Category: FEATURED

…Says:They’re unknown persons. … Journalists  Shocked. …As Ex-Gov’s Proxy,Ang.Priest- Nlemchukwu boasts of powerful contacts, capacity to manipulate issues. Journalists  in Imo state have  been able to unravel to their  shock that the four persons recently  arrested at the Secretariat(Press Centre) of the Nigeria Union of Journalists,NUJ, Imo State Council along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, by the police were sent to the Owerri Correctional Center(Prison) at the instance of Magistrate Tochi Agumanu without arraignment and  trial. This was disclosed to members of the Union when they went to the Officer in…

…Laud his sagacity, philanthropy, inclusiveness. Saturday,November 30, this year will ever remain memorable in the life of a former Commissioner for Information in Imo state, Prof Vitalis Orikeze AJumbe who clocked 64years. In what was seen as a birthday bash for a selected  few friends, school mates, members of his  Safari Club, Owerri,the host,Prof Ajumbe said it was the first time he is the one  celebrating the Birthday anniversary himself because it was done by well-wishers in the past. He said it was a special and happy moment for him…

…As Ikenga Ugochinyere splashes cash gift to constituents . Out spoken  and courageous  spokesman of the Coalition of the United Political Parties,CUPP- Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu  has warned that only a consistent, courageous and vibrant opposition such as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP would rescue the nation from the crushing and suffocating claws of the alleged  visionless, planless and clueless APC led-administration in Nigeria. “The nation is currently breeding, wallowing in unprecedented inflation, poverty, hunger, squalor, illiteracy, insecurity, unemployment, starvation, among other debilitating factors yet some political charlatans who are…

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…

…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.…

…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…

…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 …