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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Stella Ngozi Lemchi as the Provost of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, for a tenure of four years. Dr. Stella Ngozi Lemchi becomes the 13th substantive Provost of the College and the second female Provost of the institution since its inception. In the letter…
Gov. Hope Uzodimma meets with Petroleum Tanker Driver’s Association members Arising from an interaction and dialogue with representatives of the Petroleum Tanker Driver’s Association and having arrived at a common ground, I am optimistic that our deliberations would yield positive outcome leading to a resolution to call off the week long siege on supply of…
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PRESS RELEASE APC IS A SCAM, PARTY USED “CHANGE” MANTRA TO DEFRAUD NIGERIANS – Senator Samuel Anyanwu – WARNS NDIGBO NOT TO JOIN PARTY THAT COORDINATED ARREST OF KANU, IGBO YOUTHS Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain in Imo state, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu has described the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a scam, expressing…
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It is now an established legal fact that lands and properties belonging to both the government and individuals were either illegally acquired or misappropriated in the past as identified by the Judicial Commission of Inquiry. The commission’s report has been accepted by the government and Gazetted. In compliance with the above, today I inaugurated…
Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State following the declaration of sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The armed men reportedly invaded the school premises when some students were participating in the ongoing 2021 West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) and…
Thank goodness, September 9, 2021 has come and gone. For Imo people, it was a day shrouded with uncertainty. A day two decrees were issued. A day conflicting informations and directives were issued. First, it began with the good news? That the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, will be visiting…
Following the highly successful PRESIDENTIAL WORKING VISIT to Imo State, within the first 24hrs of the return of HE President Mohammadu Buhari ( Commander-In-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces) to Abuja, Imo State has received, in quick successions, two Federal Ministers who have arrived Imo State to begin what promises to be a windfall of…
Imo State has remained, despite all the politically motivated orchestrations of crises and now even more than ever before, the cynosure of all eyes. On Thursday, 9th September, 2021, the President and Commander-In-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces pays an official/working visit to Imo State. Considering the enormous political cum economic benefits acruable to the State…
1. Nobody has your interest at heart. 2. Everyone is after his own interest. 3. Engagement with politicians is like sleeping with tigers. You must always be vigilant and have your eyes wide open. 4. In any Political equation, there is always someone that is being used. If you can’t find one, then it is…
Very recently, the mainstream and new media have been awash with negative stories essentially targeted at tarnishing the image of Imo State Government. What many do not know is that government is the people and not about any individual. When negative stories fly against the state, the individuals in the state are also adversely affected,…
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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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There was panic in Owerri, the Imo state capital, on Wednesday, when residents started scooping diesel from a tanker that fell on the Control Post Roundabout in front of the Assumpta Archdiocese Catholic Cathedral. Officials of the state government, fire service, Federal Road Safety Corps and the police responded to the scene. The team, led…
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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…
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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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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…
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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 ASSOCIATION OF IMO PETROLEUM MARKETERS AND DEALERS SUSPEND STRIKE GOOD EVENING IMOLITES. It is no longer news that ASSOCIATION OF IMO PETROLEUM MARKETERS AND DEALERS embarked on industrial action since Wednesday, 25th August, 2021. For every action there is a reason and reaction. The ASSOCIATION has made its sufferings in the hands of…
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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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Olympic Medalist, Chika Chukwumerije and Tokyo 2020 debut Olympic Elizabeth Anyanacho paid a courtesy visit to the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Prof. Mrs. Nnenna Oti. The duo, who were accompanied by the Commissioner of Sports in Imo state, Hon. Ogu Daniel Chike were received by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Emeka Emmanuel Oguzie,…
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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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