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Regional security outfit: Ndigbo knock South East governors over delay On •‘They signed away their regional and citizens’ security just to be made governors’ •Delay by South-East governors amounts to betrayal — ASETU •It reflects lack of focused leadership in the zone — Don •Stop playing politics with security, Igboke warns •‘There is leadership vacuum which IPOB is trying to fill with ESN’ •‘ESN is an indictment on the governors’ •They are afraid of offending t...

Share Perhaps jolted by escalating security situation across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the Service Chiefs and appointed replacements immediately. DARE ADEKANMBI looks at the situation against the backdrop of the avowal of the president to end insurgency and the daunting task before the new helmsmen to make terrorists and criminals feel there are new sheriffs in town. Above the issue of the economy that has been on a downward turn for the better part of the last six years, w...

World Igbo Congress makes case for support of Eastern Security Network On By Dennis Agbo The World Igbo Congress, WIC, has made case for support of the Eastern Security Network, ESN, as the only volunteer security outfit in the South East. According to WIC, it’s support for the Nnamdi Kanu-led outfit was because Igboland security cannot be left in the hands of Miyetti-Allah in the North or Amotekun in the South West, because leaders always want to abdicate responsibility and hoped it will go...

Copyright AFP 2017-2020. All rights reserved. Various images have been shared online in Nigeria alongside false claims that they show clashes between national troops and a local militia in the country’s southeastern region last week. AFP Fact Check rounds up some of the viral posts spreading disinformation amid the ongoing turmoil. Nigeria is battling unrest in different forms, including a decade-long Boko Haram insurgency, banditry and kidnapping, which has resulted in the creation of region...

Condemning Army For Killing Helpless Igbos At Orlu And Ultimatum Tofulaniherdsmen To Vacate Igbos Forests By Civil Liberties Organization Listen to article Nigerian Army Mindlessly Killing Innocent Igbos at Orlu due their Helplessness in Confronting Eastern Security Network-ESN in the Forest : An Igbo Group Gives Ultimatum to Fulanis to Vacate Igbo Forests On Or Before Sunday , 28 February , 2021 : Igbos will Forcefully Enter their Forests to Chase Out Forest Fulanis in Igbo Forests After Tha...

Nigerian Soldiers Killed Five Innocent People In Orlu, Ran Away When They Saw Eastern Security Network Officers — IPOB Since last Friday, there has been a crisis in Orlu after a clash between ESN officers and soldiers resulted in the deaths of people. by Saharareporters, New York Jan 26, 2021 The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the Nigerian Army of killing five ‘innocent’ residents of Okporo in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. Since last Friday, there has been ...

By Chuks Oyema-Aziken Some Igbo professionals has urged advocates of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) to follow laid down procedures in their establishment. The Igbo professionals stated this in reaction to reported attack on soldiers and police operatives in Orlu, Imo State, by persons operating in the name of ESN. The professionals under aegis of Coalition of South East Professionals Network in Nigeria and Diaspora (CSEPNND) condenmed the attack and said the development must not be allo...

TODAY FIle Photo Some Igbo professionals have condemned the reported attack on soldiers and police operatives in Orlu, Imo State, by persons operating in the name of Eastern Security Network (ESN), saying the development must not be allowed to go unchecked. It’s a known fact that a sovereign nation will allow armed security groups to operate without necessary approvals and legal backing. While describing the so-called Eastern Security Network as an illegal contraption, the group called on p...

Dont Rely On Government To Defend Your Territories, Kanu Tells SWest Youths He advised them not to rely on their governors because, like the South East and South-South governors, they will not protect them. by SaharaReporters, New York Jan 23, 2021 The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has told Yoruba youths that the security of their lives and property, including those of their parents is their responsibility. He advised them not to rely on their governors beca...

Kanu taunted the security agencies and their personnel, asking them to "write their will" before the search.