The Imo State Chapter of the People Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday asked the governor of the state, Hope Uzodinma, to resign over the spate of...
Unknown gunmen have killed the Chief Provost of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Imo State Command, Okiemute Mrere. The immigration official was killed along the Port Harcourt-Owerri...
Police operatives in Imo State have killed the suspected killers of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Gulak. Gulak was killed on Sunday...
The House of Representatives on Sunday suspended indefinitely the public hearing on review of the constitution in Imo and Abia States over worsening insecurity. The Deputy...
Gunmen on Sunday morning attacked the newly built Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Okwudor community, Njaba local government area of Imo State and set...
Unknown gunmen have razed the Atta Divisional Police Headquarters in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State. Ripples Nigeria learnt that the gunmen, who attacked the...
The Imo State government on Thursday asked the people of the state to ignore the sit-at-home directive issued by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)....
Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo has disclosed that no fewer than 400 people who caused mayhem or attacks in the state, have been arrested and charged...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, on Sunday urged the people of the state to disregard any rumour of impending attack in the state. The governor, who...
Tension overtook Ejemekuru community, in Oguta council area of Imo State, when soldiers attached to the 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze, Owerri, the State capital, allegedly shot...
Police operatives in Imo State have arrested a suspected serial kidnapper and prison escapee, Eze Obinna, in the state. Eze, who is a native of Amaimo,...
Police operatives in Imo State have arrested another suspected attacker of the Owerri Custodial Centre, Micheal Osundu. The spokesman of the state police command, Orlando Ikeokwo,...
Troops of the 34 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army in Obinze, near Owerri, have commenced the demolition of unserviceable ammunition and explosives in the state....
No fewer than 11 members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), have been killed by the Nigerian Army in...
Security operatives in Imo State on Thursday night repelled an attack by gunmen on the Orlu Divisional Police Headquarters in the state, killing no fewer than...
Following the heightened insecurity in the South-East and South-South region, the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has announced the redeployment of some senior...
A fatal accident at Nkwo Mmiri Market in Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday claimed two lives and injured about eight persons. The...
A combined team of security personnel from the police, Nigerian Army and Department of State Services (DSS) has reportedly killed seven militia members in Imo State....
The Imo State government on Monday declared its intention to relocate the state’s custodial centre in Owerri following a recent attack on the facility. Unknown gunmen...
A windstorm that happened in the Umuejem community in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, has killed a middle-aged man and left three...
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has expressed worry over recent attacks on security formations in Imo, Benue, and other parts of the country. Governor Kayode Fayemi...
There was jubilation at the Umueze Nguru autonomous community in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, on Saturday morning as their traditional ruler, Eze...
One David Ubong, from Ibaka in Mbo Local Government Area who escaped after the attack on a federal correctional centre in Imo State has been arrested...
The security situation in Imo State seems to be escalating as incoming reports say that the traditional ruler of Umueze community of Nguru Mbaise in Aboh...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Monday, April 5, ordered the deployment of special teams after the attacks on a police headquarters in Owerri...
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) on Wednesday urged the Imo State government to pay salaries of its members without discrimination. The...
Gunmen on Saturday evening razed the Isiala Mbano Divisional Police Headquarters in Imo State. The hoodlums also freed suspects and carted away arms from the divisional...
Police operatives in Imo State have arrested three suspected kidnappers of the Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Bishop Moses Chikwe. The spokesman of the state police...
The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Nasiru Muhammed, on Friday vowed that the state police command would not succumb to intimidation by hoodlums. The Commissioner of...
The Imo state government on Tuesday reaffirmed its determination to recover the state’s assets allegedly diverted by a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha...
There was considerable bedlam in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State on Thursday, February 18 as the Nigerian military commenced security operations. Ripples Nigeria...
Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that it arrested 20 suspected internet fraudsters in Owerri, Imo State. Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Publicity, EFCC...
A mobile police Inspector simply identified as Umoh on Wednesday shot himself dead in Owerri, Imo State. Until his death, Umoh was serving at Area Command...
Students of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, Imo State, have vowed protest and to block the state government house if the slain undergraduate of the institution,...
Unknown assailants have killed a former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Owerri, Imo State, Ndieonyemah Nwankwo. Nwankwo lifeless body was found with a...
Gunmen on Friday abducted a lecturer with the Imo State University, Owerri, Emma Ogueri. Ogueri, who is a lecturer in the Faculty of Social Science at...
Mrs. Rosslyn Onuachu, mother of an Mbaise youth, Imo State, Chika Onuachu, who was allegedly kidnapped and murdered by alleged youths of Umuasonye in Umuariam Obowo...
Two men travelling in a white Toyota Hilux vehicle with registration number Kogi BJK 527 AA have been killed in Imo State. Reports have it that...
The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Imo State, said on Tuesday the abducted auxiliary Bishop of the diocese, Moses Chikwe, is still alive and has not been...
The Imo State Chapter of Ohaneze Ndigbo has served notice of impeachment on its president, Dr. Ezechi Chukwu, over what it termed abuse of office and...
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Imo North by-election held on Saturday, Emmanuel Okewulonu, has kicked against the outcome of the senatorial...
The Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has relaxed the 24-hour curfew imposed on the state. In a statewide broadcast on Saturday, the governor said the curfew...
Past governments in Imo, from 2006 to 2019, have been accused of awarding contracts to the tune of N1.6 billion that turned out to be scam....
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday inaugurated a five-member reconciliation committee headed by the Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru, to reconcile aggrieved members of the...
The Imo State Police Command on Monday confirmed the killing of a 55-year-old man by unknown assailants in Ahaba Orodo community in the state. The command...
A woman in Imo State has lost her life to COVID-19 after childbirth. Imo State COVID-19 Task Force chairman, Professor Maurice Iwu, who disclosed this said...
The Imo State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the death of a couple in their apartment in Owerri, the state capital. The command’s spokesman, Godson Ikeokwu,...
The Imo State government has announced its first COVID-19 related death in the state. The state COVID-19 Taskforce chairman, Maurice Iwu, announced the development on Wednesday....
The Ondo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Wahab Adegbenro, said on Sunday a fleeing CoVID-19 patient had been arrested by the state Task Force on COVID-19....
The Imo State Police Command on Thursday said that Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the command have apprehended a murder and robbery suspect,...