GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHAS’S MAY 29, 2012 DIARY
In this report, Imo Trumpeta special correspondent, Kingsley Amaechi, was at the Government House Owerri to witness Governor Rochas Okorocha’s one year in office celebration.
May 29, 2012, will remain indelible in the heart of Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. It was a day that marked his one year in office as Executive Governor of Imo State.
The Governors first...
CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA’S ONE YEAR ADMINISTRATION
On the 29th of May 2012, Governor Rochas Okorocha’s administration clocked one year in office. Within this one year, the government formulated and implemented a lot of policies, programs and projects. Traditionally, it is always the practice that at such occasions, government only extols its achievement more for political reasons. Most a times, government does not give an unbiased...
GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH OLYMPIC STANDARD STADIUM
GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH OLYMPIC STANDARD STADIUM
By Chibuzor Munonye.
An Olympic standard stadium is to be established alongPortharcourt Road, Owerri by the state government.
The Commissioner for Youths and Sports Hon Kenneth Emelu who disclosed this while commenting on the one year in office of Hon Kelvin Amuka representing Ideato South in the state legislature, noted that the stadium would be used...
HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
The European championship in Polandand Ukrainewill be the 4th time that the competition has been held.
It was the brainchild of Henri Delaunay, the secretary of the French Football Federation, who first came up with the idea of a continental competition in 1927.
At first he had little support and it did not start until 1960. Before 1980 only four teams...
NDUBUISI OPARA HONOURED BY NOWA AND NIGERIAN NAVY.
Ex – international, Ndubuisi Opara the current chairman of YSFON (Eastern Region) and Imo state chapter has been decorated with a special award for his selfless efforts and contribution for the development of sports among the youth especially at the grass root level.
This decoration was made by the National president of YSFON, Alhaji Nasairu Dawuna in conjunction with the...
NIGERIA: LIKE DANA AIR DISASTER IN WAITING
Penultimate week in Ghana, Nigeria’s West African neighbour, a football match was going on at the National Stadium Accra and the flood lights went off. The stadium manager was sacked the next day. That is in a country where things work! Had such an embarrassment taken place in Nigeria, nothing would have happened. The stadium manager would still be...
“Amadioha Ngor Okpala”gives Daughter out
Chief Val Okere, popularly called Amadioha Ngor Okpala, last Friday gave his daughter, Jennifer Ojiugo out in marriage to Mr. Tochukwu, Peter Nnaji of Emekuku, in Owerri North LGA, Imo state.
The ceremony which combined both the Traditional and Church wedding simultaneously took place both at Emekuku OwerriNorth LGAand Nnorie in Ngor Okpala LGA respectively.
The Traditional wedding which took place...
Okorocha bows to Imo Workers Suspends privatization policy
They thug of war raging between the State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and the organized Labour in the State has ceased, at least momentarily for now.
This followed acceptance of some of the conditions demanded by the Labour, which led it to go on warning strike on May 29, 2012, whileNigeriawas celebrating Democracy Day.
According to the report reaching Imo Trumpeta,...
Calamity at IMSU As VC’s Aide guns down student
Tension heightened inImoStateUniversity, Owerri on Democracy Day, as one of the security aides of the Vice – Chancellor, Prof. B.E.B Nwoke shot at students in the Institution.
According to eye – witnesses account, trouble started when final year students of one of the Department s, the Hospitality and Tourism Management, (HTM) were taking their final first semester examinations. The Vice...
Imo Government woos Opposition Invites Ohakim’s Aides, PDP to parley
For the first time, the incumbent Government in Imo state led by Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha has begun to revisit its policy of exclusion by inviting the opposition parties to its functions.
The Government through the Secretary of the State Government, Prof. Anthony Anwuka distributed invitations for the May 29, 2012 Democracy Day celebration and included members other political parties,...
