Author: Kwara Reporters

Lawmakers in the Green Chamber have started taking delivery of their Sports Utility Vehicles.Similarly, legislators in the Red Chamber will receive the first batch of the SUVs this week.It was also gathered that the last tranche of the SUVs for use by the lawmakers would arrive before December.The PUNCH reported that the leadership of the National Assembly had announced the decision to purchase imported SUVs for each lawmaker and bulletproof vehicles for the principal officers.The move has generated heavy criticism, with some citizens lampooning the parliamentarians for being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians amid the high cost of living.The…

The Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Dr Ado Ibrahim, is dead.The paramount ruler of Ebiraland was said to have died in the early hours of Sunday at the age of 95.Palace sources told our correspondent in Lokoja the he died in an Abuja hospital where he had been receiving treatment for age-related ailment.Before ascending the throne, he was a successful businesman who lived most parts of his life in Lagos.His remains will be buried today in Okene according to the Islamic rites. Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or…

The Lamidi Apapa-led group in the Labour Party (LP) has congratulated President Bola Tinubu on his victory at the Supreme Court, saying the affirmation of the election of the then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the February 25, 2023 presidential poll is well-deserved.The Apapa-led group mocked the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi; as well as his legal team “for presenting the worst election petition ever in Nigeria’s history”.In a statement on Saturday by the spokesman for the group, Abayomi Arabambi, Apapa said “it should be on record that Peter Obi’s frivolous and bland petition was dismissed in…

…Turkey, an emerging country in military power, military equipment, technological expertise, says Katsina GovernorThe Republic of Turkey, has disclosed that T-129 ATAK helicopters are ready for onward delivery to Nigeria.Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Hidayet Bayraktar, who made the disclosure during the Turkish 100th National Day in Abuja, said within the context of Türkiye’s partnership policy with Africa, Nigeria held a key position.Bayraktar also said being the most populous country and the largest economy of Africa, Nigeria is a rising power in the African region.“Our relations with Nigeria, which was established in 1960, developed on a basis of friendship and mutual…

The Nigeria Customs Service, Eastern Marine Command, Port Harcourt, said it intercepted different wildlife and other contrabands with a duty paid value of N680m.The command’s Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Tangwa, said this in a statement on Saturday.He said the various contrabands were intercepted at different waterways within the command.“The Eastern Marine Command of the NCS has made a significant breakthrough in combatting wildlife trafficking by intercepting a substantial quantity of pangolin scales, elephant tusks and sacks of used second-hand shoes.“The seizure took place in the South-South coastal waterways along the Ibaka-Bakasi Beach,” he said.Tangwa added that the seizures showed Nigeria’s…

Twenty-four hours after the Supreme Court ended the dispute over 2023 Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were seen under the same roof.The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared President Bola Tinubu winner of the election, but Atiku challenged his victory in court, losing at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal and at the apex court.Reacting to the verdict, Ganduje had taunted Atiku, saying he would wait till 2031 as Tinubu, who is yet to spend a year in office, would do two…

Ogun State Police PRO, Omolola OdutolaFollowing PUNCH’s report, the Kwara State Police Command has released the detained sisters of an employee of Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Lateef Iyanda, who was linked with a fraudulent bank transaction.It was reported on Friday, October 27, that Iyanda accused the Kwara State Police Command of negligence in conducting a thorough investigation into a fraud case linked to him.He alleged that he was arrested on August 29 at the Adatan area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, by some policemen who he said took him to a police station in Ilorin, Kwara State,…

Former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, has slammed Nigerians, saying they do not react to anything.In a viral video, Amaechi was speaking at an event in Lagos State, being his first major appearance since the All Progressives Congress, APC’s primary elections, where he came behind Bola Tinubu, who later emerged as the winner of the presidential poll.Speaking about the alleged certificate forgery, Amaechi said that politicians never denied being thieves, forging school or NYSC certificates, but Nigerians still vote for such politicians.Amaechi lamented that serious issues which easily lead to mass protests elsewhere are swept under the carpet by Nigerians,…

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says that Thursday’s judgment of the Supreme Court in the presidential election case has all but ended any contest, but maintained that it is not ideal for the judiciary to decide winners of elections.Falana, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, insisted that determining winners of election is an exclusive reserve of the Independent National Electoral Commission if things are done the way they should be done.“No doubt the judgment of the Supreme Court ascended the electoral contestation as far as the presidential election conducted in February this year is…

The Federal Government has flagged off the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative PCNGI, with seven conversion centres across Nigeria.Chief Of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajibiamila, officially flagged off the initiative on Friday at the State House, Abuja.In a symbolic handover of the CNG buses to the State House, the Chairman of the Presidential CNG Initiative Steering Committee, Zacch Adedeji, who was represented by the Chief Executive Officer of the Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) Mr Farouk Ahmed, announced that the government had waived the Value Added Tax on the CNG buses purchase as well as seeking duty…