Estimated Reading Time: 3UmuAka, Nigeria, 16 June , 2021 – UmuAka is one of 50 Champion Cities selected today as finalists in the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, a global innovation competition that identifies and accelerates the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These 50[Read More…]
Tag: Imo State
PDP asks Governor Hope Uzodimma to resign over “failure” to ensure the security of lives
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Imo chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo, to resign over his “failure” to ensure the security of lives and property in the state. There have been attacks on government facilities in Imo and other states of the south-east[Read More…]
Gunmen kill Imo PDP youth leader
Estimated Reading Time: 1 Youth leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Oru-East Local Government Area of Imo State, Kenneth Amukamara, has been killed by gunmen suspected to be assassins. The assailants also burnt Kenneth’s house and damaged the vehicles of his brother, who is said to be a[Read More…]
Police say the murderers of Ahmed Gulak have been killed
Estimated Reading Time: 2The Imo State Police Command say the killers of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Gulak, have been killed and ammunition and vehicles have been recovered from them. According to a statement issued by the police on Sunday night, =some of the arms recovered[Read More…]
Lawmakers suspend constitution review hearing in Imo and Abia States
Estimated Reading Time: 1The House of Representatives has suspended its constitution review hearing in Imo and Abia States, Deputy Speaker of the House, Idris Wase, has said. Wase, who is also the Chairman, House Special Committee on Constitution Review, announced the suspension in a statement he personally signed on Sunday. The[Read More…]
INEC confirms another attack on its office in Imo
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has again confirmed an attack on one of its offices in Imo State. The electoral body announced the attack in a statement on Sunday. According to the report, the office is in Njaba Local Government Area old Imo State. “Although no[Read More…]
Buhari outraged and disgust over what he called “the heinous murder” of Ahmed Gulak
Estimated Reading Time: 1President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed outrage and disgust over what he called “the heinous murder of Adamawa politician Ahmed Gulak in Owerri, Imo State by yet to be identified gunmen.” Reacting to the development on Sunday, the President said: “I’m repulsed by such premeditated and gruesome murder of[Read More…]
Aide of Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak shot dead in Owerri
Estimated Reading Time: 1Aide of Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak is dead. Multiple sources in Owerri tell NewsWireNGR that the aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak is dead. Gulak who is from Adamawa State was shot dead on his way to the airport in Imo State by[Read More…]
Breaking: Gunmen are currently attacking the Orji Divisional Police Station in Imo State
Estimated Reading Time: 1Gunmen are currently attacking the Orji Divisional Police Station in Imo State – the armed men stormed the station some minutes after 12pm on Tuesday. Details of the attack are still sketchy but residents tell NewsWireNGR, that, there is heavy shooting in the area. The incident happened[Read More…]
Imo Government says attack on Uzodinma’s house may have been ‘politically sponsored’
Estimated Reading Time: 1The Imo State government says the attack on the country home of the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Saturday may have been politically sponsored. The state Commissioner for information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, in a statement on Saturday, also said they had launched an investigation into the[Read More…]
