Crime

Activities were interrupted in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital yesterday following shootings by gunmen suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB which resulted in many shop owners closing their business premises for fear of being attacked as roads within the capital city was quickly deserted. It was gathered that the gunmen reportedly shot into the air at Ezzamgbo Junction, Ishieke Junction, and other places in the […]

The traditional ruler of Agunesse Mmaku, Igwe Maduabuchi Nevobasi, has condemned in strongest terms, the dehumanizing treatment of a poor widow, by the youths of Agunese Affam-Mmaku Autonomous Community in Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State. Recall that on the 28th of October, a widow received jungle justice for collecting snails from a sacred site which caused the boys and men in that village to subject her to a […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited says it has discovered 295 illegal connections to its pipeline. NNPC Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari, who made this disclosure at a Legislative Transparency & Accountability Summit in Abuja, noted that the company has taken down thousands of illegal refineries While stressing that production came down to about 1.1 million barrels from 1.8 million in January of last year as a result […]

An FCT High Court has convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, for contempt of court. The conviction came following the failure of the EFCC to comply with a court order asking it to return a Range Rover and the sum of N40 million to the applicant in a suit. In her ruling, Justice Chizoba Oji held that the anti-crime Commission boss has committed […]

A former Secretary to the Enugu State Government, Dan Shere has been abducted. It was disclosed that the medical doctor who served under the administration of former Governor, Chimaroke Nnamani is among several other commuters kidnapped along the Enugu-Ugwuogo Nike-Nsukka Road on Thursday. The politician was traveling to Nsukka for a meeting when the gunmen attacked him alongside other travelers. One of the survivors, who shared a video of the […]

The Governor of Enugu State Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi yesterday led the General Officer Commanding GOC 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Umar Musa, the State Commissioner of Police Ahmed Ammani, among others to Ugwogo-Opi road on a strategic assessment of the area with a view to decisively ending the recent kidnapping incidents along the road. Addressing newsmen during the on-the-spot assessment visit, Major General Musa who spoke on behalf […]