Author: Kwara Reporters

…Says Gov hurriedly announces Election date over fear of allocation stoppage and INEC take-up of council pollsThe Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has hailed the Tinubu Federal Government for coming to the rescue of Local Government Areas in Kwara state, which have been bleeding and suffocating under the wicked siege of Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq’s claws, since over five years of APC administration in the state. The PDP noted that the Party and good people of Kwara State welcome the FG decision to tame the excesses of Governor Abdulrahman who, for over five years, had usurped the…

Workers in Kwara State, on Monday, joined their counterparts across the country to observe the industrial strike action declared by the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to press home their demand for a new minimum wage.DAILY POST reports that there was a total lockdown of government activities in the Ilorin metropolis and environs, as government offices, schools and courts among others remained under lock and key.Speaking with journalists shortly after going round to inspect the level of compliance, the state Chairman of the Labour union in the state, Saheed Murtala Olayinka, expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance.He…

Ilorin South Local Government Area (LGA) may soon witness a new era of leadership as Chief (DR) Adedotun Ajala, a seasoned professional and community leader, has declared his intention to contest for the Chairman seat in the upcoming election.Hailing from Ọmọdẹ̀, Ilorin South LGA, Chief Ajala brings a strong educational background, professional certifications, and a versatile career to the table. A graduate of the University of Ilorin, he has also completed postgraduate programs and holds professional certificates from the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN), Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), and Institute of Chartered Economics of Nigeria…

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…