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It was not expected. Virtually caught everyone unawares. Like the northern harmattan, it bloodied the noses of Imolites except, of course, the men and women of means. The strike action embarked upon by the Imo State branch of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, in connivance with the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, was…
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Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State is swimming against the tide. His decision to go against the position of southern governors on open grazing is damnable. It is a miscalculation. It is an albatross that will always come round to haunt him. No doubt, Uzodinma is looking at politics. But the issue at stake cannot…
THE PRINCIPAL, EXODUS ALLIANCE ORGANIZATION, HON NZE CALISTUS CHINEDU CJK AND HIS TEAM VISITED CHRISTLAND MEDICAL CENTRE AKPULU AND OFFSET HOSPITAL DELIVERY BILL FOR MRS. UGOCHI IHEJIRIKA OF AKPULU WARD What differentiates humans from others is the capacity to pull others out of their predicaments and offering services of hope to the downtrodden. Exodus Alliance…
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PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, IMO STATE August 29, 2021 Press Statement Imo PDP Has No Hands In The Fake News On Governor Uzodinma, Fulani Settlers And Free Marriage The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State hereby vehemently dissociates itself, its leaders, members and media operatives from having hands in the controversial newspaper banner headline: “Shocking:…
EPIC PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT SIEVING THE NOISE FROM THE FACTS The Imo State Government, Southeast of Nigeria, has since 2006 enacted a comprehensive and pertinently viable law that has proved to be potent and effective in the management, control and enforcement of order on Cattle Grazing activities in the State. The law is known and called…
Read More “THE PROHIBITION OF GRAZING OF CATTLE IN RESTRICTED AREAS, LAW OF IMO STATE, 2006” »
The member representing Nkwerre/Isu/Nwangele/Njaba, Rt. Hon. Ozurigbo Ugonna has commissioned the Umuoparadim Rural Electrification Project at Umuoparadim Isu Nwangele LGA. The project is another brainchild of the Project personified lawmaker, Rt. Hon. Ozurigbo Ugonna, as an addition to the several projects he has put in place through out the federal constituency. The members of the…
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ELITIST COMPROMISE AND THE DIRTY DECEITFUL POLITICS OF IMO OPPOSITION ELEMENTS: ANOTHER CALL FOR REASON AND CAUTION: THE OPEN GRAZING BILL CHARADE; THE SCAREMONGERING PASTIME; THE FEIGNED IPOB’S BIAFRA SUPPORT ANTICS; ET AL AS CASE STUDIES Stanford Arinze Nwokedi The bane of today’s generation of Imo and Nigerian polity is the deliberate and calculated mischievous…
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Government of Imo State Press Release IMO GOVERNMENT URGES OIL MARKETERS TO END STRIKE …Uzodimma clarifies comment on open grazing Imo State Government has urged striking oil marketers and tanker drivers to suspend their actions and follow due process in resolving whatever issue they may have with the government. Government sees their action as illegal…
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This is beyond politics as it is an emergency and humanitarian crisis. This is Amauzari Town in our Isiala Mbano LGA of Imo State as at Friday 27 August 2021. Flood and erosion has ravaged the peaceful community displacing many people, destroying houses, property, farms and animals. Imo State Government Federal Government Agencies like NEMA…
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PRESS RELEASE ln the past few days , following the strike embarked upon by Petrol dealers or marketers in the state, we had read and heard stories, including innuendos and insinuations, to the effect that , the government Senator Rochas Okorocha superintended demolished a petrol station and for which the dealers in the state had…
In the last two days, the Independent Petroleum Marketers embarked on an industrial action thereby, cutting off supply and sales of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) and associated products across the State. This was as a result of a court judgment awarding fines to the operator of a gas station. The judgment arose from a case,…
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We read the article with the by-line of Barr. Willie Amadi on the Wednesday, August 25, 2021 edition of Imo-based newspaper, “Announcer Express”. It was entitled: “Governor Uzodimma’s Underground Balloons Drainage System Is Ending The Rainy Season Agony In Owerri Municipality.” Surprisingly, the said article had a malicious derogatory kicker: “Aftermath Of Henry Ekpe’s House…
Opts for partnership between farmers, herders Says IPOB stay-at-home order ineffective With just six days to the September 1, 2021 target set by the 17 southern governors for states in the region to enact anti-open grazing legislation, Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has become the first governor from the region to go against the…
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As The Party Says There Is Nothing Like Partnership Between Imo Farmers And Fulani Herders In Imo State Lives And Property Of Imo People Are In Danger As The State Has Been Sold To Our Enemies For Power It is crystal President Buhari is using Senator Uzodinma to actualize his ill plans against the good…
For two weeks, Chief Hope Uzodinma has been in Abuja. Some say he has been there flexing and enjoying himself. Others say he has been hanging around Aso Rock, waiting to be allowed to take pictures with President Muhammadu Buhari. In any case, he has been in faraway Abuja chasing shadows and blowing the scant…
