Author: Kwara Reporters

The police command in Lagos has detained two suspects for kidnapping an online vendor who came to deliver products in the Iyana-Ishashi area.Its spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this while briefing journalists at the command’s headquarters in Ikeja on Monday.He said the victim was kidnapped while attempting to make a delivery.“The victim received a request for a product and proceeded to the customer’s house. Upon arrival, the door was opened, and she was forcibly dragged inside by a man and a woman.“They stripped her, beat her up and took her nude pictures,” the spokesperson said.Mr Hundeyin said the suspects demanded a…

Despite efforts by government and nonprofit organizations in the country, experts in family planning development have said that challenges continue to hinder Family Planning accessibility in Nigeria.Speaking on the 2025 international women’s day (IWD), the Communication/Knowledge Management officer of the media development organization, Devcom, Suliyat Eletu and the country lead at The Challenge Initiative (TCI) Nigeria, Dr. Taiwo Johnson, said that such challenges include cultural and religious resistance to modern contraceptives, stockouts of Family Planning (FP) commodities due to supply chain disruptions and inadequate funding and policy gaps limiting service expansion.The FP experts listed other challenges to include misconceptions and…

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has expressed gratitude to the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun for the reassignment of his case.In a statement by his lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor Esq on Saturday, Kanu also expressed his appreciation to members of the general public for their solidarity on his demand for the transfer of the casefile.Kanu noted that he received two letters from the CJN and the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho conveying the transfer of the case to another judge after his earlier letter complaining about the…

A former lawmaker, Senator Ayodele Arise, has declared that every beautiful woman is subject to sexual gestures anywhere in the world.Arise said while speaking on Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s sexual harassment allegation against Senate President, Godswill Akpabio on Arise TV Morning Show programme on Saturday.According to him, the matters should have better been handled properly by both parties rather than making the matter a national issue amidst pressing needs in the country.The former senator who represented Ekiti North Senatorial District between 2007 and 2011 stressed that there is sympathy towards women when sexual harassment claims occur.He said, “Every woman that is…

Max Siollun, a prominent Nigerian military historian, alleges ex-military dictator Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography, ‘Journey in Service’, is laced with multiple instances of plagiarism of his books, ‘Soldiers of Fortune’ and ‘Oil, Politics and Violence’.“Some sections of Babangida’s book have passages that use eerily similar (or verbatim identical) wording to my books,” Mr Siollun wrote in his review of Mr Babangida’s book shared on X.Citing several incidents peculiar to the Nigerian military, which he explored in his two books, Mr Siollun accused the writer of Mr Babangida’s widely shared memoir of using similar instances without due acknowledgement.“I challenge anyone to read…

Two fighter jets mistakenly bombed a village during a drill near the North Korean border, injuring 15 people. The incident occurred on Thursday when the jets were taking part in a joint exercise with the United States military and dropped four bombs, damaging residential homes and a school. The bombs were meant to hit a range several miles from the villa, but at least one of the South Korean pilots had entered inaccurate coordinates, the New York Times reported. Out of the 15 affected persons, four were seriously wounded and required surgery, while seven suffered shock and monitoring scratches from falling down. The military…

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to launch a Bitcoin reserve using digital assets surrendered to the U.S. government by romance scammers, civil offenders and other convicted criminals like Hushpuppi, Mr Woodberry and so on.About 200,000 bitcoin worth $19 billion forfeited in civil and criminal proceedings will now be permanently transferred into the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as Mr Trump plans to make America the world’s crypto capital.The U.S. president directed the secretaries of treasury and commerce to develop “budget-neutral strategies” to acquire more bitcoin in a manner that doesn’t burden American taxpayers, according to White House…

A former presidential aide Doyin Okupe is dead. He was 72. Family sources confirmed his death to Channels Television on Friday. Okupe died in the early hours of Friday. He hailed from Ogun State. In his tribute to the late Okupe, the Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun described the medical doctor’s death as a “personal loss”. “Receiving the news of the passing of my elder brother, Dr. Doyin Okupe has left me with a profound sense of personal loss, especially coming so soon after the transition of the Alaperu of Iperu Remo, Oba Adeleke Idowu-Basibo Without a doubt, Dr. Okupe’s departure leaves a…

• Commissioned and handed over projects to the Kaiama LG Education Authority and beneficiary schools. In a commendable legislative effort to bolster teaching/learning standards in his constituency, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research and MHR representing Baruten/Kaiama Federal Constituency of Kwara State, Rt. Hon. Mohammed Omar Bio, has, once again, facilitated the construction of two fully furnished blocks of classrooms, completed with staff offices, at UBE Junior Secondary School in Tunga Aboki and KLGEA Primary School in Bacha.This commendable initiative is intended to revitalize educational infrastructure within the constituency by providing modern teaching/learning…

Mohammed Jidda, the fourteenth prosecution witness (PW14) in the ongoing trial of Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power, has revealed that the ex-minister paid the dollar equivalent of ₦200 million (approximately $200,000) in cash for a five-bedroom property in Wuse, Abuja.The testimony came during a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday, where Mamman is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on charges related to money laundering and the Mambilla Power Project.According to Jidda, who was the initial owner of the property located at No. 12a & b Lungi Street, Wuse 2, Abuja, Mamman personally…