The Independent National Electoral Commissioner (INEC) has released the final list of candidates for the 11th November governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States. The approval of the list followed a meeting held by the commission on Tuesday in Abuja. According to a statement by INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, Barrister Festus …

Gunmen on Friday kidnapped a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Mathias Opara along Ejemekwuru-Ogbaku Road, a highway linking Oguta and Mbaitoli Local Government Areas of Imo State. An eyewitness told our correspondent said that the priest was cornered while driving back to Owerri, the state capital, after the burial rites of the father of one of his colleagues at Izombo community, …

The Imo State Government has set up a monitoring committee to checkmate malpractices, as the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) begins. The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Johncliffe Nwadike told newsmen in Owerri, the state capital, on Monday that all possible loopholes for examination malpractices had been blocked. Nwadike, a former Head of the Department of History …

Some unidentified gunmen, on Friday morning, ambushed policemen at Okpala junction in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. A source said that a couple, Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu, who were from the Amankwo Okpala community, were also killed. The source said due to the tragedy, business activities in the entire neighbourhood had come to an end. He …

A former Federal Commissioner of the Public Complaints Commission, Barrister Willie Amadi has been expelled by All Progressives Congress (APC). The party’s leadership in his Ikenegbu Ward 1 (Owerri Municipal Council) of Imo State found Amadi gulity of allegations bordering on anti-party activities. Amadi, who is well-known within the political circle, has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by …

No fewer than 100 corps members trained as electoral officers and assistant presiding officers in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Imo State have withdrawn their participation in Saturday’s general elections. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Imo State, Sylvia Agu told the media in Owerri on Thursday that the corps members cited insecurity as reason for their withdrawal. The …

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Imo State held a peaceful protest on Tuesday to address the increasing cases of attacks, killings, and kidnappings in the state. The demonstration was in response to the recent killing of Nnaemeka Ugboma, the Chairman of the Customary Court in Ejemekwuru, in Oguta Local Government Area who was murdered while on duty in his …

The abducted Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State, Hon. Chris Ohizu has been beheaded. The council boss was butchered after his abductors allegedly received N6 million as ransom. Video of his beheading surfaced online on Sunday, as his killers insisted that there would be no election in the country. A source at the …

Former Imo State Governor, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha has lashed out at those he says are framing him with a purported letter to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice in which he allegedly advised the Minister to disregard the ruling of the Federal Court of Appeal which discharged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi …

It was not a triumphal entry. It was not designed to be. It was just a duly and legitimately elected President visiting a part of the territory he presides over. President Muhammadu Buhari’s working visit to Owerri, Imo State on Tuesday, 13 September had no measure of braggadocio, bravado, or vainglory. Count the man out of such conceit. A father …