Imo State

The traditional rulers spoke through the Chairman of Ikeduru Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Marcel Egemonu, the Ebi of Ebikoro, during their council meeting held at Ikeduru Local Government Secretariat on Friday.

The Lagos State Police Command said it had arrested four suspected kidnappers who allegedly collected N6 million from their victims.

The aspirants made this known in a communique read by one of them and current Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere, at a news conference on Friday in Abuja.

The Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr Masa’udu Kazaure, made this known in Kaduna on Thursday, at the end of the Second Regular Meeting of the NBTE Governing Board. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Modupe Adelabu.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo says governors under the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress are looking for a way out of the party’s predicament resulting from its primaries.

The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that over 20 aspirants are jostling for the party’s governorship ticket in the state.

Yekini Nabena, the APC acting National Publicity Secretary, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.

A female governorship aspirant in Imo, Irene Ottih, has called for the cancellation of the Peoples Democratic Party governorship primaries in Imo, alleging her exclusion from the contest.

Oshiohmole stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.

Emeka Ihedioha, a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, says his emergence as the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Imo is an act of God.

Twenty four traditional rulers in Oguta Local Government of Imo have endorsed abolishing the Osu caste system, to free affected people from stigmatisation.

Okorocha made this remark in his address to mark the country’s Independent Day through his Chief Press Secretary, Sam Onwuemeodo in Owerri on Monday.

In a bid to revive the passion for history and discovery of roots by Nigerians, the winner of the much publicised Face of Candy City Tourism, Chioma Iwuchukwu, is set to team up with the Imo State Government, Lagos State Government, Niger…

Iheaka, in his verdict, said the seven-man panel set up by the Chief Judge of Imo, Justice Pascal Nnadi, to investigate allegations against Madumere erred in its duty.

Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja.

Uzodinma told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday, that direct primaries, as encouraged by the National Working Committee, would bring the various factions of the party in the state together.

The governor also swore-in Kenneth Ejiogu as his new Chief of Staff to replace Uche Nwosu, his son-in-law, who had declared for the governorship race in 2019.

The Commissioner of Police in Imo, Dasuki Galadanchi, said on Thursday in Owerri that the command had arrested two suspects involved in the killing of a Rev. Fr, Jude Egbom.

The young man’s plunge into the canal drew the attention of passersby, commuters and motorists, who were on their way to work, thereby causing severe gridlock on the Abuja-Keffi road.

He gave the advice while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, after obtaining the party’s Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to contest in the primary in the state ahead of 2019 general elections.