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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 the North — Obasi By Anayo Okoli, Vincent Ujumadu, Dennis Agbo, Ugochukwu Alaribe, Chimaobi Nwaiwu,...

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, worsening insecurity in the forms of kidnapping, banditry, insurgency, sectarian conflict, farmers-he...

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 away. WIC Public Relations officer, Basil Onwukwe in a statement, on Saturday, advised government t...

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 regional security outfits to address the violence in Africa’s most populous nation.  Tapping into the t...

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 That Date . Civil Society groups in the South East Nigeria have united , linearly and unequivocally eva...