ENUGU STATE POLICE COMMAND
PRESS RELEASE
ENUGU POLICE RESCUE THREE ABDUCTION VICTIMS, RECOVER TWO FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, INTENSIFY MANHUNT FOR FLEEING SUSPECTS
Operatives of the Enugu State Command attached to Anti-Cultism Sub-Unit of the Violent Crime Response Unit (VCRU), with support from Neighbourhood Watch and community members, have rescued three victims of abduction and recovered their Lexus RX350, two locally made firearms, ammunition and other exhibits. The operation followed credible intelligence received at about 1:30 a.m. on August 18, 2026, while the operatives were on crime-prevention patrol along the Port Harcourt Expressway, Enugu, concerning the carjacking and abduction of occupants of a Lexus RX350 within Independence Layout by armed hoodlums.
Acting swiftly, the operatives commenced a hot pursuit of the suspects, which continued to Hillview Road, Independence Layout. On reaching the area, the suspects abandoned the vehicle and their firearms before fleeing the scene. The three victims were subsequently rescued unharmed, with support from members of the Neighbourhood Watch Group and law-abiding citizens, and taken to safety.
Recovered from the scene were the said victim's vehicle, one locally fabricated Beretta-like pistol loaded with five rounds of 9mm live ammunition, one locally made cut-to-size firearm, one live cartridge, a pair of hand gloves, one skimask and one mobile phone, all abandoned by the fleeing suspects. Investigation has been intensified, with a manhunt launched to identify and arrest the fleeing suspects, recover further exhibits and establish their involvement in the crime.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Mamman Bitrus Giwa, psc, mspsp, smicm, commended the operatives, members of the Neighbourhood Watch Group and vigilant citizens for their swift and coordinated response. He reiterated the Command’s commitment to sustaining intelligence-led and community-supported operations against kidnapping, armed robbery, car snatching and other violent crimes, while urging members of the public to remain vigilant and provide timely and credible information to the Police.
SP DANIEL NDUKWE, mnipr, mnisma
Police Public Relations Officer
Enugu State Command
State Headquarters
GRA, Enugu
August 25, 2026
We’ve secured this facility for ISEE in Enugu.
It will be fully functional by the 2nd of November, 2026.
This will be our headquarters for the South East Maths and Science Olympiad and all other education interventions we embark on within the region.
I can see the future very clearly.
I see a South East where millions of children are no longer educated merely to pass examinations, but to build things the world will buy.
I see 13- and 14-year-olds building toys for Christmas, designing automated home systems, creating energy solutions, manufacturing electronics, solving security issues through technology and building drones in their hundreds of thousands to solve real African problems.
And then something extraordinary will happen: children will become creators of wealth before they are old enough to look for jobs. Some will become multimillionaires as teenagers, not from speculation, but from knowledge, engineering and solving real problems.
This is bigger than education.
We are laying the foundation for an industrial revolution.
We are raising a generation that will not look at technology and ask, “Where can we import this from?”
They will ask, “How can we build it ourselves?”
I can already feel this wave beginning. The energy is building. The mindset is changing. And once millions of young minds discover that mathematics, science and engineering give them the power to create, it will be incredibly difficult to stop them.
So I will say this now, while it is still early:
Start investing in the South East.
A generation of builders is coming.
And they are going to build things Africa has never seen before.
Our landlord increased our rent by ₦50,000 two months ago.
Last week was his mother's burial, so all the tenants contributed money and raised ₦1.3 million for a condolence visit.
On the burial day, every one of us traveled to his village. When he saw us coming, he was shocked. The money was transferred to his account there, and after eating, we left.
When he returned, he called us for a meeting and said that he had deducted ₦100,000 from each tenant's rent.
Listen to this important announcement regarding the 2027 South East Maths and Science Olympiad.
We currently have 41,246 students registered for the competition.
THE HAWKER IS NOW A MASTER’S DEGREE HOLDER
I grew up around Ojo Local Government and spent most of my childhood/teenage years there. I had hawked everything you can imagine in that area. I used to hawk past Lagos State University, Ojo.
Today, I have two different degrees from same University and I am super proud of what God has made out of my life.
So, yes it’s just a Master’s Degree but it is a Master’s Degree being earned by the one who use to hawk around the same school.
I’m happy to wear this gown again as a Master’s Degree holder in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the prestigious Lagos State University, Ojo.
