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The Governor Rochas Okorocha-led Imo State Government has bowed to the pressure of the Catholic Church, restoring Assumpta Avenue street name. The news circulated yesterday that the Government had renamed some popular streets in Owerri, including the Assumpta Avenue to names such as Buhari Road...

Governor Rochas Okorocha has declared that he is bigger than Nigeria and his state, Imo. He said this while giving reasons he appointed his sister as commissioner for happiness and purpose fulfilment. He explained further that he has gone beyond Imo State and Nigeria, … via Nigerian: Breaking...

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has declared a 2-week Christmas holiday for civil servants in Imo State, Punch reports. Sam Onwuemeodo, Chief Press Secretary to Okorocha, released a statement saying civil servants should vacate work on Friday, December 22, 2017, and resume Monday, January 8...

Governor Rochas Okorocha has denied running a ‘family’ government as claimed by some elites in the state, saying those behind that claim missed the point. He said more than 4,000 children had gone to University through Rochas Foundation and more than 15,000 of such children were also in the...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will investigate allegations of abuse of office involving Governor Rochas Okorocha...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of not building the image of the state, as well as looting public treasury. The accusation comes days after he unveiled a huge statue in hounour of South African President, Jacob Zuma. The decision has been...

The Imo State Government has revealed how the opposition hired political activist, Charles Charly Boy Oputa, to attack the All Progressives Congress and President Buhari The state government also accused chairman of Owerri branch of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Lawrence Nwakaeti of having...

Imo state governor, Rocha's Okorocha has stated that what Nigeria needs right now is Repackaging, and not Restructuring, as held by some group of people. Okorocha stated this recently at the 67th Annual Conference of the Broadcasting Corporation of Nigeria, BON, in Owerri. According to him...

For 30 minutes, Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha were held up by Fulani herdsmen at Amakohia Orlu Road in Owerri, the state capital. Okorocha who was on tour of projects in the state with some Journalists were delayed by the herders and their cows between 4 and 4.30 pm on Saturday...

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, insisted that there would be a total shut down of Imo State once the 14-day ultimatum issued to the state government to recall the 3000 sacked workers and tackle their unpaid salaries and other benefits expires. The Imo State government is alleged to...

The youth wing of the pan Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has lauded former military Heads of States, General Ibrahim Babangida and General Yakubu Gowon for their support for Igbo presidency. National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo youth wing, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, in an...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has requested universities in the country and other institutions of higher learning to stop making credit passes in English language and Mathematics compulsory for those seeking admission. He lamented that the practice of making the two subjects...

When the rumour began to make the rounds yesterday, some took it hook, line and sinker, others dismissed it without a thought- and their gut feeling has been confirmed with the news that the story linking Tinubu to the death of Prince Abubakar was a baseless lie. Those plotting to benefit from...

Governor Rochas Okorocha and Chairman of he Progressive Governors Forum said he was disgusted when he read the tale full of thrash and libel told by enemies of democracy on the death of Abubakar Audu last weekend. Okorocha denied the allegation where he was accused of labelling the former...

Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha has reduced the state ministries from 22 to 13. Okorocha announced the new development at a meeting with the Permanent Secretaries of various ministries yesterday November 12th. Okorocha who spoke through the state’s Head of Service, Calistus Ekenze said the...

Chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, is currently arranging a crucial meeting with other governors in the South-East, over the growing agitation by protagonists of Biafra, saying the protests could not be in the interest of the south-east...

The Imo State governor and Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has advised people of the South-East zone to refrain from harboring bad blood against people of other parts of the country, if they are serious about producing the country’s President in the future...

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors Forum and governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has said the mismanagement of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government was responsible for the sufferings experienced in the nation, assuring that the All Progressives Congress, APC...

Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has told the chairman and members of the Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC to, as a matter of urgency, review downward the salaries and allowances of the President, Governors, National Assembly members, and all other political office...

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, has named a government building after his first daughter, Uloma Nwosu (nee Okorocha) who is married to one of his commissioners. The building was named Uloma Nwosu House in Imo state.