Imo Trumpeta newspaper

By Ibezim Samuel The office of Her Excellency in collaboration with Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has presented a one day prayer meeting at Civic Centre, Port Harcourt Road with the theme “Winning Attitude”. Mrs Okorocha said that women should have attitude for winning.  “Attitude is not the result of what happens in the world, but how one decides...

  The Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly, the Rt. Hon. Chief Benjamin Uwajumogu has called for the immortalization of Political Leaders who contributed meaningfully to the socio-economic and political development of Nigeria. He stated that such leaders must be those who selflessly served ‘the country in offering political Independence in 1960, those who fought for the restoration of democracy...

The increasing rate of kidnap cases has again caught up with a former member of the National Assembly and member who represented Ohaji/Egbema/Oguta and Oru West Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Chief Tony Eze Okere was two days ago kidnapped by unknown persons. Chief Okere who served the immediate past administration as the Special Adviser to the Governor...

The State Government has announced a minor Reshuffle in the Executive Counsel, the Cabinet Re – shuffle followed the decision reached in the last Executive Counsel Meeting held last Wednesday in the Governorment House Owerri. Briefing News men at the end of the Exco meeting, the state Commissioner for information and strategy Dr. Obinna Duruji said that the affected Ministries...

With the commercialization policy of the Rescue Mission on collision course with organised labour, Imo state government is alleged to have resorted to offering N10, 000 inducements to workers, wishing to collapse into the community Government council Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha pronounced the carrot incentive when he addressed a cross section of Imo citizens comprising Senior Public Servants traditional...

-         OKOROCHA LOSES ROUND ONE -         AS COURT THROWS OUT GOVT’S OBJECTION FIXES JUNE 26 FOR EX – APPOINTEES MATTER.   Justice seems to be under way for the Ten thousand job employees of Imo state, who were sacked by the administration of the incumbent Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, early this year, after they had been employed by the last administration of Dr...

BY INNOCENT ONYEUKWU, ANTHONY ANYANWU   The last may not have been heard over the drama between Owerri indigenes, especially those in Amawom community and Governor Rochas Okorocha over the refusal of Amawom people to allow government take over their land, situated at Area K World Bank Housing Estate, Owerri. The Weekend Trumpeta learnt that peace moves initiated by the state government...

  IMSU DON DECRIES UNDERDEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA A university Don. Professor Rev. Fr Izu Marcel Onyeocha has identified nonchalant attitude to time and need for punctuality by Nigerians as the major reason for the country’s continued underdevelopment. Professor Onyeocha in his inaugural lecture yesterday April 26, 2012 on “The problematic of African Time” at the auditorium of Imo state University, Owerri...

A devastating fire outbreak has razed down Orie Akokwa market, in Ideato North LGA of Imo state destroying goods running into millions of naira. When our reporter visited the scene, it was a pathetic sight as traders were seen crying openly as most of them claimed that the inferno consumed their life – wires. It has remained a mystery how the...

Good and sincere Writers put their thoughts out as directed them by the spur of their inner soul, and in most cases the predictions come to pass. Nearly a year ago, after Owelle Rochas Okorocha won his election as the Governor of Imo state with tumultous euphoria among the Imo populace, I had written a piece then captioned “Ohakim, not...