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The Imo State Police Command has arrested a 17-year-old lady addressed as Jesse Chidiebere, a student of Imo State University, who faked her kidnapping and death. A press statement by the public relations officer of the command, Henry Okoye, informed that her arrest was effected by the Orji Police Divisional Headquarters on October 26th, 2024, after receiving a distress call from concerned citizens reporting her missing. According to the statement, […]

The Imo State Police Commissioner, Aboki Danjuma on Friday has launched an investigation into Silas Nwamadi, Medical Director of Goodwill Maternity in Obinze, Owerri West. Nwamadi allegedly detained twin boys, Chidindu and Chijindu, born at his facility on May 4, after their parents could not pay the delivery bill. The Commissioner ordered the immediate release of the twins, denouncing the doctor’s claim that his demand for the babies in exchange […]

The police in Imo State have arrested a secondary school teacher, Blessing Emmanuel, for allegedly abusing her 12-year-old stepdaughter, Amarachi Emmanuel. Amarachi was taken into custody on Tuesday by the Owerri Police Area Command following a report from Chidiebube Okeoma, an Owerri-based journalist and activist. Two local women, Eunice and Amarachi, informed the activist after they saw the girl selling sachet water on the streets of Owerri, with visible signs […]

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 […]