Tiger Base: Untold story of Police Anti-Kidnapping Unit’s war against terror in Imo State
The Anti-Kidnapping Unit popularly called Tiger base in Imo state which has been at the center of criticism by some human rights activists and disgruntled individuals is turning out to be carrying out a quiet revolution in the state. The revolution is unfolding in a state long haunted by the shadows of criminal syndicates, banditry, and public mistrust in law enforcement.

Since assuming command of the base, CSP Ola Odeyeyiwa and his team have defied cynics with a resolute campaign to clamp down on organized crime, and rebuild public confidence. This is contrary to skepticism and complaints about human rights abuses and impunity credited to the unit. They have delivered a string of operational successes that are not only remarkable but also deeply reassuring to the people of Imo State.
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Lawyer, client shot dead after court session in Anambra
The police command in Anambra has launched manhunt for suspected killers of a legal practitioner returning from the court, after securing bail for a defendant in a murder case.

The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Awka.

Ikenga said the gunmen also gunned down two others who accompanied the lawyer but one survived.

He said that the three victims were returning from High Court II Ekwulobia in Orumba North Local Government of the state when the incident occurred.

He said that the legal practitioner had bailed a defendant in a pending murder case at the Court not knowing that they were trailed as they left the court.

According to the statement, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in Anambra, Ikioye Orutugu, today led a team of senior officers, including the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations and others on a visit to the crime scene at Egbebelu village.
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Court sentences Portable to three months in prison

An Ogun State Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Ifo Local Government Area, has sentenced controversial street-hop artist Habeeb Okikiola, popularly known as Portable, to three months in prison, with an option of a N30,000 fine.

Portable was found guilty of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.

The musician was arrested in March 2023 after physically attacking a police inspector and obstructing officers who were attempting to serve him an arrest warrant.

The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Olumide Awoleke, had earlier informed the court that Habeeb Okikiola committed the offense on 18 November 2022 at approximately 11:00 am in Okeosa, Ilogbo, within the Ifo Magisterial District.

The charge sheet reads: “That you, Badmus Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, and others now at large, on the 18th day of November 2022 at 11:00 hrs, in Okeosa, Ilogbo, within the Ifo Magisterial District, did conspire among yourselves to commit felony, to wit: assault, and thereby committed an offense contrary to and punishable under Section 517 of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State 2006.

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15 missing Anambra JAMB candidates, others found safe in Imo

The Imo State Police Command has said that all the 15 candidates who left Onitsha at the weekend for Imo State to write the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination, earlier rumoured to have disappeared, have been found safely.

In a statement issued on Sunday evening by the Imo State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Henry Okoye, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), it was stated that the students, proprietor, and members of staff of the Eminent Scholars Imperial Academy, Onitsha, Anambra State, had left Onitsha on May 16 for the Computer Based Test (CBT) centre in Okigwe Zone, Imo State, successfully wrote their examination, but were obstructed by their vehicle malfunction in Amuro, Okigwe axis, as they were going back to Onitsha.

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