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About six policemen were on Wednesday night allegedly killed by gunmen at a police checkpoint along Obeagu Uno-Amodu – Umueze Amechi road, in the Enugu South Local Government Area of the state. Our correspondent gathered that the hoodlums attacked the checkpoint located at Obeagu Uno shortly after Inyaba Bridge around 7:30 pm. Sources in the community told our correspondent that the hoodlums who came from Agbani axis of the road had first encounter with policemen at 4 Corner and in Amagunze in Nkanu East Council headquarters before coming to attack the checkpoint at Enugu South. Although details of the attack were still sketchy, one of the sources told  The PUNCH  that the hoodlums killed about six policemen at the checkpoint, burnt their Hilux van and took away their AK-47 rifles. One of the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said, “It was around 7 pm we started hearing gunshots along the road. The shooting lasted about 30 minutes. But after the shooting,...

The United Kingdom Parliament has stated that the Nigerian government has to explain the roles it played and the manner of the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, from Kenya. The UK Minister of State for the Commonwealth, Lord Tariq Ahmad, demanded that the Nigerian government should explain to the British government how it repatriated the IPOB leader. This followed a debate by the UK Parliament on July 7, during which British lawmakers discussed the UK government’s assessment of Kenya’s role in Kanu’s arrest. Lord Alton of Liverpool raised the issue at the House of Lords, seeking to address the controversies surrounding the transfer of Kanu from Kenya to Nigeria against his will. He also sought to know if there was any assistance provided to the embattled IPOB leader by the High Commission in Abuja. A parliamentary schedule stated, “Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of (1) th...

Be Free To Produce President For Northern Nigeria, Igbo Women React To NEF's Rejection Of Rotational Presidency Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organisation Worldwide, however, said the failure of the North to agree to the rotation of presidency connotes Nigeria will break. The women wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo has thrown its weight behind the Southern governors that it is their turn to produce the next President of Nigeria. According to the statement by Ohanaeze Igbo Women Organisation Worldwide dated July 7, 2021, and signed by its President-General, Chief (Mrs) Calista Nkiru Adimachukwu, Northern Nigeria will have no choice but to support the South to produce the next occupant of the Aso Presidential Villa in 2023. In the statement made available to SaharaReporters on Wednesday, the Igbo Women stated that the, “era of arrogant disposition on Nigerian political affairs by the self-acclaimed Northern Nigerian political gladiators is now over.”   The group made the statement in rea...

The Director of the Sciences Equipment Development Institute, Professor Simon Ndubuisi, has been shot dead.  He was shot dead on Wednesday evening by unknown gunmen. He was killed along Enugu-Port Harcourt highway near the entrance of the Centenary Estate around Amech Awkunanaw in Enugu.  It was learnt that the gunmen also killed his police escort and abducted his daughter, who was in the car.  Professor Ndubuisi hailed fom Mgbowo in the Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State.

There is tension in Enugu State as men of the Nigerian Army reportedly invaded two communities in the Nkanu East and Nkanu West local government areas of the state. Newsnow gathered that the affected communities are Ekpoffo and Akpugo. Although the reason for the invasion could not be immediately ascertained, villagers who spoke from their hidings told our correspondent on Thursday it might not be unconnected with the recent sacking of herdsmen who were terrorising the area. Some also believed that the invasion could be the directive of the Presidency to security agencies to hunt down Biafran agitators in the South-East region. Community sources told our correspondent that the soldiers invaded Ekpoffo on Wednesday and whisked away some youths to unknown destinations. A source said, “Soldiers numbering over 100 stormed Ekpoffo community in Nkanu East around 7.30pm on Wednesday. They moved from place to place, ransacking houses. Before then, they had blocked major roads leading to the co...