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Lessons for Orlu, Okigwe zones from Uzodinma’s attention on Owerri water scheme

By Business Hilights S’East Bureau Chief First official project reactivated immediately he assumed office was to make sure that water supplies are restored in parts of Owerri zone and mainly the state capital. Even before his emergence from the Supreme…

Okorocha: No contract between 2011 and 2019 passed through me—State Auditor

First test case for the new governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma on his leadership strength to face former Governor Rochas Okorocha and tell him that financial miscarriages reigned supreme during his eight years has emerged. Recall that ahead…

Jubilation in Obinugwu as Gov reinstate Eze Ilomuanya, sacks Nwangwu

Following the approval for the official reinstatement of His Royal Highness, Eze (Dr) Cletus Ikechukwu Ilomuanya (CON), Obi of Obinugwu as the Traditional Ruler of Obinugwu Autonomous Community in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State, by Governor Emeka Ihedioha…

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Like in US, like in Owerri: EFCC nabs 33 yahoo boys Monday

Not less than weeks after the first operation that led to mass arrest of internet fraudsters in Owerri, the Imo State capital, operatives of the Abuja and Enugu Zonal Offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday,…

IMSG retakes Eastern Palm Varsity, designates it one of IMSU Campuses

…As Ihedioha awards scholarship to two indigenes with best WAEC results in 2019 In continuation of his recovery drive of all public assets surreptitiously cornered by former administration of Rochas Okorocha, the Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha led Imo State Government…

Just in: EFCC opens up on Okorocha, daughters’ property seizures, exonerates IMSG

For the first time since Tuesday July 23, 2019, raid on some choice landed properties allegedly belonging to the former Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha and his daughter married to his former Chief of Staff, Mr. Uche Nwosu…

Imo town unions, zonal bodies, protest, want Ihedioha to recover 35 public assets

*Full text of the address of protesting associations to Gov. Ihedioha We are the leadership of the Association of Imo State Indigenous Town Unions (AISITU) in collaboration with Orlu zurumee, Olu Owerri, Olu Okigwe, Amalgamation of Imo Professional Associations (AIPA),…

INEC: Conflicting rulings divide lawyers over Okorocha’s Senate seat CoR

Friday’s ruling of an Abuja Federal High Court which tends to dwarf an earlier ruling by an Owerri High Court has raised some levels of confusion on the correct decision to be taken by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…

We don’t believe an Okorocha leaving N42.5bn in Imo coffers—PDP

Barely 24 hours after the just gone Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, said he would be handing over N42.5bn to his successor, Emeka Ihedioha, a top official of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), now ruling party in the state,…

Okorocha spent N8bn Paris Club Refund on the eve of elections—EFCC

More details are beginning to emerge on how the outgoing governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha, feasted on the state’s N8bn share of the Paris Club Refund approved and paid in by the Federal Government some months ahead of…