Native doctors storm Imo Govt House over alleged coffin

Native doctors and traditional rulers yesterday stormed the Imo Government House, Owerri to perform what they described as exorcism of evil spirits, saying they came to cleanse the state of the curse placed by widows who protested last Tuesday.

The libation-pouring exercise, which began at the main gate of the Government House, was presided over by traditional rulers mainly from the Governor Rochas Okorocha’s community of Ideato South.

The monarchs alleged that the Minister of State

IMO CONCORDE HOTEL, SOLD OR LEASED TO ABM GLOBAL LIMITED, FOR 20 YRS?

 IMO CONCORDE HOTEL, SOLD OR LEASED TO ABM GLOBAL LIMITED, FOR 20 YRS?
What are the value and cost of the transaction?

The Imo state government has denied media reports accusing the state government of selling the state owned five star Hotel, Concorde. In a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to the Imo State Governor, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, and made available to the media in Owerri, the state

PDP Blasts Okorocha ,Says He’s Jittery About Losing At The S/Court

Threats to Jonathan: PDP blasts Okorocha
Says he’s jittery about losing at the S/Court.
Press Release on October 27, 2013. on its facebook page signed by Chief Olisa Metuh, National Publicity Secretary, the PDP.

"The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dressed down Imo state Governor Rochas Okorocha, for attempting to hoodwink the Supreme Court and divert its attention from the substance

Okorocha Administration And The Zenith Bank Loan Scandal

Not too long ago, the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) wrote a petition to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) accusing Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State and his team of taking an unauthorized loan that runs into many billions of naira from Zenith Bank using the monthly allocations for the 27 local government councils in the state as collateral for the loan.

Consequently, the Imo State Commissioner for Finance, Deacon Chike Okafor and the Accountant General of the state, Mr. George Eche were arrested and detained by the EFCC in relation of the accusation.

Plot to Impeach Okorocha Thickens as EFCC Quizzes Imo Govt Officials

The plot to impeach the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha gathered momentum yesterday when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) rearrested the Accountant General of the state, George Ezenna Eche and the Commissioner for Finance, Chike Okafor.

In furtherance of the goal to remove Okorocha from office, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Turkur met with some select members of the Imo State House of Assembly on issues bordering on the political disharmony in the state.
The two officials were arrested relating to petitions sent to the

WHY AGBASO MUST GO- INSISTS IMO ASSEMBLY

Imo State House of Assembly yesterday said there was no going back on the impeachment proceedings against the Deputy Governor Jude Agbaso, saying reports insinuating that his travails are not connected to failed and abandoned contracts, but political.

In a statement by Acho Ihim, chairman of House committee on Information, the House said: “A State and local government joint committee was established about six months ago to monitor the construction of roads in the

Why they are fighting me – Imo DG. Agbaso

Imo State DG. Jude Agbaso

The embattled Deputy Governor of Imo State Sir Jude Agbaso last Saturday told a cross section of journalists that his recent trials and tribulation is as a result of 2015 permutations.

He maintained that there is a subsisting agreement between his Elder Brother Chief Martin Agbaso and Owelle

Imo Assembly to impeach Deputy Gov over N458m contract scam

Jude Agbaso

Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.2.radionigeria.gov.
Deputy governor faces impeachment,
APGA accuses PDP of plot to distort the activities of the IMHA.

The Imo State House of Assembly has commenced impeachment process, against the State Deputy Governor, Chief Jude Agbaso for alleged gross misconduct.


This followed the adoption of the recommendations of the six-man Ad Hoc Committee that investigated the alleged four hundred and fifty eight million naira contract scam involving the Deputy Governor.

ISIEC: OKOROCHA’S GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL RACKETEERING AND THE FLEECING OF IMO PUBLIC

Gov.Rochas Okorocha

Racketeering is simply organized crime. Official racketeering is therefore a criminal abuse of office.
Imo is bedeviled with very high unemployment and underemployment rate, simply because Imo remains basically a rural state with no industrial sector. Consequently, on the average, over 90% of tertiary institution graduates in the State never return back to the State to reside after their National Youth Service. This is mostly responsible for the vanishing Igbo Language because these 90% eventually reside and try to irk out a living in the industrial Southwest and North central. Eventually meaning that they marry and raise their children in these geographical areas of the nation not Igbo speaking.
However, this article focuses on the 10% of tertiary institution