FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha suffered a major setback in his ongoing battle with the incumbent administration after an Owerri high court ordered the temporary confiscation of several of his properties.
In what has been a very turbulent week in Imo State, Senator Okorocha who was governor between 2011 and...
FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has vowed to show his successor Governor Hope Uzodinma that he has the strongest structure on the ground in response to his recent arrest in Owerri.
Yesterday, Senator Okorocha who governed the state between 2011 and 2019, was arrested after he forced his way into the Royal...
GOVERNOR Hope Uzodinma has introduced new laws that punish Imolites who flout Covid-19 restrictions with six month jail terms or a fine of N20,000 if caught by the state task force.
Although Nigeria has been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, there are fears that the virus could spread given the nonchalant...
PAN-cultural Igbo umbrella body Ohaneze Ndigbo has elected a former Nigerian ambassador Professor George Obiozor as its new president following its annual general meeting which took place at Owerri yesterday.
Professor Obiozor, 78, a former Nigerian ambassador to the US, Israel and Cyprus, emerged victorious with 304 votes...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) As we enter a new year, it is clear that things will have to change dramatically in Nigeria. We need to diversify our economy, build up our infrastructure, create an unprecedented number of jobs and attract foreign direct investment. None of this can happen without security
(2) I am still perplexed as to how there...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) It is Xmas again and as from this weekend, our Igbo brethren will be converging on the southeast, coming from all over Nigeria
(2) Transport fares to cities like Enugu, Umuahia, Aba, Awka, Owerri, Onitsha, etc will double. Owning a national bus company that plies southeast Nigeria is a licence to print money at...
NIGERIA'S former ambassador to Spain Bianca Ojukwu has lashed out at Igbo leaders for keeping silent on the face of the continued marginalisation of the people of the southeast geo-political zone by the federal government.
Ms Ojukwu, 53, the wife of the late Biafran head of state Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, who spoke at the...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) One thing that makes my heart bleed is the fact that as a continent, Africa has very little man-made infrastructure to show the rest of the world. All we really have are the pyramids of Egypt
(2) At a time when the rest of the world is building the fastest, tallest and biggest of everything, we are fast asleep. In...
DOMESTIC airline Dana Air has announced plans to introduce additional flights between Abuja and Lagos this week and commence operation from Lagos to Owerri and Port Harcourt to Abuja this Friday as part of a post-coronavirus expansion plan.
Launching its operations on November 10 2008, Dana Air has gradually grown to become...
