An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Ekiti State, Dr Adebayo Orire, has declared that Nigeria must break up for meaningful development and growth to occur. Speaking during an interview at his residence in Ikoro-Ekiti, Ijero Local Government Area, Orire argued that the prevailing disunity and ethnic divisions in the country have hindered progress. “A nation like Nigeria cannot go on; it must break up. Either it prospers, expands, and flourishes, or it will break up into pieces. The way forward is a break-up without killing and bloodshed,” he told…
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Ifeanyi Uba’s Burial: Okorocha To Tinubu,Release Nnamdi Kanu, Help S/East To Regain Peace.
…Akpabio: Senators’ll attend burial, despite threats. A former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Anayo Ethelbert Okorocha has made a passionate appeal to the Federal Government of Nigeria to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, saying such was the wish of the late Ohanaeze Ndigbo President General, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. Senator Okorocha who made the appeal at the Night of Tributes organized in honour of late Anambra-born Senator Ifeanyi Uba in Abuja on Monday, noted that the release of the detained IPOB leader has potentials to return peace to the Southeast zone.…
Read MoreSeptember Allocations: FG Fails To Pay Allocations Directly To LGAs Accounts Months After Supreme Court Ruling.
…As FAAC pays N1.298Tn into JAAC. …After 3 months moratorium elapsed . The Federal Government, through the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC has continued to pay allocations meant for Local Governments into joint state and Local Government Government accounts. This is despite the Supreme Court ruling in July, which ordered the Federal Government to make direct payments to Local Government accounts. The latest payment, totalling N1.298 trillion for September 2024, was shared among Federal, State and Local Governments in Abuja, last Thursday. The Supreme Court ruling in July 2024…
Read MoreIhekweme Gives Conditions To Stop Attack On Imo Gov: Return to Imo In 3 Days, Tackle Bad Roads, Food Crisis, Insecurity
…” Stay home, address our problems, pay pensioners” A former commissioner in Imo State, Dr Fabian Ihekweme has urged Governor Hope Uzodinma to concentrate on addressing the pertinent issues and challenges confronting the state, including what he described as food crisis, road rehabilitation, insecurity as well as pay arrears of salaries and pensions. The ex-commissioner gave the above conditions to the incumbent governor as a result of numerous calls from Senior citizens and Political personalities for him to stop further media campaign against alleged misgovernance in the state. Ihekweme, who…
Read MoreEx-Imo Commissioner- Ihekweme Flays Uzodinma For Allegedly Renovating Concorde Hotel with Whooping N18.5bn.
…Says: No advert for tenders, bidding A former commissioner in Imo state, Dr Fabian Ihekweme has alleged that the Governor,Sen. Hope Uzodinma has awarded contract for the renovation of the five star Concorde Hotel Owerri, at a whooping sum of N18.5 billion without advertising the project for tenders or bidding. It will be recalled that the former commissioner Ihekweme has been lashing calling out the the Uzodinma administration through articles on various media and social platforms alleging lack of good governance in the state This development has attracted counter media …
Read MoreSenato Neda ToTinubu, Nigerians Are Suffering Much
The Senator representing Edo South in the National Assembly, Neda Imasuen, has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider the plight and sufferings of Nigerians. The lawmaker who was elected on the platform of the Labour Party (LP), stated that the government is not playing its role in alleviating the suffering of the people. According to him, the twin policies of petrol subsidy removal and unification of forex windows by the Tinubu government are ill-timed and wrongly implemented. He lamented that several Nigerians are unable to afford a bag of rice,…
Read MoreONYEWUCHI SKILL ACQUISITION PROGRAMME ON SOLAR INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE CONTINUES WITH OVER 200 YOUTHS IN THE 2ND BATCH.
The second batch of training in Solar Installation and Maintenance, organized by Distinguished Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi, for residents and indigenes of Imo East Senatorial District, is currently ongoing in Owerri, the Imo State Capital. Training and empowering youths with skills and tools to start off enterprise, in the Solar installation and maintenance,is part of the holistic vision of the lawmaker, who has carved a niche for himself in human capital development, especially in skills empowerment,as shown by his popular alias of “Mr Empowerment,” to position Owerri Zone as a key…
Read MoreImo NUJ Unveils Ex-Governor’s Proxy, Anglican Priest Behind Alleged Criminal Plot To Sell Union’s Secretariat.
It has been revealed that the man behind the alleged fraudulent plot to sell the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Imo State Council is one Rev Godson Nlemchukwu, an Engineer who is currently serving under the Anglican Diocese of Ohaji/Egbema, presided over by His Lordship Bishop Collins Oparajiaku. The revelation came barley few days after the said Anglican priest mobilized some hoodlums with whom he invaded the Imo NUJ Secretariat located along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, the Imo state capital. The agents of the said Nlemchukwu claimed…
Read MoreONYEWUCHI COMMISSIONS THREE CLASSROOM BLOCKS WITH TOILET, OFFICES AT CENTRAL SCHOOL NTU NGOR OKPALA ,IMO EAST SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
Distinguished Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi has said that his emphasis on educational investments is because of the transformative power of education. He said education could transform someone who is a nobody today into a great personality tomorrow, changing families and even communities in the process, hence his continuous and deliberate investment in the sector. The Owerri Zone Senator (Imo East)spoke in Ntu Autonomous Community, Ngor Okpala LGA, during the official commissioning and handover of brand new classroom blocks with headmaster and secretary offices, as well as toilet facilities at Ntu Central…
Read MoreMy Life Is In Danger: Nonsonkwa’s Lawyer Cries Out,Writes Imo CP, IGP Alleges Threat To Life.
The Lawyer to the embattled Imo Radio Broadcaster, Chinonso Uba, (aka Nonsokwa), has raised an alarm alleging that some unknown persons have been calling, threatening to kill him, if he refuses to step aside and discontinue with the case. The counsel, C.K. Mgbekeonye disclosed this in a petition he addressed to the Imo State Commissioner of Police and the Inspector General of police informing that his life is in danger following his legal involvement in the matter. The lawyer, in a petition written through C.K. Mgbekeonye and Shekinah Chambers stated…
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