The people of Ezinihitte Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State have vowed to vote against the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate come Saturday’s re-run election for Ahazu/Ezinihitte Federal Constituency. This they said was as a result of Governor Rochas Okorocha’s current policy on the Relocation of the Imo State University to his …
It is a common parlance that a rejected stone often becomes a corner stone. This adage aptly applies to the incumbent governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Anayo Okorocha, who was elected as the sixth civilian governor of the state in 2011. Okorocha, popularly known by his chieftaincy title, the Owelle of Igbo …
According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, politics is ‘a competition between political parties’ which involves acquiring or exercising power within a group or an organization. The same dictionary also defines politicking as ‘political activity, especially to win votes or support’. Therefore it means that politics or politicking is all …
Irrespective of your party affiliations; whether or not you love or hate Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, my suggestion is to keep the sentiments away and read his State address to the people of Imo State. I read it from top to bottom, and my reaction was “Whoa!” Naturally, my admiration …
No doubt, opposition is the beauty of democracy. As an acclaimed writer, I have written a lot on opposition participation in the building of democracy in Nigeria. It is an acknowledged fact that for true democracy to take firm root in Nigeria, people with opposing viewpoints are expected to put government on its toes …
According to Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia, water ‘is vital for all known forms of life’. Accordingly, it is used for drinking, washing, preparation of food, industrial application, sanitation, transport etc. Interestingly, the Imo State Water Corporation was established in 1995 with the promulgation of the Imo State Water Corporation Edict 35 thereby …
The last may not have been heard on the imbroglio relating to the planned relocation of Imo State University to Ideato Local Government of Imo State. The Lilliputian and lily-livered politicians that had previously lost their voice, which was the only weapon left to them since they lost their balls …
Nigeria runs a presidential system of government where the three arms of government; the judiciary, the executive and the legislature are provided to be independent. Interestingly, the system empowers its legislature to provide absolute check against abuse of power by the executive. Unfortunately, many of our lawmakers have at one time …
Human beings have individual differences, variation of interests and aspirations. Such breed conflict in every given society. Conflicts and disputes are inevitable when human beings inter-relate. Therefore the law courts have been established as one of the legally recognized means of arbitrations and dispute resolutions in our society. Some people refer it …
Last week, the leader of Ohaneze, Kano State Chapter, Chief Tobias Idika denied media reports that Imo State Governor,Owelle Rochas Okorocha visited Kano and met with Ndigbo in Kano over the plight of Igbos in Kano after the Boko Haram attack. ‘The report is false and insensitive to the plight …
Exactly 45 years ago this month, in January 1967, Nigerian military leaders (Gowon, Ojukwu, Hassan-Katsina, Ejoor and Adebayo) with their civilian aides journeyed to Aburi, Ghana, to discuss how to save the Nigerian federation. At the Aburi Talks, Ojukwu’s suggestion for a confederate arrangement was unanimously and enthusiastically adopted; …
Imo State University (IMSU) was originally modeled after the famous University of Nebraska in the United States of America. Accordingly, the Imo State Law No. 4 of 1981 provided for five temporary campuses for the university to be located at the existing five senatorial zones in the old Imo State. College of Business Administration …