Also, in rural areas across the region, our correspondents learnt that wealthy businessmen were secretly funding militias to counter the insurgency in the South-East.

The Igbo cherish burying their deceased in their ancestral homesteads, but appeasing gunmen before doing so now has become an “industry” where millions of naira are raked in by non-state actors.

In the face of the seeming collapse of Ebubeagu, the joint security network of five southeastern states, the launching of a special security operation codenamed ‘Udo Ga-Achi’ by Governor Charles ...

The PUNCH has exclusively learned that the National Disciplinary Committee of the People’s Democratic Party, led by former Minister of Foreign Affairs Tom Ikimi received about 30 petitions against ...