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IzunnaOkafor:
By Izunna Okafor, Awka

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have recovered firearms, suspected stolen cash and other incriminating items after a vehicle conveying suspected armed criminals was involved in an accident while being chased by security operatives in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state.

The recovery, according to a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, followed an offensive security operation carried out by operatives attached to the Commissioner of Police Special Patrol at about 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 16.

According to him, the suspects, while attempting to evade arrest, abandoned their operational vehicle after it crashed during a hot pursuit by the patrol team.

He revealed that items recovered from the abandoned vehicle include one pump-action rifle, one locally fabricated single-barrelled rifle, an ash-coloured Toyota Highlander with registration number UWN 680 PE, suspected stolen cash amounting to six hundred and thirty-six thousand, seven hundred naira (₦636,700), as well as other incriminating materials.

The PPRO further disclosed that the suspects fled the scene immediately after the accident, prompting an intensive manhunt. He also confirmed that intelligence-led operations have since been stepped up to track down and arrest the fleeing suspects.

“The Anambra State Police Command reassures the Ndi Anambra of its commitment to proactive policing, maintaining law and order, and safeguarding lives and property in the state,” he concluded.

With that plate number, I hope the security operatives will be able to track them down.

However, if the vehicle was stolen for the operation, i hope the original owner reported it stolen.

Vifx:
Price war and competition will definitely bring prices down.


But from what I'm seeing many players in the oil sector will fight tooth and nail to maintain status quo

Enjoy it while it lasts o. Cos It wont last for ever. Eventually someone will win this price war and prices will rise to recover losses during this period.

Also let's all pray crude prices don't go above $80 or Naira devalue materially, cos those will send prices higher.

HgAkpobomeEr:
Nigeria is the best country in Africa.

Calm down!!

What will you say of South Africa, Morocco and Tunisia. I have personally been to SA and Morocco and they are better. Ivory Coast and Ethopia may even have a case to be better sef. Even Rwanda.

However, I do agree that Nigeria may seem like a small London to some of the poorer African countries.

I was in Cameroon last week and their capital Yaounde is prettly low level. I'd rate Ibadan, Enugu and Kaduna above. Talkless of Lagos and Abuja.

And we should appreciate what we have. We say things are expensive here but when you go to these countries, you will appreciate. In fact on my flight to Cameroon, there were plenty people from there who had come to buy stuff in Lagos. They had plenty bags of goods. Petrol in Cameroon is like N2200 equivalent. And ordinary pringles that is like N3.9k here converted to like N5.5k there. Even toothpaste and body cream were like twice the price of what we have in Nigeria. And they do not look like they are paid better than we are.

Great100000:
Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/ppp-fg-approves-ondo-bakassi-ports-katsina-ala-hydropower-plant/

Which one is Bakassi Deep Sea port again? Is Calabar port not salvagable? I hope the find away to integrate it with Tinapa, so that it comes to life again. Chai, we can waste money in this country sha o!!!

umarnuhu1900:
https://leaders.ng/2025/12/12/residents-cry-out-as-insecurity-spreads-to-south-west-slam-tinubus-silence

Random article from unsubstantiated source. Which one be leaders.ng?

nlfpmod:
YouTube has officially named Omoni Oboli (@omonioboli), celebrated Nollywood actress, filmmaker as Nigeria’s Content Creator of the Year 2025.

See Top 10:

1 Omoni Oboli TV
2 Itelediconstudio
3 Uchenna Mbunabo Tv
4 Saira Movies
5 Maurice Sam TV
6 RuthKadiri247
7 PATATV+
8 Uche Montana TV
9 Sonia Uche Tv
10 Brain Jotter

That should be some useful money!

ogugwa1992:
...Nigeria’s Energy Revival Already Happening, Says Ojulari



https://plateaujournal.com.ng/nnpc-ep-limited-hits-record-355000-bpd-production/

Plenty big words and corporate talk. More likely than not NEPL took over another asset and added the volumes to say they have increased production. Otherwise it should be visible in the national volume.

Its like Glo taking over 9Mobile, then in 2 months, announcing happily that it has increased subscriber base from 45mln to 47mln!

givedemwotowoto:
Let's pretend like we're being deceived sha. Some days ago, we celebrated foreign reserve at a record high of $45 billion. They forgot that 3 weeks prior to that, we also celebrated it at a record high of $47 billion.

At no time of recent has anyone announced $47bln external reserves

Giftedhand47:
In d first place why an ordained pastor in rccg go receive yeye Asiwaju odua... Imagine a pastor being given a worldly chieftaincy title... She would have rejected d title with respect

Good point. No way would I be a Pastor asnd accept such.

Ofunaofu:
But the President gave an order for the withdrawal of police from VIP protection.
Yet Tinubu’s son flouted the order, and they still want us to take them seriously.


