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The Chilis Bar, Owerri will be the centre of attraction Tuesday (tonight) as Chelsea gun for redemption against Real Madrid in their UEFA Champions League second-leg quarter-final clash. With fans across the world expecting an explosive response from the Blues after their first leg 2-0 defeat in Spain, Heineken, with the ‘Cheers to All Fans…
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Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma has emerged the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for State’s governorship election. Ahead the November 11 gubernatorial election, the ruling Party conducted its primary election at the Ndubuisi Kanu Square in Owerri, the state capital, on Friday. Following the excercise, William Kayoda, the chairman of the Governorship Primary…
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– Vow to resist clandestine plot to destabilize community The Heads of all the villages in Obi Mbieri autonomous community, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo State have vowed to resist any clandestine plot by any person or group of persons to destabilize the community by conspiring to hijack the administration of Obi Mbieri autonomous…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State has called on the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to order the immediate declaration of the result of the Isu State Constituency election in Imo State won by PDP. The opposition party also said the total results from the eleven electoral wards in…
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The Imo State Elders’ Council has endorsed Sen Hope Uzodinma’s second term ambition for Governor of the state. The elders also adopted a Charter of Equity for the rotation of key political offices among the three senatorial zones which includes the position of the governor, deputy governor and speaker of house of assembly. In a…
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The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Monday refused to vacate an interim order which restrained the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, the National Secretary, Alhaji Farouk Ibrahim, and two others from parading themselves as leaders of the party. Alex Ejieseme SAN, counsel for Abure, had prayed the court to…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday night announced 29-year-old Akarachi Amadi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, the winner of the supplementary election for Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru Federal Constituency of Imo State held on Saturday. Announcing the votes polled by the respective candidates at the federal constituency’s collation centre located at Nworuibi in the…
The crisis rocking the Labour Party in Imo State took another turn when two factions of the party produced different governorship flag bearers, Senator Athan Achonu and Ikechukwu Ukaegbu, in the parallel primary elections held over the weekend. Ukaegbu emerged winner in an affirmative election where one of the aspirants, Ihechi Ike, stepped down for…
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The monarch was arrested on Wednesday by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the command for allegedly sharing on a WhatsApp platform a write-up that was said to be very critical of the state governor, Hope Uzodinma. The Imo State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has arrested Eze Ekene Obinali, the traditional ruler of…
Candidates of three political parties — the Labour Party, the African Democratic Party and the Peoples Democratic Party — have rejected the declaration of the All Progressives Congress candidate, Akarachi Amadi, as the winner of the supplementary election held in Mbaitoli/ Ikeduru federal of Imo state on Saturday. The candidate of the ADC, Chinonso Uba,…
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The All Progressives Grand Alliance has condemned the attack on its delegates and officials in the Imo State Governorship primary held last weekend, The attack on the party officials was said to have happened at the state party secretariat in Owerri. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Tex Okechukwu, disclosed this in a statement…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Imo State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the PDP candidate for Isu State Constituency, Hon. Modestus Osakwe, winner of the election without any further delay. This was made known in a release signed by the Imo State PDP publicity secretary, Hon Collins Opurozor,…
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The Imo State Government has concluded arrangements with foreign investors from South Korea for the establishment of a smart city in the state. The Commissioner for Budget, Economic Planning and Statistics, Hon. Christopher Chukwuemeka Osuala, said this to newsmen in Owerri, Monday led by the Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodinma on Networking, Onwuzuruike Chantel…
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Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has emerged the party’s governorship candidate for the November 11 Imo State gubernatorial poll. His emergence followed the PDP primary election held on Wednesday at the party’s secretariat along the Okigwe Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. Anyanwu is expected to challenge the…
