The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi on Monday said that the command would prosecute those who tore result sheets at collation centre in Owerri. The CP who addressed journalists at INEC collation centre said that the three persons identified…
Police arrest 105 election offenders in Imo (Guardian)
No fewer than 105 persons were at the weekend arrested in Imo for election-related offences during and after the gubernatorial and assembly polls in the state, the Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, has disclosed. Briefing reporters on the security situation…
Supreme Court orders Imo, Okorocha to pay N1bn debt to firm (Punch)
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Governor Rochas Okorocha and the Imo State Government to pay N1bn to E. F. Network Nigeria Limited, which the state government owed the firm for almost 10 years. The state government, during Governor Ihedi…
Polls: Police reads riot act to politicians, hoodlums in Imo (Nation)
The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) in charge of the Southeast for the general elections, Micheal Ogbizi Anthony, has warned politicians and hoodlums not to underrate the resolve of the Police and other security agencies to deal decisively with…
Imo police ban siren, tinted glass (Punch)
The Imo Police Command has given seven days to vehicle owners to remove unauthorised tinted glasses, revolving lights, sirens, and plate numbers from their vehicles. It also advised government officials, who use government plate numbers on their personal vehicles, to…
Ararume vows to recover Imo State (Vanguard)
All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA governorship candidate in Imo State, Senator Ifeanyi Ararume has called on the citizenry in the state to join hands with him to recover the state from what he described as a pitiable socio-economic condition. Speaking…
APC dissolves state, LG, ward excos in Ogun, Imo (Punch)
The All Progressives Congress has dissolved the executive committees in Imo and Ogun states. Also dissolved were the local government and ward executives in the two states. Their dissolution formed part of the resolutions reached during the National Working Committee…
Imo APC ticket: I won’t succumb to threat – Nwosu (Nation)
Former Chief of Staff to the Imo State governor, Uche Nwosu, has described the threat handed on aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to withdraw their Court actions or face sanctions by the National Working Committee of the…
Imo, Zamfara APC candidates missing from INEC guber lists (Guardian)
Unless there are fresh developments such as judicial interventions, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will not field gubernatorial candidates in Imo and Zamfara states next year. The name of the party was missing from the shortlists of political parties’ gubernatorial…
The 100-year-old man on death-row seeking pardon (BBC)
Death-row inmate Celestine Egbunuche has been dubbed Nigeria’s “oldest prisoner” amid a campaign calling for his release. He is 100 years old and has spent 18 years in jail after being found guilty of organising a murder. Small and slightly…