There’s a tales for the floods being told by one Walter Ononuju Nnadi, who claims to be a member of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (mnse). His supposed technical article that must have been presented more to his fellow engineers than to the greater majority of Ndimo, has been trending on social media. He entitled…
Tops in current affairs discourse and discussion in Imo State, include the menace of flooding across the State, particularly in areas around the capital Owerri. Indeed, it has become too worrisome coping with the current challenges posed by flooding in the State. It’s more so when, according to insider sources, billions of naira have been…
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Geographically speaking, Owerri situates on a plain and is surrounded by some body of water that empties it’s self into Imo river and can’t be prone to Floods of any kind. Let’s Begin with a brief definition of the word; FLOODING Flooding can be defined as a type of extreme weather. It happens when there…
The Shared Prosperity Government of Senator Hope Uzodimma is set to contribute in the food security and at the same time alleviate poverty in the land by initiating Programmes and Projects that will create employments for the vulnerable women and youths in the state. This will be done through Training, Advocacy, Research, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Development,…
Rt. Hon. Okechukwu Onyekanma, the immediate past Deputy Speaker of the Imo state House of Assembly, has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will take over power in the state come 2023. Hon. Onyekanma, who was the deputy speaker during the tenure of Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, which was truncated by a Supreme…
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Uche Nwosu Charges APC to take decisions that will strengthen the party and unite aggrieved stakeholders. He Believes that adherence to equity and justice would earn the party the presidency in 2023. Says his membership of the party is not in contest. A former governorship candidate in Imo state and Chieftain of the the All…
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Governor Hope Uzodinma was on inspection of on-going road projects reconstruction and rehabilitation in Owerri, Imo State capital. While at the Concord Boulevard Junction by Port Harcourt road remodelling and reconstruction, the Governor has these to say: We continue to reconstruct deplorable infrastructures we met upon resumption of office and this includes but not limited…
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PRESS STATEMENT Our attention has been drawn to a malicious report on some online media platforms alleging that immediate past Deputy Governor of Imo State, Engr. Gerald Irona was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission-EFCC. The report claimed that the former Deputy Governor was “intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport,…
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Engr. Akarachi Amadi is the third born of his parents of Eziama in Ikeduru Local Government Council Area of Imo State. He is temperate and kind, resourceful and energetic. Akarachi Amadi is a man of impact who has left his imprints everywhere he has set his feet and in every life he has encountered With…
Hon. Chief Kizito Uwalaka, Writes from Ihitte Ezinihitte “To the glory of Almighty God , A three classroom block have been delivered by the member representing Ahiazu/ Ezinihitte Mbaise in the green chamber Hon. Emeka Chinedu at Unity Primary School, Nkwoalaike in Umunagbor Amagbor Ihitte Ezinihitte Mbaise. He has done marvelously well, the good people…
Hate or like Uche Ogbuagu, the truth is that he is the star boy of the current Imo state House of Assembly lawmakers. Ogbuagu, has no doubt distinguished himself within the 26 months he has been at the state legislature, representing people of Ikeduru Local Government Area. What else is politics except using it to…
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The Iri ji (new yam) is an annual rich cultural festival reveredly held by the Igbo people at the end of the rainy season in early August. The ceremony which is a very culturally based occasion, tying individual Igbo communities together as essentially agrarian and dependent on yam, is usually done as a thanksgiving for…
Dr Ikedi Ohakim former Governor of Imo State after months of speculations, finally joined the All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview with Damian Duruiheoma in his country home in Okohia, Isiala Mbano L.G.A Imo State, the former governor gave reasons why he joined the ruling party and threw some insights on other burning issues….
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The Urban Renewal Project of the Shared Prosperity administration of His Excellency the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma has continued to surpass projected impact on traffic situation in the state. What looked like a joke to some quarters is now celebrated by those who made jest of the project. One of the roundabouts that has been…
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Speed and quality continues to dominate the progress of work at the Owerri-Okigwe and Owerri-Orlu road construction as the contractor is heeding to the contractual agreement of durable roads for Imolites. These signature projects of the Shared Prosperity administration of His Excellency the Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma continue to attract citizens’ commendations. The road which…
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