By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has explained the rationale behind its ongoing enforcement exercise involving the impoundment of vehicles fitted with tinted glasses, clarifying that the operation is aimed at strengthening security and not intended to harass or inconvenience law-abiding residents. The clarification was contained in a statement issued on…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu, has been promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), making him one of 13 Commissioners of Police recently elevated by the Police Service Commission (PSC) in its latest promotion exercise over the week. The promotion, announced in a statement…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The agrarian Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State, over the week, witnessed a remarkable celebration of infrastructural development, as the Mayor, Hon. Sir Alphonsus Ofumelu, commissioned a series of landmark projects spanning across multiple sectors, in what has been described as another practical demonstration of the domestication of the…
Child Labour, Street Hawking: Anambra Police Receive, Begin Profiling of 36 Persons, 6 Suspects
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Barely two weeks after the Anambra State Police Command intensified investigations into the suspected murder of a 23-year-old nursing student found dead in her residence at Alor, leaders and stakeholders of the community have thrown their weight behind the ongoing probe, pledging full cooperation with security agencies to ensure those…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police’s Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU) attached to the Anambra State Police Command have recovered two AK-47 rifle magazines, 60 rounds of live ammunition and other police-related items during a raid on a suspected cultists’ hideout in Awada, Idemili North Local Government Area of the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has dismissed as false a viral security alert claiming that a military helicopter dropped unidentified items in a bush located between Nimo in Njikoka, and Adazi-Nnukwu in Anaocha Local Government Areas of the state. The clarification was contained in a press statement issued by the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Four suspected members of an armed criminal gang have been reportedly gunned down during a gun battle with a Police-led Joint Security Patrol Team along the Ogboji–Ajalli Road in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, while a General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), AK-47 rifles, improvised explosive devices (IEDs),…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka The agrarian Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State, over the week, witnessed a remarkable celebration of infrastructural development, as the Mayor, Hon. Sir Alphonsus Ofumelu, commissioned a series of landmark projects spanning across multiple sectors, in what has been described as another practical demonstration of the domestication of the…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka A Magistrate’s Court in Anambra State has remanded a couple, Mr. Chukwudi Chukwuyere, 40, and his wife, Mrs. Chisom Chukwuyere, 30, in a correctional centre over the alleged abuse of a 10-year-old boy in Isiowulu community, as the police continue efforts to ensure justice for the victim. The development was…
