Author: Kwara Reporters

The Nigerian Navy has excavated and dismantled oil equipment of a suspected oil syndicate on Oil Mining Lease-18 in Elem Krakama Creek in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State.The Navy said it dismantled the equipment used in siphoning crude precisely on Oil Well 17 operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.The Commander, Nigerian Navy Ship Pathfinder, Commodore Suleman Ibrahim, said the Navy spotted the illicit activities by its patrol helicopter on July 11, 2023.Ibrahim, who led newsmen to the site on Saturday, said the discovery led to the dismantling of the multiple pipelines buried in the ground.He…

•Party leaders seek soft landing for ex-Nasarawa gov •APC spokesperson mumAhead of this week’s meeting of the National Caucus and National Executive Committee, NEC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, strong indications emerged that the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore are under pressure to resign.It was gathered that some leaders of the party had been going about with a list of alleged “sins” committed by Adamu against President Bola Tinubu weeks before the latter declared his interest to vie for the presidency last year.An APC official, who is privy to the internal workings of…

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-cultural organisation has urged President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergence over the sit-at-home order in the Southeast.Ohanaeze said declaring a state of emergency would send a strong signal to the Southeast governors, who would now be compelled to find a lasting solution to the order.DAILY POST recalls that a Biafra agitator, Simon Ekpa, had severally declared sit-at-homes in the Southeast.The order by Ekpa had aggravated the crisis in the Southeast, a situation that had led to an attempt to cripple the economic activities of the region.Reacting, Ohanaeze’s Secretary-General, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said the body would…

Six suspects are in police custody for raping 53-year-old Mrs Amarachi Nwanozie to death in her farm.The reports of her death became known when her husband raised alarm about her disappearance by 5 pm on Tuesday, 12th July.According to him “she left for her farm earlier in the day at about 9am, and unfortunately, she didn’t return on time which raised suspicions about her whereabouts”. He reported the matter to Amangwa Vigilante Service, Isiala Ngwa South Command who immediately dispatched a team in search of the woman and a manhunt after suspected the assailants.The next day, Wednesday, 13th July, her body…

Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command led by the state Commissioner of Police, Ebunoluwarotimi Adelesi, have arrested four suspected kidnappers around Oro-Ago forest in the Ifelodun local government area of the state.In a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Okasanmi Ajayi, the first female Police commissioner personally led her officers at the weekend on another special tactical team on search-and-rescue operation into the forests within Isin town, in the Isin local government area of the state.“In the process, four kidnap victims, recently abducted, were rescued”, the statement said. The PPRO also said that the four arrested kidnap suspects…

Kwara State School of Special Needs houses the visually impaired, deaf and dumb and some mentally retarded students. However, strained relationship between the blind and deaf, especially, has made it difficult for them to cohabit and led to calls for the government to separate them. Daily Trust on Sunday writes on the issue.Last month, the cat and mouse relationship between the blind students and their deaf and dumb counterparts at the Kwara State School of Special Needs climaxed with a brawl over food during lunch.According to findings, trouble started when some blind students (names withheld) went to the kitchen to…

•says Nigeria’s 20 million out-of-school children alarming•calls for more investment in educationThe Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has criticised the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration for approval of N8,000 as palliative about 12 million households over the period of six months to ameliorate the hardships faced by Nigerians as a result of subsidy removal. Obi who spoke on Saturday at the graduation of the Class of 2023, Pacesetters Schools, Abuja, said almost every family in Nigeria are vulnerable and are feeling the pains of the fuel subsidy removal, including teachers who are…

Six suspects identified as Afam Ezenwa, Chijioke Ifeanyi, Collins Obadom, Abuchi Okechukwu, Chima Obiekezie and Sunday Okafor have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 19-year-old girl in Anam, Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State.The suspects, aged 16, 17, 18, 20, and 27, respectively, were said to have carried out the act after ambushing and forcing the victim into a room, where they took turns to defile her.Narrating her ordeal, the teenager (name withheld), said the incident happened when she visited her maternal home in Oramaetiti and got ambushed by the boys.She explained that despite her plea, they did…

A Football prodigy, JSS 3 student of Cherubim &Seraphim Grammar school, Sabo-Oke Ilorin Kehinde Ayodele now partially blind needs N25M to undergo a correctional surgery in a United Kingdom hospital.His father Mr Babatola Ayodele speaking on the cause of his son’s travail told Vanguard Correspondent in an interview in Ilorin that on April 24,2021,”Kehinde was in the class during break time, resting his head on the table and as he stood up to walk out of the class because of the noisy environment, a long stick thrown by another colleague in the class, straight entered his right eye and blood…

Yeye Ajesikemi Olatunji, a traditional religion adherent and devotee of Aje Olokun, speaks to TUNDE OYEKOLA on the cancellation of the Aje festival in Ilorin, Kwara State, and the opposition from an Islamic group, among other issuesWhat festival do you want to celebrate in Ilorin that has set you on a collision course with an Islamic group in the town?Well, I planned to celebrate the annual Aje Olokun festival. I’m a member of the Kwara State Association of Traditional Religion, also known as Isese. This is an association of people practising traditional religion. We are not members of the Christian…