POLICE EXTORTION: Illegal checkpoints in Owerri.
Despite the order by the Inspector General of Police ordering policemen from mounting illegal checkpoints where they extort money from motorists, it must be noted that such checkpoints have started springing up almost everywhere in Owerri capital and Imo State in general. The excuse for such would definitely be to …
THE IHEDIOHA FACTOR: Rebranded Imo PDP reveals new strengths.
A day in a political life can reveal more spectacle than star gazers can imagine.For Emeka Ihedioha, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, the last Saturday in September was longer than any other day in his telling political life history. It was a day he caused some heavy guns in …
ALUU KILLINGS: Celebrities react to the gruesome killings of the “Uniport 4”.
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 …
MALI, GUINEA BISSAU CRISIS: ECOWAS Parliament Sets Up Parliamentary Committee
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 …
Many of our leaders are yet to understand the meaning of democracy.
“…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 …
CRY FOR JUSTICE: Blood of the “Aluu 4” gets international attention via BBC News.
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 …
Gov.Okorocha advocates for rebirth of national Culture.
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 …
OKIGWE: How effective is the representation of Senator Matthew Nwagwu?
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 …
Chief Ikedi Ohakim to run for Okigwe Senate in 2015?
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, …
EMEKUKU 9 TRAGEDY: Seven family members buried in one grave.
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 …
CITIZENS’ REPORT: Handwork of inexperienced road contractors at Egbu Housing. (PHOTOS)
The photos contained in this report show parts of Egbu Housing completed by contractors. In the words of the citizen who submitted this report to the Blog: “These are the results of substandard work done by inexperienced contractors at Egbu Housing. Roads barely six months old are now cracking, breaking …