Governor Hope Uzodimma if Imo State has described the commissioning of emergency communication centre in Owerri, as another milestone in the socio-economic life of Imo people that will go a long way in combating crime with digital precision. The ceremony, which is the official unveiling of the 112 Emergency Toll Free Centre would also be
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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Imo State, Professor Vitalis Orikaeze Ajumbe stressed that the South-East region was not ripe to produce Nigeria’s President in 2023. Ajumbe, a former commissioner of Information, Tourism and Public Utilities in Imo State, made this remark to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. He said that South-east
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The selection committee for the Federal Government’s Special Public Works (SPW) programme has despatched 18,900 forms in Imo State.Committee Chairman Sylvester Obinna handed over the forms to representatives of various sectors yesterday in Owerri. It was reported that the distribution was witnessed by religious leaders, traditional rulers and management of the National Directorate for Employment
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Owerri — Hundreds of hunger-stricken pensioners in Imo State today were at Imo State Government House in Owerri, to protest against their unpaid pensions and gratuities owed by the state government for over four months. Report gathered indicated that at the process of this protest, Hoodlums assaulted the pensioners. It could be recalled that this
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The government of Imo State has announced that all schools in the state should remain shut down pending the fulfillment of all laid down COVID-19 protocols. The Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, gave the instruction through a press release signed by the state Commissioner for Education, Prof. B. T. O Ikegwuoha. In the press
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has entered a partnership with the Imo State government to boost palm oil and allied products through the state owned Adapalm Oil Company, Ohaji, as a way of enhancing Oil-palm production in the country and to ensure economic diversification from oil to non-oil sectors. This was made open to
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The Imo State Government has pledged to it citizens that the government will do everything possible in order to recover N12 .3bn said to be unaccounted for in the financial records of the Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission , simply known as ISOPADEC . It was revealed by a forensic audit report that
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Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo state have asked aggrieved members of the party to withdraw suits they have filed at different courts. The National Executive Committee (NEC) which is the second highest decision-making organ of the party recently directed APC members to withdraw all litigations against the party. The NEC on
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The Imo state police command Tuesday paraded at the command headquarters in Owerri, two suspected cultists Chijioke Onyeahialam, 25-year-old man and Johnbosco Ihekoronye, male, 27-year-old, said to be planning a revenge attack on their rivals. The police through the State Police Public Relations Officers, PPRO, Orlando Ikeokwu, said the suspects were arrested by the Divisional
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Information reaching us has it that, an army officer and another ex-soldier formed part of gang who disguised themselves as Joint Security Taskforce that kidnapped, dispossessed and murdered one Leo Michael Ishaya, who until his death, was a resident of Owerri, Imo State. A reliable source told THE DAILY VENDOR correspondent that, on the 3rd
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IMO, Owerri Residents of Owerri the Imo State capital were thrown into fear yesterday, over reaction of no fewer than fifty northern cyclists, who were said to be protesting the death of one of their members, a commercial cyclist from the north, who reportedly fell off his motorcycle while riding and making a telephone call and was crushed
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Death toll in the building collapse along Yar’Adua Drive in Owerri has risen to 15, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The latest casualty figure was given by Mr Evans Ugoh, Head of the Imo/Abia State Operations Office of the National Emergency Management Agency. He spoke in an interview with a NAN correspondent on
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IMO, Owerri Information reaching THE DAILY VENDOR from Imo State has it that an eight storey building still under construction has collapsed and trapped many in the state’s capital Owerri. THE DAILY VENDOR correspondent gathered that the collapsed building is located along the Yar’Adua drive in Owerri, and close to Hot FM radio station. An
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Irate Youths of Amorie village in the Uburu community in the Oru West Local Government Area of Imo State on Wednesday set a house belonging to one Nwazugbo Nsofor ablaze. This came after a video footage went viral on the social media in the state showing how Nsofor stoned his cousin, Ife Odenigbo, to death
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A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Toronto police station at Uratta, Owerri North LGA, Imo state was reportedly caught on camera fighting a motorist for scratching his car. In the video which has gone viral on social media, the DPO was seen dragging the unknown man. He was later joined by some junior officers who
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