Buhari Meets Governor Ortom 3 Days After Attack
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, met with the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting came three days after Ortom’s convoy was attacked while on his way to his farm. READ ALSO: Three Suspects Arrested Over Attack On Governor Ortom Buhari has since ordered that the attack which took place on Saturday be thoroughly investigated. Details later…
Education Suffers Huge Setback As Parents Withdraws Children From Schools Over Banditry In Zamfara
The banditry activities ravaging Zamfara State for over a decade have forced indigenes of the state to be suspicious of any strange face, especially in rural areas. Report had it that many people living in the Damba area of Gusau, the state capital, have been vacating the axis as it has become a bandits’ den, with terror attacks being unleashed...
With ‘Ebubeagu’ Car Theft Will End In Ebonyi — State Govt
The Ebonyi Government has assured residents that the new security outfit in the South-East, called Ebubeagu, will checkmate the rising wave of car theft in the state. The Commissioner for Border, Peace, and Internal Security in the state, Chief Stanley Okoro-Emegha, gave the assurance in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakiliki on Tuesday. Okoro-Emegha, who spoke...
Take Your Military Operations To Terrorists, Bandits Overrunning The North, IPOB Tells FG
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has advised the Federal Government take its military operations to the Northern Nigeria where it said terrorists and bandits are overrunning and not the South East. IPOB also challenged the Federal Government to publish the names of those it claimed to be paying in the Southeast to drop the agitation for Biafra republic. It...
Gunmen Abduct Channels TV Reporter In Rivers State, Place N30m Ransom
Gunmen kidnapped a journalist and reporter with Channels Television, Mr Joshua Rogers, at his residence in Rumuosi in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State on Thursday night. Rogers, who covers the Rivers State Government House for his organisation, was reportedly trailed after he closed from work to his residence. The miscreants accosted him before he alighted from his car, pointed...
Recruitment: Otti Worried Over Apathy, Begs Abians To Join Police
Worried by the reluctance of youths to participate in the ongoing police recruitment exercise, Abia State Government has directed all 17 Mayors, traditional rulers and Presidents-General of communities in the state to quickly embark on mass mobilisation of their youths to fill the state’s quota. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, in a statement, regretted that the state’s allocation “in...
South East Safe For Christmas, New Year Celebrations — AIG Akinmoyede
The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 9 headquarters Umuahia, Isaac Akinmoyede, has assured residents and returning South-East people and guests that the zone is safe for the Christmas and New Year celebrations. Akinmoyede, in his Christmas message on Saturday, affirmed strategic operational order to ensure a hitch-free yuletide celebration in the region. A statement issued by the...
‘This Is Not 1967’, IPOB Denies Planning To Attack Lagos
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB has denied a claim by the police that it was planning to attack Lagos state. Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB leader, said in a statement on Monday that the claim was made to fuel division between the Yoruba and the Igbo. https://twitter.com/MaziNnamdiKanu/status/1392071155335372801?s=20 At a stakeholders’ meeting on Monday, Hakeem Odumosu, Lagos commissioner of police, had said the command is investigating...
Service Chiefs: Exclusion Of Southeast Disappointing — Ohanaeze
Ohanaeze Ndigbo on Thursday expressed displeasure with the exclusion of Southeast in the recent appointment of Service Chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as disappointing. The apex Igbo socio-cultural group while praising the President on the new appointments wondered why “southeast is still not represented” President Buhari on Tuesday announced the appointment of Maj.-Gen. Lucky Irabor as Chief of Defence...
Be Mindful Of Your Utterances On Mamu, DSS Warns Public
The Department of State Services has warned Nigerians over making comments on its arrest of the terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu. The DSS, in a statement by its Spokesman, Peter Afunaya, Sunday, asked the public to leave the agency alone and allow it to concentrate on the investigations which it said the outcomes had been “mindboggling.” This was coming hours after the...
