Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo state has suspended the state Commissioner for Lands, Survey and Physical Planning, Noble Atulegwu. Also suspended is his Special Adviser/ General Manager, Imo State Housing Cooperation, Mbakwe Obi. A statement issued in Owerri, the state capital on Thursday by the Secretary to the State Government, Cosmos Iwu, said the suspension…
His excellency, Hope Uzodimma, the executive Governor of Imo State, has reached out to the families of the murdered security agents in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state. The just re-elected Governor recognized the anguish they may be going through because of their selfless service to the state and sustainably compensated them….
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Sunday morning declared Uzodimma, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), winner of the polls after scoring 540,308 votes to defeat his closest rival, Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Athan Achonu of Labour Party, who polled 71,503 and 64081 votes to come…
The candidate of Labour Party in Saturday’s governorship election in Imo State, Senator Athan Achonu, has said democracy is under attack in the country. Speaking at his resident after casting his vote, Achonu decried the alleged high level of electoral manipulations that took place in the state but assured that the masses will resist the…
Votes are about now being sorted out following the conclusion of Voting in all the polling units in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states where governorship elections took place Saturday Voting was expected to end by 2pm but extended beyond that time because of late arrival of INEC officials. According a journalist who monitored the exercise,…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has raised the alarm alleging that its intelligence unit uncovered some political thugs allegedly recruited from Akwa Ibom State by the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) who are printing and thumbprinting fake ballot papers in the Okigwe Local Government Area of…
It’s D- day today Saturday November 11, as a little over five million voters in the three states of Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi will file out to vote in the off-cycle governorship election in the states. In the three states, the Independent National Electoral Commission said 5,169,692 voters collected their permanent voter cards out of…
A new Commissioner of Police has been appointed for Imo state. The appointment of Danjuma Aboki as the new Imo CP comes just two days to the governorship election in the state In a statement released on Thursday, Force spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi said Danjuma Aboki had been deployed as the new police commissioner in Imo…
Aviation unions in Nigeria have directed their workers to withdraw their services to all public and private Owerri flights (both inwards and outwards) with effect from midnight. The unions said the strike is indefinite until otherwise directed by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC). The unions are the…
The Imo state government on Monday denied reports that it invaded the village NLC President Joe Ajaero Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba said, for Ajaero to be making such allegations against the state government shows that he has lost his mental balance Emelumba, who was responding to inquiries from EkweAnaedo News concerning…
