Two Magistrates’ Courts in Ilorin, on Monday, ordered that 34 suspects be remanded in Oke-Kura Correctional Centre, for their alleged involvement in looting and destruction of Kwara Mall and other stores. The police charged them with Criminal conspiracy, brigandage, theft, belonging to gang of thieves, destruction of public and private property. Magistrate Ibrahim Mohammed, however…
Civil Society Organizations in Kwara State, on Saturday, dismissed as untrue reports of participating in the distribution of palliatives from Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). “Our attention has been called to a lot of misinformation among the members of the public believing that we took part in the distribution of…
Hoodlums on Sunday afternoon attacked EndSARS protesters who were demonstrating peacefully in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The protesters calling for police reform led by a popular musician, CDQ gathered to express their grievance at the Post-Office flyover bridge in Ilorin. However, a group of unknown assailants converged on the protesters wielding cutlasses and several…
Following the closure of ministries and schools by the organised labour in Kwara state over the state government’s failure to meet their demands on the payment of the new national minimum wage, some suspected hoodlums have forcefully open the gate of schools and ministries earlier locked by the labour movement. Our correspondent gathered that that…
The organised labour in Kwara state has commenced industrial actions, following the state government’s failure to honour its ultimatum on the payment of the new minimum wage. The labour leaders had on given the state government 14-day ultimatum to start payment of the new national minimum wage at a press conference in Ilorin on September…
The Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Kwara Axis, Salami Wasiu, on Wednesday, said the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) need total reformation, and not disbandment. The reactions came on the heels of protests calling for the disbandment of the police unit in some states of the federation, including Ilorin, the Kwara…
A meeting between the Kwara state government and organised labour unions failed to hold back the strike called by the unions. As a result of the deadlock, the workers said the strike will start on Tuesday, October 13 as scheduled. THE INFORMANT247 earlier reported that the labour leaders had given the state government 14-day ultimatum…
No fewer than two persons on Wednesday lost their lives while seven others were injured in multiple auto crash along Odota area in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. Some eye-witnesses told THE INFORMANT247 that the accident, which occurred at about 1:30pm, involved a tricycle; three vehicles – a truck , a commercial cab and a…
The Kwara State Government has approved what it called “safe reopening” of tertiary institutions across the state. Hajiya Sa’adatu Modibbo Kawu, the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, gave the certification after inspection visits to the schools to ascertain their level of preparedness towards school reopening. Kawu stated that the Ministry has done its…
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arraigned a 24-yr-old undergraduate student of Kwara State University, Malete, Bashir Abdulbasit, before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of a Kwara State High Court, Ilorin on two count charges bordering on internet fraud and related offences. The first count charge reads, “That you,…
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress in Kwara State has sympathised with victims of Saturday’s rainstorm in Ilorin, the state capital. This was contained in a statement issued by the media office of the chieftain. According to the statement, Waziri observed that the victims of the Saturday night rainstorm have been “deprived of roofs…
Tehran has warned Washington against making what it described as “strategic mistake” after President Donald Trump threatened Iran over reports it planned to avenge the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani. “We hope that they do not make a new strategic mistake and certainly in the case of any strategic mistake, they will witness Iran’s…
The Kwara State Government has urged residents to accord a befitting welcome to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero – who is on an official visit to the State – within the limits allowed by the NCDC safety protocols for the COVID-19 pandemic. This was contained in a statement issued by the Commissioner…
The Kwara State Government has released the list of hotspots with the highest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state. The State Ministry of Health released the statistics while providing updates on the state’s COVID-19 cases. As of August 27, the data released revealed Ilorin South Local Government Area as heading the list with…
