By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has arrested and taken into custody the notorious Agaba Awgbu masquerade involved in the unprovoked and violent attacks that recently disrupted public peace in Awgbu, Orumba North Local Government Area. The arrest is coming hours after earlier report by Ekweanaedo News on the violent activities…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka It was a dramatic and chaotic scene in Awgbu, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Monday, as the violent and notoriously stubborn masquerade from the community, Agaba Awgbu, attacked popular Nigerian musician, Nonso Innocent Onuzulike, popularly known as Onowu Ugonabọ, while he was performing live on stage at…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (OCHA) Brigade has intensified its clampdown on environmental abuses across Anambra State with the arrest of thirteen persons over alleged illegal kaolin excavation activities in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area, and Ukpor, Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state. Reports have it that…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command said it had arrested a 26-year-old male suspect, Anikpe Valentine Chibuike, over the murdêr of his girlfriend, Ogechukwu Mmadubugwu, a 35-year-old single mother, in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of the State. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the Police Public Relations Officer,…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have recorded a major breakthrough in the fight against child trafficking, following the arrest of a female suspect and the rescue of no fewer than thirty-three underage girls in Aguleri, Anambra East Local Government Area of the state. According to a press statement…
By Raymond Ozoji, Awka Eucharia Ozoemenam, a native of Ifite-Ogwari in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State, who lives in Awka, has confessed that she deliberately and intentionally lied against Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP Patrick Chukwuemeka Agbazue on her Facebook page. Ozoemenam who described the senior police officer who was in charge…
RAYMOND OZOJI reports Honourable Okwudili Anigbogu, a native of Enugwu-Ukwu community in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, would have been a dead man when operatives of the Special Anti-tout squad, Agunechemba operatives, operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps accompanied by daredevil hoodlums unleashed terror and mayhem on him on…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Information reaching our report desk has it that a tragedy occurred along the Ogbunike axis of the Onitsha–Awka Expressway on Thursday, following a road traffic crash that reportedly claimed some lives and left several others critically injured. The fatal crash reportedly occurred at the Ogbunike Toll Gate area, directly opposite the…
By Izunna Okafor Awka A 20-year-old man, identified as Chisom Uba, has been reportedly stabbed to de@th during a dispute over a phone charger in Umummeri Ihiala, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, throwing the community into mourning. The incident reportedly occurred on December 17, following an argument between the deceased and his cousin,…
By Izunna Okafor Awka The Anambra State Police Command has arrested five suspected armed robbers who allegedly operated under the guise of vigilante personnel to rob unsuspecting residents in Awka and its environs. According to the Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed this in a statement to newsmen…
