Author: Kwara Reporters

The federal government is ready to support Adire, a locally-produced fabric, with some form of subsidy to enhance its production.The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, disclosed this to journalists on Saturday during her visit to the Adire Mall at Itoku in Abeokuta.Ms Edu, who also visited the fabric’s production grounds at Asero, said the government would create an industrial hub nationwide to further boost revenue for market women.She, therefore, assured market women of the government’s intention to ensure the fabric became known worldwide.”This is why there is a need for government to ban the importation of…

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has slashed regulated bus and train fares in the state by 25%, effective Tuesday, November 7, 2023.Spokesperson for the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA), Kolawole Ojelabi, made this known in a statement on Monday.According to him, the governor’s directive followed calls for the reinstatement of the 50% rebate on fare for regulated bus and rail transport.The governor had on August 2, 2023 announced a 50% discount in fare on regulated transport bus and rail transport which ended on Sunday.“Following appeals to the governor, he has extended the passenger fare reduction by 25% across the…

The Rivers State Police Command said it had begun the probe of the death of another female student of the University of Port Harcourt whose body was found in her apartment in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state.The lady simply identified as Adaeze was said to be a 200-level undergraduate of Accounting, though the cause of her death could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report on Monday afternoon.Adaeze’s lifeless body was found in her off-campus residence in Aluu, a community near the university.This came barely two weeks after the decomposing body of a…

At least 25 people, including women and children, were reportedly killed as bandits attacked a gathering of Maulud celebrants in Kusa, a community in Musawa LGA of Katsina State.This is even as no fewer than 15 rice farmers from the Zabarmari community of Borno State, who were harvesting crops in Karkut, Bulabulin and Koshebe in Mafa LGA of the state, were said to have been killed following a clash between suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists.There were conflicting figures as to the number of fatalities in the Katsina attack, as locals said 25 were killed, even as the police said…

The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, on Monday, sent back to custody a 37-year-old auxiliary nurse, Fisayo Ogedengbe, arrested by the police in connection with the controversial death of hip hop artiste, Ilerioluwa Aloba, alias Mohbad.The nurse, it was alleged, gave the late singer some injections that resulted in his death.In the same vein, the magistrate, Adeola Olatunbosun, ordered that Mohbad’s friend, Ayobani Sadiq, also being held as a suspect in the case, should be returned to police custody.The magistrate, however, granted bail in the sum of N20m to each of Mohbad’s ex-boss, Azeez Fashola, aka Naira Marley, and…

Nollywood comic, John Okafor, better known as Mr Ibu has undergone surgery to remove one of his legs. Details of this development were revealed on his official Instagram handle on Monday.“As of 1 pm, noon today, Daddy has gone through 7 successful surgeries but to keep him alive and increase his chances of recovery one of his legs had to be amputated.,” the statement read in parts“This development has been hard on us all but we’ve had to accept it as Daddy’s new reality to keep him alive.”The family has also appealed to Nigerians to support the actor.“Please we are still…

The military and the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, have declared a battle against hoodlums who may be planning to snatch ballot boxes during Saturday’s governorship elections in Kogi, Bayelsa, and Imo states.The security chiefs threatened to deal with troublemakers just as the police authorities said they had deployed 67,000 personnel in Kogi and Bayelsa states ahead of the polls.Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State and his counterpart in Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, are seeking re-election, while Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is rounding off his second term and is supporting the All Progressives Congress candidate, Usman Ododo, whom…

Kwara State Fire Service on Monday recovered the dead body of a seven-year-old boy, Abdul-Haayi, who fell into a well in Ilorin, the state capital.The tragic incident occurred at about 5:28 pm in Yaa-Lateef House, along Tinu Street, Akerebiata area of Ilorin, in Ilorin East Local Government of the state.The fire service was summoned through a telephone by a certain Mr Idowu, who lived in the neighbourhood where the incident occurred.According to Hassan Adekunle, the spokesman of the fire service, the firefighters were able to recover the dead body from the well and later handed it over to a certain…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has reserved judgment in the appeal Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf file to challenge his removal by the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal.A three-man panel of judges led by Justice Oluyemi Akintan Osadebay had sacked Yusuf on September 20, 2023, by declaring 165,663 of his votes invalid because they were not signed or stamped by the Independent National Electoral Commission.The governor’s votes were then reduced to 853,939 while Ganuwa’s 890,705 votes remained.Yusuf had rejected the tribunal verdict, which he described as “unfair” and “a miscarriage of justice”, and headed to the appeal court.At the court…

The Investment and Securities Tribunal has ordered the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to implement the decision against FINMAL to buy back shares and accrued bonus shares belonging to the estate of Late Ambassador Abubakar Garba Gobir that were wrongly sold or risk being committed for contempt.According to the notice of Consequence of Disobedience of Court Order (Form 48) which was filed at the registry of the Investment and Security Tribunal on the 2nd of November 2023, at our disposal, the DG of SEC may be committed to prison due to inaction of the group chairman…