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The Nigeria Police Force, Cross River State Command has confirmed its operatives arrested three suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and recovered explosives from the suspects. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Sule Balarabe, who disclosed the information on Monday while parading the suspects, said they were arrested by the command between August and November. Balarabe identified the suspected IPOB members as 29-year-old Richard Ukehad, 29-year-old Esther Asado and 44-year-old Isaac Ebebe.

  Gunmen believed to be kdinappers have reportedly shot a popular cleric, Evangelist Edim Edim Omin and abducted a former Accountant General of Cross River State under Donald Duke’s administration, Mrs Rose Bassey, and three other commuters. The victims were picked up on Tuesday evening along Uyanga-Ikomita axis of the Calabar-Ikom Highway, Cross-River States. It was reported that the gunmen forced the passing motorists to stop as they besieged the highway.

A construction firm project manager, Anozeng Egbe, was abducted by gunmen in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Friday. Egbe was kidnapped barely three days after the police rescued nine travellers abducted along Okomita axis of the Calabar-Ikom Highway. Egbe is an architect and doubles as the project manager of Faith Global Int’l Services Ltd (a.k.a Faith Plant) an indigenous multi-disciplinary firm.

The Nigeria Police Force, Cross River State Command has confirmed the death of a police sergeant, who was killed by unknown gunmen at Edgerton Street, Calabar, the state capital. It was learnt that the assailants killed the police identified as Sgt. Peter Ikwen and took his rifle. This was contained in statement signed by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Irene Ugbo, describing the incident as condemnable.

Reactions have continued, following the scary suicide attempt by an Akwa Ibom-born UNICAL student and resident of Cross River, who, on Thursday last week,