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Olalekan Adetayo and Tony Okafor IMO State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, on Tuesday justified the recent military invasion of some parts of Orsu and Or...

Senator Samuel Anyanwu who represented Imo East senatorial district, yesterday said that the Southeast zone has been gradually turned into...

NYP condemns aerial bombardment of Orlu On By Dirisu Yakubu The Ndigbo Youth Parliament, NYP, Saturday condemned the alleged aerial bombardment in Orlu, Imo state, saying “aside the videos from the eyewitness sent to us, we received calls of tensions and anxieties from the citizens of the communities in Orlu where the aerial bombardments took place.” Speaker of the Parliament, Rikki Nwajiofor in a statement yesterday described the alleged military action as “a joke taken too far”. The ...

By Anayo Okoli, Chidi Nkwopara & Chinonso Alozie Hundreds of military operatives yesterday, launched heavy attacks  on the  camps of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, in some parts of Forest Umunna in Orlu and Orsu Local Government Areas of Imo State. Vanguard’s investigation revealed that the military launched the  attacks on hearing that the members of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, had set up a base in the forest from where they would execute their operations. An insider  who woul...

Some other residents in Orlu said they now lived in fear of the unknown since the military began patrolling the community.

Aadelakun@punchng.com There are at least two fundraising efforts ongoing for Sunday Igboho, now deemed a Yoruba freedom fighter. So far, one has g...

[FILES] Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a. Sunday Igboho) (second left), addressing a press conference over his burnt house by arsonists in Ibadan… yesterday. PHOTO: NAJEEM RAHEEM “In this state and, of course, the riverine state of Nigeria, we must resist it. We must stop it. Every one of us must rise up. The armed forces are not neutral. They collude with the armed bandits that kill people, kill Nigerians; they facilitate their movement; they cover them. If you are depending on the...

Vanguard News Edo group calls for regional security outfit in south south On Kindly Share This Story: A social-cultural organization, the HeartBeat Professionals Association, has called on the governors in the south-south region to set up realistic modalities urgently to address the recent hostilities across the region. The group made the appeal yesterday in a communique signed by its President Mr. Ikponmwosa Egharevba. The statement read “In view of the recent hostility across the South-Sou...

Williams Babalola National Coordinator, Concerned Advocates for Good Governance, Olusegun Bamgbose, Esq., has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to relinquish power immediately as he has “led the country to slaughter slab.” Bamgbose, who himself is a presidential hopeful, made this demands while addressing a crowd of supporters in Ibadan, Oyo State saying that Buhari is no longer fit to be called a president. Bamgbose knocked Buhari for his “inability” to curb the menace of regional insec...

The Coalition of Civil Rights Group (CCRG) has challenged IPOB-affiliated Eastern Nigeria’s Rights and Intelligentsia Coalition (ENRIC) to back its claim that six soldiers of Igbo extraction were killed with facts. According to the coalition, the ENRIC has continued to feed the unsuspecting public ‘fake news’ without substantial evidence to back its case, thus provoking widespread ethnic strife across the country x The CCRG noted that ENRIC has fai...