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An unidentified IPOB member based in Belgium took a casket to the Nigerian embassy in Belgium to protest against president Buhari. The man claimed that his brother was recently killed by the Nigerian military in his shoe shop in Aba, hence his anger. He placed the brown coffin with photos of Buhari outside the embassy and went inside the embassy to lay his complaint. Recall that the Nigerian military invaded the home of Indigenous People Of Biafra, leader, Nnamdi Kanu and in the process killed some IPOB members.

Delta State Police Command has arrested four bank officials for their role in an armed robbery operation between Otulu and Ubulu-Okiti axis of the Benin-Onitsha Expressway. A policeman was shot dead in the robbery operation. The four suspects work for an old generation commercial bank. In a statement made available to The Nation, Delta Police spokesman DSP Andrew Aniamaka said the four suspects include a female cash management officer of the United Bank for Africa (UBA), Branch 1, Amina Oyewole, Chief Security Officer and two drivers. He said the quartet were arrested after a preliminary investigation showed that in their bid to “cut corners” picked seven policemen from different locations and engaged them in an illegal escort to convey N25 million from its branch in Agbor ,Ika South L.G.A to Asaba-the State Capital without using a serviceable armoured vehicle as required by law. The statement reads in part, “ The Cash management Officer of United Bank for Africa (UBA), ...