Category: POLITICS

Governor Emeka Ihedioha’s engagement with international Development Agencies to aid his administration in the task of rebuilding the state, has again yielded desired results. The Africa Export Import Bank is set to make Imo State a huge investment hub, by setting up an Africa Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC) for the entire South East and South South regions in the country. The AfrExim Bank is an export-import Bank which strongly supports expansion, diversification, promotion and development of intra and inter-African trade. The $50 million (N18 billion) investment/Centre under the quality assurance…

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A renowned social critic and university don, Prof Protus Nathan Uzorma, has said that it is in the best interest of Imo people that the government of Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha takes her time to get things right once and for all. Prof Protus stated this in Owerri recently while fielding questions from journalists, while responding to question on alleged sluggishness of the government of Ihedioha to hit the ground running even after 100 days in office. Prof Protus said that Imo people should be cautious with any government that…

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Concerned Imo State citizen and political analyst, Mr. Geo Cassidy Josiah has advised the state governor, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha and the deputy governor of the state, Hon Engr. Gerald Irona to prove cynics and doubting Thomases insinuating that the governor and his deputy are persons of violent temper who would soon be driven apart by personal ego and pride wrong. According to Geo Cassidy, some people are of the opinion that time shall come when Rt. Hon. Ihedioha and Gerald Irona would hardly agree on any issue concerning the…

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The Interim Management Committee Chairmen of the twenty-seven local government areas of the State, have allegedly contributed three million Naira, (N3m), each, with which they intend to allegedly induce members of the Imo State House of Assembly, to pass into law, a bill elongating their tenure, which is expected to end by December. A highly dependable source disclosed to our reporter that the intermediary between the lawmakers and the Council Chairmen on the tenure elongation project is a lawmaker from Orlu zone. The motion for the bill, according to the…

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A university don and renowned social critic, Prof Protus Nathan Uzorma,(the Reformer) has called on former governor Rochas Okorocha to shut up his mouth and hide his face in shame for plunging Imo into excruciating suffering through his inept government of 8years. Prof Protus made the statement on Wednesday, while reacting to questions from press men who accosted him and asked him to respond to a front page story in one of the local tabloids where Okorocha asked governor Emeka Ihedioha to stop excuses and fix the roads. The prolific…

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Imo State Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning, Sir Bon Unachukwu has expressed the desire of his ministry to establish new layouts in each of the local government areas of the state. According to him, this move is to foster development across the state. Sir. Unachukwu made the disclosure while speaking on a radio program on Gov. Emeka Ihedioha’s first 100 days in office. He said the new layouts when established will bring development to the various local governments, as well as decongest the state capital and reduce the…

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The Imo Newspaper Publishers Association (INPA) will today (Friday, 20th September, 2019) roll out the drums and cymbals in honour of the wife of the governor of Ondo State, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu. Also, to be honoured by the association is the wife of governor of Imo State, Barrister Ebere Ihedioha. The ceremony holds at the highbrow Main Event Hall of Rockview Hotel in Owerri, Imo State. The publishers are honouring the Ondo State First Lady for her contributions to the fight against breast cancer and the empowerment of the girl-child…

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By Mohammed Ogbo The state government has declared youth development as one of its cardinal objective of past administration. The state deputy governor made this declaration while speaking on behalf of the Governor, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha during the flagging off of a free training for youths in Mobile Money and Information Communication Technology (ICT). The programme was organized by Imo state Ministry of Technology Development, in partnership with the Iwuanyanwu Foundation, with support from the Ministry of Youths Development. The deputy governor made it clear that the multiplier effects…

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In keeping with his rebuild Imo agenda, a total of 120 new classroom blocks has been enlisted for construction while 140 dilapidate schools will receive facelift in a couple of weeks from now. Also 45 new boreholes will be drilled in schools where the need for water is higher. These and more are parts of the projects lined up for the 100 days in office of His Excellency, Governor Emeka Ihedioha. Briefing Newsmen about these forthcoming projects of the state government in his office, weekend, the state chairman, Imo State…

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Elders of Orlu Senatorial zone of Imo State, under the aegis of Orlu Elders Council have called on Governor Emeka Ihedioha to probe and prosecute the immediate past Governor of the State, Chief Rochas Okorocha. In a 3-page address read by the Chairman of the Council, Professor Francis Dike SAN, during a courtesy visit to the Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona, the group accused the former Governor of leaving a legacy of Garnishee Orders and indescribable looting of the state treasury. The group lauded the Imo State…

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