Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has been reelected for another four-year term. AbdulRasaq who contested in Saturday, March 18 guber election in the state on the platform of the APC polled a total of 273,424 to defeat his closest opponents, Abdullah Yahman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 155,490 and Hakeem…
The Kwara State Police Command has paraded a former Chief Medical Director (CMD) of government-owned Kaiama general hospital, Kaiama local government area of the state, Dr. Abass Adio Adeyemi, for murder and organ harvesting. It would be recalled that the decomposed bodies of two missing women were found buried in a shallow grave…
The Kwara State Fire Service has recovered the body of an 80-year-old woman who died in a building gutted by fire in Ilorin, the state capital. Head, Media and Publicity of the service, Hassan Adekunle, in a statement disclosed that the fire incident occurred at number 43 Adegboye Street behind the Federal Secretariat, Fate…
Six persons have died in a fatal road accident which occurred on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at Ganmo along Ilorin/Omu-Aran highway, Kwara State. The accident involved an ash coloured commercial Suzuki bus with registration number BDJ-134XB and a blue colour DAF (ABC435XN) loaded with onions coming from Sokoto State. Eyewitnesses said overspeeding caused the…
A Magistrates? Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has remanded a 25-year-old bricklayer, Ibrahim Ismaila, in a custodial centre for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl. The accused was remanded on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, alongside his supervisor, Abdulrasheed Yusuf, who was charged with negligence. According to a police report, Ismaila stopped the girl…
An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court has remanded a 42-year-old housewife, Lola Abdulsalam, in a Correctional facility for allegedly pouring hot water on her co-wife, Bilikisu Abdulsalam. The police on Friday filed a two-count first information report against Lola, bordering on causing grievous hurt and defamation of character, contrary to sections 247 and 292 of the…
Gunmen have abducted four truck drivers from a farm on the outskirt of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital. Police said that the victims were kidnapped by gunmen allegedly dressed in military uniform at a site where they went to collect sand which they wanted to supply to their customers. The victims are said to…
Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command have rescued an American female citizen, Vonapolouis Moss, in Ilorin, after being allegedly swindled by a 23-year-old suspected internet fraudster. Speaking with journalists on Friday, January 13, 2023, the state commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, identified the suspect as Awoleye Joshua Oluwatofunmi, of Sabo-Oke Road, Ilorin. According to…
The Kwara State Police Command has rescued one of the a man recently kidnapped in the state. A statement released by the spokesperson of the command, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, gave the name of the rescued victim as Alhaji Tunde Buhari, who is the chairman of the Oluwalose community in Okolowo, Ilorin. Okasanmi added that the…
The kidnapped community chairman Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers raided the Oluwalose community located along Okolowo, a suburb of Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state and reportedly abducted an unspecified number of residents. It was gathered that the armed men stormed the community around midnight on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, shooting sporadically. A source in the…
The majority leader of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Hon. Olawoyin Abubakar Magaji is dead. 57-year-old Olawoyin, who represented Ilorin Central Constituency on the ticket of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, died on Monday morning, January 9, 2023, after a brief illness. The Chairman, House Committee on Information, Youth, Sports and Tourism,…
Tragedy struck in the Eyenkorin area of Ilorin, the Kwara state capital today January 4 after a truck crushed an officer of the Nigerian Air Force identified as LCPL Goselle Nanpon to death. According to eyewitnesses, the truck driver suffered a brake failure and rammed into the Air Force security checkpoint stationed at the area, killing…
Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command have arrested five suspected kidnappers and recovered arms. Parading the suspects at the command headquarters in Ilorin on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Paul Odama, said they belong to two separate notorious gangs. Members of the first gang include Babagida Buguda, 30, described…
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Kwara State command, have arrested three persons for allegedly diverting 33,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) meant for Lagos State. The suspects, Buhari Joda, 37, with two of his motor boys, Aminu Joda, 32, and Ahmed Aminu, 20, were paraded by the command on Thursday,…
An Islamic cleric identified as Alfa Sofiu Amolege and his two sons have been ducted by suspected kidnappers at Oko- Olowo, a suburb of Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Saturday, November 19. According to residents, the trio were attacked at their private residence in Oko-Olowo along Ilorin- Jebba expressway after the suspected kidnappers had…
The kidnapped wife of former military administrator of Bauchi and Osun states, Colonel Theophilus Bamigboye, has regained freedom after three days in captivity. Mrs Jumoke Bamigboye was abducted by gunmen in Oko Olowo area, in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State on Saturday, November 5, 2022. It was gathered that the victim, who…
Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has appointed famous skit maker, Abdulgafar Ahmed Abiola, popularly known as “Cute Abiola” as his Special Assistant on Creative Industries. Abiola is a former Navy Officer who reportedly resigned to concentrate on his entertainment business. Born on April 28th, 1996 in Ilorin, Kwara State, Abiola is well known…
Police officer, ASP Ahmed Yusuf, who was abducted from his house in Oloje area of Ilorin on October 11 at about 10pm by six armed hoodlums has been rescued. A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Okansanmi Ajayi, said Yusuf was rescued at about 2.30am today at a bush border between Kwara and…
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, October 14, 2022 secured the conviction of 31-year-old Bashiru Azeez Seyi, a student in the Marketing Department of Kwara State Polytechnic, for offences bordering on internet fraud. Bashiru, a native of Oyan in Odo-Otin Local Government Area, Osun State, was prosecuted…
Gunmen have killed the son of a popular businesswoman identified simply as Alhaja and abducted her daughter in Kwara State. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded her residence at Alagbado area of Ilorin metropolis in the early hours of Friday, October 7, 2022. According to the Nigerian Tribune, the gunmen stormed the house at…