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RT. HON. DCN. CHIKE OKAFOR COVID 19 KIM-BOM FOOD PALLIATIVE DISTRIBUTION TRAIN TAKES OFF TODAY FOR ALL COMMUNITIES IN OKIGWE SOUTH FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY  ...as Distribution train leaves his Umuokeh Community The Honorable member Representing Ehime Mbano, Ihitte Uboma and Obowo Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Dcn. Chike Okafor, today, flagged off his second phase Covid19 outreach viz a viz food palliative for his indigent constituents which comprises of Various food items. Deacon Chike Okafor who was ably represented by his beloved wife, Deaconess Akudo Okafor, reiterated that the food palliative will be distributed to families who are finding it very difficult to feed at this critical and challenging time of ours. She conveyed the good wishes and prayers of the Honorable member to the Federal Constituency and also prayed that the pandemic outbreak becomes a thing of the past in no dist...

The NCDC has announced Everight Diagnostic & Laboratory Services, Imo State as the first private laboratory to carry out COVID19 tests. The center is now one of the 24 laboratory centers nationwide, permitted to conduct the Coronavirus test. 📸 @radiocranberry Source: Coal City Connect 

The Waste Management Agency Law and the Land Use Law. He also orders for a revalidation of all Certificates of Occupancy in Imo state. #GovernmentofSharedProsperity  #HopeNewElectronicMediaCenter  #HopeInImo #OwerriToday

Rising from the Executive council meeting, Hon commissioner for Information, Hon Declan Emelumba briefed newsmen on some of the decisions of the council. 1. Governor Hope Uzodimma is not indebted to any parastatal or agency that has conformed to government's directive on payment of salaries. The parastatals that are yet to receive their salaries have refused to submit their BVN and other details as requested by government. He noted that government will pay all parastatals that submits theirs as their money is safe in the banks. 2. Government expressed displeasure over the attitude of ASUU, IMSU chapter who instructed their members not to submit their BVN for the payment of salaries and warned that such an attitude will not be tolerated. 3. Exco also approved the renovation, remodeling and rehabilitation of the old governor's lodge and re-roofing of 10 blocks of the state secretariats. 4. Exco approved the total closure of the borders into the state even those on ess...

Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State has commiserated with the families and victims of the collapsed 8-storey building that occurred on Thursday, April 30, 2020 at Yar’Adua Drive in Owerri, promising full investigation. Expressing his displeasure at the avoidable incident that resulted in the loss of lives and property, when he visited the scene of the incident on Friday, Governor Uzodimma warned that under no circumstance should any such structure be erected without appropriate approval, monitoring and supervision by the Owerri Capital Development Authority (OCDA) and all other agencies charged with such responsibility. The Governor noted that the building suffered avoidable structural defects coupled with sub-standard building materials used in the construction by the engineers, which everyone can see. While commiserating with the families of the diseased victims and Imolites in general, Governor Uzodimma assured that the contractor and construction...

My good people of Imo State, once again I salute you for great faith and patience in giving this administration your unalloyed support through the teething challenges that confronted us from the very first day of our inauguration    The sad incidence of coronavirus pandemic has not made our job easier. Yet you have stood by us in swallowing the painful pills of the stringent measures imposed by a lockdown of activities in the state.   I thank you, my beloved Ndimo, for the enormous sacrifices you have made during these four weeks of a general cessation of economic activities in our dear state. It was never my desire that our people should suffer unduly for what is not their fault. However because we are at war with an unknown and unseen enemy, there is need for extra vigilance. We have a duty to keep our people safe from this most frightful, yet unseen enemy, otherwise called Coronavirus. The call to duty informed the lockdown and other string...