Author: Kwara Reporters

Daraibo Events and Services, a leading name in event industry in Nigeria, extends its warmest congratulations to Dr. Mrs. Saudat Salah Abdulbaqi fnipr on her recent election as a Council Member of the prestigious Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR). It described The significant achievement as a highlight of her outstanding dedication and substantial contributions to the realm of public relations.In a press release issued from the office of the Lead Consultant of Daraibo Events and Services, Mr Oluwaseun Adewoye, made available to pressmen, Mr. Adewoye described Dr Abdulbaqi as a distinguished professional in the industry whose unwavering commitment and…

The Mass Communication Alumni Association, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has felicitated Dr Saudah Salah AbdulBaqi on her election into the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, NIPR. AbdulBaqi who’s an Associate Professor of Mass Communication at UNILORIN was on Friday elected a member of NIPR Governing Council at the Annual General Meeting of the Institute which held in FCT, Abuja. In a congratulatory letter jointly signed by its president, AbdulGafar Arikewuyo and General Secretary, Aderemi Adeagbo, the alumni association described AbdulBaqi’s success in the election as a well-deserved recognition of her contributions to the field of Public Relations and…

Abductors of the wife of Pastor Johnson Ajiboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Kwara State, Mrs Bola Ajiboye, have detained a man sent to deliver the ransom to them.They, however, released the woman.Mrs Ajiboye was kidnapped in her shop at Elerinjare community in the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State last Thursday when gunmen invaded the town.Sources disclosed that the woman was released by her abductors on Wednesday after the payment of N1m ransom along with foodstuffs and other items demanded by the kidnappers.An elder in the community, however, said the middle-aged man who went to…

A 47-year-old woman, Kehinde Ugbede-Egbeyemi, has appealed to individuals and organisations to assist her in raising the sum of N15m for a kidney transplant.Ugbede-Egbeyemi said she came down with kidney failure in 2018 shortly after she got married to her husband, a teacher.A medical report by the Zenith Medical and Kidney Centre, Abuja, showed that she was diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease in February 2018.It noted that the woman was being managed with “a twice-weekly haemodialysis schedule, intermittent erythropoietin and iron sucrose injection, antihypertensive and other supportive management.”The report, signed by a Consultant Nephrologist, Dr Benjamin Arijesuyo, further stated that…

Ifa priest, Osuniyi Olosunde (Jogbodo Orunmila) Ifa priest, Osuniyi Olosunde (Jogbodo Orunmila), talks to FATTEH Hamid of The PUNCH about the recent celebration of Isese Day by some South-West states and its importance, amid the lingering controversy it generated in Kwara StateWhat are your educational qualifications, and your position in the African traditional religion?I’m Oloye Jogbodo Orunmila, Oluwo in Ifa and Ogboni fraternity. I don’t like speaking about my Western education because it undermines the wisdom in Yoruba’s rich culture and tradition. It is these rich ways and knowledge of the Yoruba that we use as handiwork and it is what…

Some suspected bandits have demanded N4 million as ransom to secure the release of one of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) members abducted within the Zamfara State territory.The bandits reportedly abducted eight members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) along a highway within Zamfara State on Friday.The recent graduates were said to have been travelling with an Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) bus from Uyo, Akwa Ibom to Sokoto State, to take part in the mandatory National Service when their vehicle was intercepted.Emmanuel Etteh, the father of one of the victims, Glory Thomas, confirmed the latest development to…

The Director, Press and Public Relations of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Eddy Megwa, has said that the Minister of Arts and Culture, Mrs Hannatu Musawa, who is currently doing her one-year youth service is occupying the ministerial position in breach of the NYSC Act.Speaking with our reporter over the phone, Megwa confirmed that the minister had been serving for the past eight months in the FCT.He explained that it was against the NYSC Act for any corps member to pick up any government appointment until the one-year service was over.He said Mrs Musawa was originally mobilised in 2001…

The Federal Government has restated that the Port Harcourt Refining Company (PHRC) Ltd would be back on stream by December. This is part of the government’s commitment to ending petroleum product importation as soon as efforts are being redoubled to restore the nation’s local refining capacity.The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, said this, according to a Friday statement by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited Garba Deen Muhammad.He quoted the Minister as giving the assurance during an inspection tour of the rehabilitation work progress at the Port Harcourt…

The 774 local government councils in the country are presently in dire financial strait and unable to cater to people at the lowest level in accordance with their constitutional mandate due to the actions and inactions of state governors.Following the poor state of affairs in the local government councils across the country, the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees accused state governors of crippling the third tier of government.Saturday PUNCH investigation revealed that apart from the structures and premises of most local government council headquarters being currently in a dilapidated state, funding of the councils had become difficult due to…

• Governor approved variation and contract sum increase by ₦ 52,647,444• Governor approved 86% payment for job 55% completedWe are in possession of the contract documents for the re-construction of Adeta roundabout – Pataka roundabout road in Ilorin West LGA of Kwara State.The contract of the project was awarded on 31st January 2022 to Casarez Construction Ltd at an initial sum of Two Hundred and Forty-One Million, Four Hundred and Thirty-Seven Thousand, Six Hundred and Ten naira (₦ 241,437,610).On 21st November, 2022, Governor AbdulRahman received a request from the Commissioner for Works, Engr. Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu, to approve a variation…