Thunder 🔥 all of them there.

As a child of the President, I believe Seyi is entitled to DSS protection.

naptu2:
Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron



Source

With the amount of times Tinubu has visited France and met with Marcon of recent, surely the least Marcon can do is offer French intelligence and technology. Along with equipment, weapons and training.

I saw a video of a group of soldiers advancing in the bush today on X, and if thats really how our Army operates, its no wonder why we are struglling. No tactics, no coordination whatsoever. They showed poor training.

mrvitalis:
A professor would still be earning less than 10k dollars per year
Highest a prof makes now is 600k so 900k for a professor a month in this economy is ok?

And 150k for a lecture one is ok?

Don't mind him. Left to me though a salary of N1.2mln for a Professor in Nigeria of today is ok.

For a lecturer just startiing out, 500k is okay.

iwaeda:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/12/02/terrorists-ambush-traders-kwara-kogi-route-several-feared-kidnapped

Nigerian Army should conduct counter terrorism by posing as travellers in mufti in fairly rickety vehicles and set ambush for the terrorists too.

Nigeria needs to do better in terms of intelligence gathering. We should have a network of 'spies' in the rural areas - folks like goat herders, shoe makers, vulcanizers etc who will monitor local gist of bandit and terrorist movement and relay info to a central control room in a coded manner.

You can't tell me the locals don't see these guys when they are riding around with heir multitude of bikes.

Burob:
Quite unusual that we had the ministers of defence, & for state from the north?

Exactly what I was going to say.

How come State governments are presenting budget, but the federal government is nowhere to be found?

Pakute:
https://punchng.com/fg-upgrades-akwa-ibom-airport-to-international-status/

It doesn't change much if no International airline decides to start flying there.

food4tot:
Nigerian can't easily acquire those sorts of aircrafts.
I don't know if foreign governments are now allowed to sell them to us.

We have them already.

AhmedPeacemaker:
Tenant Rights 2025 : Tenants Get 5 New Legal Rights, Landlords Will No Longer Be Able To Do As They Like.

Tenants rights under which law specifically?? Seems folks just create topics arbitrarily now.

nairavsdollars:
This BusinessDay cartoon captures it all

Its really sad that we like to pander to oyinbo, but don't listen to our own people.

Sanwoolu repaired the Lekki - Epe expressway by Oriental hotel because Oyinbos were coming to town for the boat race! So for years that spot has been very bad, you didn't know it needed repairs for the people who drive on it everyday. but oyinbo is coming to town, then you hurridly go and repair it.

sweetkev:
You think your government and army generals don’t know what to do. You want to spoil their business right.

My brother, I'm not sure they know o. Who are Generals of today? Riff Raffs of yesterday. Was Buhari not a General? Did he sound like he had a clue?

Its like saying Inspector General of Police was not once a rank and file. With a rank and file background, what change can you do when you get to IG?

MadeInTokyo:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/nigeria-us-military.html

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/833159-us-military-presents-plan-for-potential-action-in-nigeria.html

If we are serious in Nigeria, we should have done much more by ourselves.

its only in Nigeria that you will hear that millitants attacjked an army base for 5 hours. The same 5 hours that i will use to fly from Lagos to London! So in that time, they couldnt get Air Force support?

There are cheap Turkish drones that are like $5mln and can stay airborne for 24hours loaded with pricision guided missiles. Left to me, we should buy like 20. 15 fully armed (3 each for NE,NW and NC) and 5 with high tech cameras, infrared etc to surveillance gathering. We can then partner with western countries to place a sattelite permanently over Northern Nigeria. A sattelite can have 100 high definition camera, constantly monitoring movements in notorious bandit areas.

Then we should have like 5 attack helicopters ready to go at short notice at all times. Station 2 in NE and 2 in NW and one in NC. These helicopters will be fitted with our elite Army fighters on rotation to support ground forces with mop up operations after drone strikes.

If we keep at this dilligently for 1 year, we will decimate these terorists significantly. At least they wont roam around with impunity.

Editorialtimes:
What You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s Possible Invasion of Nigeria

By Queen Madaki | The Bureau News


Source: https://thebureaunews.com/the-bureau-news-what-you-need-to-know-about-trump-possible-invasion-of-nigeria/

And neither will there be any invasion. The most Trump can do is air strikes against targets in the bush.
There will never be American boots on the ground.

givedemwotowoto:
By January when people start paying taxes, they’ll see the reality of living in a country where you pay taxes like those who live abroad, but get nothing in return.

The person to demand something in return for your taxes is you. If Sowore requests 1mln man march to NASS for good governance, I'm sure you'll use that Saturday to be watchhing Netflix.

Nigeria's are not willing to do what it takes.

