Tag: Enugu State

Two feared killed as IPOB gunmen attack Enugu military checkpoint

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About two persons are suspected to have died following an attack by some unknown gunmen at a military checkpoint in Enugu State. The gunmen were said to have attacked an Army checkpoint at Obeagu-Amodu road in Enugu South local government area of Enugu State. Reports said the gunmen stormed the area again in two Lexus Jeeps and one Toyota Sienna bus around 7:25 a.m. They reportedly opened fire at the combined team of the police and the military manning the checkpoint. Although the casualty figure is still unclear, a source…

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Enugu: One killed, arms, loot recovered in raid of IPOB/ESN camp – Police

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The Police in Enugu State have said they raided the camp of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN), in Agu-Ibeje forest, Enugu-Ezike, Igbo-Eze North local government area in Enugu State. The State’s Police Command spokesman, Daniel Ndukwe, yesterday said the Command’s tactical squads and ‘Operation Restore Peace’ carried out a tactical and intelligence-driven dusk-to-dawn raid on the IPOB/ESN camp between August 11 and 12. According to him, the raid was in pursuance of the crime-fighting strategies devised by the State’s Commissioner of Police,…

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2023: “We are not ‘Obidient’ in Enugu” – Archbishop Chukwuma 

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Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a renowned Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Most Revd. Dr. E.O Chukwuma, has lashed out at the candidates and supporters of the Labour Party in Nigeria, saying Enugu State people would never be part of their controversial “Obidients” mantra. According to report, Archbishop Chukwuma who said this on Thursday, at Eziokwe village, Ndiagu Akpugo, Nkanu-West local government area of Enugu State, during the burial ceremony of a former military administrator of Osun and Abia States, Col. Anthony Obi (rtd),…

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Enugu: 748 ballot boxes, 240 cubicles burnt, as IPOB hoodlums again set INEC office ablaze

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Hoodlums have razed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Igboeze-North local government area of Enugu State. This came barely weeks after the INEC State Headquarters was attacked and vehicles and other valuables torched. INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Barr. Festus Okoye disclosed this in an issued press statement yesterday in Abuja. According to him, the attack occurred on Sunday night, destroying about 748 ballot boxes and 240 voting cubicles in the process. The statement partly reads: “Recall that on May 23, 2021,…

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Hunger: Stealing of soup on the increase in Enugu

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Some parts of Enugu, the capital of Enugu State, have become a haven for hungry thieves, as they now steal boiling soups on fire, an investigative report has revealed. Apart from boiling soups, the robbers also steal pots of rice, beans, among others from their owners. The report revealed that the robbers stole a pot of soup that was still on fire from the owner at Obiagu, in Ogui New Layout recently, when the owner went inside the house to pick something. A victim, who spoke on condition of anonymity,…

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“Igbo will always support you” – Enugu monarch tells Buhari

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The Ezeani II of Mmaku Kingdom, Agwu LGA of Enugu State, Maduabuchi Nevobasi, has stated that the Igbo will always support President Muhammadu Buhari. The Enugu monarch stated this on Friday, when he paid a courtesy visit to the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Deputy Director (Information), State House, Abiodun Oladunjoye, released a statement to this effect yesterday. According to Nevobasi, the President has done a lot for the South-East in the last six years, and as such,…

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“Gunmen said they’d keep kidnapping for ransom until Kanu stop agitating for Biafra” – 18 yr-old abductee

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An 18-year-old, Francis Odo, has narrated how the gunmen, who kidnapped him said they will keep kidnapping for ransom until the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, stop the agitation for Biafra. Odo, who is a native of Eha-Amufu community in Enugu State, stated in an interview while recounting his encounter with kidnappers in the community. According to him, “Around 7 pm on Wednesday, June 9, I was on a motorcycle with two other guys coming home to Agu-Amaede from the camp in Eha-Amufu. We were…

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Two mosques destroyed in fresh attack on Enugu Muslim community

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Some hoodlums have attacked Muslim communities, destroying properties and two mosques in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. Sources told BBC Hausa service on Monday that the altercation started when a Muslim woman selling tomato took Keke-NAPEP from a village market to her shop in the town. According to the source, the woman and the Keke-NAPEP driver got into an argument over her transport fare, resulting in the destruction and burning of properties belonging to Muslims in the area. The leader of Nsukka Muslim community, Alhaji Sani Ugwuanyi also…

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