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As the 2024/2025 academic session has kicked off, secondary school students in Imo State has expressed their displeasures on the way the Imo state Ministry of Education and Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB) has neglected the students who registered for the 2023/2024 Basic Education Secondary Certificate exams otherwise known as Junior WAEC. Some of the students who spoke to our news crew, frowned at the development, having registered for the […]

The Social Democratic Party, SDP, Imo State chapter has declared its readiness to challenge in court the outcome of the just concluded local government elections that took place across the 27 local council areas and 305 wards. The party also condemned in its entirety the procedure in which the election was conducted, accusing the Imo State Independent Electoral Commission, ISIEC, of undermining the guidelines of the process to favour the […]

Communities in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State have decried the deplorable state of the roads in the area which they said was causing them untold hardship. The communities spoke with newsmen on Thursday, through a socio-cultural organization in Ngor Okpala, known as the Ngor Okpala Renaissance League, lamenting that the challenge had also created economic and educational problems for residents of the communities. Leader of the […]

A bill to boost electricity supply in Imo State has passed its second reading in the State House of Assembly. Presenting the bill for the second reading at the floor of the house on Thursday, the majority leader, Kanayo Onyemaechi, stated that the bill if passed into law will go a long way to improve the general well being of the citizens. The bill titled, Light Up Imo Project, according […]

Report states that some angry youths burnt to death a yet-to-be identified couple in Orogwe, Ohii axis in Owerri-west LGA of Imo state. A community source who disclosed this to newsmen on Monday stated that the couple were known for parading around the community and neighbouring villages but not as thieves. According to the source, the couple were caught on Monday while absconding with a stolen motorcycle after robbing a […]

Imo State Police Command has arrested five kidnapping syndicate responsible for terrorizing residents in Obinze, Avu, and environs in connection to the kidnapping of a 26 year old woman from her residence in Obinze in Owerri West local government area. The suspects are, Umaru Usman, 40, from Mauree in Sokoto State, Tukur Yau, 25, from Dawakinkudur in Kano State, Musbau Sabo, 18, from Warsaw Local Government in Kano State, Abdul […]

The Ward Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Ejemekwuru, Oguta LGA Imo State, Dominic Ikpeama, has landed in the police net for allegedly selling the federal government’s palliatives meant for the people of Ejemekwuru autonomous community. He was arrested by the Oguta Divisional headquarters on Wednesday, August 21st, following a petition against him by the traditional ruler of the community, Obinna Duru, who alleged that the politician sold […]

The Imo State Independent Electoral Commission (ISIEC) has declared that elections may not hold in three local government councils – Onuimo, Okigwe and Orsu – due to insecurity. The Chairman of the Commission, Charles Ejiogu made the disclosure during an interface with the various security outfits in Owerri. Ejiogu hinted that the major operational challenges facing the Commission in the discharge of its duties ahead of the upcoming elections is […]