By Izunna Okafor, Awka The Anambra State Police Command has announced plans to commence a comprehensive training and reorientation programme for vigilante operatives across the state, in a bid to enhance grassroots security operations and deepen collaboration between community-based security outfits and formal law enforcement agencies. According to a press statement issued on Wednesday…
By Our Correspondent A business man, Mr Chinedu Anaukwu has dragged a former House of Representatives members from Anambra State, Hon Chinedu Obidigwe to court for beating him up over a comment demanding accountability for his performance as lawmaker. Obidigwe who represented Anambra East and West Federal Constituency was said to have carried out…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka At least three persons have been confirmed dead and several weapons recovered, following multiple coordinated gunmen attacks that rocked parts of Aguata and Orumba North Local Government Areas of Anambra State in the early hours of Wednesday. The incidents, which occurred around the new Ekwulobia flyover and the Oko Divisional…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka Actress and entrepreneur Iyabo Ojo has reacted to a devastating fire that engulfed part of her office complex in Lagos on the evening of Tuesday, July 8, 2025, around 7 p.m, described it as a test from the devil. Taking to Instagram, she shared the disturbing experience and expressed gratitude for…
By Izunna Okafor, Awka In furtherance to the move to strengthen the bond and relationship between residents of Anambra State and the recently launched Agụnechemba Security Outfit (popularly known as Operation Udo Ga-Achị), veteran Anambra journalist, Comrade Nweke Nweke has been appointed as the new spokesperson for the grassroots security outfit. Nweke’s appointment was…
Traders at the Naze Cluster Market in Owerri North council Area of Imo State have appealed to Governor Hope Uzodimma to come to their rescue over incessant police harassment and arrest of traders at the market on the orders of a caretaker chairman of the market. The distraught traders alleged that the caretaker chairman of…
Following inkling that the federal government is still bent on acquiring lands for ranching, the governors of the South-east states have, again, been asked not to get involved in the agenda of “federal land grabbing” for disguised Ruga project. The latest warning was handed down by three South-east Diaspora groups based in the United States…
Even before the formal commissioning of the newly reconstructed Port Harcourt Road in Aba, Abia State, excited traders and residents have begun relocating to the area, drawn by the transformation of the once-dilapidated route. Along the newly completed stretch, especially near the Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway, petty traders in their shops expressed renewed enthusiasm for the…
The Enugu State Police Command has narrated how a 22-year-old woman, Deborah Sam-Praise Ememem, was allegedly murdered in a hotel room in Nsukka by a second-year student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). The suspect, identified as Emmanuel Gambo from Kogi State, is a student of the Department of Material and Metallurgical Engineering at…
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has praised President Bola Tinubu for achievements so far, saying the South East Geo-political Zone is fully in support of him and will work for his re-election. Umahi spoke to journalists on Friday night in Lagos, where he dismissed claims that the South East was giving conditions, such…
