Category: POLITICS

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday, urged the people of South West to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 elections to guarantee a return of power to the region in 2023. The minister stated this at a special Town Hall Meeting on infrastructure organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture and the National Orientation Agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed led three other ministers including Fashola, Ministers of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi…

The attention of the office of Sen. Samdaddy Anyanwu and his Campaign Organization have been drawn to a fallacious and unethical publication on the Cover page of Trumpeta Newspaper of Tuesday 22nd October, 2018 with the caption, “Samdaddy,  OkeyEze Drag SDP Guber Ticket”. We could have chosen to ignore the obvious display of rascality and gross unprofessionalism exhibited by the publication but for the teeming supporters of Sen. SamdaddyAnyanwu, the reading public and indeed the generality of Imolites who the publication was no doubt targeted to misinform. We view the…

The Iwuanyanwu foundation in partnership with Central Bank of Nigeria South East Entrepreneurship Development Center CBN-SEEDC has graduated 120 trainees on various skills acquisition programs. Presenting award of certificates to the graduants, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu charged them to explore the world with their new skills in order to to become self dependent in future. He said the foundation embarked on skill acquisition training to empower unemployed youths/students with relevant skills that can help them become successful entrepreneurs. According to Chief Iwuanyanwu, the foundation has developed a private sector driven program…

The chairman of the Atiku Presidential Nomination Council Chief (Dr.), Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has expressed gratitude to Nigerians especially the PDP for the tremendous support they gave to the Atiku team at the just concluded Port Harcourt convention that led to the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party, PDP. In a press release issued in Owerri, Chief Iwuanyanwu said the over whelming victory of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is a clear testimony that Nigerian area really out to ensure effective democracy in Nigeria. Chief…

The leading governorship aspirant in Imo State on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sir Okey Ezeh has felicitated with Nigerians on the occasion of the country’s 58th Independence Anniversary. Briefing newsmen on Sunday, the renowned investment advisor who also is a Knight of the Holy Roman Catholic Church said the birth of Nigeria as a sovereign nation on October 1, 1960 raised great hopes among Blacks the world over. According to him, it was believed that a giant that would lead that Black race had been…

Ahead of 2019 general election, the enthusiastic workers in Enugu State and the entire youth of the state have reiterated their stance on the earlier endorsement of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s re-election, declaring that they are solidly behind him. The workers and youths, who spoke separately through the state chairmen of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Comrade Igbokwe Chukwuma Igbokwe and Comrade Paschal Ugwu, respectively, said the decision was based on their conviction that the governor has continued to entrench good governance,…

The Police have busted a baby factory at Rukpokwu in Rivers State and arrested over 16 pregnant girls, the cleric who runs the factory, Glory Raphael and three others. The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Zaki, who paraded 39 suspected criminals on Monday in Port Harcourt, said: Men of the Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, CIID, in a sting operation on Friday raided the premises of one Gloria Raphael, the General Overseer of Mount Sinai Ministry at Rukpokwu, who is into the business of child trafficking and selling and…

In what appeared to be a sudden turn of events, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has openly declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP primary election held between October 1 to 2 2018 at Kanu Nwankwo sports complex Owerri was marred with irregularities and as such, he will not accept the outcome of the election result. Briefing journalists in his campaign office in Owerri Tuesday, Sen. SamDaddy as he fondly called said after his Divine Mandate campaign team concluded their tours of the 27 LGAS in the state, it becomes obvious…

In keeping with its determination to ensure speedy intervention on the safety of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, by the federal government, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration, yesterday approved the immediate relocation of the transmission mast of the Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) located at Ngwo, Enugu North Local Government Area. The state government also announced Wednesday, September 26, as the date for the inauguration of the recently constituted stakeholders’ committee saddled with the responsibility of resolving all issues around the expansion and upgrade of the airport facilities. Briefing newsmen…