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Man Who Led  The Attack On Imo Police Headquarters Shot Dead By Security Operatives Security operatives drawn from the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Army and Department of State Service (DSS) have killed an Anambra militia leader popularly known as Ikonso Commander. This is coming a few hours after the country home of Imo State governor, Hope Uzodinma, was set ablaze while two security personnel were killed. A senior police officer at Force headquarters, Abuja, confided in Daily Trust that the operatives stormed the operational headquarters of the militia in Awomama Village Oru East LGA of Imo State with a view…

IPOB Reacts To Killing Of Commander, Promises To Deal With Governor Hope Uzodinma The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has reacted to the killing of one of its leaders, saying Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, “will pay dearly”. The Nigerian Army on Saturday said it had led a combined team of security forces to raid “the operational Headquarters of the IPOB/ESN terrorists in Awomama Village, Oru East LGA of Imo State.” During the raid, Ikonso – who the Army said was the mastermind of the April 5 attacks on the Imo State Police Command and the Owerri Correctional Center, in…

IPOB loses commander, six others in gun battle with army and police in Imo Police operatives and their counterparts from the Nigerian Army and Department of State Services have killed one Commander Ikonta and six other militia members in Imo State. The men, who were identified as members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, were killed during an early morning raid on their hideout at Awomama village, Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State, on Saturday. Three policemen and one army officer sustained serious bullet injuries during the exchange of gunfire with the insurgents and are presently receiving…

Pantami: PDP Accuses APC, Leaders of Supporting Terrorism...Says APC’s Silence is Conspiratorial The PDP accuses the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders of a conspiratorial silence in the face of the worrisome revelation in which a member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has been accused of affiliation with terrorist groups. Our party asserts that this silence by the APC and its Leaders is a direct confirmation of APC's support and sympathy for acts of terrorism including the wanton mass killings, banditry, maiming, kidnapping and marauding, which have overtaken our…

Refusal of Nigeria to apologise for civil war is the result of IPOB Agitation: Governor Ikpeazu He insisted that the destructive strategy of IPOB was a recipe for the breakdown of law and order in the South East geopolitical zone. Fifty-one years after the war ended, the Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has demanded an apology over the wanton destruction of lives and properties of Ndigbo during the civil war. Dr. Ikpeazu, who spoke during a studio visit to TOS TV Network, a digital Pan-African news network in Abuja, however threw his weight behind the agitation by the…

“Gallant security operatives this morning repelled an attack on the Omuma country home of the governor of Imo State, Sen Hope Uzodimma. The Imo State government has insinuated that the attack on the country home of the state governor, Hope Uzodinma, In the early hours of Saturday may have been politically sponsored. The state Commissioner for information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba, in a statement on Saturday, hours after the unknown gunmen caused the carnage, disclosed that investigation had been launched into the attack on the governor’s house in Omuma in the Oru East Local Government Area of the state. Emelumba…

Boko Haram Cuts Off Network In Hometown Of Acting IGP Many residents of Geidam town in Yobe State no longer have network on their phones as Boko Haram fighters have razed the masts of Airtel and MTN in the town.   Geidam is the home town of the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba and the immediate former governor of the state, Ibrahim Geidam. The attackers first struck on Friday evening but they took cover following air strikes from the military. Ali Maina, one of the residents, said after the Air Force jet which hovered around the town…

Bandits abduct 20 women attending naming ceremony in Katsina No fewer than 20 women mostly married were kidnapped by armed bandits while attending a naming ceremony at Gidan Bido village of Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State on Friday afternoon, THE WHISPERER has learnt. According to Katsina Post, the incident occurred on Friday, 23rd of April, 2021 around 1pm. In a similar case, another group of bandits attacked and also kidnapped five (5) men at Unguwar Bawa village of Dandume LGA Katsina State in the early morning hours of Saturday, 24th of April, 2021 around 2:00am. The member representing…

Hope Uzodinma's house at Omuma in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State burnt and cars destroyed by 'Unknown gunmen'. Unconfirmed report has it that some security guards on duty were killed there too. This act was perpetrated during the early hours of today the 24th April, 2021. The insecurity issues in Imo State is massively on the rise. The reasons for the attack is still unknown as the time of filing this report Details later.  

"The banking system is very bad in so many ways. First of all, they recruit women, between 19 years old to 27 years. When you are over 32 years, you are seen as obsolete, not useful to them. They either discard you or find something to rope you with, and fire you. Frontline activist and President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor has taken the Nigerian banking system to the cleaners Eholor, who enumerated several dubious practices that have become a norm in these banks, called on other citizens of the country to speak up so that the…