By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (OCHA Brigade) has dismissed as false and misleading reports circulating on social media and blogs alleging that its operatives were responsible for the recent shooting at Onitsha Main Market, Emeka Offor Plaza axis. In a statement on Thursday, the leadership of OCHA Brigade clarified…
By Ovat Abeng An Onitsha Magistrate Court presided over by Her Worship, Ukamaka Okoye, has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former Anambra State House of Assembly member, Hon Ifeanychukwu Chiekwu, and two others, alleged to have involved in the destruction of a building under construction worth two hundred million Naira (N200,000,000,00)….
By Ovat Abeng The management of Transpower Electricity Distribution Limited (TEDL) has condemned the indiscriminate destruction of its power infrastructure by contractors allegedly engaged by the Imo State Government. The development has thrown some customers into darkness, as both the Low Tension (LT) and High Tension (HT) poles serving them were broken and transformers damaged….
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Police Command has restored calm in Onitsha main market following a distress call reporting that personnel of the Ocha Brigade, an Anambra State Environmental Law Enforcement outfit, allegedly engaged in an altercation with some traders, during which seven traders sustained gunshot injuries. According to the State Police Public Relations…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra Police-led Joint Security Force, Aguata, comprising troops from the 302 Artillery Regiment (GS), 14 Field Engineer Regiment, Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and Anambra State Vigilante (Agunechemba) in the early hours of 2nd September 2025 carried out a coordinated joint operation at an ESN/IPOB militia camp located…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra Police Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (Gender Unit), have secured evidence for the prosecution of three arrested suspects in separate incidents of defilement reported in Eziowele, Oba and Ogidi Divisions of the State. According to the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a statement, the cases…
By Ovat Abeng Police operatives attached to the Rapid Response Squad Awkuzu in collaboration with the Anambra State Vigilante Group (AVG) Agunechemba, has neutralize four suspected insurgents terrorizing part of the State. The state police public relations officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga who disclosed this in a statement in Awka on Saturday, said the operation was…
By Ovat Abeng Anambra-East and West constituents have blasted their representatives at the state and federal legislatures over the very devastating and deplorable conditions of the Nneyi-Umueri-Anam road in the area. Our findings at the Nneyi-Umueri-Anam road on Tuesday 26th August this year, we gathered from locals in the constituency that the road which they…
By Ovat Abeng The Anambra State Special Anti-Touting Squad (SASA) has arrested four suspected persons in Achalla community, Awka North Local Government Area, for allegedly impersonating the Squad’s operatives and conducting illegal operations in the area. The suspects were reportedly parading the streets of Achalla community, wearing uniforms and carrying fake Anti tout (NdiAkudo) identity…
A policeman, identified as Inspector Yusuf Ibrahim has shot to death a soldier, Master Warrant Officer (MWO) Ali Haruna, who was on duty with the 33 Artillery Brigade in the Futuk area of Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State on Monday, 25th August, 2025. According to reports from a security and counterinsurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the truck with registration…