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…
The Independent National Electoral Commission has been urged to conduct a free,, fair and credible election in Imo state. A Coalition of Civil Society Groups which made the call, said by conducting credible polls, INEC will help end the ongoing bloodletting and violence in Imo State The group also tasked the commission to guard against…
The Nigeria Police Force has bowed to pressure from the Nigeria Labour Congress, the Trade Union Congress, the Labour Party, and Civil Society Organisations by redeploying the Imo State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde out of the state. Egbetokun announced the redeployment of the commissioner on Sunday night He said the police were not unaware…
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party for the Novermber 11 poll in Imo state, Attan Achonu, on Sunday accused the police in the state of attacking him and his convoy and preventing him from attending a church service in the Owerri North Local Government Area of the state. Briefing journalists in Owerri, the state…
Imo State Government has vehemently denied any knowledge of plans to book all hotel rooms in the state for the forthcoming governorship election. Recall a trending video which showed stranded and angry old students of Federal Government Girls College Owerri at a hotel supposedly booked months before their re-union party. Upon arrival at the hotel,…
Reports reaching us from Orlu in Imo state say there have been sporadic shooting in Ugbele- Umuaka, in Orlu area of the state A resident of the area Durogbo Vincent, in a text message to Ekweanaedo News said the shooting which started around 5am continued until 8am on Sunday morning. He said a combined team…
