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…Says: APGA’ll deploy OCOP model for export By Ebenezer Ojor  With the consistent rise in food prices in Imo State, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the scheduled November 11 governorship election in the state, Hon Tony Ejiogu has reiterated his commitment to run a policy-driven agriculture sector for ensure food sufficiency and export in the state. Hon Ejiogu who made the disclosure recently in Owerri, hinted that his administration if elected, would fight hunger and rising cost of food by adopting what he called the…

…Drums  support for PDP’s Samdaddy The leader of Ogwa Ward 11 of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dave Aguocha has said that Mbaitoli LGA in Imo State  doesn’t need the position of a Deputy Governor. Speaking to Journalists in Owerri recently,Chief Aguocha noted that  Mbaitoli Local Government is  a PDP Area and so urges the entire Mbaitoli and Ikeduru LGAs  to  vote for the Party’s flag bearer in  the November 11 poll,Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu. The PDP chieftain opined that Mbaitoli and Ikeduru LGAs has gotten the  Deputy Governor…

…As APGA flags off Campaign With the November 11 governorship election in Imo State just weeks ahead, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA,   Sir Tony Ejiogu has pledged his commitment to improving the working conditions of Imo civil servants via upward review of the Minimum Wage to Eighty thousand Naira (N80,000),   monthly. This is even as he  also assured that he would  settle Pensions and Gratuities promptly. Ejiogu who made this pledge in his speech at the flag-off of his Campaign,last Thursday  in Owerri,  Imo State…

…Insists: Power, Crucial To Industrialization The standard bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for the scheduled November 11 governorship election in Imo State, Hon Tony Ejiogu says steady electricity supply remains crucial to industrialization as well as job creation and boosting the internally generated revenue (IGR) of the state. Ejiogu who made the assertion recently in an interview, hinted that he placed much premium on the germane issue of electricity generation because of its nexus with industrialisation, job creation and economic growth; the reason he said, prompted him…

…Protest Unpaid Salaries   The situation in Niger may be taking a dramatic turn as emerging reports tend to indicate that mutiny was underway at the presidential palace in Niamey.   As at the time of filing this report the Niger Coup Leader Gen.Abdourahmane Tchiani was said to have fled the Palace.   Reports are pointing to the President guards protesting over unpaid salaries.   A delegation of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, said to be led by former Nigerian Military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, was…

  …Calls for votes for PDP …Says: Imo debt, highest in Nigeria The Governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party,PDP in Imo State, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu(Samdaddy) has described the 27 LGAs in the state as  existing in shadow and being quite   cold than the grave yard as result of no activities in them. The PDP Guber hopeful  added that the situation has become much terrible with the latest  Gov.Uzodinma’s alleged  directive to  each LGA to give “kick-back”of over N91 million to him at the end of every month. Anyanwu…

…Accuses  Uzodinma of being  anti-Igbo economic development The Apex Socio-cultural Youth organization of Igbo race world wide, Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC has  led a delegation to  ascertain the level of  destruction at the All Seasons Hotel, Mimi Relaxation Place and Havana Cinema by a government  agency. Describing the  act as undevelopmental,  allegedly envious and  wicked   act carried under  out by Gov Hope Uzodinma led administration. Ohanaeze Youth Council therefore condemned in its totality the destruction of All Seasons Hotels, Mimi Relaxation Place and Havana Cinema center, describing it  as a…

 “56% Unemployment Rate, Recipe For Disaster” …We’ll Revive Imo LGAs Ahead of the scheduled November 11 governorship election in Imo State, the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Hon Tony Ejiogu says he would leverage his experience and contacts as a technocrat in the private sector to set up industrial clusters and create thousands of jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the state, if elected governor. This is even as he assured on repositioning the Local Government system in the State to carry out its role as…