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Punch Newspapers Sections Published 4:25 am  THE Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, on Tuesday said nothing could be done on the decision of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to appoint an acting Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, despite a three-month extension he had earlier granted Mohammed Adamu. The minister said this while announcing Baba’s appointment to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari had appointed Baba, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, as the acting IGP with immediate effect. When asked why the Presiden...

IPC raises alarm over growing violence in South Eastern states On Kindly Share This Story: The Ikwerre Peoples Congress (IPC) has raised the alarm over what it described as “the spate of violence that is currently being perpetrated in parts of Old Eastern Nigeria”. The group in a press statement signed by its convened, Livingstone Wechie, noted that the developments have resulted in the armed and violent attacks on security formations in some of the Eastern States “and this is very unacceptable”. In part, the statement reads thus; “We have been monitoring the Ikwerre is one of the ...

Vanguard News Correctional Service in Imo confirms attack on its facility On The Imo command of the Nigerian Correctional Service has confirmed an attack on its facility in Owerri. Public Relations Officer of the service in Imo, Mr James Madugba, confirmed the incident to newsmen in Owerri on Monday. Madugba who said that the event occurred at about 2.00 a.m Monday also said that many inmates escaped with some operational vehicles razed. He added that the services had yet to confirm the numbers of escaped inmates and damaged vehicles. “We can confirm that the facility was attacked at about...

The attackers burnt almost all the vehicles parked at the command headquarters. The gunmen only spared the anti- kidnapping department of the state CID. The armed men, who were said to have operated in over 10 vehicles, also attacked soldiers stationed Umuorji along Owerri-Onitsha Expressway. The attackers were said to have had a free rein in the operation said to have started from 1am Monday and lasted for over two hours. An eyewitness told our correspondent that the gunmen burnt the operational vehicles of the soldiers, who fled in different directions. They were so bold to have sang solida...

…As court grants N70m bail to Okorocha’s aides The South-East Governors Forum has waded into the impasse between the Imo government and the state’s former governor, Sen. Rochas Okorocha. It would be recalled that a squabble ensued between both sides’ supporters on Feb. 21 when Okorocha allegedly broke into the Royal Spring Palm Apartment, Owerri, sealed by the Imo government on Feb. 19. The situation was brought under control by the Imo Police Command, which later arrested the senator. Chairman of the forum, Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi, in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on...