Author: Kwara Reporters

The Nigeria Police Command in Anambra State has confirmed the release of a popular native doctor, Chukwudozie Nwangwu, popularly known as “Akwa Okuko Tiwaraki”, by his abductors.The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed Nwangwu’s release on Saturday.Ikenga noted that the popular native doctor was released by his abductors in the early hours of Saturday.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the native doctor was kidnapped about 11:30pm on Sunday, July 23 at Oba in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra.According to Ikenga, the abductors contacted friends and relatives and were demanding millions, in the neighbourhood…

A former member of the Labour Party, Col. Chinyere Obi (retd.), shares with The PUNCH how she was shot by suspected political thugs and allegedly abandoned by the party. You sustained a gunshot wound during the general elections. How did it happen?It was a painful experience. I was a Peter Obi supporter. I made a lot of sacrifices during the electioneering but was abandoned after the attack while defending the Labour Party at my polling unit. I was in my village in the Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State to participate in the election. On the day of the…

Simon Ekpa, a well-known Biafra agitator and separatist leader, has recently called on the Igbo community to disregard circulating reports concerning an alleged letter from Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).Ekpa, who is a lawyer based in Finland and claims to be the Prime Minister of the Biafra Republic Government, made this declaration on Friday.Earlier, it was reported by WithinNigeria that Nnamdi Kanu had expressed his views on the disruptive sit-at-home protests in the beleaguered South-East region.In response to the situation, the embattled leader of the secessionist group specifically urged Simon Ekpa to halt all…

Fire used to illustrate the storyA mini shop complex at Sabo-Oke,Fufu street, Ilorin, Kwara State has be gutted by fire as a result of a sudden spark in the electricity wire in one of the shops.According to Obavassociates.com a neighbour in the street, a man, who noticed the fire coming from one of the shops situated in the area, and immediately cried out and alerted other neighbours in the street.”Impressively! These neighbours had tried, forcefully breaking into one of the shops, a provision shop, to quench the fire with buckets of water before the arrival of the Fire Service around…

Representatives of organised labour on Friday walked out of a meeting with the Federal Government’s team on palliatives.The meeting was a continuation of their deliberations on palliatives to cushion the effect of subsidy removal in the country.The labour team, which was led by the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, did not speak to journalists as they made their way from the venue of the meeting.FG’s representatives and that of labour had earlier met on Wednesday with discussions coming out positive.The government was expected to provide feedback on some of the demands made by labour upon the…

Following the submission of the first set of ministerial nominees to the Senate, indications have emerged that President Bola Tinubu will restructure some of the ministries of the Federal Government by merging some, creating new ones and scrapping others.Saturday PUNCH investigation revealed that the decision to restructure the ministries was in line with the recommendations of the Stephen Oronsaye report on the restructuring of the civil service as this paper had earlier reported that Tinubu would implement some of the recommendations in the report.According to findings, the Federal ministries of Education, Youths and Sports Development, Agricultural and Rural Development, Solid…

The Kwara State First Lady, Ambassador Dr. Olufolake AbdulRazaq has flagged off a house-to-house malaria drug administration to children between the ages of 3 – 59 months, in order to free the children from malaria consequences across the state.Ambassador Abdulrazaq who is also the Chairperson of the Nigerian Governors Wives’ Forum kick-started the programme at Magaji-Olowo’s Compound, Centre Igboro, in Ilorin metropolis.Administering the first dose of the drug on the children, Ambassador AbdulRazaq joined the team from the Ministry of Health to ‘start-up’ the 4-day intervention program, that will run through the next four consecutive months, across 11 Local Government…

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has directed Finland-based Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa to end all sit-at-home in the Southeast.Kanu also directed Ekpa to stop antagonising governors of the southeast or politicians from the region.He warned that anyone enforcing sit-at-home in the southeast is not his disciple and should be made to face the wrath of the law.The IPOB leader issued the directive in a message to Ekpa, which was made public on Friday by his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.Addressing journalists in Enugu, Ejimakor quoted Kanu as saying: “Simon, this is a direct order from…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited says it recorded 240 incidences pertaining to crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta in one week.NNPC, in a documentary on its social media handle on Wednesday, said the incidents mostly occurred in Bayelsa state between July 15 and 21, 2023.Giving a break down of the events, the company said it discovered 93 illegal pipeline connections and 69 illegal refineries, saying disconnections were ongoing.“War on crude oil theft: 93 illegal pipeline connections discovered and 69 illegal refineries destroyed in the Niger Delta in the past week,” the company wrote.“27 pipeline vandalism,…

The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, has lamented that some undisclosed persons drop the command’s emergency numbers with loan shark companies to obtain loans.He also said non-state actors had also been engaging the emergency lines.The CP, however, warned those behind the acts to desist, saying that the police would ensure they are brought to book.Garba stated this in a statement by the command spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, on Friday.It partly read, “In the same vein, the CP enjoins non-state actors who have been engaging the Police emergency lines in their mischievous posts, aimed at misleading members of…