By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Police Command has arrested 12 suspect over a communal land dispute that left four people dead in two communities in Ezeagu Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – No fewer than 3 gunmen have been killed by the police while others escaped with severe bullet wounds after a gun battle with hoodlums in Imufu community within Igbo-Eze North LGA of Enugu State. The police spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed...
Youths from the five South-East states took to the streets of Enugu metropolis on Monday, in support of efforts to end the illegal sit-at-home order, which is crippling the zone’s economy. Speaking to newsmen after the march, Secretary-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Worldwide, Mazi Chukwuma Okpalaezeukwu, said the...
Goods and property, worth millions of naira, have been destroyed by fire at Afor-Opi Market in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. An eyewitness, Mr Linus Eze, Chairman of Opi Traders Association, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the scene of the incident on Friday...
The Enugu State Government on Monday sealed 106 shops and two banks for allegedly observing Monday’s sit-at-home order by a faction of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra. . The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the exercise was carried out by officials of the State Government and Enugu...
Enugu State Government has again, urged Enugu residents to disregard Monday’s sit-at-home order by the factional members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and go about their normal businesses. The government directs resumption of normal activities on Monday and threatened to sanction civil servants, schools, markets, and...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a suspect for alleged connection to the gruesome murder of a lawmaker in the Nsukka axis of the state. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Monday in Enugu. He...
The World Bank/Federal Government Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihoods Improvement Support (APPEALS), Project, says the project has lifted over 55,000 Nigerians out of poverty. Mr Mohammed Jobdi, the National Project Coordinator of APPEALS disclosed this during the inspection of the level of implementation of the project in Enugu State on...
The Enugu State Government says it has tracked down some hoodlums who were enforcing illegal weeklong sit-at-home in the state. The Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Thursday in Enugu. According to him, those engaged in scaremongering through fake...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah has appointed Mr. Ladi Akeredolu-Ale as the Managing Director of Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS). Akeredolu-Ale was before his appointment, the Controller, Current Affairs at Channels television headquarters in Lagos State. His appointment was contained in a...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Enugu Zonal Command, has secured the conviction of 16 internet fraudsters before Justice F.I. Riman of the Federal High Court sitting in Akwa, Anambra State. The EFCC in a statement on Monday, said they were...
Rep Chimaobi Atu says the ongoing massive solar streetlight installation within Enugu Metropolis is meant to tackle criminality and other vices in the area. Atu said this on Sunday at his post-inauguration Thanksgiving Service and Civic Reception in Ugwuaji community in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu...
Gunmen operating at Imo axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway reportedly kidnapped nine Enugu-bound passengers, killed two and robbed others of their valuables. The victims, who hail from Amangwo Olokoro in Umuahia, were said to be travelling to Enugu on Saturday for a burial, when they were attacked by...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Police Command has rescued four kidnapped victims in a forest at Aishi-Ette community in Igbo-Eze North LGA of the state. The Command’s Spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, disclosed this in a statement issued in Enugu on Sunday. Ndukwe said that police operatives...
The Police Command in Enugu State has debunked a video clip currently in circulation, alleging that a part of the state is not safe due to a series of kidnappings there, as “untrue”.pol lol This is contained in a statement issued by the Command’s Spokesman, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on...
The Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, and a high-powered delegation from the Presidency are expected to attend the burial of former Senate President, Ken Nnamani’s wife, Ezinne Jane Nnamani. “We are also expecting who is who within the Nigerian Senate, the ruling party – All Progressives Congress (APC) as...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), says former Enugu state Governor, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is neither in hiding nor being probed for fraud. Mr Emmanuel Onwubiko, the National Coordinator of HURIWA, made the disclosure in a statement issued and made available to newsmen in Owerri, on Monday. Onwubiko said...
Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Ahmed Ammani, has ordered deployment of personnel, operational and intelligence resources to ensure public safety on Mondays and all days in the state. This is sequel to the June 1 order by Gov. Peter Mbah cancelling the weekly sit-at-home order in the...
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide and Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN) have lauded Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State for ending sit-at-home in the state. The two organisations gave the commendation in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria NAN in Enugu on Friday....