Report has shown that an Elder statesman and a fiery Public affairs analyst, Prince, Bob Njemanze has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja with Suit No: FCT/HC/CV/1992/2024, seeking Five Billion Naira (N5bn) as damages caused him for libel contained in an Advertorial entitled ‘Ostracism:Re-Bob Njemanze’ signed by 29 Traditional rulers in Imo state and published on page 7 of the Statesman Newspaper of March 6, 2024 Edition. In the Newspaper publication, the 29 Traditional rulers had placed a Public Notice which was subsequently aired in the government owned electronic…
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FTH Owerri Sets Up IVF Centre, Mental Health Ward, Executive Specialist Clinic …CMD-Achigbu:We’ve upgraded to world-class Services
In its bid to meet the overall health needs of the people of Imo State and Southeast, the management of the Federal Teaching Hospital, Owerri, FTH, on Tuesday,April 16, began operations at the Hospital’s newly established state of the art Executive Specialist Clinic; Assisted Reproductive Centre and Mental Health Ward with the firm promise of providing world-class and cost efficient services to its target patients. The Federal Teaching Hospital, Owerri, once served as the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, before its upgrade to a Teaching Hospital. However, these new developments at…
Read MoreBenedict Chilaka Iheasirim Foundation Commissions First Solar- Powered Borehole In Imo
It was a celebration galore, penultimate week, at Ama Umuleafor, Umuchoko,Umueze (Ezenachigwe) Enyiogugu Autonomous Community In Aboh Mbaise LGA, Imo State as the B.C.I Foundation, commissioned and handed over to the people a multi -million Naira automated Solar-powered water borehole. The Foundation founded in commemoration of late Dr.Benedict Chilaka Iheasirim, BCI by the family, according to the Vice Chairman,Nze Ferdinand Iheasirim,who expressed gratitude to God and the committee for the successful completion of the first one amongst the ten others. He disclosed that nine other boreholes are ongoing in each…
Read MoreLittlewood Graduates 31 Caregivers In Owerri
Setting a standard of its first kind in Imo State and Southeast in general, Littlewood Recruitment Services Caregivers Training/Internship Institute, Saturday, April 13, graduated thirty one ( 31) certified Caregivers, for the first quarter of 2024. The Caregivers are potentially billed to get employed overseas, where their services are worthily needed. According to the Director of the Institute, Bishop Athan Azubuike,who doubles as the General Overseer of House of God International Churches, fielding questions from journalists at Owerri ,Imo State, venue of the event, revealed that 10 out of the…
Read MoreFOMIHA: Ex-Imo Lawmakers Laud NSCDCCommandant, Vow To Partner On Fight Against Insecurity
Former Members of the Imo State House of Assembly,FOMIHA have indicated their willingness to collaborate with security agencies in the fight against crime and criminality in the state. As critical stakeholders who made laws for the state for good governance, the ex-lawmakers said that they had resolved to play advisory role to assist both the eexecutive and state legislature in the performance of their statutory functions. Operating under the aegis of the association of former Imo State Law Makers, the chairman,FOMIHA, Prince Ugochukwu Nzekwe disclosed this when the executives and…
Read MoreJob Creation, Empowerment, Key To Fight Insecurity
Length or breadth, nexus exists between unemployment and insecurity. This is predicated on the logic that unemployment exacerbates inequalities and fuel a sense of resentment. Thus unemployed and underemployed people are often more at risk of depression, anxiety and stress. This can occasionally lead to violence. A 19th Century American social worker was quoted as saying: “of all the aspects of social misery, nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.” A look at the rate of violent activities in the world would suggest that countries with high employment rates and entrenched social…
Read MoreEze Emetumah Celebrates 2024 Eid -El-Fitr
…Cautions Nigerians on get rich quick syndrome By Joseph Nwachukwu The Traditional Ruler of Umuofor Autonomous Community in Oguta LGA Imo State HRH Eze Abdul Fatah Emetumah penultimate Wednesday celebrated the 2024 Eid -El-Fitr at his palace in his home town. Preaching a sermon on the topic : “Be Less Worried for Allah is at Work “, Eze Abdul Fatah Emetumah called on Muslim faithfuls to believe in the Almighty Allah for sustainability, stressing that all that we have in this world is vanity upon vanity and therefore advised them…
Read MoreOnyewuchi Inspects Ongoing Skills Training Centre, Expresses Satisfaction With Work Progress
The senator representing Imo East Senatorial District, Owerri Zone, Distinguished Senator Ezenwa Onyewuchi, has carried out an on the spot assessment visit to the skills training centre, sponsored by him and being built in Owerri North Local Government Area, Imo State. The lawmaker, after being taken round the gigantic edifice by the engineer handling the project, expressed satisfaction with the level of work so far done, and called for its sustenance. He urged the engineer to work hard and try to deliver the project within the stipulated time, so that…
Read MoreOgunewe Vs Okponwa-Eze
By Ephraim Nwadialo Agitated by the media interest in the face-off between the candidate of the Action Alliance, AA, in the 2023 Governorship election in Imo State, Major General Lincoln Jack Ogunewe (rtd), and the State Chairman of the party, Comrade Ifeanyi Okponwa-Eze, I decided to do some checks. On the unwavering commitment of most of the State based journalists in the matter, I found out that Okponwa-Eze is from the Press Constituency. I never knew that the lanky grandfather is a retiring or will I say Veteran journalist, if…
Read MoreChukwuemeka Ezeife: As Patriot Takes Final Bow
By Carl Umegboro A renowned American philosopher and author of “The Supreme Philosophy of Man”, Alfred Armand Montapert, said, “The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion”. This attribute fittingly matched the persona of one man, a noble, the Okwadike Igboukwu, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, an economist and elder statesman, born in Igboukwu, Anambra State on 20 November 1937 but bid farewell on 14 December 2023 at the Federal Medical Centre, Abuja at age 85.…
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