The Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) has expressed concern over increasing rate of kidnapping in in the outskirts of Ilorin. The union, in a statement issued by its Assistant National Publicity Secretary, Abdullateef Oniyo and made available to newsmen, said the reported abduction of a middle-aged man in the outskirts of Ilorin on Tuesday,…
Kwara govt meets Miyetti Allah, security agencies, DPMs The Kwara State Government says measures have been put in place to prevent any crisis between host communities and herders in the state, a statement released by the Secretary to the State Government, Prof. Mamman Sabbah Jibril said, urging members of the public to go about their…
Iranian military officials have fired back at Israel after its top general threatened that attack plans against the Islamic Republic were being revised, saying the regime will only speed up its annihilation if it makes even the slightest mistake. In a tweet on Wednesday, Hossein Dehqan, a military advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution…
Saudi Arabia intercepted an apparent missile or drone attack over its capital, Riyadh on Saturday, state media in the kingdom said. The country has come under repeated attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels since 2015. Social media users posted videos of what appeared to be an explosion in the air over Riyadh. The incident came at…
Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif has urged US President Joe Biden to end his predecessor, Donald Trump’s fruitless pressure policy against Iran and begin the process of rejoining the 2015 nuclear agreement by lifting all unilateral sanctions unconditionally, warning that the “window of opportunity will not be open” for the new White House team forever….
Joe Biden has been sworn in as the forty-sixth president of the United States of America. Raising his right hand and placing his left on a Bible, Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday during a scaled-down inauguration due to the coronavirus. He pledged to unite a deeply divided nation reeling from the COVID-19…
Doha has urged countries in the Gulf to enter into a dialogue with Iran, offering to broker negotiations after a three-year blockade on Doha was recently removed by its Arab neighbours. Qatar, which shares a major gas field with Iran, has for years called on Gulf Arab states to enter talks with Iran, which they…
The US House of Representatives has opened the second impeachment of President Donald Trump over his support for the last week attack on the Capitol that left five people dead. The effort kicked off in the lower chamber of US Congress on Wednesday in an attempt to remove Trump from office before his tenure expires…
The United States is set to designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a terrorist group, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. This late-term move, aid groups feared, will worsen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. With just ten days to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the announcement on Sunday could complicate the new US administration’s efforts to restart…
Thousands of the US President Donald Trump’s supporters have gathered Washington, DC, to protest against the presidential election results as Congress gathers to decide about the Electoral College votes. According to PRESS TV, Trump himself is also slated to make speech at the rally, dubbed as “Save America Rally,” on Wednesday morning.. City officials have…
Afghanistan government officials and Taliban representatives are set to resume a second round of talks in Doha, Qatari capital. The team of Afghan government negotiators left Kabul for Doha on Tuesday to resume talks with the Taliban over an initial agreement the two sides reached in December last year. According to Press TV, head of…
The governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-olu has tasted positive for COVID-19. “Following Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s exposure to a confirmed case of #COVID19, a PCR test performed yesterday the 11th of December has confirmed that he has indeed been infected with the virus which is supported by mild,” statement posted on the verified…
The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill that seeks to, among other things, create an agency that will be saddled with the responsibility of compulsorily registering all Kwara residents and keep their data. The Kwara Residents Registration Agency Bill is an executive bill sent to the House by Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq…
As the tenure of the suspended Local Council officials in Kwara State rounds up in a few days, the state governor has set in motion the process for the appointment of caretaker committees to oversee the affair of the Councils. THE INFORMANT247 had earlier reported that the governor directed top stakeholders, loyal to him, to…
Despite the Federal Government’s opposition to the appointment of caretaker committee for the third tier of Government by state governors in the country and a Supreme Court judgment declaring such appointments as illegal and unconstitutional, the governor of Kwara State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has set in motion the process for the appointment of caretaker chairmen to…
A non-governmental organization, Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI), has urged the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to create a platform for the youth to excel. The Executive Director of the NGO, Abideen Opeyemi Olasupo, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, stated that “every state must invest in its…
Operatives of the Kwara State Road Traffic Management Authority (KWARTMA) and members of the Traders Union, on Monday, jointly dislodged all roadside trading activities at Ipata market in Ilorin, the state capital. According to a statement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the Authority, Omotayo Taofiq, the roadside trading activities have been impending…
The Kwara State Government has disclosed that no fewer than 342 business owners have registered for its N500m small and medium enterprise (SME) recovery funds set aside to support those who lost assets in the recent looting in Ilorin. “The application for the SME recovery funds closed midnight Tuesday November 3rd with 342 business owners…
The Kwara State Government has revealed how it discovered two corpses at different locations in Ilorin, the state capital. According to a security awareness statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Community Intervention, Kayode Oyin Zubair, on Monday, the two dead bodies were found within a week. His statement read partly,…
The governor of Kwara state, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has further reviewed the curfew earlier imposed on the state to help contain the wanton looting of private businesses and destruction of public properties by hoodlums. The curfew now starts at 8p.m. and ends at 6a.m. daily. This is coming three days after the Governor had eased the…
