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Nigeria is expecting 12 Tucano fighter planes from the US as part of efforts towards fighting insecurity in the country.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele said this on Tuesday while fielding questions at the end of a two-day Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Abuja.

Emefiele, lamenting Nigeria’s growing security challenges, said the economy would be greatly affected if the menace is not tackled.

Federal Government (February 2018) confirmed that it had placed an order for 12 Super Tucano aircraft at a cost of $496 million.

According to Governor Hope Uzodimma, the unknown gunmen arrested by the police and currently undergoing questioning over violent attacks perpetrated by the so-called unknown gunmen, are non-Igbo criminals. The governor revealed that these criminal elements were apparently hired and imported into Imo State and other parts of the Southeast to disturb the peace of the State and disrupt economic activities in the State.
He however stopped short of naming or classifying those behind the hiring of these criminal elements.

This revelation, coming from no less a person than the chief security officer of the State has gone a long way to dispel the belief in many quarters that the ongoing security operations across the Southeast meant to smoke out these hoodlums is targeted against Igbo youths.

We should rather be thankful to the security operatives for helping to rid Igbo land of these terrorists who have in the past few months desecrated our land by spilling the blood of many innocent people, destroyed properties worth billions of Naira and cost us billions of Naira in capital flight. I believe that no reasonable Igbo man would take any action that would hurt his investments and disrupt his business, therefore, the governor’s claim that most of these hoodlums are not Igbos is plausible.

Already, reports from security agencies from across the Southeast are encouraging. In Anambra yesterday, the hoodlums who attempted to set INEC office ablaze suffered heavy casualties as the police successfully repelled them and these attacks are becoming less frequent. We should support security operatives to quickly rid our land of these foreign elements who are hell-bent on setting Igbo land ablaze.

DSP Loveth Odeh, Command’s Public Relation Officer (PPRO) told journalist on Tuesday in Abakaliki that the pictures were not in connection with a suicide bomber.

“There is no bomb explosion in Ebonyi, but regrettably, this morning, one of our mobile police personnel attached to Afikpo on special duty was wounded by teargas.

“The officer mistakenly hit a teargas hung on his belt, and unfortunately, the device exploded and wounded him and he died.

“The lifeless body, the man in the picture is Inspector Idi Aminu, attached to 32 PMF Abakaliki but on special duty at Afikpo.

“So, there is no bomb blast or explosion in Ebonyi. The general public should disregard the information,” the PPRO sai

The suicide bomber was approaching the eke ukwu market in afikpo on a mission to record more deaths, the bomb exploded in his body on reaching a primary school called Amaizu Amangbala that is 3 poles, near to his destination before the Gods of the land intervained.

Information gathered is that the Fulani residents orchestrated the plan in a revenge mission over the disappearance, ban, and consumption of cow meat in the area.
Shortly after the incident the Nigeria security agency drove to the scene with armoured tanker and forcefully evacuate the body to unknown destination.

National President of one of the umbrella bodies of herdsmen, the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Abdullahi Bello Bodejo has said he is about going to marry an Igbo girl from Enugu State and become an in-law to Igbo.

Bodejo disclosed this in an interview with a National daily, the Sun.

According to him, his firm belief in the country’s unity influenced his decision.

He also disclosed that his aunt was happily married to a Rivers State man, adding that the union is blessed with ten children, including Kate, Ndidi and Kingsley, amongst others.

His firm belief in Nigeria’s unity, he said was threatened by such directives as issued by Southern Governors banning open grazing in the region.

According to him, such negates the spirit of the constitution as envisaged by the country’s founding fathers, including Zik, Awo, Ahmadu Bello, etc.

He reiterated his position that the Fulani were not constrained by boundaries or borders and urged herdsmen to ignore the directive by the Governors and graze their cattle in any part of the country they find themselves.