INVESTORS and traders, chiefly of Igbo ethnic stock, at Calabar, capital of Cross River State, have started relocating their businesses and families to neighboring Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital and their home states, following the wave of hostage-taking and armed robbery attacks targeted at non-indigenes by kidnappers and other criminals in recent months. 

PANDAMONIUM erupted yesterday in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state, following a demonstration in the streets of Onitsha,  against last weekend’s killing of a conductor attached to Ifeanyichukwu Motors Limited, a member of the association, along Benue/Nasarawa highway by suspected armed robbers in army uniform.

Peace has returned to oil-rich Ugborodo, an Itsekiri community in Warri South West local government area of Delta State. But peace did not come through negotiation; it took the intervention of security operatives to flush out some persons described as hoodlums and brigands who unleashed a reign of terror on the community.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed the readiness of his administration to support and scale up the operations of the Nigerian Army against kidnapping, smuggling, armed robbery, illegal oil bunkering and other security challenges in the State.

The Police Command in Enugu State on Sunday says it has arrested one Nnadi Daniel, a notorious armed robbery and kidnapping suspect in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state.