Category: FEATURED

The member representing Ideato Federal Constituency, Hon. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere has expressed deep gratitude to the Federal Government for allocating funds to address the worsening Umuchima gully erosion in the 2024 budget. In a statement, Ugochinyere lauded President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for including budgetary provisions in both the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Act and the 2024 budget to tackle the environmental threat. He acknowledged this as a significant outcome of months of lobbying and advocacy on behalf of the good people Ideato Federal Constituency. Ugochinyere however highlighted his reservations about the…

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Engr Seigha Gumus has been inaugurated as the 4th chairman of the Nigerian Institute of Mechanical Engineers, NIMECHE, Yenagoa Chapter, promised to work for the betterment of Engineers in the State. In an investiture in his honour, on Monday,March 5, Engr Gumus was inaugurated alongside 2024 Executive Members at the NSE/COREN Secretariat, Yenagoa. Delivering his inaugural speech, Engr Gumus identified lack of professional development and growth of engineers as barrier to the development of engineers in the state, hence, he promised to tackle it, immediately. He also noted that mechanical…

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A former candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Imo East senatorial district, Chief Mike Nwachukwu(Mpidike) has advocated for a political synergy between Owerri and Okigwe zones in order to actualise the dream of producing the next Imo governor come 2027. Chief Nwachukwu stated this recently, via his detailed statement on the Imo Charter of Equity, which was made available to newsmen and so many Media platforms. Going down memory lane,he analysed the original of Charter of Equity since 1999, and its implementation, Chief Nwachukwu noted that Owerri…

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The government of Ukraine recently announced that it would send 25,000 tons of wheat to Nigeria as assistance to the country in the fight against hunger. The announcement from no other country but war-torn Ukraine that has been enmeshed in a war with Russia in the last two years, was received with mixed feelings across Nigeria. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Gregory Obi who though appreciated the Ukrainian government for the kind gesture, has , expressed concern that the gesture spoke volumes about the extent the…

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Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has presented a staff of office to Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere as the Traditional ruler of Ikwu Orie Ohanku Ndoki Autonomous Community in Ukwa East LGA of the state. Apostle Chibuzor is the General Overseer,GO  of Omega Power Ministry, OPM,a pronounced christian organisation in Nigeria. Presenting the staff of office and letter of recognition to the new traditional ruler, the governor who was represented by the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Uzo Nwachukwu, said the event followed the overwhelming acceptance and presentation of the…

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…Inducts Knights Of St.Philips  …Says: Igbo must not  join protests Bishop  Festus Nwaodu of the Royal Christian  Pentecostal  Bible Church Diocese of Owerri has urged the authorities of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government of Nigeria to urgently bring down the prices  of petrol to N100 per litre and other petroleum products, in order to crash the soaring prices of food and other goods and services in the country. This is even as the cleric urged the newly inducted Knights of St Philip in his church, to see their new…

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The Apex socio-cultural youth organization of Igbo race World Wide, the Ohanaeze Youth Council,OYC has described the arrest, continued incarceration of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,leader of IPOB  at DSS dungeon as a long protracted post- civil war hang-over by the regime of former President Muhammadu Buhari. The President General of Ohanaeze Youth Council,OYC Comrade Igboayaka .O. Igboayaka,while speaking to the Press at the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, on Thursday, February 22, frowned at the manner former President Muhammadu Buhari handled the issue of Self Determination Agitators in the South East, thereby…

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Politicians in Imo state especially of the All Progressives Congress,APC extraction have been advised to desist from the act of using the Media to deceive gullible citizens as they try to seek political appointments in the second tenure of the Governor,Sen. Hope Uzodinma. Speaking recently in Owerri during a world Press conference, the leader of Imo Voice For Good Leadership , Mr Innocent Onyemaobi observed that in recent times that politicians have resorted to using the Media on the wrong side to be presenting them for political office of authorities…

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Nigerian governors have been called out by former Anambra State Governor and ex-Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige. Ngige accused governors of handling security votes as if it is pocket money. According to him, the misuse of security funds has worsened insecurity in the country. Speaking on the sidelines of the Ojoto Ofala Festival in Anambra on Wednesday, Ngige levelled accusations that governors “erroneously believe security votes are pocket money for them,” and divert them from their intended purpose, thus contributing to the current security crisis. “Security votes…

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Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has accused the Governor Hope Uzodinma of rendering the state bankrupt and insolvent to the extent that it cannot proactively fight crime. The PDP Governorship candidate in the last Guber Poll in 2023  added  that the state’s resources to the tune of over ten billion Naira (N10bn)was primitively wasted for vote buying during the 2023 governorship election. Sen Anyanwu further averred that the state under APC recklessly lavished the state’s resources to purchase an unmerited mandate it has continued to parade, adding that as a man…

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