Breaking: HE Uzodinma makes first appointments

Information reaching us is that 

His Excellency, Sen. Hope Uzodinma (Onwa Oyoko) Governor of Imo State has graciously approved the appointments of the following persons into his cabinet:

1. Chief Cosmas Iwu.... Secretary To The Government of Imo State ( SGI)

2. Bar. COC Akolisa, Attorney General & Commissioner of Justice

3. Sir Nnamdi Anyaehie....Chief of Staff and

4.  Mr. Oguike Nwachukwu.....Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser

 

The appointments are with immediate effect. 

Congratulations gentlemen🤝🏽

What do Igbos want??

A MUST READ !

"What do the Igbos want?",Buhari asked during his media chat.

Obi Nwakamma answers him.

And now, Obi Nwakanma, a Poet, journalist, biographer and literary critic, has written an article in answer to the question, "What do the Igbos want?"

Enjoy:

In Biafra, under three years, they were making their own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast workshop, as Ojukwu put it.

At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime brought together these Biafran scientists and set up PRODA. The initiative led, in the first five years between 1970-1975 under the late Prof. Gordian Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe, to designs of industrial machinery models and prototypes for the East Central State Industrial Masterplan, which remain undeveloped even today. The Murtala/Obasanjo regime took over PRODA in 1975 by decree, starved it of funds, and basically destroyed its aims.

Secondly, Federal government policies centralized all potentials for innovation and entrepreneurship. Before 1983, states had their Ministries of Trade and Industry. These were charged with local business registration, trade, and investment promotion, and so on. But today in Nigeria, if you wish to do any business, you'd have to go to Abuja (it used to be Lagos) to register under the Corporate Affairs Commission. It used to be that local business registration was state and municipal functions. The concentration of the leverage for trade utterly limited Igbo entrepreneurs, particularly in the era of import licensing, once your quota was exhausted, you could not do business.

Gov. Ihedioha's farewell speech

STATEMENT FROM HIS EXCELLENCY, RT. HON. EMEKA IHEDIOHA, CON, ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON IMO STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION OF THE MARCH 9, 2019.

JANUARY 15, 2020

My dear good people of Imo State,

I address you today, following the recent developments affecting our dear state, and in particular the Supreme Court judgement of 14thJanuary 2020.In my relationship with you as Governor of Imo , I had employed regular consultations and dialogue as a tool of political discourse. This informs this course of action.

2. I am reporting back to you our great Imo people on the fate of the mandate you freely gave to me as Governor and Engr. Gerald Irona as Deputy Governor. This mandate has now been truncated and cut short by the Supreme Court, in contravention of the will of the people.

3. We shall always cherish the tremendous goodwill and support you gave us as we grappled with setting up a new administration to rebuild a state that was devastated by bad governance.

4. In the last seven months we sought to elevate merit, unity of purpose, honesty, transparency and an inclusive approach to governance, as the hallmarks of our administration. We sought to restore once again, the pride and dignity of Imo people. We worked very hard to re-engineer the Imo renaissance. But God knows why he has allowed this current state of affairs.

5. No doubt, yesterday’s Supreme Court verdict, came to us as a rude shock and surprise considering the facts on ground,

Views on Imo State Governorship Supreme Court judgement Part 1

*_Can Somebody Tell The Supreme Court That Things Should Always Make Sense?_* 

By Tai Emeka Obasi. 

```According to the report from Vanguard's Ikechukwu Nnochiri, who was at the Supreme Court, the apex court declared Hope Uzodimma the new governor-elect based on the results he got from 388 units, which was earlier cancelled. Those results cumulated to 213, 295 votes.

INEC had said the reason they cancelled the results from those polling units was because of over voting. 

Now, I don't trust either of INEC or the Judiciary in Nigeria. 

But in matters like this, I use my brain to find out who is making sense. 

I was deeply involved in the last general elections and we had very well-structured training for all PDP agents in my Local Government Area of Ekwusigo. One of INEC's most effective rigging gimmicks is the voting point. In the last general elections, INEC created a voting point once the registered number of voters in any particular voting unit exceeded 500. 

All our agents were instructed to check the total number of registered voters from the INEC register whenever they arrived at any polling unit of posting. If the number reached 500, that they must demand to see the voting point created out of that particular unit and monitor accordingly. 

Now, let's get back to Uzodimma's votes from 388 units. A total of 213, 295 votes puts the average number at 550 votes from

New Year Broadcast of Imo State Governor

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NEW YEAR BROADCAST DELIVERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF IMO STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, RT. HON. EMEKA IHEDIOHA, CON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2020. 

FELICITATIONS

Umunnem ndi Imo. On behalf of my family and the government of Imo State, I am most delighted to bring you our New Year greetings. We give thanks to Almighty God for bringing us into the New Year in good health, full of hope again and having faith in a prosperous 2020.

Double Trouble for Kalu...

The National and State Assembly Elections Tribunal of Abia State has cancelled the election of the former governor of Abia State, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu and has ordered for a rerun in the Abia North Senatorial zone which the former governor is presently representing in the Nigeria's upper legislative chamber, the Senate.

Sowore and Dasuki released by the DSS...

Nigerian popular Journalist Omoyele Sowore, founder of the online platform, Sahara Reporters, has been reportedly released by the Nigerian Department of State Security Services, he was arrested for calling for a nation wide protest tagged "Revolution Now". Also released from detention was former Nigerian National Security Adviser, NSA during the era of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki. 

On his part, Sambo has been in detention for the past 4 years on an allegation of corruption, bordering on the use of the money meant for the purchase of military equipment during his period as NSA. 
Nigerian Courts had earlier on granted bail to the accused which the Nigerian Authorities allegedly refused to obey. 

The latest development according to social media commentators was allegedly as a result of pressures from the United States Government and a letter addressed to the Nigerian Attorney General by some US Senators and Congressmen.  
    

Breaking... Damaturu under attack by #BokoHaram.

 A  viral video making the rounds on social media, claims that Damaturu, the capital of Nigeria's Northern State of Yobe is under heavy attack by members of #BokoHaram, an Islamic set seeking to enthrone an Islamic Caliphate in Northern Nigeria through violent means.
As at this time, the Nigerian Authorities is yet to confirm the said attack, the viral video however tend to portray that the town is under heavy attack.

GOSSO Class of '98 Re-Union 2019

Old Students of Government Secondary School Oyigbo, Rivers State, Class of 1998, Held their Re-Union Party for the very first time this year 2019.

The event which took place at St. James Fountains, VIP Lounge opposite the Promise fast food, Mbano Camp Junction, Oyigbo on the 15th of December, 2019 started around 2pm, with prominent members of the set during their time like, aka Boston B, aka Mopol, Henry Daniel, Hope Azubuike,