Author: Kwara Reporters

No fewer than 120 people have been rendered homeless while 44 rooms were destroyed on Monday in Megida Onikahun compound, Edun Isale in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State as fire gut the ancient compound and the market in the area.It was gathered that four aged people were evacuated by some good Samaritans from the house.The Kwara State Fire Service, however, said that no one was injured in the fire which lasted more than one hour before its men put out the raging fire.Head of Media and Publicity of the state Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle, said the fire…

As the Port Harcourt oil Refinery comes to life, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has concluded plans to hand over the government refinery to private operators.The NNPCL said it is seeking to engage reputable and credible operations and maintenance companies to operate and maintain the Port Harcourt Refining Company.This, it said, was “to ensure reliability and sustainability towards meeting the nation’s fuel supply and energy security obligations.”In a publication on its website on Monday, the NNPCL said the contract scope shall cover refinery business processes like long-term and short-term production/operations planning; production and operations execution; monitoring, reporting, and optimisation…

The Code of Conduct Bureau has reportedly summoned the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, over an alleged N483 million contract fraud at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.The development comes as New Planet Projects, a company founded by the minister, benefited from a consultancy contract with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation under Betta Edu before her suspension.However, Tunji-Ojo, on a different forum, said he had resigned as director of the company. But the matter has continued to cause a stir among the public, instigating calls for his probe.Consequently, a letter addressed to Tunji-Ojo revealed that…

AriyoSome social media users are currently expressing anger following reports that one Miss Folorunsho Ariyo was killed alongside Nabeeha Al-Kadriyar by bandits in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).Daily Trust had reported that kidnappers dumped the remains of four victims they executed, around a former military checkpoint behind Idah Junction along the Bwari-Jere SCC Road in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State.Among the corpses so far identified include a secondary school student identified as the daughter of the Ekiti state-born chief legal officer of the National University Commission (NUC), Folorunsho Ariyo, and a 500-level student of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)…

Patrick Tonye-Cole (L) and Siminalayi Fubara (R)The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Patrick Tonye-Cole, against the victory of the Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara in the March 18, 2023 governorship election.Mr Tonye-Cole’s case is a fallout of the Appeal Court decision of 28th November which dismissed his appeal for lacking sufficient and convincing evidence.The APC governorship candidate’s contention is that of irregularities, non-compliance with the Electoral Act, and Fubara’s continued signing of documents as the Rivers State’s Accountant-General after his nomination as the governorship candidate of…

Allegations of massive fraud in the operations of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA, as well as the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, have sparked calls for President Bola Tinubu to probe the administration of his predecessor, former President Muhammadu Buhari.Buhari set up NSIPA in 2016, a year after he assumed office as Nigeria’s President, to drive his administration’s National Social Investments Programmes, NSIP. The Social Investment Programmes were conceived to tackle poverty and hunger across the country.NSIPA is currently an agency under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation.The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty…

Palpable fear has gripped residents of Sagwari Layout Estate Dutse, Abuja after the kidnappers who abducted ten persons from the area killed three of their victims.Recall that the daredevil gunmen had on January 7 invaded the estate with highly sophisticated weapons and abducted at least ten persons.Reports emerged on Monday that the terrorists had killed three of the ten victims to send a strong warning to their relatives negotiating ransom payment.Our correspondent also gathered that the assailants had increased their demand from the initial N60 million per person to N100 million, now totalling N700 million, as the only condition of…

A bandit gang, armed with sophisticated weapons including AK-47 rifles, has attacked a joint military camp at Nahuta village in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina.A security source attached to the camp told Channels Television on Monday that the attack was carried out at about 11:30 pm on Sunday. The hoodlums destroyed vehicles and some valuables during the assault.Although no life was lost, the source explained that the personnel attached to the camp succeeded in repelling the attack even though the bandits outweighed them.“The bandits outweighed us and invaded the camp where they set ablaze our vehicles and property because…

Daniel Bwala, then spokesman for Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 2023 presidential poll, says he informed his ex-principal of his meeting with President Bola Tinubu. “I informed Atiku Abubakar I was going to see the President,” Bwala said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme.“After I had seen the President, I informed him (Atiku) that I had just seen the President and he replied me that, ‘Thanks Daniel for notifying me’.”Bwala, a rabid critic of Tinubu, the then presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), also said his decision to now support the…

The Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Hasan Abubakar, says there is no better way to pay tribute to members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria who have paid the supreme price in the defence of Nigeria than to sustain the joint air, ground and maritime strikes against terrorists, insurgents, economic saboteurs and other non-state actors in the country.The CAS stated this while commending the Air Component Commanders of the various joint theatres of operation in the country for the series of successful air strikes undertaken since the beginning of year 2024, just as the nation prepares to…