Nigerian pilgrims begin return tomorrow
A total of 55,000 Nigerian pilgrims who performed the just concluded this year Hajj exercise will tomorrow Monday (August 27, 2018) begin their journey back to Nigeria, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has declared. The Commission Director of Operations, Abdullahi Saleh, disclosed this today, Sunday (August 26, 2018) in Jeddah after holding meeting with the airline operators. He hinted...
APC will not buy votes during election -Aregbesola’s aide
The Senior Special Assistant to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Regional Integration, Mr Wale Alabi, has disclosed that the good work the All Progressives Congress (APC) has performed in the state of Osun is enough to win the hearts of people rather than engaging in vote buying. Alabi declared that APC will not in any form involve in...
For the record (Lukuman Mustapha @ Kwara NUJ)
BEING A PAPER DELIVERED BY MALLAM LUKMAN OLAYIWOLA MUSTAPHA AT THE KWARA STATE CHAPTER OF THE NIGERIA UNION OF JOURNALISTS (NUJ) AT THE STATE SECRETARIAT ILORIN, ON THURSDAY, JUNE 28TH 2018. THEMED: YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN GOVERNANCE, A PANACEA FOR SOCIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. PROTOCOLS In any society, the youth populace remains the major arsenal that is instrumental to the construction or destruction...
Read why Olesin is eyeing Reps seat
An aspirant vying for Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Comrade Tajudeen Abdulraheem Olesin has declared that he is vying for the House of Representatives seat not because of selfish interest but common interest. Olesin said his decision to go to National Assembly is premised on the need to add values to the lives of the less-privileged...
Show love to political actors with your PVC- Lafiagi
The Senator representing Kwara North at the National Assembly, Senator Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi has identified possession of Permanent Voter's Card (PVC) by every eligible Nigerian as a way of showing love for the political actors in the country. Lafiagi made the observation shortly after the Eid prayer at Lafiagi, the Headquarters of Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State. The Senator...
Bolaji Abdullahi: Between juicy carrot and loyalty.
By AHMED 'LATEEF In this piece, AHMED 'LATEEF chronicles the life of the immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, his personality and other distinguishable qualities that have metaphorically made him a "cynosure of all eyes" as he clocks 49 years. What has remained sacrosanct in human history is change. Probably due to nature and...
Eid-el-kabir: Ahmed Mustapha shares moment of joy with supporters
A gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Barrister Ahmed Mustapha Akanbi (AMA) on Thursday (August 23, 2018) organised a get-tgether for members of his party across the 16 local government areas of the state as a way of showing love and affection to his teeming supporters. The gathering which held at the Africa...
NANS, CoNS dissociate from planned protest in FCT
The Congress of the National Open University of Nigerian Students (CoNS), has dissociated itself from the unauthorized mass protest in the FCT being orchestrated by some self acclaimed members of the association and describd their act as criminal, flagrant violation of rules of laws and uncivilized. The President of the association, Adewoyin Tijani Adekola disclosed this in a statement signed...
Eid-el-kabir: Kwara traditional rulers stress significance of the festival
As Muslim faithfuls celebrate Eid-kabir today, Nigerians regardless of their religion differences have again been told to have the love of the Country at heart and exhibit good habit that would facilitate even development of the Nation. A Cross-section of Traditional Rulers in Kwara State made this known in their Eid-kabir messages to the people. According to the Vice Chairman of...
Three bike snatchers meet their Waterloo in Ilorin
An Ilorin Magistrate Court has remanded three persons, Jamiu Kolawole, 27 of Onibode Compound, Offa; Alabi Taiye, 22 of Bamu Street, Offa Garage, Ilorin and Jimoh Kayode, 21 of Ita-Alamu Area, Ilorin, Kwara State at the Federal Prison Yard, Ilorin for allegedly snatching a motorcycle. The accused were arrainged on a three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, attempts to commit culpable...
