A lawyer has dismissed news making the rounds that Mr Frank Ibezim has been declared winner of the hotly disputed Okigwe Senate Seat. This is coming as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has reportedly refused to issue Certificate of Return, CoR, as winner of the December 5, 2020, bye election on the grounds that the Supreme Court never gave such consequential order in its judgment. Also, it was gathered that Senator Ifeanyi Araraume another claimant of the seat on the platform of APC on Monday wrote INEC insisting he…
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N7.9 bn Misappropriation: Choice Property Choice Property All Over …To prosecute him Quickly …Gave Imo govt N2.7bn,N514m to pay Salaries …Rochas: It’s all witch- hunt
The ex-Governor of Imo State, Owelle Anayo Rochas Ethelbert Okorocha, was a guest of the EFCC, Tuesday, after being arrested in Abuja over alleged misappropriation of the funds of the state to the tune of N7.9 billion. Th ant-igraft agency is said to have been in a running battle with the former governor and in recent months following his claims and counterclaims that he did no wrong and that he was being witch-hunted by the EFCC and his successor, Sen.Hope Uzodinma. It was gathered that the commission started investigating the…
Read MoreISCAF: Group Expresses Worry Over Rising Insecurity In South East
A group operating under the aegis of Ibo Senior Citizens Affair Foundation (ISCAF) says it is concerned over what it described as “ever-rising level of insecurity bedeviling Nigeria as a nation”. A release from ISCAF signed by its President, Rt. Rev. Maglorious Enyioha lamented the loss of lives and property resulting from the activities of faceless gunmen, herdsmen and other armed groups shedding innocent blood at will. The group recalled that few years ago, herdsmen reportedly invaded Uzouwani Community in Enugu State by night, “killing and maiming scores of Ndigbo.…
Read MoreUzodinma Quality Roads To Last 25 Years –Batos “Governor, doing over 40 roads in one year” …Inaugurates Ideato North Prosperity Ambassadors
The Special Adviser on Political Matters to Imo State Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, Dr Batos Nwadike has charged the people of Ideato North to remain steadfast with the present Shared Prosperity administration in the state. The SA Political who spoke during the sensitization tour in the LGA, assured that the Governor Uzodinma would continue to prioritize issues affecting the area especially, in fixing their bad roads, appointments and empowerment. Dr Batos accompanied by senior officials in the Uzodinma cabinet including the SA Pensions, Group Captain Pat Okibedi, SSA Beautification, Hon…
Read MoreFormer Governor Behind Imo Attacks –Commissioner …He wanted FG, declare State of Emergency in State
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…
Read MoreTragedy: 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…
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