List Of Ten Thousand Candidates For Recruitment Into Police Released
The Police Service Commission has released a list of 10,000 successful applicants for recruitment into the constable and specialist cadres of the Nigeria Police Force. The spokesperson for the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, who made the development known in a statement on Tuesday, noted that it worked with guidance from relevant stakeholders, including the Nigeria Police Force, the National Assembly, and...
Go After Killers Of Soldiers In Abia Not Civilians, LP Urges Army
The leadership of the Labour Party on Sunday urged the Nigerian Army to target the killers of the five slain soldiers deployed to Abia State over the Biafran Day celebration and not innocent citizens following the military’s determination to avenge their loss. The appeal was made in a statement issued in Abuja by the National Publicity Secretary of LP, Obiora...
After Killing Of Soldiers In Abia, Tinubu Vows To Crush Non State Actors Causing Mayhem
President Bola Tinubu has vowed to clamp down on non-state actors, describing the recent killing of five soldiers in Abia State as a “treasonable offence” which must not be tolerated. “I want to make it clear that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the armed forces have the capacity to crush violent non-state actors, making our communities...
Military Vows To Retaliate Killing Of Soldiers By Suspected IPOB Members In Abia
The military high command has vowed to clamp down on members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who masterminded killing of soldiers in the Southeastern part of the country while enforcing sit-at-home order. Vehicles and tricycles (popularly known as Keke Napep) were also set ablaze by the suspected IPOB members while the attack lasted. South East governors and...
Leave Now Or Die, ISWAP Warns Borno Communities
Barely four days after killing fifteen fishermen in the Tumbun Rogo community, the Islamic State – West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists, have given residents of Kukawa lga notice, to quit their communities or face death from the terror group. A resident who fled his community to Maiduguri three hours after receiving the threat, revealed this to newsmen. While relieving his experience,...
Ignore IPOB’s Sit-At-Home Order, Imo CP Tells Residents As Anambra Police Boss Deploys Special Squad
Security operatives in Imo State have called on residents to ignore the order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for people of the South East to sit at home on May 30, 2024, to mark the Biafra Remembrance Day celebration. Addressing newsmen during a confidence-boosting parade in Owerri on Wednesday, the commissioner of police, Danjuma Aboki, said security...
Troops Reject N2m Bribe Offer, Arrest Taraba Kidnap Suspects
Troops of 6 Brigade Nigerian Army/Sub Sector 3 Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) have apprehended six suspected kidnappers in separate operations carried out within Taraba State two of whom attempted to bribe them with N2m. The operations were carried out on the 19th of May 2024. Acting on a tip-off, troops from the 93 Battalion Sub-Sector 3B OPWS, stationed at Forward Operating...
Gunmen Invade Kogi Varsity, Abduct Students
Bandits on Thursday night invaded the Confluence University of Science and Technology (CUSTEC), Osara, Okene in Kogi, and abducted some students. An eye witness said the bandits swooped on the university around 9.00 p.m. while the students were reading for their upcoming exams. The source said that the bandits came in through the bush, went into three lecture halls and began...
Anambra Police Repel Attack By Gunmen Near Odumegwu Ojukwu University
The Anambra State Police command has repelled attack by gunmen operating near the campus of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Uli in Ihiala local government area of the state. The border town has been experiencing hit-and–run attacks from the nearby Mgbidi in Imo State, forcing many residents of the area to relocate to other communities. It was gathered that the gunmen had...
FG Replies Northern Leaders, Says No Plan To Site Foreign Military Base In Nigeria
The Federal Government says it is not considering establishing any foreign military base in Nigeria. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, in a statement on Monday, described as “false” reports in certain quarters that the Nigerian government is considering siting such military base in the country. “The Federal Government is aware of false alarms being raised in some quarters...
