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…
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FOMIHA: 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.…
Read MoreRe: Imo Charter Of Equity ‘2027!-Owerri, Okigwe Zone-Which Way To Go?
By Mike Nwachukwu A few weeks ago I put down my thoughts on the well intentioned Imo Charter of Equity which was re-enacted and re-adopted in the run up to the November 2023 Governorship Election by The Imo State Council of Elders in concurrence with our hard working and delivering Governor, His Excellency Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodinma. I opined that since it is obvious that our compatriots from Orlu Zone has run the affairs of Imo State in full measure and would have headed the seat of governance in the…
Read MoreCharter of Equity: Nwachukwu Writes Ilomuanya, Imo Elders Council over 2027 Governorship
…Insists: Owerri, Okigwe zones must pally over issues A Senatorial candidate for Imo East in the last 2023 general elections, Chief Mike Nwachukwu(Mpidike), has urged the Imo State Council of Elders to include the issue of which zone succeeds Governor Hope Uzodinma in 2027, in their working documents. In an open letter to the chairman, Imo state Council of Elders, His Royal Majesty, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, Chief Nwachukwu pointed out that there was need for serious dialogue between Owerri and Okigwe zones in order for the two zones to work…
Read MoreOur Naira Pools: Ex-Imo Assembly Lawmaker -Steve Orji Is Dead
A former member of the Imo House of Assembly, Hon Steve Orji who represented Orlu state constituency in the 7th Assembly is dead. A release from his family made available to newsmen indicates that the deceased was a formal majority chief whip of the 7th Assembly, Imo House of Assembly, when he represented Orlu state constituency. A doctorate degree holder including several professional qualifications, Hon Steve Orji was a prominent political figure in Orlu Zone and Imo State. He also held the traditional title of Okeosisi NdIgbo. The release further…
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