Governor of Imo State, Sen Hope Uzodinma has commended the people of the state for trooping out to vote massively for the All Progressives Congress in the House of Assembly election held on Saturday. The governor said the victory of the ruling APC at the polls was a significant attestation to the achievement of his…
Following the recent concluded general elections in Nigeria, it is obvious that both INEC and APC have no surviving souls respectively. The soul, yes, I mean the soul. No one in the world of matter, energy, space and time can plunge deeply into the realm of the soul without wise guides. Years of lone wolf…
Anthony de Mello in one of his witty reflections on ‘Imprisonment’ once said: “you are so proud of your intelligence,’ said the Master to a disciple. ‘You are like the condemned man who is proud of the vastness of his prison cell.” Whenever I reflect on this saying, my mind these days go around the…
The gift of an elder statesman is a very rare one and we are privileged to have Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu (Ahaejiagamba Ndigbo) blessed and energetic. As part of events marking his 80th Birthday Celebration, today, I kicked off the novelty football match between Ex Iwuanyanwu National Players and Imo Legend Footballers at the Dan Anyiam…
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— HE’S UZODINMA’S AGENT – ONWUASOANYA — HE’S ACTING A SCRIPT, BUT’LL FAIL – CALLERS — PUBLISH YOUR 2015, 2019 BOOTH RESULTS, UNACHUKWU DARES ANYANWU The National Secretary of the People Democratic Party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has come under heavy criticism following his plans to institute legal action against the Imo State Chapter of the…
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August 14th is GRAN IBO DAY, a Global Igbo New Yam Festival Day. This is already being celebrated by many since it was proposed to a number of Igbo Organisations six years ago. A celebration took place in the home of Ezedibia Chidi Osuagwu in Owerri on August 14th 2022, and a good number of…
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Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC) officials, on Thursday, met with the Commissioner for Homeland Security and Vigilante Affairs in Imo State, Dr. Ugorji O. Ugorji, to discuss plans for protecting company’s assets and mitigating security challenges at their operations in Imo State. Led by the GM for Security, Mr. Bob Buss, and the Project…
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The challenges facing the Imo Youths in Imo State are innumerable and pathetic, but we can stop them if the Imo State Government begins to accommodate the youths in her government. I want to re-echo the voice of Prof Eyo Ita in 1934 (as the National Leader of the Nigerian Youth Movement, NYM) who then…
Someone once told me that most of Governor Uzodimma’s aides and allies are so starved of funds and left frustrated that the only way they can get money from him is by bringing a proposal that talks about how to harass Ihedioha or any other person they consider a threat. In fact, the guy once…
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August 15th, 2022 PRESS RELEASE There Is Orchestrated Plot To Blackmail The PDP National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu 1. We have uncovered plot by desperate politicians to blackmail and impugn the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu. 2. Information at our disposal showed that these desperate politicians otherwise known…
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On this auspicious occasion of Iri ji Mbaise, I felicitate with the good people of Mbaise Nation (Aboh, Ahiazu and Ezinihite) at home and in diaspora as I bring goodwill message in solidarity. The development of Mbaise, as well as other component parts of our dear Imo State, is of paramount importance to our industrialization…
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Imo State government may have concluded plans to set up an Imo vigilante outfit to replace Ebubeagu which citizens have roundly condemned because of their method of operation and too many killings associated with them. Speaking with newsmen weekend, the Chief Political Adviser/Head of Political Affairs Bureau, Barr. Enyinnaya Onuegbu, said Governor Hope Uzodimma planned…
Gov Hope Uzodinma is happy over President Muhammadu Buhari’s nod to his requests during my meeting with him yesterday; vis-a-vis the conversion of Federal Medical Center (FMC) Owerri into a Teaching Hospital for the approved Medical School for Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO). Mr. President also promised to look into lifting the suspension on…
Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma has said the furore over the presidential Muslim-Muslim ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) must stop. He stated this while speaking with State House correspondents on Friday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to him, Nigerians should be more preoccupied with the economy…
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Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses. Mind is more than matter even as the infinite idea of THRUTH is beyond a finite belief. Man’s eternal identity is beyond the esoteric expression of that which is born of the flesh. Therefore the eternal Elohim in man remains to…
For some years now, the socio-political stature of lmo state has remained in deplorable condition, so have other states, Nigeria and almost every other nation- state in Africa. This is the general mentality of the common man in the concerned polities who everyday long for the advent of new things and who at the presence…
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