The Kwara State Government has prosecuted an environmental defaulter, Mr. Jimoh Atolagbe of Number 33, lle Olopin, Opomalu, Ilorin, for breaching the state law on environmental sanitation. The felon was found guilty of Section 18 (1) A of the Public Health and Environmental Sanitation Law NO.5 of 2004 section 4 and 5 (4). According to…
Residents of Oko-Erin community, a suburb in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara, have appealed to the State Government to restore electricity supply to the community. A resident of the community, Alhaji Oba Adebayo, made the plea while addressing newsmen on Tuesday in Ilorin. Adebayo appealed to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq to save the community…
Women from Otuasega community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Monday, staged a peaceful protest against what they described as the incessant invasion and destruction of their farmlands by herdsmen. The aggrieved women, who fell trees and tied fresh palm frond to barricade the Otuasega end of the Edepie-Imiringi Road linking communities…
With a cutlass dangling in his right hand, Issa Olayinka, a resident of Tanke Oke-Odo, was on his way from his farm when this reporter accosted him. His face relaxed, but I could still see the faint outline of wrinkles around his eyes — eyes which seemed to sparkle ever so slightly despite the coolness…
