•Police officers The Imo State Police Commissioner, Aboki Danjuma, has deplored officers and men of the command across the state to prevent the Nigeria Labour Congress protest from being hijacked by hoodlums. The NLC and affiliate union members had announced planned protest over economic hardships nationwide. The command’s spokesperson, Henry ...
Operatives of Imo State Police Command today raided a suspected hideout of kidnappers, situated at Okohia Forest in Owerri West council area of the state. The police during the raid arrested seven suspected members of the kidnappers gang as well as recovered four decomposing corpses, suspected to be that of their victims, reports The Guardian....
•IPOB The Imo State Police Command has arrested a suspected commander of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Ikechukwu Uba, at his hideout in the state. Police spokesman Okoye Henry in a statement said the suspect was apprehended last Saturday, December 16 alongside three others. Henry said on interrogation, the suspect confesse...
•Adams Oshiomhole Former governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has opened a can of worm on how his All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC)-led leadership spent billions of Naira to secure victory in some states during the 2019 general elections. He said the party’s NWC under him spent N1.6 billion to prosecute and [...
There is a scarcity of money in the commercial banks in Imo State, leading to commercial banks starting to make low cash payments to their customers. This situation has continued to cause concerns for bank customers as they are unable to withdraw the actual amounts they intended to collect from the bank, reports Sunday Tribune. […]
The police authorities in Imo State have arrested the suspected killers of a Divisional Police Officer and an Inspector at Ahiazu Mbaise Local Government Area of the state. Parading the suspects at the Command Headquarters in Owerri the Imo State capital today, the Commissioner of Police, Danjuma Aboki, said the relentless efforts of the polic...
•Anyanwu, Uzodimma and Achonu Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all the 27 local government results announced in the November 11, 2023 governorship poll in Imo State Collation of results at the State Collation Centre started around 02:30am today in Owerri, the state capital, with the Vice Chancellor of the [...
Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of the PDP, Senator Douye Diri, has established an early lead in the governorship election held yesterday in the state. Results from the polling units in Ogbia, Nembe, Brass, Sagbama, Ekeremor, Kolokuma-Opokuma, Yenagoa and parts of Southern Ijaw indicated that the governor was ahead of the other candida...
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has condemned pockets of violence and vote trading that characterised the Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo States governorship elections. A member of the CDD Election Analysis Centre, Dr Jack Jackson, at a press briefing today in Abuja, also bemoaned the late arrival of sensitive materials by the Independent...
A fight has broken out at Umuodu Community Primary School, Ezinihitte Mbieri, in Mbaitoli local government area of Imo state, as politicians carted away electoral officials and result sheets today. The chaos started at the venue of collation for the ongoing governorship election as the officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission...

