Nigeria, March 11 -- From the sealing of the ShopRite in Enugu to the discovery of a suspected "baby factory" in Abia and the killing of four police operatives by gunmen in Imo State, the past week was eventful in Nigeria's south-east.

The week began with an announcement by the Nigerian army on Sunday that its troops killed a suspected member of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant wing of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

The army said the suspected IPOB member was killed during a clearance operation by the troops at Ihiteukwa Community in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State.

It said, in a separate operation, the troops engaged other suspected IPOB members in a shootout at their crossing point in Akawa Nneato in ...