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Over 17,000 Explosives Found In Owerri

While speaking in an exclusive interview with The Sun newspaper, an explosive expert and a stockpile manager, Professor Yakubu, who is also the managing director of Demining Concept Nigeria Limited, raised an alarm over the possible explosion of 17,000 live bombs stockpiled in Owerri, the Imo State capital.  According to him, the bombs which are said to be among those used during the Nigerian Civil War, include 81 and 82 mm Mortar Bombs, 2” mortar bombs, which are all area neutralising bombs; 100 mm air defence ammunition for anti-aircraft defence and Fragmentation anti-personnel land mines.  Others are General purpose aerial bomb 75kg, Energa grenade, anti tank land mines locally made and small calibre ammunition.  He disclosed that the 17,000 live bombs currently being stored at number 109, Achike Udenwa Avenue in new Owerri, a densely populated area, could go off anytime, especially now that the rains are here, and cautioned that if nothing is done to urgently dispose of these bombs

Nnamdi Kanu should be blamed If violence erupts in Nigeria

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has told the international community to blame Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), if there is an outbreak of violence in the country. The coalition also accused Igbo religious and political leaders of issuing half-hearted condemnations of the activities IPOB, the reason for which it has made fresh formal complaints about the IPOB leader’s conduct to international bodies. CNG’s position was contained in a statement issued after a recent meeting in Kano to review the progress of the Kaduna Declaration it made in June. Signed by Mr. Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the coalition’s spokesperson, the statement said despite CNG’s commitment to peace, as shown by its meetings with groups from other parts of the country, Mr. Kanu and IPOB have remained provocative and belligerent by breaching the rights of Nigerians across the South-East geo-political zone. “His recent action of forcefully grounding movement of people, including