Author: Kwara Reporters

The City of David Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Lagos has suspended Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, following the extravagant birthday party of his wife shortly after the death of Herbert Wigwe, former Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Access Holdings Plc.According to ChurchTimes, a top pastor of the church who did not want his name mentioned said the decision to suspend Iluyomade was in response to the public outcry against the party.“It was not Pastor Adeboye that suspended him. The governing council decided to suspend him. I think it’s a decision in the right direction. Though…

Ijaw people of Rivers State yesterday spoke on the protracted rift between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT).They rejected the protests against the minister, saying that the ethnic group should be eternally grateful to him for endorsing Fubara for governor.The leaders, women, youths and traditional rulers converged in Port-Harcourt, the state Capital, to thank Wike for his kind disposition to the ethnic group.At the meeting organised by he Rivers Ijaw Peoples’ Congress (RIPC) were George Kelly Alabo, Boma Iyayi, Igbani Owaji, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor, Prof. Henry Ogiri, Sampson Ngeribara, Major Jack, Amb…

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 70-year-old grandfather with 57.2kg of cannabis in Nasarawa State and also seized over N2.1bn codeine-based syrup and Loud -a synthetic cannabis strain, at the Port Harcourt seaports and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.Also arrested by the anti-drug operatives were two suspects with 426kg of cannabis in Ekiti State.The developments were made known on Sunday in a statement signed by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.The anti-narcotics agency also made other arrests in the FCT, Katsina, and Nasarawa states.The statement read, “Large consignments of codeine-based…

The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, has said Labour is asking for a minimum wage that is not affordable.He stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s show, Sunday Politics.The organised labour is demanding N494,000 national minimum wage but the FG is offering N60,000.Subsequently, Members of the organised labour, on Friday, declared to embark on an indefinite strike over the federal government’s refusal to raise the minimum wage from N60,000.Aviation unions to withdraw services at airportsNASS meets with labour leaders to stop indefinite strike. Joe Ajaero, the President of NLC, who disclosed this at a press conference in Labour House, Abuja, said…

The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) has insisted on going ahead with the nationwide strike planned for June 3.Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house of representatives, conveyed a last-minute meeting on Sunday to avert the proposed indefinite strike by organised labour over the minimum wage and electricity tariff hike.Joe Ajaero, president of the NLC, and his TUC counterpart, Festus Osifo, led other union leaders to the meeting.At the end of the meeting, the labour bodies said they would meet and discuss the appeal made by the leadership of…

The Kwara State Police Command has arrested car-snatching syndicate that specialise in dismantling cars snatched from residents in Lagos State to sell in Kwara State.The command’s spokesperson, Toun Ejire-Adeyemi (DSP), disclosed this on Friday evening in a statement.According to her, detectives were alerted to their suspicious activities at a dump site located around the Madi area, along Okolowo/Jebba Expressway in Ilorin, where some suspects were seen dismantling a car.“Upon arrival at the scene, three suspects, Abdulateef Abdulwahab, Wasiu Musa, and Tajudeen Abdulrasak, were arrested when they were dismantling a Nissan Almera car, ash colour, with Lagos registration number AKD919AU.“During interrogation,…

A businessman, Ali Usman, has been killed by his ex-employee, identified simply as Zubar, and an accomplice, one Rasaq, in the Agbowa Ikosi community in the Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State.PUNCH Metro gathered that Usman, an indigene of Kwara State, was riding his motorcycle with his son, Sobur, when Zubar and Rasaq ambushed them at a desolate location close to his residence around the General Hospital area in Agbowa Ikosi.During the ambush, our correspondent learnt that the suspects used sticks to repeatedly hit Usman’s head till he lost consciousness at the scene of the attack.Thereafter, the suspects left…

There was drama at Oro Ago Divisional Police headquarters in Kwara State, on Sunday, when soldiers invaded the station and forcefully moved out rescued Kogi varsity students.Daily Trust had reported how bandits invaded Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Kogi State, and abducted some students.While two were killed in captivity, others were rescued at intervals.The last set of eight students were rescued this weekend. However, while the police moved the students to its station to debrief them, soldiers stormed the station and forcefully took the students away.The students – 5 females and 3 males – were identified as Anate…

The Director-General of the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria, Ajayi Kadri, has confirmed that the organised private sector accepted the Federal Government’s proposal for a new minimum wage of N60,000.Ajayi disclosed this during an interview with Channels TV in Abuja on Saturday.He clarified that ongoing negotiations between the government, the private sector and labour were focused on establishing a minimum wage rather than a living wage which represents the lowest amount that can be paid to any worker in the country.He also stressed that both labour and private businesses have been facing significant economic challenges, making it extremely difficult for them…

The Ogun government says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited is set to begin oil and gas exploration in the state.In a statement posted on X on Friday, the government said the development would make its quest to become an oil-producing state materialise soon.The statement noted that stakeholders in the oil and gas industry were received at the office of Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun, and Noimot Salako-Oyedele, his deputy, to discuss the prospect. ‘THERE’S HIGH POTENTIAL OF DISCOVERIES IN OGUN’Speaking at the meeting, Heineken Lokpobiri, minister of state for petroleum resources (oil), said Ogun has always been part of…