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  A report by the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) on insecurity, crime and human rights violations in the Southeast region of Nigeria has revealed how armed persons that operate under the guise of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militant wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), took over Agwa community in Imo State in 2013.  

  Amid the biting hunger and economic hardship in Nigeria, suspected herdsmen have reportedly invaded farmland in Ndegwu, Amakohia-Ubi, and Orogwe communities in the Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State.   The herders allegedly destroyed crops worth millions of naira, leaving affected farmers in those communities devastated.   One of the affected farmers from the Amakohia-Ubi community, Obiozor Solomon, told journalists in Owerri, the Imo State capital that they were at the mercy of...

Governor Hope Uzodimma has flagged off the distribution of palliatives in Imo State, saying the items are meant for all Imo citizens.

Farms and crops belonging to Ndegwu, Amakohia-Ubi and Orogwe communities in Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State, have been destroyed by

The police said they were investigating the incident.

Labour Party national chairman, Mr. Julius Abure, revealed to US-based Nigerians that Peter Obi will soon be declared president by the presidential tribunal.

By Harry Awurumibe, Editor Abuja Bureau The Labour Party has decried the attack on its secretariat in Owerri, the Imo state capital by suspected thugs and policemen allegedly working for the state government. Labour Party's National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Obiora Ifoh in a statement, said in the early hours of Monday, August 28 the Imo state

August 29, 2023. Azonuchechi Chukwu. Police officer attached to the Imo police command has reportedly shot a trader identified as Ebere Chibuike, dead, at Nazi timbre and allied market in Owerri-north LGA of the state. According to witnesses, the incident happened on Monday while some operatives of the command were enforcing an arrest in the |

Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has said Nigeria’s wealth and prosperity lie in harnessing and encouraging youth entrepreneurship for

As we take seriously, the need for a realistically more robust economic activities cum development of Southeast Nigeria where potentials of Ndigbo could be harnessed and deployed towards the end of attaining the full economic potential possibilities and economy of scale befitting of a people whose ingenuity and can-do spirit permeate all spheres of business endeavour, there is the need to firstly identify realisable paths to which focus should be placed in order to achieve the aim of industriali...