Author: Kwara Reporters

Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has appointed five aides barely a few hours after taking the oath of office.The announcement was made in a statement on Wednesday by the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor, Omojuwa Olusegun.According to the statement, Aiyedatiwa appointed a seasoned journalist, Mr Ebenezer Adeniyan, as his Chief Press Secretary and Sunday Abire as Special Assistant on New Media.Ebenezer Adeniyan was, until his new appointment, Publisher of Trace News magazine.Others were Abire Sunday, Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Smart Omodunbi, Special Assistant on Political Matters, Monturayo Oyedele, Special Assistant on Photography and Temitayo…

Ondo State deputy governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa was yesterday sworn in as governor following the death of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.Aiyedatiwa took the oath of office after Akeredolu died of prostate cancer in the early hours of Wednesday in Germany.In the presence of thousands of political supporters, Aiyedatiwa, who had earlier been governing the state in “acting capacity”, was sworn in as the seventh governor of the state, by the Chief Judge, Olusegun Odunsola.Speaking after his swearing-in, Aiyedatiwa said it was with a heavy heart that he accepted the onerous responsibility of taking over the reins of governance and affairs of the…

….fête Otta Uthman on successful tenureThe Senator representing Kwara Central in the National Assembly, Senator Saliu Mustapha has congratulated retired Assistant Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Alhaji Abdulmumini Ayo Abdulmalik, on his emergence as the new National President of Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU), the sociocultural organisation of the people of Ilorin Emirate in Kwara State.In a statement issued on Wednesday morning from his media office in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, Mustapha said he woke up to the news of the emergence of the retired ACG Ayo-Malik and other executive members that also emerged at the end…

The Kwara State Cash Transfer Unit (Kw SCTU) has kickstarted the enrollment process for the Renewed Hope Conditional Cash Transfer Program, a National Social Safety Net project scale-up (NASSP-SU), aligning with the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The initiative aims to bring financial relief to vulnerable citizens in the state. Over 105,000 households are set to benefit from the ongoing enrollment across 16 LGAs of the state. In a statement made by the National Program Manager, Dr. Micheal Ajuluchuku, the enrollment targets 68,653 individuals from the National Social Register (NSR) and an additional 36,722 beneficiaries from the…

Over 20 persons were feared killed in a crude oil explosion in a community in Rivers State.The incident occurred over the weekend at a waterside in Omoku, the headquarters of the Ogba-Egbema-Ndoni Local Government Area, one of the oil and gas hubs in the oil-rich South-South state.Those who sustained degrees of burns were said to be on admission at various hospitals in the town.As of the time of filing this report, there was no accurate account of the cause of the explosion and the number of casualties.While a youth leader in the community said the explosion happened while the artisans…

Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, is dead, KwaraReporters has learnt.The governor, aged 67, died on Wednesday morning after a prolonged health battle.A top government source confirmed the unfortunate development to Channels Television.Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), ex-president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and ex-Attorney General of Ondo State, was a second-term governor before his death.A file photo of Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.A Fearless CrusaderAketi, as he was fondly called by friends and admirers, wore many hats and was acknowledged by many of his contemporaries as a dogged leader with unbending personal convictions. Until his death, he…

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ghali Umar Na’Abba, is dead.Na’Abba, the second Speaker of the House of Representatives in the current 4th Republic, died in the wee hours of Wednesday.LEADERSHIP was unable to get the details surrounding the circumstances of his death as at press time.He was elected Member of the House of Representatives in 1999 from Kano State. He became the Speaker a few months after the inauguration of the House following the resignation of the then Speaker, Salisu Buhari, from the same Kano State, over certificate forgery scandal.Details Later… Do you have any…

No fewer than 4,258 incidents of insecurity have been witnessed across 573 local government areas of the country between May 31 and December 24, 2023.From the incidents caused by non-state actors across the LGAs, at least 5,691 persons were killed, while 2,719 were kidnapped within the period under review. However, 721 of the kidnap victims were rescued by the military.Similarly, no fewer than 1,902 citizens sustained varying degrees of injury from violent attacks by non-state actors.The figure was contained in data by Beacon Consulting, an indigenous security firm that tracks insecurity in the county.A monthly breakdown showed that on May…

Nigeria’s ruling party, APC, on Monday, continued its habit of charging exorbitant sums for aspirants seeking to contest on its platform.The APC said its members seeking the party’s ticket to contest for senatorial seats in the February bye-elections are to pay N20 million for the purchase of nomination and expression of interest forms.Those aspiring for the party’s ticket to contest for House of Representatives seats in the bye-election will pay N10 million for the forms while those seeking the ticket to run for seats in the state houses of assembly will pay N2 million.The National Organising Secretary of APC, Sulaiman…

The Niger State Liquor and Licencing Board has disclosed plans to ban the sales and consumption of alcohol in Suleja, Suleja Local Government Area of the state, by January 1, 2024.He also revealed that some beer joints within Minna, the state capital, would also be served with relocation letters to move outside the city to within an eight-kilometre radius of the post office in the state.The secretary of the board, Ibrahim Muhammad Bonu, made this disclosure in Minna.Warning staff of the board to stay away from illegal activities and soliciting for any gratification from operators of beer parlours, Bonu said…