While there has been harvest of deaths in Imo State occasioned by cult clashes that have left 13 persons dead, yesterday Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere’s aide on lands and a town Planner, Mr. Alban Opara, escaped abduction from suspected assassins. Mr. Opara was said to have been attacked by the suspected assassins around Orji round about along Okigwe Road at about 7:30 pm but escaped by the whiskers. According to an eye witness who introduced himself as Martin Oforegbu, Opara’s assailants were hanging around in wait…
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Imo’s true Rescue has come
Before the historical advent of the Owelle Rochas Okorochas led Imo Rescu Mission Government, Imo State was not dysfunctional. In fact, nothing really went awry in Imo State as to call for such a radical notion. The entire facets of the Imo State’s economy were functional and things were moving on smoothly. Surprisingly, the 2011 General Election was a first case of testing the timely revolutionary expression of discontentment by the Imo State masses. This they did through the power of their massive repudiation of the former Governor Ikedi Ohakim.…
Read MoreAssembly re-run: Obiefule coasts to victoryin Isu, already leading with over 2,000 votes ..As Imo women decry plan to stop her
The Imo State women under the aegis of Imo Women Frontier (IWF), have condemned in a very strong term what they believe to be a calculated plot to further marginalize the female folks by denying Hon Ngozi Obiefule, her hard earned victory as member-elect for Isu state constituency during the March 9, 2019, Governorship and House Assembly elections in the area. Addressing the press in Owerri, the President of the group, High Chief (Mrs) Maria Nwadialu, on behalf of Imo women frowned at the development which she said tends to…
Read MoreFailed 3rd Term: Okorocha has ordered sale of 71 Imo Govt Vehicles as scrap -PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, Imo state has again raised alarm over what it alleged as the on-going auctioning of vehicles and property of the state government as scrap by the outgoing Governor Rochas Okorocha administration. Briefing newsmen in Oweri on Wednesday ,the state secretary of PDP Imo State, Nze Ray Emeana noted that few days after the party alerted Imolites of alleged huge cash withdrawals from the state government accounts by the outgoing Okorocha government, the same Rescue Mission administration has allegedly embarked on the autctioning of Imo Government Vehicles…
Read MoreIhedioha is only interested in Imo treasury -Rochas
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has accused the governor-elect, Emeka Ihedioha, of being interested only in the state treasury, even as he said that his successor has no constitutional powers to issue directives to banks when he has not yet been sworn in as governor. Okorocha, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary on Friday in Owerri, said the governor-elect was “behaving like a typical member of the Peoples Democratic Party;” and that he is “only interested in the state treasury.” Okorocha asked Ihedioha to exercise patience…
Read MoreImolites to Ihedioha: Okorocha must be probed …Say: Otherwise ‘ll harm administration
Days after Imo State governor elect, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha raised the alarm on alleged last minute financial transactions by outgoing Gov Rochas Okorocha government, Imo people have urged him to probe him after his inauguration. The citizens who were reacting to the alarm by Rt Hon Ihedioha made it clear that doing otherwise will hamper his administration’s push to rebuild the state. The respondents who cut across the three zones of the state advised the governor elect not to treat the alleged financial and other malfeasance of Gov Okorocha…
Read MoreNekede Cult War: Monarch sues for peace, calls for establishment of Anti-Cult Squard
The Traditional ruler of Umuoma community Nekede in the Owerri West LGA of the state, HRH Eze Morrison Eke, has called on the state government, as well as relevant security agencies in the state to come to the rescue of his community from the hands of dreaded rival cult groups. Unconfirmed reports have it that about 13 persons, many who are students have been mauled down following clashes allegedly involving the Aiye confraternity and their Vikings counterparts in the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede. In an interview with newsmen on the incident,…
Read MoreRe- run election: We don’t plan to bomb polling units, says APC candidate
The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC for Ikeduru State Constituency seat in the Imo State House of Assembly, Hon Ifeanyi Opara has denied plotting to bomb polling units in the council during Saturday’s re-run election. The APC candidate, Mr Ifeanyi Opara, who denied the allegation in the state capital owerri while briefing the media, added that as true and patriotic indigene of Ikeduru who is poised to serve the people, it was unthinkable for him to contemplate such adding that it was the handiwork of his opponent’s. Mr Opara…
Read MoreTony Chukwu vindicated at last …As Ihedioha emerges governor- elect
The early warning and prediction by Billionaire business man and the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Chief Tony Chukwu to Governor Rochas Okorocha over imposition of candidate on Imolites has played out after all. In May 2018, it would be recalled the Ehime Mbano son had approached the Imo Governor at the Imo Lodge, Abuja, asking him to back down on the imposition of his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu on Imolites. He had cautioned the governor that his style and method of politics is the worst in Nigeria because according to…
Read MoreImolites to Ihedioha: Okorocha must be probed …Say: Otherwise ‘ll harm administration
Days after Imo State governor elect, Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha raised the alarm on alleged last minute financial transactions by outgoing Gov Rochas Okorocha government, Imo people have urged him to probe him after his inauguration. The citizens who were reacting to the alarm by Rt Hon Ihedioha made it clear that doing otherwise will hamper his administration’s push to rebuild the state. The respondents who cut across the three zones of the state advised the governor elect not to treat the alleged financial and other malfeasance of Gov Okorocha…
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