No fewer than 721 policemen and their families residing in the barracks at the Central Police Station, CPS, and Police Area Command, Onitsha have been rendered homeless following the demolition of their buildings and shops by the Anambra State police command. While the affected policemen accused the state police command of being insensitive, the Commissioner...
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Mr. Amulunanma Egbunike, who was kidnapped last weekend in Onitsha, Anambra State, has been freed. The Nation gathered that he was freed yesterday morning. Egbunike was abducted near his home at the Onitsha Inland Town. He was said to be returning home with his wife and son, when the kidnappers blocked his car and dragged him into theirs. Egbunike’s son,...
AWKA—A YOUNG man in his early twenties, Mr. Junior Egbunike, was, yesterday, confirmed dead following injuries sustained while pursuing his father’s kidnappers at the commercial town of Onitsha. Mr. Amulunanma Egbunike was returning home with his wife and son simply known as Junior after the day’s business at the weekend in Onitsha and as they got very...
By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA—THE Anambra State branch of Importers Association of Nigeria and the National Task Force against illegal importation of firearms and ammunition said yesterday that they had intercepted a trailer load of dangerous arms and ammunition in the commercial city of Onitsha. Briefing newmen, Chairman of the Association, Chief Emma Nwosu,...
A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr. Nwachi Kings, was killed yesterday by robbers in Onitsha, Anambra State. It was gathered that the six-man gang attacked a police patrol team at Dennis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS) roundabout. A source said the hoodlums attacked the deceased with a club and engaged the policemen in a gun battle. Two members of the...
By ENYIM ENYIM ONITSHA, ANAMBRA STATE—A computer scientist and former deputy governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chinedu Emeka, has developed a computer software that could be used to track criminals and check their activities in the country. Emeka, who was deputy governor under Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju’s administration, said he decided to embark on the research...
Samuel Ojana, the police corporal that shot and killed a driver in Onitsha on Thursday, has been dismissed from service and charged to court for murder. The police said in Onitsha on Friday that Ojana was dismissed after an orderly room trial for the alleged killing of Mr. Edwin Eze, a bus driver. The dismissed policeman, who has two wives (one of them pregnant),...
BY VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA- VIOLENT protest sparked off in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State Thursday, over the killing of a commercial bus driver simply identified as Edwin by a trigger happy policeman for failing to part with N50 tip. According to the conductor of the bus, Samuel Ekwueme who was crying uncontrollably, the police, at Anambra State...
