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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
By CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI — Tragedy struck in Umuogwuta, Ndegwu, Owerri West local council area of Imo State, as a lady who was giving her testimony during the New Year service suddenly collapsed and died. A villager, who spoke to Vanguard on ground of anonymity, said: “The Lagos-based lady, Ifeoma Anozie, collapsed and died while […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Imo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Sunday, December 29th, 2013
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu Pioneer members of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Imo State, led by former Governor, Chief Achike Udenwa, are now making serous moves to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state (L) and former governor Chief Achike Udenwa The development […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Sunday, December 15th, 2013
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri Obinna Ezirim, a self-acclaimed pastor has been docked at a Magistrate Court in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State for allegedly stealing a one month-old baby, Prince Goodluck Chinedozie Asoronye. Ezirim, who hails from Ihodimeze in Ikeduru LGA of Imo state was said to have stolen the one month-old baby […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, Obinna Emeka, State News
Thursday, November 7th, 2013

By Obinna Emeka | Owwerri, Nigeria | Nov. 7, 2013 – By 2015 election is fast approaching so one is not surprise at the propaganda and pull him down campaign going on against notable politicians. Politics, as we know, is generally assumed to be a dirty game. Indeed, it is dirty in so many ways […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, Raw Politics
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | October 22, 2013 – The announcement by the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, that he will re-contest his position in the 2015 general election generated several headlines and commentaries. Okorocha’s declaration to contest the next election is in total negation of his position before assumption […]
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Edo, Governors, Headlines, Imo, Prince Charles Dickson, Rivers, State News
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
Three Governors – Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, Rochas Okorocha of Imo and Rotimi Amechi of Rivers – did not attend the South-East/South-South governors meeting held on Sunday in Enugu. The meeting was attended by eight of the 11 governors in the two geo-political zones. Governors who attended the meeting include Theodore Orji of Abia; […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri Sequel to the report of alleged sexual abuse of female inmates by prisons officials at the Owerri Prison, female inmates have been taken to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, for compulsory pregnancy test. The female convicts and those on awaiting trial, it was gathered, were being taken to the hospital […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Walter Duru
Sunday, September 1st, 2013

By Walter Duru | NNP | Sept. 1, 2013 – Last week, a hatchet writer took virtual space on some internet-based newspapers to publish what has been described by some Imo citizens as a concocted and incoherent report titled “How Imo First Lady Turned Pet Project into Billon Naira Personal Business Venture.” The writer […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Friday, August 30th, 2013
NEXT month,Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo, will mark his first birth day in life, because life begins at 50. It will perhaps be a good time for him to assess the situation, make sober reflections, seek the face and will of God, to plot the way for the years ahead, knowing that it is only […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, August 4th, 2013

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | August 5, 2013 – I read with dismay the letter written by the Chief Judge of Imo State Honourable Justice Benjamin Ahanonu Njemanze via his solicitor Prof F.C Dike( SAN) of Nnaji Dike Chambers threatening libel suit against Emperor Iwuala and two media houses based in Owerri (Trumpeta […]