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4 days ago | 
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OWERRI – A USA-trained policy expert and Deputy Commandant General (DCG), Community Beurre, Professor Edwin Opara, has challenged the nation’s traditional institutions and town unions to play a leading role in the onslaught against hoodlums who criminally hibernate in the forests to carry out their heinous activities.
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3 weeks ago | 
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OWERRI – The chairman of Nigeria Hotel Association (NHA), Imo State Chapter, Chima Chukwunyere, has formally announced his resignation from the position barely one year to the expiration of his tenure, with a call on hotel owners to rise and take their proper place in the association as the rightful owners of NHA.
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1 month ago | 
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OWERRI – It is no longer news for all keen observers of politics in Imo State that critical stakeholders have since commenced overt and covert consultations ahead of the much expected 2028 gubernatorial poll of the state. This is even as a Former Deputy Governor of the state – Prince Eze Madumere, has appealed to politicians of Orlu and Okigwe zonal extractions warming up for the poll to drop their ambition and consider Owerri zone for the seat.
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2 months ago | 
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OWERRI – A 35-year-old business woman identified as Edith Nwachukwu has been arrested by the Police in Imo State for battering her 13-year-old house-help, Kelechi Ejieke. The suspect was arrested on Tuesday evening by the operatives of the Owerri Urban Divisional Police headquarters after the minor was rescued from her at the popular Relief Market in Owerri, the state capital.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
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OWERRI – Danjima Aboki, the commissioner of police for the Imo State command, has assured that the police will go to any length to improve synergy and collaboration with the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC) to strengthen ties with the public. CP Aboki made this statement during the official grand opening/handover of a PCRC, “Charlvon Transit Camp,” at the Senior Police Officers Mess in Owerri.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
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OWERRI – The Owerri Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (OCCIMA) has held its ‘Nigeria’s Most Eminent Business Award’ where categories of awards were given to 15 prominent men and women, who have distinguished themselves in various fields of life. This is as the chamber has reiterated its determination to sustain its common contact and representative forum for members to exchange ideas concerning industrial business operations in Owerri, Imo State and beyond.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
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Spokesman of the Coalition of the United Political Parties (CUPPs)-, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere has warned that only a consistent, courageous and vibrant opposition such as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would rescue the nation from the crushing and suffocating claws of the visionless, planless and clueless APC led-administration in the country.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
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Seplat Energy Plc, an independent energy company, in partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), has concluded the maiden edition of the Seplat PEARLs Quiz competition in Imo State. This initiative, aimed at fostering academic excellence and intellectual growth, debuted in the eastern region with an outstanding display of knowledge, resilience, and competition.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
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Worried by the lingering food crisis and hyperinflation in the country, the paramount ruler of Isiama autonomous community in Isiala Mbano Council Area of Imo State, and Vice Chairman, Association of Christian Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, Eze Oliver Ohanwe, has canvassed for the immediate and compulsory restoration of agricultural science in both primary and secondary schools across the country.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
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OWERRI – A non-governmental, non-political and non-profit-making organisation (NGO)—”Association of Orphanages and Homes Operators in Nigeria” (ASOHON) has expressed resolution to collaborate and synergise with the Imo State government on the onslaught against child trafficking and baby factory business being perpetrated by some unpatriotic and misguided criminal elements in the country. According to the National President, Dr. Gabriel .O.
