No fewer than one person have been arrested for enforcing sit-at-home order in Anambra State. The suspects, according to a statement issued to newsmen on Wednesday by the Police Public Relations Officer of the State, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, were apprehended at Nkwelle-Ezunaka, 3-3 Area during a Police-led anti-sit-home joint patrol with the operatives of the…
The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, has reiterated the call for the profiling of the members of local vigilante operatives for effective community policing. CP Itam made the call following the recent arrest of an armed man, who claimed to be a member of the vigilante operatives. Disclosing this in a…
Police operatives in Anambra State has intervened in a clash between hoodlums and some officers of the Anambra Vigilante Group (A.V.G.). The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikenga Tochukwu disclosed this in a statement to newsmen on Monday. According to him, the incident happened on Sunday afternoon along the Amesi—Uga Road in Aguata Local…
The Anambra State Police Command has recounted how a notorious kidnapper in the state ended up while planning for an operation with his gang members. The narrative was contained in s statement issued to newsmen over the weekend by the Police Public Relations Officer of the State, SP Ikenga Tochukwu, in which he also revealed…
Nigerian writer and journalist, Izunna Okafor has been awarded the Outstanding Journalist of the Year in the 2024 Anambra Media Excellence Awards (AMEA) Okafor received the award on Friday at the 6th edition of AMEA, which held in Awka, the Anambra State capital. Powered by the Association of Digital Media Core Advocates (ADMCA) and hosted…
The Anambra State Police Command has confirmed the setting ablaze of some revenue collectors by some angry youths in Anambra State. It was gathered that the incident, which reportedly happened on Friday, was said to have occured around the Old Market Road along Venn Road by Egerton Bus Stop in the commercial city of Onitsha….
The operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested a native doctor and his accomplice over suspected armed robbery and kidnapping in Uru, Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of the State. This was disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen on Saturday by the Police Public Relations Officer of the State, SP Ikenga…
It was a day of royal and cultural elegance, historic celebration, and outpour of felicitations at Umueri, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, as the traditional ruler of the community, Igwe Sir Dr. Ben Emeka (Okebo II), gave out his daughter’s hand in marriage. The grand traditional marriage ceremony, which held on Wednesday…
The Anambra State Police Command has made some clarifications over the recent heavy gunshots that rocked Nnewi in Nnewi North Local Government Area of the State, ahead of the proposed burial date of late Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah who represented the Anambra South Senatorial Zone. It would be recalled that a shooting incident reportedly ensued…
Mr. Everestus Ugonna has been appointed as the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Garden Egg and Pepper to the Executive Chairman of Igbo Etiti Local Government Area, Enugu State. The appointment comes alongside that of Ezeugwu Frederick Ogbonna, who was also named the Senior Special Assistant to the Chairman on Yam and Pepper The two…
