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SUSTAINING SAFETY IN ANAMBRA: POLICE RESCUE A FEMALE ABDUCTED VICTIM AND ARREST SUSPECT _As the Command commends the community's courage and efforts in the apprehension of suspects, reiterates the campaign against mob action in the State_ In the early hours of today 3/5/2023, police operatives attached to Ogbunike division responding to a distress call along St Monica College Ogbunike road, arrested one Mr Jamui Emiron ‘m’ aged 22years and recovered one already damaged yellow Mitsubishi L300 bus with Anambra reg nos: UKP 729 A. The suspect is among a gang of armed robbers that attacked and robbed Occupants of a residential house in Ezi-Ogidi, abducted a female victim and was en route to their den before police were alerted. The members of the neighbourhood had already supported the police by blocking the exit points within the area, intercepting the vehicle and apprehending two of the gang members while others escape. Unfortunately, upon the arrival of the police operatives, one of...

IN ANAMBRA: POLICE RESCUE SIX ACCIDENT VICTIMS, PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR TREATMENT AND RECOVER THE DAMAGED VEHICLES _As CP Echeng orders a manhunt of the driver on the run_ Police Operatives attached to Central Police Station Onitsha have rescued six accident victims of a fatal motor accident that occurred by 6 pm today 3/5/2023 along the Enugu/Onitsha Expressway by defunct Nitel Office Onitsha. The Operatives provided financial support for the treatment, while five of the victims are responding to medical treatment, unfortunately, one was confirmed dead by the medical doctor on duty. The operatives also recover one Howo truck with Reg Nos: AWK 899 ZQ, One diahatsu shuttle bus with Reg nos AKL 978 and one Mitsubishi L300 bus with Reg nos SKA 439 XA. Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police *CP Echeng Echeng* has ordered an immediate manhunt for the driver of the truck on the run as preliminary information from the eyewitnesses reveals that the driver was reckless.  *Further details shall b...

Buhari sacks Giadom as HYPREP Project coordinator  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Tuesday, approved the termination of the appointment of the Project Coordinator of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project, Dr Giadom Dumbari.  He also approved the appointment of Professor Nanibarini Zabbey as the new HYREP Chief.  This is according to a tweet sighted by The PUNCH on the official Twitter handle of the Nigerian Presidency, @NGRPresident, which announced the change of leadership late Tuesday.  It read “President @MBuhari has approved the termination of the appointment of the @HYPREPNigeria Project Coordinator, Dr. Ferdinand Giadom, and the appointment of Prof. Nanibarini Zabbey as the new Project Coordinator, with immediate effect.”  Giadom who was appointed by the President in early March for a tenure of four years leaves office after barely 14 months.Related News The announcement was contained In a statement by the Federal Ministry...

Nigerian Army announces recruitment results, urges applicants to check portal 3 May 2023  The Nigerian Army has urged applicants who applied for the 85 Regular Recruits Intake in 2023 to visit its portal to check the list of shortlisted candidates. The Army made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday, stating that the state recruitment screening exercise is scheduled to commence from May 8–21, 2023, in all 36 states and in Abuja. The Nigerian Army also published the list of documents that shortlisted candidates must report with during their respective states of origin for the screening exercise. Shortlisted applicants must come with their original copies of WASCE/GCE/NECO/NABTEB certificates in a file jacket, Printed Bank Verification Number (BVN) certificate authenticated by a bank. Shortlisted applicants must come with their valid birth certificate as endorsed by the National Population Commission, hospital, Local Government Council of birth, or valid age declaration. Short...

Criminal gang beheads ASP, threatens to go after police in Aba 3 May 2023 A criminal gang said to be responsible for the gruesome murder of an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) along East Street, Ndiegoro, Aba, Abia State has threatened to sack residents of the area. New Telegraph reports that the ASP popularly known as “Agbalagba” and hailed from Ebonyi State was gruesomely murdered with his head cut off along East Street on Tuesday morning (at about past 5 am) while the gang made away with his gun and uniform. In the course of an investigation, An impeccable police source revealed to New Telegraph that the killing of the ASP from what they have gathered so far is linked to a notorious criminal group whose leader was killed during a gun battle on Sunday 23rd April 2023. New Telegraph gathered that on Sunday 23rd of April 2023, the leader of the gang who is popularly known in the area as JP met his Waterloo in a gun battle with men of the Nigerian Police when he was sighted by p...

Protest in Enugu over assassination of ex-Gov aspirant, missing monarch 3 May 2023  Protests have erupted in the Enugu metropolis over the alleged killing of a former governorship aspirant in the just-concluded general elections and a community leader in Ozalla community in Nkanu West Local Government Area, Engr. Dons Udeh. The community also protested the continuous missing of its traditional ruler, Igwe Donald Nwochi, who was last seen on December 24, 2021 as well as others who left their homes and never returned. The Nation reports that Udeh went missing on Saturday, April 22 in Enugu and his decomposing body found in a bush at 9th Mile Bypass in Udi Local Government Area, on April 25 around 11:00 a.m. Angered by the continuous murders and inexplicable abductions in the community, residents took to the streets of Enugu to protest what they described as the rising abductions and unabated murder of innocent people in the community in more than one year now. Led by the town union p...

EFCC Arraigns Man for Land Fraud in Maiduguri The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, May 3, 2022, arraigned one Mallam Ali Dala before Justice B.M Umar of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a three count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence and forgery to the tune of N800,000 (Eight Hundred Thousand Naira only). The defendant fraudulently collected the said sum from Mohammed Zailani for the purchase of a plot of land located behind the Federal Road Safety Corps’ office, Maiduguri, Borno State. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges preferred against him by EFCC. Counsel for the prosecution, A. A Ayenshola prayed the court to remand the defendant and fix a date for the trial to commence. But M.B Bello, through an oral application, moved for the bail of the defendant.  Justice Umar refused the oral application for bail, ordered the remand of the defendant and adjourned till May 18, 2023 for hearing of...