Mind you i'm not advocating for riots or looting o. Just 1,000,000 people going to occupy NASS and Aso Rock and demanding for good governance, reduction in estacode, reduction is wasteful spending, reduction in corruption, reduction in using our money to buy Landcruisers etc will shake the establishment to their core. Do you know what it means for 1mln people to gather? Even 100k!!

Qtsnow:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/re-15-tariff-why-the-federal-government-memo-gets-everything-wrong/

Nigeria's demand cannot be 66mln!

Coldplay007:
Lol.
Na household dem dey count now, not individuals, is it everybody in your house that has a meter to themselves, how did you think they got the information...

That just shows the poor logical thinking faculty of Nigerians. They won't pause to think first before typing.

chidiokay:
The problem with guyz like you is You dont shut up where necessary,

Presently in Nigeria, almost everyone is embracing "cashless transactions" opay, moniepoint e.t.c So what problem is higher domination notes coming to solve

of what benefit is a higher note in an economy drowning in hyper inflation ... we have #5, #10, 20, 50 and # 100 all uselezz n valueless already even 1000 the highest currency cant feed a child 3 meals a day

After Cbn waste our little resources to print higher 10k n 20k notes what do you think will happen to the smaller notes then inflation skyrocket again ... why do the rich hate the poor so much, if you must spend millions in a day do transfer, why cash anyways

Proposing for Higher note is a call for Final burial of " naira" no benefit, zero advantage

I advocate for cashless and infact 99% of my transactions are cashless, but once in a while you still need cash. As it is now you cant even gift anyone N1k. Even a 5 year old will be like what is this...it can't buy jack!!

And the cost of printing the N1k may be N400. The cost of printing N10,000 note may be N500.

franvincoop:
It's not nonsense, it's actually A LOT OF SENSE.
Even CFA has 2000, 5000 and 10,000 single notes without your SUPERSONIC INFLATION fears and emotion.
Mind you a 5000 naira note will not even have the value of a 2000 CFA note.

2015
1000 naira = 3100 CFA

2025
1000 naira = 388 CFA

The argument being made is not about the value of the naira, we all know naira is not even worth the paper it's printed on.
The argument is about the portability of the naira.
Know the difference.

Don't mind them. Too many people here are responding with beer parlour gist and no sound economic principle or undeerstanding

jendoslim:
Texbook Economics.

Will you be the one to tell the Millo seller to sell for N100, or the Farmer to sell his yam for N200, I wonder which theory supports this your speculations, its a free market, remember.

Please there is a huge difference between theories and reality.

Textbook -wise, you score A+, But applying this to Nigeria, unfortunately, its Zero

Ok since 2005 when we had N1000 note has massive inflation not ocurred? Inflation is a function of more serious macro and fiscal indicators, not the absolute denomination of the currenct.

Clobisman:
We don't need higher denomination money in nigeria but to make the existing ones to have value moreover with the type of people we have in leadership if there should be introduction of a new note, kleptomaniac tinubu will make sure it is his face and signature cap that will be on the note and we don't want that.

Having value is not magic. You and me are causing the lesser value. I can bet you everythting you have on you now is imported

phone
laptop
belt
pant
jeans
t shirt
watch
slippers


All imported, but you add no export value, so where will the better value come from?

Jennyclay:
It irritates me when men talk about things like this, it’s not only love we’re going to eat in the relationship

Mr man, nobody force you into the relationship, if you can’t spend on the woman you claim you love then get out of the relationship.

The good news is there are hundreds of men that are willing to take good care of your girlfriend incase you don’t know.

See them...

Gboss247:
Your economics teacher in secondary school will be in severe pains reading your comment.

Im curious...so N1000 note was introduced in 2005. Twenty years ago. In that time that the highest denomination has remained the same, have we not seen inflation? So where was that inflation coming from?

Printing N22trls ways and means is more dmamaging than increasing Naira denomination
Corruption and loose money in the system does more damage than increasing naira denomination
Operating N20trln deficit and having excess money in the system does more damage than increasing naira denomination
Depreciation of the Naira, does more damage than increasing the naira denomination.

Personally id say we need N5,000 and N10,000 for now.

I put N20k in my wallet and it can barely handle any transaction, even though I don't use cash much. And I cant put more than that cos it makes my wallet too bulky, so whats the point.

Dbeautyy:
Bro. When it comes to Nigeria, it is never a beer parlour gist. Why? The regulatory body hardly follow-up on their duties in this nation. Good example: ever since prices of edibles don go up, I observed something which is = Increase is price, decrease in quantity and quality. Then the question is why increase the price when you know that you will reduce quality and quantity. Let them bury the idea of higher denominations

Reducing quantity while still increasing price or at least keeping price stable happens everywhere. Its called shrinkflation. Some companies looking for 20% increase in price may have felt Nigerians cannot absorb it, so rather the increase price by 10% andnr educe quantity by 10%, thereby stylishly achieving their 20%