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Aug

2021

NSCDC Anambra opens up on alleged August 30 attack

SECURITYattack, insecurity, Nigeria Defense Academy Attack, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps .NSCDC, security

NSCDC Anambra opens up on alleged attack Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Anambra State Command has debunked the rumoured attack as circulated in a viral video, saying that their facilities are calm and safe. The Command described the information as unfounded and a complete "handwork of crises merchants and mischief makers who want to create panic and fear on the minds of Anambrarians and residents alike". This is contained in a statement signed by DSC Okadigbo Edwin,Civil Defense PRO and made available to newsmen today. The statement read in detail: NSCDC ANAMBRA STATE COMMAND BULLETIN: RE: ATTACK NSCDC…

Apr

2021

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Cleric Decries Attack On Security Agencies In South East

NATIONAL NEWSAnglican Bishop, attack, Cleric, security, security agencies, South East region

Anglican Archbishop of Owerri, Eccelesiatical Province, Rt. Rev. David Onuoha The Anglican Archbishop of Owerri, Eccelesiatical Province, Rt. Rev. David Onuoha, says attacks on security agencies in the South-East are tantamount to demobilising the region. The Bishop also advised the South-East governors to effectively protect the region from invasion of any kind. Onuoha gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Thursday at his Episcopal Villa in Ezeoke Nsu, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo. Onuoha, also the Bishop of Okigwe South Diocese, was reacting to the security challenges in Nigeria as a whole and the South-East in…

Apr

2021

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Traditional Rulers Call For Synergy Between Ebube Agu, Eastern Security Network

NATIONAL NEWSEastern governors, Eastern Security Network ESN, EBUBE Agu, HRM Eze Dr. Emmanuel C. Okeke, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Protection, security, South East region, traditional rulers

HRM Eze Dr. Emmanuel C. Okeke exchanging pleasantries with another traditional ruler in Imo state Traditional rulers in Imo State have unanimously implored the founders of the two security outfits in the South East region, hence Ebube Agu established by South East Governors and Eastern Security Network, (ESN) of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB, to work collaboratively with each other towards the protection of lives and property of the Easterners. The traditional rulers who spoke to Famous Reporters, shortly after a closed doors meeting at the palace of Eze Imo, at Mbari Street, Owerri, the state's capital, argued…

Apr

2021

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Rehabilitation of Chukwuma Nwoha: Imolites Jubilate As Gov. Fayemi Did This

NEWS, POLITICSChukwuma Nwoha, development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, Hope Uzodinma, peace, Rehabilitation agenda, Road, security

There is a great jubilation among Imolites and other well-meaning Nigerians as the Governor of Ekiti state, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, today, commissioned a brand new dualized Chukwuma Nwoha Road popular Chukwuma Nwoha Road, a major road which has just gone through a rehabilitation process by the present administration of Governor Hope Uzodinma. It would be recalled that the rehabilitated road which was named after one of the young football stars from Imo State, haven made Nigeria proud by winning the under 17 world cup in China in 1985, has obviously been subjected to flood and other other ecological factors over…

Mar

2021

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Amotekun Impounds 100 cows in Ondo

SECURITY#Homeland security, Amotekun, Cows, Eastern Security Network ESN, jihadist herdsmen, security, security agencies

Amotekun security Not fewer than 100 cows belonging to the Fulani herdsmen have been impounded by the men of the Ondo State Security Agency otherwise known as Operation Amotekun. Reportedly, the action was in strict adherence to the directives of Ondo State government which restricts movements of unregistered herdsmen on streets and forests of the state. The men of the Security outfit who impounded the cows along Ilesa-Akure express road,we're said to have apprehended the cows alongside nine herders who were accused of operating contrarily to the grazing rules on the highway. Confirming the incident, the state Commander of Amotekun,…

Mar

2021

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Abia Homeland Security Complex Robbed

CRIME#Homeland security, Abia Homeland Security, Abia State government, Robbery, security

The Abia State Ministry of Homeland Security office at Factory road, Umuahia has been reportedly robbed in the early hours of Monday. According to an eyewitness report, the robbery was carried out between 10am and 11am. The Director of Finance was said to have returned from the bank with a huge amount of money and possibly trailed from the bank. The eyewitness words: “They came with a small vehicle. We usually have Bakasi men guarding the premises until they were recently changed to be this newly recruited officer Homeland Security who are not armed”. Famousreporters.com also gathered that before the…

Feb

2021

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Tension In Owerri, As Former Owerri NBA Chairman N.H Nwankwo is butchered in Office

CRIME#COVID-19, #EndBadGovernment, #suide #death #poverty #depresssion, security

Pandemonium struck in the city of Owerri, the capital of Imo State over the gruesome killing of a famous Legal Practitioner, N.H Nwankwo, Esq., last night, in his office at N.H Nwankwo & Co., 43 School Road Owerri. Below is a release made available to FamousReporters today: _*FROM THE SECRETARIAT OF NBA OWERRI.*_ *N.H NWANKWO, ESQ. MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD!* At about 8.15am today on my way to Church for 8.30am Mass, I received a call from the Chairman of the Bar, J.I Ogamba, Esq. detailing me to liaise with the former Secretary of the Bar, Ishmael Nkwocha Esq.,…

Feb

2021

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Anti-coup protests grow as army broadens internet crackdown

NEWS, World, WORLD NEWS#Aba Area Command, #DonaldTrump, #LazarusOgbee, #self-defence, IPOB, security, World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 29, 2019 Myanmar human rights activist and film director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi leaves the court escorted by police after a court verdict in Yangon. – The military coup on February 1, 2021 stunned those within and outside Myanmar, bringing a 10-year experiment in democracy to a shuddering halt by returning the reins of power to the military, but for those who have long been vocal against Myanmar’s brutal junta regime the events leading up to it were all too familiar. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP) (more…)

Jan

2021

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Ihechiowa]: Sad Story Of Six Burnt Alive Over Failed Coronation In Abia State

METRO#2020AbiaStateLocalGovernmemtElection #IkwuanoLocalGovernmentArea, #AbiaGovernment, #allProgressivesParty, #CoronavirusDisease, #EndExtraJudicial killing, abia politics, fraud, security

By editor January 2, 2021, will perhaps become indelible in the minds of the people of January 2, 2021 will ever remain a 'red-letter-day' in the minds of the people of Achara Ihechiowa, in Arochukwu LGA of Abia State, as tragedy struck the community, amid New Year's celebration. The day started like any other until the unfortunate incident that led to the death of six men who were said to have been set ablaze and burnt to death over a community leadership dispute. Newsleverage reports that all efforts to ascertain the 'crux of the matter' were met with a sharp…

Aug

2020

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Buhari Approves N13b For Implementation of Community Policing

NATIONAL NEWS#President Mohammadu Buhari, community policing, federal republic of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi osinbajo, security, terrorism

In a bid to rejig the present security structure in the country and deliver a more effective policing, the Government of President Mohammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has approved a total sum of N13b for for the take-off of Community Policing in the country.In view of that, the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajoat the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting, which he presided over yesterday, directed all Governors, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Finance Minister and the Inspectator-General of Police (IGP) to work out modalities on how the funds would be well utilized to ensure…