Residents of Onitsha in Anambra on Wednesday went about their normal businesses in defiance to a two weeks sit-at-home order by Simon Ekpa, a factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Ekpa, who is based in Finland and claimed to be IPOB prime minister, had in...
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By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Troops of 82 Division Nigerian Army, sister Services, Nigeria Police and other security agencies have successfully raided hideouts and training camps belonging to IPOB/ESN in Orsomoghu Forest spanning Anambra and Imo States. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the raid was part of the...
Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate in the 2023 General Elections, Peter Obi, has described as fake, a photo of him and the Finland-based pro-Biafra agitator, Mr Simon Ekpa. The Head of the Obi-Datti Media Office, Mr Diran Onifade, made this known in a statement on Thursday in Lagos. The News...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Nigerian Army troops in conjunction with Vigilante Group have raided the camps of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network, and arrested nine suspected terrorists in Anambra. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this...
The Enugu State Government on Monday sealed 106 shops and two banks for allegedly observing Monday’s sit-at-home order by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra. . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the exercise was carried out by officials of the State Government and Enugu...
Enugu State Government has again, urged Enugu residents to disregard Monday’s sit-at-home order by the factional members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and go about their normal businesses. The government directs resumption of normal activities on Monday and threatened to sanction civil servants, schools, markets, and...
The Odinala Cultural Heritage Foundation (OCHIE Igbo), a socio-cultural organisation of young Igbo professionals, has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) to be more professional in its operations. OCHIE Igbo gave the advice following a recent tweet on the official Twitter handle of the DSS describing some...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Troops of the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services (DSS) have destroyed an enclave of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)/Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Asaba, Delta. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement...
The police in Lagos on Thursday arraigned Charity Iroakazi, 28, at an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly having in her possession 36 berets with IPOB insignia on them. The defendant, a woman, an artisan who resides at 14, Nurudeen St., Ojo, Lagos, is being tried for conspiracy and...
Gunmen enforcing the sit-at-home order on Friday night, attacked Amaraku market located at Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state. Although, no life was lost in the attack, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the gunmen, suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous People of...
The Enugu State Government says it has tracked down some hoodlums who were enforcing illegal weeklong sit-at-home in the state. The Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Thursday in Enugu. According to him, those engaged in scaremongering through fake...
The Imo Government has debunked reports that unknown gunmen enforcing a sit-at-home directive on Wednesday morning, attacked the state Secretariat on Port-Harcourt road, Owerri. In a statement signed by Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s Chief Press Secretary, Mr Oguwike Nwachukwu, it noted that there was no such incident involving unknown gunmen....
The Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, has urged President Bola Tinubu led Federal Government to heed the call to release Mr Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Okeke-Ogene said that time is now apt for the federal government to heed...
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has opened conversations on the release of the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu requesting President Bola Tinubu to give the matter utmost consideration to extend hand of fellowship to the South-East people. Mbah told State House...
Schools, markets, retail outlets, hospitals, transporters, malls that continue to obey the weekly Monday sit-at-home order by the proscribed Independent People of Biafra (IPOB) in Enugu State will be shut. The state government declared on Saturday in Enugu that it already cancelled the order of the proscribed group. It...
An Enugu Magistrate’s Court, presided over by Mr A.C Mbah remanded 15 persons at an Enugu correctional facility on Friday over their alleged membership of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). The accused persons are Aloysius Okonkwo (67), John Ebuka (18), Ucheme Ebuka (19), Lilian Chizoba (42), Maureen...
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide and Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN) have lauded Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State for ending sit-at-home in the state. The two organisations gave the commendation in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria NAN in Enugu on Friday....
Gunmen ambushed and killed two policemen at the popular “Okpala Junction’’ at Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area of Imo on Saturday. The attack came one month after five policemen and a couple were killed at the same junction on April 21. On March 27, gunmen ambushed and killed five personnel...
The Imo Police Command says it has begun a manhunt for the killers of a retired military officer and Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s kinsman, Mr Tony Enoch. Enoch was the Presidential Campaign Council Chairman for Ahmed Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima election in Uzodimma’s Oru East Local Government Area (LGA). He was...