Owerri

Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, has assured the citizenry that oppression, intimidation and all anti-people policies will end in the state, after this year’s polls.

Heartland football club of Owerri thrashed league favourite Plateau United 3-0 in the match day two of Nigeria professional football league at Dan Ayam stadium in Owerri on Wednesday.

Igbo Assembly, a socio-cultural organisation of the Igbo nation, has warned that the Igbo would not support any presidential candidate rabidly opposed to restructuring the nation, saying that it has thrown its weight behind the aspiration of Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Mr Tony Ojukwu, said on Monday that 103 complaints of alleged human rights violations were received by the Presidential Panel on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

A rally organised on Saturday by the All Progressives Congress at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri, Imo State suffered a crisis.

The Wife of the President and leader of the Presidential Campaign team for women and youths, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has advised Nigerian women and youths not to leave the polling booths after voting on the election day but wait until the votes are counted and recorded.

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj.-Gen. Abubakar Maikobi, has urged troops of operation Egwu Eke III to respect human rights and foster peaceful co-existence.

Nigeria professional football league side Heartland Football Club of Owerri unveiled 15 new players ahead of the coming 2018/2019 NPFL season which is expected to start on Sunday, January 13th, 2019.

Imo State Police command said it was committed to the security of lives and property during the forthcoming general elections scheduled to hold in February and March.

Dr Garba Abari, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), says the agency is set to commence nationwide sensitisation against vote buying, selling and the challenges of voided votes.

The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has recalled Dasuki Galadanchi to Imo State as the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Command two days after he was transferred out of the state.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has urged religious leaders and traditional rulers to shun partisan politics, avoid actions and utterances that could give the impression that they are involved in politics.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has urged religious and traditional leaders to shun partisan politics and avoid actions and utterances that could give the impression that they are involved in politics.

Governor of Imo State and chairman, Progressives Governors’ Forum, Rochas Okorocha, has urged Nigerians to be positive about 2019, hoping that 2019 would favour the nation and her people.

With the countdown to the nation’s 2019 general elections, Rt. Rev. Stafford Nwogu, Presiding Bishop of Praise Centre Church International, an arm of Praise Centre Ministries Worldwide has called on the Federal Government to commence measures for a thorough and clinical overhaul of the nation’s security network.

The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), has been given a grant of $6 million to execute a World Bank project under the aegis of Africa Centre for Excellence, funded by the World Bank.

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the Police Service Commission (PSC), and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, before the Federal High Court, Abuja, to stop what it described as the illegal and unlawful plot by the president to extend the tenure of the IGP beyond January 19, 2019.

“Bandits” have emerged as the new bogeyman for insecurity in Nigeria, joining a long (and still growing list) that includes Boko Haram, cultists, herdsmen, kidnappers and militants.