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Former Nigeria’s Vice-President and Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, says the action of the Federal Government in deploying soldiers in Kano in the tussle over the throne of the ancient city is an upset to the peace and security of the state, and also in breach of the 1999 Constitution (as ...

By Raymond Ozoji, Awka It was fire for fire Saturday morning 12th November, 2022 at Isuofia, Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo’s community in Aguata local government area, as operatives of the Nigerian Army fought hoodlums bearing firearms to standstill, killing all gang of 4 daredevils. It was said that the gang of 4 gunmen opened fire at the soldiers who were ...

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, has strongly condemned the killing of soldiers who were ambushed on a routine patrol at Umunze by yet to be identified gunmen in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State. “We condemn this wicked and cruel attack in the strongest terms. The perpetrators of this act must pay. We are not ...

South East travellers coming home to celebrate the festive season with families and friends have had to lament about their traffic ordeal at the River Niger Bridge Head, and its “mother of all sufferings” counterpart at the Ihiala military checkpoint. Both traffic chokepoints have now become something of a nightmare to travellers heading for the South East from the western part ...

There is palpable tension and fear in South-East and South-South states following plans by the Federal Government to deploy more military assets, including troops, intelligence personnel and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the areas. Already, a clampdown is ongoing, targeted at pro-Biafra groups there including newspaper distributors and vendors selling published materials on Biafra. The two regions, ...

Five days after allegedly killing a 100-level student of the Imo State University, Divine Nwaneri, in front of the state Government House, soldiers have allegedly shot and killed a businessman, Noel Chigbu. The victim’s elder brother and spokesman for the family, Tobechi Chigbu, told PUNCH Metro on Monday that the military men at the Amakohia flyover in Owerri killed Noel around 10pm ...

Eight security operatives were reportedly gunned down by unknown armed men, in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State on Saturday night, along the Omagwa/Isiokpo/Elele Owerri road, in the area. Daily Sun gathered that among the security personnel were three soldiers, three from Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and two from the Nigeria Police Force. According to the information gathered, the perpetrators, numbering over ...

Bandits in the early hours of yesterday invaded a military base in Allawa, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State and killed five soldiers and a mobile policeman. The entire military camp was razed by the bandits who invaded the base about 2am when soldiers had just returned to the base from area patrol. They stormed Allawa village riding on motorcycles ...

Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) and Biafra De-Factor Customary Government, yesterday, said they would not be cowed by military’s clampdown threats. Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, had said at the first Commanding Officers’ Workshop 2021 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom on Tuesday, that military would go after agitators like Nnami Kanu, Sunday Igboho and Dokubo if they did ...

No fewer than 11 suspected men of the underworld were feared dead when soldiers engaged them in fierce gun battle Tuesday night in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State. This is even as a policeman was reported to have shot dead his colleague also in Aba yesterday morning. The killings came barely few weeks after gunmen killed some policemen in ...