Attack On Soludo: Ohanaeze Decries Insecurity In South East, Seeks Decentralisation Of Police
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, on Thursday, condemned the attack by gunmen on former Central Bank Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo. Ohanaeze National Publicity Secretary, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, described the insecurity situation in the South-East as worsening, adding that people in the zone now live in raw fear after over 23...
Easter: NSCDC Assures Abians Adequate Security, Deploys 2,500 Officers
Ahead of Easter celebration this weekend, the Abia Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has deployed no fewer than 2,500 personnel across the state, even as it assures residents to go about their normal businesses without fear of molestation. The Command also reiterated its readiness to continue to collaborate with sister security agencies in the State to...
Insecurity: Nobody Takes Buhari Seriously, Even Service Chiefs – Sen. Abaribe
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe stated this on Wednesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today. “Why would we take him (President Muhammadu Buhari) seriously? Just the day after he had said we would no longer accept all these kidnappings, this would be the last, they kidnapped the last day,” he said. “And those people are still there; those innocent Nigerians are...
Insecurity: I Meant Recruitment Of 50,000 Youths Into Army Not 50 million — Tinubu
Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said that he made an error while calling for more youths to be drafted into the Nigerian Army in a bid to adequately tackle the nation’s security challenges. In a communique by his media aide Tunde Rahman, Tinubu stated on Tuesday that contrary to comments made at the colloquium in Kano...
Tell Nnamdi Kanu We Can Enter Any Community In Igboland And Attack, Fulani Herdsmen Reportedly Boast
Killer Fulani herdsmen have reportedly challenged the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB and his Eastern Security Network, ESN to do their worst, insisting that they can launch an attack in any Igbo community of their choice. Recall that the militia group had on Monday invaded Obeagu community in the Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and killed...
Umahi Weeps As Fulani Herdsmen Kill 22 In Ebonyi Community
Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Monday invaded Obeagu community in the Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State and killed 16 persons who were between the ages of 18 and 56. Our correspondent, who visited the scene of the incident, observed that about 10 motorcycles and a vehicle, whose owners were killed, were set ablaze. One of the eyewitnesses, who escaped the...
332 Fulani Herdsmen Armed With AK47 Rifles In South East — Ohanaeze Youths
The national leadership of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has described as ‘fact’ the revelation of 332 settlement of killer Fulani herdsmen in Igbo land by the former Deputy Inspector General of Police, DIG, Ozo Celestine Okoye. DIG Okoye in a publication on Friday, March 26, 2021 on the New Telegraph newspaper said there are 332 Fulani herdsmen settlers heavily armed...
Attack On Ortom: Abba Kyari’s Team Arrives Benue
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Muhammed Adamu has set up a Special Investigation Task Force to further probe the attempt by some gunmen to kill Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom. The team, the police said, is led by Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), and it has arrived in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. A statement on Sunday in...
Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, Others Are Charlatans — Presidency
The Presidency has described secession agitators as “charlatans” sponsored to bring down the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television on Friday, Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, said President Buhari will not be bullied or cowered. He warned self-acclaimed Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu,...
Abia By-election: IGP Deploys New Unit To Checkmate CTU Operatives
By Emeka Ndem, Aba Following the petition by the All Progressives Grand Alliance ( APGA) Abia State Chapter urging the Inspector General of Police, Mr Abubakar Adamu to withdraw Police Counter Terrorism Unit ( CTU) operatives from the Aba North/ South federal constituency by-election holding on Saturday, the IG has dispatched a secret unit to checkmate the activities of the...
