Author: Kwara Reporters

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…

The Kwara Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said it had cleared all uncollected international passports at its disposal in Kwara.The State Comptroller of Immigration, Comptroller Aminu Shamsuddin, confirmed the collection of the passports during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Thursday.Shamsuddin said that some applicants found it difficult to create time to collect their passports when it’s ready, especially when they are not in dire need of it.He said that the command had to go beyond sending text messages to applicants by embarking on some sensitization on radio and television stations.“We realised…

The British High Commissioner, Dr Richard Montgomery, visited the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’adu Abubakar III, in Sokoto to discuss several issues including the undemocratic take-over of government in the Republic of Niger.A statement on Friday by Atinuke Akande-Alegbe, Senior Communications and Public Diplomacy Officer at the British High Commission, said, that during his discussions with the Sultan, the High Commissioner acknowledged His Eminence’s role in promoting peace between people of different faiths in Nigeria, including through his positions as President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) and Co-Chair of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC).The…

Under the leadership of CC OYUN Adeyinka Adebayo and the Welfare Section of the Old Ilorin Custodial Centre, Oke kura, Ilorin, in Kwara State, the Nigerian Correctional Service Kwara State Command has achieved a significant milestone in its mission to secure, reform, rehabilitate, and reintegrate offenders into society. Four inmates of the Custodial Centre sat for the National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB EXAMS) and all achieved outstanding results with credits and distinctions in both Mathematics and English.This was stated on Friday by the Correctional Service Kwara State Command Public Relations Officer, SC Adegbulugbe Philip Olumide (anipr).Bello Chiroma, a…

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a 400-level student of Petrochemical Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Demain Okoligwe, for allegedly killing his girlfriend and harvesting her organs at his residence along NTA Road, Ozuoba, near Port Harcourt.The victim, Justina Otuene, a 300-level undergraduate also in UNIPORT, was studying Biochemistry.The state Commissioner of Police, Emeka Nwonyi, disclosed this at a news briefing while parading the suspect before newsmen in Port Harcourt on Thursday.Nwonyi said the suspect after butchering his female lover, harvested some parts of her body allegedly for ritual purposes, concealed her decomposing corpse in his apartment…

A 12-year-old student (name withheld) on Thursday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her teacher, Ngozi Igwe, sexually assaulted her in classroom.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the JS2 student testified virtually at the trial of Igwe for sexual assault by penetration.She was led in evidence by Lagos State counsel, Ms Bukola Okeowo.The alleged survivor told the court that the incident happened when she was seven years old and the defendant was her teacher in Primary Three.She said that the defendant, on several occasions, called her to his table and sexually assaulted her by…