TROOPS ARREST SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER, RECOVER AK-47 RIFLE ALONG BENIN–SAPELE ROAD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE
TROOPS ARREST SUSPECTED KIDNAPPER, RECOVER AK-47 RIFLE ALONG BENIN–SAPELE ROAD Troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army, Operation WABAIZIGAN, have arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered an AK-47 rifle and ammunition during a targeted operation along the Benin–Sapele Road in Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State. The suspect, identified as Olamide Oyeniyi, was arrested on 12 September 2026 at Obaretin Community by troops conducting operations to disrupt criminal activities and safeguard major transportation routes within the area. Items recovered from the suspect include one AK-47 rifle, one magazine and eight rounds of 7.62mm Special ammunition. Other items recovered are one Tecno mobile phone, two bags, one torchlight, one music box and assorted charms. The suspect and recovered items are currently in troops’ custody for further investigation, while efforts are ongoing to establish his links to other criminal elements and determine his possible involvement in kidnapping and related activi...
A group of youths suspected to be members of the Indigenous People of Biafra on friday allegedly disrupted a church function attended by a governorship aspirant in Anambra State on the platform of the Progressives Peoples Alliance,Mr. Godwin Ezeemo.The conflict,it was gathered,happened at Odoekpe,Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state.The Biafra secessionist group had recently in a statement by its Media and Publicity Secretary,Emma Powerful,insisted that the November 18 poll in Anambra would not hold.It said Anambra State as the flagship of Igbo held a strategic position in the Biafra struggle that any mistake made in handling Anambra affair in the Biafra cause would have a ripple effect.The statement said, ''Our leader,Mazi Nnamdi Kanu,is very strategic and methodical in his approach to restore Biafra; therefore every step IPOB takes,regardless of its impact,is designed to bring Biafra closure.Anambra election boycott will benefit not just Biafrans but other component ethnic nationalities in Nigeria as well,'' he said.In the friday incident,the IPOB youths disrupted the campaign team of the PPA governorship aspirant that went to Ogbaru to worship at God's Own Pentecostal Church.The assailants who brandished Biafra flags and singing Biafran songs besieged the worship centre,asking the PPA flag bearer and his entourage to desist from addressing the congregaton and leave their place.One of them said, ''Many politicians have been lying to us and used us for so long; we don't need them again.Our youths are jobless,our roads are bad.We want our freedom and we do not want all these politicians here anymore,'' he raged.However,Ezeemo continued to address the congregation amid the confusion that ensued.He said ''I'm a Biafran in practice given that I brought down all my investments to my homeland.I can understand the agitation of these youths.We have been lied to for so long by these politicians but I left /Britain to come back home so that I can make things right.Just give me a chance,I will not let you down''.One more photo below.
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