Category: FEATURES

…As Dep. Controller hails founder, Nwosu …Urges Imo Gov to visit the facility. Amidst the current economic challenges which  Nigerians are going through at the moment, the founder of Ikukuoma Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization,NGO, Hon Edith Nwosu, on Thursday last week, once again demonstrated her charitable disposition as her Foundation sponsored a  free medical outreach for over 200 inmates of the Owerri Correctional Centre( Prisons). Hon Nwosu whose Foundation is reputed to have touched over 5000  lives around Nigeria in various ways including empowerment and health since 2017, hinted…

…Berates LG legislative leadership ,allege blackmail against Gov. Rising from an emergency general assembly held yesterday, Sunday,  June 23, the people of Obiangwu Autonomous Community, Ngor Okpala Local Government Area, Imo State, have voiced their total rejection of the interim caretaker committee recently constituted for the community by Hon Chika Ibekwe, Chairperson Ngor Okpala LGA. The community which declared its stand via a voice vote, equally condemned the Leader of Ngor Okpala Legislative Council Hon Chibuike Agbugba’s alleged reckless and provocative political statements which   he quoted as belonging to the …

reports that following the increasing rate of abandoned projects in Nigeria, the governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has called on the National Assembly to consider amending the constitution to give governors third term in office to remedy the situation. Senator Diri stated this while addressing a large crowd at the King Koko Square in Nembe, headquarters of the Nembe Local Government Area, in continuation of his ‘Thank-You Tour’ of the eight councils in the state. Responding to demands by the people of Nembe, he said although his administration…

The last surviving female twin to be rescued by Mary Slessor, a Scottish Missionary in Arochukwu Ancient Kingdom of Abia, over a century ago, Madam Malinda Mgbafor Okereke, otherwise called Mama Nsu Bekee, is dead. A statement issued on behalf of the family by the only surviving son of the deceased, Bishop Okechukwu Okereke, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Thursday, disclosed that she died at the age of 115. According to the statement, the centenarian and her twin sister, Mgbokwo, were born…

Cites Judicial Code, Warns Against “Casualisation of Judges” Former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Prof. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, has issued a scathing critique of the Nigerian judiciary, accusing a senior Supreme Court Justice of undermining judicial impartiality by appearing in Benin City on June 12, 2025—just two days after the Edo State governorship election petition appeal was filed at the apex court. In a series of strongly worded posts on X (formerly Twitter), Odinkalu cited the Judicial Code of Conduct and warned that “appearance of bias” is…

  …Says: Courts had ruled in their favour . …Faults Isiala Mbano LG chair’s removal of indigene from park mgt. The people of Luwe Nneiri Umuduru  in Isiala Mbano LGA ,Imo state  on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest over alleged   arrest of  their youths by the police over the issue of Umuduru motor park. One of the protesters that converged at the motor park near the Isiala Mbano LGA headquarters, Umuelemai, Duruoha Chima Iwueke who introduced himself as an indigene of Luwe Nneiri , and the assistant secretary of the…

…Govt officials fingered  The sleeping Amaimo, Umukabia autonomous community in Ehime Mbano LGA  Government, will soon be turned into a theatre of war if the brewing crisis in the area is not nipped in the bud. Investigation revealed that the crisis which gathers momentum, is not unconnected to the  struggle for who becomes the President-General,PG, Youth Leader, Woman leader and other executive positions of the town Union of the autonomous community. Trouble started when the leadership of Ehime Mbano Local Government decided to rejig the town Union leadership of every…