Owerri in a sentence

An Owerri based legal practitioner, Mr. Damian Ali, was reportedly killed in Owerri, the Imo state capital on Friday while on his way to work.

The last time I did from Lagos, because I had an emergency in Owerri, I arrived Owerri by 11.00pm, atimes veering into bushes, to the shock and anger of my family and friends.

In Owerri, places that were usually not for dumping of refuse have suddenly become refuse dumps, and they have not only turned an eye sore to Owerri that used to be the cleanest town in Nigeria, but poses a risk as it could cause epidemic in the State.

And I think that in the bid to contain the human flow into the now-attractive Owerri city, the Governors made some adjustments in the original plan of what Owerri was envisaged to be.

He said: “We are greatly delighted to introduce an additional flight on our Owerri route, connecting Owerri to Abuja and back.

In Owerri, many ladies of 25 to 30 years might have to relocate because Owerri men like going for young girls of 15 to 23.

No fewer than four students of the Imo State University, Owerri were yesterday feared dead after two rival cult groups clashed in Owerri, the state capital.

According to the governorship hopeful, he has secured an order from an Owerri High Court restraining the police or their agents from arresting or harassing him.

A group, the Ndi Imo Defenders, has described as wicked and malicious the call by the candidates of the opposition parties that Governor Hope Uzodinma should drop his re-election bid for candidates from the Owerri Zone ahead of the November 11 election.

Also on Thursday, operatives of the agency intercepted a consignment of cocaine weighing 2.2kg on the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway.

At the Owerri municipal council, for example, votes were bought for between N2,000 and N3,000.

But in contrast to the CBN directive, some of the banks in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, said they had no cash available.

Casmir Ihejika, is a visually impaired phone tracker and a student of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education located in Owerri, Imo State.

Chinyere was killed in an exchange of crossfire when armed hoodlums ambushed them at Ihitte junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area on Owerri- Aba Road while on a duty on January 26.

Despite the release, a source within Imo Government House, Owerri, who opted to remain anonymous, revealed to journalists that the matter is far from concluded.

Dr. Okafor revealed this during inauguration of Imo Hope Restoration Group, held on Saturday, Sept 9, at Bongo Square, Owerri.

He spoke to newsmen in Owerri while narrating the attack on his convoy at Amuro in Okigwe Local Government Area of Enugu.

I concluded my trip by riding in an airport cabby which took me through 32 Field Artillery Brigade, into Owerri.

In a press conference in Owerri, Saturday, chairmen of opposition parties in the state raised the alarm over such outrageous fee imposed on them.

In a statement signed by the PDP publicity secretary and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Owerri, Opurozor argued that the greatest casualties of Gov. Uzodimma’s emergence are the Imo people.