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Communities in Uburu and Okposi have been brutally attacked by unidentified gunmen, who have left a trail of devastation in their wake. Three cars reportedly caught fire during the incident, which happened on Thursday night, while an uninvolved bystander sustained a shoulder injury.     In a phone interview, SP Onome Onovewakpoyeya, the Police Command Public Relations Officer in Ebonyi state, confirmed the upsetting incidents and said that the attackers wreaked ruthless havoc in both...

In the state’s Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area, the Rivers State Police Command has discovered a “baby factory” run by a child trafficking organisation. Six expectant women were freed from the factory that made babies by the command.   The women, who ranged in age from 20 to 23, were being held with the intention of trading their newborn children when they gave birth. On Tuesday, the pregnant women and Akudo Azoroh, the center’s owner...

On Sunday morning, irate youths shut down Radio Nigeria, Amuludun FM 99.1 in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. According to a Metro source, the young people surrounded the station and attempted to take control of the programme. Our correspondent’s research discovered that the stern-looking security guards have disarmed and driven them from the station. The radio station, which broadcast exclusively in Yoruba, started broadcasting on October 22, 2007, at J&P Bus-stop, Moniya in Ibadan,...

An analysis shows that from 2015 to 2023, the Federal Government distributed a total of N14,063,279,559,996 to the various security agencies and their coordinating ministries. The allocations could be found in the appropriation bills for the next eight years on the website of the Federal Budget Office. The Ministry of Police Affairs received N4,956,267,942 in 2015; the Ministry of Interior received N156,220,022,460; the Ministry of Defence received N375,497,219,431; the Police Service Commission received N990,477,185; the...

The Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, revealed on Wednesday that the Nigerian government had invested $8 billion to bring peace to Liberia. During his keynote address at the celebration for the 75th anniversary of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, Gen. Irabor revealed this.     More than 200,000 Nigerian soldiers have participated in UN peacekeeping missions across the globe, according to the Chief of Defence Staff. He said, “Nigeria has been unwaveringly committed...