To see the wheel of governance rolling the executive governor of Kwara State, Alhaji Abdurrahman Abdurrazaq has transmitted another batch of six commissioner-designates to the Kwara State House of Assembly for ratification. The names were on the 9th October, 2019 read during a house proceeding by Speaker of Kwara State Assembly Honourable Danladi Yakubu The…
The Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo has disclosed that the federal government has in the last two years about spent N1.5 trillion to boost the power sector. The Professor, who was represented by the Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman stated this on Tuesday at the Kainji hydropower plant in Niger State. He stated that the government was…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday has called for an extensive probe into the alleged financial misappropriation of N90 billion from the coffers of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) which incriminated top members of the Buhari Presidency and All Progressives Congress (APC) bigwigs been. PDP boldly confronted the Buhari Presidency not to cover…
Ibrahim Mohammed Funsho A court sitting in Ilorin has discharged and acquitted a former student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Saubana Adebara of the allegation of defamation of character brought against him by a sacked staffer of the institution, Rashidat Kolawole. The verdict was pronounced by Chief Magistrate Jibril Ziki lastThursday. The complainant, Kolawole…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer, Engr. Musa Wada in the upcoming governorship election in Kogi, has condemned in a strong term claims by Governor Yahaya Bello that his government has cleared backlog salaries it owes to the state workers. Wada, who noted that gov Bello’s claims are blatant lie adding that workers in the…
A popular Yoruba actress, Elizabeth Anjorin otherwise known as Lizzy Anjorin recounted how God has upturned her life from zero to hero as she just completed her palacious mansion in Lagos. The multi-talented Yoruba thespian who recently converted to Islam could not conceal her joy as she shared pictures of her new house in Eti-Osa…
The president of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has not made a secret what transpired between him and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu during their meeting. Mr Lawan who on Sunday, July 7, paid a courtesy visit to Bola Ahmed Tinubu at his Bourdilon home in Ikoyi,…
Heart Attack: Samuel Kalu Fits to Play For Super Eagles It is quite a good news for both Super Eagles and Bordeaux as the the 21-year-old’s dehydration concerns have not degenerated into a complicated ailment following an alleged report that the 21-year-old Bordeaux attacker collapsed during a training session on Friday as a result of…
The Presidential Election Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Monday stroke out an application jointly filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and his party to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission to accord them access to inspect the server the commission used for the transmission of results during the February…
An Ilorin-based business man, Ojejuwon Joseph was on Tuesday arraigned before Magistrate J.O Salihu of the Magistrate Court sitting in Ilorin on a three count-charge bordering on criminal breach of trust, cheating and advance fee fraud. According to First Information Report (FIR), it was revealed that the suspect had sometime in March, 2019 sold a…
The West African Examinations Council on Sunday blew hot as it urged holders of its certificates to safeguard the esteemed certificates with utmost care, stressing that the body is not disposed to a reissuance on account of misplacement, fire, flood or theft. The council’s Head of National Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, made this call in…
There is no misgiving that the Kwara State House of Assembly had just passed a bill for a law to amend the Kwara State Local Government (Amendment) Law No. 3 of 2006, which makes it impossible for the state governor to dissolve elected local government councils at will. In reaction to this act, an Abuja-based…
The people of Ijagbo community are basking in high euphoria as Adetunji Oyabambi, a governorship candidate in the just concluded elections, rehabilitated a borehole system that has been lying fallow for several months. This is coming a few days after the politician donated some household commodities, medical supplies and an electrical power generating set to…
It was a sheer show of sorrow as a 19-year-old man, identified as Zakari allegedly stabbed one Ismail, popularly called Sumaila to death at a night party over varying choices of music in Zango area of Ilorin, Kwara State. The informant247 gathered that the crisis erupted around 9 p.m. on Sunday, 17th March, 2019 in the…
It was a tragic incident in Omu-Aran on Saturday when a middle-age bricklayer, identified as Lukman allegedly assaulted and sliced the hand of a 60-year-old woman, Muibat Abifarin, with a cutlass. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learned that the attacker, who was said to be displaying symptoms of psychopathy had earlier on descended on…
