Imo Trumpeta newspaper

By Obinna Akukwe     There has been clamor from various concerned and patriotic sources that the few privileged Nigerians who cornered over I trillion naira($7billion dollars) belonging to the Nigerian people  in the name of subsidy be brought to book. There is equally hope that the ongoing probe of fraud in the pensions industry, financial securities industry and other malicious avenues...

Ousted Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade When the likes of Professor Hugh Redwald Trevor- Roper and many of his fellow Western academic adherents argued in the 40s that Africa was a dark continent with barbaric peoples, little did they know they where painting a grim picture of a black race in the African continent who had learnt nothing from their past,...

Kema Chikwe As A Recurring Decimal In Imo Politics Dr Kema Chikwe does not need any introduction either in Imo nay Nigerian politics. She is as hard as they come. And has remained in the political arena since the birth of the current political dispensation in the country. She is usually in the news, either for the good or bad one,...

There are indications that the 27 Local Government Transition Committees in Imo State will soon be relief of their duty.  Imo Trumpeta learnt the dissolution of the TC's is coming on the heels of Governor Rochas Okorocha’s plans to democratize the Local Governments through the introduction of Community Government Council, popularly called Fourth tier of Government. Time and when the sack...

Uwazuruike, Bianca Storm Owerri The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State Of Biafra (MASSOB) Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and the wife of the Late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba of Nwewi), Mrs Bianca Ojukwu arrived Owerri last Saturday to commission the  Ojukwu Memorial Library. Details Tomorrow.

.As preliminary hearing commences  by victor madumere      After all said and done, preliminary hearing on the petition filed against the Imo state governor and the state attorney general as 1st and 2nd respondent by the sacked beneficiaries of the Ikedi Ohakim led administration 10,000 Jobs project continued at the national industrial court Enugu last Friday. Counsel to the 1st and...

.Fire Destroys Property Worth Millions In Owerri              By Innocent Onyeukwu It was wailing and crying for shop owners and residents of a property situated at No.3 Odor Street, Owerri when a wild fire razed down goods worth millions of naira. The fire which began about 11 Friday night and lasted up to Saturday morning was so ferocious that men of the...

By: Austine Echereozor Governor of Imo State Owelle Rochas Okorocha has vehemently warned the newly appointed local government caretaker committee members against indulging into any unwholesome behaviour that may reduce the rate of development in their respective local government councils. Governor Okorocha made this disclosure while addressing the T.C chairmen and the newly inaugurated city development committees in the 27...

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday in Abidjan said she would fight to win the position of the World Bank President, after getting fresh endorsements from  African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States  (ECOWAS). The AU on Monday in Addis Ababa, endorsed Okonjo-Iweala as its candidate for the top job, while ECOWAS Heads of...

With the celebration of the International Children’s Day of Broadcasting, 2012, yesterday, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and broadcasters around the globe have emphasized the need for every child of school going age to be enrolled in school. In this regard, the UNICEF has made an appeal to government , private sector, national institutions, media education professionals, communities, parents...