The Police Command in Imo has arrested nine suspected criminals terrorising parts of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the arrest came barely two weeks after gunmen attacked and killed four policemen in a restaurant in the Ngor Okpala area of the state. In a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday, the command’s spokesman, ASP Henry Okoye said the command also recovered arms and ammunition from the suspects’ hideouts. Okoye said the arrests followed the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Barde’s directiv
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… Court slates May 11 for definite hearing The Supreme Court on Thursday okayed the request by the Federal Government to file additional nine grounds in its appeal against the embattled leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The ruling followed an application moved by counsel for the FG, Tijani Gadzali, SAN. Gadzali equally sought an adjournment to respond to Kanu’s request to be transferred from the detention facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, to the Kuje Correctional Center The five-man panel le
Read MoreThe Indigenous People of Biafra, on Wednesday, lashed out at the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), saying his alleged ‘sins’ against Nigerians would never be forgiven. The separatist group, in a statement by its Director of Media and Publicity, Emma Powerful, was reacting to Buhari’s recent appeal that “all those that I have hurt, I ask that they pardon me.” The President, who spoke on Sallah day inside the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, when residents of the Federal Capital Territory, led by the minister, M
Read MoreA lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor, says the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, is bleeding through the nose after allegedly coming in contact with a tuberculosis patient in the detention of the Department of State Services. In a tweet on Monday, the lawyer said, “Today, my associate, Barr Mandela, met with Onyendu, MNK (Kanu) at the DSS. “He reports that MNK (Kanu) directed me to make it public that he had an episode of profuse nose bleeding yesterday and that the DSS has transferred a detainee diagnosed with tuberculosis
Read MoreELITIST COMPROMISE AND THE DIRTY DECEITFUL POLITICS OF IMO OPPOSITION ELEMENTS: ANOTHER CALL FOR REASON AND CAUTION: THE OPEN GRAZING BILL CHARADE; THE SCAREMONGERING PASTIME; THE FEIGNED IPOB'S BIAFRA SUPPORT ANTICS; ET AL AS CASE STUDIES Stanford Arinze Nwokedi The bane of today's generation of Imo and Nigerian polity is the deliberate and calculated mischievous inclination of our elites. There are many instances in the recent times where and when the elites of Imo State, especially those of the opposition extraction, hav...
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