To you readers, I am an embodiment of HOPE! No matter your situation today, keep pushing, keep your integrity intact. Work hard and pray only with faith. Just like my Brother (from another mother) @UnkleAyo do say, “just don’t die, time is your ally”.
Ire o✌🏾
We now have 40,757 students registered to participate in the 2027 South East Maths and Science Olympiad.
This is now the largest academic competition in Africa.
We are identifying and grooming the talents who will drive Africa’s industrial revolution.
Within the next 10 years, we are determined to build the greatest workforce in Africa.
The future is being built, one child at a time.
My team arrived in Anambra State today. Within the next 30 days, we will prioritize it to increase educational awareness.
Anambra has been behind for so long in all our education intervention activities.
Every child deserves the opportunity to shine.
I have been thinking about something lately, and the more I think about it, the more disturbing it becomes.
A lot of Nigerians became poor without doing anything wrong.
They didn’t stop working. They didn’t become lazy. They didn’t suddenly become irresponsible.
They simply woke up one day and realised that the money they had worked for could no longer buy the things it used to buy.
Think about someone earning ₦100,000 a month.
The person still wakes up early every morning, goes to work, puts in the same hours, probably works even harder, gets promoted occasionally and does everything society says a responsible person should do.
Yet every year, that person seems to be able to afford less.
At some point, ₦50,000 could buy a reasonable amount of food for the house. Today, you can enter the market with the same ₦50,000 and genuinely wonder where the money went.
Nothing happened to you.
The economy happened to you.
And I think this is something we don’t talk about enough.
Imagine working hard for years, only for circumstances completely outside your control to quietly reduce the value of everything you have worked for.
You didn’t lose your job.
You didn’t lose your salary.
But somehow, you lost your standard of living.
That is poverty too.
And this is why I struggle with the way we sometimes discuss palliatives.
Of course, when people are hungry, you must find ways to help them immediately. There is nothing wrong with providing temporary relief.
But surely, the bigger question should be:
Why did millions of working Nigerians suddenly need palliatives in the first place?
If a man could comfortably buy a bag of rice from his salary a few years ago and today he needs government assistance to buy that same bag of rice, giving him rice may solve today’s hunger.
But it has not solved the actual problem.
The real problem is that his labour has lost value.
And perhaps that is what we should be obsessed with fixing.
How do we make the Nigerian worker’s income valuable again?
How do we make ₦100,000 buy more next year, rather than less?
How do we make food cheaper by producing more?
How do we reduce the cost of energy and transportation?
How do we build an economy where salaries can actually keep up with the cost of living?
Because when I think deeply about it, perhaps one of the greatest things a government can do for its people is not to keep giving them money.
It is to build an economy where the money they earn has value.
There is dignity in being able to take care of yourself from the product of your own labour.
There is dignity in a teacher being able to feed a family from teaching.
There is dignity in a nurse being able to pay rent from nursing.
There is dignity in a young person working an honest job and gradually seeing life improve.
People should be able to look back after five years of hard work and say, “My life has become better.”
Not, “I earn more money today, but somehow I can afford less.”
That is the part that keeps bothering me.
Millions of Nigerians are not asking to become millionaires overnight.
They just want hard work to make sense again.
And maybe that should be one of the simplest ways we measure whether our economy is actually working:
Is the ordinary Nigerian who works hard becoming progressively better off, or progressively poorer?
Everything else is secondary.
This is Chima Emmanuel. He came from Onitsha to the training center in Enugu this morning.
He has been working on several DIY projects for the last 15 years, and he needs an opportunity to express himself and achieve his dreams.
He has built real flying drones and other amazing projects.
We will support his journey, and the world will know him.
I think every student who graduates with a First Class from any Nigerian university should have 100% of their school fees refunded, plus a ₦1 million excellence bonus.
I came across a similar incentive model in the Netherlands, and it made me think.
Imagine the message it would send: Hard work pays. Excellence is rewarded.
Instead of only celebrating academic success with certificates, why not attach real value to it?
It could fundamentally change how many students approach their education.
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There is no country on earth where a child will be sent to prison because they scored an F in an exam.
But every day, people lose their freedom, destroy their futures, or even lose their lives because of poor character, lack of discipline, greed, dishonesty, or violence.
Yet many parents panic over grades and ignore character.
If your child leaves school with integrity, discipline, empathy, resilience, and the ability to do the right thing even when nobody is watching, you’ve already won.
Academics can open doors.
Character determines what happens after those doors open.
The greatest product of any school should not be straight A’s.
It should be responsible human beings.
What’s your view?