Imo Trumpeta newspaper

The ambition of Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to ascend the leadership of the World Bank received a boost on Thursday when the Federal House of Representatives publicly declared its support, describing her as “the best candidate” for the plum job. The resolution to support the minister followed a Point of Order of...

The need for sustenance of inter-community roads maintenance (Mbomuzo) has been stressed. Ahiazu Mbaise LGA TC Chairman, Dr. Kachi Nwoga underscored the essence in a meeting he held with traditional rulers in the area at the council hall, Afor Oru, recently. He decried increasing environmental, moral and cultural decadence and called for re-orientation to reverse the ugly trend. On re-certification of communities,...

The long arm of the law is beginning to take its course in the much celebrated case of fraudulent management of Police pension funds, as a permanent secretary in the Federal Civil Service, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Kigo and a director, Chief Esai Dangabar were on Thursday sent to prison on remand by an Abuja High Court over alleged diversion...

  REPENTANCE           (Part 2)       By Nath Onyeukwu 08091799406   SOURCE: A GIFT OF GOD OR HUMAN ACT:  Some divines view true repentance as human nature, thus ascribing it to the unaided workings of the natural heart. This view is not supported by various – and they are many – scriptures such as Acts 5:31, 9:18; II Tim. 2:25; Ps. 80:3,7,19; 85:4; Jer....

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...