Pensioners under the aegis of Pension Intervention Committee have raised the alarm that the lives of their leaders may be in danger as the Department of State Services (DSS) in the state is threatening to deal with them over the agitation for their unpaid pensions. This is also as our correspondent gathered that the Chairman […]
. As group petitions CP, urges audit of personnel A civil society organisation, Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Imo state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Isaac Akinmoyede demanding urgent sanitisation of the command in line with professional best practices. RULAAC catalogued some of the most recent atrocious conducts of Police […]
The Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police to immediately release the Spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere unconditionally as his arrest is illegal, unlawful and contemptuous of a valid and subsisting Court order. Ruling in a Motion brought by Chibuzor Ezike, Counsel to Ikenga […]
By Festus Adedayo Two pieces of literary works – Williams Stevenson’s thriller, Ninety Minutes at Entebbe and the film, The Last King of Scotland (2006) – plot the graph of the gradual emergence of despots. They were both x-rays of Ugandan despot, Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. Stevenson’s was an account of the June 27, […]
.By Jennifer John A journalist and publisher of Newsfield Magazine/Newspapers, Mr Finian Chucks was on Thursday manhandled beaten up in Owerri, the Imo State capital by men said to be loyal to the member representing Obowo in Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Kennedy Ibe. Our correspondent understands that Ibe and Chuks who was once […]
No fewer than 10 persons are presently cooling their heels in police cells in Ebonyi state following the bizarre flogging of a young pastor, Oko Chukwu Obeni, a native of Ndukwe Amasiri Village in Afikpo North council area of Ebonyi State. Obeni was allegedly flogged 36 strokes of the cane while his elder brother bought-off […]
A cleric and social critic in Amasiri community, Afikpo North council area of the Ebonyi state, Pastor Oko Chukwu Obeni, has narrated his ordeal in the hands of his kinsmen and leaders of Essa, Eto and Isioru community who allegedly tortured him to an inch of his life. Brazenly, the community justified its action against […]
The Imo state government has slammed an indefinite suspension on a nursing mother, Mrs. Vivian Ottih for sending an open distress call to his kinsman who is an appointee of government, lamenting her condition following the inability of government to pay her salaries in the last three months. Ottih who is a staff of the […]
An advocate for constitutional democracy and Executive Director, Legislative Watch, Hon. Ngozika Ihuoma wants the judiciary to explain what remedies there are for Senator Orji Uzor Kalu who was held unlawfully for five months before his acquittal. Ihuoma who spoke to our correspondent in Owerri the Imo state capital said in near similar scenario, Chief Bode […]
