Category: FEATURED

There are signs that Imo people will soon have a reprieve as the Governor Chief Emeka Ihedioha is set to commence massive road construction and repair across the state. The governor had few weeks ago awarded the construction and repairs of some roads assuring that work would start immediately the rains subsides as according to sources within the state government, the governor did not want to start any road work like his predecessor Okorocha while the rains are still heavy. So with the obvious signs that the dry session has…

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A two-time senator of Orlu zone and the chairman Board of Director of Kpakpando Foundation, Senator Osita Bonaventure Izunaso has been commended for his humanitarian gestures. The commendation was given by Senator Victor Lar who is the Deputy Governor of Yobe State who represented the Governor of Yobe State, Hon. Mai Mala Buni who was the chairman of the occasion at the 14th anniversary celebration of Kpakpando Foundation held at the Ahiajoku Complex Owerri, Imo State on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. He said that some churches have not done what…

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An elder statesman in Imo State, Col. Lambert Ihenacho has maintained that it is only restructuring that can curb the problems arising from agitation for secession in Nigeria. Speaking to newsmen in Imo weekend, Col. Ihenacho said it is as a result of continuous marginalization being meted out on the Igbos by the Federal Governments over the years that gave rise to many pressure groups seeking for independence of the Igbo nation, saying such agitation would not have arisen if the Common wealth were equitably distributed, and Federal Character policies…

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Testimonies have continued pour in over the giant strides so far recorded by the Interim Management Committee Chairman of Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State, Hon. Charles Abara. Investigations reveal that Hon. Abara is the first to pay claims and allowances to workers in the last eight years including the Rebuild administration. In addition to this, Hon. Abara has ensured prompt payment of salaries and allowances amid other financial assistance to the sick and bereaved staff of the council. The Ngor Okpala Interim Management Committee chairman also embarked…

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The immediate past Imo governor, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha has chided Governor Emeka Ihedioha over the poor state of roads in the state admonishing his successor to stop apportioning blame and use his exalted office to work for Imo people by fixing the bad roads. The former governor now a serving senator also challenged governor Ihedioha to come clean on the reported N5,200,000 he (Okorocha) claimed to have left behind for the present Ihedioha government to pay arrears of pensions owed to Imo pensioners. Speaking through a press release issued…

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Palpable tension has apparently enveloped the political atmosphere in Imo State ahead of the Saturday sitting of the governorship election petition tribunal deliver judgment in the petitions filed by three leading opposition parties and their gubernatorial candidates in the state. The candidates include Senator Ifeanyi Araraume of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Senator Hope Uzodinma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Chief Uche Nwosu of the Action Alliance, AA. At the moment, high level political horse-trading is believed to be going on among the principal actors in power…

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The Special Adviser to Governor Emeka Ihedioha on Local Governments, Chief Mayor Eze says the immediate past Imo helmsman, Senator Rochas Okorocha’s last Tuesday’s ‘rabble rousing’ in Owerri smacks of panicky measure arising from fear and uncertainty over what will be his fate by the time the Judicial Commission of Inquiry and other committees setup to investigate cases of land grabbing, contracts and other activities of his administration. The Special Adviser who stated this weekend during an interaction with newsmen in Owerri, said Okorocha’s last week vituperations, irrelevant outburst and…

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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have grilled, ex Imo state first lady at the agencies South East Zonal office in Enugu, Enugu State Nigeria Newspoint gathered that Mrs Nkechi Okorocha had her day on hot seat, yesterday, August 1, following her invitation by the anti-graft agency over several petitions against her and her husband, Sen. Rochas Anayo Okorocha representing Orlu Zone in the Nigerian senate. The ex-First lady is alleged to have fully participated in the alleged looting of the resources and finances of the state…

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Gov Emeka Ihedioha has once reassured Imo people of the commitment of his administration to fulfill its campaign promise of conducting local government election six months after assumption of office. The governor renewed this commitment yesterday at the Sam Mbakwe Executive Chamber, Government House, Owerri during the swearing in ceremony of the Chairmen of Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the twenty seven local government areas of the state. Similarly, he sounded it loud and clear that the Chairmen must reside in their various local government areas or, alternatively render resignation…

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Imo Assembly staff celebrate suspension of Clerk …Laud Speaker over action …Say: Rochas used Duru, Ekenze to destroy Civil Service   Imo House of Assembly workers thrown into the ecstasy since the suspension of Barr Chris Duru as the clerk and the emergence of Barr Mrs. Chinelo Ndukwe Emeghara as the acting clerk of Imo House of Assembly. Their joy and happiness is so over whelming that to some, it resulted into continuous open praise and worship songs to Almighty God while others expressed their happiness with bottles of soft…

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