The Imo State Police Command has rejected claims circulating on social media that operatives of its Anti-Kidnapping Unit (Tiger Base) tortured a detained terror suspect, Magnus Ejiogu, to death. The Command’s Spokesperson, DSP Henry Okoye, said in a statement on Sunday that the allegations were “false and malicious,” insisting that the suspect died of natural…
Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has sued the Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Aboki Danjuma, demanding billions of naira in damages over allegations he describes as defamatory. Court documents filed on 14 August at the Abuja High Court show that Kanu is seeking ₦10 billion in general damages,…
The Anambra Joint Security Force (JSF) says it has neutralised two suspected gunmen and also detained a suspected member of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The Spokesman for the state Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement issued in Awka on Tuesday. Ikenga stated that the security operatives achieved the…
A witness from Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS) has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), have resulted in the deaths of between 170 and 200 security personnel in the country’s South East. The…
