Police parade medical doctor arrested for murder of women and organ harvesting in Kwara

Police parade medical doctor arrested for murder of women and organ harvesting in Kwara

  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…

80-year-old woman burnt to death as fire guts building in Kwara

80-year-old woman burnt to death as fire guts building in Kwara

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…

Court remands bricklayer for raping 15-year-old student in Kwara

Court remands bricklayer for raping 15-year-old student in Kwara

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…

Court remands woman for pouring hot water on her co-wife in Kwara

Court remands woman for pouring hot water on her co-wife in Kwara

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…

Kwara police rescue American woman lured to Nigeria by 23-year-old internet fraudster and swindled out of over $1000

Kwara police rescue American woman lured to Nigeria by 23-year-old internet fraudster and swindled out of over $1000

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…

Gunmen invade Kwara community, abduct residents

Gunmen invade Kwara community, abduct residents

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…

Kwara House of Assembly Majority Leader, Olawoyin Magaji, is dead

Kwara House of Assembly Majority Leader, Olawoyin Magaji, is dead

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,…

Truck suffers brake failure and crushes Air Force officer to death in Kwara, leaves another with a spinal cord injury

Truck suffers brake failure and crushes Air Force officer to death in Kwara, leaves another with a spinal cord injury

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…

Five suspected kidnappers arrested in Kwara, three confess to killing NSCDC officer

Five suspected kidnappers arrested in Kwara, three confess to killing NSCDC officer

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…

Kwara NSCDC arrests three for diverting Lagos bound 33,000 litres of PMS

Kwara NSCDC arrests three for diverting Lagos bound 33,000 litres of PMS

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,…

Gunmen abduct muslim cleric and his son in Kwara, demand N100m ransom

Gunmen abduct muslim cleric and his son in Kwara, demand N100m ransom

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…

Abducted wife of former military administrator regains freedom in Kwara, three suspects and female food supplier arrested

Abducted wife of former military administrator regains freedom in Kwara, three suspects and female food supplier arrested

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 appoints popular skitmaker, Cute Abiola, as his aide

Kwara state governor appoints popular skitmaker, Cute Abiola, as his aide

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 abducted in Kwara state regains his freedom

Police officer abducted in Kwara state regains his freedom

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…

Kwara Poly student jailed 6 months for $9,891 fraud

Kwara Poly student jailed 6 months for $9,891 fraud

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 kill son of Kwara businesswoman, abduct her daughter

Gunmen kill son of Kwara businesswoman, abduct her daughter

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…