Kwara Assembly gives IBEDC ultimatum
The Kwara State House of Assembly has directed Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, (IBEDC) to restore power supply to Offa/Oyun axis with immediate effect. This is part of the resolutions of the House, following a Matter of Urgent Public lmportance, raised by the House leader and Member representing Essa/Shawo/Igboidun Constituency, Hon. Hassan Oyeleke, on the total shut down of power supply...
Suspects land in police net for alleged unlawful assembly
Six persons who were arrested during a raid by the police at some alleged criminal hideout within Ilorin and its environs have been charge before an Ilorin Chief Magistrate Court. The accused were: Akeem Adewale, 24 Kilanko Area; Azeez Abdulkareem, 26 of Kilanko Area; Lamidi Suleiman, 24 of Offa-Garage Area; Babatunde Ogundipe, 38 of Offa-Garge Area; Ibrahim Issa, 42 of...
Police arraign 5 over possession of human parts
Police have arraigned five persons before an Ilorin Chief Magistrate Court for allegedly possessing human parts. The accused were said to have trespassed into a burial ground belonging to the community where they exhumed human skulls and bones. The accused were: Olarenwaju Adewoye, 40 of Oju-Oluwa Compound; Oluwasegun Rapheal, 37 of Oke-Mokopo Compound; Oluwasegun Joseph, 25 of Amuroro Compound; Fatoyinbo Augustine,...
Court arraigns Ilorin trader over N46m fraud
A trader, Cephas Peter Olarewaju who allegedly swindled a financial company based in Ilorin to the tune of N46.7 million has been arraigned before an Ilorin Chief Magistrate Court. The 38-year-old accused was dragged before the court on a one-count charge of advance fee fraud, contrary to Section 1a, b (3) of Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act,...
Buhari is building a structure for modern democracy
The declaration of June 12 as the real and true democracy day by President Muhammadu Buhari demonstrated to Nigerians that a new page has been opened in our democratic journey as a nation. The man I knew many years back in Kaduna, in and out of military uniform lived a life of integrity, honour and fear of the Almighty Allah. When...
Yaman calls for sober reflection as Muslims celebrate Eid Fitri
We have no one to thank but the Almighty Allah, who endowed us with so much strength to get through the holy month of Ramadan. We have learnt, so much during the period and had closer walk with the Almighty Allah. We collapsed the class stratification during Ramadan - no poor man or rich man. We shared among ourselves and took...
A prognosis of the Nigerian Dilemma
Restructuring and creating a melting point of equality and readdressing a Nigeria for all remains the solution to the corruption, insecurity, socio-economic imbroglio in the country. The Political, socio-economic and psycho-cultural health of Nigeria has been a challenging story. The masses are filled with several analyses and differing possible solutions that seem feasible but wonder why the government is at...
Kwara 2019 polls: Group endorses Yaman Abdullahi, prays for Buhari
The Yaman Peace Frontier (YPF), today organised a special prayer for the reign of peace in Kwara state and for God's guidance for President Muhammadu Buhari and Governorship aspirant on the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kwara state, Alhaji Shuaib Yaman Abdullahi. The YPF made this known in Ilorin today (June 8, 2018) the official inauguration of Yaman Peace...
Kwara-Poly JCI organises free medical support ……plans annual convention
The President, Junior Chamber International(JCI) Kwara State Polytechnic chapter, Suleimon Kudirat Temitope has called on Non Governmental Organisations to continue to support government in order to make health facilities available and accessible to the people. Sulaimon stated this during a free health services carried out on the aged men and women at Isale Aluko area of Ilorin, the Capital of...
Court Of Appeal honours late Akanbi, flies Flags At Half Mast ….As Nigerian Lawyers extol his virtues
The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa has directed that flags be flown at half-mast in all the divisions of the Court in honour of late former President of the Court, Justice Mustapha Akanbi. In a statement on Sunday, Justice Bulkachuwa said the late Justice Akanbi left a great vacuum not only in the judiciary but the country in general. She...
