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Kema Chikwe’s Hubby, Car Dealers Battle over SOMACHI Park

  Nze Herbert Chikwe, husband to PDP National Woman Leader, Friday, stormed Owerri Modern Market popularly known as SOMACHI with stern looking security men, including policemen challenge luxury bus owners over their continued operation at the place.   Chikwe claimed that the entire SOMACHI landmass belongs to him. Narrating the incident to Trumpeta, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Automobile Dealers Association, Chief Sam...

As Bishop-Elect, Okpaleke is Consecrated Today Mbaise Catholics Set For War .Clerics, Laity continue Rejection, Shun Event .Archbishop Obinna weeps over Crisis .Vatican Consider Reposition

  The ongoing supremacy war between the Catholic Church and Mbaise faithful over the appointment of Monsignor Peter Ebele Okpaleke, as Bishop-elect of Ahiara Catholic Diocese, Mbaise, will undoubtedly reach a climax today as the new Bishop is consecrated.   There have been altercations between the two groups following the appointment of Okpaleke which the clergy, laity and religious of Mbaise extraction...

Isiala Mbano PDP Denies Anti-Party Campaign Against Simeon Iwunze

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Isiala Mbano Local Government Chapter, Imo State, has directed the public to be wary of one Loveday Uchendu, who allegedly authorized a publication in the Newspapers calling for investigation against Hon Simeon Iwunze over purported Anti-party Activities.   In a release signed by Ifeanyi Elechi (America) the LGA Youth Leader of the PDP, and made available...

Prof Jude Njoku Dazzles at FUTO Lecture Speaks on Academic Research and Leadership

  Prof Jude Njoku, a former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO dazzled the teeming crowd of cerebral personalities that gathered at the Professor Onwuliri Memorial Conference Centre, as he delivered the FUTO First Foundation Lecture.   Njoku, a former Commissioner for Education in Imo State who spoke on the topic “Academic Research and Leadership: A Challenge” impressed...

Destruction Of Illegal Refineries

Now and again the news networks in Nigeria carry news and pictures of illegal petroleum refineries in the oil mineral producing areas of the country. The recent case of a discovery in Kogi State middle belt of Nigeria is only a deviation from the status quo. The officers and men of the civil defense corps and other security forces have...

Governor Okorocha And The Politics Of APC

During the 2011 Governorship Elections in Imo State, there were a lot of factors that contributed immensely to the victory of Chief Rochas Okorocha at that election. One of them was the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). The party was a well nurtured party in the state then led by Chief Martin Agbaso. Agbaso financed APGA from 2003 till...

Uwajimogu Is On An Errand

By ethelbert okere, 08033360045 Recently, there were reports in some the local media ascribing the following statement to the Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Right Hon. Ben Uwajimogu thus: “Ohakim Will Not Rule Imo Again”. The reports added an adjunct to the main statement: “Despite his (Ohakim) litigations against Governor Rochas Okorocha's administration in Imo state”. As...

LOVE YOUR ENEMIES (1)

YE HAVE heard that it hath been said 'THOU shall love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy'. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you”. - Matt. 5:43, 44 (KJV). The injunction. “love your enemies” (Matt. 5:43)...

Imo Guber: If Owerri Zone Wants To Get It Right

Two weeks ago, Owerri Zone Political Leadership Forum (OZOPOLF) came out smoking echoing for the umpteenth time that in 2015, Owerri zone will not accept anything less than the governorship seat of the State. The group has unveiled its “Marshal Plan” to ensure the success of its aims and objectives but it has ignored key factors that may mar the...

Trumpeta Editorial

  That Ban On JAMB And NECO he proposed ban on JAMB and NECO as examination bodies came to millions of Nigerians with little or no shock. It was neither a bolt from the blue nor the handiwork of armchair theorists. It is a natural cause and effect scenario or better one of the manifestations of a corrupt environment. Products of educational...