Former Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, finally broke his silence after over one year of leaving office. Here are excerpts from an interview granted to THISDAY. “It’s been over one year since you left office. Unlike some of your colleagues, not much has been heard from you; even …
Its most unfortunate that some Imolites are still blindfolded hence, they can’t seebeyound their sitting room. Why do we attack Col. Akobundu and the PDP, when Gov.Okorocha can’t just close his mouth and concentrate on his job? I feel most of the critisms against Col. Akobundu are unjustified and uncalled …
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South East zone, has assured Governor Rochas Okorocha that his avowed ambition to ensure that the All Progressive Grand Alliance(APGA) takes over the five South Eastern states will end up like his several abandoned projects littering the state. In a statement signed and made available …
Someone just sent us these pictures showing parts of the state capital, Owerri decorated with heaps of refuse. The eye-sore in the images below are from Royce rd/ Rotibi st. If the new management for the agency is having a difficult time getting a hang of their job responsibilities, …
Days after the gruesome killings of the four Uniport students in Aluu, their painful outcry as they were being set ablaze rings louder than the cry of Abel. Indeed, the heart of man is desperately wicked. Nigerian youths are outraged. Which way our fatherland? The Boko Haram massacre, the menace …
The Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Parliament, has raised a Parliamentary Committee on the Political Situation in the Republic of Mali and the Republic of Guinea Bissau. This was part of the resolutions adopted by the Community Parliament at the end of its September 2012 …
“…the labor of our heroes past shall never be in vain…” Strong words. Strong promise which unfortunately we have forgotten. Looking at Nigeria as a whole today, our heroes past will shed tears as what is obtainable today was not the vision they had for us for which they risked their …
Yet again, Nigeria makes international headlines for the wrong reason. Thankfully, this time around the call for justice in the case of the murdered students of Uniport by the Aluu community will gain world wide attention. The report by BBC news reads as follows: Thirteen people have been arrested after …
Governor Rochas Okorocha has advocated for Nigeria’s strong cultural reposition as against borrowed values from the Western countries. Owelle Rochas Okorocha who gave this advice at the University of Nigerian Nsukka where he delivered a lecture at the University’s 20 billion Naira Endowment Fund/Launching ceremony said it will enable the …
We just learnt that Senator Matthew Nwagwu swore to an oath that he would vacate the senate seat for Chief Ikedi Ohakim who had hoped to govern Imo till 2015. Following the abracadabra at the gubernatorial elections, Sen.Nwagwu has moved on and we are told he now avoids “Ikedi like …
So…. A group known as Okigwe Zone Youth Solidarity Movement (OZYSM),a mass based youth organization in Okigwe Zone has called on the immediate past Governor of Imo State, Dr Ikedi Ohakim to run for Okigwe senatorial election in 2015. Briefing newsmen at the end of an emergency meeting, last week, …
Seven of the family of nine pictured above who died after burying their mother at Emekuku few months ago in July were buried this weekend. Vanguard reports that they were buried in *one long grave*. The funeral was presided by His Grace, Archbishop Obinna. The rest of the report reads as …