READERS MAIL: Open letter to Governor Rochas Okorocha
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, there are currently over two hundred hotels under construction in Owerri, the Imo State capital. When completed, these will add to the existing over two thousand hotels in the city. This development, more than anything else, serves as a pointer to the …
Have you received your Permanent voters card yet?
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says they have achieved 81.2% distribution of the Permanent Voter Cards. This is according to a document released by the commission in Abuja on Friday. The document contains a list of data collated from the 36 states in Nigeria including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). …
GOVERNORSHIP FORUM: Hmmm…publication from The Leader adds more salt to injury.
Five years ago, aides of serving Governor Chief Ikedi Ohakim, molested a priest in an action that enraged the whole state and manifested itself at the polls. Last Wednesday, March 11, supporters of Governor Rochas Okorocha did dramatically worse at the Assumpta Cathedral, disrupting a political forum organized by the …
News from Ikeduru: IMSG completes Onungara bridge.
The Imo State Government has completed the construction of the Onungara bridge, linking the people of Owalla Avuvu and Amachara Avuvu communities in Ikeduru Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. Residents in the communities have expressed their appreciation to the Governor Okorocha led administration for finally completing the bridge. …
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Okorocha welcomes Pastor Kumuyi
Gov Rochas Okorocha in a handshake with Pastor W.F. Kumuyi, G.O. Deeper Life christian Ministries during the church crusade at Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri on Saturday.
EDUCATION: Okorocha receives 2014 Governor of the year Award from IMSU students.
Students of the Imo state University, Owerri, Friday stormed Government House, Owerri, in solidarity with Governor Rochas Okorocha for giving them free education which he has sustained since he came in as governor, adding that the free education has worked effectively well contrary to the wrong impression the opponents of …
Press statement from the Emeka Ihedioha Campaign Organization.
The Emeka Ihedioha For Governorship Campaign Organization condemns in strong terms the deliberate disruption of the debate for Governorship Candidates in Imo State organized by the Owerri Catholic Archdiocese by a band of hired thugs of The APC Govt. It confirms the popular belief that the Government of H.E Ethelbert …
2015 Imo governorship debate: History of regrets – By Uche Onwuchekwa
The PDP human whistling Palms and their APGA Red Card Bearers Are the Problem! I have read different versions of accounts as to what happened at Assumpta yesterday and I could not believe less that desperation for power could turn a woman a man over night. It has proven valid …
IMSG, ABSG reach truce over boundary dispute.
A historic truce was reached last Tuesday between Imo State Government and her Abia counterpart over the boundary skirmishes between Umudibia/Umuoma Autonomous communities of Ihitte-Uboma local government area of Imo State and Ekeoba Autonomous community of Abia State. The truce and peace accord was initiated by the Chairman of Imo …
Chronicle of events at the botched Imo governorship debate – IK Ogbonna
By 7am, reports indicated that FUTO students were being conveyed to the venue of the debate in buses by a PDP stalwart with links to FUTO of recent past. By 8am, APGA and PDP loyalists clashed in a supremacy battle. The battle led to a minor blood bathe on both …
OP-ED: Today, I wept for Christ – Ike C. Ibe
All day I have tried to muster the Christain faith and courage to describe the event that happened today at the Odenigbo pavilion of the Assumpta cathedral Owerri. Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such a brazen episcopal desecration. At a forum organized by the Catholic Church for the …