Imo State Commissioner for Information, Chief Declan Mbadiwe Emelumba, yesterday accused a former governor of the state for being behind Easter Monday’s attacks on some federal facilities in Owerri,Imo state capital. Accordingly to him,”the former governor engaged thugs whom he had earlier granted amnesty to unleash violence in the state to prod the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in Imo”. Addressing a press conference in Owerri, Chief Emelumba averred that all that took place in the state last Monday had the imprimatur of the former governor. According…
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Tragedy: Uzodinma Pulls Down Two Storey Building Without Compensation …Owner: No reason given for demolition …Says: Property has C of O, built 1982
A resident of Owerri the Imo State capital, Engr. George Asi has had his two-storey building demolished by the administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma. The said two-storey building which Nigeria Newspoint learnt was demolished on yesterday (Tuesday), was located at No. 47, Egbu Road, Owerri, and was said to have all the legal documents including a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) according to investigations. Nigeria Newspoint further gathered that no compensation whatsoever has been paid to Engr. Asi in respect of the demolished property, even as owner, Asi, does…
Read MoreCabinet Reshuffle: Cabals Clash In Uzodinma’s Govt …OCDA Boss: It’s laughable, I’m no cabal head
Last week, in the wake of two seeming unexpected events in the government of Gov Hope Uzodinma, rumour mills in Imo State were agog with claims of the existence of a powerful cabal in the government. The events were the sudden redeployment of Barr Enyinna Onuegbu, one of acclaimed performers in the Gov Uzodinma adminstration from the Ministry of Lands to the obscure Power Ministry, as well as the demolition of a building belonging to Mr Chinasa Nwaneri, Special Adviser Special Duties to the governor. The proponents of the existence…
Read MoreInsecurity: Iwuanyanwu flays massacre of Ebonyi citizens in their homes
Elder statesman and chairman, Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has strongly condemned the recent terrorist attacks launched against some communities in Ebonyi State by people suspected to be herdsmen, calling on the federal government to take urgent steps “to stop there terrorists from attacking Igboland, otherwise Igbos would have no option but to devise means of self defence”. In a release signed by Chief Iwuanyanwu referring to the Monday March 29, 2021 attacks on Ebonyi communities, he warned that Igbos would no longer accept a situation…
Read MoreNUJ Crisis: Ex-National President, Odusile Floors Isiguzo As Court Quashes Illegal Suspension …S/East VP-Petrus, others win also
The National Industrial Court sitting in Abuja has nullified the purported suspension of president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Alhaji Waheed Odusile and the Vice President, South East, Prince Petrus Obi. The court also quashed the purported suspension of the South East Vice President of the National Association of Women Journalists, NAWOJ, Chibota Edozie and Ngozi Agbo from NUJ Enugu State Council. Delivering the judgment in suit No. NICN/ABJ/51/2020, Justice O.O. Onyewumi held that the action of NUJ National Executive Council, NEC, in suspending the above named persons…
Read MoreGrassroots Tour: Uzodinma Not Interested In Property Acquisition, Means Well For Imo, Says Batos
…As Mbonu hails Gov’s projects Impressed by Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State administration’s commitment towards good, visionary and purposeful governance, High Chief Batos Nwadike has added his voice among some eminent Nigerians that are re-assuring the populace that the Shared Prosperity and 3 R mantra government means well to them. Chief Nwadike who is Special Adviser(SA) to the Governor on Political Matters disclosed this last Tuesday at the newly renovated Okigwe Local Government Secretariat Multi- Purpose Hall during his well attended maiden official visit christened Grassroots sensitization and Prosperity…
Read MoreBad Governance: Samdaddy Decries State Of Bad Roads In South East …Calls For Urgent Intervention
The ex-Senator for Owerri Zone, Imo State, Sen. Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu (Samdady) has lamented over the deplorable condition of roads in the South East geo-political zone, calling on the Federal Government to expedite action towards rescuing the situation before the rainy season. Sen. Anyanwu, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain in the state expressed annoyance how the President Muhammadu Buhari’s led government deliberately abandoned the zone in all its programmes, and appealed to relevant stakeholders to intervene. According to him, contractors handling the only awarded roads, Enugu-Awka-Onitsha and Enugu-Okigwe-Umuahia-Aba axis…
Read MoreOkigwe Senate: Ibezim Loses Bid For CoR, As Abuja High Court Throws Case Out …Ruled: It’s Abuse of Court Process …Awards N.2m cost against him
An Abuja High Court presided over by Justice Senchi has struck out the case brought before it by Mr. Frank Ibezim Mr.Ibezim has approached the Court in Abuja,Nigeria’s Capital territory for an order to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission ,INEC to issue him the Certificate of Return as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC. Delivering the Judgment Monday, March 15,2021, the presiding Judge struck out the case for lack of merit. It will be recalled that Mr.Ibezim was disqualified by a Federal High court sitting in Abuja…
Read MoreReprisal Attack: Vandals Butcher 2 Police Men, Raze Court, LGA Hqtrs In Imo
Fear enveloped the people of Ihitte-Uboma,Tuesday(yesterday) as fleeing hoodlums set fire on the Ihitte/Uboma Local Government Area headquarters in Ishinweke ,razing it to near rubbles. The hoodlums also set ablaze a court inside the council headquarters. The incident occurred ,one hour after protesting youths razed the Ihitte/ Uboma Divisional Police Headquarters at Ishinweke over the alleged killing of an Indigene of the area by some policemen who were on arrest. It was gathered from eye witnesses that the attackers operated in multiple vehicles. It was equally gathered that the vehicle…
Read MoreUzodinma Takes 3R Agenda To Grassroots …All 27 LGAs, starts in Okigwe …Prosperity ambassadors to be appointed
As part of concerted efforts to take the 3R Agenda of his administration to the grassroots, Imo State Government has concluded plans to embark on sensitization exercise in the 27 local government areas of the state. The Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodinma, S.A, Political, Chief Bathos Nwadike disclosed this Thursday, while briefing newsmen in his office Chief Bathos said the COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for stalling the governor’s plan to reach the people at the grassroots. The special adviser revealed that Governor Uzodinma has given approval for the commencement…
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