the major political voices in the state to seek his views on the visit. Dr Odunna came in solidarity with…
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2019 Guber: Imo State health care poor, deficient – Osuji
A governorship hopeful in the state under Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) Party ; an International constitution lawyer , Industrialist and Human Rights Advocate , Chief (Barr) Aloysius Osuji , has bemoaned Imo State government on the increasing rate of infant mortality occasioned by the absence of functional health care centres in the state . While speaking during his local government tour in Ohaji | Egbema LGA, Imo State, Barr. Osuji with a deep sense of nostalgic called on Imo governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and agencies of the state government…
Read MoreAPC crisis; Imo State case
Barely one hundred and eighty days (180 days) to the 2019 general election, the ruling All Progressive Congress Party (APC) is almost scattered as mere shreds of paper. At the National level, a schism has resulted into two major faction of the party. Hence, we now have the New Reformed APC. It will be recalled that the major opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) suffered the same fate a couple of months after its humiliation out of the corridors of power at the Federal Government Level. The aftermath of the conspiracy…
Read MorePolice Harassment: Who is afraid of Comrade Nwadike?
The die is cast. As the 2019 general elections draw nearer, those that believe that power belongs to them rather than the people are baring their fangs fully, doing all in their power to stifle the opposition as well as those that are not on the side of the establishment. In their warped minds, they erroneously believe that only those in their good books are fit for public offices while those they believe are their enemies should remain mere spectators in the political terrain. The reign of impunity in Imo…
Read MoreHow IFITECH and Associates supports market development in Imo
Market development is top among Governor Rochas Okorocha’s critical policies. To archive this, the Okorocha’s government has put into action pragmatic steps to revamping the rural economy. Recall, it is one of the reasons for the adoption of the economic policy of Public Private Partnership, PPP, by Okorocha’s administration, just do boost and increase economic activities in the rural areas. Under the PPP, the government has partnered with IFITECH and Associate Limited, a result orientated estate promoter and developer in rebuilding some of our local markets from looking as shanties…
Read MorePDP and the need to knuckle down for the 2019 general elections
By Jude Njoku In the next approximate six months, Nigeria will go to polls to elect leaders who will take charge of affairs for four other years, as the constitution stated. Now that Nigerians are at the threshold of the 2019 elections, raucous situations abound everywhere. Jangling with each other for egoistic scopes has become the most hackneyed thing in the whole of the ambience. Ranting and prattling in chimerical and Utopian promises have indubitably become the order of the day, to the amplitude that every aspirant feigns to be…
Read MoreAfrica is Leaving Nigeria behind
By Simon Kolawole You should have seen me shaking my head in self-pity, as if somebody had just mercilessly slapped me. I had just landed at the “little” Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana, and needed to use the rest room. What I saw startled me. There were about a dozen toilet cubicles. All the doors were standing tall — none was hanging loose. I also saw a row of urinals in sparkling conditions. The rest room was so clean, so odour-free you could comfortably have your lunch in there without…
Read MoreState of Imo today and need for Frank Nneji
Imo state is sick no doubt about this. It is no longer news that the economy of Imo state is in a such terrible condition that she can no longer fulfil her financial obligations to her citizens. At the present, not a single part of her financial involvements including monthly wage bill can be settled fully. Like an individual down with a severe illness without adequate treatment, her horrible situation has continued to get devastating each day that passes without hope to get better. For instance, imo workers go home…
Read More2019 Imo Guber: MAJA party’s mega political zonal summit
Preparatory to the 2019 general elections in the country as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had earlier released its 2018 time table and guidelines for the August-September primaries for all registered political parties in Nigeria , the Mass Action Joint Alliance Party, MAJA ; whose mission is to promote the socio-economic and political well-being of all Nigerians through genuine democracy characterised by transparency, accountability, quality education and social justice, was on Monday 16th June through Wednesday 18th July, 2018 ; embarked on her massive zonal political rally of Okigwe…
Read MoreResolving retirement benefits payment problem in Imo
According to the rules governing public service, employees of government and public companies are paid some amount of money at the end of services to these organizations. These payments are in form of gratuity and pensions. While gratuity is money given to an employee when he is retiring, pensions is an amount of money paid regularly to a person who had worked for a government when he retires. The obligation of payment of pensions and gratuity to retired public servants by government has been a long accepted practice. It…
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