Ebonyi, Nigeria – In a recent incident in Ebonyi state, unidentified armed individuals targeted and set ablaze three commuter buses, four motorcycles, and one tricycle in the Ezzamgbo area of Ohaukwu local government, along the Enugu-Abakaliki expressway. The Ebonyi State Police Command has been investigating the matter. According to SP Onome Onovwakpoyeya, the spokesperson for…
In a bid to restore security in the southeast, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday said the air component of Operation Udo Ka II has successfully dismantled several hideouts of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Imo and Anambra states. ESN is the paramilitary outfit of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). In…
Justice Lekan Ogunmoye-led the three-member panel of the Ebonyi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, dismissed a petition by the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Prof Benard Odoh, challenging the election of Francis Nwifuru of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as duly elected governor of the state. It…
Peter Mbah, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday affirmed as the duly elected governor of Enugu state by the governorship election petition tribunal in the state. Justice Kudirat Akano-led three-man panel, while delivering the judgement, dismissed the petition filed by Chijioke Edeoga, candidate of the Labour Party (LP). The Informant247 reports…
The operatives of the Imo State Police Command on Tuesday arrested three officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and two from the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for allegedly harassing and extorting civilians in the state. According to the spokesman for the command, ASP Henry Okoye, who made this known to newsmen…
A petition by the candidate of the Labour Party, Chief Frank Chinasa, seeking to nullify the election of the member representing Bende federal constituency and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu on Tuesday, dismissed by the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia, Abia state capital. The Informant247 gathered…
Suspected gunmen have killed a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Sampson Owobo in an attack in Owerri, the Imo State capital. According to an eyewitness, the tragedy occurred on Sunday night at about 09:40 pm in a location close to Owerri Urban Police Divisional headquarters at Egbu Road in Owerri. The eyewitness also claimed…
In preparation ahead of the Imo governorship election, which is scheduled for November 11, Kashim Shettima, the Nigeria’s vice-President and the national chairman of the All progressives congress (APC) Abdullahi Ganduje, are reported to be making attempts to reunite the Imo state governor, Hope Uzodinma, and the his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha, who is also a…
A secessionist group agitating for the Biafra Republic from Nigeria, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said it will not disband its militant arm, Eastern Security Network (ESN). The IPOB made this known in a statement by Emma Powerful, the group’s spokesperson and made available to newsmen on Monday. The group, while reacting to…
The distribution of flyers across the south-east to notify residents of the cancellation of Monday sit-at-homes in the region bu the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has commenced. According to Emma Powerful, IPOB spokesperson, the sit-at-home directive is dead, and that anyone caught enforcing the order would be dealt with. Powerful, while explaining, said…
In a build up for the November 11 gubernatorial election, Hope Uzodinma, the Imo State Governor, on Saturday, unveiled Chinyere Ihuoma Ekomaro as his running mate for the forthcoming governorship election. It was gathered that governor Uzodinma, a candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during the unveiling ceremony in Owerri, defended his decision to…
Alex Otti, the Abia State Governor on Thursday, directed that vehicles parking by the roadside or on the median of Nkwoegwu Down to Ubakala Junction move to Ohiya Motor Park in Umuahia, adding that makeshift shops, shanties, and other illegal shops and structures along the affected areas have also been directed to quit before the…
Barr Peter Mbah, the Enugu state governor on Thursday, sworn in 20 commissioners, while urging them to get down to work immediately, saying his administration is in a hurry to deliver on its campaign promises. The Informant247 gathered that the newly sworn-in commissioners are Prof. Ndubueze Mbah, Mrs. Ngozi Eneh, Engr. Lawrence Ezeh, Prof. Sam…
Abia state governor, Alex Otti on Tuesday, launched ‘operation crush’, a joint task force of police, army, navy and other relevant security agencies. The governor, in his efforts to ensure normalcy in the state, inaugurated the project at Okpara square event centre in Umuahia with 20 Hilux vans, adding that the operation will pay special…
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared every Monday as “economic empowerment days” in the south east. In a statement issued on Saturday by IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, stated that the economic empowerment day (EED) will replace the sit-at-home order which Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the group, had ended, adding that EED would help…
Nnmadi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra has accused the Nigerian government of bankrolling the Finland-based Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa to cause crisis across the Southeast. Kanu alleged that the sit-at-home order was working for the government to “destroy our once peaceful land.” Kanu’s remark was disclosed by his lead counsel,…
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has offered to grant Amnesty to bandits who will give up their alms and turn a new leaf. Uzodinma, while Speaking at the meeting with traditional and community leaders held at Eze Imo Palace, advocated for peace and stability in the State with a good offer of rehabilitation to anyone…
No fewer than 13 kidnap victims have been rescued by the troops of 14 Brigade operating under 82 Division of the Nigerian Army along Ngodo- Isuochi road in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State. The troops, who arrived the scene of the incident while responding to a distress call on Saturday 22 July 2023,…
Following the recent rise in the price of fuel across the country, the Anambra State residents have resorted to trekking, as transport fares have further gone up after the previous rise occasioned by the announcement of the removal of fuel subsidy, during the inauguration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on May 29. It was gathered…
The socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare a state of emergence in the southeast over the sit-at-home order in the region, saying this would send a strong signal to the Southeast governors, who would now be compelled to find a lasting solution to the order. It could be recalled…
