Browsing: Imo State

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State disclosed this to State House correspondents after the council’s meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa

In playing these games of hide-and-seek, Nigerian political office holders have clearly discovered that the best way to succeed in hiding their misdeeds and heist of public fund is to cultivate friendship with leaders of religious institutions and also compromise high profile law enforcement operatives to look the other way while they escape with their loots

If I’m to assess him, I will score him not more than 32 per cent. But let’s believe he could do it because in the area of education, where he talked about free education, we still have a lot of corrections to make there

A resident of the community, Nnaemeka Emenyonu, told NAN in Owerri, the Imo State capital, that the tree fell on the affected persons around 8pm

The governor told newsmen at the Government House, Owerri, that the accident occurred when a flat boot Mercedes Benz 200 ran into his convoy and had a head-on coalition. He sustained a minor cut on his scalp

A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital, had earlier in the day cleared the way for the investigation and eventual impeachment of Agbaso over the bribe allegation

A good example of a “belletician” in Imo State is Sir Jude Agbaso, the deputy governor of the state. Last week, the media went wild with stories of impending impeachment of Agbaso over allegations that he received bribe monies totaling N458 million from a construction company. Twenty-five out of 27 members of the Imo State House of Assembly have voted for his impeachment. I must commend the Imo House for this move. The Nigerian Constitution specifies that high government officials may be impeached for treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours

Agbaso’s counsel, Patrick Ikwueto, SAN, had sought the order of the court to stop the Imo State House of Assembly from proceeding with the impeachment process against Agbaso

Agbaso is in court to contest the move by the state House of Assembly to impeach and remove him from office

The House, in a statement by the Chairman of the Committee on Information, Hon. Acho Ihim, said the probe of Agbaso began after it was discovered that a road contract being handled by J-Pros International Limited was abandoned by the contractor because the deputy governor, who is also the Commissioner for Works, collected N458 million out of the mobilization fee paid for the contract