Author: Kwara Reporters

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…

A three-storey building has collapsed in the Lekki area of Lagos, with two persons reported dead and six rescued so far.The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.Oke-Osanyintolu, who said the immediate cause of the incident is yet to be ascertained, added that further investigations will be conducted.“So far, two adult males have been extricated from the rubbles of the collapsed building. Six seriously injured adult males were rescued and were administered immediate medical care by the LRU Pre-Hospital Care Unit, before being transported to Marina General…

Immediate past Head of Service, HoS, in Kwara State, Mrs Susan Modupe Oluwole, is dead, aged 59.She died on Wednesday morning at the University Teaching Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State, according to reports reaching KWARAREPORTERS.Late Modupe Oluwole was appointed in 2017 during the Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-led administration, but retired from the service of the state government in 2024.A graduate of the University of Ilorin, she took over as HoS from Hajia Zarah Omar, her predecessor in 2017.Until her appointment to the position of Head of Service, late Oluwole was the Permanent Secretary in charge of Service Welfare in the office…

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Public Petitions has dismissed Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s sexual harassment petition against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, declaring it “dead on arrival”.During the probe session on Wednesday, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Neda Imasuen, cited procedural violations and legal constraintsWhile citing Order 40 of the Senate Standing Orders, Imasuen explained that Akpoti-Uduaghan signed the petition herself rather than having it endorsed by another individual, thereby rendering it procedurally invalid.Additionally, he noted that the issues raised in the petition were already in court, making them subjudice.“The petition that she (Natasha) presented today is…