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An improvised explosive device, IED, has reportedly detonated under a military vehicle during a routine patrol along the Ihite Ukwa–Health Centre axis in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State. The incident occurred at about 6:50 a.m. on September 4, Read More …
Nigerian security forces have recorded significant gains in ongoing counter-threat operations, intercepting a cache of ammunition and explosive materials in Kaduna State while also discovering and neutralising improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Imo State. In Kaduna, troops deployed along the Read More …
The Nigerian Army has invited media organisations, civil society groups and other stakeholders for a verification tour as part of the moves to counter alleged propaganda by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) over its recent Operation Eastern Sanity Read More …
Troops of the Nigerian Army under Operation UDO KA have reopened a major road closed for over three years due to persistent threats and attacks by IPOB/ESN militants during clearance operations in Imo State. The Army also said it uncovered Read More …
Imo Police Command has alleged that two young men, suspected to be members of the proscribed freedom fighting members of Indigenous People of Biafra,IPOB and Eastern Security Network, ESN, has been killed in Orlu while carrying an improvised explosive device Read More …
Following the recent bomb explosion at International Market Orlu, which claimed two lives and injured many, the Imo State Police Command has organized a one-day for officers on the identification, handling, and disposal of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs. A press Read More …
Two suspected members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militia arm Eastern Security Network (ESN) have been reportedly killed in an accidental explosion of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Orlu international market close to Mbari Okoro, Read More …
Combined security agencies have killed a suspected bomb expert of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN) in Nigeria’s South-east. The spokesperson of the Nigerian army, Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Friday Read More …
Nigerian security forces have destroyed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) factory in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State. The operation was jointly carried out by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and Civil Defence Corps. Lt.-Col. Jonah Unuakhalu, Acting Read More …
Troops of “Operation UDO KA II’’ conducted clearance operations on terrorist camps in Imo and Anambra on Saturday. The troops arrested a suspected terrorist and also recovered improvised explosive device-making materials, motorcycles, stored foods, and other logistics items in the Read More …
Five soldiers and two policemen sustained various degrees of injuries from Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) detonated Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) during clearance operations in Anambra and Imo states. Gen. Nwachukwu said the troops during the raid cleared IPOB camps Read More …
Four persons including one policeman have been killed in an attack that was repelled by the police in the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) along Port Harcourt Road in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The gunmen also Read More …
Owerri—Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, yesterday, said a Major of the Nigeria Army has lost his life to illegally manufactured explosives by bandits, in Awo-Idemili in Orsu Local Government Area in the state, while two captains of the Nigeria Army Read More …
The Nigerian Army has said that Troops of 82 Division Enugu, in collaboration with other services on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, killed two members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militant wing, Eastern Security Network (ESN) Read More …
The Nigerian Army has said an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militant wing, ESN, has exploded, causing “severe injuries” to two of its members. Army spokesperson, Onyema Nwachukwu, Read More …
The Imo State Police Command on Wednesday confirmed a bomb blast at an oil company in Izombe, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo state. The Command’s spokesperson, CSP Mike Abattam, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Owerri, said it Read More …
The police in Imo State, on Friday, disclosed the arrest of a 50-year-old suspected to be a bomb maker for the Indigenous People of Biafra. A statement issued by the police spokesperson, Micheal Abattam, in Owerri, the state capital, disclosed Read More …
Gunmen using dynamite have attacked a police station in southeastern Nigeria, a day after two police officers were killed in another attack in the area, police said. Sunday’s attacks in the state of Imo were the latest violence in the Read More …
Unknown gunmen have bombed the residence of the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Prof George Obiozor located in Awo- Omamma in Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State. It was gathered that the suspects used Improvised Explosives Devices (IEDs) Read More …
Two officers attached to Isu police division of Imo state have been killed following an attack on the station by gunmen. The attack was confirmed in a statement issued on Monday by Rabiu Hussaini, Imo commissioner of police, through Michael Read More …