Security

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday met with the Governor of Imo State Hope Uzodinma at the State House in Abuja to discuss the security challenges in the South-East region where gunmen have continued to unleash violence. Addressing newsmen after the meeting, Uzodinma revealed that Buhari approved the deployment of technology to combat insecurity in the South-East, adding that the approved technology expected to be deployed immediately consists of surveillance equipment among […]

The President-General OF Obosi Community, in the Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ike Okolo has been reportedly killed. Okolo was shot dead in a petrol station in the community by yet-to-be-identified gunmen at about 8 pm yesterday. A video circulating on the internet showed that the community leader was shot right inside his SUV, as he sat in a pool of his blood, behind the steering of […]

Four of the former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim’s police orderlies were killed yesterday when fleeing militants ambushed his vehicle. The fatal incident happened yesterday night at Oriagu in The Ehime Mbano Local Government Area where Ohakim’s convoy was ambushed. Ohakim who escaped had his backup car attacked killing the four police officers in his convoy while he was returning after a visit with two of his children. According […]

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps NSCDC, Ahmed Abubakar Audi has charged officers of the corps to remain committed just as he guarantees the security of lives and properties before, during, and after the 2023 general elections. In a statement by Director of Public Relations DCC Olusola Odumusu, Audi while congratulating Nigerians and President Muhammadu Buhari for a successful crossover to 2023, admonished the citizenry […]

The Police Public Relations Officer in Imo state, CSP Michael Abattam has confirmed that a 34-year-old Nigerian Army deserter, Lance Corporal Nwangwu Chiwendu has been arrested at Amahohuru Nguru in Aboh Mbaise Local government Area of Imo State for alleged terrorism. Abattam said Chiwendu popularly known as Onye-Army, was arrested by operatives of the Imo State Police Command at his father’s funeral on December 23 in his hometown in Aboh Mbaise after […]

The Imo State Police Command has dismissed seven policemen found guilty of police brutality, harassment, extortion, illegal checking of phones and flagrant disobedience to the directives of the Inspector-General of Police on extortion and incivility to members of the public. In a statement, the spokesperson for the Command, Mike Abattam said the ex-officers have also been charged to court and gave their names as Ohakim Chibuzo, Irome Finian, George Osueke, […]

The inspector General of Police, Usman Baba has emphasized the need for community policing, insisting that better policing must be done by indigenes of a place. BABA yesterday at the commissioning of an ultra-modern police station at Inyi in Oji River local government area of Enugu state, charged the community to own and safeguard the edifice built to improve the working environment of the police, ensuring that it is not […]