The Association of Resident Doctors, General Hospital, Ilorin chapter, has appealed to Gov. Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara to employ more medical staffers for the facility. The association made the call on Tuesday in Ilorin in their Sallah goodwill message to the governor. The message was jointly signed by...
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By OLA MUDOPE, Ilorin Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested eighteen suspects for offences bordering on illegal mining activities. The EFCC in a post on its X handle on Friday said 13 truckloads with assorted solid minerals suspected to...
The Nigerian Army Education Corps (NAEC) has pulled out 16 Generals who retired from active military service. This is contained in a statement issued by Capt .Yemi Sokoya, Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Headquarters, Nigerian Army Education Corps in Abuja. Sokoya said that the event took...
The Federal Government has alerted the public to the outbreak of poison in animals at Mandate Cattle Market in Kwara. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr Temitope Fashedemi, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. Fashedemi said the poisonous outbreak was...
There was confusion in an Area Court in Ilorin when the judge sentenced a divorcee, Adenike Aliyu to three weeks community service for admitting that she committed adultery while her marriage to husband was legal. The presiding Judge, Hammad Ajumonbi while delivering his ruling, said that the punishment...
Brig.-Gen. Oluwafemi Williams, on Friday, assumed office as the new Brigade Commander of 22 Armoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Ilorin, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported. NAN also reports that Williams’ assumption of office at Sobi Barracks, Ilorin, was sequel to the recent re-jig of...
Director of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture, Ilorin, Dr AbdulLateef Olugbon, has said the ministry rescued 40 cows among the lot that ate from a fumigated rice farm on Saturday. The veterinary expert disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on...
The Provost of College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS) in Ilorin, Dr Sa’ad Hadi, has said the institution has no hand in Saturday’s death of 33 cows. Hadi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they knew nothing about the predicament of the cows which...
In the bustling streets of Ilorin, where the sun beats down and the drum of life reverberates in every corner, there emerges a trailblazer unlike any other in the town. She is Risikat Adisa, a 54-year old mother of four with a spirit as fierce as the wind...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested an Ilorin-based clergyman, Prophet Adeniyi James, for allegedly defrauding a member of his Church of N3.9 million. James is the General Overseer of Christ Apostolic Church(CAC), Freedom City Prophetic and Deliverance Ministry in Ilorin. The...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Kwara State Policeoo Command has rescued a Chinese national, Peng Chao Zhang, who was abducted on March 10 by six armed men around Eiyenkorin area of Ilorin. The police spokesman in the state, DSP Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday...
The Chief Missioner of Igbomina-Ekiti Muslim Forum, Malam Salaudeen Abdulkadir, has said the Muslim women who don’t want to miss their fasting, can medically delay the menstrual cycle. Abdulkadir made the statement in Ilorin while delivering the Annual Ramadan Lecture, organised by the Igbomina-Ekiti Muslim Forum, National Headquarters....
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin. A statement via the anti-graft agency X (Twitter) handle on Friday,...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 48 students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), and two others for offences bordering on internet fraud. The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale disclosed this in a statement on...
A housewife, Ramat Joke on Tuesday begged an Area Court in Centre-Igboro, Ilorin, to grant her divorce prayer on grounds that her husband, Habeeb Atanda was a drug addict. Joke in her divorce petition told the court that she was not aware that Atanda was hooked on drugs...
Managing Director of a popular hotel in Ilorin has been found dead in one of the hotel rooms. Police spokesman in Kwara, CSP Okasanmi Ajayi, stated in Ilorin on Friday that a supervisor at the hotel reported a suspected homicide to the police in Ilorin on Thursday. He...
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Master Ololade Adesina, who made nine 9As in the 2023 West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), on Friday won 15 awards at the 15th graduation ceremony of Rehoboth College, Ilorin. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adesina was awarded the best student in Data Processing, Civic Education,...
The Commander, Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mr Michael Nzekwe, says the commission is working to ensure that corruption studies are embedded in education curriculum and taught as courses at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Nzekwe stated this on Saturday while addressing...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Command has arrested 13 Chinese nationals for allegedly engaging in illegal mining activities in Kwara State. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued in Ilorin on Thursday. Mr. Uwujaren...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned an Ilorin-based associate pastor of the Living Faith Church (aka Winners’ Chapel), Temidayo Eseyin, for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State of N19.3million. Eseyin, a lawyer and former member...